/sci/ - Science & Math

This tunneling torch thing would have made a great weapon, back in the entrance decline. That it wasn't used there could only mean its use here was considered more urgent. Trying to cut an escape route to the surface, to free these five ships for their intended first flight. So at least one, possibly all of them must have been already operational. All that battle and commitment of every workable mechanism to the fight must have been a desperate holding action, hoping to keep the intruders away from these ships. Sending a probe up the steep, rough-cut escape tunnel, I find it goes up nearly two kilometers. So close...

Sifting through the shattered, crumbling fragments of the ships, I find pretty much what I'd expected. The five are identical, which greatly aids in deriving their original plan from the pieces. Fusion powered scalar-gravitic drives, well in advance of the technology in evidence elsewhere in this planet's ruins, and not a bad effort at all, considering. Compact automated general purpose fabrication plants, nicely done. Very large ranks of storage areas, obviously intended for long-flight consumables but mostly empty. Probably figured he could stock up later, further out in the system. Massive installments of computational equipment, based on an optical switching technology similar to a type I often find in civilizations around this stage. Unfortunately the form of 'non-volatile' storage used in this instance wasn't. All now faded to random noise, nothing recoverable, even if the storage banks weren't splattered all over the walls. There'd been space provision for much larger banks of data storage, but I guess there wasn't time to populate those either.

I'm just looking for some awesome pictures of the universe. I have some here.