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]

"...once they know we have instantaneous travel, we can just say that it's in another galaxy. They can't check that."

[warpfairy]

"...Might work."

[lintamande]

"But they haven't figured that out yet? Have they?"

[warpfairy]

"Transporter technology does something a lot like teleportation. It takes a few seconds and it's tricky to do and it's visible and audible and it's shorter range, but so far they aren't sure that we don't just have a cleaner version of that."

[lintamande]

"With a range of galaxies," Fëanáro says with satisfaction.

[warpfairy]

"That, they haven't even begun to guess."

[lintamande]

Rúmil asks her later. "The Vulcan member - did they have something to say?"

[warpfairy]

"Apparently my having departed the Federation for a viable alternative instead of just generically fleeing - and the fact that they know now that they want to look for evidence that warp equations were planted in a society - mean they're no longer interested in rearresting me. New Vulcan wanted to invite me to some kind of ceremony about it. I may go."

[lintamande]

He nods. "Well. I'm glad you're no longer wanted."

[warpfairy]

"Me too. Would've been potentially inconvenient, and it means we don't have to go through my mother to make legal purchases too small to bother commercial traders about."

[lintamande]

"When's the ceremony?"

[warpfairy]

"In a couple weeks. It'd be more than enough time to get there by ship if I were going to travel that way."

[lintamande]

"Are you? Might show our hand if you teleport in. I suppose you could teleport the ship to a few hours' out."

[warpfairy]

"Yeah, I think I want Prometheus present but I have no real desire to fly the long way."

[lintamande]

He nods. "Aside from straightening our stories about the origins of these peoples, and how much of their capabilities we intend to try to hide - does the Federation not send spies? - that went well, I think."

[warpfairy]

"They probably have spying capacity but we're not a big enough city to make it easy for spies to hide in the population yet. We'll want to do some background checking on the genetic engineers and the like. And yes, it was very pleasant."

[lintamande]

"How does osanwë differ from psi, and are we going to make any mistakes if approximated as Betazoids?"

[warpfairy]

"Betazoids are less prone to using sensory modalities the way you often send mental images by psi. Ferengi and similar species are immune to their - or Vulcan - psi, and may or may not block osanwë. There's not a known way for a non-psionic, non-immune person to block a Betazoid from their current thoughts, whether they're meant to be private or not; the defense for those people if they require one is to think about things they don't mind being read. I think those are the major differences."

[lintamande]

"Hmm. I wonder if we're immune to Betazoids."

[warpfairy]

"Bella can block me if I try to establish psi contact with her and she's not cooperating; but she's yet a third sort of thing. I don't know."

[lintamande]

Quendi cannot block Vulcans from establishing psi contact. This suggests they also can't block Betazoids. Inconvenient if anyone were to want to spy on them.

[warpfairy]

T'Mir thinks that use of Betazoid mindreading as a spying technique on a nonhostile neighbor is illegal, but that doesn't guarantee no one will try it.

[lintamande]

Can Bella provide shields with subtle artistry somehow?

[subtly_artistic]

Bella is in fact really good at shields but she can't produce flexible shields that have to live in non-subtle-artist brains. They might have trouble using osanwë through anything really robust.

[lintamande]

Oh. Inconvenient. Perhaps they'll find her if there's actually a Betazoid in town.