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Tweak says, "I don't mean to be evil..."

James Valerius Kushim (epipalaeolithic) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2022-01-16 00:09:00

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katherine lokadóttir, miguel o'hara, peter parker (616), tom sully jr, ~james valerius kushim, ~liberty becket

This is new. And I don't say that often. Does anyone know which company made these phones? If they haven't made millions yet, they're going to. And that is before I think about the fact that this is an actual space station like something out of a sci-fi show.

Hi. I'm James. James Valerius Kushim. Is it true that strange things happen here, and people might believe anything, no matter how unusual?

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	tom_jr 2022-01-20 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	Your slow way is how Uncle Jake got to Pandora, but by the sounds of it, you travelled a lot further. He was in cryosleep for almost six years, not over a century. But I want to know anything else you can tell me about the L-Space method! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

libertybecket
2022-01-21 03:58 pm UTC (link)

I think we wanted to get very far away. I was the first one born on the new world, because my mom ignored the advice about cryosleep while pregnant being a bad idea and having a baby while trying to build a new settlement being a worse one. Not that I'm complaining, but that's how I got the symbolic name and all.

L-space. Okay. Let's see what I remember from Cardea, which is where the L-spacers live. The theory was invented by Stanley Lorentzen, which is why it's sort of named after him. The engine they use is called a Matsukata drive. You have to clear orbit, accelerate out normally, then activate the drive and it shifts a bubble of normal space around your craft into L-space, which is different dimensions that we usually can't perceive. Distances are different there. You need an astrogator to make sense of it and take you through, but they said they gave most of the rest of the crew sedatives because it can make you really nauseous. They said there were crazy stories about looking into L-space making some people insane, but that's probably just silly spacer talk. But apparently really young astrogators are best, which by Earth standards means 21? Maybe? Their brains can handle it better. Anyway when they get to the right point they turn off the drive and they go back into normal space, and maybe they went a hundred times further than they would have the normal way.

Apparently some Earth government tried to seize Lorentzen and Matsukata's work and it caused this secession war with the local colonies, but we were far enough away that it didn't affect us.

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