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The Butterfly From the Other's Perspective.
“I can do this! I can do this! I can do this!” Ela was screaming and trying to break free from the gigantic ship. Finally, her sense of flight instinct kicked in. She accepted defeat and finally curled up in her seat. She was ready to accept whatever the massive beasts would impose upon her.She leaned to the left of her seat while being curled up. She touched a switch and it shut down the light.She could sense that her ship was moving. It was vibrating and having a very strange motion. She however had nothing to do. She became a passenger.“ClANK!” A massive metallic sound rocked the ship. She jumped out of the seat and quickly undid her straps, and moved to a window to see what was happening.There were no stars in the view, nothing. In fact, she felt like her ship was inside another ship. She slowly moved towards the consoles of her cockpit and opened a camera to see the entirety of the holding place of her ship.It was big, but from the camera, there was just so little that could
The Butterfly From the Other's Perspective.
The captain, who introduced herself as Alina Liu Zheng came forward, touched Ela’s forehead and then assured her that she wouldn’t be harmed. In the meanwhile, they prepared a gravity suit for her. Ela slowly got up and tried to sit, but she felt something very wrong with her body. She felt very dizzy and nearly fell down.“There, I’ve got you,” the captain quickly grabbed Ela and kept her on her lap. Ela knew that falling down from this height in this gravity would be fatal for her.Captain gently put her on the gravity suit, and Ela started to feel pretty fine. She was very afraid of those huge alien creatures for the first time, but when the captain took her like a mother and helped her to get on the gravity suit, she started to trust those aliens.However, when they were walking through the corridor, the problem became apparent. Ela, being evolved on a low gravity world, was smaller in size, in fact, she was half the tall of Captain Alina, and her movement through the 1g environme
The Butterfly From the Other's Perspective
Captain Alina and Ela reached the bridge. Ela was expecting another massive industrial bridge with sharp edges and smells of lubricants. In fact, she could not be more wrong. The entire bridge looked something like the Philosopher’s palace on their home planet. Even the philosopher’s palace was not that extravagant and elegant. The trim lines on the furniture of the bridge, frames of the computer screens, almost everything was covered in expensive Low-Pressure Neutronium, Gold and Platinum.Ela said, “You might be very rich,” to which the captain replied, “We don’t use wealth, we will explain it to you later.”The ship was holding position right beside the Butterfly. The machine majestic machine was slowly flapping its wing to radiate heat. Ela thought that the butterfly must’ve been another ship of the UEC. The captain asked Ela, “Where you were going? We will drop you there,” she felt it was her responsibility to drop her at the destination since she grabbed and picked her up.“Can
The Butterfly From the Other's Perspective.
Ela was desperate to reach the outpost. She accelerated her ship to 3 times the speed of light. The outpost was near an emission nebula. It used to glow dark purple and pinkish colour because there was many calcium outgassing from the nebula. From the outpost, the nebula looked like an enormous mountain. Sometimes there was lightning and thunders. Sometimes there were nebulous winds and storms, that touched the edge of the solar system, where the outpost was orbiting the 2nd star. Ela sat down on her chair and tried to understand why, after everything, she felt nervous. She tried to think the entire event through. There, she was, trying to haul a lot of cargo to a very faraway station, and she got interdicted by an alien federation who claimed to be from the other galaxy. Ela calmed down a bit. After several hours, the outpost came into view. It was majestic, rotating rings were sleeping and the habitat area and the centre was the science laboratory and a stellar observatory. She f
The Butterfly A Glimpse to the Past.
While Ela was in the infirmary, station crews were investigating her logs. After discovering what was there. Meanwhile, Ela's blood was analysed by the lab scientists."You've got this strange chemical in the blood that is slowly dissipating away, it has a trace amount of caffeine in it, but the rest is unknown," said the lab scientist to Ela."The alien captain gave me something. I don't know what are they," replied Ela."I won't be so sure. Did you drink something there?" asked the scientist."Yes, but... when I drank, it felt very good. They called it, tea," Ela replied.The station crews finally managed to pull some camera footage. They finally handed the compiled log to the authority. However, the government felt different."To be absolute pacifists, we must avoid all kinds of contact with these aliens. If they decide to wipe us out, we must use force which will violate our idea of pacifism," said the Chief Philosopher.Ela was stunned when she heard about that. She wanted to have
The Butterfly A Glimpse of the Past
The reason why the UEC avoided contact with the Pre-FTL species of the milky way galaxy was that most of the time, contact could change their society to a path that could be very difficult to correct, but not outright impossible, but when they made contact with a spacefaring society, it became a huge issue. The political instability, combined with advanced technology could create an unimaginable amount of damage. In the Milky Way galaxy, these types of civil wars and political turmoils were contained and most of the time, UEC's intervention stopped these, but in the Andromeda galaxy? It was nearly impossible to stop. On top of that, the UEC didn't establish any bases yet, so they can't exactly call themselves a superpower, yet.When a pre-FTL society sees an advanced spacefaring civilization, the first things it loses are the religious and national identity, and then they become unified under a banner. This stage keeps them most vulnerable because many demigauges, populist leaders and
The Butterfly A Glimpse of the Past
Ela was taken to the Central Science Authority of their home world. She was there for some interviews and questions. The slow and leisurely evening was intoxicating. The golden sunbeam was casting a shadow on the silky waters of the lake Tranquility. Ela was in a secured compartment of a train. Right at the railway station of their capital city, "Blue Eyes," several security personnel escorted Ela to the CSA HQ, which was in the middle of the city.It was the first time she entered the building. She was greeted by a bunch of holographic images and videos. She was amazed. What were those?"While you are here, the Science Minister will arrive after an hour. Feel free to take some rest," an assistant told Ela and left the room.Ela was alone, surrounded by lots of holographic media. She spotted chronological order stickers on each holographic device. She walked towards the "t - 2 million years" device and touched it. Suddenly it lit up and completely engulfed the room. The veneer of the
The Butterfly A Glimpse of the Past
Selop started the video in a dark environment. The entire planet was full of volcanic ashes, and very little sunlight was coming. The entire area was full of dead plants and animals. There were Hronta ancestors and other animals within the pile of the dead. Ela had a question, "How did we overcome this?" Ela asked. "See, this is when the environment changed and forced us to walk on 2 legs," Selop started playing the video. What happened was the planet cooled down to an ice age, which trapped lots of carbon dioxide. Less carbon dioxide meant fewer plants to perform photosynthesis. Ice age also triggered a catastrophic insecticide event where almost all the pollinator insects went extinct. However, things kept dying because death was an inevitable part of life. The age of giant mushrooms started. Those mushrooms started to decompose corpses. However, the Hronta ancestors started to eat the mushrooms to stay alive. After several hundreds of thousands of years, the volcanic ashes settl
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The Festival (The Celebration)
The butterfly was restarted and as per Sam's request, it stopped its wings to flap around. The only thing it did was made an enormous foghorn-style sound which nearly deafened the technicians around 3 miles radius. Sam was inside of the butterfly when it started its massive 8 reactor cores. it was amazing to see the restarting sequence of a beast, also Sam felt very small, the ingenious and advancement of the species did not save them from just simply Vitamin deficiency.The Settlement Festival was a 7 days long celebration. For the first couple of days, people had to eat field rations to signify the struggles of the first people who settled on the land. The slow and consistent humming of the machine's interior made Sam a bit annoyed, but he kept it to himself. He then went to the bridge, where the chair was awaiting him. The bridge of the butterfly was a cold and dark place, the temperature was around 2 degrees Celcius. Sam wore his winter dress. He sat there and touched the com pane
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The Festival (A mindgame)
Sam sat down on his bed, it was harder than his bed on the ship, the reason was, his bed was made of stacks of books and journals and a bedsheet covered it. He took out a book from underneath the bed, it was about xeno-biology. Slowly, he opened the book and saw some hazy doodling on it."It can't be!" he exclaimed. His hand was shaking and his eyes were wide open. He was searching for something. He then stood up and opened another book, this time, it was about the history of the UEC."No!" he was upset by the fact that the book was hazy and strangely written. The butterfly asked why was he very upset about it."Look, I can imagine things way better than anyone else, I can visualize things, imagine things and make connections better than all the fat cats like the captain Probir and Cohen. This room, you are seeing? It's my visualization, it's my imagination. Trust me, if I see a book is hazy, I will know that something is definitely wrong," he desperately tried to open the closed wind
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The Festival
While emotionally involving someone or something can be gratifying, the practical implication of it was problematic. As per Cohen's request, the Butterfly was involved in the party, but how would it participate at the party was a major concern. The engineers and technicians repaired its wings. The actuators were worn off, but some of the actuator fluids were only available in the largest shipyards and they were used for deep crust mining robot arms. The fluids the creators of the butterfly used were very alien, but one thing it had was an ability to self-replication, in the UEC space self-replicating technology is very controlled, but not outright banned. The philosophy of the UEC was "if we ban things, we won't know enough to safely use them."UEC ship, H.M.S. Alan Turing was assigned to go to the Earth after the settlement festival. Captain Probir volunteered to stay with the main team, to "cheer the colonists" however deep down, his motivation was to oversee the construction of the
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The Festival
After the difficult landing, the Butterfly was temporarily shut down. It was ready to accept whatever service the UEC engineers and technicians could render to help its wings. However, the works never stopped on the planet RA. 2 massive tractor beam emitters held the massive Dimensional Displacement Gateway above the planet. The problem was that in space, nothing is stationary, so the long tractor beams which were rotating with the planet's rotations exert an enormous amount of energy, it's like attaching something to a rope and swinging. To overcome this, the UEC engineers created a shield bubble which effectively lowered the weight of the massive gateway and made the structure a rigid part of the planet.The colonists were getting ready to start their new life. The process might sound very romantic, but from a logistical point, it was a nightmare. The minerals, mined from the moon and refined by H.M.S. Isambard Kingdom Brunel were turned into construction materials, especially metal
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A Difficult Landing.
Lieutenant Jeremy took my helm to guide me to land on the RA. A massive task for me, because I was built to survey planets while being in the orbit of the planet. I was not worried about the hull damage, but during my flights with my creators, one scientist told my commander not to land in an oxygen-rich atmosphere, because the exhaust plasma can burn up the atmosphere. I mentioned it to the engineer who took care of my wing. He set up a cooling adapter to my exhaust port that cooled down the hot plasma and recycled it into liquid helium and hydrogen. Later those hydrogen and helium would have been transported to human facilities where hydrogen was used in energy generations helium was used for scientific experiments.I was ready to glide down. My helm officer Jeremy was there, guiding me, he was a very talented pilot. He was born in space, from age 7, he started space capsule racing and at the age of 18, he won the United Formula-S championship. He was perhaps the most experienced p
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Childhood, maybe?
When Sam was gone, Tatiana invited T'Mera into my bridge and they wanted to test my new upgrades, and for the first time, I had a drive that could jump 70 lightyears. The geostationary orbital height of the planet was very busy because of how many ships were unloading their populations on the planet. Especially the civilian ships were very busy. Shuttles were zipping around the massive cruisers and around my wings to get to their destinations."Let's go somewhere interesting. Let's go to the ringworld we've found around 300 lightyears away. You need 5 jumps to go and then we will be there," T'Mera said to me. She was not very anxious to be on a ship with an experimental drive. So, I asked her, "Aren't you just a little bit curious?""Nope, I trust you," replied T'Mera. Truly, I had a hard time processing the idea of trust. It was a very organic thing. So, I stopped thinking about it and plotted the course to the ringworld."Drive core engaged," a noise came to my ear. Really? Did the
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Childhood
I was trying to run a diagnostics on my central drive core. It was glowing red hot right after the modification. The computer didn't give any mod rejection notice, and the new modification fit like a pair of gloves. Within 4 seconds, the drive system radiated a massive amount of gamma radiation. Thankfully Sam shoved Tatiana out of the lab and he jumped out of the lab before the explosion. After the explosion, Sam and Tatiana returned to the lab. The massive radiation would have killed them both. I helped them to open a computer terminal where Sam could work."What the hell?" Sam exclaimed. He was looking at some strange data they weren't there before the modifications.""I can scan them and find out what are those," I offered to help. Since my firewalls are significantly updated to deal with any threats. Sam agreed, so I opened the dataset and scanned it one time.Suddenly, everything went dark. I could not find myself anywhere. I also had no point of reference. Then I lost conscious
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Childhood
"Audio data record, Butterfly... or whatever the aliens from the other galaxy call me, whatever the time is. It's a log. I cannot organize my internal chronometer to tell when am I. I'm recording this audio log because I have managed to squeeze some free time off from my busy schedule from visiting here and there. But I have to agree, that going here and there was a good stretching of my wings and drive system. The UEC upgraded my drive system by adding one more component and I requested them not to replace my old drive system which was really necessary for a short burst of FTL drive for course correction." I had to enter the log for a reason that most biological organisms cannot understand.I was in the orbit of the planet RA from there, the planet looked like a glowing ball of light. The ice was reflecting lights. My drive system was being re-engineered by Sam and Tatiana. They seemed like well rested. I never thought I would push the memories of my creators into archives, to say in
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Founding a New Home
The UEC fleet finally settled on a planet they named "Roald Amundsen" or RA as initials. The planetary naming convention of the UEC followed a standard procedure. Planets were named according to their functions and classes. The naming convention followed a set of rules;1. Earth-like planets were called Garden Planet. If any UEC member first land and claim the planet, it was named after explorers, pioneers and vanguards.2. Natural Moons that were landed and claimed were named after the coordinates of the host planet and with added letters according to the orbital line. An example would be the moon of the earth would be known as SOL-001/1-03-A. There, the SOL part indicated the Sol system, the 001 part meant the home system of the UEC, /1 meant the 1st star, 03 meant the 3rd planet and the A meant the 1st moon. So, the tidally locked 2nd moon of Proxima b was known as SOL-002/2-01-B. So, SOL-002 was the Alpha Centauri system, /2 meant it was the 2nd star, 01 meant it was the 1st plane
