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Old 03-27-2017, 08:53 PM   #1
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ORICHALCUM UNIVERSE Sidebar: The Coming of the Crystallects

See here for background on the Orichalcum Universe: http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=70111

See here for information about the Crystallects and Hermes: http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...=148614&page=4

As explained in the Crystallects thread, intelligent life emerged on the planet Mercury, in the aftermath of the Downfall of Atlantis, and these two events were most definitely connected. The population of Mercury rose rapidly, and as they learned, with the intermittent but valuable tutelage of Hermes, the discovered that their native psychic abilities included telepathic and clairvoyant gifts of interplanetary range, at least within certain limits.

Naturally, some of the Crystallects turned their abilities to the observation of the universe beyond their home world. Though their abilities were certainly insufficient to reach even the closest stars, the other planets of the Solar System were well within their operational range.

Their ESP gifts and refined skills enabled them to examine Venus, Earth, and Mars with remarkable precision, without ever leaving Mercury. The examined the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and probed the great gas giants as deeply as their ESP would permit. They observed the icy gas giants Uranus and Neptune, and their families of satellites as well. They even probed beyond Neptune, looking out into the dark and distant bodies of the Kuiper Belt.

They observed the entire Solar System in fascination, studying the pressurized heat of Venus, as hostile to them as it would be to humanity, and they probed the frozen deserts of Mars, from the carbon dioxide ice caps to the depths of the Valles Marineris. They observed the ice-coated oceans of Europe and the incomprehensible storm that was the Great Red Spot of Jupiter. Long before the human race recovered sufficiently from the Cataclysm to rediscover the immense rings of Saturn, the Crystallects observed them intimately.

The Crystallects noted the superfast winds of Neptune and the tilted rotation of Uranus. They observed the bodies that humans would one day call Pluto, Eris, Sedna, and that peculiar body that a resurgent humanity would one day aptly call Orcus.

They examined the inner asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. They observed Io, and confirmed with their own senses what Hermes had already told them: that there were living things, of an entirely alien nature, to be found upon that volcanic moon.

Hermes had informed them that life-forms of that general sort, all related to each other, were to be found on Io, on Mars, and on Earth. They observed these life forms on Io and Mars, readily enough, though not always in the degree of details that they might have wished.

When they sought to observe Earth itself, however, they found that there were peculiar difficulties. Though Earth was far closer than Io, and often closer than Mars, it was more difficult to observe than either of those bodies. Their ESP ability seemed to become unfocused and inchoate when directed upon Earth. They could observe the planet in broad, well enough, they could observe regions with a certain amount of clarity, but trying to focus any more closely was progressively more difficult.

They found it especially difficult to observe those regions with the highest populations of the native humans. The poles, the remote deserts, these were easier to observe than the comfortable regions of cities and farmland.

In a lucid period, Hermes was able to explain the reason for this to its students.

Hermes explained that the natives of Earth generated a constant aura of Antipsionic activity, for reasons the Eldren themselves did not fully understand. This aura was diffuse, but where there were many humans, the combined power of this Antipsionic aura could become potent. It was quite sufficiently potent to make observing Earth via ESP a challenging proposition.

To be continued...
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Old 03-27-2017, 10:24 PM   #2
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The scientists and students who were studying the Solar System were only a small fraction of the total population of Mercury, just as most Terrans are not scientists. As the Crystallects advanced, they learned to supplement their psionic talents with physical observation. They built telescopes and other instruments, and made use of them. Their devices were very different in form and structure compared to earlier and later human creations, but they performed the same functions.

With the passage of time, as Mercurian technology advanced (along very different detailed paths than most human worlds), some Crystallects began to long for more detailed information than they could obtain through ESP and telescopy alone. Earth was a particular target of such fantasies, but the other worlds and bodies of the Solar System still held out mysteries as well.

These Crystallects became the first Mercurians to dream of space flight.

As it is for almost any race that contemplates it, space travel represented an enormous challenge to the Crystallects. Still, in some ways the Mercurian sapients were uniquely well-suited to the rigors of travel in the void, compared to most intelligent beings.

To begin with, Crystallects were and are completely at home in vacuum. In addition, they are far more resistant to the perils of radiation than any other known form of life (save the Eldren themselves). They are physically tough and resistant to a vast range of temperatures and pressures.

Still, many problems had to be solved, it was over two Terran centuries between the time that the first serious proposals for space flight were made on Mercury, and the first real experimentation. Eventually, though, a small party of Crystallects achieved orbit around their home planet.

It has been said of space flight that if you can achieve orbit, you are halfway to anywhere you want to go. It's metaphorically true, at least on interplanetary scales, and as much so for Crystallects as it is for humans. It was no more than another twenty Terran years before an experimental trip was made from Mercury to Venus and back, carrying a crew of a dozen Crystallects and enabled by what amounted to a solar sail.

A Mercurian 'spacecraft' was rather different than anything Homosapients would ever put into space. It consisted of relatively little beyond a very light metallic/composite framework, between stretched rigid but adjustable 'sheets' of immensely reflective material, very light and very thin, and all too delicate. The circular 'frame' was made up of hollow bars to reduce mass, and was over a kilometer in diameter. The individual reflective sheets that filled most of the hollow spaces within the frame were a few meters on a side, and massed no more than a few grams per sheet. The entire construction massed no more than about one hundred and thirty metric tons.

The Crystallect crew were stationed, almost literally, at the junction points of the framework, exposed directly to open space. They were also critical to the operation of the machine, because it was the living crew who manipulated the swivel-mounted reflector panels psychokinetically, adjusting the reflectivity and absorption of the entire assembly to control vector acceleration. This required careful calculation, but the crews were well-trained in the necessary mathematics and skills, and time was not usually of the essence.

The 'ship' was launched, as was the practice of the Crystallects at that time, when a very large group of the entities combined their psychokinetic power into a gestalt capable of lifting the whole assembly and accelerate it, very slowly, to orbital velocity. It was a challenging and time-consuming activity, because the 'sail-ship' was fragile and could be accelerated only slowly, and the Crystallects did not yet have the necessary psychokinetic skills to accelerate the entire assembly as a single thing, avoiding the stress.

Once in orbit around Mercury, the solar sail could be used to break orbit and travel from world to world, though at a relatively slow pace. The low accelerations possible to a solar sail meant that low energy trajectories were necessary, using solar pressure to adjust the orbit at key times. Still, travel times within the 'inner' Solar System was a matter of months, to no more than a year or two. Solar sailing can be an effective propulsion system, when the payload is low-mass, and this was the ultimate in low-mass space travel.

The Crystallects needed no air, no water, they could feed on the direct solar radiation of open space themselves. They needed no reaction mass, the light of the Sun provided fuel and reaction mass. They needed no shielding from the radiation of the Sun or the cosmic rays. They were sedentary creatures, able and willing to remain in one place for days, weeks, and years on end, when the their ends called for this. Their telepathic power was easily sufficient to stay in direct touch with the entire population of their fellow Crystallects, they were still part of day-to-day interaction even as they soared through open space to Venus, to Earth, and to Mars.

They could not land. Their vessel was far too fragile for that, it could not have handled even the thin air of Mars. Further, the solar sail could not lift off against even feeble gravity on solar pressure alone, the launching mechanism use on Mercury was unavailable elsewhere. Still, they could approach these worlds, enter orbit, and this enabled them to observe those worlds far more closely and in far more detail than could be managed from Mercury. Even with the tremendous ESP gifts of the Crystallects, distance mattered.

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Wow! When did they create and send out this spacecraft?
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Old 03-29-2017, 12:04 AM   #4
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The first few expeditions worked out...about as well as first efforts at anything new and dangerous and untried tend to work out. Of the first five 'manned' (for want of a better word) expeditions that the Mercurians sent out, two were lost with all crew, one ended up stranded in orbit around Mars and had to be rescued, and just barely were, one had to abort the mission and do a long-orbit return to Mercury, and one more-or-less worked out as planned. Ironically, the successful long-distance expedition was the first one, which returned after accomplishing most of their mission goals.

Of the two that were lost, one encountered technical problems that left them on an orbit that they could not correct and which brought them close enough to the Sun that their ship suffered fatal disruption. This mattered little, since the crew had died long since. Though they fed on sunlight, there were still limits to the intensity they could endure.

The other ship encountered a technical problem, and ended up grazing the Martian atmosphere, unable to correct. Though the atmosphere of Mars is thin, it is far too thick for such a maneuver to end well for such a ship. The frail gossamer vessel and its mercryst crew burned up as they entered.

For some time, the Crystallects paused their space activities, refining their designs, correcting the mechanical and design flaws that had doomed the previous efforts. They had good information about those flaws, because of the telepathic connections between the lost crews and the rest of the species.

There was also a delay because of internal arguments among the various Crystallect groups. There is no exact Homosapient equivalent of those divisions, they were neither exactly nations nor tribes nor ideological groupings, though they might be seen as slightly like any of the above. Suffice it to say that there were 'political' arguments on Mercury that delayed many projects at about that time, including the space expeditions.

In time, though, new expeditions were sent out, with improved designs for their minimalist spacecraft, and these expeditions began to show better results. These ships entered orbit around Venus, Earth, and Mars, enabling them to observe those worlds much more closely via both physical and psychic means, though even from orbit Earth was challenging to study because of the world-wide effect of the antipsionic aura. Indeed, this aura was growing in strength with the passage of time, as the human population of Earth began to recover from the vast losses at the end of the Antediluvian Age.

After these successes came a more ambitious expedition, with a larger 'ship', a photon sail roughly two kilometers in diameter, and a crew of over one hundred crystallects. This mission launched from Mercury, did an initial, more detailed orbital survey of Venus, Earth, and Mars, and actually landed, or at least 'hovered', on Phobos and Deimos. These tiny moonlets, no larger than modest asteroids, were easily accessible to the Crystallects and represented no threat of gravitational capture to their vessel. From there, this more ambitious expedition moved on, in a complicated set of gravitational-assist maneuvers, toward Jupiter and the satellites thereof.

This was a difficult challenge, because for all their natural advantages for space travel, the Crystallects still had some requirements that had to be met. They could 'feed' on the direct sunlight of space, but they also needed nutrients from the 'soil' as well. They could store such nutrients within their bodies for long periods, and their sedentary nature limited the requirements for adult Crystallects, as long as they did not have to repair damage to their bodies or otherwise exert themselves to grow.

Still, they needed some such nutrients over time, and for expeditions that went on for years or decades, they had to carry such supplies along with them. Fortunately for them, a few kilograms each of such minerals were sufficient for many years, if carried in concentrated form and no sudden excessive needs arose. As long as none of the travelling Crystallects were severely wounded, or otherwise needed a sudden infusion of mass, the problem was manageable.

Of course, there was no way to be fully sure that such needs would not arise. Under the conditions of the expedition, a seriously damaged Crystallect was almost certain to die, because they could not carry enough 'food' to enable regeneration. It was a risk they accepted when they went out.

The other challenge lay in the inverse square law. As they travelled farther and farther outward, the intensity of the sunlight fell off as the square of the increasing distance. Once they travelled much beyond Mars, the intensity of the sunlight fell off to the point that it began to become problematic.

To solve this problem, or at least try to ameliorate it, their vessel was of a slightly different design than the earlier, smaller ones. Along with acting as a reflective/absorptive sail, their ship including some focusing mirrors designed to gather the weakening light and focus it on the various crew members, at their stations where the components of the 'frame' met.

This worked, after a fashion, giving them sunlight of intensity comparable to the approximate orbit of Earth. It also left them dependent on a complicated mechanism to supply them with the energy they needed to live, and not very much redundancy in the design.

To be continued...
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Wow! When did they create and send out this spacecraft?
That will be answered quite soon!
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I'm surprised they could live on the (by comparison) immensely reduced sunlight in Earth's orbit if they evolved on Mercury.

Did their 'Patron' manage to explain the trap on Earth holding it's kin in slumber? Or even explain the Cataclysm in general?
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I'm surprised they could live on the (by comparison) immensely reduced sunlight in Earth's orbit if they evolved on Mercury.
It's not ideal for them, by any means. But remember that Mercurian 'nights' last four weeks or so, so they have to be able to store energy, and they do. They can 'recharge' their reserves much faster on Mercury than on Earth, or at Earth's distance from the Sun, but their ability to store energy means they can survive out here, they just have to bask in the sun longer. Substantially longer. Mercurian insolation is faster and more pleasant for them, but they can live on Terrestrial rations if they have to.

On Mercury, they can store up a week or so of reserve energy by basking for roughly 10 hours. On Earth, they can survive if they bask regularly in the sun, but they have to bask from 8 to 10 hours per day and that just keeps them going, they can't store anything up that way.

(That assumes a fully-active Crystallect, they can reduce their energy needs considerably by staying still and limiting activity.)

In space, at Earth's distance from the Sun, things are a little better, because there's no interruption for night, and no atmospheric attenuation. Three full days in space, at 1 AU, will give a Crystallect enough for a week, and that leaves them time to gather some more energy for storage, too.

But as you go further out, the available energy drops off fast. At Mars orbit, the energy is down to barely over half what it is at Earth, by the time you get out to Jupiter it's under 5% of what it is on Earth. As you keep going out, you hit a point where the energy density is just too low to be useful for a Crystallect at all.

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Did their 'Patron' manage to explain the trap on Earth holding it's kin in slumber? Or even explain the Cataclysm in general?
No to the first, only a hint or two for the second.
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This expedition was long, and bold, and in truth, over daring. The Crystallects were seeking to reach Jupiter, but traveling to Jupiter is at least an order of magnitude harder than reaching Mars, from the inner System. The distance from the orbit of Mars to the orbit of Jupiter is greater than the distance from the Sun itself to the orbit of Mars, about three times greater.

They used a complicated gravitational assist maneuver to boost their velocity, but even so, it was a trip of over three Terran years to reach 'Jupiter space'. During that time, they practically had to hibernate, or a state close to that, to preserve their lives in the absence of 'food' and useful solar energy.

By the time they arrived, the crew had recognized that they had overreached. They knew that they had miscalculated their energy budget and supplies, and that safely returning to Mercury would require, at the least, a dose of luck. They had by no means given in to despair, but the situation was not hopeful.

Through all this, they remained in solid contact with their fellows on Mercury. The extended range of the Crystallect-to-Crystallect telepathy meant that they real-time immediate contact with home, leaving them in a position slightly analogous to the astronauts of the infamous Apollo 13 expedition, though that still yet to come. Their fellows on Mercury could provide no physical help, but they could provide advice and information, perform calculations and help them plan their next moves.

The entered the Jovian satellary system, still performing their scientific mission while they tried to work out a way to get safely back to Mercury. Various ideas were considered, and some of them were successful.

They intercepted one of the outermost tiny moons of Jupiter, nothing more than a captured asteroid, and to their delight, discovered that they could indeed 'mine' it for nutrients and minerals. It did have everything they needed, but they were able store up kilograms per creature of 'food'.

The original plan had involved a long, complicated set of gravitational maneuvers to 'sling' the vessel back in toward the inner Solar System. This plan had to be modified, because they simply did not have that kind of time. The solar energy supply had proved to be too low, the food consumptions too high. The initial mission calculations had not been wrong, exactly. The problem was that they had been based on incorrect assumptions.

Now the flight plan was redrawn, recalculated, prepared for a higher-risk but faster journey that would bring them homeward more quickly. It would involve more daring maneuvers, put more strain on their fragile vessel, but it promised them a path home in a viable time window. The fellows on Mercury refined the calculations, added in the latest, more precise observations of the various bodies of the Solar System, and the plan was finalized.

This left the Crystallects with a wait, because the new flight plan required that they wait for a launch window that was over a Terran year away. This was challenging, but not fatal. They could return to the outer moonlet for more nutrients as needed while they waited, and since they were trapped in place for the time being anyway, they could reconfigure their 'sail' into a larger scale mirror that could concentrate sunlight enough to enable them to feed.

This actually worked well. It rendered their vessel difficult to operate, and was risky, because it involved rearranging the structure of the frail ship. It provided them with Mercury-intensity light over a small volume, though, and they could take turns basking in the focus of the concentrator. This modification enabled them to feed easily, and their ship could still slowly maneuver among the moons of Jupiter on the weak solar pressure. Since they had to wait for their launch window anyway, they continued their survey mission as best they could under the circumstances.

They visited several of the satellites, including high orbits around the four major bodies. Icy, ancient Callisto, and immense Ganymede they orbited. Ganymede was larger even than their home world. They learned much from these orbital surveys. Inward they sailed, orbiting and examining fascinating Europa, with its ice-covered world-wide ocean. Though they had observed Earth from orbit, not even Earth was entirely covered in water and ice in the way Europa was covered.

Most fascinating of all, Io beckoned. The scientists among the spacefarers longed to examine it more closely, because they already knew, from Hermes, that it was rich in a variety of the same life that they knew thrived on the third planet. Yet it was also nestled deep in the immense magnetosphere of Jupiter, the radiation levels near Io were high enough to be problematic, even to the Crystallects. With their vessel already half-crippled, the risk was as daunting as the reward was tempting.

In the end, they decided to make a fly-by pass. They decided that it was worth the risk for a single pass, calculated a fly-by trajectory that would bring them close to Io, albeit briefly, and bring them back out toward the lower-radiation environs of Callisto.

The executed the plan, and used their psychic gifts, and what physical sensors they could bring with them aboard their gossamer craft, to examine Io more closely than had ever been possible from Mercury. Their flight path actually brought them within a few hundred kilometers of the surface, though only for a brief time, and at such a velocity that there was no risk of capture and also little chance to consider what they were observing. The maneuver was carried off without a flaw, ending with them safely back in orbit around Callisto.

Still, during this close passage, something was observed on Io. Not all of the crew observed it. Those who did were motivated to contact their own 'tribes' on Io for instructions, rather than sharing the information with the rest of the crew as the mission protocols required.

Secret instructions came back, and though the rest of the crew did not know it, they and one particular faction were now working at cross purposes.

To be continued...
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As the launch window for their new return trajectory approached, the crew prepared as best they could. They stored up as much of the mineral nutrients from the outer moonlet as they could while staying within their mass limits. They basked in the intense light of their mirror-concentrator until they had all stored as much energy as they could manage, then they began the work of converting the concentrator back into a working solar sail.

This was delicate, tricky work, that had to be done with extreme care and done just right, while staying to an unforgiving schedule. They managed it, just barely. Their departure from Jupiter was anticlimactic, of course, solar sails use tiny accelerations, especially at such distances from the Sun. Still, they made their new launch window, after a complicated set of maneuvers among the major moons of Jupiter to give them an initial velocity boost.

Through the thinly-dispersed asteroids they sailed, making close approach maneuvers to a couple of larger ones to adjust their trajectory. Past the orbit of Mars they sailed, though Mars itself was partway around the Sun at the time that the Crystallects crossed its orbit.

Their flight plan called for them to pass moderately close to Earth, executing a maneuver to use the gravity of the Earth/Luna system to swing them onto an intersection trajectory with Mercury. It was now, just as they approached the Earth/Moon system, that what superficially appeared to be a mechanical failure befell the expedition.

Such a thing was hardly improbable. The vessel had already been strained past its design limits, in several ways, repeatedly. It was always light and fragile, and had been subjected to conditions of acceleration, radiation, temperature change, and other factors that exceeded what the designers had expected. It had been disassembled and reassembled in flight, to carry out functions the designers had not foreseen, except as wild theoretical concepts.

Yet at the same time, the failure was oddly convenient. It made execution of the maneuver to finish the journey back to Mercury impossible. A number of the 'pivots' that enabled their reflectors to be redirected were frozen, they could not adjust their trim sufficiently to carry out the maneuver properly. If they tried, they would be thrown millions of miles past their target, with little hope of correcting the flight path afterward.

Yet they retained sufficient control to put their vessel into orbit around either Earth or Luna. There was an emergency plan in place that could now be put into effect. Even before they left Jupiter, the planners on Mercury and the crew of the vessel had put together contingency plan. If they could not make it back to Mercury, they would attempt to make a parking orbit around the Moon, and wait there for a rescue operation from Mercury. They were now close enough to the Sun to reconfigure their vessel into a concentrator again, so solar energy would be no problem during such a wait.

Food might be a problem, but they still had some supplies stored from the moonlet of Jupiter, and the Crystallects had made several successful trips to Earth orbit already, so rescue was a very real likelihood if they could make it that far. The 'mechanical failure' happened at almost the perfect time. If it had come much earlier, they might not have been able to place themselves into a stable orbit, much later and it would have been too late to stop at all.

That convenience raised certain suspicions among some of the crew. Tensions had been rising ever since the departure from Jupiter, as some of the crew suspected others of hidden agendas. There is no need to delve into the details, and they would make little sense to humans anyway.

Suffice it to say, for now, that the entire expedition had been something of an 'international' effort, involving efforts and crew from any of the 'political' divisions of Mercury. This had led to little problem until they made the flyby of Io. There, something observed by one of the crew had led it and its faction aboard the ship to send home for instructions, and those instructions had been to ignore the accepted protocols of the mission and conceal what they had observed.

As it happened, some of the others had come to suspect something of the sort, though they did not know just what it was that was being concealed. Now, the singularly convenient timing of this accident raised new suspicions among the crew. What had been a united scientific mission had become something of a broil of political tensions.

To be continued...
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Very curious over what is coming next

I assume they realized that Io would be a location of interest for the whole race if the info was discovered. Maybe something that makes colonization extremelly desirable?
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