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Post by Captain Viridian on May 16, 2015 5:11:30 GMT
The home dimension of myself and my crew recently started to destabilize for reasons unknown. We also recently encountered (and had some trouble with) another dimension that had destabilized significantly more, which we are calling Dimension VVVVVV. If anyone has any idea why this might have occurred, we would be very grateful for the information and might be willing to share our technology for travel between dimensions (if we can find your dimension, of course).
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 5:46:22 GMT
What do you mean by a dimension destabilizing? You don’t know what caused it, but what are the effects? I don’t think any other forumgoers even mentioned that as a thing which can happen, and it sounds quite worrisome.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 16, 2015 5:54:37 GMT
Well, it's not a thing we fully understand yet (hence asking for help) but some of the effects include objects spontaneously disappearing or reappearing, places rearranging themselves and their entrances and exits (such that, for instance, a room that was to the left of one room is now to its right, or a room's top and bottom edge lead to each other), and huge black voids appearing in the middle of nowhere which we are presuming are deadly (especially since I fell in one once while exploring Dimension VVVVVV and it prompted the last checkpoint I had touched to restore me, though I suppose the me that fell into the void could be alive and well but simply far enough away that the checkpoint couldn't sense me anymore).
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Post by Grigori on May 16, 2015 5:56:07 GMT
...wait, restored from a checkpoint?
Do you have resurrection convenient enough to make incidental death a non-issue?
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 16, 2015 6:00:06 GMT
Um... kind of? They're a feature we found in Dimension VVVVVV, and Vitellary's still working on replicating them, but we installed one on the ship (and brought another along for him to study). It's a good thing there were plenty of them there, too, since there were also plenty of spikes and hostile wildlife.
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Post by Grigori on May 16, 2015 6:09:33 GMT
That is extremely interesting. We can do resurrection here, as well, but it's difficult, dangerous, and usually has unwelcome side effects.
I don't think I can help you much with the 'dimensional stabilization' thing; I've heard of weapons that can cause effects like that (temporarily, on a local scale), but not an easy way of undoing them.
That said, if you're able to travel between dimensions without limit, you're already one up on me. There seems to be some quality of 'distance' between worlds, which limits the ability of travellers to get between them. This forum seems to be an unusual exception to that principle; there may be more.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 16, 2015 6:20:47 GMT
That said, if you're able to travel between dimensions without limit, you're already one up on me. There seems to be some quality of 'distance' between worlds, which limits the ability of travellers to get between them. This forum seems to be an unusual exception to that principle; there may be more. I wouldn't say "without limit"... it took about 10000 hours relative to the D.S.S. Souleye's computer core to get from our home dimension to Dimension VVVVVV, and it's been another few thousand hours since and we haven't encountered anything else interesting except the access point for this forum. Hopefully not enough time has passed back home for things to get too much worse.
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 6:26:02 GMT
Do you not have days where you come from, or were you avoiding using them because they’re different for different people? Most of us have standard days of 24 hours each, and standard years of about 365.25 days. In those terms, it looks like you travelled a bit more than two years and three months to get to dimension VVVVVV and a few more months after that.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 16, 2015 6:32:23 GMT
Yeah, we had about the same day and year lengths back home, but the committee in charge of our project decided it would be a bad idea to keep using those measurements since we'd have no idea what the equivalents would be in other dimensions. Technically the only standard unit of time for the project is the second (9192631770 caesium 133 ground state oscillations), but we had too much difficulty adjusting to kiloseconds so as a compromise in informal contexts we just use hours, and that's become a habit.
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 6:42:42 GMT
That’s about the same definition we have. I don’t understand the physics enough to be sure, but everything you said is in our definition. I assume hours are 60 minutes, each of which are 60 seconds? Does your home approximately match the map and description for a planet Earth?
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 16, 2015 6:50:25 GMT
Let me check the archives... Yeah, the map is accurate for Earth in the year 2000, and the description sounds accurate enough to me except for the stuff about daeva, but I guess that's just your world's thing? Our ship was christened in 2410, for reference.
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 6:53:56 GMT
Yeah, only the first part seems really consistent between different Earths (accounting for timeline).
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Post by Grigori on May 16, 2015 6:59:53 GMT
I wouldn't say "without limit"... it took about 10000 hours relative to the D.S.S. Souleye's computer core to get from our home dimension to Dimension VVVVVV, and it's been another few thousand hours since and we haven't encountered anything else interesting except the access point for this forum. Hopefully not enough time has passed back home for things to get too much worse. I see. Your method of dimensional travel is slow, and you don't necessarily know where to look to find other dimensions. Mine should be instantaneous, but it's not clear whether or not it works beyond the boundaries of my Local Cluster. Now that it's obvious that there are places that exist that we haven't been to, it remains to be seen whether we can go there. ...speaking of which, that gives me an idea. Back later.
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2015 7:01:12 GMT
Given what I know of Mania, I’m not sure that’s a good sign.
I’ll also be back later for the more mundane reason of sleep.
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Post by Captain Viridian on May 16, 2015 7:14:37 GMT
See you then, I guess.
Actually, I might as well go to sleep too.
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