The Vardinain Chronicles- Episode I: Exodus
War seemed inevitable. The aggressive Vaadwaur race has its home world only a few scant light years away from peaceful Vardinaia. The signs had been showing up for years. The Vaadwaur had developed a new form of transit, the underspace corridors, allowing ships to fly directly through subspace. These corridors were allowing the Vaadwaur to conquer and subjugate numerous worlds in recent decades, and the Vardinains knew that their time would come soon.
To prevent conflict, their Grand Council had signed a non-aggression pact with the Vaadwaur. This was not a surrender however, only the first part of an elaborate ruse, designed to save their world from slavery and oppression.
There was a young scientist from Vardain City, their capital. She theorised of a method to use the Vaadwaur technology to relocate their entire world to the outer edge of the underspace corridor network. Her plan also details a way to disrupt the corridor network behind them, preventing an exit aperture from opening within ten thousand light years from their new home.
This young woman, a doctor of xenobiology and quantum physics, had come up with the plan that could surely prevent war, and save their entire world.
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“Technician Frell! What are you doing? The tetryon pulse should be at a phase variance of 4.038!” Chox shouted.
“I’m very sorry Director Chox,” the visibly nervous lab assistant responded. “It’s just with our deadline, I must have misaligned the pulse emitters by mistake, trying to finish on time.”
Her anger subsiding, Chox regarded the technician, his bald green head drooping, embarrassed by his mistake. A warm smile formed on her face.
As she spoke, the dropped the formality of their positions in the facility where they worked. “Don’t worry about it brother, I corrected it in time, so our survey of the generator won’t need to be restarted.”
Of course, there was no question in either of their minds of what generator she was talking about. She had come up with the plan herself.
The non aggression pact served her people two purposes. The first was to buy time before the seemingly inevitable Vaadwaur bloodshed began. The second purpose was to provide her access.
More specifically, because of the pact, Chox was able to begin work as an analyst in an underspace corridor construction lab. It was there, that three days before, Chox had stolen the underspace corridor generator.
It wasn’t long after that when her face, along with words like “terrorist”, “extremely dangerous” and “kill on sight” were broadcast all over the holovid “news” programs broadcast by the Vaadwaur, little more than propaganda.
There were able to determine that there must have been a surveillance device in the underspace lab that they had neglected to disable. This meant that it was only a matter of time before the Vaadwaur found her, and then her would may never be saved.
So now it was a race against time. Could they learn to modify the generator for their purposes before they were captured and executed?
The aforementioned purpose, was to modify the generator to channel the vast amounts of energy being created in the planets core. They had already tapped the core energies, and just needed to adjust the generator to use it. This would allow for the creation of a corridor large enough to accommodate their entire world, and all satellites, ranging from the smallest comm relay, up to their three moons.
Their deep subspace telescopes had already found them a new home, a star system at the other end of the galaxy, similar in size and composition to their own sun.
The conduit would be placed within the path of their worlds orbit, with an exit at the corresponding point of the new system. The momentum of their orbit would propel them through the corridor, and the gravity well of the new sun would “catch” Vardinaia into a new, nearly identical orbit.
They would keep the generator online during the two weeks long passing through subspace. This would have the result of “stretching” the corridor behind them, thus preventing the entry aperture from remaining open. Once they exit, they would immediately shut down the generator, releasing the rubber band of their massive underspace corridor. This snap back would have two results. The entrance back in their old star system would collapse into a black hole, and likely absorb the entire system. In their new home, the entire region would be mildly destabilized in subspace, preventing any underspace corridors from passing through the region, or opening in it.
* * *
To prevent conflict, their Grand Council had signed a non-aggression pact with the Vaadwaur. This was not a surrender however, only the first part of an elaborate ruse, designed to save their world from slavery and oppression.
There was a young scientist from Vardain City, their capital. She theorised of a method to use the Vaadwaur technology to relocate their entire world to the outer edge of the underspace corridor network. Her plan also details a way to disrupt the corridor network behind them, preventing an exit aperture from opening within ten thousand light years from their new home.
This young woman, a doctor of xenobiology and quantum physics, had come up with the plan that could surely prevent war, and save their entire world.
* * *
“Technician Frell! What are you doing? The tetryon pulse should be at a phase variance of 4.038!” Chox shouted.
“I’m very sorry Director Chox,” the visibly nervous lab assistant responded. “It’s just with our deadline, I must have misaligned the pulse emitters by mistake, trying to finish on time.”
Her anger subsiding, Chox regarded the technician, his bald green head drooping, embarrassed by his mistake. A warm smile formed on her face.
As she spoke, the dropped the formality of their positions in the facility where they worked. “Don’t worry about it brother, I corrected it in time, so our survey of the generator won’t need to be restarted.”
Of course, there was no question in either of their minds of what generator she was talking about. She had come up with the plan herself.
The non aggression pact served her people two purposes. The first was to buy time before the seemingly inevitable Vaadwaur bloodshed began. The second purpose was to provide her access.
More specifically, because of the pact, Chox was able to begin work as an analyst in an underspace corridor construction lab. It was there, that three days before, Chox had stolen the underspace corridor generator.
It wasn’t long after that when her face, along with words like “terrorist”, “extremely dangerous” and “kill on sight” were broadcast all over the holovid “news” programs broadcast by the Vaadwaur, little more than propaganda.
There were able to determine that there must have been a surveillance device in the underspace lab that they had neglected to disable. This meant that it was only a matter of time before the Vaadwaur found her, and then her would may never be saved.
So now it was a race against time. Could they learn to modify the generator for their purposes before they were captured and executed?
The aforementioned purpose, was to modify the generator to channel the vast amounts of energy being created in the planets core. They had already tapped the core energies, and just needed to adjust the generator to use it. This would allow for the creation of a corridor large enough to accommodate their entire world, and all satellites, ranging from the smallest comm relay, up to their three moons.
Their deep subspace telescopes had already found them a new home, a star system at the other end of the galaxy, similar in size and composition to their own sun.
The conduit would be placed within the path of their worlds orbit, with an exit at the corresponding point of the new system. The momentum of their orbit would propel them through the corridor, and the gravity well of the new sun would “catch” Vardinaia into a new, nearly identical orbit.
They would keep the generator online during the two weeks long passing through subspace. This would have the result of “stretching” the corridor behind them, thus preventing the entry aperture from remaining open. Once they exit, they would immediately shut down the generator, releasing the rubber band of their massive underspace corridor. This snap back would have two results. The entrance back in their old star system would collapse into a black hole, and likely absorb the entire system. In their new home, the entire region would be mildly destabilized in subspace, preventing any underspace corridors from passing through the region, or opening in it.
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