When Two Rifts Meet

[Starfliers]

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CHAPTER ONE: THE PROPOSAL

Within the main office of Starflier Base sits it's founder, looking out of the window into the storm that surrounds the station, Ames and the whole system. Models of every Starflier vessel is placed along his desk, with a terminal showing incoming and outgoing communications and messages. A couple beeps are heard, indicating to Leon that someone is outside his door. After a press of a button, the door slides open. Albert walks in.

"Ah, Albert. What can I do for you?"

"Hello, Leon. I have something I'd like to run by you, an idea of sorts."

"What have you got for me?"

"Since our facility has perfected the fabrication of Jump Drives, I've had an idea to manufacture a device that could create a rift that stays open for longer than a couple of seconds."

"Go on..."

"We could create a device, an altered Jump Drive, set it up in a secluded location and remotely activate it. You read Halpert's report on the Thuringia System?"

"Yes, the jump hole with a stabilizer ring, right? The one within the minefield?"

"That's correct. We construct the ring, place this device at the center of it and activate the pair in unison from here. I have to run simulations to get both pieces working seamlessly together. If this succeeds, we could create rifts to previously unexplored sectors of space."

"As much as I'd love to entertain this idea and give you the green light for it, it sounds incredibly dangerous. Where would you setup this device? The storms in Kepler surely wouldn't make this project suitable. I don't want this to fail and to affect Starflier Base in any capacity."

"I've only had superficial thoughts about this project. My first reaction to your concern was to set up the device in the Galileo System. Being a neighbouring system and also outside of the storm, and we can surely find a reasonable space."

"What if it fails? What will happen then?"

"You have my word that it won't fail. If it does, I'll make sure the result will not affect our home in any way. I'll run as many simulations as it takes before I'm satisfied with the construction before I begin."

"I'll give you the green light for the simulations. Return to me when you have some good results."

"Thank you."

"Before you head off, could you possibly choose where the rift takes you?"

"Well, without having done the simulations, it's hard to say. I would like to program in a sector of space to explore, our hyperspace library shows we have a lots of data of the House of Liberty. We hypothetically could use that to dial in an unexplored area. In practice if the rift ends up connecting to a random system, known or unknown, that will also suit us. Since it's my first time pondering the idea, it'll be a good learning opportunity for a lot of this."

"I'll leave this in your capable hands. Once we have good results from the sims, we'll touch base and go from there."

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