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Quasi-Stellar Star Civilizations
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Coming Attractions (MT, OPEN)

Postby Quasi-Stellar Star Civilizations » Wed Oct 30, 2024 5:46 pm

Pan-STARSS Telescope, Hawaii

Dr. Irbart was having another terrible night. First, he came into a mess in his office which he certainly did not make. Next, his assistant from the university called in sick, but Irbart suspected he was out drinking. Didn't he see that the work being done was important?
Nevertheless, he was on his own for the night, with only the technicians down below to accompany him. Even so, they kept to themselves.
As the night drew on, Dr. Irbart sunk into a funk, monitoring the telescope as it took its images.
At around four o'clock in the morning, the telescope captured its third image, and Dr. Irbart sluggishly began examining the image for any movement...
...and found an object had begun brightening, revealing itself to the telescope.
"Huh," Irbart muttered. He checked it with detailed star catalogs. Could it be a variable star? Or maybe a slowly spinning asteroid? But no. It was an entirely new object. It also showed a small amount of movement.
He logged the object in the journal as X/2024 M1 and smirked. Finally, he had discovered a heavenly object. An unimportant one, but one nonetheless.
How wrong he would be proven to be.

Two days later, after careful tracking of the object "Irbart", it was determined that it was an interstellar object. Not only that, but its orbit intersected Earth's orbit by a very slim margin.
As the computations were run, it slowly dawned on Dr. Irbart that the object had a very high chance of impacting Earth within the next ten years. And since the object, presumably, a comet, was discovered so early, it had to be massive, at least 50 km large. The information would have to be confirmed by space telescopes, but it was concerning nonetheless.

Keeping a tight lid on the discovery, an international conference is called in Oahu to determine what, exactly, would be done about this information.

This is completely open. No applications, no post requirements other than NS rules and keep on topic.
I suggest sending your nation's leader or other high-ranking delegate to the meeting in Oahu.
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Postby Quasi-Stellar Star Civilizations » Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:58 am

/bump
Just a guy who likes science fiction and has big ambitons
A Class .363 Civilization according to this index.
NS stats are not canon with the exception of the rights thingy.
If you want help with space-based worldbuilding, combat strategy, or technology, feel free to TG me.
Member of the FWC.
CNN General: New threat looms as mysterious invader discovered at the edge of the galaxy | Spacers' offer to open trade rejected | CNN Politics: Councilor Voll accused of financial fraud; trial to begin in three weeks | CNN Commerce: Centauri bid to build expedition ships to the Small Magellanic Cloud accepted | Itzgari War: Negotiations currently taking place at Hesperides

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Postby Meresed » Sat Nov 02, 2024 1:05 pm

Dr. Song Ni took a cup from the side of the room and filled it with coffee. He saw a number of people milling about. Astrophysicists, Astronomers, classical and theoretical physicists, in the room. Some talked to each other, others sat silently writing notes or lost in thought. Some he had worked with, others he knew from reading their publications, but that unnerved him. It was said that reporters realized that the Manhattan Project was occurring when top researchers started to disappear from their labs and halt publications. So when the Meresdian Secretary of Space Exploration and Technology got a letter inviting him to a secret meeting he was troubled. The country hosting it was a superpower; one known for its achievements in science, especially in space exploration. He cautiously took a seat and waited for someone, anyone to say something about why this group had been gathered.


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