The Mass Router: Difference between revisions
Created page with "He glanced nadirward through the observation window at the green and blue surface of the planet. A river, coruscating in Focus's rays, wound through the verdant jungle passing below. It was THE river, the measure to which all other rivers were compared. It was so old that it didn't even have a name. Every other river on Yih, and every watercourse wrought on other celestial bodies by pioneers in the intervening millennia, was, after peeling away one hundred thousand year..." |
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«Except Moonbeam.» nagged a tiny voice in the back of his brain. | «Except Moonbeam.» nagged a tiny voice in the back of his brain. | ||
«Poor Moonbeam. I know you're not supposed to name them. Makes it harder when... That happens.» The little tree-dweller went in fine, but the impulse buffer on the egress router failed as she dropped back into realspace on the surface, retaining all the momentum from the ingress router in orbit. In the span of a temporal quantum she ceased to be biology and turned into physics, ending up impacting the opposite wall at 20 times the speed of sound. The barrier was built to take it, but her poor body wasn't. She ended up a maroon smear on the wall. | |||
«Time to get strapped in.» said a sandy-furred engineer floating next to the mass router. | «Time to get strapped in.» said a sandy-furred engineer floating next to the mass router. | ||