Crimmond
10-04-2004, 23:50
"Start painting your signs! Get your ammo ready, your assault rifles cleaned and your tickets off this rock.
I am here to announce, officially, that I know for a fact what will end life on this planet and in this solar system."
The speaker is Doctor Pavel Saratov, head of Crimmond's Science Council. He has been responsible for such recent exploits as planning to raise the Titanic, but international response dissueded him. He may be off kilter a bit, but he was rarely wrong.
"This will kill this planet." He says, the huge screen behind him changing from blank to what looked like a huge dark nebula or storm. There were two holes in it though. "This is the Galactic Maelstrom. Also know as Polo's Bolos, after the research ship Marco Polo, the ship that found that... thing. It is a three lightyear wide storm with two black holes in it, tumbling about each other in a wild orbit. It is not heading anywhere near us though. In fact it's edging away from us.
"But it is heading to where we will be. In approximatly 75 trillion years." He pauses to let the laughter die down. "It's not a joke you imbeciles. Earth will be destroyed, none of us, with the exception of Zero-One will be around to see it. It may have no real bearing on our lives now, but we know that we'll have to abandon Sol one day."
He sighs. "No ship can get within three lightyears of the edge of the storm. The gravitational disturbances and radiation would kill you hundreds of trillions of years before you reached either black hole. There's so much hard radiation in there, we can't even penetrate to the core of the storm. In about a thousand years it will be a danger to the extreme outer edge of our region of the galaxy." He leans forward and sighs. "We finally know what will happen to this mudball. And now I wish we didn't."
OOC: This is an open news conference. You have reporters there if you want. And I've had three RPs with the maelstrom and no one complained, so now I make the announcement and now claim my title as the only RPer to EVER succesfully give a sure end to all life on earth.
I am here to announce, officially, that I know for a fact what will end life on this planet and in this solar system."
The speaker is Doctor Pavel Saratov, head of Crimmond's Science Council. He has been responsible for such recent exploits as planning to raise the Titanic, but international response dissueded him. He may be off kilter a bit, but he was rarely wrong.
"This will kill this planet." He says, the huge screen behind him changing from blank to what looked like a huge dark nebula or storm. There were two holes in it though. "This is the Galactic Maelstrom. Also know as Polo's Bolos, after the research ship Marco Polo, the ship that found that... thing. It is a three lightyear wide storm with two black holes in it, tumbling about each other in a wild orbit. It is not heading anywhere near us though. In fact it's edging away from us.
"But it is heading to where we will be. In approximatly 75 trillion years." He pauses to let the laughter die down. "It's not a joke you imbeciles. Earth will be destroyed, none of us, with the exception of Zero-One will be around to see it. It may have no real bearing on our lives now, but we know that we'll have to abandon Sol one day."
He sighs. "No ship can get within three lightyears of the edge of the storm. The gravitational disturbances and radiation would kill you hundreds of trillions of years before you reached either black hole. There's so much hard radiation in there, we can't even penetrate to the core of the storm. In about a thousand years it will be a danger to the extreme outer edge of our region of the galaxy." He leans forward and sighs. "We finally know what will happen to this mudball. And now I wish we didn't."
OOC: This is an open news conference. You have reporters there if you want. And I've had three RPs with the maelstrom and no one complained, so now I make the announcement and now claim my title as the only RPer to EVER succesfully give a sure end to all life on earth.