Subcommander Jerdaan

"I would like that, I look forward to it, e'lev."

"I know we are, but it worries me...I want my people free, yet the Empire wants to drag them backward. We are small but we can win...I think..."

"I'm glad you want to share this with me, it means so much...most people think I'm mad about this...but we have so much to learn."

𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑, 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛, 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛...

"I'll die before submitting to the Tal'Shiar again, the Romulan people deserve so much better than a parasite that feeds on them to secure its own power. I d-don't know if this Vader can cross but if he tries I will protect you as well."

"I love you, my beautiful one. I will get some rest...I just want to get as much information here as I possibly can acquire."

"I will be fine, e'lev. We have a region of space similar to this in our homespace, it doesn't have any habitable worlds due to the amount of radiation...there's a pulsar there that sterilizes everything around it."

- 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝.

𝑆𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑚, ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ.

"We can try using your way to find a neutron star in the morning, e'lev...we found a couple already, how exciting!"

𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡, 𝐽𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑢𝑝 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 36 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑥ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 @basilarakade.bsky.social 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑-

"That sounds...very familiar...when one of the ships I served on was lost due to an alien entity mistaking our forced singularity for a natural one...we were sent for...debriefing and re-education. A Federation ship had helped us, which was...not well accepted..."

"You are only cared about if you serve a purpose...yet he tortures you for his own amusement? That...that is horrible, e'lev...I am glad you're here, free from such tyranny."

"Humans run the Federation, they think that our people are flawed. That we need to conform to their cultural standards...that what we believe isn't good enough.

Yes, this Vader sounds like a monster...I think he would love the Tal'Shiar and fit right in."

"Humans seem to be everywhere, always snooping and barging in. Tell them to keep out and they still pester or threaten. I think they all have brain parasites."

"That is curious...biologically driven teleportation...biology isn't a field of study I have done much work in."

"I am curious about the science behind it...how you determine the distance, how much energy is required to move mass. Is it particle dislocation or more of a short range type of space folding?"

𝐽𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑧𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔

This is the world's 1st image of 2 black holes orbiting one another After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of quasar OJ287.

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𝐻𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑦

"That felt...strange."

o.O

"I hope this won't hurt."

𝐻𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑, 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠.

"We are gathering data at this moment...but we can try your tracking when we move on. If you want...we could t-t-try the teleportation? If that is alright...we are alone so no one will interrupt us..."

"You think you can track a neutron star?"

"Stars are incredibly powerful, especially dead ones. I have ordered none of our ships get too close, we really do not want to get caught by their gravity. I know there's a neutron star here, but we can't find it which is...unusual."

"Some things even our tech can't manage...and I'm ok with that. There are some things I'm happy we will never be able to control or tame...We won't get stuck in a wall or something horrible, right?"

"I don't want to risk the ship for neutron star matter...it is just enjoyable to think about. Imagining it in a jar on my desk, but it would punch through a planet so I would be in trouble...teleport? Is it safe? I know it must be for you...but I-I don't even like transporters much..."

"It wouldn't be strong enough. If we had a teaspoon's worth of neutron star material would weigh 6 trillion tons!" Durasteel would be crushed to an atomic paste."

>:D

"The problem isn't the transporter as much as not being able to contain the matter. The only containment system we have that would be remotely capable would be the singularity chamber, but adding the extra material? We'd all be killed when it exploded. Not ideal...wait, you can teleport??"

-power things even more cleanly...it's unfortunate that we can't just transport a bit of neutron star and keep it safely. We don't have the capability of doing so, at this time."

"Usually the singularity collapses before it can crush the ship, but there isn't anything like a warp core mess the Federation uses. Some of our ships have ejected the singularity core...rare but it has occurred. I'm hoping to see if I can improve containment and maximize the energy capture to-

"Yes, we will continue scans and launch some probes. Ideally we'll get a lot of data I will be able to process for many years. We use a forced singularity onboard to power our ships but I am hoping to further improve efficiency by observing natural processes."

ohhh, lovely!