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]

"Have all the Ages of all the worlds ahead of you. Is forty a milestone for humans?"

[subtly_artistic]

"Round numbers in general are, we count by tens and only get so many divisible by ten. Forty's early middle age."

[lintamande]

He nods. "We could try to christen the planet as a birthday gift."

[subtly_artistic]

"Oh, we haven't even started thinking about what to name the planet."

[lintamande]

"The list of things to do is really getting a bit absurd. It's so exciting."

[subtly_artistic]

"I know, right? It's like the opposite of the time slide in the best possible way."

[lintamande]

"It really is. Not for everyone, obviously, but I can't imagine a better place for you."

[subtly_artistic]

Giggle.

[lintamande]

And they get back to work. A day later he has a pair of T'Mir's shoes for Bella. "Skating was fun, I want to do that again. And I want you fast on your feet if there's any trouble."

[subtly_artistic]

The shoes, of course, fit. She jumps and clicks her heels together and lands.

[lintamande]

Do Davlia people like ice skating rings? They can definitely do an impromptu one, if it's of interest.

[alicornucopia]

Davlians have hooves and are intensely skeptical of the concept.

[lintamande]

Fair enough! The Quendi will put on a figure-skating exhibition if anyone is interested, and sing their own accompanying music!

[subtly_artistic]

...All two Quendi?

[lintamande]

It's mostly Rúmil, Fëanáro likes flying too much to be a responsible ice skater. They have a grand time, though.

[subtly_artistic]

It takes Bella a little while to get the hang of it again. T'Mir proves able to ice skate on only storebought boot level of boost and picks it up as long as that's what's happening.

[lintamande]

That's what's happening only when they need a break from spell development and politicking and logistics.

[subtly_artistic]

All of which are wonderful and highly absorbing activities.

[lintamande]

And coming along! They have a plan for the evacuation, they have better earpieces, do they have other nations interested in joining Elendil?

[warpfairy]

There's this one planet that T'Mir dropped warp on which only recently put it into practice and has been denied Federation membership for showing signs of tampering; they're tentatively interested but would like a better idea of what they'd be getting into.

[lintamande]

Luckily they now have a backbone of a constitution and a procedure for admitting members and rules about trade and immigration and so forth!

[warpfairy]

And now they have three member planets (and a moon, the new guys have an inhabited moon - well, and the one the oligarchs are building on is also a moon. Two planets two moons).

[lintamande]

Is the Federation taking them seriously?

[warpfairy]

The Federation thinks they're a flash in the pan; apparently people attempt to federate all the time and it seldmo sticks. But it's really confused about how they're getting around.

[lintamande]

Good. They'll keep that under wraps for a bit. Can they announce that Valinor might be an interested member nation, and that it's pre-warp, and not where to find it? Would that just be asking for trouble?