Post by Teye22 on Sept 9, 2016 11:29:54 GMT -6
I did a comm check with one of our intel droids we had left to spy on the Sid. The droid reported there was a civil war going on at present but currently the conflict was still at a manageable low intensive type affair. Multiple different sides were forming and sending assassins out to destroy those who might have different thoughts than a
particular side wanted. Lacthi had so far avoided being deposed of but with the major changes he was trying to enact his position was not as strong as he or myself would have liked.
I sent a QUE message to USSB requesting a couple of Tom Ngan to proceed to the Sid home world of Lacthi and do a little mind control to settle the opposing
sides down before a full blown civil war broke out... If Lacthi did not succeed in reforming the Sid then their internal civil war would look like kids play if
I had to return and make them....... see the errors of their ways.....Which was something I really did not want to do.
USSB QUE reply, “Three Tom Ngan have now arrived and are starting to influence a more favorable outcome.”
With the Sid problem settled for now, (as far as I was concerned) I was already beginning to think about the route we should proceed on for our next mapping and intel mission.
I finally came to the realization that I was tired of making mission decisions and should get all the family involved to come up with a consensus of where we
should go next. Tiki and now Noke could always pick out a destination but... after all the excitement over these last few sleep cycles I was ready for some
kick back and relax time. I was sure USSB would have something for us to do which would probably be as interesting as anything we could come up with so I
guess you could say USSB was my "Plan B.”
I invited everyone to a family meal and as we all feasted (except for KIM/Kittiya) upon our favorite Tiki picked dishes I brought up the subject of a new destination.
Our present mapping mission was discussed but with Cricket and her two ships plus all the droids Tiki had released there really was no reason for us to
remain in the Hadock or the Astone dimensions any longer. Yes we could stay and map out more Sentients but with the Jinary and the Nhue now becoming members of
USSB our presence was no longer really needed; they would soon finish the job we had started.
The Pelay Dimension had not been thoroughly mapped or explored so the group decision was for all of us to head there in Noke and Tiki.
I had actually, really, enjoyed everyone being back together again.
We Phased to the dimension of Pelay and after a brief pause Noke and Tiki decided there was a globular cluster orbiting a galaxy that looked interesting
because of all the red dwarf stars it contained. Globular Clusters are not that unusual and many galaxies will have the clusters somewhere above or below a
galaxy's galactic plane. What I find wonderful about these clusters are the relative closeness of the stars.
Back on earth during a clear dark night a person could observe with their unaided eyes maybe a thousand stars (out of the 350+ billion the Milky Way
has). Just imagine if you were is a cluster and looked up from your planet to see over ten times as many bright stars with distances measured between the
observed stars in fractions of light years instead of way to heck out there or far far away !
There were 4 super giant stars in this cluster and one of the giants, according to Tiki, had been changing between its' Blue and Red Colored Phase as a warning
it was getting ready to go super nova. That is the problem with clusters. The Globular Clusters are formed from huge gas clouds that are forming stars at an
incredible rate. However, unfortunately there so many building blocks of matter for young stars that there are always the short lived super giants getting
ready to blow themselves apart and basically sterilize all the beginnings of life in their vicinity. Without the sterilization process Globular Clusters
would be a great breeding ground for a Sentient to look up and wonder, what is over there, simply due to the close proximity of all the neighboring stars .
When the Blue Giant explodes it will release so much energy and solar wind that many of the young suns will be blown away from the cluster to later be captured
by the closest galaxy the cluster is gravitationally bound to. Those blown away suns with their orbiting planets gravitationally bound to them will suffer
orbital planetary disruptions to such an extent that it will be like some SciFi movie titled “When worlds Collide”. Many planets and their orbits will survive
but many more will perish in this future cataclysm.
Tiki and Noke left a few droids in this cluster of newly forming stars to observe the coming super nova. There really was no need to leave droids, for
USSB had observed and gathered data on such events for millions of years........ however, droids were easily made and plentiful so might as well
see if they can turn up something new.
We did not detect any life in the cluster above the ever present bacteria or Class one, so we departed to the nearby Galaxy to map and search for new
Sentient life forms. Noke went right and Tiki went left as seen from our vantage point and they both started dropping droids to search within this
galaxy for the expected different classes of life..
By using our new DEP sensors while searching for space faring Sentient life in our sector, the whole process was made so much easier..... it was a wonder how
well we had managed using the old non DEP sensor arrays. In this particular Galaxy of 480 billion stars there were presently detected 6.4328 billion
planets with artificial satellites in orbit and we were able to detect 5347 space craft that were using Warp drive in our sector alone ! Now that is what I
call a sensor sweep ! By the Warp signatures of the craft detected, Tiki surmised they had been made by eleven different species... (or someone had
changed their Warp core design and signatures recently ?) She also let us know that Noke was detecting another 2284 Warp drive ships in his sector along
with an additional 4.8931 billion planets with artificial satellites.
This particular galaxy was a beehive of activity compared to other galaxies of this size.
Noke and Tiki were cloaked as we both now ran using our Dark Energy Phasing cloaks like the Jinary had used when we had first met them.
Our old cloaking method had been a slight energy drain on Tiki but with these new sensors and Phase cloaking, both tapped such an abundant energy source that
Tiki said there was no reason to not run cloaked.
I told Sky we were going to intercept the closest Warp drive ship and do a complete data grab from the ship. He thought that was a great idea so they
would do the same in their sector with one of the Warp drive ships they were tracking.
Tiki plotted an intercept course to a promising ship that was presently traveling at 50xC (fifty times the speed of light). With her predictive
reasoning she determined the ship was headed for a planet now only 12 light years away from their present position. We were waiting at the planet when they
dropped out of light speed/warp.
In the few natee we had to wait, Tiki did a quick scan and surmised that the planet was undergoing a major terraforming project. There were two
atmospheric stations and a small city located just twenty degrees above the equatorial plain of this Mars sized planet. That was all we were able to find
out before the ship that had been warping to this planet dropped out of light speed. They certainly knew what they were doing for they popped out in orbit
and directly above the city and atmo-stations planet-side.
As the ship came to a fixed position above the planetary city two very large containers were ejected that fell to the planet. The dropping was timed so that
one container would end up on the east side of the city and the other container would be a short distance from the most westerly atmospheric terraforming
station. As the containers reached a predetermined altitude there were two incredible hydrogen bomb blast that were of such a magnitude that the whole
planet shook. Then the tectonic forces which had been mostly asleep in the planet were released as inactive volcanoes sprung to life. The Atmosphere of the
planet was stripped/blown away into the void of space as there was nothing left of the city and stations except for green glassified sand that stretched over
an unbelievable area of the planet. The areas was large enough to be classified as a green ocean of glass in my opinion..
Xenon 129 and elements of Kryptonite were just about all that was left of the once promising atmosphere the Nung had been attempting to manufacture.
Since the ship was in our vicinity Tiki grabbed all the data she could before the Narn went back to WARP speed and departed the area. We chose to not
follow the ship as we studied the newly snatched data Tiki had for us.
The ship was a heavy cruiser of the Narn which had been manufactures only eleven solar years ago.
The Narn were a bipedal species that had evolved from a Dino stock and had become Sentient less than two million solar years ago. They averaged a height
of a few inches shorter than Sky (or about my height) and were thick skinned and hairless. Their heads had some interesting features to keep the rain out of
their double lens eyes as their brow ridges continued from their brow line all the way past the top of their heads. The ridges would funnel the water away
from their eyes. They had six fingered hands with nicely manicured sharpen nails. Their eyes were set rather close together and their mouths while not
entirely flat did have some decent teeth and fangs.
Their mission to destroy the city and terraforming facilities was from an ongoing dispute about territorial claims between the Narn and the Nung. I found
it stupidly amusing that they had both originated on the same planet and were of the same race with the only difference being they inhabited different
planets with different planetary governments that hated each other.
How to hell can you have a territorial dispute when there is the bubble of this universe that stretches just about 92 trillion light years (and growing) in every direction from this hapless planet ? Sentient carries many connotations but unfortunately not always sufficient intelligence to poor water out of a boot before you try to
put it on. With the dispositions of the Narn and the Nung I was surprised they have not totally destroyed themselves long ago. The good news from what information we had been able to gather, was all their hatred was directed at each other and not at other Sentient life forms.
