RE: The Lifter's Paradox [Select-A-Round!]
02-08-2013, 03:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-08-2013, 03:45 AM by Not The Author.)
Round: Starpoint
A scientific institution floating on the surface of a red supergiant. Starpoint is shaped like a pin, or a golf tee - wide bit at the top narrowing sharply as it descends towards the star's heart. Spaceships dock, faculty live, records are stored and paperwork is done on the surface, while all the research is done below.
The facility was built to study the process that occurs whereby a star enters supernova. Nobody is actually sure if the facility can survive a supernova, though. Also the star might implode into a black hole instead. Or do both! They're not sure about that either. They just know it'll happen soon. Probably.
Also also, probably secretly funded by the military. Nobody knows why, but everybody's got a pretty good guess why Dudes What Kill Other Dudes might like to know what specifically makes stars go boom.
Round: Star Point
West Point In Space. The premier space marine academy. Where people go to learn discipline, loyalty, brotherhood, and how to growl like a lung cancer patient.
It is also the Space Navy's largest mobile space station/warship hybrid, though its age has condemned it to home orbit like so many admirals before it. Despite its age, Star Point is still fully warp-capable and stocked with enough munitions and supplies to quite easily jump to any of several ongoing conflict zones and hold its own.
Well, okay, probably not with ease. Spaceflight is complicated and the rustbucket's still old as the man in charge of it (very). But the capability is present.
A scientific institution floating on the surface of a red supergiant. Starpoint is shaped like a pin, or a golf tee - wide bit at the top narrowing sharply as it descends towards the star's heart. Spaceships dock, faculty live, records are stored and paperwork is done on the surface, while all the research is done below.
The facility was built to study the process that occurs whereby a star enters supernova. Nobody is actually sure if the facility can survive a supernova, though. Also the star might implode into a black hole instead. Or do both! They're not sure about that either. They just know it'll happen soon. Probably.
Also also, probably secretly funded by the military. Nobody knows why, but everybody's got a pretty good guess why Dudes What Kill Other Dudes might like to know what specifically makes stars go boom.
Round: Star Point
West Point In Space. The premier space marine academy. Where people go to learn discipline, loyalty, brotherhood, and how to growl like a lung cancer patient.
It is also the Space Navy's largest mobile space station/warship hybrid, though its age has condemned it to home orbit like so many admirals before it. Despite its age, Star Point is still fully warp-capable and stocked with enough munitions and supplies to quite easily jump to any of several ongoing conflict zones and hold its own.
Well, okay, probably not with ease. Spaceflight is complicated and the rustbucket's still old as the man in charge of it (very). But the capability is present.