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Research Log Entry (Subject - Medium-Aperture Interspatial Portal Test 11B): I don't want to jinx myself, but this recent run of interspatial portal tests has been relatively problem free. Stable connection, no flux, solid readings, power consumption all within normal parameters. It's interesting, the medium-aperture portal only draws around 15% more power than the small aperture... maybe the relationship between portal size and required power isn't linear? Another possible line of research. If this is truly the case, then that would bode well for the eventual large aperture setup (one that would be large enough to just step through... the medium portal could definitely work in this regard, but it would require a bit more shimmying than is comfortable).
The target this time was documented universe 5300109, specific coordinates directed at the 'equivalent Earth' that exists in this reality. Universe '109 is another one of those small K-Factor realities (about 0.012, so stuff naturally exists at a little more than 1 percent what we would call normal). Planetary layout is similar, though the evolution apparently went differently here, considering that the dominant species is some kind of weird mostly-hairless primate (not sure how THAT happened, but whatever).
This was supposed to just be a quick peek, followed by a few measurements, but there were a few small complications. When I'd previously targeted these particular coordinates, it was a fairly remote area out in the wilderness, so keeping contact with the local population to a bare minimum (I TRY not to cause anything that could be described as a 'divine encounter'). This time... well, the portal materialized over the outskirts of some urban sprawl. Oops. Not sure if there's some drift in the coordinates or I somehow made a mistake. Might also have to consider the possibility that there's some kind of temporal differential here (I don't remember seeing cavemen or castles the last time I was here, but I wasn't really looking) and there just wasn't a city here last time.
Either way, well, I fully expect the supermarket tabloids (if they have those. probably.) will have a field day with this one, and any shadowy government agencies will have a hard time dismissing my appearance as swamp gas or weather balloons. I'm pretty sure I made direct (albeit brief) eye contact with some poor little idiot out hiking, so I think I'll be living rent free in his brain for awhile. Oh, and yeah, I JUST managed to spot a plane headed for the portal opening... either they were running on autopilot, or those guys just didn't think to change course. FORTUNATELY I had my manipulator in hand and was able to catch them with a low-power gravity beam before they crossed the threshold. One quick little shift in inertia and they're heading back the way they came, no harm done. Good thing too, if I hadn't seen them, I probably would've mistaken them for a fly buzzing around in the lab or something. Still, I suspect I made a bit of an impression even without the use of a flyswatter.
Anyway, aside from some minor (or major) cultural contamination, things went fairly well today. Only a few minor adjustments to the aperture and I think this one cane be out of trial phase. I might have to peek back in on '109 later, but I'll have to be more discrete about it. Maybe stick to using the microprobe.
I just hope that I don't see temples with statues of ME in them.
Artwork by
Tyrnn Eaveranth who did an amazing job on this shot of Lydia demoing her portal tech, and showing how 'normal' dimensions don't always translate evenly between universes. Be sure to fave the original here.
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The target this time was documented universe 5300109, specific coordinates directed at the 'equivalent Earth' that exists in this reality. Universe '109 is another one of those small K-Factor realities (about 0.012, so stuff naturally exists at a little more than 1 percent what we would call normal). Planetary layout is similar, though the evolution apparently went differently here, considering that the dominant species is some kind of weird mostly-hairless primate (not sure how THAT happened, but whatever).
This was supposed to just be a quick peek, followed by a few measurements, but there were a few small complications. When I'd previously targeted these particular coordinates, it was a fairly remote area out in the wilderness, so keeping contact with the local population to a bare minimum (I TRY not to cause anything that could be described as a 'divine encounter'). This time... well, the portal materialized over the outskirts of some urban sprawl. Oops. Not sure if there's some drift in the coordinates or I somehow made a mistake. Might also have to consider the possibility that there's some kind of temporal differential here (I don't remember seeing cavemen or castles the last time I was here, but I wasn't really looking) and there just wasn't a city here last time.
Either way, well, I fully expect the supermarket tabloids (if they have those. probably.) will have a field day with this one, and any shadowy government agencies will have a hard time dismissing my appearance as swamp gas or weather balloons. I'm pretty sure I made direct (albeit brief) eye contact with some poor little idiot out hiking, so I think I'll be living rent free in his brain for awhile. Oh, and yeah, I JUST managed to spot a plane headed for the portal opening... either they were running on autopilot, or those guys just didn't think to change course. FORTUNATELY I had my manipulator in hand and was able to catch them with a low-power gravity beam before they crossed the threshold. One quick little shift in inertia and they're heading back the way they came, no harm done. Good thing too, if I hadn't seen them, I probably would've mistaken them for a fly buzzing around in the lab or something. Still, I suspect I made a bit of an impression even without the use of a flyswatter.
Anyway, aside from some minor (or major) cultural contamination, things went fairly well today. Only a few minor adjustments to the aperture and I think this one cane be out of trial phase. I might have to peek back in on '109 later, but I'll have to be more discrete about it. Maybe stick to using the microprobe.
I just hope that I don't see temples with statues of ME in them.
Artwork by
Tyrnn Eaveranth who did an amazing job on this shot of Lydia demoing her portal tech, and showing how 'normal' dimensions don't always translate evenly between universes. Be sure to fave the original here.Posted using PostyBirb
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