Only a fraction of the surface is molten though, there are large areas with no molten rock visible from space.
Yeah, that doesn’t mean the temperature there is much more reasonable. More likely just that ‘hey, this area is a slightly higher-tolerance kind of rock’.
The melting point of rock is far higher than the melting point of humans. To have any sort of settlement there would involve materials and preparations that no one took.
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I think, if there is some underground installation still operational, deep inside on the not so scorched side, with enough thermal inertia of lithosphere, completely autonomous with resources lasting for many months, then surface temperatures may be cool enough for survivors to emerge in properly equipped suits, the same suits you can see in use on lava planets, or on moons.
While communication may be down due to the surface equipment malfunctioning, we may still see some people alive, I hope.
Landing parties could see if they are still inside and alive, when the environment allows for it.
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Well … some developments.
https://universe.eveonline.com/new-eden-news/the-scope-extreme-stellar-event-devastates-turnur
I guess there was indeed still crew on board the transmuter, struggling to stop what had begun. … It’s the sort of act that kind of makes me wish I believed in God, or Paradise, myself. But I don’t.
- Aftermath of Extreme Stellar Event in Turnur Still Unstable According to Scientists
- Unstable Wormhole Activity Fluctuating While Local Spacetime ‘Oscillates Towards Equilibrium’
First was probably pretty inevitable (though I’d hoped it would settle faster). Latter is … well. Probably comforting, at least.
- Triglavian Forces Spotted in Turnur Recorded Analyzing Star and Transmuter Debris Cloud
That was probably inevitable. Even if the Collective’s sort of been snoozing through recent news broadcasts this kind of act would of course ring a bell they’d be guaranteed to hear.
If they didn’t already know the Empire was trying to duplicate transmuter tech, they definitely know now. At least it looks like they did their “reconnaissance in force” and popped back off to Pochven or the Abyss again.
- EDENCOM Monitors in Pochven Report ‘Widespread, Large-Scale, and Rapid Increases in Triglavian Activity’ Following Turnur Incident
Another thing that was always probable, and this is presumably over and above the increased activity following the bomber raid on their shipyard. I don’t quite think of the Collective as behaving according to the logic of a typical nation-state, as we’d understand the term, but they do seem to respond with interest when we do interesting things.
I still feel as though in their own way they’re maybe rooting for us, just not in “supportive” ways. They’ve taken, and continue to take, enough from us to sting, to memorably hurt, without at all crippling our ability to recover, to advance, to make war.
Is that what they want? To prod us into rising as their rivals? Even with all the conflict, the fighting, the death, I don’t think they ever declared us “poshlost.” So, probably, they have hope for us. Whatever that means. (If it means “growing up” to be them I don’t think I want to.)
They’ve been alone with their own company for a very long time. I wonder, even with all their provings and their struggle and their utterly lethal daily environment, could they have grown … bored?
I don’t know if I’ve thought of it this way before. We’re not of them, but we’re novel.
Hm.
Anyway, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the next star to approach criticality gets a recon fleet before the event. And what happens then, who knows. Maybe somebody gets a trip to Pochven after all?
(Let’s hope not; it doesn’t end well for the planetary population unless involuntary biomodification and conscription is your idea of a good time.)
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One thing about the trivalgins is they could have some type of Jove descent or be the fourth Jove empire. If they are of Jove descent after the great inheritance they could be looking for us to “grow up” and fit the roles of what ever the fourth empire is supposed to be
I … think if they were ever Jove, pilot (and, sure, it seems plausible enough), they’ve lost pretty much every policy intention from that time that they had, other than, maybe, “survive.”
Thousands of years in a spacetime foam (or whatever it is) of terrifying pocket dimensions (or whatever they are) might do that to you?
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it would tough explain why they hate the drifters so much
That’s probably why they wound up losing themselves in the Abyss: a conflict with the Sleepers, now renewed. How much they remember of the specifics is an open question, though.
Judging by their lack of Jovian tech, ethics, or ideology; as well as their abject hatred of Drifters, their roots may predate the Jove entirely. Some say the electromagnetic turbulence spilling from the EVE Gate is coming through from the other side. If that’s true it’s very likely that something terrible happened there. We may be looking at what’s left of Terrans that didn’t cross into New Eden before the gate collapsed.
What would the ancient Terrans look like after all these millennia? Did they experience a dark age like New Eden colonists, or something much worse? What if a catastrophe in the Milky Way forced them to escape through the cracks of space-time into the Abyss? It would explain why their tech is as advanced as it is.
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