While on a job to deliver supplies to a new colony in the Andromeda Galaxy, something goes horribly wrong. David Lawson finds himself the sole surviror of a devestating crash on an unknown world. An unkown world full of colorful talking ponies...
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Beautifully done man
Keep up the good work my good man
Heavy, yes, but still very good. It all made a lot of sense, and frankly if David wasn't utterly fucked in the head by the combination of watching his friends die and then being the only human on an alien planet where the locals have seriously mixed opinions of him, it'd be a bad story. I also appreciate that you don't seem like you're going to consider David "all better" in one therapy session. The only thing I find terribly odd is that the escape pod is still on the side of the mountain. There's no way they wouldn't have at least secured it somewhere to stop random ponies from stumbling into something potentially dangerous.
Overall though, fantastic work as ever. You've managed to make me care deeply about a pony OC, and that's quite an accomplishment. Great work and I'm looking forward to next week!
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I'm glad you liked the chapter. If I can get anyone to care about my OC's, then I consider this story a complete success. Thanks :D
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Thank you. Glad you liked it :)
A good start to recovery, but PTSD is not something you can get over in a single day. They will have a rough road ahead of them.
No wonder the asteroid punched through the shields... Firstly, it's an asteroid and those things weigh an actual crapton and second, interstellar travel is measured by kilometres or miles per second, not hour. Think of the relative colission speed. Say the shuttle was going FTL because a hundred and something years the the Andromeda galaxy requires FTL travel. It would collide with an asteroid going a few parsecs per second, nevermind measuring in km/s.
It's funny because that was exactly what came to mind when I read that moment between David and Midnight. That is definitely a movie people should see at least once.
I want a sequel with this guy explained. :D
If you had just waited... you'd be dead right now. Such a simple, elegant truth.
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Actually,no. The distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda is about2.5 ly(some23.65 trillion kilometers). If it takes them 100 years to traverse that distance, they'd be going at roughly0.2365 tn km/year- that works out to about7,500 km/s(or about 1/40th - 2.5% - of the speed of light in a vacuum). This is only a "ballpark"averagefigure, ignoring any travelwithinthe respective galaxies.HOWEVER...
If using conventional propulsion (by which I mean anything thatacceleratesinstead of a gimmick that 'gets you there' via exotic matter, subspace, warp orwhat have you), the speed value will never be constant - they'd be accelerating one half of the way, and then decelerating the other half. So, effectively, their top speed would be quite in excess of that average estimate (at linear acceleration, it'd be double that).From these figures, we get an acceleration (and subsequentdeceleration) of about 0.0095 m/s2, or9.5 mm/s2. It doesn't seem like a lot, but if you keep that acceleration going steady for50 years, you'll eventually reach a hefty speed of15,000 km/satvpeak(or, when you need to flip around and start slowing down). And... that'sstill much lessthan the speed of light in vacuum - 15,000 km/s amounts to only about5% the speed of light.A technological feat, sure, but by no means FTL.Now, here's my (probably) wildly inaccurate speculation. :D
It is mentioned that the collision happened at the 42-year mark. With the acceleration value in hand, we can simply calculate their speed at that year (give or take 6 months ;P). Sofinally, at an acceleration ofa= 9.5 mm/s2, after 42 years their velocity would've been something like12,590 km/s.So, let's take atinyasteroid - say, diameter = 2 m, density = 1.5 g/cm3... that's about6.3 tonns of mass, man. Even if it itself were stationary, a collision at a velocity of 12,590 km/s? The equivalent yield comes out to about 118.6 megatons. That'sin excessof the biggest nuke ever made by man (Russian Ivan/Vanya, AKA 'Tsar Bomba', which had its yield reduced before detonation for fear of possible long-term impact).So yeah... At those velocities, no matter how small the object would be... if it were to vaporize instantly...? If there's a resultant explosion converting matter to energy, there's justno ship leftafterwards.This leads me to conclude that what the ship impacted wasn't actually an "asteroid", even a small one. It was, most likely, amicrometeoroid, and the shielding didn't protect the ship enough - the hull was punctured at the most inopportune spot, causing one of their fuel tanks to detonate and spreading further damage as the tiny projectile justripped through the ship.Most notably, micrometeoroidscan't be predicted. You can navigate around asteroids (even tiny ones), but micrometeoroid impacts just happen - you just have to slap as much shielding onto your ship as you can fit andpray for the best.As such... since, at that point in development, you'd think humans would've foundreliable shieldingfor their ships, it really seems like an '18-karat run of bad luck', asFallout: New Vegasputs it. It's highly doubtful this impact could've been evenpredicted, much less avoided. It was simplybad luckthat it managed to hit the ship at such angle and energy enough to puncture, and in such a vital spot, too.Nothing Earth-side scientists could've done to prevent this, I'm afraid.
Sometimes, your luck just...runs out.nvm I apparently suck at reading :D Letters, hard. Miss them much.
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You misread the units. The distance to Andromeda is 2.5 Mly. (2.5 million light years). You're off by six orders of magnitude.
(An easy way to notice that something isn't right about your numbers is that the Milky Way is 150–200 kly across, so if they were only 2.5 ly apart, they'd be in the process of merging and would have already distorted into a swirling mess under the influence of each other's gravity.)
Heck, Proxima Centauri (A.K.A. Alpha Centauri C) is 4.2 ly away from Sol and it's our closest neighbour, if that helps to put things in perspective.
Huh. That was an unexpected shoutout. I'd recommend people read that too.
Anyways, I'm really enjoying this story so far.
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Glad to hear it :D I hope you like the rest of the story and the sequels.
After 2 month and its still there!, the vessel of a first contact, and they left it to rust instead of move it somewhere else to preserve it (or to research it).
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...I think he was talking about the escape pod.
...Okay, this sentence made me realize a few things.
First, it made me realize that this ship is so much more efficient then most sci (Sci is what I call sci-fi.) ships. Most of them require alot of crew, especially ones with FTL travel devices. Which makes me think that it is either mostly AI operated, or has little to no autonomous function, and only functions on preset actions. The second makes sense, as no one mentioned an AI in the memory, and they said they set the flight plan. Also, another question, why was there only one lifepod onboard, with four people. I know that it might be a bit of a waste, but with a four person crew, one person surviving is 3/4 dying. That is 25% of the crew surviving. And with only one pod, what if something goes wrong with that one pod? They need other pods in case of the eventuality of the first pod malfunctoning. I get that it was a corporation that built it, and corporations don't particularly like unnessecary expenditure, but still. 25% of the crew surviving is not much. You could also argue the other way and say that they really don't need any pods, because it would only be four casualties, and it is unlikely anybody is ever coming to save them, but that would just be a bit heartless.
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You have to figure the mindset of the corporation that sent them on this trip. FTL travel had only just become available, so Nebula wanted to be one of, if not the first ship to make that trip and find their way to Andromeda. The expenditure would be massive, and the time taken to design a ship with more safety measures would set them back behind their competition. Since everything was pre-coded into the ship and needed very little human direction to function, they felt it a safe bet to only put one life pod in the ship given that if they took the time to design a ship to hold more, it would take more time, and they would lose the new "Space Race".
I can't help myself but feel there's something off about this guy. Not in a bad way, but still...