System Crash

A Star-System Crash is often the first sign of attack.

 

System jamming scrambles all high bandwidth FTL communication, navigation and civilian rated, FTL based molecular-circuitry, within a region between 1 and 13 light hours (9 to 100 astronomical units) in radius. Paradoxically, due to the nature of high-bandwidth FTL technology, a system crash can manifest within the region several hours before and after the activation and deactivation of the device. In some rare cases, the effects of a system crash may occur without the presence of a jamming ship in regions with merely a high probably of impending military engagement.

 

As old as FTL communication technology itself, and often stated as one of the main reasons why military craft are piloted by one or more personalities, system jamming is the most frequent terrorist activity within both Arkaedos and Kacylis empires.

 

Strategically, a single ship equipped with an active system jammer ship can disable civilian interstellar traffic and effectively information blockade a star system for a limited period of time. However, due to the intense energy requirements of system jammers, units consisting of two jamming craft often take turns providing jamming coverage during an engagement.

 

Shinobi is the first in a new classification of electronic warfare platforms. Force Recon Vessels are larger, more heavily armed and armoured and deploy significantly more electronic warfare than vessels typically build around system jammers. Some theorise that the ECM deployed on Shinobi may even be powerful enough to overcome newer generations Kacylis Smartdust. However, a direct an engagement between the two technologies has yet to have been observed.

A tale of two empires

Arkaedos

Within this wall beats the heart of an empire, within this radius lies the mind of Sol’s youngest child.

 

This is The Ark; cornerstone of Arkaedian civilisation. Its continuing construction has consumed thousands of worlds over tens of thousands of years in a project that will one day see it’s host star encapsulated by a sphere of Iron and Graphite.

 

The Arks primary purpose is the generation of “white holes” from which quantities of energy many times more than the output of it’s star can be harvested. It’s secondary role is the physical and virtual habitat of thirty one trillion personalities.

 

Many speculate that in the event of an extremely unlikely catastrophe, inhabitants within the Virtuality experience the remaining minutes as billions of years worth of run-time; a relativistic slumber that would see its citizens subjectively outliving the life-time of the universe in defiance.

Kacylis

Gazing upon the capital world at the center of Kacylis, one might be forgiven for believing that the Dyson Ring, with it’s 2200AU diameter was it’s most astonishing feature.

 

However, when one looks a little closer at the star, one might see why many consider ⌀ (Diameter) to be a modern wonder. 400,000 times more luminous than old Sol, this Blue Hypergiant lies sheathed in a cloud of computronium.

 

Feeding on the stars powerful radiation and stellar flux, and resonating with the broken symmetries of the early universe. Diameter manages to accomplish something computing substrates within bubble universes cannot.

 

Where information may only pour out of a bubble universe through plank-sized holes, this star and it’s matryoshka shells of processing dust, bind the will of man to the fabric of the universe in ways fundamental and vast.

 

To Arkaedians huddled within the Ark’s Golden minute, knowledge that here lies an entire system where light travels at the square of it’s normal speed, draws intense emotions, envy, not least among them.

Hypercolour

Hypercolour

These are the colours of radiation radio through gamma. This is gluon, graviton, strong, electro-weak and all the other forces of matter. These are the exposed, collapsed, quantum realities that govern the temporal world and all probable futures.

This is fifty thousand years worth of man and machine. This is space, time, alternate times, chaos, entropy, natural law, SEEN, MEMORISED AND UNDERSTOOD at competences comparable with godhood.

This is Hypercolour.

Entry Plug (WIP)

This is a concept still in development. I look forward to completing this project by placing the model inside a scene and/or designing a character to place in context.