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

[warpfairy]

"Well, I'm not worried that the Federation will deny it membership. Although we might have to export dilithium unless it's already a known substance or something."

[lintamande]

"Technically Valinor was supposed to have every kind of substance, including ones that weren't stable anywhere else, because Valinor has no decay. I don't know enough chemistry yet to tell you about dilithium."

[warpfairy]

"It has no radioactive decay either? But that's a completely different process from biological decay."

[lintamande]

"I really wish it were safe to send some scientists down to go poke around, it'd be fascinating."

[warpfairy]

"Alas. Maybe we can send them a few tricorders and get the raw data back in thirty years."

[lintamande]

He laughs. "Bella's been working on how to send images, I think. So Fëanáro's parents can see him growing up."

[warpfairy]

"That would help too."

[lintamande]

"Tricorders should be fundamentally the same problem as pictures, unless I don't understand science very well."

[warpfairy]

"Oh, yes. I just meant they might not get around to tricordering very many things very quickly."

[lintamande]

"They would set about it with all due Quendi haste. Also they might find the tricorders objectionable and need a delay to decorate them."

[warpfairy]

"Tricorders aren't pretty enough?"

[lintamande]

"I find all of your technology appealing in its own odd way. But I think people'd decorate the tricorders."

[warpfairy]

"Fair enough."

[lintamande]

"This plane must be a dream for people who are curious about all the ways societies can work."

[warpfairy]

"Anthropologists here have lots of fun."

[lintamande]

"Everyone here seems to mostly have a lot of fun, for having no gods to keep things perfectly safe and having so many needs to take into account."

[warpfairy]

"Well, there's lots of room for improvement."

[lintamande]

And they are working on said improvements at full pace.