NationStates Jolt Archive

For many years Intracircumcordei's development of the Sciences and Technologies has evolved to the point that with concert of a number of partnerships that ICCD is on the verge leaving their home star. The Dian Space program started rather modestly developing mostly tunneling and deep sea exploration technologies, rocketry and eventually a variety of energy conversion and pulse drives, namely ion drives. intracircumcordei is a wide mix of technologies. There is a definate bridge developing between the land dwellers and the State Space Development personnel. There is the potential of Dians leaving the home system in partnership. ICCD has not yet made moves to build extrasolar spacecraft. The space stations that now are layed out in colonial fields are starting to become more and more self sustaining and it is soon beleived that conversion of local space bodies may be more economically viable. It still may be many years before ICCD starts a colonial push however the message sent to the Emperor in regard to the Extrasolar space program is "

The Holy Empire of Intracircumcordei opens it's arms to the heavens above and fall into the future not as planet dwellers but as a embodiment within a nieche held within the void of space, in a latice of energy with qualities of existance.

Before the end of our lifetimes, the Empire is commited to seeing Intracircumcordei leave our star system and arrive at another, this will be done in our times and in the time of those hearing and reading and seeing this." Our goal is to build Dian Scout ships that can use bellspace or a tesserect or something of the form in creation of a FTL tachyon or the sort spacecraft, some type of warp drive or otherwise to take the Dians to the stars and beyond

A decade had passed since the Emperor's statement of acheiving Faster than light space technologies within their lifetime. Numerous test beds on the outer expanses of the solar system were conducted over the 10 years, most of it implementation of various theories.

Although sublight space technology was implemented to travvel to the nearest star system, the journeies took over a year both ways, using the most advanced technology.

Early surveys had been conducted of three neighbouring systems, one a lonely star in a mostly hydrogen nuebula feild with many subatomic particles freeflaoting, what seemed likely to emerge potentially into a binary system millions of years down the road. It was popularly dubbed the Hydros Nebula. Another was a very large asteroid feild of unknown origin containing large quantities of Lithium, 4 of them planetoid size (plutons), as well as three neptune sized gas "planetoids", dubbed the Lithius Feild". Finally the third system, contained a solitary star, and 5 planets surounded by a large asteroid field, two of the plants has temperatures from -50'C and 50'c one being a mostly cooler (high temps of 20'), and the other having low temps of around freezing but going up to 50'c in the equitorial regions. None contained life.
They were mercury size, but with very heavy cores. The Third system was named the Sanctus System. These were the major space headlines after a decade and served both as moral boosters and stimulated some interest in "long term" space missins, missions ranging tours of 5 years, two traveling with 3 engaged in projects.

Plans were set in motion to set up manufacturing stations in the Hydros nubula and the Lithius field. Meanwhile two major Imperial Colonies, the first out of system colonies were developed and launched under the Imperial House. Oddly the hot planet was named Fervenus and the "cold" planet named Frigis, or neutered to Fer and Fri. Colonial Populations were low and were turned into research centered and "military outposts". The planets mostly barren of any complex organic matter, were set to be "terraformed" atleast in the low base areas. Of course neither planet had large quantities of oxygen, they did have survivable atmospheres. Colonyships were sent, large ships bigger then the flagship Dian SPace Fleet Carriers. Drop ships were then used to bring down components and establish the colonies. The Endevours were very costly, and the return was lagging a 20 year return or longer.
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Meanwhile FTL technology research developed. A number of prototype designed were used, using what was realized to be "subspace". Tragically one such project that didn't result as intended, was the catalyst for faster then light travel.

An unmanned experimental ship/drone/probe, was going to experiment with "space folding". The space folding was derived from various theoretical subspace technologies, that allowing a warp feild to be created and to allow the ship to be inside the warp field "as an object" rather then dematerializing the ship in a transporter sequence. Saddly the project failed resulting in the presumed destruction of the prototype "fold tunneler". What did happen was a tear in the space time contium, all be it a very small one, the catch was that it was a very stable tear, and did not close. Essentially a low mass slow moving blackhole was formed less than a lightyear away from the Dian Homeworld.

Intensive research was conducted on the tear. Propes sent into it never returned, and nothing came out it. That was when things started to get very "strange".

The latent psychic powers of the Dians were "awakened" but only a little more notisable for the previous "quack" psychics of the Infromercial variety. However, documented evidence begain to pile up, individuals sensing car accidents or the weather with 100% accuracy weeks at a time. Even weirder were documented cases, even shown on TV of Copperfield type levitation, and even telekinesis.
Hysteria of course insued as the "mythic" notion of "special powers" begain to crumble. Along with it, the field begain to crumble as well, but not to disapear.

What resulted was a rifts like phenomenon, energy lines started to "crack" from the tear and stretched out, these smaller tears were registered "weaker" but still emmited visual radiation apparently a stream from the tear. Fear surmounted when it was found that they lines continued to grow on a daily basis, unpredicably with one exception. one of the lines was headed straight for core of the Dian system, it's sun.

3 years passed as the line enetered the system, all physical attacks and even an uncertain chain of nuclear detonation failled to stop the advance of the energy line; contraversly, the nuclear detonations appeared to speed up the process. In less then a yeard the system had be latticed with a stochastic array of lines, then it made contact with the sun.

Thousands died in a singal instant, many others became dribbling masses on the floors of buildings and in the streets, especially effected where those that were the ones who "had special powers". Those "psys" that survived the contact point describe being totally blinded by extreme light, finally left for days recovering in total darkness.

Streams of energy merged between the sun and the tear, like rivers of energy. Oddly the lines stopped growing on that side of the system and instead it seemed the flow reversed going out into space. away from the system.

FTL research DID NOT stop however it did draw insurmountable critisism, those clinging to stablity started saying that the FTL research would end life as we know it, or all life in itself.

Psychics started to be hired into important posts, they started being used as special detectives, especially the empaths.. Some with enhanced cognitive abilities were employed on FTL research projects.

A project codenamed "Fenix" was the first successful FTL flight, and it was done as a manned mission, and it was a return mission, and flown by a psy, and of all places into the tear. What the still classified pilot explained about it, was that she was connected to different locations via telepresence and above this she could choose" where to focus the energy supplied by the "warp core" via interface with a "abstract qunatum computer system" that was able to translate the required warp signature. Essentially like piloting a ship as a bird. Not with controls but with emotional translation from some psychic identity or projection into mathematical codes, to augment a peice of technology.

The solitary instance of the FTL flight into the tear had much argument within the Imperial Government, there was fear both of the psys increasing political clout, but it was remined that over 100 years ago the leader of the revolution was touted as a "psy" the birth of the aged new Empire, now fading and remoddled but still a part of the Dian histories.

The Jane Doe psy pilot worked with groups of psi's training them to pilot, to open their minds and to somehow get them to be able to do what she did. In very expensive applications test flights were conducted, sadly not all were successful, and the program drew even more fire. Of course as this occured, data on the various quantum computers was assembled and stored in mainframes back on the ground, under high security. Then one fateful day the next big step was taken, mutli manned ventures, the catch, they weren't all psys. The first projects had two pys's on a ship to see what happened, how was it decided where the ship went, what happened if they were both connected to the computers.
The results were once again tragic, when two psys were hooked up to the same system one "won" the piloting, the other dematerialized, or arived at the destination, however "with" objects that may have been "sucessful to maintain control of". Of course finally a few succesful missions at "joint control" occured but multipilot missions were effectively banned. Soon after almost all skeptisism on the FTL success occured when nonpsys were taken as passengers.

Although a limited success hundreds of locations were added, some of them with matter. Still there were limitations. The "jump gate" or the way home was at times unstable and collapsed, although some recoveries occured, others were lost in unknown locations. The time that the gate remained open remained unpredictable.

The final major space advance of the decade came at it's close when the same "jump" abilities were able to be used for "ferrying" along the energy lines, like a boat in a river. The warp feild was generated nd the ship coupled with the flow, like a train or boat. The main issue was shortage of psys that could pilot and the expense of the technologies.


FTL research didn't stop there, but the psy emergence ended less understood then the FTL project started.

The Dian Space forces are divided into two main groups the "Old Guard" and "The Experimental"


The Old Gaurd is composed of sublight system

Old Space Forces, Kestrels, Yeerks, Eagles, Red Tails. These number in the many thousands and are used for repairs, training, escape, and "if needed defence", such as destroying debris or altering it's course.

Stations; A bunch of pinwheel stations have been constructed, on a number of designes, these is one station for every major location if not more. There is also a "station park" with dozens of stations floating within a few kilometers of one another in stationary orbit.

The First Colony Ships were used to colonize the major system moons and planets (those that had ground and were habitable) there are only around 10 Colony Ships in service, two of the earliest ones are retired due to operating costs, the others serve as cargo's to "trade" with out laying colonies, there are also three "grounded" colony ships that were designed to be a lasting part of the colony, techincally these ships could be "relaunched" but there is no plan to do so.

The Old Experimental FTL ships: 23 FTL research ships of various types remain these are "non shear" testbeds. Some have been tested others have yet to be tested.

3 large Carriers serve as the flag ships of the Dian Space fleet. Newer carriers have been put into production, and are used mostly for military transport and contigency transport and cargo duties, especially for dangerous materials..

Yeerk Class Assault Craft
http://www.serenadawn.com/Alien-UPPAttackShuttle1.jpg
~ retrofitted for maitenance duties and as escape pods and light cargo duties. (ferrying)
they are capable of carrying two platoons of assault troopers

Eagle Class Starfighter
http://www.3drt.com/3dm/fighters/sf-01_01.jpg
Use as an escape craft and for defence. Instead of the space stations having escape pods they have a cargo / shuttle bay with Eargles, Kestrels and other fighters.


Red Tail Class Starfighter
Use as an escape craft and for defence. Instead of the space stations having escape pods they have a cargo / shuttle bay with Eargles, Kestrels and other fighters.


Kestrel Class Starfighter, th
Use as an escape craft and for defence. Instead of the space stations having escape pods they have a cargo / shuttle bay with Eargles, Kestrels and other fighters.



The Armadillo Class High Mobility Spcae Suit
Was purchsed in bulk and every Dian spacer has a Armadillo space suit. There are 10's and thousands of these suits.

Diamond Class Personal Computer - everyone in space (in the dian space progra) has a diamond, they are "networked" to act as "space nets" or cluster processors, which greater increased computatoinal powwr in space, and on the ground, without taking up extra space, for "central" computer systems. There are central computers but they arn't designed for "research duties just station duties and managing the cluster"



VFNP90
Is the standard "space gun" for personnel use they are usually armed with special space rounds.. Only
Dian special secuirty carriers weapons in space mandated. (although other arms (usually smaller) are brought up as collections, heritage or personal defence. AMMO is hard to come by in space though, as it is only transported by the military carrier ships. Or that brought up by private enterprise (as part of other cargo's on special order") Space tends to be "much calmer", seeing virtually no violence compaired to the surface.

ICCD's older ships use Ion drives as well as some conventinal hard and liquid etc.. based fuels and a few other rare sublight drives

ICCD implements a number of space elevators.


'shield shells' huge disks that go around the items to reenter the atmosphere especially for goods and materials where no reentry ships /drop ships or space elevators are available (or it is more convient just to drop an orb.






Mason Class Space Construction Ship




Red Tail Class Starfighter
http://www.3drt.com/3dm/fighters/sf-12_01.jpg
A two man starcraft

Kestrel Class Starfighter
http://www.3drt.com/3dm/fighters/sf-06_02.jpg




Free Floating rotating Pinwheel Space Colony
external shell which has openings for the shuttle bays and 6 docking thethers.

The exterior is a protective meshing that can be closed to protect from hard impacts
solar cells
Each station has also been supplied with two nuclear reactors
4 large rail guns have been added and 80 point defence stations

1 solar laser has also been affixed.

A communicatoins module has also been added as well as an 10 armory stations which include holdings areas and 40 missle firing 'tubes'

40 corrective impulse thruster stations,
2 mini Bioshelter sewage treatment plant
2 mini Biorefinery--
2 x Diamond saw recyclers and bacterial landfill breakdown vats.


100 Solar power module
100 Recycling regenerative life support module
100 advanced biosphere which produces small amounts of excess air and food from inputs

1 COM
10 HAB
100 GH
10 Lounge
100 Storage
50 Bays

Crew for each station is 13050




Avalanche Class Space Based Kinetic Energy Interceptor

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/images/BP.jpg
http://www.thespacereview.com/archive/368a.jpg

Based on the 'Brilliant Pebbles' and 'Smart Rock' missile defense networks, the Avalanche class consists of a large satelite containing hundreds of small, 3 inch long rods desgined to be fired at an enemy ICBM, which then diverts or destroys the ICBM.
ICCD implements many of these especially around important plannetary sites such as the SeaLakes Region


Space Mines
http://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s4/graphics/414_03.jpg
Similar to underwater mines, space mines contain neutron bombs, and can maneuver through space using mini rockets. The benefits of using Neutron Bombs as opposed to regular mines is that a neutron bomb will not destroy the ships, but rather will kill the entire crew of the ship. The radiation dissipates immediately after release, making it safe for an assault team to move in and capture the vessel and it’s payload. ICCD operates a few thousand of these mines and has some deployed and some ready to be deployed near the shear. The Nexus IV's also include mine holds to pick up and drop off mines, on the other side of the shear... or in a new shear, if they succeed in making one.


SatCom Communication Satelites (DPR)
http://www.spacedaily.com/images/milstar-ehf-art-bg.jpg
ICCD has many satcom sattalites at strategic areas, they are also used for interplanetary communication. and as relays.



FTL Prototypes
ITFL Prototypes
Under a hundred prototype probes and ships were designed based on different theories, various sizes and appearances were constructed. Of these only 23 remain, some failed their initial testing while others have yet to be sanctioned for their test runs.

A "secret program" is also been building some backup "subspace rippers", as there is some interest in attempting to make another permanent tear at a desirable secondary location or as one faction may be plotting to "blow up" the first tear like an implosion to put out a fire.



Nx I
The original Prototype FTL drive ships were designed under a special program, 4 of the 20 original ships are still in service. They are the drive system and a small habitation area with some support systems and a weak impulse drive. These ships were designed on the advice of the special psyspace program. Developed and manned by prominent psys in the psy space research and piloting community. These creaft have been retired to "secondary research duties" and are kept in reserve. Every so often one of the craft is used for testing purposes. The original NX I is housed in the Imperial Space Archives on an orbiting moon colony. The other two are kept at the "Gateway Shear" space station. With the final one kept at a undisclosed location.

All the NX I's contain a nexus drive impulse, some life support systems and a navigational computer. THey are "unarmed"

Mission Fatality on these ships was at about 50% originally and has since dropped to around 20%, the most experienced pilots however have around 10% chance of "loss"


Nexus Drive

NX II

the NX II's were designed shortly after the success of the Shear Flights, they were designed to "improve" performance and make the craft safer. This craft differs in that it is capable of holding a pilot and original a "copilot"; however now refered to as a Nav, or navagational help. The dual piloting experiements were done in this craft, as well as the "year three testing program". 23 Nav II's are still in use primarily for mapping and exploration. Original Mission fatality with green pilots was at 20% but has since dropped to 5%.

NX III's
The NX III's were designed as "crewable" ships they feature an open piloting cabin, for a pilot and 4 assistants, as well as a bunking area and more extnesive lifesupport. It is more or less equivlent to a "space shuttle" but is much larger. These ships also tested joint piloting but are much newer. They were the first ships to take groups of non psys, still in practice atleast two psys go on any missions with these ships incase one is injured the ships ... and crew have a chance to be recoved. Flight mishaps still happen, however suually a NX II is sent to "scout" and transfer coordinates, and assist the NX III's flight by giving details. This system has seen the piloting errors go down and resulted in a drop to around 3% mission fatality.


Current Prototypes
NX IV's
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The Nx Iv's are "large combat/cargo ships". One of the secret programs is a colonization program and the NX IV's are part of the plan.
Stage 1 is to find a class M planet where a colony can be set up
Stage 2 is to test the some of the subspace ripers on "barren sites" to see if other "wormholes" or shears can be established. (duplicated)
Stage 3 is to do this process in the system of the class M
Stage 4 is to send over NV IV's to "colonize, the planet.

The program is set over a 10 year term, however, they still need to find a suitable class M planet.
5 of these ships are in prototype production and 1 is in existance ~ the original prototype, but has not yet been flown.


NX V's
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These ships are designed as "large cargo ships". Essentially "space tankers". The design plan for these huge ships is to warp into a system, collect it's raw materials such as small asteroids, then return with them for mining operations. This ship is still in development. Three of these ships are in prototype production and expected to be complete within 5 years.



"Warblers"
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These are another new craft using a modified shear drive, one enough only to open a subspace "coupling" charge. The coupling charge is used to connect with the "energy stream" beleived to be a "subspace crack" emmiting subspace grounded energy. The result is that a ship may move at subspace speeds in regular space. To date only the home system is known to contain these "ss streams". Although the up and up's know that this is not the case as two systems have been discovered that also have the streams, but no shears within sensor range.. the streams have not been followed to their mouths or end points but are slated for further research with the Dignus"


Dignus
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a prototype designed that combines the coupling and nexus drives for special exploration of other systems containing the subspace cracks.

Dignus II
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the second prototype designed on the same basic model as the Original DIgnus but armed and armoured.







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ICS
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The Dian Colony Ships were constructed to colonize / set up infrastructure at the three nearest systems, all less than 1 LY away. The flight times were "long" over a year, however systems have improved somewhat in the latest colony ships. Each Year a new colony ship enters service, with slight variations.

"Can carry 1000 passengers and "100 crew", approximately. and sustain them in flight, this is done by having greenhouses and water recyclers on the ship as well as some reserves. and nuclear plants and "space station systems. The ships spin as they move. The ships are not "sleeper ships" the people have ongoing activities and are modeled on the dian space station living program, the colonist themselves almost entirely selected from space station dwellers.


So far only one colony ships has reached it's destination and is on return while 5 others are on there way out.
There is a total of 6 colony ships with 3 in production stages, and more planned.

Some Graphics

The Dian Space Emblem
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(*winged eye of horus depiction)
the simplest [-0-]

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5982/dianspace1vs4.png ~ the "basic pint version"



"For Dian Space COlonies/Stations etc.." *ahnk isus ~ alternatively having the RA/Dian Yellow/gold Sun to add the strength in the Dian Space aspect where the ISIS wings are extended to be RA/ISIS wings surrounding the Dian yellow sun
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6152/tm208ankhisishf0.jpg - the iconographic version





The Psycor Project
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(*udjat eye)
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/9621/tm98eyeofhoruscq6.jpg ~ one is placed on the piloting area of each psycor ship (as well as painted in yellow on other psycor vehicles) and in every major commanders branch office etc..

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5229/braceletns7.jpg ~ psicor pilots braclett (honour)
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5351/pendantvi1.jpg ~ psicor project member necklace (honour ~ also for prospective pilots or psycor cadets.
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A note on the symbols 0 the udjat eye is a "rough system map with the destinations of nearby systems, and the location of the gate. While the Winged Eye of Horis is

The Shear is socalled

"Nut" Shear Gateway or the Nut Nexus


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~ within the next year a jump to a system was found called "Tranquility", of course, this was an Eden planet of Lush forests and large Oceans and lakes Traqnuility was in a dual orbti and the axis of a binary star system, it had spin and a number of moons, however it did not orbit, it was always "day in the Northern and southern hemispheres except for breaks in which the moons eclipsed the suns causing "daybreaks" This caused "fast growth" plants with faster reactionary periods.

Soon after a number of jumps were conducted and it was decided to "moroon" a scouting party on the planets surface, since mulitple jumps had been sucessful it was decided to leave some exploration crews and then pick them up at a latter date.

~all be it a seperate story in itself the advernturers found many things about the planet dubbed Tranquility.


There was a number of native species on this planet as well, all be it presumed primitive, this was not fully the case.


The native species was named "Forest Elves" due to their likeness to evles of various stories back on the homeworld of ancient lore;, and they live in forests. THe Elves lived in fact in fortress cities akin to" Ewoks", "but larger buildings". That is big structures up in trees accessed by laders and vines. or climbed. They hunted using bows, snares, and they wore knots. They hunted only what attacked them, and were relatively at peace, not yet known were the cliched dark elves of the underground who were pushed into the dark thousands of years before, only to occassionally return for raids during the daybreaks.
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The elves traided in electrum, as well as other atypical fantasy like sums of platinum gold and silver, which were collected from rich rivers and the odd trade or booty gotten from trade or combat with the drow, who were rich in mineral resources.

THey used the standard stater or sthahr. The knots they wore were knot ruiuns and braids in their hair were said to have e 'magical' power, although disbeleived at first the Psycor and "jostled" research and military attaches to the survey team did not discount that the elves may also have "mystic powers" but did not push it, as they could barely communicate with the firendly tribe that took them in, and they stayed with for quite some time, and then even only via use of the computers.

They had their own religion which mirroed the Dians own relgion that of the underworld, the void of space permiating everywhere but unseen and, the heavens, the stars, and matter, the stars themselves a form of bringing about the material the hearth of reality, while the planets themselves a frimarment of that meaning.

The Elves told of a "mana" energy, with the ability to form materials or conjur, or invoke from "control the stars", summoning the forest, the braids themselves held meaning like a word or letter, that allowed them to have focus a form of focii.

Those in Psycor, understood this better than others, and they had a different sense about the "shamans" of the elves, they could almost sense a powerful prescence about them, albeit they sensed that something was being hidden, something they weren't telling.

Their funnery rights were by putting the bodies of those falen in the woods, as they saw, after an attack by the "dark" or Dur. Left there to decompose next to a specific tree, to which their spirit would be within, perhaps generatins latter the wood from the tree when it was fallen would be given to their descendants for use in making bows arrows other tools or even huts in their fotres forest villages.

The elven language was much smoother then latin or the franglais of the Dians and spoken much softer, as for that matter the Forest Elves hearing was many degrees better then human, albeit the elves themselves were smaller in size, they appeared very wise in regard to matters of forest and relied on herbs. They told that they came from the stars many eons ago, and settled the tropics, with time there was the divide between the Dur and the So-an, this caused fighting at that time they were said to rely on powerful weapons that destroyed whole blocks of trees around the sacred city, but the core of the city was unharmed, due to the strength of an ancient relic. Eventually the Dur were pushed to their underground fortresses, and kept there by ceiling the entrances by making walls that were reinforced over and over again, but the dur who surivived somehow unknown as most So-an have not traveled to the underworld, but also by building secret exits hidden away from the populated areas.

They said there were hundreds of tribes on the surface, and unknown how many under. What would amount to millions of So-An spread throughout this planet.

When world returned to Dian Senate and the issue leaked quickly, there was a mix of reaction ~ new planet ~~~ with amicus life?

It was decided to keep sending surveys to the planet and to explore the sacred city if they got the chance.
Factions in the Casa were more forceful in mind, and plans to use a probe to open anothe rpermanent nexus were suggested, this drew harsh critisism from the Psycor members who had been on the surface,... knowing fully well that if the tear caused the same effect, then the "very attuned" Forest Elves would likely be killed en mass from the "psychic" backlash.


The Emperor sent members from the Choam like leauge, to propose trade with the forest elves and asertain what they may like and how the elves own materials could be obtained en mass, especially if they had "mystical properties".

The moons were staging points and small "bases" formed there, as they were otherwise uninhabited, but soon discoveries were made, they may not have been the first on them.




where as the void is the medium of exchange?? control of the dead.. leads to the ability to shape the stars message???????