Greetings peaceful readers. Thanks for being here.
This week we’re discussing the Science and Industry Division known as the SID. History generally considers them villians. Certainly their involvement in the First Galactic War was villianous, but that is a story for a later time.
Today lets talk about their stellar exploration program. They operated two spaceships at first. The Debendra Gavaskar made the rounds of the human worlds but the Marcus Johnson was sent to explore the galaxy.
There were limitations to the SID’s program. Back then it was required to put people in to hibersleep for them to survied the space jump. the SID never developed the capability to service the hibersleep chambers on their ships. This required them to return to Lava after each stellar exploration. The round trip and time spent exploring the particular starsystem took from three to four months.
Because of this they never made contact with any sentient species during this period. Since they were only able to explore three to four starsystems in a given year this exploration project did not get very far. They did find life but nothing that looked to be anywhere near civilized.
Perhaps the most interesting system was Smoot 24-249. The second planet from the sun had a very active ecosystem. It’s temperatures were found to be very temperate. There was lots of liquid water on its surface. At first glance it looked to be an excellent candidate for colonization. However, it turned out that all the life there was silicone based. Almost everything there would have been toxic to humans. Oh well. There were several interesting finds. Tomorrow I share some of those.
Never mix red wine and Oodo.
Philip Normer
Kushan Year 88
Earth Year 2480
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