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Freyya
Advanced Planetary Exports Intergalactic Exports Group
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Posted - 2010.03.18 11:27:00 -
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"Alright, try to connect the sublight datastream emitter to the socket in the third row. Once you are finished fastening the bolts make sure there is no gap between both ends. If there is you better make sure it is sealed completely with nanite paste."
Working in a vacuum with a thick suit is hardly to be called entertaining. Luckily there's still gravity plating so the men don't flow around the room they're working in.
The lab is located in the deep midst of a class 6 wormhole. The system is occupied by hundreds of sleeper drones and a small research POS, owned by a privatly funded research corp. Sleepers where hunted down and stripped of their resources to povide building blocks for new technology.
"All the gaps are sealed sir.. It would appear that the module is ready for the initial testing."
"Double check to be sure. I don't want this thing to blow up in our faces. Besides, i'm sure the pilots outside would be rather happy to pull the trigger on us if we mess this up..they went through alot of trouble getting us these resources and their CEO will not be happy if we fail again."
Next to the Sleepers being harvested, materials where also dug up from the surface of the planets. A new expansion in mining technologies made it possible for factories and mining structures to be placed on strategic points across the planets. They mined for new and intruiging materials. The nature of the wormhole systems ensured that minerals and other resources developed in a myriad of ways, usually much different from K-Space planets and their atmospheres.
"Initial testing is being started. Pressure systems at full levels and in the green. Power supply is stable at 93% capacity. Inserting parameters into the command module to enable automated safeguards."
"Watch out with the power input. Raising it to fast will overload the core and cause a burn in of the plasma conducters and we'll have another melt down."
The small POS already had to be replaced twice while the scientists tried to perfect their design. Twice it failed miserably with either a massive explosion or simply a complete meltdown on all the POS systems and a resulting deadlock.
"All systems still in the green sir. Power slowly increasing to 97%. No sign of failure in any systems."
"Just keep your eyes open Hanrek. At the first sign of trouble i want to be able to shut it down before we enter a cascade again."
"Yes sir." "Jilastu?"
"Yes Hanrek."
"What if we are successfull now? Will we released and able to return to our families? I miss my little girl Sha'tinn"
"I'm not sure to be honest. I'm putting trust in our...employers...to keep their end of the bargain."
"Well if you have faith then I have faith."
"I do Hanrek. Now just proceed with the testing. Start injecting the fuel once it hits 99% power usage."
"We'll be the first to build a module under the tech 3 specifications won't we Jilastu? Put our names in the history books and gather untold riches from the-"
Alarms where ringing, horns where howling and lights where flashing. Something went wrong in the last stage..
"Shut it down! Shut it down NOW Hanrek!! The power supply is being affected by the injected fuel! There's a breach in the reactor casing through which the fuel is mixing with the plasma flows!"
"I can't shut it down Jilastu! I'm locked out of the control pannels! Power output is rising..120% above specs, 140%! It's rising increadibly fast!! We're headed towards total meltdown!!"
"Om my god, the fuel is being injected at a far greater interval than we ever imagined..it's starting up on it own Hanrek..It's working!"
A bright flash consumed the 85 AU span system. Where once the POS was, a web of electricity, plasma and fire swirled around like it was alive. Moons where drawn into the vortex and planets followed soon after. Lastly the Pulsar and it's binairy brother where sucked in leaving nothing but a vast emptyness of space.Not even dust exists now.
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NOW COLLECTING ISD AND CCP AUTOGRAPHS It'll be worth something someday. -Rauth
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Freyya
Advanced Planetary Exports Intergalactic Exports Group
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Posted - 2010.03.18 11:39:00 -
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Edited by: Freyya on 18/03/2010 11:42:08 Edited by: Freyya on 18/03/2010 11:39:54 "Sir. We've lost contact with the research fleet."
"Do we have any last transmissions?"
"Yes sir, video feed initiated 10 seconds before we lost contact."
"Play it."
The video showed how electricity originating from the experimental module began forming an intricate web. Suddenly plasma and fire began mixing in and the web expanded beyond imagination. That's where the feed ended.
"It would appear they came alot closer to actually having it in working condition. Shame that it decided to lead it's own life and suck everything through though. Do we have the latest science reports and their personal logs on what they changed?"
"Yes sir, received before they initiated the test."
"Good, get me 2 new scientists and start finding a new suitable system. I want that T3 cyno generator up and running so we can start colonising wormhole planets on a large scale."
"Right away sir."
"Ohh Edras? Do we have any idea where the system went to?"
"No idea sir, it didn't go anywhere we where able to track it. Possibly it went beyond the brink of all our space..Wormhole or known space sir."
"Interesting..."
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Sorry for the double post thingy but the last few lines where so little i thought it wouldn't be a big problem to make it a 2 post story ___________
NOW COLLECTING ISD AND CCP AUTOGRAPHS It'll be worth something someday. -Rauth
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Freyya
Advanced Planetary Exports Intergalactic Exports Group
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Posted - 2010.03.25 13:18:00 -
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Originally by: Silver Night So, I'm still sorting through entries, though I've whittled it down to less than 60, and there are some front runners (No, I'm not telling you who). Id like to know though: Who do you think should be one of the winners? (Please don't nominate yourself). Which stories have you enjoyed?
I nominate: Myself..since i'm most likely already out of the comp, because the "piece" i wrote was hasty work-break time writing
Haven't had a chance to look over most of the other stories though i am planning on reading them all. I enjoy stories to quite some degree. Even more so if they portray things i haven't thought about already
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NOW COLLECTING ISD AND CCP AUTOGRAPHS It'll be worth something someday. -Rauth
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Freyya
Advanced Planetary Exports Intergalactic Exports Group
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Posted - 2010.04.01 11:13:00 -
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Grats to all the winners! Need some more time to enter next year :P. I find it no surprise Shae was amongst the winners but i personally would have seen her end up higher than 3rd Matter of taste and all that i guess but she's always been excellent and advancing at story telling and art. *Hugs and such to Shae* ___________
NOW COLLECTING ISD AND CCP AUTOGRAPHS It'll be worth something someday. -Rauth
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