Ling's Project Log

[Mr.Ling]

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Project Outline: Niyodo Terminal Update

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Note: The brute force from the Mactan Network got something out of the Niyodo. Ten months, hell of a lot faster than I thought it would. Too bad cracking open the data killed my soul. It's Kruskal–Szekeres tunneling. Kusari's new toy is a significant sin against the fabric of spacetime, and is nothing like Ageira jump gates and is only marginally related to the bootleg jump drives seen kicking around Sirius these days. Instead of a swirl of subspace like Jump Gates and Jump Holes are, and a forceful punch into subspace like the average jump drive, these things are directly shredding spacetime at their location and stitching it to spacetime in another location.

These numbers suggest that the Region III problem that, you know, threatened spacetime paradoxes to tear apart the fabric of reality just... don't exist? Or, rather, they have a physical coordinate that is labeled with "danger" reports and a combat emergency response. Which suddenly makes sense with the Cold Lake gate "√-1 space" calculation, and the Argonaut's pathing response. This paradox space is a real place filled with enemy guns. That's horrible to think about.

That nonsense aside, this is a disaster case in every meaning of the phrase. Kruskal–Szekeres based wormholes always had theoretical limits due to the parabola defined by the Schwarzschild radius. These calculations don't have that. The singularity wall is just a pair of parallel lines. A door. All they would need is a machine putting enough energy into the entrance point, and one putting enough energy into the exit point, and they have a deploy-anywhere hassle-free Jump Gate that they can just... drop a fleet through. And getting the machine there is a case of just using the drive to jump there. If these calculations hold any kind of truth, which they obviously do because all of this came from Liberty and Kusari fighting using Cold Lake tech at the very least, Kusari is on the verge of bringing an absolute end to positional warfare. Blockades, ambushes, defensive lines, they'll all just cease to have meaning because you can instantly fly your full fleet to the enemy's capital.

Niyodo: Hoshu Tanmatsu

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Project, Cont.: Disaster Preparation

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Note: Who the hell do I tell about this? How would I even begin to run experiments on this? Should anyone ever run experiments that threaten the fabric of reality? Well, obviously Kusari did, I suppose that's a foregone conclusion.

I've done my research on the Technocracy and Sapphire Raven. I can't trust any single one of them farther than I can shoot them. Rogues wouldn't know what to do with it besides make a jury-rigged prototype and slap a price tag on it, and it's not like Hemlocke is kicking around anymore to keep them from shredding their molecular structure into quantum nothingness. The Outcasts would want something that can be used, and frankly I don't think this is usable. De Marco would just hand it over to the Xenos, Lovelace probably would too given the Ontario business. Order never gave me a clear answer about those Liberty Bastets, so they're probably in bed with each other.

Kusari has the key to Sirius-domination, I've snagged the spare from under the doormat, and I don't see an ally we can reasonably trust with this. Damnit, how much would it cost to force every Rogue to get a doctorate in Hyperspace Research?

I'm backing up all the calculations I've pulled thus far through the Mactan Network to Amarillo Base. If there comes a time where we need to build something that uses these equations, the data will be on both of our drydocks. I'm also releasing a patch for the active Spyglass Scanners to check subspace pings for the readings these calculations should be giving us. At the very least, we'll have an early warning system for when Kusari uses these things.

I hope wifey made mac and cheese, I'm going to need it after this.

End log.

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