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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Robur, Albatross, Go-ahead entitled Robur the Conqueror.
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conversations.value: Robur the Conqueror: The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world.\nThe events are capped by the mysterious appearance of black flags with gold suns atop tall historic landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.\nThese events are all the work of the mysterious Robur (the specific epithet for English Oak, Quercus robur, and figuratively taken to mean "strength"), a brilliant inventor who intrudes on a meeting of a flight-enthusiast\'s club called the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nMembers of the Weldon Institute are all firm believers that mankind shall master the skies using "lighter than air" craft, and that "heavier than air" craft such as airplanes and helicopters would be unfeasible.\nThe institute has been constructing a giant dirigible called the Go-ahead, and are having a heated discussion of where to place its propeller (in front to pull it, or behind to push it) when Robur appears at the meeting and is admitted to speak to them.\nHe chastises the group for being balloon-boosters when "heavier than air" flying apparatuses are the future.\nWhen asked if Robur himself has "made conquest of the air," he states that he has, leading to him accepting the title "Robur the Conqueror".\nDuring his short time at the Weldon Institute, Robur so incites the members that they chase him outside.\nJust as they are about to attack him, Robur appears to vanish into the mob, but he has actually been borne away by a flying machine.\nLater that night Robur kidnaps the Weldon Institute\'s secretary, president, and the president\'s valet.\nHe takes them on board his ship, a huge, battery-powered, multirotor gyrodyne called the Albatross, which has many vertical airscrews to provide lift, and two horizontal airscrews in a push-pull configuration to drive the vessel forward.\nIt bears the same black flag with golden sun that has been sighted on so many landmarks, and the music in the sky is explained to be one of the crewmen playing a trumpet.\nTo demonstrate the vessel\'s superiority, Robur takes his captives around the world in the course of three weeks.\nThe president and secretary are angry at Robur for kidnapping them and unwilling to admit that the Albatross is a fantastic vessel, or that their notions of "lighter than air" superiority are wrong.\nThey demand that Robur release them, but he is aloof and always says that they shall remain as long as he desires it.\nFearing they will be held captive forever, the two formulate plans to both escape and destroy the Albatross.\nAfter the horizontal propellers are damaged in a storm, the Albatross is anchored over the Chatham Islands for repairs.\nWhile the crew is busy at work, the two Weldon Institute members light a fuse and make their escape.\nThey try to bring the valet with them but cannot find him, only later discovering that he had already escaped without them.\nThe Albatross explodes and its wreckage, along with Robur and his crew, plunge into the ocean.\nMeanwhile, the three escapees are safe on a small but inhabited island and are later rescued by a ship, then make a long journey back to Philadelphia.\nThe Weldon Institute members return, and rather than describe their adventures or admit that Robur had created a flying machine greater than their expectations of the Go-ahead, they simply conclude the argument the group was having during their last meeting.\nRather than have only one propeller to their dirigible, they decide to have one propeller in front and another behind, similar to Robur\'s design.\nSeven months after their return the Go-ahead is completed and making its maiden voyage with the president, secretary, and an aeronaut.\nThe speed and maneuverability of the dirigible marvels a huge crowd, but are trivial compared to Robur\'s Albatross.\nSuddenly, out of the sky there appears the Albatross.\nIt is revealed that when the Albatross exploded, enough of it was intact so that at least some of the propellers operated and slowed its descent, saving the crew.\nThe crew used the remains of the Albatross as a raft until they were rescued by a ship.\nLater, Robur and the crew made it back to his secret X Island, where the original Albatross had been built.\nRobur has built a new Albatross and now intends to exact revenge by showing that it is superior to the Weldon Institute\'s Go-ahead.\nThe entirety of the final scene is described from the crowd\'s point of view.\nThe Albatross begins circling the Go-ahead; the Go-ahead drops ballast and rises to fourteen thousand feet.\nThe Albatross follows, still a circling menace.\nThe Go-ahead is at the mercy of the Albatross because the Albatross is both faster and more maneuverable.\nFinally, the Go-ahead exceeds her pressure height, where her gas bags rupture.\nLosing her buoyancy gas, the Go-ahead drops out of the sky like a rapidly descending kite.\nThe Albatross stays alongside of the Go-ahead as she falls, signalling the pilot and passengers of the Go-ahead to come on board the Albatross.\nThey refuse, but then the crew of the Albatross again seizes them and brings them aboard.\nHaving demonstrated his rule over the skies, Robur returns the three men to the ground.\nIn a short speech, Robur says that nations are not yet fit for union.\nHe cautions the crowd that it is evolution, not revolution, that they should be seeking.\nHe leaves with the promise that he will one day return to reveal his secrets of flight.\nThe people of Philadelphia subject Prudent and Evans to unrelenting ridicule for the rest of their lives.
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this story.. End with the sentence '
  Who was then this bold mechanician that possessed such powers of locomotion, for whom States had no frontiers and oceans no limits, who disposed of the terrestrial atmosphere as if it were his domain? Could it be this Robur whose theories had been so brutally thrown in the face of the Weldon Institute the day he led the attack against the utopia of guidable balloons? Perhaps such a notion occurred to some of the wide-awake people, but none dreamt that the said Robur had anything to do with the disappearance of the president and secretary of the Institute.'.
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conversations.value: Robur the Conqueror
  It need hardly be said that the club was put to serious inconvenience by this disappearance of its president and secretary. And at first the assembly voted urgency to a measure which suspended the work on the "Go-Ahead." How, in the absence of the principal promoters of the affair, of those who had devoted to the enterprise a certain part of their fortune in time and money—how could they finish the work when these were not present? It were better, then, to wait.
  And just then came the first news of the strange phenomenon which had exercised people's minds some weeks before. The mysterious object had been again seen at different times in the higher regions of the atmosphere. But nobody dreamt of establishing a connection between this singular reappearance and the no less singular disappearance of the members of the Weldon Institute. In fact, it would have required a very strong dose of imagination to connect one of these facts with the other.
  Whatever it might be, asteroid or aerolite or aerial monster, it had reappeared in such a way that its dimensions and shape could be much better appreciated, first in Canada, over the country between Ottawa and Quebec, on the very morning after the disappearance of the colleagues, and later over the plains of the Far West, where it had tried its speed against an express train on the Union Pacific.
  At the end of this day the doubts of the learned world were at an end. The body was not a product of nature, it was a flying machine, the practical application of the theory of "heavier than air." And if the inventor of the aeronef had wished to keep himself unknown he could evidently have done better than to try it over the Far West. As to the mechanical force he required, or the engines by which it was communicated, nothing was known, but there could be no doubt the aeronef was gifted with an extraordinary faculty of locomotion. In fact, a few days afterwards it was reported from the Celestial Empire, then from the southern part of India, then from the Russian steppes.
  Who was then this bold mechanician that possessed such powers of locomotion, for whom States had no frontiers and oceans no limits, who disposed of the terrestrial atmosphere as if it were his domain? Could it be this Robur whose theories had been so brutally thrown in the face of the Weldon Institute the day he led the attack against the utopia of guidable balloons? Perhaps such a notion occurred to some of the wide-awake people, but none dreamt that the said Robur had anything to do with the disappearance of the president and secretary of the Institute.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: On this 29th of April everything was ready. Since eleven o'clock the enormous aerostat had been floating a few feet from the ground ready to rise in mid-air. It was splendid weather and seemed to have been made specially for the experiment, although if the breeze had been stronger the results might have been more conclusive. There had never been any doubt that a balloon could be guided in a calm atmosphere; but to guide it when the atmosphere is in motion is quite another thing; and it is under such circumstances that the experiment should be tried.
  But there was no wind today, nor any sign of any. Strange to say, North America on that day omitted to send on to Europe one of those first-class storms which it seems to have in such inexhaustible numbers. A better day could not have been chosen for an aeronautic experiment.
  The crowd was immense in Fairmount Park; trains had poured into the Pennsylvania capital sightseers from the neighboring states; industrial and commercial life came to a standstill that the people might troop to the show-master, workmen, women, old men, children, members of Congress, soldiers, magistrates, reporters, white natives and black natives, all were there. We need not stop to describe the excitement, the unaccountable movements, the sudden pushings, which made the mass heave and swell. Nor need we recount the number of cheers which rose from all sides like fireworks when Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans appeared on the platform and hoisted the American colors. Need we say that the majority of the crowd had come from afar not so much to see the "Go-Ahead" as to gaze on these extraordinary men?
  Why two and not three? Why not Frycollin? Because Frycollin thought his campaign in the "Albatross" sufficient for his fame. He had declined the honor of accompanying his master, and he took no part in the frenzied declamations that greeted the president and secretary of the Weldon Institute.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: On this 29th of April everything was ready. Since eleven o'clock the enormous aerostat had been floating a few feet from the ground ready to rise in mid-air. It was splendid weather and seemed to have been made specially for the experiment, although if the breeze had been stronger the results might have been more conclusive. There had never been any doubt that a balloon could be guided in a calm atmosphere; but to guide it when the atmosphere is in motion is quite another thing; and it is under such circumstances that the experiment should be tried.
  But there was no wind today, nor any sign of any. Strange to say, North America on that day omitted to send on to Europe one of those first-class storms which it seems to have in such inexhaustible numbers. A better day could not have been chosen for an aeronautic experiment.
  The crowd was immense in Fairmount Park; trains had poured into the Pennsylvania capital sightseers from the neighboring states; industrial and commercial life came to a standstill that the people might troop to the show-master, workmen, women, old men, children, members of Congress, soldiers, magistrates, reporters, white natives and black natives, all were there. We need not stop to describe the excitement, the unaccountable movements, the sudden pushings, which made the mass heave and swell. Nor need we recount the number of cheers which rose from all sides like fireworks when Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans appeared on the platform and hoisted the American colors. Need we say that the majority of the crowd had come from afar not so much to see the "Go-Ahead" as to gaze on these extraordinary men?
  Why two and not three? Why not Frycollin? Because Frycollin thought his campaign in the "Albatross" sufficient for his fame.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'And the crowd by a sudden change of front greeted them with particularly keen sarcasms, and, at their expense, are sarcastic still'.
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conversations.value: And the crowd by a sudden change of front greeted them with particularly keen sarcasms, and, at their expense, are sarcastic still.
  We know today. Robur is the science of the future. Perhaps the science of tomorrow. Certainly the science that will come!
  Does the "Albatross" still cruise in the atmosphere in the realm that none can take from her? There is no reason to doubt it.
  Will Robur, the Conqueror, appear one day as he said? Yes! He will come to declare the secret of his invention, which will greatly change the social and political conditions of the world.