Something of a bigger worry is the sheer financial chaos caused by one of the top three economies up and vanishing, as well as the oil supply from Texas. And then there's much of the Net giving a permanent 404. At least top level DNS is backed up, and we have the Alexandria Archive.
That said... Be free to ignore some, most, or everything below.
From: A.C. Peters (rock_doc@prometheus_forge.fen)
To: firefall_list@steels_lab.luna
Subject: Project Looking Glass update
Date: 28/11/2016
Just to keep people informed of developments in the investigation.
First off, we're now finalising the mass-production design for the new
sensors. Give us about a week and the plans will be available. Once is
an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action.
Second, due to the development for these and thanks to some artifacts
gained by Intel we've locked down the unique signature for the universe
our US got swapped with. This has been holographically encoded into
synthetic diamonds, placed in Adamantium cages to protect them, and
dispatched in a swarm of carrier drones to everyone of note. So that
knocking at the window may be them. Also, given I haven't slept since
this started and probably won't until things calm down, you're also
getting my favourite cheesecake recipes because I'll probably need them
if I come calling.
Third, after throwing more processing power than should be physically
possible at the physics, Hades thinks we've cracked the principles
behind the Stargate. Which is good.
Now to the bad news.
Working up a Traverser Drive is somewhat beyond even the Bluest Hair
at the moment. We simply don't have enough information about ten-
dimensional physics to try without turning the travellers into random
mathematical junk, Planck scale cupcakes, honest polictians, or all
three simultaineously. We think we know how to get it though.
We need to build Stargates.
This is something along the lines of working with Lego before building
a house if you want the analogy currently making the rounds. The
Stargate topology is only six-dimensional, but it gets the subject out
of conventional spacetime enough to help resolve some of the questions
we need answering.
We'll keep working at it this end, but you guys out there will need to
think about it.
Excellsior,
A.C., insomniac and unwilling Project Manager.
---
From: Red Knight
To: Secure List
Subject: Field Update
Class: OMEGA GOLD
***BEGIN ENCRYPTED MESSAGE SEGMENT***
As agreed, I lied about the sensors on the public post. They've been
ready since Thursday.
Further analysis of the four new signals since Firefall showed two
matched inbound-outbound pairs, connecting to two different universes.
What's interesting is these are eight-dimensional events according to
analysis.
I've deployed thirteen sensor platforms so far in a system englobment
pattern to hopefully catch the next set. Location precision will be
down to about 100m, so I recommend an extra response team or two being
ready.
We catch one of the visitors, we may have better information about the
Event.
***END ENCRYPTED MESSAGE SEGMENT***
That said... Be free to ignore some, most, or everything below.
From: A.C. Peters (rock_doc@prometheus_forge.fen)
To: firefall_list@steels_lab.luna
Subject: Project Looking Glass update
Date: 28/11/2016
Just to keep people informed of developments in the investigation.
First off, we're now finalising the mass-production design for the new
sensors. Give us about a week and the plans will be available. Once is
an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action.
Second, due to the development for these and thanks to some artifacts
gained by Intel we've locked down the unique signature for the universe
our US got swapped with. This has been holographically encoded into
synthetic diamonds, placed in Adamantium cages to protect them, and
dispatched in a swarm of carrier drones to everyone of note. So that
knocking at the window may be them. Also, given I haven't slept since
this started and probably won't until things calm down, you're also
getting my favourite cheesecake recipes because I'll probably need them
if I come calling.
Third, after throwing more processing power than should be physically
possible at the physics, Hades thinks we've cracked the principles
behind the Stargate. Which is good.
Now to the bad news.
Working up a Traverser Drive is somewhat beyond even the Bluest Hair
at the moment. We simply don't have enough information about ten-
dimensional physics to try without turning the travellers into random
mathematical junk, Planck scale cupcakes, honest polictians, or all
three simultaineously. We think we know how to get it though.
We need to build Stargates.
This is something along the lines of working with Lego before building
a house if you want the analogy currently making the rounds. The
Stargate topology is only six-dimensional, but it gets the subject out
of conventional spacetime enough to help resolve some of the questions
we need answering.
We'll keep working at it this end, but you guys out there will need to
think about it.
Excellsior,
A.C., insomniac and unwilling Project Manager.
---
From: Red Knight
To: Secure List
Subject: Field Update
Class: OMEGA GOLD
***BEGIN ENCRYPTED MESSAGE SEGMENT***
As agreed, I lied about the sensors on the public post. They've been
ready since Thursday.
Further analysis of the four new signals since Firefall showed two
matched inbound-outbound pairs, connecting to two different universes.
What's interesting is these are eight-dimensional events according to
analysis.
I've deployed thirteen sensor platforms so far in a system englobment
pattern to hopefully catch the next set. Location precision will be
down to about 100m, so I recommend an extra response team or two being
ready.
We catch one of the visitors, we may have better information about the
Event.
***END ENCRYPTED MESSAGE SEGMENT***