To The Beyond, And Further Still

Celestial Empire Of Galactya

Quadrant 1

Crus-Lux Star System

Galactya, Imperial Palace Complex



• 63 BBT •



"Doctor Phesthel. Pleasure seeing you again."

"If we may ask, what brings you here today?"

"It's quite rare for someone to ask an urgent meeting with us, if not for first contacts."

“Greetings to you too my Emperors. I am sorry to incovenience you, but I think that the Dimensional Intertextualization Project just had it’s first breakthrough. I think we just found a new dimension.”

"WHAT!? That's wonderful! We have been running that thing for decades, it was time it finally found something!"

"If you may, Doctor, explain what you found. Don't worry about details, we will understand."

“Of course. Now, we have discovered that gravity wells actually hold the key to accessing different spaces. We compared the Warp Space access data exchanged with the Drakari and the Edhelerim together with what our sensors picked up and apparently, the distortions applied on the fabric of spacetime by the gravity wells of large mass objects such as planets, stars or black holes, weaken the fabric of reality in that specific area, allowing for the creation of transdimensional openings that allow the passage of energy and matter in a relatively safe way. The wells already allow for the exchange of some information between dimensions, thus creating the gravitational shadows seen in Warp and Mirial space.”

“As this hologram displays, such an opening acts similarly to a singularity bridge, but instead of being accessible from just one point, it can instead be accessed from anywhere in the gravity well, and connects two different points in different space and different time.”

"Ah, I see. So it functionally creates a temporary pathway along a stable area inside the Bulk."

“Yes, exactly. I mean, it creates it when you feed the necessary energy and gravitational pull, but yes, it does. We ran different tests in many different conditions and with many different objects. Black holes, stars, planets, moons and even asteroids of all sizes. The more massive a celestial body is, the more stable the area inside the Bulk will be.”

“Here is a table of the various tests. Some wielded results that we did not really anticipate, but as you can see, not all pathways are accessible. For example, smaller moons create shifting pathways that are not very stable on their own, but still won’t collapse. However, anything smaller than that causes the inwards collapse of the pathways. Binary, trinary or even more complex systems create even weirder pathway arrays, but they are still perfectly traversable.”

"Interesting. How could we create an actual pathway though? From what I see here, and from what I've seen in thousands of years of data, the gravity wells are not enough to create them. Otherwise we would be seeing them constantly."

“Well, we ran some multiphasic gravitometric concentration tests, and we assessed that a single pulse ringularity, like the ones generated by our ships could, with EXTENSIVE augmentation and reprogramming, could be closed on a single point inside the gravity wells and “pry open” a pathway.”

“However, we have already been able to pick up some very simple readings about said dimension through small rings of gravity engines concentrating their rings in a single point.”

"If your formulas are correct, and I'm sure they are, such low concentration could only allow for a Picoscale pathway at best."

“Yes, but it was enough to pick up a small amount of basic details, like some of that dimension’s laws of physics. We wanted to try a bigger and more powerful array, but without the needed extensive modifications it would just create an imploding energy sphere, and create a quite dangerous situation for the whole research station.”

"What laws and basic universal conditions did you manage to pick up?"

“Well, even after opening the Picoscale Pathway more than 500 times, we picked up a lot of data, but… we don’t really know how to tie some of it together.”

"What do you mean...?"

“So we did manage to get most laws of physics and apparently even some physical data but, there are still measurement errors that we can’t get rid of, and some things that we picked up don’t really make sense to us. I’ll just show you.”

“Obviously the first thing we did was running a test to determine the various basic laws of physics.”

“We overlayed the data picked up in our dimension and in the newly discovered one. Of course not taking into account the various measurement errors, it all seems to match. The laws of conservation seem to be the same, as well as the laws of motion and non-relativistic gravitation.”

“Until then, everything seemed relatively fine. We even thought we found a mirror dimension of sorts. But then we encountered the first readings that posed problems.”

“The entire dimension, or at least the observable part of it, is much denser than ours, and permeated by a material that apparently behaves similarly to our hydrogen. This reasonably weirded us out a bit, and after some more tests, we discovered our first discrepancy. The Epsilon Constant of the efficiency of hydrogen to helium fusion is lower. It stands at 0.006 instead of our 0.007. Thus, without a warp bubble to isolate us, if we were to ever go in there all of our fusion-powered machinery would not function.”

“Secondly, the dimension seems to be very warm and very uniform in terms of temperature, at least compared to our universe. The average temperature is 20 degrees Celsius. We investigated further, and discovered that a perfect balance between regular energy and our energy has emerged pretty early in the formation of this dimension, causing it to stop expanding around 15 million years after it’s formation.”

“However, what confused us more were the results from the Relativistic Determination tests. Apparently, objects with mass can be propelled to superluminal speeds thanks to an omnipresent spacial distortion field.”

"Wouldn't that break causality and allow for the creation of closed time-like curves?"

“In our universe it would. But we weren’t able to determine how time works in there. For all we know, time could be absolute and not variable like it is here. The only way for us to verify it would be to actually go there,”

"Well if that isn't a sign, I don't know what is! You did great Phesthel, and be sure to give my compliments to the rest of your team as well."

"We will transfer your team has heads of a new subdivision we'll organize. You will be assigned with a Research Supercomplex and will have the Empire's best engineers at your disposal."

"The budget you will need to make the necessary modifications to the warp drives will be given to you as soon as we are transferred. Of course, the Ministry Of Technology will require daily reports."

“I’m honored, my Emperors. I’ll inform my team and gather all my research immediately.”

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Celestial Empire Of Galactya

Quadrant 18

Vitheger System

Vitheger-B Orbital Research Station



• 58 BBT •



Immediately after the discovery report in 63 BBT, the Galactyan Emperors assigned the Interdimensional Gravitometric Access Project to the Research Supercomplex located on Vhythra, the only planet in the Vitheger System, a binary system composed of a large stellar black hole of 20 standard stellar masses, known as Vitheger B, and a supergiant variable star with 31 standard masses known as Vitheger A. While originally dedicated to the research and analysis of singularities and their effects on spacetime, the Supercomplex was swiftly repurposed to the IGMA Project, due to it’s rather secretive location hidden deep inside a Bokk Globule, and thanks to it’s incredibly strong gravity well, which would greatly aid the first practical tests of the new access technology.

For 5 years the teams in the supercomplex continued analyzing, studying and researching all possible aspects about the other still unnamed dimension, in an attempt to find more about it’s mysterious inner workings. However, what they found was not much different from the first analysis they did: only some specifications about universal constants and matter distributions.

At the start of 58 BBT, everything was ready. The first Ringular Gravity Warp Engine had been re-engineered to create a temporary pathway to the “other side”. However, even with the brightest minds in the Empire, the project’s outcome was still very uncertain. It was more than expected that this would not have been the last test, but hope still filled the air.

A remote-controlled ship was specifically adapted for the testing, and was called the “Pathway Traveller” for the occasion. Re-engineering Ringular Gravity Warp Drive had proved to be a hard and very much uncertain task, but with the collaboration of some of the Empire’s best minds, things went without much incident.

The Minister Of Technology, Thethadon Olmanii, together with many high ranking department directors, had decided to attend the test and observe everything from the observation bays, together with the entire personnel that worked in the Research Complex.

“I have to admit that you did quite the work here Doctor Phesthel! I’m glad I could admire this revolutionary day for the Empire.”

“I’m honored Minister, but I’m sad to inform you that you will probably be disappointed. It’s impossible for something like this to work first try.”

“Doctor, I’m not here to be impressed. I already am! You and your team’s work is nothing short of revolutionary. And besides, trial and error is part of any new technology, part of the natural process through which all things go through.”

“I suppose. And it’s not like I don’t have time to see it through. One of the many positives of immortality, isn’t it?”

“It most certainly is. Our lifespans and our augmentations allow us to amass amounts of knowledge so great that even the Drakari envy us. No wonder the inventors of the Geviex won the Grand Imperial Prize. And I have the feeling that in some time, you too will receive it.”

“Oh Minister, you’re being way too generous with me. I don’t think I deserve such recognition.”

“Come on Doctor, you’re being much too hard on yourself. Have some confidence in your work.”

“Thank you Minister. I’ll try to follow your advice.”

“I’m happy to hear that you will. However, there’s one thing that has had me wondering for quite some time. I noticed that you, together with many, many, MANY others, are much more formal with foreign peoples even if of lower rank, than you are with me. I’m not saying I pretend otherwise, no, but I was asking myself why that was. You think you could help answer my question?”

“Well, it’s rather simple. You’re a Galactyan sir!”

“What do you mean exactly?”

“Oh you must know what I’m talking about sir. I love our allies, but they are always so rigid and formal. Us Galactyans don’t need all those complex behavior protocols to show eachother that there is respect! And besides it feels so detached and insincere. I don’t like “sucking up to the boss” as the Terrans say.”

“Uh. Yeah, I guess you’re right. I never thought of it that way. However, I still wonder how we manage to keep our composure when dealing with allies and other foreigners.”

“Well Minister, think of what Captain Asdariek said in an interview two Imperial Centuries ago: “It took me a single look at their delegation to understand that they were kinda stuck up, at least more than us. So I adapted.”. And that’s that. I think it’s a pretty good explanation.”

“It is, all things considered. But oh well, it’s just another cultural difference after all.”

“Our lack of such formalities between eachother is actually quite known, but us continuining to act formal regardless is a point in our favor.”

“Because it can be seen as a sign of our trustworthiness, and of the effort we put into foreign relations.”

“Exactly! I’ve also been reflecting on how, regardless of that, we still use formal titles. It’s an interesting re-”

“Uhhh, Doctor? I’m so sorry to interrupt, but we are going to start now. I’ve called the rest of the team to gather. We’ll begin in a minute or so.”

“Oh yeah, sorry about making you guys wait.”

“No, no, don’t worry. It’s just that I want to see what we’ll have to correct after the test. Also uh, pleased to meet you Minister.”

“Pleased to meet you as well. I’d introduce myself more properly, but I don’t want to make anybody wait longer. It’s time for you to go Doctor. I’m looking forward to some impressive light displays!”

“I’m looking forward to some impressive light displays Doctor!”

“And light displays you shall receive!”



“Everyone, stay ready to apply the necessary tunings. Are we all ready?”

“On it.”

“Ready.”

“Yes.”

“Of course.”

“Well then, let’s do this. Initiate Activation Sequence Tethis-B3.”



INITIATING ACTIVATION SEQUENCE TETHIS-B3.
ACTIVATING FUSION REACTOR AT MAXIMUM POTENCY.
ACTIVATING ANTIMATTER ASSIST REACTOR.
DIVERTING ENERGY FLOWS TO ARRAYS A1 TO B6.



ACTIVATING ARRAY ROTORS.
INITIATING GENERATION OF RINGULARITY.
RINGULARITY GENERATED.
INITIATING FRONTAL GRAVITOMETRIC COMPRESSION.


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GRAVITOMETRIC COMPRESSION THRESHOLD REACHED.
STABILITY LEVELS ARE WITHIN ACCEPTABLE PARAMETERS.
INITIATING ATTACHMENT OF COMPRESSED RINGULARITY TO GRAVITY WELL.
ATTACHMENT SUCCESSFUL.
INITIATING PATHWAY OPENING.


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EMERGENCY


WARNING. INSTABILITY LEVELS INCREASING.
WARNING. ENERGY CONCENTRATION INCREASING WITHIN CENTER OF THE COLLAPSED RINGULARITY.
WARNING. PATHWAY DETACHMENT IMMINENT.
WARNING. DESTRUCTIVE ENERGY PULSE IMMINENT.


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“FUCKING COMET IT’S GOING TO EXPLODE! DEACTIVATE, DEACTIVATE EVERYTHING NOW!”

“DEACTIVATING THE REACTORS AND TURNING ON THE ENERGY DAMPENERS!”

“ARRAY ROTORS LOCKED IN PLACE!”

“THE RING IS STILL CONTINUING TO COLLAPSE!”

“ACTIVATE A GRAVITY ENGINE BEAM AND PULL THE RINGULARITY INWARDS! QUICK!”

“I’VE ACTIVATED THE ENGINES AND THE RINGS… have… dissipated.”

“Holy. Fucking. Shit. That explosion would have generated gravity waves so strong to compress the station into a sheet of paper!”

“The next time we are controlling it from the other end of a star system. I don’t care about the logistics but I’m not gonna risk being partly responsible for blowing up a fucking MINISTER.”

“I uhhh, I agree… I agree. Doctor, are you alright?”

“Yes. I’m… fine. I mean, I EXPECTED it to be a failed test, yes, but I didn’t think it would screw up THIS ROYALLY!”

“Come on, don’t be that hard on our work. It was just the beginning anyways.”

“Yeah, I agree. A mistake is still a further step towards improvement.”

“We can get to the bottom of this dimension. Together. Don’t you agree Doc?”

“Ahah, I guess. Thanks guys. SO! Now, I’ll go talk to the Minister and let them be rightfully mad at me! And us! And everyone else!”

“Do you want us to come with you?”

“No need for that. I’ll take the blame.”

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