myresponsibility | 007

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So, Tim and I were kinda trying to figure out some stuff about how this place actually works, but obviously he's not around anymore, so... Is there anyone who's been, I don't know, studying how we don't, you know, asphyxiate and die when we go out on deck, or how the rooms work or whatever?

I mean - not to get anyone's hopes up or whatever but - maybe there's a way to turn off whatever messed up the hallways and common rooms or something.

[Private to Alex]

You ever find out what was going on with Zero?

[Private to Banner]

Thanks for letting me help out back during that whole thing. I know I'm not like, actually a doctor or anything, but if you ever want an extra set of hands, I could, you know, help.

[Private to Bond]

You've been kinda quiet. [Is this the good kind of quiet, or are you brooding/getting up to some other horrible mischief. :|]

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[The transmission says that this reply is from someone called 'Davros,' but the voice sounds markedly different, more like this than the electronic rasp one might be accustomed to. His diction is precise Received Pronunciation, his cadence the rhythm and tone of a dyed-in-the-wool alien scientist.]

A simple gravity bubble would account for atmospheric integrity abovedecks. As to the rooms, I would theorise that telepathic circuitry and the kind of soft architecture inherent in dimensionally transcendental vessels would be responsible for their rather fluid nature.

[That's some science, there.]

((OOC: One really only needs to listen to the first 2 or 3 minutes of the link. It was just the best one I could find. orz ))

Do they have stuff like this back where you're from?

We do, indeed. However, while gravity manipulation is quite common, dimensional transcendence is remarkably less so. Fortunately, I understand both.

[Yyyeaaah, but only just. It still takes Davros ages to bang out the maths....]

[This is a step up from where Peter is currently!]

How does it work?

[There's a pause, filled only by a peculiar tapping sound of metal against some hard surface.]

Very well, if you really wish to know....

[YOU ASKED FOR IT, PETE. This is gonna sound like godawful science fiction mainly because the mun is not a physicist as well as LOL DOCTOR WHO but in his universe this kinda malarkey works, damnit.]

[ahem.]

A gravity bubble capable of maintaining atmospheric integrity is a simple matter of electromagnetism, which has long since replaced the need for centripetal motion as a means to create such force. The electromagnetic output is calibrated in a physical matrix of emission points which, coupled with the extent of power channelled to them, creates a finite area of effect. The gravitic effect is coherent enough to hold an atmosphere around a central body--in this case a ship.

As to transdimensionality, that comes down to a variety of quantum theories and mathematical manipulation of solid matter at the subatomic level, thus literally shifting about the structure of any given object. I believe the humans Feynman and Dyson have made small, tentative steps in this direction.

[Oh no, new research project coming on.]

Do you think the library's got any books about it?

[there's something of a smile in his voice.] It has, yes. They are few, but they are there.

[He should know. He's read the whole damn library already.]

Cool. Thanks. [Seriously, those books are being DEVOURED.]

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