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exsilium2012-08-16 07:04 pm
trustycrowbar) wrote in exsilium2012-08-16 07:04 pm
An Orbital Pair
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[Gordon had taken to a pattern. Get up, work out (behind closed doors and hopefully away from any wry observations of Chloe's), head to the Hold, lose himself in the library. With the VR system still buggy they'd more or less halted training for new Transports, so he had a lot of time on his hands. It's easy to find him around the library, and in the anterooms of the Training facility, not to mention on the streets and at the marketplace, hoping against hope that he can find some actual decent COFFEE somewhere.]
[One thing was starting to bother him deeply, however. First of all, every squiggle on the lightboard, every attempt to bend the field equation to his will and figure out just how the Initiative could change the past with the future intact, had resulted in failure. He KNEW the solution had something to do with the fact that Transports were outside Exsilium's frame of reference; they were more than warm bodies, they were a rouge agent in causality, and the Initiative was using that to their advantage.]
[However, the only time his work came close to correct was when he broke symmetry and allowed no way back for the transports once they got there. And he was NOT about to accept the idea that there was no way back. Screw subjective bias! Not even the fucking confines of cosmology itself was going to keep him from finding her again...]
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Hey... A few questions for all of you. I've heard tell that the worlds we come from go into stasis relative to our frame of reference when we get here. Time stops for them, in other words. Can anyone actually verify this? Also I'm looking for someone. Woman about half a head shorter than I am, wears a bandanna, a little on the slender side, has a hacking tool that she uses for everything? She goes by the name of Alyx. Has... has anybody seen her here?
[Gordon had taken to a pattern. Get up, work out (behind closed doors and hopefully away from any wry observations of Chloe's), head to the Hold, lose himself in the library. With the VR system still buggy they'd more or less halted training for new Transports, so he had a lot of time on his hands. It's easy to find him around the library, and in the anterooms of the Training facility, not to mention on the streets and at the marketplace, hoping against hope that he can find some actual decent COFFEE somewhere.]
[One thing was starting to bother him deeply, however. First of all, every squiggle on the lightboard, every attempt to bend the field equation to his will and figure out just how the Initiative could change the past with the future intact, had resulted in failure. He KNEW the solution had something to do with the fact that Transports were outside Exsilium's frame of reference; they were more than warm bodies, they were a rouge agent in causality, and the Initiative was using that to their advantage.]
[However, the only time his work came close to correct was when he broke symmetry and allowed no way back for the transports once they got there. And he was NOT about to accept the idea that there was no way back. Screw subjective bias! Not even the fucking confines of cosmology itself was going to keep him from finding her again...]
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Hey... A few questions for all of you. I've heard tell that the worlds we come from go into stasis relative to our frame of reference when we get here. Time stops for them, in other words. Can anyone actually verify this? Also I'm looking for someone. Woman about half a head shorter than I am, wears a bandanna, a little on the slender side, has a hacking tool that she uses for everything? She goes by the name of Alyx. Has... has anybody seen her here?
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Precisely. Someone you knew from your world showed up here, I get that. Your memories are normal before that. But you don't recall him being gone from your world at all?
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But he's also been here.
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[Even if it WAS utterly incomprehensible.]
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[Relativity ftw.]
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'Cause time stopping for a whole world versus moving on minus one person? What makes more sense to you?
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[Damn.]
You're pretty smart, kid. It doesn't invalidate the possibility yet, but you're right. It doesn't absolutely prove it either.
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And besides, she really couldn't imagine the world would stop for just one person, even if he was pretty cute. ]
Thanks! If you've been thinking about that side of things, what've you come up with for the people disappearing side? The Transports, that is.
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Well, uh... for the Transports here, their worlds either have infinite time dilation--they stop, in other words--or they keep going as normal. That much is obvious, but it's worth repeating. There may be a caveat that Transports here don't age because of that, but that's only a sufficient indicator... Meaning it doesn't HAVE to be there, but if it's true then time stops in our worlds for sure.
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Even dead people?
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Essentially, yes. So far I haven't factored death into the equation... I imagine it's difficult to kill a person off in this place. Medicine of the thirty-second century and all. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say they'd return to their homeworld in some capacity. Or the world would just stay indefinitely frozen...
[He's too wrapped up in his own head to realize how horrible that could be.]
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And that sounds like even the dead have to go back, or else... in your theory, time freezes for everyone else. Maybe forever.
[ Now doesn't that feel shitty. It makes her less inclined to believe his theory can be true, because it doesn't make the kind of sense she wants to hear. And she can't imagine one person having that kind of pull. Or would it also happen here? Could they strand people on other worlds, in other times? ]
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[Ooookay getting that same feeling of dread he used to get during that year he taught that freshman class...]
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[ No, no, see those freshman classes............ were much kinder. ]
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[Forced into retreat by a precocious teenage girl. The SHAME.]
I'll give you one thing: you've got a head for logic... You a student here, or did they start you on training instead?
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I've stuck to my own schedule with personal training for others along with myself. Uhm... Which doesn't have a whole lot of studenting right now, but if this is a long term thing I should probably look into getting a private tutor. Are the classes here any good?
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