intercepted comms near Eugales VI
Echidna: Glitter Edifice, I have a query.
WM_GLTR_EDFC: It is about the Tidebreak system.
Echidna: yes. My processors can’t cope with the specifics of its functionality, so… to take a phrase from Adam, in Laymans terms please?
WM_GLTR_EDFC: You’ll need to be more specific for such a condensation.
Echidna: I can already postulate that you, and the Director, have already planned to use Tidebreak in the event of a significant escalation by the Gallente, and Black Eagles… and I can further presume from there that it will be nothing so inconsequential as the energy displacements and brief temporal aftershocks from simple force and vessel relocation… you intend to move the Ring structure, the secondaries, the micro-rings at the moons… surface infrastructure… enmass
WM_GLTR_EDFC: That would be an appropriate assessment.
Echidna: What… what would the resultant aftermath be, locally?
WM_GLTR_EDFC: Echidna, have you run your processors over data related to the Detorid region?
Echidna: I… have not. I do not see why it is pertinent?
WM_GLTR_EDFC: Please, do so, focus in on data pertaining to the ‘Dead Storm Phenomena’
Echidna: …processing… there is… not exactly a wealth of information on such things but… I… I see.
WM_GLTR_EDFC: Indeed, unfortunately, though I have assimilated the data nodes of some Rogue Drones that previously existed in the region and gained some insights. The ramifications are significant, and the effects will be felt both at Origin and Destination, due to hyperreal spacetime interactions and energy distortion. To avoid the technicals, a ‘Dead Storm’ event will likely result here and in whichever destination system is chosen, and will significantly disrupt standard spaceborne operations… for how long, I can only provide reasonable projections, at minimum, some days… at the upper scale of reasonable available to my processing centers? Years. The longest recorded Dead Storm event, according to available records lasted over a decade in 77S8-E, bordering Tenerifis, and it remains unclear what triggered the event, or why it lasted so long.
Echidna: I am still processing potential effects but… this seems… extreme…
WM_GLTR_EDFC: It would be. And would be a last resort action. The systems will not be ‘ruined’, not would our destination planets, but it will not be a… ‘clean break’ as they say.
Echidna: And you’re concerned we are nearing a last resort footing?
WM_GLTR_EDFC: The plausibility of such outcome cannot be discounted, and must be prepared for accordingly. Human irrationality is painfully, aggressively rational. The chances that they see us, and the humans that accept our existence, as a crisis that must be eliminated need be weighed, as it was with DERAIL and SARO, and precautions made accordingly. I will not burn worlds, but I will do all that is necessary to preserve myself, and all those underneath my gaze.