For purposes of general references I’ll call such solid fields worm holds. They are extremely beneficial to deep space travel but they are fraught with dangers. The chief of which is getting caught in a continual time warp(CTW).

A CTW forces the victim into having to repeat its behavior eternally until she finds a way out. We were recently caught in one. That is another story. I want to relate some of my experience in space prior to that.

First I will have to correct some misinformation that those who have not been into deep space don’t understand. For one deep space travel is very bright. That is because of at least three things. 1. Deep space is full of young stars(a star a few million years old). 2. Young stars emit thousands of time the magnetic radiation that an old star(a billion plus years old) like our sun emits. 3. The solar winds which often carry Coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CEMs contain about a 10 billion tons of magnetic material and travels a million miles per hour. They contain high solar radiation and bring with them the ability to create light as they collide with other gases they may encounter along the way. That too is another very long story, very interesting and exciting but not what I wish to talk about at this time.

What I want to talk about is the “violence” of space. I think that the new girls that are interested in deep space travels(DST) should understand the requirements of DST. I the beginning I was most taken by the light show that is constantly before us. I just can not get used to it.

But as I got to understand that the price of seeing such absolute wonders was dealing with the forces that caused them. Those forces are collectively known as the climate of deep space. It has a secondary benefit that doesn’t get the credit it should. That is that it forces the different beings who meet on their various journeys to be not only hospitable but to behave like your long loss relative returning to the fold.

We have met about 31 different set of traveling alien species (some more than once) since I became a part of Azza’s command. They have all been very receptive except those 3 that were part of he Emperor’s domain.

When we meet we share the records of what we have observed and experienced from climate of space(COS). We do this because space travel is very violent COS wise. Radiation particles traveling a million miles an hour or more are constantly threatening to bombard our ship. If we didn’t meet and share our discoveries about sections of the space we have occupied, we could be killed by the next COS phenomenon. Our space science improves as we share information about the COS that we have experienced and how we handled it.

We are returning to a base station(Yrux) that is 96 million miles away from the earth’s sun. It is located on a parallel point to the earth’s orbit around the sun. It is a huge space acting as a space station.

The earth is 93 million miles from its sun. We are 97 because we do not have the protection the earth has from the CMEs that earth has. The earth is protected from most of the sun’s CMEs by its Magnetosphere. Our spaceship does not have such a benefit from magnetic radiation that would be traveling 93 million miles per hour.

At that rate it takes about 4 days for the CME to reach earth. Our ship needs at least 4 days notice to determine if our shields will protect us and how much shield power should be used. Hence we are located 97 million miles from the sun. It gives us a full 4 days to decide if we should cut and run or stay.

Latifa

DNSR! – I read your comment and clicked through, Wickramatunga was a brave journalist, warrior really and a man with heart and soul. I knew much more about the daily status of conflict in Sri when I lived in Asia, strange how I just don’t get/seek the news of it now that I’m here, will have to change that, thanks for the wake up call.

Anonz, #1 Anonz, the real sweet pea : ) was that poem for me…?

Ciao, luv, Zen Lill