Lady Candida

Our journey to the mythical world Argo, snugly nestled in a small pool of stars between Canis Major and The Southern Cross, has proved itself a daunting task. The Golden Sunset, one of your many exquisite vessels commissioned to this voyage, forged ahead through perils no other person has dreamt to exist, and brought me intact to Argo. There is still no explanation as to why Argo remained out of our technological reach until this expedition.

I am pleased to inform you that your gift of the android, Argentice, has had a measurable degree of import to our mission. Please extend my warm regard and appreciation to the Behemoth Corporation for their special attention paid to Argentice's design and programming. I have never seen this artifice's equal.

Miss Candida, after all of your thoughtfulness and dedication to this mission, it is with sincere regret that neither the Argonauts nor I are able to divulge the exact coordinates of Argo, or the location of its principal civilization. To recount, our objectives were to discover if Argo was indeed the world of paradise we have sought. Had this mission been one of conquest or plunder, Argo would have fed our lusts with a plentiful bounty. However, we have found riches and fantastic wonders that a mere conveyance of words and images could not describe. Telling you of our inability to provide the location of paradise is rightfully unjust in the face of your generous funding toward this mission. It is understandably worse to patronize you with further descriptions of this wonderland, but it is necessary to build credibility.

There is a special alchemy to Argo's inhabitants that makes paradise possible. Not simply the archaic discovery of a means to change a common metal into gold, but a special something they have integrated into their lives that allows the transmutation of the ordinary into the extraordinary. I have come to believe that it is the dream of all men and women, organic and machine, to rise beyond the limitations of mind, body and spirit. Properly placed faith in one's own abilities and achievements makes this transmutation possible. But it must happen on such a level that all may experience it, for a single outside disbelief will plague the integrity of their faith.

I send to you an account of our discovery, which I believe best describes the elements of Argo, and the events that lead the Argonauts to withhold the location from the rest of our civilization.