Foreword by Stormfire10
Hello, A1-0 Roleplayers. It’s been about ten months~ since this First Contact originated. Firstly, I’d like to say I’ve enjoyed my time here, brief and delayed as it may have been. Secondly, the reason this First Contact is structured the way it was, is because we barely planned it out. This means, that there was no script, and that things had the chance to go violent, which it did. Thirdly, I appreciate Galaxiel, Kingtem, killermantiss, Taisenbot, and Of_the_Ages, for letting me have the fun this rp provided. Fourthly, the reason the original first contact remains up is at my request. This was my first first contact, and I love coming back to read it sometimes. This RP will have slight clerical changes that reflect retcons done during the subsequent months following this rp. Finally, thank you for rereading this.
-A. SF10
“Sector’s Northwest Corner Hugger”
Three lines indicate a change in perspective
Taivaallinen, the Galactyan Empire’s most beautiful and mysterious black hole.
Regional Galactyan Date: 32/10/6000 P.E.
Standard Sectorial Date: 0 BBT
Region: Celestial Empire Of Galactya
On a Galactyan Orbital Research Station around Taivaallinen
The Taivaallinen System was weird, even by the standards of the very dense Region of space that the Galactyan Empire occupied. Sure, black holes weren’t strange for the Galactyans, but to find multiple planets in stable orbits around one, some of them with their own moons, was truly incredible. Thanks to the shining accretion disk of the black hole, continuously fueled by the near "Celestial Wall"Molecular Clouds, all of the planets were heated to temperatures that, with a little bit of Terraforming help, could easily be considered habitable. Thus, all of the five planets were colonized, even the gas giant, and the system became one of the biggest tourist attractions in the Empire, both for the Galactyan citizens and the Empire’s alien friends. Still, the inner zone of the system was utterly chaotic, the accretion disk littered with the remnants of shattered worlds, becoming smaller and smaller due to tidal forces.
What was truly weird about the system though, was Taivaallinen itself. Some of the black hole’s properties… didn’t make sense. Some of the energy readings of the object matched the ones of Drakari Warp Rifts, and it’s ergosphere was impossibly stable, like it wasn’t even spinning at all. Some of the other properties were also similar to the ones of Gil Miria, in the Calerostian Empire. For a while it was suspected that Taivaallinen could be some sort of wormhole-like object, but nothing had ever been observed exiting it, so that hypothesis died quick. But still, after hundreds of years of research, the object’s nature couldn’t yet be explained.
The Orbital Research Station that was established around it centuries ago was still monitoring Taivaallinen, and the readings were weird, but stable and unchanging. Suddenly though, the energy levels started… rising.
Regional Stardate: 0 BBT
Standardized Federation Stardate: 12/20/9300
Region: Technocratic Federation of Sereniani Space
The ABH-003 Black Hole, ABHS-1A
A few warp relays conjunct at ABH-003. Now, normally, the federation avoids Abnormal Black Hole Systems. It’s usually too dangerous, or the radiation is too high. ABH-003, however is just right. Until today.
Today, ABH-003 ejected thousands of small particles. Most of it bounced off ABHS-1A, however, such an observation had never been seen before by Federation Scientists. Ever. Always one to snatch an opportunity, Atlia Reach authorized a series of exercises involving a few microsats. The plan is to send them through, and have them return immediately. Testing to see if they would still function, and to see if they were still intact.
The energy levels peaked, reaching a magnitude never before observed, and the Station’s sensors started going crazy. But, suddenly, the radars picked up on something else.
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS LOCATED EXITING TAIVAALLINEN’S EVENT HORIZON!
The scientists, panicking, activated the scanners, but before anything could actually be picked up, the objects disappeared again, plunging back into the abyss of darkness. The entire station was left dumbfounded. They knew that Taivaallinen presented strange properties, but this was completely unprecedented! Could it have been a quantic fluctuation that brought the objects in existence? Or perhaps a new undiscovered form of Melanohelian Radiation? Or, maybe… the old hypothesis was true. Maybe Taivaallinen was a Wormhole. The station contacted the other planets in the system, telling them to activate their defenses. At this point Galactya was basically used to first contacts, but it was always best to be at least careful when they happened.
Star data, the stuff that was collected before returning indicates this area is in the Lampshade Galaxy. The area explored outside the Event Horizon shows mostly desolation, granted the cameras aren’t that great.
Perhaps, the scientists wondered, should we send something bigger across? We could gather some of the resources for study, it seemed Atlia Reach had remained elusive, and-
“ABHS-1A Intercom. All Flight Personnel, all hands to preliminary flight stations. You have 15 Minutes. This is not a drill. TFSS Ixso to sortie immediately.”
The scientists sighed. Gathering all their equipment, the flight teams made it to the rather donut shaped hanger, where the Ixso awaited. Drydock configuration wasn’t an issue, she was made with an anti minelayer suite for this exact purpose. Clear a path for the others.
“ABHS-1A Intercom. TFSS Ixso to clear drydock. Sortie and await orders.”