National Public Press Release, Ministry of Life and Arts, Whispering Voices
This morning, the Royal Institute of Genetic Research notified the Ministry of Life and Arts that it had perfected an advanced enzyme capable of breaking down most materials and drawing off vital vitamins and minerals. In light of the bleak, Himalayan topography of Whispering Voices, the subterranean positioning of its cities, and its scarcity of food stuffs, this research promises a valued contribution towards a healthier and more self-sufficient way of life.
So far the enzyme has successfully been introduced into the stomachs of two experimental participants, and both have subsequently been able to digest and gain nutritional value from such random organic matter as banana skins, apple pips, and cobra venom.
Congratulations! Excellent work! I bet a lot of countries and statesmen would want that. Especially to avoid being poisoned
"Close" on the heels of our announcement of the enzyme (not close enough however for our Ministry of Trade), we are pleased to announce that we have made significant progress in the field of K3C60 tubulars - we now have a theoretical method of producing them, flawlessly, time and time again. The two fields are related, and we at the Royal Institute of Genetic Research are looking forward immensely to the day when we can produce accurate single-walled molecules on an industrial level.
Gehenna Tartarus
02-09-2003, 19:01
*Official Announcement*
Today, GT Technologies begins work in conjunction with the Royal Institute of Genetic Research in WhisperingVoices to produce K3C60 tubulars. This follows the announcement that the RIofGR has discovered a method of mass reproducing them free from flaws.
GT Technologies has invested a large amount of time and money into refitting a manufacturing unit to allow mass production.
Marcus Davenport
CEO GT Technologies
Dontgonearthere
02-09-2003, 19:04
I applaud your work, our Nanobots can stop poisons, but we havent been able to get them to do increase nutritional value of our food. Very nice.
<Visible to any nation actively monitoring Whispering Voices' northern coastline>
Five huge metallic platforms drifted out to sea. They gave off minimal electro-magnetic radiation, and had no sign of exhausts. To those nations that may have possessed gravimetrics, they were clearly gravimetric craft. At varying heights, ranging from skimming the surface of the white-topped waves to over a thousand feet above sea-level, they waited.
From the surface of the water broke a Wisp, the liquid roiling away as its sleek tear body moved into the sky. The first platform, the lowest, literally fell from the sky, impacting the water with a massive splash that sent fifty foot waves out in every direction. The second, third and fourth did the same afterwards. The fifth was more dramatic - it fell so far, that it cracked with the force of the impact on the water.
The Wisp slunk under the waves again.
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"It's as we suspected, sir," reported a grizzled scientist to his wide-eyed financial manager. "The K3C120 single-walled nanotubes can be used to deliver gravimetric flux waves similar to those used in the raid on Menelmacar, where we set up gravcars to send inverse gravimetric fluxwaves out that crashed all the traffic. That required stationary bombs, but using Ununpentium 115 - that formula we bought off Diablo_NL - inside the nanotubes, we can essentially send out strands of gravimetric flux and sustain them to crash any gravimetric. Without damaging the Wisp's defensive ability. What's better, is it only takes one Wisp to do so - and other than having a secondary aerial suspension method, the thing will just crash. Even if the thing has a secondary locomotion method, the gravimetric wave causes significant damage to the structure and destroys gravimetric fields."
"Fucking Aye, man. A pay rise for your entire team. And don't let any details get out about this. Ensure Wisps are capable of flying in some way, will you? Preferrably two. Ramjets and MI should do it."
Western Asia
15-09-2003, 07:46
OOC: Oooh...Anti-Anti-Grav tech. Niiiiice!
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" read the inscription over the metal door. Scrawled below it in luminous marker the words "In the pants of the blind, the one-eyed snake finds only ring", and Commissar Mevyn scowled, her aged jowls hanging down into an expression reminiscent of an angry bulldog. The lead scientist of the project - fortunately for him - had his back turned to her as he tapped in the key combination that opened the lock.
He turned back, grinning at her like a child with a new toy. Not even her obvious displeasure managed to keep him down. The room inside was full of ... balls. It looked like a giant ball pool, with red and yellow and green and blue spheres in a big pit.
"I see a ball pool, Mr. Ekrovski. A ball pool, with no young ones playing in it. Is this a moral lesson, perhaps? Are you trying to imply your scientific group lacks the facility for breeding?" Her pen hovered over her PDA, ready to take notes.
The scientist's voice was thin and scratchy compared to her deep boom, like he was mumbling the words from out of the dusty closets the school bullies had put him in, in his youth.
"Oh no, Commissar. No. Not at all. You're familiar with M-theory, yes? And the Jameson attachments that use looped dimensions within exotic matter to create wells that prevent hyperspace-type Faster-than-Light jumps, and our work using Ununpentium-115 for the Wisp's gravimetric redistribution strands?"
Her eyes glowed like jewels in a backlit statue of Shiva. "Mr. Ebrovski," her voice grating, "I am a commissar. I am an inspector of military units on a scientific mission. What do you think?"
That got through, mostly. He ducked into the room, to get away from her. When he spoke again, he sounded a little less ebullient and a little more nervous.
"Well, then, I'll take it as read you're familiar with the findings of Fomalont-Kopeikin? That gravity propagates at the speed of light in vacuum?" Her nod encouraged her. "Well ... with that in mind ... well. Gravitation, based on gravitons, blah-blah. We checked over the Menelmacari systems we have again. Found an interesting effect. Now, in order to avoid problems, gravimetric drives have to have sensors to determine local gravity. Now they can only determine it whilst subject to it, unless you want a GRACE-style system which isn't fast enough for, say, a gravitic spaceship. Also, measuring gravity is tricky, since movement generates it. Only strong gravity fields can be measured with any degree of accuracy unless you're pretty much exosystem. What we've found with our little exotic matter balls is very interesting indeed ... stick one on a torpedo with a gravimetric drive attachment, and the quantum force gravity affects the other dimensions: but, they in turn affect it."
Mevyn nodded. "Alright."
"So, you have your gravimetric field, affected by M-theory strings. Now, if you put a randomiser in there - anything will do, we find measures of Brownian motion recorded and used as a basis work wonderfully - which you then use to alter the containment on the exotic matter field, then you ... er ... well ... "pulse" the gravity. It propagates at the speed of light and is an infinite force - although it loses power rapidly."
Mevyn brought up her notes on her PDA.
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"So ... what can you do, we asked ourselves, to prevent this falloff? After all, a small magnet exerts more force than Earth, after all, if you're on the surface. Well ... actually ... it was a very simple answer. Mass generates gravity. Black holes have almost infinite mass, and an almost unbeatable gravity field. They still decay, however, with radiation escaping from their axes. So ... " he picked up a yellow ball and a red ball, and span the red one with surprising deftness on one finger.
"So we spin the exotic matter ball, at massive speeds that are determined by our random number pattern. The faster we get, the better. It interacts with the gravity field, and sends it pulsing out ... and if we just touch the yellow ball, precisely, to the spinning red ball ... it spins around also, but both go half the speed." He fumbled then, dropped them both, shrugged.
"The trick is not to spin just one of these, although we've added buckyball strands filled with Uup-115 for additional efficacy. We spin the entire array, and we get massive gravimetric distortion in a huge radius. I'm talking tens of millions of kilometres, Commissar. Beyond that it drops hugely. Now ... " He hit a switch, and a sheet of whiteness dropped obediently from the ceiling. A projector displayed a movie onto it.
"You see that? That's a replica of a Menelmacari gravship. We set it on a predetermined course. Now ... it flies like so ... reaching massive speeds. That there, that slow lumbering thing, that's one of our Prometheus class science vessels. Standard, two modules. Deploying drones ... Jameson drones with the gravimetric drives. You see, we only need the square root of the distance we want to effect covered, and only need one drone per million kilometres effected. Like so - you see? Five, arranged in a starfish shape. Now ... we spin ... "
Mevyn watched, fascinated, as the tiny little science vessel remained in the centre of the whirling array - spinning slightly. The images then zoomed out to the replica of the Menelmacari ship. Tiny little green dots, representing the path of the spinning gravity field, intersected it ... and it crumpled, shattered, ripped itself to shreds. The little subtitle said one frame represented a nanosecond. The ship was utterly destroyed in nine frames.
She gasped out loud. The scientist grinned.
"So, there we have it. As requested. What's best, is because gravity propagates at the speed of light there's no possible way to stop this, because no computer can calculate faster than the speed of light let alone effect a defense against a random pattern - if anything using a gravimetric field comes in range of these babies, the fields are shattered and it shattered with them. And of course, again due to the random pattern, an anti-gravimetric distortion field won't have any effect: it won't know what force it's counteracting, and obviously it can only counteract one at once and these will be pulsing once a nanosecond. Because gravimetrics is used to essentially accelerate at otherwise impossible speeds, and as an inertia cushion, as the field propagates through the ship and changes the gravimetrics of the ship, that means parts of the ship travel at different speeds instantaneously: cataclysmic, unavoidable destruction. Although it does have a slight problem - we'll need to phase out the old, non-compartmentalised fuel modules for our spacecraft, because the field can play havoc with that much hydrogen. That's about it though: because our technology doesn't use gravimetrics, we barely feel such changes. Well I say barely - magnetic boots might be a good idea in combat situations. But the ship hulls can stand it, since they're built to deal with inertia - and since they travel at negligible speeds compared to gravimetric ships, and the fluctuation is based on a square of the difference, so when there's no artificially induced gravity on the ship - nothing greater than spin, anyway - these drones won't make much difference."
Mevyn nodded mutely.
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And outside, the deep dark uncaring void of space buried the fragments of the test-bed ship in emptiness, as it floated out far and wide away from the asteroid field, little tiny pieces of metal spinning lazily towards Mars and Jupiter.