Fiction:Inter-Species Scientific Alliance/Meeting Transcript 1

ISSA Committee Meeting - #1

''This will be the first meeting of the ISSA. I am the head of this Committee, Bingehe Lan. I would like each empire, or collection of empires, rather, to please select a representative of your nation, as I am the representative of the Olvidian Nation. Once all of the representatives have been selected, we will begin the discussion on what has been discovered about the Staff of Life that the DCP has kindly provided, and for that, we thank you. Once all representatives have been chosen, the board will be opened. This is Bingehe Lan, signing off.''

Ghelæ: The representative of the Girdo Empire will be Commodore Hlraka, unless circumstances change. Which they will likely not for several weeks.

Bingehe Lan: I welcome Commodore Hlraka to the board with respect.

Um2k9: Our chief scientific officer, Kara Thrai will attend the meeting.

Bingehe: Welcome, Kara!

Kara: Thank you Bingehe, I trust we will unravel the mystery behind the Staff of Life, I luckily brought another specimen from the Core of Cyrannus if needed.

Bingehe: Thank you for your contribution. So, two staffs, but from different Galactic Cores? If a third were found under the same circumstances, I would go so far as to say they could be found at the core of any galaxy. Now I know that there is indeed more than one of these Staffs. Very interesting....

Kara: I will arrange with the Rambo, our closest allies, to see if a staff can be found at the Heart of Quadrant 82.

Bingehe: Thank you. I shall also assemble a team to inspect the core of our own galaxy. What could this mean, if it were true?

Kara: Hmmm... Perhaps it is even a naturally occurring phenomena? Or perhaps a gift from a long lost civilization.

Bingehe: The DCP said that a being named Steve granted them the Staff, but also added that Steve was also no longer giving them out. This doesn't necessarily rule out the possibility of it being a natural phenomenon, but it does decrease the chances of it. I shall look into this matter later.

Kara: To unravel this mystery, we must find out who or what Steve is.

Bingehe: Perhaps the DCP could assist us in this matter. I have also heard of a theory that a Galactic Core is in fact, a super-massive black hole. Since many empires use black holes for travel, including my empire, I would infer that, like a regular black hole, that a Super-Massive Black Hole would lead to another Super-Massive Black Hole, perhaps another Galactic Core.

Kara: Yes, the Core of Cyrannus is a Super massive Black Hole which leads to the galaxy of the Sylits Core.

Bingehe: Interesting. Is a Super-Massive Black Hole (SMBH) any harder to traverse than a regular Black Hole?

Kara: Personally, I have never traveled by a SMBH or BH, we use them for energy, for travel we use Slipspace.

Bingehe: Slipspace is a concept I am unfamiliar with. Would you care to elaborate? I have also never heard of BH's being used as energy sources! Unless any other nation in the ISSA has anything to add, the meeting is adjourned.

FalcoPunch: Akinom Nik, former secretary of science for SR, will attend the meeting.

Bingehe: Welcome, Akinom! Do you have anything new you would like to address?

Jovar1: I guess our representative will be Juhur Kelistar, former Senator of Osion.

Kara: To answer your question Bingehe, Slipspace is a specific set of seven dimensions existing in a very small bundle. While these dimensions are present in normal space, they do not have an effect on the physics of normal space. By moving matter from the three "normal" space dimensions to Slipstream space, one effectively changes the laws of physics for that piece of matter. We use this system to travel.

Akinom: Akinom has nothing to address.

Bingehe: Slipspace travel sounds extremely complicated. Welcome, Juhur! Do you have anything to add?

Juhur: For now, no. But if we do, we will report immediately.

Bingehe: Very well then. I declare this meeting over. Dismissed.

(Note - The above transcript is not a complete word-for-word transcript of the entire blog post; some posts have been omitted from the transcript, as they do not fit in with the continuity of the transcript. Again, the reason for the omitted posts was to preserve continuity. Thank you.)