Fiction:Dark Times/Year Two/Amemoriam

The of the  are about to hit a turning point, hinging on the ancient artificial world of Amemoriam, containing secrets and technology unknown to the First Gigaquadrant. However, it is not the actions of a Cyrannian that sets this change in motion, but the action of one very famous scientist...

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Kender's Discovery
Overview= After being allowed to return to their former territories in the Cyrannus galaxy, the DCP returned in a great colonisation fleet. However, upon their return on the fringes of the galaxy, an anomaly with an unusual light signature was detected. Kenders and a small science crew taken an expedition to the anomaly, and as they suspected; it was in fact a technological artifact of great power.

Indepth= Entering the thin disc of Andromeda, dust undisturbed for geological ages parted as great constructs of intelligence jumped out of FTL. The DCP was back in Cyrannus, forwarded by Admiral Kenders.

I'm picking up an anomaly on sensors. Kenders replied to his science officer; Elaborate....

''I'm detecting a highly luminous object in the galactic halo, 41,000 light years away. The spectral lines of this object is nothing like any known star, in fact the absorbtion lines of hydrogen come from light produced in conditions impossible for a star.''

The Fine Structure Constant, is a physical constant, one important aspect of it is that it governs the strength of electromagnetism between electrically charged particles; as the electrons jump between energy states, they can only emit and absorb certain frequencies of light. These absorbtion lines form a sort of barcode when subtracted against redshift (the expansion of the universe). Kenders replied; ''We now know though that the Fine structure constant isn't constant, if a deviation is visible, then it is a strong indicator of technology. Please widen your sensors to other forms of radiation....Ah, there is a strong reading of gravitational waves. Sir, I think this light is only beginning to hit the main disc.''

Kenders and his science crew departed the main fleet in the Star Sailor to investigate the anomaly. Taking less than a day, the ship entered range. The telemetry officer said It appears we are not alone... The Star Sailor was surrounded by wrecks of much older ships, perhaps of tens of thousands of years so, preserved as new as they were by the womb of time and space. Even Kenders was taken aback What an archaeological treasure trove!

Probing the anomaly, Kenders soon discovered it was in fact a construct. The object had long ceased to have been luminous, 41,000 years had warn away. The aperture however remained. Kenders ordered his crew to probe the artifact for any sign of sentience. Meanwhile, back in the disc, the beacon would soon attract the attention of others...