The Macabees
09-03-2005, 03:18
[OOC: This is modern tech. Future tech does not have to follow my outline of the NS universe, and whatever I 'explore' later. But it is meant to be the norm for MT. I thought it would be a fairly interesting project. If you're an expert on astronomy and wish to help I could use it because I'm no expert. Please TG me if so, or AIM me at nucleicacidman or MSN me at puto_poeta@hotmail.com ... the latter are preferred, although If I'm not on either then just TG me and I'll get back to you A.S.A.P.]
The human clutter in the obeservation room jived with a frantic noise providing a cacophony of nervous optimism. Macabee flags waved and fluttered to the rhythmic waves of the myriad of fans sporadically placed on what the electrical company referred to as "strategical locations." The room was fairly large, but as it was packed in with over a thousand major sponsors, engineers and military officials it seemed miniscule. Indeed not just a few complained that "an organization with a billion dollar sattelite could not afford a thousand to expand a simple room." Nonetheless, soon enough the audience's attention was turned away from the white washed interior walls without a hint of variance and the excrutiating heat and instead channeled towards a gargantuan plasma screen on the rear wall.
The picture flickered on and after a few annoying break ups the image was finally received without further mistakes. An elderly man, possibly sixty-five, filled the center with his head, bald except with the ribbon of white hair crawling around on the sides. It was Frederich von Truft, head of MASA (MAcabee Space Association), perhaps the most learned astronomer of the world, although he was not one to like flattery. He waited and then began to adress the crowd,"Welcome to MASA headquarters in Macabea City. You are a lucky bunch, for you are about to witness the most important event in the history of astronomy. No other nation has ever attemtped to explore what lies beyond our planet. Hastati I, perhaps the most advanced sattelite ever constructed, will soon be launched and our galaxy will no longer be a fuzzy object which we have a primative grasp of. Soon enough, our galaxy will be our neighborhood - a part of a huge whole. Now turn, and see history in the making..."
The plasma screen switched off and the room again turned towards the dear wall, or window, which gave them a vew of the massive Hastati I rocket carrier, located on an island about two kilometers away. The white rocket which carried the Hastati I was, simply put, huge, and it would take an expensive and fairly large engine to fire it into space and fling it into orbit. The entire Hastati I project had cost the government a total of eighty billion dollars which so far, after a six year construction period, only about sixty of those had been paid. MASA was not happy taht it would be held responsible for the loss of those last twenty billion but the military expansionist program had seeped into other budgets, and the fact remained that MASA was considered an angency of the armed forces.
The sattelite destined to be assempled in orbit was the best of its kind and it would show with the quality of images it downloaded to MASA's central computers. Hastatit I would equip an advanced mirror telescope designed for accurate short range imagery. The mirror telescope codenamed SIERRA was gargantuan, capable of collecting more of the many wavelengths photons traveled at, consequently, it would grasp the true color of the universe, which was expected to be quite beautiful. Hastati I also carried a Charged Couple Device (CCD). The CCD, in simplest terms, was designed to take in photons which creates electrical pulses, which in turn gives a fantastic picture of what it it was examining. A third device collects infra-red rays, which are impervious to dust and such, and allow more accurate information for long range experiments. The sattelite contains a super computer which does several key computations. One, it collects photographs from the CCD, optical telescope, and the infra-red optical telescope, and then dowloads them to MASA headquarters. It also serves to order an increase in velocity in order to 'swing' out of orbit towards Hera, the next planet of our solar system [please see Map 1], and then continues to swing until it runs out of fuel, or out of planets.
Of course, for the latter part to work the planets would have to line up, or the trajectory of the sattelite would have to be plotted to calculate perfect timing. With the scant knowledge on our solar system, due to a general apathy towards astronomy in the not too distant past, this trajectory will take years to complete. However, Hastati I is expected to last around twenty years. The Jonach Observator ten kilometers from Fedela is expected to be completed within two years, and it's expected to be the largest observatory on the face of the planet, so most scientist expect that this will provide the necessary information to map the trajectory. However, ever orbiting around our planet, called Zeus,, the Hastati I is expected it be quite a breakthrough for astronomy.
So, the crowd stared at the calm spring scene which lay serenely to their forefront. The intercome began the infamous count down, made popular by movies, "T minus ten, t minus nine, t minus...". It seemed like a true eternity, but inevitably the rocket would launch. And it did so eight seconds later, and the hydrogen fuel splashed around the quickly accelerating rocket, sending of flames of pure fire, and bushes of smoke, piling high to the sky, filling the skies with what seemed like another scene from Dante's inferno. But without pause for consideration of the people in awe of the preformance of the Hastati I the rocket smashed through the skies of Zeus accelerating to ungodly velocities as it reached higher and higher. The days of exploration had returned...
Images:
http://media.nasaexplores.com/01-047/drawing_rocket.jpg
http://img146.exs.cx/img146/5140/time17gi.gif
MACABEA CITY, Macabee Empire - Today marks the launching of the Hastati I, a space program in the making for six long years. The success of the launch comes as a massive relief to the engineers who took part of the eighty billion dollar project, and MASA (MAcabee Space Association) has high hopes that the launch will reap enormous consequences which will benefit humanity for ages to come. Moreover, as MASA head engineer Frederich von Truft claims,"There will be significant leaps in the study of space and how it works. This project will only be one of hundreds to come. The Emperor has granted us a budget worthy of an entire nation and we plan to put it to good use."
Macabea City, or more specifically, the area just outside of it was blanketed in a huge cloud of dust and smoke as the rocket pushed into the upper atmosphere and cleared its voyage to space. In about thirteen hours the rocket will begin its two days orbit in which it will mechanically compose the sattelite which MASA has huge hopes for. The sattelite is to couple with the soon to come Jonach Observatory outside of Fedala and as the Emperor of the Empire says,"The two technological advances coupled together will forge a future that no man will have ever foreshadowed before. The Empire will also step ahead of others in the exploration of the heavens."
The first images are expected to return a full forty-eight hours after the sattelite is complete, meaning in one hundred and nine hours away from now. Our next issue will contain the much awaited photographs of our planet, Zeus, from outside of our own atmosphere, as well as our sister planet Hera, and the other planets which make up our solar system. Hopefully, we will also be able to get much hoped for information on our sun, now called K1 by the scientific community... more information on page 56.
[OOC: Sorry I don't have 'map 1' yet..but it will be done soon! Also, basically our 'Earth' is called Zeus, and 'Mars' is called Hera... however, the solar system I'm going to depict is nothing like ours, and comparing the planet sizes with today's Earth and Mars are deceiving..to say the least Zeus is possibly three times as large as Jupiter..perhaps larger.]
The human clutter in the obeservation room jived with a frantic noise providing a cacophony of nervous optimism. Macabee flags waved and fluttered to the rhythmic waves of the myriad of fans sporadically placed on what the electrical company referred to as "strategical locations." The room was fairly large, but as it was packed in with over a thousand major sponsors, engineers and military officials it seemed miniscule. Indeed not just a few complained that "an organization with a billion dollar sattelite could not afford a thousand to expand a simple room." Nonetheless, soon enough the audience's attention was turned away from the white washed interior walls without a hint of variance and the excrutiating heat and instead channeled towards a gargantuan plasma screen on the rear wall.
The picture flickered on and after a few annoying break ups the image was finally received without further mistakes. An elderly man, possibly sixty-five, filled the center with his head, bald except with the ribbon of white hair crawling around on the sides. It was Frederich von Truft, head of MASA (MAcabee Space Association), perhaps the most learned astronomer of the world, although he was not one to like flattery. He waited and then began to adress the crowd,"Welcome to MASA headquarters in Macabea City. You are a lucky bunch, for you are about to witness the most important event in the history of astronomy. No other nation has ever attemtped to explore what lies beyond our planet. Hastati I, perhaps the most advanced sattelite ever constructed, will soon be launched and our galaxy will no longer be a fuzzy object which we have a primative grasp of. Soon enough, our galaxy will be our neighborhood - a part of a huge whole. Now turn, and see history in the making..."
The plasma screen switched off and the room again turned towards the dear wall, or window, which gave them a vew of the massive Hastati I rocket carrier, located on an island about two kilometers away. The white rocket which carried the Hastati I was, simply put, huge, and it would take an expensive and fairly large engine to fire it into space and fling it into orbit. The entire Hastati I project had cost the government a total of eighty billion dollars which so far, after a six year construction period, only about sixty of those had been paid. MASA was not happy taht it would be held responsible for the loss of those last twenty billion but the military expansionist program had seeped into other budgets, and the fact remained that MASA was considered an angency of the armed forces.
The sattelite destined to be assempled in orbit was the best of its kind and it would show with the quality of images it downloaded to MASA's central computers. Hastatit I would equip an advanced mirror telescope designed for accurate short range imagery. The mirror telescope codenamed SIERRA was gargantuan, capable of collecting more of the many wavelengths photons traveled at, consequently, it would grasp the true color of the universe, which was expected to be quite beautiful. Hastati I also carried a Charged Couple Device (CCD). The CCD, in simplest terms, was designed to take in photons which creates electrical pulses, which in turn gives a fantastic picture of what it it was examining. A third device collects infra-red rays, which are impervious to dust and such, and allow more accurate information for long range experiments. The sattelite contains a super computer which does several key computations. One, it collects photographs from the CCD, optical telescope, and the infra-red optical telescope, and then dowloads them to MASA headquarters. It also serves to order an increase in velocity in order to 'swing' out of orbit towards Hera, the next planet of our solar system [please see Map 1], and then continues to swing until it runs out of fuel, or out of planets.
Of course, for the latter part to work the planets would have to line up, or the trajectory of the sattelite would have to be plotted to calculate perfect timing. With the scant knowledge on our solar system, due to a general apathy towards astronomy in the not too distant past, this trajectory will take years to complete. However, Hastati I is expected to last around twenty years. The Jonach Observator ten kilometers from Fedela is expected to be completed within two years, and it's expected to be the largest observatory on the face of the planet, so most scientist expect that this will provide the necessary information to map the trajectory. However, ever orbiting around our planet, called Zeus,, the Hastati I is expected it be quite a breakthrough for astronomy.
So, the crowd stared at the calm spring scene which lay serenely to their forefront. The intercome began the infamous count down, made popular by movies, "T minus ten, t minus nine, t minus...". It seemed like a true eternity, but inevitably the rocket would launch. And it did so eight seconds later, and the hydrogen fuel splashed around the quickly accelerating rocket, sending of flames of pure fire, and bushes of smoke, piling high to the sky, filling the skies with what seemed like another scene from Dante's inferno. But without pause for consideration of the people in awe of the preformance of the Hastati I the rocket smashed through the skies of Zeus accelerating to ungodly velocities as it reached higher and higher. The days of exploration had returned...
Images:
http://media.nasaexplores.com/01-047/drawing_rocket.jpg
http://img146.exs.cx/img146/5140/time17gi.gif
MACABEA CITY, Macabee Empire - Today marks the launching of the Hastati I, a space program in the making for six long years. The success of the launch comes as a massive relief to the engineers who took part of the eighty billion dollar project, and MASA (MAcabee Space Association) has high hopes that the launch will reap enormous consequences which will benefit humanity for ages to come. Moreover, as MASA head engineer Frederich von Truft claims,"There will be significant leaps in the study of space and how it works. This project will only be one of hundreds to come. The Emperor has granted us a budget worthy of an entire nation and we plan to put it to good use."
Macabea City, or more specifically, the area just outside of it was blanketed in a huge cloud of dust and smoke as the rocket pushed into the upper atmosphere and cleared its voyage to space. In about thirteen hours the rocket will begin its two days orbit in which it will mechanically compose the sattelite which MASA has huge hopes for. The sattelite is to couple with the soon to come Jonach Observatory outside of Fedala and as the Emperor of the Empire says,"The two technological advances coupled together will forge a future that no man will have ever foreshadowed before. The Empire will also step ahead of others in the exploration of the heavens."
The first images are expected to return a full forty-eight hours after the sattelite is complete, meaning in one hundred and nine hours away from now. Our next issue will contain the much awaited photographs of our planet, Zeus, from outside of our own atmosphere, as well as our sister planet Hera, and the other planets which make up our solar system. Hopefully, we will also be able to get much hoped for information on our sun, now called K1 by the scientific community... more information on page 56.
[OOC: Sorry I don't have 'map 1' yet..but it will be done soon! Also, basically our 'Earth' is called Zeus, and 'Mars' is called Hera... however, the solar system I'm going to depict is nothing like ours, and comparing the planet sizes with today's Earth and Mars are deceiving..to say the least Zeus is possibly three times as large as Jupiter..perhaps larger.]