5.01 - The Fearing Mind
Chapter 13 - Crux Point
(08/11/03)
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Hey, maybe I'll get this episode finished before the end of the year! I really should do writing more often, it helps me get away from uni work.
Many thanks to those who have reviewed, of course, and I do not own Farscape and all that lot. Unfortunately. People who actually have sense do (well, some of them).
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Chapter 13 - Crux Point
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"Ladies and gentlemen..." John began in the chamber housing the power core, addressing the audience. "Well, I use the term loosely... y'know, with all the different species I've come across, I find it difficult to distinguish sometimes between guys and gals."
John was standing near the centre of the chamber, under the floating power core, with nearly all the Sedum in the colony around him.
In his hands were four thin sheets of material, dusty orange in colour and all giving off an amount of static. John was wearing a provided set of gloves just to hold them without severely doing damage to his hands.
"Anyway, on with the show..." he said, looking nervously around for a laugh. "I give you, the four secrets of the universe that will allow you to leap galaxies, travel faster than light and provide on-time rail service... displacement filters!"
The audience clapped in mock appreciation. John was pretty glad of the job he did - knowing what Furlow and the other Crichton had done had provided the catalyst, but the wormhole equations he had unlocked in his mind had done the most work. Directing a radiation wave through the filters would adjust the wavelength to something that could actually push and bend wormholes, directing where the destination would be.
He was also quite pleased at the in-built sabotage. One of the filters was made of slightly inferior material. While the other three would function well, the other would break down under the radiation, and after probably about a minute disintegrate.
The Sedum seemed to enjoy the rushed job - they wanted to be away as soon as possible, find a new home and settle down. It seemed they had prepared for this eventuality for a good long time.
Vwert came forward to remove the filters from John with his own gloved hand, but John suddenly pulled them away and whispered in the Sedum's ear.
"I want to be with Aeryn when we make the trip. I want a ship off here, so I can be with the rest of my friends on the Leviathan."
Vwert seemingly growled, as if he was suppressing a small amount of rage. "That was not part of our agreement."
"I'm changing the agreement." John said bluntly. "I have the supply, I make the demand. I will be with her, and we will be out of your hair."
Vwert paused for a moment. "We have your equations in our datastores." he said. "We have your knowledge. However, we will wait until the wormhole bends before letting you go."
"You have my equations?" John said in surprise. "You translated them?"
"We have simply converted them into the base code, John Crichton, the symbols and icons that we have used for millenia."
John thought. "Yeah, in my time away from my home I've seen it. Weird characters. Some of it looks a bit... Matrix-y..."
"I have not heard of this... maytricksy, John Crichton." Vwert said thoughtfully. He seemed intent on answering all questions, though it was delaying their departure. "We use the standard Arnessk codes."
John allowed the filters to be pulled away from him, as his face was left blank for a moment. "Arnessk?" he muttered. Images went through his mind - the planet Arnessk he had visited aboard Elack. The Darnez probes. The ruins. The visions he had seen, the sacrifices. The priests. The toy.
And now a common language. No, not a language, a form of writing, of communication.
Somehow the priests had created a peace between Peacekeepers and Scarrens. For a time, at least.
And a link with Earth?
Vwert's booming voice cut him out of his reverie. "We open a wormhole in under an arn!" he shouted, holding the filters high. "We shall fit these immediately and carve a path to our new home, where we shall grow and prosper!"
The sound from the accumulated Sedum was deafening.
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Aeryn was lying down next to John on a flat, raised surface. It was comfortable, springy and had one long, tubular cushion at the end for them to rest their heads. The room itself was featureless, as was more or less everything in the colony, except for a window at the end opening to an expansive view of the underwater scenery.
Both of them were unrestrained, and nobody was in there with them. John and Aeryn surmised that they had been given this room for a bit of "recreation" time before the Sedum would let them free.
And as much as they both wanted to, they wouldn't. The plan had to work.
John had whispered everything in Aeryn's ear. It was doubtless that they were being eavesdropped on. He had explained everything - the inferior filter, the getaway car... the only thing he hadn't mentioned was the possible link with Arnessk. No, he was going to ask Noranti that.
"In any case..." he said, knowing that it didn't matter whether the Sedum heard this part or not, "we're going to get out of here and back to Moya, just as soon as these guys get on their way."
Aeryn had been quite silent. She had been since John had told her of his plan.
He leaned down and kissed her on the cheek. "What's up?"
Just as Aeryn was about to speak they were interrupted by a loud rumbling. "Sounds like they're launching the generator." John said.
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From the centre of the colony, a large sphere emerged, a few metres in diameter. The silver metallic orb burst through the ocean at an incredible speed, through the surface and the atmosphere until it reached a few thousand miles away from the atmosphere into space.
Then it exploded. Or more rather, imploded, at the same time glowing blue, letting blue bolts of energy fly.
The power used created a vortex, pulling in mass and transforming it using the blue sparks into a tiny blue swirl.
As more and more tiny particles from space added and were transformed, and as the swirl grew in size, it slowly took the form of something else.
A wormhole.
An artificial wormhole, generated from regular metals and energy, and automatically gravitating itself to link with the wormhole networks.
Now the Sedum had the ability to travel through the wormhole, and if John's filter plates worked, they could travel anywhere in the universe by altering the wormhole network itself.
John had to hope, for once, that a plan failed...
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Setting things up for a bit. Sorry it's late, but I do plan on getting more written. But at this rate it'll take ages to complete all the stories I plan on telling. Ho-hum - just have to try and write more.
Chapter 13 - Crux Point
(08/11/03)
=========
Hey, maybe I'll get this episode finished before the end of the year! I really should do writing more often, it helps me get away from uni work.
Many thanks to those who have reviewed, of course, and I do not own Farscape and all that lot. Unfortunately. People who actually have sense do (well, some of them).
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Chapter 13 - Crux Point
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"Ladies and gentlemen..." John began in the chamber housing the power core, addressing the audience. "Well, I use the term loosely... y'know, with all the different species I've come across, I find it difficult to distinguish sometimes between guys and gals."
John was standing near the centre of the chamber, under the floating power core, with nearly all the Sedum in the colony around him.
In his hands were four thin sheets of material, dusty orange in colour and all giving off an amount of static. John was wearing a provided set of gloves just to hold them without severely doing damage to his hands.
"Anyway, on with the show..." he said, looking nervously around for a laugh. "I give you, the four secrets of the universe that will allow you to leap galaxies, travel faster than light and provide on-time rail service... displacement filters!"
The audience clapped in mock appreciation. John was pretty glad of the job he did - knowing what Furlow and the other Crichton had done had provided the catalyst, but the wormhole equations he had unlocked in his mind had done the most work. Directing a radiation wave through the filters would adjust the wavelength to something that could actually push and bend wormholes, directing where the destination would be.
He was also quite pleased at the in-built sabotage. One of the filters was made of slightly inferior material. While the other three would function well, the other would break down under the radiation, and after probably about a minute disintegrate.
The Sedum seemed to enjoy the rushed job - they wanted to be away as soon as possible, find a new home and settle down. It seemed they had prepared for this eventuality for a good long time.
Vwert came forward to remove the filters from John with his own gloved hand, but John suddenly pulled them away and whispered in the Sedum's ear.
"I want to be with Aeryn when we make the trip. I want a ship off here, so I can be with the rest of my friends on the Leviathan."
Vwert seemingly growled, as if he was suppressing a small amount of rage. "That was not part of our agreement."
"I'm changing the agreement." John said bluntly. "I have the supply, I make the demand. I will be with her, and we will be out of your hair."
Vwert paused for a moment. "We have your equations in our datastores." he said. "We have your knowledge. However, we will wait until the wormhole bends before letting you go."
"You have my equations?" John said in surprise. "You translated them?"
"We have simply converted them into the base code, John Crichton, the symbols and icons that we have used for millenia."
John thought. "Yeah, in my time away from my home I've seen it. Weird characters. Some of it looks a bit... Matrix-y..."
"I have not heard of this... maytricksy, John Crichton." Vwert said thoughtfully. He seemed intent on answering all questions, though it was delaying their departure. "We use the standard Arnessk codes."
John allowed the filters to be pulled away from him, as his face was left blank for a moment. "Arnessk?" he muttered. Images went through his mind - the planet Arnessk he had visited aboard Elack. The Darnez probes. The ruins. The visions he had seen, the sacrifices. The priests. The toy.
And now a common language. No, not a language, a form of writing, of communication.
Somehow the priests had created a peace between Peacekeepers and Scarrens. For a time, at least.
And a link with Earth?
Vwert's booming voice cut him out of his reverie. "We open a wormhole in under an arn!" he shouted, holding the filters high. "We shall fit these immediately and carve a path to our new home, where we shall grow and prosper!"
The sound from the accumulated Sedum was deafening.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Aeryn was lying down next to John on a flat, raised surface. It was comfortable, springy and had one long, tubular cushion at the end for them to rest their heads. The room itself was featureless, as was more or less everything in the colony, except for a window at the end opening to an expansive view of the underwater scenery.
Both of them were unrestrained, and nobody was in there with them. John and Aeryn surmised that they had been given this room for a bit of "recreation" time before the Sedum would let them free.
And as much as they both wanted to, they wouldn't. The plan had to work.
John had whispered everything in Aeryn's ear. It was doubtless that they were being eavesdropped on. He had explained everything - the inferior filter, the getaway car... the only thing he hadn't mentioned was the possible link with Arnessk. No, he was going to ask Noranti that.
"In any case..." he said, knowing that it didn't matter whether the Sedum heard this part or not, "we're going to get out of here and back to Moya, just as soon as these guys get on their way."
Aeryn had been quite silent. She had been since John had told her of his plan.
He leaned down and kissed her on the cheek. "What's up?"
Just as Aeryn was about to speak they were interrupted by a loud rumbling. "Sounds like they're launching the generator." John said.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From the centre of the colony, a large sphere emerged, a few metres in diameter. The silver metallic orb burst through the ocean at an incredible speed, through the surface and the atmosphere until it reached a few thousand miles away from the atmosphere into space.
Then it exploded. Or more rather, imploded, at the same time glowing blue, letting blue bolts of energy fly.
The power used created a vortex, pulling in mass and transforming it using the blue sparks into a tiny blue swirl.
As more and more tiny particles from space added and were transformed, and as the swirl grew in size, it slowly took the form of something else.
A wormhole.
An artificial wormhole, generated from regular metals and energy, and automatically gravitating itself to link with the wormhole networks.
Now the Sedum had the ability to travel through the wormhole, and if John's filter plates worked, they could travel anywhere in the universe by altering the wormhole network itself.
John had to hope, for once, that a plan failed...
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Setting things up for a bit. Sorry it's late, but I do plan on getting more written. But at this rate it'll take ages to complete all the stories I plan on telling. Ho-hum - just have to try and write more.
