Wormia
27-04-2004, 05:37
John F. Murray stood in his spacesuit walking on the ever so barren asteroid. His job, was not a particularly interesting one. Spend hours a day trapped in an ungodly hot (or cold, but never just right) spacesuit drilling holes into asteroids to determine any value within. Above hovered the fifty-year old Menace of the Stone, an old ore freighter/miner that was in deep need of a refit.
He hoped to get that soon. All he needed was either a good collection of iron or other alloy filled space rocks... or... exactly what he was after, a hypernova fragment. Such a stone would be composed of an element in the stable 400's on the periodic table.... and would allow him to expand his business to be the largest on New Wormia....
He glanced up into the starry sky. Not hampered by city lights, only the bright star of the New Wormia star system, he took in the sheer vastness of it all for a moment... and for a moment the stars appeared to dim.... and stayed dim....
Continually dim.... he looked around frantically. The stars didn't just dim. He ran across the surface of the small ball of rock quickly, but it's gravity didn't keep him. In a flutter of panic, he fired his emergency grappling hook at the asteroid, forgetting that he was still securely tied to his ship.
He looked up to see the system's star being outshined by the largest ... brightest flash he had ever seen.... and in a minute he stared at where it had been... a black portion of space. Not even the stars that were once there shined through... wherever that had exploded.... he swallowed... and stared back at his shadow ten seconds ago, which would be forever frozen in eternity....
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Thaddeus Miller looked into the starless void that had just been created. Once again... the neverending quest for knowledge bends over for the military... He turned and stared the Wormian Admiral in the face. "It is done." He said, emotionlessly. He proceeded to exit the station.
"Doctor...?" the Admiral turned and addressed the little known scientist, whose name would soon be next to Oppenheimer's.
Miller turned, and stared Admiral Chris Meadows in the face, once again. With a bleak expression, he simply said, "Eternity never forgets.... hell was unleashed once... and now... hell's hell has been so." He walked out the door. The pneumatic hiss of the door seemed magnified one hundred times, and seemed to last a lifetime.
Chris Meadows turned to view his creation... which he grew less proud of by the second. Through the warped spacetime that was only beginning to heal, stars dimly shone through where they were once kings of their sky.
Like the A-Bomb on Earth... Christopher Meadows was responsible for the weapon of this day and age.... Quintessence....
Within weeks, Wormia's paltry two bomb arsenal would be expanded to contain enough destructive power to annihilate civilization as it is known today....
Cascading ZPE Release Mechanism:
-Most statistics classified on Wormia's new weapon of destruction...
Warhead: None. Functional on local release of Zero-Point Energy (Quintessence, as it is also known).
Effects: For the most part, unknown, except that matter and energy are torn apart at subquark levels. Severe alteration of gravitational effects in a local area.
He hoped to get that soon. All he needed was either a good collection of iron or other alloy filled space rocks... or... exactly what he was after, a hypernova fragment. Such a stone would be composed of an element in the stable 400's on the periodic table.... and would allow him to expand his business to be the largest on New Wormia....
He glanced up into the starry sky. Not hampered by city lights, only the bright star of the New Wormia star system, he took in the sheer vastness of it all for a moment... and for a moment the stars appeared to dim.... and stayed dim....
Continually dim.... he looked around frantically. The stars didn't just dim. He ran across the surface of the small ball of rock quickly, but it's gravity didn't keep him. In a flutter of panic, he fired his emergency grappling hook at the asteroid, forgetting that he was still securely tied to his ship.
He looked up to see the system's star being outshined by the largest ... brightest flash he had ever seen.... and in a minute he stared at where it had been... a black portion of space. Not even the stars that were once there shined through... wherever that had exploded.... he swallowed... and stared back at his shadow ten seconds ago, which would be forever frozen in eternity....
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Thaddeus Miller looked into the starless void that had just been created. Once again... the neverending quest for knowledge bends over for the military... He turned and stared the Wormian Admiral in the face. "It is done." He said, emotionlessly. He proceeded to exit the station.
"Doctor...?" the Admiral turned and addressed the little known scientist, whose name would soon be next to Oppenheimer's.
Miller turned, and stared Admiral Chris Meadows in the face, once again. With a bleak expression, he simply said, "Eternity never forgets.... hell was unleashed once... and now... hell's hell has been so." He walked out the door. The pneumatic hiss of the door seemed magnified one hundred times, and seemed to last a lifetime.
Chris Meadows turned to view his creation... which he grew less proud of by the second. Through the warped spacetime that was only beginning to heal, stars dimly shone through where they were once kings of their sky.
Like the A-Bomb on Earth... Christopher Meadows was responsible for the weapon of this day and age.... Quintessence....
Within weeks, Wormia's paltry two bomb arsenal would be expanded to contain enough destructive power to annihilate civilization as it is known today....
Cascading ZPE Release Mechanism:
-Most statistics classified on Wormia's new weapon of destruction...
Warhead: None. Functional on local release of Zero-Point Energy (Quintessence, as it is also known).
Effects: For the most part, unknown, except that matter and energy are torn apart at subquark levels. Severe alteration of gravitational effects in a local area.