>>26681232Mate, it's alright, really. We can solve all this with very little edits. And you ain't fucking getting expelled from this project, I ain't gonna fill your shoes. If you go, I go. So let's go over the problems that we have atm, and try to think of a solution to each of them one by one, ok? Paragraphsanon, here I go again! Watch over me!
>FTLThis I actually thought about this entire evening at work, and the answer will probably make no sense, BUT it will also be the first, and hopefully the last time I make use of Rule of Cool for /nasa/. Basically, for this I would make use of a now basically forgotten detail of Sana's lore. She's a herald of the ancient ones. So let's get some fucking occult shit in this bitch. I made a small mention of Starchildren in the last entry I made about death and burials, but I wanted to expand on them sooner or later so here's that. They are basically the closest thing Sanallites would have to 40k's Primarchs. Except unlike them, who are just demigods in general, these would be tools of Sana's will designed for a specific purpose. Nameless king, for example, was the only exception to this rule, being both undefeatable general as well as a wise ruler that lived for almost 300 years. Basically our Emperor of mankind (he did unify the entire planet, so it kinda fits). But aside from that rulebreaker, Starchildren always have specific purpose (I mean, he did as well, but he basically had to be a god for that, that's why San just maxed all the sliders when making him), Like the pope of the Holy See, whose job it is to maintain Sana's faith and be the eternal watcher over our civilization. To that end he is essentially immortal, being 4571 years old (he was the 2nd Starchild, born mere minutes after the Nameless king) and can heal from basically any wound, as well as heal others, and has an amazing, but not perfect, memory. In a fight, however, he is below average. Because fighting isn't his purpose, his purpose is to observe and teach. Needless to say, they are considered extremely important figures, and even holy on some planets.
Now that that is established, we can touch up on the occult part. There is a chamber (name pending) in the centre of the Station, the repairs on which are completely automated, and access to which is forbidden. This is our Jump reactor. It esentially enables FTL travel, by grabbing the space in front of the station and extending it (like you would a rubber band), basically making it so that the station only has to make really small movements to travel light years worth of distance. This has it's limits, however, and a maximum jump distance is somewhere in the 4-5 light years distance, with plenty of time in between the jumps, as it needs to charge back up. I KNOW I KNOW scienceanons, this probably made you cringe really really hard, but It's what I have, so sorry. Now why is it forbidden to access it and why only Cass (our AI) has the schematics and ability to fix it? Well, because it contains an artificial Starchild. A starchild whose entire purpose is to take large areas of space and move them around, playing with them like a child. This chamber is installed into every Exploratory ship, as well as every Military fleet carrier, and in Every Jump Ring (Imagine something like Halo arrays, but used for transport, not killing the entire galaxy). I hope I don't have to explain why this needs to be kept a secret of the highest order. Not even the principal is privy to this information. Hell, most of the government back home don't know about this. This is what enables our galactic civilization, and is our darkest and best kept secret. We have corrupted the greatest gift Sana has ever given us and enslaved it and used it for our own good. Oh and also, ours seems to have died. It was most likely during the crash, idk, haven't ironed out the details that far, but the main point is that it's dead. Just a lifeless, powerless body floating in a pool of liquid in that chamber, unknown to anyone but Cassandra.
