Astronomy and the information age revealed that infinitely large data can be stored in an infinitely tiny space. Entanglement theory suggests that distance and time do not constrain motion. Evolution proves that, given enough time, anything is feasible.
Admittedly, as a species, we are slow to learn, to put the pieces together, but eventually we do. Sometimes we even create things on our own. More often than not, though, we find stuff in nature, fight for ownership, and – once the cost has surpassed the need – exercise prudence by sharing. Then we made spaceships, found new stuff to fight over, encountered new species, and repeated the process all over again.
One such thing first impressed us as a useless hunk of rock suspended in the algae of Veris, the capital of one of the many human migrations into space. It was pretty worn, showing decaying signs of architecture from other civilizations who had encountered it, but useless with respect to colonization or industry. Some minerals out there that aren’t even good for mining. That’s why we let our archaeologists toy around on it. Those nerds with their jump suits, microscopes, and dust brushes discovered something practical for once. Usually it is just bones, you know? It got them all giddy and excited, until the government stepped in and took things over, and then they were kind of sad. But that’s why there are lobbyists.
At least the labcoats got to pick the name of the thing. In the fine print they used some hifalutin terminology, then dumbed it down for everyone else to Galaxy Core. A few decades later, it is the ritziest multidimensional hub known to man, and boy did we meet some characters along the way. Then again, judging by the alien writing on this toilet stall wall, maybe ritzy is the wrong word. Hard... hardco... hardcore. Yeah. That about sums it up. And wow, I didn’t know they sold that type of prosthetic for humans.
– MindStream© Twitter© Entry on 08.05.9013; Spencer Tras, taking care of business, ahem, after his first guided tour of Verisimilitude
OOC : open to everyone; yamdh (yet another multidimensional hub)
Admittedly, as a species, we are slow to learn, to put the pieces together, but eventually we do. Sometimes we even create things on our own. More often than not, though, we find stuff in nature, fight for ownership, and – once the cost has surpassed the need – exercise prudence by sharing. Then we made spaceships, found new stuff to fight over, encountered new species, and repeated the process all over again.
One such thing first impressed us as a useless hunk of rock suspended in the algae of Veris, the capital of one of the many human migrations into space. It was pretty worn, showing decaying signs of architecture from other civilizations who had encountered it, but useless with respect to colonization or industry. Some minerals out there that aren’t even good for mining. That’s why we let our archaeologists toy around on it. Those nerds with their jump suits, microscopes, and dust brushes discovered something practical for once. Usually it is just bones, you know? It got them all giddy and excited, until the government stepped in and took things over, and then they were kind of sad. But that’s why there are lobbyists.
At least the labcoats got to pick the name of the thing. In the fine print they used some hifalutin terminology, then dumbed it down for everyone else to Galaxy Core. A few decades later, it is the ritziest multidimensional hub known to man, and boy did we meet some characters along the way. Then again, judging by the alien writing on this toilet stall wall, maybe ritzy is the wrong word. Hard... hardco... hardcore. Yeah. That about sums it up. And wow, I didn’t know they sold that type of prosthetic for humans.
– MindStream© Twitter© Entry on 08.05.9013; Spencer Tras, taking care of business, ahem, after his first guided tour of Verisimilitude
OOC : open to everyone; yamdh (yet another multidimensional hub)
