- INT. FLAGSHIP COMMAND, GALAXY CENTER - RED-ALERT (3RD DAY)
- REVERBERATING:
- KLAXON sounding, RED ALERT FLASHING, as they slow in the aether corridor, for light-speed entry; Mike, Penny, stand at the Command chair-center; additional 4 WEAPONERS:
JOHN (CONCURRENT)
- (measuredly)
- 2-point-5 …
- 1-point-9 …
- 1-point-5 …
- 1-point-2 …
- 1-point-0 …
MIKE
- (next order)
- … Battle stations! Jeff-- any word from Star Quest!?
JEFF
- (pauses keying)
- No-- and they can't just miss us:
- (worrys-keys)
- We should have received reply in the slipstream: We know that works!
JOHN
- (last measured)
- Speed-of light, now!
- (00:00 - Lacus Temporis / Karl Jenkins)
- THE METAL-RING CITY: DESTROYED-- gangly segments, twisting, spinning, flipping, precessing, slowly nutating vertically; fragments. Those looking, GASP DISBELIEF,-- at a distance:
CADET
- (hands at mouth squeal)
- Ahhh!
- Jeff turns,- looks;
CADET
- (lowers hands: horrific)
- They've destroyed, the ring-city…. Where's the elevator?!
JAIME
- (somber)
- Absolute vacation, absolutely postponed!
CADET
- (worried)
- Where's Harry and Susan?!
GARY
- If they left here on the elevator 4 days ago, they should be safely up, somewhere-- high.
JEFF
- But, does this elevator push-up, or, pull-up?!
CADET
- We … do we have the technology to repair this?!
GARY
- Not on-board: Even repair of this ship requires the moonbase.
CADET
- Then we're essentially on leash from our solar system!
GARY
- More likely there are moonbases abundant, near every likely planet, around every likely star.
CADET
- Then, we need to find, them: before the Aliens destroy, them all!
GARY
- An exordium among a trillion stars. More likely they're challenging us, as at Earth; a tough-friend-ship;
- (cold quips)
- A space-cold-war 3-degrees Kelvin,-
- (idles)
- Though it must be warmer by a hole…
CADET
- (irked)
- A waste of installed proficiency!
JEFF
- (keying)
- Ahhh: We've got a call-- Mike! But it's not, Star Quest!- Nor Gwen's ship -Alien-Gwen's--
- (puzzles)
- But it must be Aliens,-…
- (keys)
MIKE
- (inserts, orders)
- Put it onscreen!
JEFF
- (resumes)
- … though not those we've met so far; none of … onscreen!
- [SUPERCOSMOSIAN data-analysts starship crew] TWINKLES-IN-- wearing intergalactic-admiral outfits, supercosmosian robe jackets and communications headgear, in their Command.
- Flagship skirts twirling librating pieces:
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (protolinguistic)
- Allu: Veh-neh!
MIKE
- Hello!?
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (cleared English)
- Yes-- hello: Welcome to your galaxy center.
MIKE
- The ring-city has been destroyed!
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- Yes, we have found this-- it will be repaired automatically in ten mega-hesits: There is nothing more we can do here. From whence do you hail?!
MIKE
- We are from planet Earth in a Solar system 20-thousand light-years out: 3-hundred-giga-hesits: 60-kilohesits by aether slipstream: We encountered belligerent starships, and yourselves.
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- We are a cosmos data analyses team: We arrived after the elevator failure.
MIKE
- Can you tell us what has become of the elevator? We sent-up two persons, 2-hundred kilohesits ago.
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (gasps)
- They, should be safe, at a distance,…
- (thinks)
- A few kilohesits after they entered:
- (explains)
- The elevator system ties into quantal vortices in the cosmic rotation of the mass-hole aether superfluid…. But, why are you sending people up?! You'll never see them here again!
MIKE
- We-- they went after a friend.
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (surprised)
- More!? Why did your friend go up the elevator?!
MIKE
- She was abduc'…
- (calms)
- She went with others-- four of them, maybe five-- they all went-up. Where does the elevator go?
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (unrevealing)
- Well-- it goes, up-- outside.
- (checks Helm)
MIKE
- (learning)
- Outside-- our galaxy!?
JEFF
- (keys, quick, low)
- Mike-- Stark Easter has arrived.
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (works at Helm)
- Yes-- no, not simply: Well-outside: the cosmos….
- (interrupts)
- We are noting the arrival of other starships!
- (rechecks)
JEFF
- (keys, quick, low)
- Star Quest and Gwen's starship are approaching-- but, they're still not transmitting response codes! 99-percentile,- passive identification.
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (worries)
- Are these your belligerents?!
- (rechecks)
MIKE
- No-- these are our team: starship Stark Easter-- and starships Star Quest and, DiAnaStar;
GARY
- (low quips)
- Good ad-lib, Mike: Di-ana-star.
MIKE
- (continues)
- They encountered the belligerents with us-- whom we routed back into the aether slipstreams. But, from what direction did you come, that you did not pass the other starships?!
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (unrevealing)
- We are on a data-gathering mission in this cosmos: to characterize and establish precise mass-hole aether density, quantal spin moment, vortex sheer, several orders of cosmic C-P-T nutation, and charge stratification closure, of the cosmos. We've taken readings in several core galaxies, and were to return by the elevator, ourselves.
MIKE
- I'm sorry to hear that: Where will you go from here?
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (unrevealing)
- We are cut-off for the duration-- there is only one elevator in this galaxy…. We shall meanwhile extend our primary data mission, in this galactic cluster … and yourselves?
MIKE
- We have taken-on a command-training mission-- to foretell and forestall further belligerent incursion; Our theatre of operations is to-be-determined: We'd be pleased to have you join us.
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (checks crew)
- We, can-- we'd appreciate your protective cover: You're commanding an irregular vessel: What is it?
- An ordinary starship is attached to a librating piece of ring city. Jaime guides around it:
MIKE
- It's an extended version of starship, with an extra stage of computation….
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (elates)
- Then we would very much like, to join your team! We have data from 57 core galaxies on this visit, and we would like to process and cross-correlate it with the local cosmic cluster: This'll recover our schedule nicely.
JAIME
- (points-out)
- There's a starship attached to the ring-city.
JEFF
- (keying: quick, low)
- That's the supercosmosian's vessel. And, Mike: Gwen's starship is hailing us; but still, not transmitting response codes!
MIKE
- (aside orders)
- Put them on, concurrently.
- (to supercosmosians)
- Where is there another, cosmos?!
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- It won't merge for a peta-hesit-- your time; From the inside that's incommensurate, of course. It was captured a hundred peta-hesits ago-- not long after this cosmos inverted; Presently it's in decaying orbit. We're collecting data for an extra-cosmic event.
MIKE
- (concerned)
- Outside? What sort of event?!
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- It's a scarcity-- an unknowable statistical possibility: In about another ten giga-hesits-- outside-- this cosmos will be swallowed in a monster, mass-hole-complex of a trillion cosmoses-- quite unknown within our local-domain data-classes; It has been so-far impossible to fathom-- and that is our mission: preparing data-gathering posts inside this cosmos; The data-team shall solve the equations, and their descendants shall exit with that information; The now-merging cosmos is just one in its perimeter.
JEFF
- (to himself)
- Maybe that's what that is …
- (busily keys)
- [Undergrad CMDR WILLIAM] TWINKLES-IN-- vidlink from Gwen's starship: [look-alike famous: eg. a President]
MIKE
- (smiles at [William])
- Well-- our prodigal sons' starships return.
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- We'd be pleased to meet your team.
- (watches)
MIKE
- They are presently …
[WILLIAM]
- (overrides pause)
- Grand-Admiral Michael, I hope!
GARY
- (grins to cadet)
- This one is no hallucinated alien spoof!
MIKE
- (recalls)
- William-- I recall!?
[WILLIAM]
- (proudly)
- Yes, sir! On the Operation-Diana starship.
JEFF
- (keys)
- I'll notify Quest-set fleet of its new proper name.
MIKE
- Welcome home, young man! They gave you the command of the DiAnaStar!?
[WILLIAM]
- (proudly)
- Yes, sir: It's my shift: Five of us chain two-each of ten 4-kilohesit shifts under the supervision of two graduate students, for three days, or till you should return!
MIKE
- Very good.
- (smiles)
- And, where have you been, commander?
[WILLIAM]
- (admits)
- We ventured into aether slipstreams: You'd given us no assignment, so we created one: We found some planets, using long-range nav; and visited one pair of inner planets, ordered much like our own solar system but further from their sun, and their Earth and Venus pair are both habited-- their cultures are primitive, pre-nuclear scientific: We named them, Mearth, and, Earthenus:
- (smiles, quickens)
- With your permission, sir!
MIKE
- (worrying duty)
- You landed, on another planet!?
- (self-answers)
- Permission granted, commander: We'll discuss planetary excursion directives, later.
- (orders)
- Prepare for taking-on your new commander!
[WILLIAM]
- (dutiously)
- Yes, sir!
MIKE
- (to Penny)
- Commander: The ship is yours!
PENNY
- (dutiously)
- Yes, sir!
- (catches surprised)
- Gwen's new starship!?
- (elated neck-hug kiss)
- Thank you, sir!!
- (EXITS)
- Leaving him standing, pondering his grand-admira-bi-lity….
- INT. COMMAND, RING CITY FRAGMENT - WILD SKY (MINUTES LATER)
- John navigates a co-gyrating approach about the twirling librating piece with the supercosmosian starship attached; Jaime adjusts the moving course:
JOHN
- (for Jaime)
- Power-docking has its advantages.
JAIME
- (braves a smile)
- Makes my task a little easier.
JEFF
- Mike--
- (sits back, puzzles)
- Ask your data-analysts what this message means: I've got an alert that's been sitting here for a week: It claims to be Emergency-Omni-Beacon-3, and broadcasts temporal telemetry: just time data: the longest datum being less than an exa-hesit: 50-billion years; But the signal source is utterly omni-directional!
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- (preventing Mike)
- Sir:
- (bows)
- If I may be so bold addressing an empirator: Sir. Omni-Beacon-3 orbits outside the cosmos and broadcasts in the giga-cycle range, the positional coordinates of this cosmos,- But owing to time-dilation and mass-renormalization at the bottom of this cosmic mass-hole gravity well, it warbles X-rays sporadically in the kilo-cycle range. Apparently your extraordinary vessel can decode it!
JEFF
- Then what is it telling us, sir?
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- A lot-- I think:
- (considers)
- It broadcasts monitored coordinate telemetry; but your computational equipments have interpreted that as an alert situation. This may mean the second cosmos is now merging. And that tells us something more, too: If your starship is made to detect the outer cosmos, then perhap it can travel, outside, or to, the outside, without need of a mass-hole driven elevator; Furthermore, your starship must have been manufactured at the outer zone of the cosmos: That'd explain why it is a new design: They must have removed these inward, for safety. And-- we can go view the cosmic merger process: if you wish!
JEFF
- That must require incredible, energy storage!
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- Not greatly: The class of vessels we use outside, contain their energy reserves in localized aether-space wells: You're riding in the visible portion: The manufacturer of your vessel may have adapted the technique into a trans-cosmic utility--
- (grins)
- It's not unlike the experience of tying your boating gear and fuel cans to fishing-line, and floating them overboard while you bail-out your leaking dingy and paddle for shore:-- if you've enjoyed that competition sport.
MIKE
- (smiles)
- It'd take aeons to traverse the cosmos, even so, at aether slipstream skip-rates.
[SUPERCOSMOSIAN]
- Actually not: By using the same technology, we can be there in less than a giga-hesit, except we'll never return to this exact time-space-- the same as your friends in the elevator.
MIKE
- I'll take this under advisement-- thank you.
- (turns, orders)
- Jeff: Get me a consensus!
- INT. SAME (LATER)
- With Peter, Gwen, Daniel, standing around, and Jaime frequently leaning to watch: John keys a diagrammatic simulation of a photon-wavelet entering a black-hole: The view with graduated reticules, magnifies as the wavelet spirals-in toward the center, till reaching the photon roche-limit, below which it breaks-up fuzzy as it enters the delineated false-vacuum threshhold at a few electron-radii and increased to an exavolt:
PETER
- (answers a question)
- The photon deflects into the intensified gravity field.
JOHN
- (sweep-points)
- The approaching photon slows, rising in energy, and defracts against the gravity aether-ripple; and disrupts at the tidal-shore of the inner cosmos: photons become less stable above a teravolt.
DANIEL
- If a photon wavicle sinks directly into the center, its ends wrap around to meet on the opposite side!?
JOHN
- A diminishing likelihood as its wavelength contracts: If ever does, the oppositely polarized ends of its wavefront will crash, showering gamma ray flashes inward: That's telescopically unusable background noise; however, the femto-mass wavicle-shower from a photon renormalizing below the photon roche-limit should be visible, though not very well focused: As a photon attains the cosmic interior false-vacuum, it disintegrates in a shower of photons and particles, depending on what the boundary conditions are like: It'll seem to focus, there, rather than at its source. We might construct a concave lens for undoing the effect of cosmic gravity lensing: should be easy!
PETER
- Renormalization of wavicles is like the dimpling around an upwelling in a calm pool of water!?
JOHN
- Yes: good analogy, Pete: exact, even:
- (smiles)
- What is mere noise on a photon outside the cosmos, becomes full-size photons, to us inside.
JAIME
- What forms the boundary?
JOHN
- A collapsed mass-hole is sustained by the interior aether-flux entropy-- transparent to us: gravity takes its toll on the outer boundary, layer-- while inside the aether is compressed and photons travel straight across to the opposite gravitational wall of the cosmos: and bounce-back.
JAIME
- But isn't gravity increasing outward from the center?
JOHN
- Slightly; only as the aether density changes: At a certain density the aether liquifies and refracts photons no further. Remember that the aether is made of the same constituency as of photons, leptons, gluons, quarks … gravity requires concentration of aether-flux-mass, thus giving rise to a radial density gradient, which acts to slow, and draw-in passing photons. The cosmos interior domain exhibits an inversion, where the aether has halted its radial gradient-- this occurs in collapsing mass-holes, because they collapse outside-inward, rather than inside-first: Curious, but this designates and explains the cosmic-collapse halting-problem: why the cosmos exists at all, and does not collapse forever.
JAIME
- But if we're inside a collapse-halted cosmos, why does gravity exist, in here?
JOHN
- There's plenty of mass-energy to make our cosmos: The aether-mass in our cosmos is substantial: Wavicles in this cosmos are quantum vortex sub-fragments floating on it's 3-D-sur-space: And the depth of aether causes a slight difference in charge-flux velocity, too-- like wave crests traveling faster than wave troughs, because crests are slightly deeper than troughs: Though the difference is slight, it likely gives rise to the predominance of protons and electrons: rather than antiprotons and anti-electrons.
JAIME
- Then the big bang wasn't really a big bang, after-all: Rather, just a big bounce!?
JOHN
- Mmmm-- not easy to determine the best explanation: The cosmic collapse bounced; but it also renormalised into micro-mass, and clarified into our present cosmos: Which came firstest, is new theory.
JAIME
- Then how are you going to see out?
JOHN
- Model the cosmos as a superdense ball of glass with a radial density gradient more extreme than anything we have in the optics lab: Photons may spiral-in, winding hundreds of times around the central cosmos, before reaching; Computations must distinguish and correlate photons at slightly different angles caused by that winding;-- then remove the mess left by cosmic surface ripples and oscillations…. Maybe we have sufficient computing power-- maybe we'll see an interference pattern: maybe a multi-lensed approximation.
JAIME
- Like a bumble-bee's compound eye: We'll look out of this cosmos and prove our theories can fly, even though physicists say we can't!?
JOHN
- Yup:
- (grins)
- A bumble bee in a nut shell!
- Jaime's baby announcement evokes a spat of humor:
JAIME
- Speaking of which--
- (to Mike, louder)
- I think, John and I should tell you now, Mike….
MIKE
- (happy grins)
- Congratulations, Jaime!
- (chin-hand elbow rest)
JEFF
- (looks up,- to Gary)
- Did I miss something there?
GARY
- (grins)
- In the zero gravity of deep-space, a bouncing baby is a hit just once!
CADET
- (grins to Jeff)
- Jaime's graduated from campus news-reporting to campy news rearported!
JEFF
- (laughingly to Cadet)
- What, did you say, you're majoring-in?!
CADET
- (affects to Jeff)
- Mathema-ticklish prooves: I'm a pith-man schooler in the theater of the surd.
JEFF
- (chuckles)
- That really takes the cake!
GARY
- (ejaculates)
- The pie!
CADET
- (elates)
- I could go a cherry pop pie, right now!
GARY
- (blushes)
- We have the fastest star-skippers in the cosmos, but it still takes a hesit to zip-up our pants.
- (grins)
JEFF
- (proffers)
- Is all this talk about black holes, cosmic mergers, gravity gradients, and big bangs, getting you down, faster than you're getting-up?!
JOHN
- (restrains loudly)
- O-kay! I set-up the experiment a kilohesit ago: Early results should be, in: Let's take a look.
- (keys)
JEFF
- (inserts)
- Mike: The data-analysts have boarded. And we have your consensus 79-percent in favor, 21-percent spread-- zero against; and no, regrets!
MIKE
- (resolves)
- Thank you, Jeff--
- (orders)
- Prepare Quest-set, and the data-team! Jaime-- whenever our fleet is ready: We're, gone'rs!
- (grins)
- Get us out of here, before you guys explode in whimpled machicolations: Let's hit the cosmic wall!
JAIME
- (controls)
- Aye-aye, and, Grand aye-aye, Grand-Admiral! We hit the walleyed cosmos!
GARY
- (chuckles)
- Before we wholely collapse in self-ridiculations.
CADET
- (grins)
- Before we renormalize in giga-giggles of nano-laughs.
JEFF
- Disintegrating nuance to neutrinos.
- (00:00 - Sweet Honesty/M:G/Energy Box edit)
- Flagship leaves the broken ring--
- EXPANDING GRID exit-corridor …
- John keys, presenting his computed-lens construction for looking outside the cosmos--
- Which blurry-resolves the whole cosmos background to a bright white smudge surrounded by diminishing blurrier concentric rings of replications, interference pattern of that white smudge, on mottled black background:
PETER
- (watching, to John)
- You were saying….
JOHN
- This starship's outer-hull is covered with a photo sensor array, wideband radio-wave to gamma ray: it can be synchronized and analyzed-- I've been taking 90-percent of our computing power.
GWEN
- (observes)
- Concentric ring-matrixing: a linear bee's-eye effect!?
JOHN
- Yes-- the first-order pre-processed image, raw data, with interference patterns of this main bright spot:
- (points to dot)
- Let me take that out.
- (keys)
DANIEL
- (emotes)
- A rudimentary cosmic quadrille pad!
- IMAGE CLEARS TO ONE SMUDGE.
PETER
- (quips)
- That's why they call it, the universe-city, Daniel.
- (to John)
- Are you sure that's fully processed? What is, that single bright smudge?
GWEN
- Did the data-analysts say the mega-hole is black?
DANIEL
- Interesting point, Gwen-- I'd have thought it was the cosmic pole-jet, in-line with our view; but then there should be two bright spots.
- (thinks)
- Or, if it were the merging cosmos blazing an entry….
JOHN
- For better results we must relocate to cold space, absolute zero velocity relative to the cosmos-- to read-out the COBE-type background-radiation.
JAIME
- Would that be anywhere nearby?!
- (unanswered)
- (0-:-- 'zyoop')
- INTO THE AETHER CORRIDOR-- speed ramping-up …
- EXT. FLAGSHIP, LEAVING GALAXY CORE, PLANE (HOURS LATER)
- (00:00 - Take Me With You/Ronan Hardiman)
- LOOKING BACK on Flagship: the whole galaxy recedes to small, spinning and supernovae flicker-rippling backward:
- INT. FLAGSHIP COMMAND, INTER-GALAXY SPACE (HOURS LATER)
- Speeding-on ever faster: [optional starships coterie]
- Ahead, thousands of supernovae burst, bloom, fade, each within its own expanding light-ring-ripple enhancing the sparkling image-structure of each rotating galaxy before them,- increasing in number and shrinking as speed climbs to above 1000 million astro-skip-rate….
- The Supercosmosians enter and greet all; loosely enclosing
- CLOSE: Jaime looks forward to their future:
JAIME
- (mulls)
- Since the beginning of cosmic time; and trillions, of trillions, of starships, each factory-made by billions of intelligent mankind:--
- (sighs)
- I hope my addition of one makes a difference.
GWEN
- (a pat, smiles-back)
- Positively, dear.
DANIEL
- (to Peter)
- A horrid thought just occurred to me: What if the merging cosmos is, antimatter?!
PETER
- (to Daniel)
- Shouldn't make a lot of difference: Interstellar space is mostly empty: Most all their stars would miss our stars except occasionally a few would crash and burn: like supernovae type-3; spreading their antimatter vapors into the vacuum more tenuous than a nightmare's breath.
DANIEL
- But in eventual quadrillions of years, this cosmos would self-annihilate!
PETER
- More importantly, before that could ever occur: Astrophysics would have lost its antimatter paradox: There'd be near-equal extancy of both matters for paradoxic theories explaining it.
GWEN
- (to Peter)
- Then no other people may ever escape this cosmos: One way or the other, they may all stay unbelievers in the next new-age astrophysics!
CADET
- (to Gary)
- Why are we seeing supernovae burst? Shouldn't the relativistic-effect cause galaxy-time to run more slowly?
GARY
- But we are moving toward, the galaxy faster than cosmic light-speed outside our stream: We're catching-up on their history, millions of years.
CADET
- (realizes)
- Oh-- o-kay-- inter-galactic distances are millions.
JAIME
- (emotes)
- It's beautiful-- sparkling like a wedding-ring!
DANIEL
- A disco-tech encore of cosmic proportions!
PETER
- (concludes)
- And light, is our pilot! Wave!
- (waves to the future)
- INT. COMMAND - COSMOS - CREDITS - (CONTINUOUS)
- FINAL CREDITS SCROLL;
- Flagship Golden zooms-on across the cosmos of galaxies of flicker-rippling supernovae, time sped-up: forward, centrally before, with progressive novae; less, off-centrally aside, with slower, fewer novae; backward, centrally aft, with regressive 'un-novae'….
- LONG SHOT: Jaime and John lean and kiss, backdropped by a sparkly galaxy-pair intertwining live with arms splaying;…
- Pass through the core-- and far beyond, as that rewinds….
- Eventually reaching the merging cosmos: [zooming-in blue-shifted blooming super-super cluster-cluster]
- Last credits, windows, graphics.
- FADE OUT
- THE END.
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