5.01 - The Fearing Mind
Chapter 11 - With Or Without
(29/7/03)
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Now it's officially been too long for an update, though I have been working on what will happen in this virtual season. Everybody's got a role - John, Aeryn, D'Argo, Chiana, Noranti, Moya and Pilot, Scorpius, Braca, Sikozu, even Grayza. All apart from Rygel and Stark. Heck, I'm gonna chuck in a new character as well (though a very minor one) and I'm bringing back a few. Enjoy.
By the way, blah de blah, I do not own Farscape. At all. Sorry.
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Chapter 11 - With Or Without
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Workroom. Long hours. Boredom.
Just like being back on Earth really.
John was sat at a worksurface in the power cell room, the pen-like instrument making marks on the paper material the Sedum had given him to work on.
They knew. They knew how to make a wormhole, John thought. They have the basic equations, and mine would only tie up the loose ends and allow them to direct it.
And he had to stop it, while also seemingly making it work.
Not good.
Kinda like a guy trying to sabotage a car by building a faulty steering wheel.
In any case, it had to be done.
John looked over the wormhole calculations, pored over them. It was all he ever dreamed about now - wormhole calculations and Aeryn. He had finally found his niche in life, and it sucked.
Well, apart from Aeryn.
John smirked at how that could be taken the wrong way, then set his mind back to work.
He had also been given technical briefings about the power cell - that would be his best opportunity to make something go wrong. He couldn't put something wrong in the equations - the Sedum wouldn't take any chances. They'd have to direct the wormhole towards a new home before they risked the journey.
There would only be a window of opportunity for a few minutes, John thought. As soon as the wormhole was directed at a new home, the colony would take off to the wormhole in orbit.
Then it would be a case of re-directing the wormhole IN TRANSIT, but it would have to be delayed. John and Aeryn would somehow have to make it out while the colony was still within the planet's atmosphere.
John had already worked out how the wormhole could be directed. Based on what Aeryn, Rygel and Stark (well, not Stark) had told him over the past cycle about the other Crichton, John had discovered a way to create a form of displacement filter, much like the displacement engine the other Crichton had used at Dam-Ba-Da.
The colony would output rays of energy from four points, in a north-south-east-west arrangement. By using his displacement filters, the rays would be ionized with the correct particles in order to direct the wormhole as was seen fit, different strengths of the rays disrupting and bending wormhole space.
Then what?
Could John build something into the displacement filters? Use a material which would give way quick enough to cause one to stop working correctly and hinder the wormhole direction?
Hopefully it would work.
Hope.
Why did everything have to hinge on it? And why was there so little left?
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"I never envisioned anything like this." Aeryn said. She was being led around a few small areas of the colony by Vwert, still unsure whether these people - these Sedum - were her captors or not.
Now they were looking out at the ocean floor through a transparent surface that seemed to run the length of the corridor.
Aeryn had never seen anything like it in all her cycles as a Peacekeeper, nor in the almost four cycles on Moya.
She watched, guiding her vision along a rocky ridge that veered upwards and downwards erratically, like a small mountainous terrain. In it, tiny plants in their mating season used electric impulses to create tiny light shows, red and blue lights glowing and fading. Several small fish swam by in a school, creating a shape of a much larger creature, a family.
"It must be quite different than the military surroundings of Peacekeeper service." Vwert commented.
"Yes." Aeryn replied. "All that conformity, all that familiarity... yet out here there is so much standing out, so much that is unique."
Aeryn thought of how far she had come since her Peacekeeper days, her life of not questioning, not resisting, just following orders. Chiana had said it best when she said that Peacekeeper High Command had told her where to fight and where to die.
"I have a question." she ventured. "Do you know what has happened to Moya, the Leviathan we arrived aboard?"
Vwert seemed resigned. "We attempted to liberate this Moya from you invaders, but John Crichton insisted otherwise. She still remains on the surface of the water."
"Liberate?" Aeryn mulled the word over. "What do you mean?"
"Leviathans are a magnificent breed." Vwert said. "They should be free, not perverted by the likes of you."
Aeryn put her hands on her hips, quite taken aback at what the Sedum had said. "Perverted?" she said, insulted. "Has Crichton not told you? Moya was once a Peacekeeper prison transport, but since then she has been freed from Peacekeeper oppression. We now serve each other willingly."
"So John Crichton has said, and now you say. I must admit, I am beginning to believe what you say, Aeryn Sun. Yet the crimes of your species cause me to judge you in a harsher light."
Aeryn's mind reeled. The Peacekeepers had come here in their first expansions into Tormented Space? She thought that time had been just a myth, spread to create fear in people trying to fly through the Uncharted Territories into Scarren space.
But, as she had found out, Tormented Space did indeed exist.
And now she knew the Peacekeepers had definitely been here before, trying to make some long-term projects out here at the dawn of the major conflict between themselves and the Scarrens.
She had no come-back to the Sedum, for she knew he was right.
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Yet another bad chapter, in my opinion, but I am trying to gear up for the end of the episode. I dunno, must be writer's block. In any case, if you want to help save the series and get a better season 5, head on over to www.savefarscape.com
Chapter 11 - With Or Without
(29/7/03)
=========
Now it's officially been too long for an update, though I have been working on what will happen in this virtual season. Everybody's got a role - John, Aeryn, D'Argo, Chiana, Noranti, Moya and Pilot, Scorpius, Braca, Sikozu, even Grayza. All apart from Rygel and Stark. Heck, I'm gonna chuck in a new character as well (though a very minor one) and I'm bringing back a few. Enjoy.
By the way, blah de blah, I do not own Farscape. At all. Sorry.
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Chapter 11 - With Or Without
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Workroom. Long hours. Boredom.
Just like being back on Earth really.
John was sat at a worksurface in the power cell room, the pen-like instrument making marks on the paper material the Sedum had given him to work on.
They knew. They knew how to make a wormhole, John thought. They have the basic equations, and mine would only tie up the loose ends and allow them to direct it.
And he had to stop it, while also seemingly making it work.
Not good.
Kinda like a guy trying to sabotage a car by building a faulty steering wheel.
In any case, it had to be done.
John looked over the wormhole calculations, pored over them. It was all he ever dreamed about now - wormhole calculations and Aeryn. He had finally found his niche in life, and it sucked.
Well, apart from Aeryn.
John smirked at how that could be taken the wrong way, then set his mind back to work.
He had also been given technical briefings about the power cell - that would be his best opportunity to make something go wrong. He couldn't put something wrong in the equations - the Sedum wouldn't take any chances. They'd have to direct the wormhole towards a new home before they risked the journey.
There would only be a window of opportunity for a few minutes, John thought. As soon as the wormhole was directed at a new home, the colony would take off to the wormhole in orbit.
Then it would be a case of re-directing the wormhole IN TRANSIT, but it would have to be delayed. John and Aeryn would somehow have to make it out while the colony was still within the planet's atmosphere.
John had already worked out how the wormhole could be directed. Based on what Aeryn, Rygel and Stark (well, not Stark) had told him over the past cycle about the other Crichton, John had discovered a way to create a form of displacement filter, much like the displacement engine the other Crichton had used at Dam-Ba-Da.
The colony would output rays of energy from four points, in a north-south-east-west arrangement. By using his displacement filters, the rays would be ionized with the correct particles in order to direct the wormhole as was seen fit, different strengths of the rays disrupting and bending wormhole space.
Then what?
Could John build something into the displacement filters? Use a material which would give way quick enough to cause one to stop working correctly and hinder the wormhole direction?
Hopefully it would work.
Hope.
Why did everything have to hinge on it? And why was there so little left?
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"I never envisioned anything like this." Aeryn said. She was being led around a few small areas of the colony by Vwert, still unsure whether these people - these Sedum - were her captors or not.
Now they were looking out at the ocean floor through a transparent surface that seemed to run the length of the corridor.
Aeryn had never seen anything like it in all her cycles as a Peacekeeper, nor in the almost four cycles on Moya.
She watched, guiding her vision along a rocky ridge that veered upwards and downwards erratically, like a small mountainous terrain. In it, tiny plants in their mating season used electric impulses to create tiny light shows, red and blue lights glowing and fading. Several small fish swam by in a school, creating a shape of a much larger creature, a family.
"It must be quite different than the military surroundings of Peacekeeper service." Vwert commented.
"Yes." Aeryn replied. "All that conformity, all that familiarity... yet out here there is so much standing out, so much that is unique."
Aeryn thought of how far she had come since her Peacekeeper days, her life of not questioning, not resisting, just following orders. Chiana had said it best when she said that Peacekeeper High Command had told her where to fight and where to die.
"I have a question." she ventured. "Do you know what has happened to Moya, the Leviathan we arrived aboard?"
Vwert seemed resigned. "We attempted to liberate this Moya from you invaders, but John Crichton insisted otherwise. She still remains on the surface of the water."
"Liberate?" Aeryn mulled the word over. "What do you mean?"
"Leviathans are a magnificent breed." Vwert said. "They should be free, not perverted by the likes of you."
Aeryn put her hands on her hips, quite taken aback at what the Sedum had said. "Perverted?" she said, insulted. "Has Crichton not told you? Moya was once a Peacekeeper prison transport, but since then she has been freed from Peacekeeper oppression. We now serve each other willingly."
"So John Crichton has said, and now you say. I must admit, I am beginning to believe what you say, Aeryn Sun. Yet the crimes of your species cause me to judge you in a harsher light."
Aeryn's mind reeled. The Peacekeepers had come here in their first expansions into Tormented Space? She thought that time had been just a myth, spread to create fear in people trying to fly through the Uncharted Territories into Scarren space.
But, as she had found out, Tormented Space did indeed exist.
And now she knew the Peacekeepers had definitely been here before, trying to make some long-term projects out here at the dawn of the major conflict between themselves and the Scarrens.
She had no come-back to the Sedum, for she knew he was right.
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Yet another bad chapter, in my opinion, but I am trying to gear up for the end of the episode. I dunno, must be writer's block. In any case, if you want to help save the series and get a better season 5, head on over to www.savefarscape.com
