Luminous Heights [techno] by roman

Release date

2018-05-26

Author

roman

Genre

Techno

Description

All buzz, nothing else...

The starboard containment bottle flashed bright white. All the rear facing window screens immediately dimmed to a solid black with the armor plating instantly materializing in front of them as well, just before the gamma ray burst could hit and incinerate anyone unlucky enough to be in line of sight of the blast. It had anticipated this.

Instantly all ship computers switched to emergency override mode, seizing manual human controls and assuming command of every single onboard system, enabling the ships conciousness to reassign all remaining computing resources to priority survival strategies, trying to find the source of the problem, finding a solution and executing it as soon as it was found on order to save the lives of its passengers. Luminous Heights' conciousness accelerated to the maximum speeds the heat dissipation systems allowed, slowing down the physical world around it, so that it observed the reflective coating of the armor plates, the ones that should have contained the detonation, slowly flake away, slowly tracing the cracks on the armor, slowly ripping and breaking away. The event would take a fraction of a nanosecond in realtime.

The processing unit's heatsinks brighened up, from deep red, to orange, then bright yellow, finally a blinding white, as they started to dissipate heat away from the computer cores, in search for a solution of the problem at hand.

The ship wanted to redirect reaction mass from the portside reservoir bottle to the starboard engine, but all sensors screamed in horror. They indicated the crossover conduits had sustained heavy damage in all the matter and antimatter lines, thus making it impossible to pass not only antihydrogen through the magnetically contained micropipes. Even regular hydrogen would be delayed just enough to throw the reaction out of sync, which would lead to yet another fatal event. The armor plating protecting the crossover conduits was luckily absorbing all of the blast, but it had not managed to resist enough, buckling just that tiny bit too much and deforming inwards, barely touching the backup conduits that could have made the transfer instead. The risk of passing both matter and antimatter in tightly arranged sequencial packets through the single remaining microconduit link would not be possible without both reaction masses, hydrogen and antihydrogen coming too close into contact with each other, again leading to an additional unwanted annihilation of matter and antimatter. Separating those packets any further would make the reaction stutter, yet again leading to a fatal outcome. The internal armor had already sustained heavy damage, the probability of a new blast, without it being intact, would then cascade along the portside conduits, the reaction reaching the portside containment bottle and then simply vaporize the entire ship in a split second. Again an unwelcome outcome.

The ship was powerless... Continue? -> Luminous Heights [techno]

from Moving Spaces

credits
Joachip: additional percussion work.
mantatronic: description story editing and proofing.

Format

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File size

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Rating

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License

This work is released under Creative Commons
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