high-energy physics

[warpfairy]

Federation political prisons are not particularly uncomfortable. She's not going anywhere, but she can read, she's considering taking up an instrument, the only really awkward thing is that she doesn't particularly want to be supervised while she's sweating her way through her next pon farr one way or another but that's years off. That and she wishes she'd taken longer to get caught. But she was running out of the really low-hanging fruit anyway.

This is what she signed up for. She makes up imaginary profiles of people on the planets she got to, people who can live longer fuller lives with the stars in reach, one per day. One per day and she'll have loads of estimated impact left unused when she dies. Perfectly reasonable tradeoff and she can still read books.

Someone wants to interview her about Vulcan; they don't want to lose anything that anybody remembers; she gives the interview and then picks up some poetry.

Comments

[lintamande]

Material has not sent them any other subtle artists? Though of course those wouldn't be inherently trustworthy either.

[subtly_artistic]

Yep, that's the issue, and they wouldn't know as much about what to look for until they too have absorbed spy media.

[lintamande]

Well, spy media for everyone is pretty easy, what with improving compatibility between different kinds of magic and science systems.

[subtly_artistic]

The Materians find Warp media very samey in setting (so much of it is science fantasy about Warp in particular!) but familiar in many respects. For instance, both worlds have invented the action movie.

...anything moving back in Valinor? Interplanar crystal balls are really hard, she is sorry she cannot send Fëanáro's parents cute pictures, but she's taking a bunch to send when she can...

[lintamande]

Fëanáro's parents are in touch every day, but Valinor remains Valinor-paced. They are debating three candidate sites for the city in the Outer Lands.

[warpfairy]

Wow, Valinor pacing is kind of amazing.

[subtly_artistic]

Isn't it just.

[lintamande]

"The debate over whether to accept the invitation to Valinor lasted thirty years," Rúmil says.

[warpfairy]

"...that's not even Valinor pacing, then, is it..."

[lintamande]

"It may in fact just be Quendi pacing."

[warpfairy]

"I suppose I have been exposed to an outlying sample."

[lintamande]

"Fëanáro hated it so much he left. I - well, I advise rulers, I am currently wedded to Bella's pace. I suppose otherwise I'd have been happy at Finwë's."

[warpfairy]

"Is there much variance apart from Fëanáro?"

[lintamande]

"Yes. But people who are faster-paced just take on more things simultaneously; you don't mind a debate going on for thirty years if it's one of a dozen projects of yours, some of which come together much more quickly."

[warpfairy]

"Huh. I think I'd rather work sequentially."

[lintamande]

"Lots of the projects of building a city take long enough to come to fruition that doing them sequentially means a very leisurely pace."

[warpfairy]

"Sure, that makes sense, you want to work in parallel for anything best done that way if you have the labor available, but when the tasks themselves don't get handled better for it..."

[lintamande]

"Ah. Then, yes, it's a matter of preference, and I got accustomed to the Quendi way. Sequentially has its advantages."

[warpfairy]

"Prerequisites are a thing."

[lintamande]

"Probably moreso for the projects of this world than ours, where we were just inventing every field of knowledge and no one had any background or advantage."

[warpfairy]

"I suppose that would affect it, yes."

[lintamande]

"Bella told you that she invented writing, right? And glass, and magic, and therapeutic ethics."

[subtly_artistic]

"I didn't invent them!"

[warpfairy]

"But yes, she mentioned having imported the concepts."

[lintamande]

"Most of them we would have discovered eventually. Magic perhaps not, since your world never did."