Imar

Mozdok Tsuker sold Ruvim Pechor to the Ministry of Agriculture of Imar. New master of Ruvim was Ambek Ogloed Mirna, Minister of Agriculture of Imar.
Ambek tried to be polite.
Ambek called Ruvim by video.
Ambek was covered with hairs, the only his eyes, nose and lips were seen at the background of dense wool.
Ambek asked Ruvim which mode of transport he preferred: train or aircraft.

That thing, called "Aircraft" was slightly modified drone Utka-4. Actually, it was still called Utka-4. «Utka» meant «duck»; it had a tandem composition; the pair of small wings ahead and a little bit bigger triangular wing behind. Cifer 4 meant that it was designed to carry 4 centners of load, either cocaine or explosive, dependently on the mission. Perhaps, the main purpose was related to explosive, because that amount of cocaine, at the single load, was sufficient to deliver to Allah all the administrators of Moscovia of time of the Bigpuf. During century 21, millions of Utka-4 had been cobbled by the cheap preteen black girls at the Alabuga Institute, but also by a little bit more qualified prisoners in the secret factory under mount Yamantau.

The corresponding amount of fuel and explosive had been stored in the special underground arsenals. The regulation had prohibited to keep together the drones, the fuel for them and the explosive. Being supplied with nuclear bombs of moderate energy, these Utka-4 could «convert into the radioactive ache» not only the USA, but all the continents, and perhaps, also several big islands too. No one system of the air defense can intercept millions drones - especially, if some of them are equipped with nuclear bombs.

The ambitious projecta with the «radioactive ache» outside Tartaria were not realized. The proverb «Aim not at the arrows, but at the archer» is known during kiloyears. The Transfer of hostilities to aggressor territory had been performed since the first half of century 21. During the Bigpuf, most of arsenals and fuel storages were successfully "demilitarized" and "denazified." That time, these terms meant that some drones, similar to the Duck-4 or even smaller, but highly accurate, has penetrated the arsenal's ventilation openings or targeted the fuel tank valves, causing the secondary detonation.

Perhaps, some drone headed also the storages of the Utka-4, but the empty Utka-4 does not cause the secondary detonation. The Siberia Wings company discovered the practically unlimited amount of the Utka-4 and adopted them for the peaceful use; first, as a cargo drone, and the, as a manned passenger aircrafts, "fliers".

Utka-4 is made of cheap transparent plastic.
Utka-4 had no cabin, the only trunk in the front part, the fuel tanks in wings and motor with pushing propeller at the tail.
Utka-4 had no landing gear; it was not designed to land.
Utka-4 starts from the catapult at the acceleration of 2g.
Utka-4 can land on its belly; especially if some flat grassy meadow or a smooth deep snow is arranged as the runway.
As a passenger aircraft, the Utka-4 looked as a parody of a real flier.

At the landing, in order not to break the propeller, Utka-4 has to stop the engine; then, the two-blade propeller is fixed in the horizontal position; Utka-4 landed аs a motor-less glider. After reloading, Utka-4 needed an external starter and the special catapult to take-off.

The transparent trunk, served as a cabin, allowed for visibility up, down, to the sides, and a little bit forward.
The front wings could be moved using the two handles inside the "cabin".
The pilot had to lay on his stomach and control the wings manually, without any hydraulics.
This aircraft had no rudder. The pitch and the roll could be controlled with the front wings, but the jaw was uncontrollable. Theoretically, the big vertical stabilizer was supposed to mitigate the case. Practically, the Duck-4 experienced problems in any turbulence.
Some versions of the Duck-4 had no starter; after the engine shut down for landing, the pilot was unable to make a second landing attempt.
For all this, the Duck-4 was also called the "flying coffin" or "flyingTurkey".
But the Duck-4 had significant advantage: it costed next to nothing.
For this advantage, the "flying coffins" were popular in Komi and some other farms.
The "flying coffins" were used to deliver mail and fruits to Amonalka.

Such a «Flying coffin» delivered Ruvim Pechor to Imaral, capital of Imar. The little boy pilot found nothing frightening in his airplane. The start from the catapult was painful; the flight was cold and bumpy; the landing was horrible, it sounded as a car crash. After to get out from the luggage trunk (that served as a cabin), Rivim found that his head, all his arms and legs were at their places. The air was warm. Minister of Nature of Imar, Ambek Ogloed congratulated the small boy, who used to fly this disaster, with the «perfect landing». Soon, the "flying coffin" had been reloaded, dragged to the catapult, refueled, and the same small pilot flew it away, heading North. There were also serious hangars and more civilized fliers at the airfield.

Ambek Ogloed took Ruvim to his new home (the closet with a table, computer, chair and a bed), showed him the toilet (the platform above the inlet valve of the fermentation tank), and the shower (the cistern with two taps). There was no kitchen at the Ruvim's home. But Ambek promised free meals three times a day in the canteen.

Several homes similar to the Ruvim's new lodging were around. They were connected by gravel paths to the canteen and the Laboratory. The laboratory occupied a wing of the Ministry of Agriculture of Imar. The small town Imaral was seen behind the building of the Ministry Of Agriculture, and hills and mount of Imar were behind. After the Bigpuf, this place happened to be less contaminated, and the Capital of Imar had been built there.

Laboratory

The laboratory occupied a wing of the Ministry of Agriculture of Imar. It had some equipment. Ruvim had mentioned the Clean Room, refrigerator, thermostat, rectification tower, chemical shop, vacuum chamber, chemical analyzer, DNA analyzer, the conference-hall. Better than nothing.

Ruvim was not surprised. Ruvim knew that composition of modern with savage is typical for Tartaria. Why Imar could be an exception?

Some roads had solid pavement. There were some shops around.

Ambek presented Ruvim to his new colleagues.

Chang Rahma was head of the laboratory and head of the project. Chang explained to Ruvim his job.

The problem was several kiloyear old: many animals of various kinds wanted to eat the harvest before the humans pick it up.

The problem was postponed together with many other problems during the Bifpuf. After the cooptation of Imar to Tartaria, the life in Imar had stabilized, but some mammals, bird and insects were considered the fields and gardens of Imar as a stable source of food.

In particular, the insects entered the meshes, that used to protect the vineyards from the birds. The simplest solution, such as chemical methods – the use of insecticides – has been considered but has not yet been put into practice: since the Bigpuf, all are afraid of any king of poison.
While there were few vineyards, the problem was not so grave. Then, the populations of unwanted eaters grown up.

Chang Rama had consulted with the Interface of the Federal Library of Tartaria. The Interface had suggested some insects-predators, including the Dragonflies. Chang Rama did not believed the recommendation by the robot and performed the series of experiments, before to recommend the methods for the whole farm. The experiments failed. The suggestions from the foreigners colleagues did not work: the Bigpuf boosted the mutations, and the foreign specialists knew close to nothing about new mutants that were eating the hardest at Imar. Then Ambek told that Chang should employ a human-biologist. No one specialist from any civilized country agreed to work at Imar. But Ambek had find a biologist for Chang. Rivim Pechor happened to be such a biologist.

Ruvim Pechor spent many days searching for equivalents, analogies of the new mutants, grown during the half-century on millions of square kilometers of territory highly contaminated with toxic chemicals and unstable isotopes. Then, almost every day Ruvim had suggested a new hypotheses. The hypotheses happened to be wrong, but Chang Rama and Ambek Ogloed believed the recommendations by Mosdok Tsuker and Lesli Landov, considering Rubim as a genius biologist. En fin, Ruvim suggested the large-step gradation of species.

The model by Ruvim was trivial: Praying mantises and ants eat insects on ground. Dragonflies catch insects in flight. Swifts feed on phylloxera and mosquitoes but do not eat praying mantises or dragonflies. Hawks hunt other birds capable of attacking swifts, yet they cannot catch the swifts themselves. The solution did not try to exterminate any species. The goal is the favorable conditions for praying mantises, dragonflies, swifts, and hawks. To this end, channels with flowing water were constructed for dragonflies. Walls were built with niches in their upper sections where swifts and hawks can nest.

Also, cats, foxes and other small predators were selected as "useful".

The Research had advanced in several directions:

1. Modification of agricultural crops. Ruvim mentioned this at the beginning. The same is performed at the Galia National University of Tartaria. Ruvim promised to construct the rewired series as soon as someone calculates the required DNA sequences.

2. Favorable conditions for the selected insects; mainly, Mantidaes, Dragonfies.

3. favorable conditions for the selected birds; mainly, Swifts and Hawks.

4. Favorable conditions for the selected mammals; mainly, cats and foxes.

Ruvim had to program the statistical treatments of the experimental data..

Final

Ruvim worked all the time. Almost no personal life is allowed at Imar. All officials and businessmen in Kirian were convinced that their genotype was vastly superior to that of the "base-level" population. Under the Imar national eugenics program, only those citizens of Imar (Tartarians) who owned property, paid taxes, and earned a sufficient income were permitted to engage in sexual relations. Most women in Kirian were someone’s property; such was the country’s state policy.
To avoid provoking unauthorized conception, even swimming without a swimsuit was prohibited in Imar. Once, Ruvim had expressed a doubt, wether such a prohibition corresponds to the Federal Law of Tartaria. It was not a qualification of the prohibition as «good» or «bad»; it was just academic curiosity. But even posing of such a question dropped the Ruvim's reputation and had sequences.

In certain sense, Ruvim had advanced with his research. En fin, Ruvim had presented the results of his analysis: all the methods mentioned seemed to be useful but the improvement was not so radical as the administration of Imar wanted.