005: In the Presence of True Power

[terrymixon]

"So I held it in two fingers, like this and held it to my right temple and closed my eyes and reached out to it with psionics, you have to let yourself go and accept where you are. You cant interact with the area, but you can look around at any angle as you travel. First one had Vargr and humans excavating and topping a mountain while being supervised by Droynes. I learned how to fly, or at least a bit of 3d geometry. HA. Can't find a index anywhere."

Arkar

Experimentation will prove that holding it works too. Touching to the head isn’t necessary.

[Thumper]

Walt lets out a low long whistle. He tosses out two grav bots sending one out the waterfall (around it if able) and in the lit opposite side of the cavern hangar.

He’ll conduct a closer study and catalogue of the vehicles/ships.

Are any of these vehicles small enough to fit through the teleportals into the List and Found’s hold.

[Tiglath]

"So I held it in two fingers, like this and held it to my right temple and closed my eyes and reached out to it with psionics, you have to let yourself go and accept where you are. You cant interact with the area, but you can look around at any angle as you travel. First one had Vargr and humans excavating and topping a mountain while being supervised by Droynes. I learned how to fly, or at least a bit of 3d geometry. HA. Can't find a index anywhere."

"Ullo Arkar! Nice Library, funny lookin' books".

Given the location Garvin smiles, pauses to "shush" Metz and then tries a "book".

Psi Devices:
[2d6+6]=10+6=16

[terrymixon]

Walt lets out a low long whistle. He tosses out two grav bots sending one out the waterfall (around it if able) and in the lit opposite side of the cavern hangar.

He’ll conduct a closer study and catalogue of the vehicles/ships.

Are any of these vehicles small enough to fit through the teleportals into the Lost and Found’s hold.

The vehicles--other than the ships--are made for in atmosphere use. Grav vehicles for people, cargo, and goodness knows what else. Some look very fast. There are even a few sleek grav bikes. Those are small enough to go back to the ship, but the rest are too big.

The falling water would be too much for the spybots. The other end of the cavern has a pedestal like the one in the base that let you see things in the system. Only this one is already on, and the overhead hologram is the size of a house. It shows a system unlike any you have ever seen before.

6 worlds in the habitable zone, each planet in the same orbit around the star. The six are in a stable configuration. Each are at 60-degree intervals, in the neighboring world's L4 or L5 Lagrange points. They are also in the L3 Lagrange point for the world on the opposite side of the star. Each has six small moons orbiting each world in the same manner. It is obviously artificial.

Next out is an absolutely massive asteroid belt. Then 18 Jupiter-sized gas giants, each in the same orbit, equidistantly spaced around the star. Each one has 36 moons in the same orbit like a string of beads.

Then an even bigger asteroid belt followed by 54 ringed Saturn-sized gas giants in the same orbit. They have 18 moons each, all in the same orbit.

Finally, a truly monstrous asteroid belt followed by 162 Neptune-sized ice giants, each in the same orbit with 12 moons each in the same orbit around them.

Sitting above the system far beyond the last planets is some kind of station. Call it north of the system. It is really, really far out. As this is a pocket universe, it is likely at the boundary and may be the anchor that was mentioned that leads back into normal space.

There makes for a total of 240 planets and 3,600 moons. No Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud. Nothing but what can be seen. And all the asteroids seem to be herded. No wanderers. The planets and moons are somehow kept from slipping out of the places they occupy. No deviations and the system seems stable and ordered.

Assuming you look around, you'll find the habitable worlds are: Farm World, Tech World, a jungle planet (Jungle World), a water world (Water World), a desert planet (Desert World), and an exact duplicate of Terra (Terra II). The continents are unmistakable.

Each world has a massive station in orbit around it and the gas giants have manufacturing stations that look like the one you explored. If they all have them that means there are 233 others that you haven't looked at yet. They all seem to be harvesting gas from the gas giants and asteroids from the belts.

It feels like this entire system is a work of art. The Ancient arranged everything to his taste, and it is extremely symmetrical. Even the planets in different orbits have been placed so they are in a synchronized dance with the other worlds.

A look around Tech World shows that it was likely home to tens of billions of sophants, all living and working at Ancients tech levels. It once hosted billions of Droyne, humans, and Vargr. All are gone now. It is as if they all packed up and moved, never to return. Everything is maintained.

[terrymixon]

"So I held it in two fingers, like this and held it to my right temple and closed my eyes and reached out to it with psionics, you have to let yourself go and accept where you are. You cant interact with the area, but you can look around at any angle as you travel. First one had Vargr and humans excavating and topping a mountain while being supervised by Droynes. I learned how to fly, or at least a bit of 3d geometry. HA. Can't find a index anywhere."

"Ullo Arkar! Nice Library, funny lookin' books".

Given the location Garvin smiles, pauses to "shush" Metz and then tries a "book".

Psi Devices:
[2d6+6]=10+6=16

You are drawn into space. It doesn't feel like you have a body. You can't move. You are in an extremely close orbit around a star, but you feel no heat. In fact, all feels normal. When you look at the star, you can tell all kinds of things about it. Perhaps you are a sensor package studying the star?

[ateno]

Arkar puts down his current 'book' and closes his eyes and uses psionic awareness to attempt to look for psionic training, panning back and forth 'looking' and seeing if he can focus in on anything.

Arkar

[Tiglath]

"So I held it in two fingers, like this and held it to my right temple and closed my eyes and reached out to it with psionics, you have to let yourself go and accept where you are. You cant interact with the area, but you can look around at any angle as you travel. First one had Vargr and humans excavating and topping a mountain while being supervised by Droynes. I learned how to fly, or at least a bit of 3d geometry. HA. Can't find a index anywhere."

"Ullo Arkar! Nice Library, funny lookin' books".

Given the location Garvin smiles, pauses to "shush" Metz and then tries a "book".

Psi Devices:
[2d6+6]=10+6=16

You are drawn into space. It doesn't feel like you have a body. You can't move. You are in an extremely close orbit around a star, but you feel no heat. In fact, all feels normal. When you look at the star, you can tell all kinds of things about it. Perhaps you are a sensor package studying the star?

Garvin "puts his book back on the shelf" and comments "This is like lookin' through someone else's private holo collection... unusual an' odd but we 'aven't the time for it".

Putting his fingers to his mouth he makes a raucous whistle and states "Time to get back on the school bus..." he smiles and mockingly chides "... Metz, keep the noise down - ruddy Library, mate!"

[terrymixon]

Arkar puts down his current 'book' and closes his eyes and uses psionic awareness to attempt to look for psionic training, panning back and forth 'looking' and seeing if he can focus in on anything.

Arkar

Almost as if the request to the library as a whole did something, you feel drawn to several gems.

I’m not going to detail what is in them and it won’t noticeably make the process faster, but they will provide clues and guidance for training.

[ateno]

I’m not going to detail what is in them and it won’t noticeably make the process faster, but they will provide clues and guidance for training.

While heading to one of the ones hes pulled to that seems to provide training for new psionic aware people.

"Garvin, shud it for a moment. You are your own index, think of something specific and close your eyes and you get pulled.
This is never going to get old is it?"

Arkar

[Thumper]

Walter will record via NeuroLink as much detail as possible about the surface of each planet, moon and stations. He’ll also want to go underground in each of the six Goldilocks planets to record layouts of subterranean facilities. The anchor station too.

Does his experience with the Rexwell suit grav harness make him think he can get through the waterfall? If so, he’ll do it and record the terrain on the other side. Particularly interested in what planet he’s on, and generally where the waterfall lies in relation to memorable/significant terrain. He’ll the go back and correlate that on the holomap.
He’ll search the rest of the facility recording anything else of interest. Then return to his friends. If they are still in the library, that’s where he will go.

[Tiglath]

While heading to one of the ones hes pulled to that seems to provide training for new psionic aware people.

"Garvin, shud it for a moment. You are your own index, think of something specific and close your eyes and you get pulled. This is never going to get old is it?"

Garvin seems disinterested "You knock yerself out old son but steer clear of the "top shelf material an' the restricted section" - remember there's stuff you just can't "unsee" ".

He asides to Metz "I don't like bein' cut off out of touch for this long. When we get back let's build a little repeater drone to simply shuttle back and forth through gates receivin' and re-transmittin' our encrytpted radio comms. Multi teleportal zones like this - were goin' to need a few of 'em".

[helvorn]

William will take Arkar's advice and reach out psionically to try to find a guide to using the crystals and indexing them. "Is there anything on psionic training? That's what we really need."

[ateno]

"Is there anything on psionic training? That's what we really need."

"I'm looking now, hold on."

Arkar

[joertexas]

He sits with you and watches the water rushing below. When you speak he looks over at you. “Mad Dog gave me the last name Adams and that is what is on the identification Aster gave me. I can’t say if it appeals or not, but it’s mine now. No middle name, though. I wonder if I’ll miss it when I’m older.”

Then he hesitantly leaned toward you and kissed you softly. “This is our place. Our home. Well, one day, anyway.”

Jaelah returns the kiss and slips her arms around his neck. "I think you're getting the hang of this." After a few minutes, she pulls back with a sigh. "We should get back. Canwe get some remotes to map this area and take readings for the foundations? I don't know if this planet is subject to storms or earthquakes, but it's always good to know what you're building a house on. I'm sure we have enough resources to build whatever we want."

[helvorn]

"Is there anything on psionic training? That's what we really need."

"I'm looking now, hold on."

Arkar

William chuckled and continued his own focus.

[terrymixon]

Walter will record via NeuroLink as much detail as possible about the surface of each planet, moon and stations. He’ll also want to go underground in each of the six Goldilocks planets to record layouts of subterranean facilities. The anchor station too.

Does his experience with the Rexwell suit grav harness make him think he can get through the waterfall? If so, he’ll do it and record the terrain on the other side. Particularly interested in what planet he’s on, and generally where the waterfall lies in relation to memorable/significant terrain. He’ll the go back and correlate that on the holomap.
He’ll search the rest of the facility recording anything else of interest. Then return to his friends. If they are still in the library, that’s where he will go.

Searching a small moon took a significant amount of time. A full planet would taker exponentially longer. All of the habitable ones? Set aside a few weeks. Everything? Let me stress those numbers again. 240 planets. 240 stations. 3,600 moons. Roll up a new character, you're now a researcher.

The anchor station seems immune to being searched. You can't get past the hull. It is, however, a ring in space that is big enough to fly something twenty kilometers across through with space to spare. It is on the same plane as the boundary of the pocket universe and all you see through it is white.

You don't know for certain, but you believe you should be able to get through the water. Honestly, it depends on how much water is falling. The suit is heavily armored, so odds are that a failure would be embarrassing rather than fatal. Your call.

[terrymixon]

"Is there anything on psionic training? That's what we really need."

"I'm looking now, hold on."

Arkar

You find the few gems I mentioned earlier. They seem theoretical and created for a master. Lots of high-end theory, few practical tips.

Metz closes his eyes and then walks around and picks up a few gems. "These will make good study materials for me."

What will William be looking for to pass on to Ciencia?

[terrymixon]

He sits with you and watches the water rushing below. When you speak he looks over at you. “Mad Dog gave me the last name Adams and that is what is on the identification Aster gave me. I can’t say if it appeals or not, but it’s mine now. No middle name, though. I wonder if I’ll miss it when I’m older.”

Then he hesitantly leaned toward you and kissed you softly. “This is our place. Our home. Well, one day, anyway.”

Jaelah returns the kiss and slips her arms around his neck. "I think you're getting the hang of this." After a few minutes, she pulls back with a sigh. "We should get back. Can we get some remotes to map this area and take readings for the foundations? I don't know if this planet is subject to storms or earthquakes, but it's always good to know what you're building a house on. I'm sure we have enough resources to build whatever we want."

"I will dispatch some to start doing that assessment and to gather detailed information about the surrounding area. They can work while we visit Yamaguchi Starport. We can look over the results while Aster and Ciencia are suffering tomorrow. We should expose them to the temple in the Ancients city once they recover from that. If they have the same reaction as us, then they will be as advanced as we are."

He smiles at her. "I've been thinking about the rings and have an idea. It might involve adding a small, faceted gem to yours. Would that be acceptable? It won't take up much space and I could imbed it in the ring itself, but I think you might like the surprise."

[terrymixon]

William will take Arkar's advice and reach out psionically to try to find a guide to using the crystals and indexing them. "Is there anything on psionic training? That's what we really need."

You do find a book about the crystals. It seems aimed more at making them though. No index.

[Thumper]

Alright then, Walt will want a quick surface scan Tech World and this world. Then he’ll take a running leap into the water fall and gun his grav harness for a quick transit of the falls with an upward vector just before hitting water.

He’ll send out the two grav bots to search the local area for later retrieval.

Once he has bearings and a surface coordinate, he’ll reverse back to his man cave then reluctantly move off to find his friends.