NationStates Jolt Archive

Dhunstafd, Ardof, Uruloki System, Triangulum Galaxy

Serlor was pleased, this was going better than he had hoped. Ardof's second moon, Dhunstafd, had some good yield. Now that mining operations were under way, he could relax and wait out the season. He was going to be here for a good three months. Time to start on my hobby he though with glee. Turning on his holocomp in his quarters, he quickly hijacked a few of the mining stations sensors. Turning them towards Ardof, he began to initiate scans of the planet. It was a standard gaseous giant, approximately 165 thousand kilometers across at the equator, standard composition. Dangit, nothing interesting yet, maybe I will just have to wait. he thought bitterly. He decided to let the sensors continue their scans for a little while before saving the data and relinquishing control. Maybe tomorrow night would have better results.


~~~1 Month Later~~~

Still doing his regular nightly scans, Serlor finally got something interesting.


Unique Elemental Composition Detected...
Carbon rich environment...


Well that is interesting, none of the other's have a carbon rich environment. he thought with a tinge of hope. This could be it, my break into the big leagues. The first step has been completed. Knowing that there was hope for his theory, he slept soundly that night.

OOC: This is going to be a long detailed rp on my part...tag and read if you wish, however I would appreciate it if you disable your sigs in this thread.

Just outside the Uruloki System, Triangulum Galaxy

The TIF Vessel, Silent Spectre, a Relativity Class Temporal Destroyer, sat just outside the Uruloki Planetary system, in a highly eccentric polar orbit around the sun. The crew on the Silent Spectre watched the small, medium and large craft of Flaming Souls darting back and forth from the refinery and the small planetoids in the area. Their orders were to surveil the op going on in this system, and perhaps at some point, initiate a formal meeting with the leaders of the planets that have been recently charted in a local cluster that spanned sixteen sectors. Perhaps they would be strong allies in the time to come. So far, these are the only living beings of sentience that have been found living in Triangulum, besides the Indrans Themselves. This is definitely an interesting occasion.

~~1 Week Later~~
Having the scans dig deeper into the planet, Serlor discovered something even more interesting. There was a solid core in the planet, something that he had, as of yet, not found in a gas giant. Unfortunately he could not, as of yet, determine what the core was made of. The atmoshpere was to thick to let any detailed scans get through. However there was an anomoly appearing on the scans, almost as if there was a tiny dimple in the space time continuum in the core. This wold require the help of some powerful nations. What I have gathered from the conspiracy sites is that Balrogga knows a thing or two about atmosphere removal, and it is common knowledge that Indra Prime is the leader of temporal related information. he thought.

Sending out two messages, Serlor waited patiently for a reply.

To: Balrogga Empire, Attention Science Division
From: Serlor Keen
Subject: Scientific Gains

I have an interesting conundrum to deal with, and I do believe that you would be the ones to help with solving it. I need to find out what is at the core of a gas giant I have been studying. I am attaching all recorded data to date so that you may see what I am needing help with. Please respond soon.

Serlor Keen
Attached Files Compressed

To: Indra Prime, Attention Temporal Tech Department
From: Serlor Keen
Subject: Dimples

In my recent scans of a planet in the Uruloki system, I have located what appears to be a 'dimple' in the STC, any help you could field in regards to this would be greatly appreciated.

Serlor Keen

Message from Balrogga Empire:

To: Serlor Keen
From: Balrogga Empire, Imperial Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Reply to Scientific Gains

We would be able to remove the atmosphere of your gas giant. We will dispatch a ship to assist with your problem as soon as we get coordinates to the planet.

What size and how many ships are you willing to allow entry into your territory?

Serlor read the message with more than a bit of surprise, he had only sent a message to Balrogga based off of a conspiracy site, and it turned out to be true. Maybe I need to keep my eyes open for that 200 foot long Flaming Mongoose now. he thought.

To: Balrogga Empire, Imperial Diplomatic Corps
From: Serlor Keen
Subject: Reply to Scientific Gains (2)

The planet is located here [coordinates attached]. Ardof is 165,000 km across at the equator. We will allow as many ships as you need to do the job.

Serlor Keen

Message to Flaming Souls

To: Serlor Keen
From: Balrogga Empire, Imperial Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Reply to Scientific Gains

I will send five ships, an Intruder Carrier, a destroyer, two escort frigates, and a Mothership Mining vessel. They will arrive at your specified coordinants in about 2 hours.

Two hours later:

Five ships materialized at the coordinates supplied. First the two Torpedo Class Frigates, The Nip and The Tuck Emerged from T-Space into Real Space. Then the Vengeance Class Destroyer, The Hatred and the Intruder Class Carrier, The Euryale. Finally the massive Mothership mining vessel Emerged last into Real Space.

A message was immediately sent to the waiting ships.

“This is Commander Susan Da’Gan of the Carrier, The Euryale. We have been sent by The Balrogga Empire to assist you in a little venture. Where would you like us to park?”

“This is Commander Susan Da’Gan of the Carrier, The Euryale. We have been sent by The Balrogga Empire to assist you in a little venture. Where would you like us to park?”

Serlor noted the message. Guess I have to tell my superiors now he thought with disdain.

Park in orbit of Ardof, you can begin whenever you feel ready, thank you for coming.

A burst transmission was sent back to Flaming Souls' operation from the Temporal Incursion Fleet High Command. It read:

Every planetary body forms a minute dimple in the STC, of this we are aware. However there are some anomalous readings we have picked up in your area and will continue to monitor your progress and the situation at hand. Thank you for contacting us.

Little did they know, that a second secure transmission was sent out simultaneously, to the Silent Spectre

OFFICIAL COMM TO SILENT SPECTRE
OFFICIAL COMM CLASSIFIED LEVEL 9

General Thomson,

Your obs. target has detected a discrepancy in the STC near your location and has subsequently informed us. The Schlivieng Lens at the Temporal Observatory has not been repaired completely yet so we cannot get a perfect view of the cause of the discrepancy, more than the fact that it IS there for reasons unknown to High Command at this time. Your orders are being modified to split your attention between the Flaming Soul's OP and the Spatiotemporal distortion in that region. The Silent Spectre is still to remain cloaked and out of contact with the targets. No need to respond to this communique.

<<<<END OFFICIAL COMM>>>>

The Euryale and The Hatred moved into orbit of the target planet, the mining vessel remained where it was, staying out of the way, as well were The Nip and The Tuck.

The carrier took position opposite The Hatred. The planet lay in between them.

Aboard The Euryale, Commander Da’Gan was taking control and issuing commands.

“Open a command channel to The Hatred.”

“Channel open Sir.”

“Euryale to Hatred, establish a Dimensional Anchor and hold the planet in position while we remove the atmosphere.”

“Yes Sir, DA established, initiating Full Hold. Using the system star as the reference point.”

Commander Da’Gan turned to another officer on the bridge.

“Activate the SGE and establish a SMT.”

“Activating SGE Deployment and establishing a Space Minus Powertap. Tap established. Full power available to all systems.”

“Warn all ships. We don’t want any of them accidentally sucked into our little toy.”

“Yes Sir, sending message.”

Message from The Euryale:

“Attention all vessels. It is recommended you take position outside a minimum distance of one million Kilometers. We cannot be held responsible for any damages incurred if this minimum safe distance is not recognized. We will begin in three minutes.”


OOC:

Sensors will verify the planet has stopped moving around the sun. It is anchored in relation to the sun.

Serlor's superiors were not happy with him. It wasn't everyday that an ops tech ordered the destruction of a planet, let alone a planet his employers were in orbit of. Granted there had been the Radzinsky incident back in 150, but that was a revenge case.

~~~

Standing in the Mining Control Room, Serlor could see the ships, and was amazed. They were beautiful, works of art. Suddenly an alarm went off, its klaxon ringing throughout the MCR, however no one knew what it meant. Finally Serlor figured it out. Looking up from the computer he was ashen faced.

"The...um...the...um...the planet...yeah, it's not moving. It has halted its orbit." he said in a state of complete bewidlerment.

"What? You have got to be shitting me." his manager said.

"Look, right there." Serlor replied.

The manager started to say something about physics when he was cut out by a transmission.

“Attention all vessels. It is recommended you take position outside a minimum distance of one million Kilometers. We cannot be held responsible for any damages incurred if this minimum safe distance is not recognized. We will begin in three minutes.”

Serlor ran to the comm desk and sent a quick reply.

Our people are all up here on the moon, we stay away from the planet, proceed as you will.

Sitting back and watching, Serlor couldn't help but be amazed at the power displayed before him.

“Sir, all vessels have retreated to the minimum safe distance. There are three of the inner moons within the danger zone but their orbits take them out of the immediate target zone. They are on The Hatred’s side of the planet. The area is clear. Thirty seconds to Activation.”

“Is the DA holding?”

“Affirmative. The planet is stationary. Everything is ready to go.”

“Ready the SGE. Fire on my mark.”

The captain watched several displays on her Neurolink. When several reached the desired outputs she gave the order.

“Now!”

A purple aura surrounded the SGE and a point of energy began to build up near the upper atmosphere. It grew until a manifestation appeared, looking like a mole against the brilliant background of the clouds. The blackness grew until it was a kilometer in size.

“The singularity is stabilizing. I’m feeding more Negative Energy Emissions to stabilize it further. We now have full manifestation.”

“Begin Stage Two.”

“Yes Sir.”

The technicians accessed the AI with their Neurolinks and began to assist it with careful calculations and commands. The miniature black hole began to inch into the atmosphere.

Streams of multicolored clouds began to flow towards the point, disappearing into the oblivion awaiting them hungrily. Layers of clouds were devoured, more flowed in behind them to take their place, only to fall to the same fate as their predecessors.

The people on the moon were getting a front row seat as a distinctly disable dimple appeared in the surface of the clouds. A low rumble began to fill the moonbase and everything began to vibrate. A technician barely caught a coffee cup as it danced off the edge of his workstation. Several alarm sounded which sent crews scrambling to make sure the station remained airtight.

The dimple visibly grew as the mote devoured everything that ventured too close. For a moment the planer took the appearance of a giant eye with the blackness staring into space. The clouds grew thinner as the atmosphere disappeared. Slowly something could be seen through the clouds. The rays of the sun fell upon the surface of the planet for the first time in several thousands of years. The last of the atmosphere was bled away and a large ball of rock and other debris the gravity of the planet pulled in over several million years lay exposed to the naked sky.

“Captain, the atmosphere has been depleted. Powering down the SGE. Space Minus Tap disengaging. DE released.”

“Good work, tell The Hatred to meet us by the mining vessel.”

“Yes Sir.”

Serlor knew it would be big, but that big? Now that Ardof's atmosphere had been stripped away, he could see the core. Not that it would be hard to miss. A fifty kilometre, perfectly spherical diamond. AFter the atmosphere had been drained everything had just stopped. His discover, was all that echoed throuh his head. He had been waiting for a find like this forever, and here it was, finally. Now the Balroggans would have to cut into it to get to the object.

As soon as the atmosphere was gone, the stations sensors went haywire. Partly because of the damage to the station, but mostly because of the level he had them turned to. He quickly readjusted the sensors, and almost as quickly they responded.

Unknown Item Detected...
Location...
Core, 25 km from all points.


Dead center. Smack dab in the middle of the diamond. Oh, that's going to be fun to get out he thought.


To: Balroggan Fleet
From: Serlor Keen

Can you guys dig down to that object in the center? [Data Attached] I need to get to it, it may be something we have never discovered before. Do not worry about payment, it will be covered. Also, if you can leave as much of the diamond available, it would be greatly appreciated.

Serlor Keen

Now, to see what kind of damage has been done he thought impatiently.

“Captain, message from Serlor Keen.”

“Relay it to me.”

“Yes Sir.”

To: Balroggan Fleet
From: Serlor Keen

Can you guys dig down to that object in the center? [Data Attached] I need to get to it, it may be something we have never discovered before. Do not worry about payment, it will be covered. Also, if you can leave as much of the diamond available, it would be greatly appreciated.

Serlor Keen
“Let me see the reports of the analysis of the planetary surface.”

“Yes Sir”

“Hmmm. Standard mineral content considering the planet has been pelted by meteors, asteroids, and moons for the last few minion years. Elevated Neutronium traces, I bet there was a Neutron star nearby that exploded in the past, several hundred kilometers of it and a pure carbon core. The readings show it is in fact diamond like their data shows. All that pressure from the atmosphere and the weight of the planetary material must have compacted it.”

Susan thought for a few seconds.

“Contact the Mothership and tell them to get busy. I want everything stripped off that planet. Strip it to the core.”

“Yes Sir, message sent.”

Susan switched the view to the holo-projector.

The Mining Mothership began to move towards the newly naked planet. After establishing a near orbit, a swarm of small craft was emitted from the bay doors. The mining droids flew to the surface and began to process the planet. As each loaded their reserves, they returned to the Mothership and unloaded. They immediately returned to the surface again to repeat the process. After a few hours, a huge pit could be seen in the surface growing larger by the minute. Aboard the Mothership, the resources were processed and a huge stockpile was accumulating in space nearby, floating within their containment fields. In a few more hours, the diamond was exposed in the bottom of the pit. The mining bots continues removing the debris over many hours until nothing remained except for the diamond. The planetary crust now lay in several million containers sorted into pure resources just outside the orbit of the moons where it would not interfere.

“OK, instruct the mining crew to break out the NEF Generator.”

“Yes Sir”

Aboard the Mothership, the crew was busy with the swarm of Mining Bots that suddenly became extra. They began to return them to their berths when the message from the carrier interrupted them.

“They want us to what?”

“Bust out the NEF.”

“In front of them? I thought it was one of our corporate secrets.”

“Well, if the military says do something; we better damn well do it. They gave us this technology and they could demand a return of it.”

“The thought of someone using the NEF on another ship scares the shit out of me.”

“Don’t worry, it won’t happen. If it was weapons grade, do you think the military would just hand it over for us to use? They tested the idea but during some of the demonstrations it was discovered any sort of energy field would cancel out the effect on the target. It would not make it through the ships shields so it was busted as a weapon. We are just lucky they let us use this for our work. It makes it a lot easier to get through the real hard substances like that core down there.”

“Bob, they want to know what is taking so long.”

“Tell them we are deploying in a minute or two after we clear a path through these mining bots.”

“You’re the boss…”

Three minutes later a strange craft left the Mothership and descended to the planet. A small flotilla of mining bots followed to move the debris away. The craft touched down on the surface of the diamond, lined itself up with the central target, and activated.

Several energy fields activated in sequence, creating a flow for the debris from the “cutting surface”. The mining bots waited behind the NEF to catch the pure carbon. In the front of the craft, the NEF Generator initiated itself and an energy field was created. Whatever toughed or was touched by the field had its Net Electrical Field temporarily adjusted so the atomic structure repelled instead of attracted. This caused the carbon atoms to attempt to travel away from the surface and get caught by the repulsor fields. The RF ejected the carbon atoms in the direction of the mining bots, which collected and returned with it. The HEF Generator was instructed to stop when it got within 200 meters of the object to recalibrate the distance towards the center. The bot would then continue until it was within a few meters where it would again recalibrate the distance and stop about 1 meter from the object that lay buried all these millennium.

Watching the Balroggans mine the planet was nothing short of amazing, it made the Flaming Soulian technology look antiquiated. They were making short work of the core, getting down to the object in record time. An hour later, the object lay exposed, they were now ready to retrieve it.

To: Balroggan Fleet
From: Serlor Keen

Thank you guys for your help, we can take it from here. The money should be transfered now, so you can all head home. Have a nice day.

Serlor Keen

Serlor quickly ran to his personal ship, a simple one man affair, and headed towards the core. Waiting until the Balroggan's had left to dig the last metre to the object.

"You are welcome. The payment will be forwarded to the Civilians to pay for their time. If you need any other services, don't hesitate to ask."

Susan looked at the diamond thinking how it would make a nice base, Perhaps she should talk to one of her superiors about the idea.

Minutes later the ships Uplifted to T-Space and left the system, returning home.



OOC:

The military ships will remain behind hidden in T-Space just outside the system, out of curiosity.


EDIT: The DA was released so the planet would move again and the resources from the planet belongs to you to use however you wished.