Bering Intranet transmission to: Admiral Victoria Knight

[Enkidu]

Incoming Transmission

To: Admiral Knight, Leader of the Separatists.
From: Vulkan, der Alster Union.
Subject: A hole in time.

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I am Vulkan - the shipwright responsible for the maintenance and modernisation of your vessels. I forge VonHimmel’s vision from structural plate and ingenuity.

As they have been suspected for a number of months, the Cult of Technology has mastered the art of spontaneous jump tunnelling - the creation of specific, targeted jump holes in imitative of nature. Our jump gates are venerable, but crude - we must depend upon the construction of a target portal at both ends of the connection to expand, infinitely slowing us. Agiera monopolise the technical specifics, forcing all to economic slavery, intellectual dependency. They are a cancer.

The Cult’s creations can be turned to serve a more righteous will. I respect those who fittingly see engineering rigour as a means to arrive closer to God, but they will not keep secrets from us. Their technical acumen will be adapted to service ours, and much improved upon, for such is the destiny heaven has chosen for us.

I give you, the first prototype of our spatial tunnelling device:

By mirroring the mechanical interlocks of the Cult’s own devices, we believe we have discovered the secrets of their function. The system is an event-horizon creation based system using exotic matter to hold open a space time curve within the quantum Q field attuned to subspace resonances. By creating a negative energy density state within a local field of spacetime, the device recreates naturally occurring resonances between the cosmic strings that create conventional jump holes. The science is known, if rarely employed. Exotic matter manufacture escapes us.

By scavenging what stockpiles of exotic matter we have salvaged from the remains of the Bering gate, in conjunction with the N-Mass projectors inherent within the remains of the Cult’s cashes, we believe we can have the device ready for activation in less than twenty-hours. The device is strategically critical - it would permit us to succeed in our objective to undermine uncompetitive monopolies - of which Agiera is the worst offender - universalising the means of inter-system travel. Pragmatically, it would provide us the means to better resist the Hesse, to ignore their lines of control utterly, and thus destroy them. For you, it means a gateway into the nucleuses of Liberty, the means to bypass any fleet. However, our own stockpiles are not enough to test the prototype, nor do we have a projectile large enough for delivery. I request that we pool our shared minds into the effort, and combine our inventories of Cultist acquisitions. A suitable delivery device would be one of your Libertonian battleship missiles - the warhead is fittingly scaled.

Arbeiter Zelinsky will contact us when the spatial warhead is ready for trial. We expect mission trial in less than 24 hours.

I remain your servant, Admiral.

Regards,
Vulkan.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.

Transmission Ended

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