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Spike2002 Title: FF-UK RSA Arena Manager Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 12/28/02 7:47am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	U too Fteik. And Two Towers rocked by the way, since Im reading the Tale of DV's son at the moment -----signature----- "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke I agree with halibut Master to Louis_Skywalker Proud Recipient of the Golden Elegos™
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 1/6/03 1:16pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	I hope you are all healthy and have survived the beginning of the new year. Here is the next part of this story, a part, that deals a lot with technology, what will concern us in the next chapter, too. After that we´ll either return to Bakura or to the rebels. What do you prefer? Until then: Enjoy!!! The Colliding of Empires Gruber and Kalup exchanged a look. „You first.“ ordered the Professor politely. Clearing his throat Gruber turned back to us. „Well, the prisoner has suffered from a light concussion of the head and a lack of oxygen for a short time. Nothing we couldn´t deal with. Major Kasom reached the fighter of Wedge Antilles, thats the name of the man, in time and there will be no lasting damage.“ The praise from the medicine-man was answered with a friendly nod from the ertrusan. Pressing a button a hologram of a human body appeared over the desk, while Gruber continued. „As you can see the outside appearence of this Wedge Antilles is in no way different from most humanoids. One head, two arms, two legs and so on. For antropologists and xeno-biologists this could be another confirmation, that the human shape is the most practical or adabtable form for sentinent life-forms. However, this man isn´t only human in the way he appears, with exception of him being used to a somewhat higher gravity than the terran standard, he is in no way different from the humans of terran base-line. With knowledge of our language you could drop him in, lets say, Londons West End and nobody would realize that he was born more than two-hundred-fourty-four million lightyears away from the british islands.“ „Wait a moment.“ I simply had to ask. „Do you want to tell us, that there is no difference, not a single one to terrans?“ Gruber looked at me in a somewhat helpless way. „Yes Sir, thats what i´m telling you.“ „What about the olfactory part of the brain? And the vital nervesystem?“ wanted Rhodan to know. „I know what you mean.“ answered Doctor Gruber. „But if you compare him to a human and a tefrodan, this man is closer to us, than even our cousins from Andromeda.“ When we had visited the Andromeda-galaxy and met the tefrodans for the first time, we had been similiar surprised because they had been so much like us. Only later had we learned, that their vital nervesystem is more efficient than the one of a human of terran origin. Their olfactory senses are also superior to ours. To be precise they can nearly compete with german sheepdogs in that regard. The discovery of the tefrodans had added new fuel to the arguments of those, who believed that similiar circumstances of evolution would always lead to similiar results, but even those scientists had been forced to admit, that the existance of the tefrodans was more, than could be explained that way. Only weeks later had we learned the horrible truth, when the „Master of the Island“ lured us into the timetrap of Vario. More than fifty-thousand years in the past and back in the Milkyway we had met the first mankind from Lemur, the third world of a small yellow star inside one of the arms of the galaxy. A world that was called Terra today (and Larsaf III, when i had first set foot on this planet. That i would spent ten-thousand years on this world, i would have never believed then). Had it been shocking enough to discover, that already fifty-thousand years ago todays Terra had been the centre of an empire, it had been even more shocking to discover, that this empire was fighting a war for its survival and that it was losing this war. When we arrived in the past the lumurian war against the halutans, Icho Tolots people, had already been in its last stages after hundred years of fighting. The government of the Tamanium (that had been the name of the LemuranEmpire) was already evacuating the population of earth and other colonies through the suntransmitters to Andromeda. Those humans would become the tefrodans of today. Another matter had been the inhabitans of a lemuran colony called Drorah. They had obviously decided to stay behind and hoped to escape the attention of the halutans. As later history had shown, they had succeded and those people had later developed into the akons. Over time they forgot their origins and became the arrogant and supercilious people of today. Thirty-thousand years later (or twenty-thousand years before today) one of their colonies declared independent (after a long and bloody war) and became the founding cell of a new sub-race of humans and their empire and another ten-thousand years later i was a representant of this „new“ ArkonEmpire. Akon had been able to preserve most of its technolgical knowledge, while the lemurans, that had been forced to stay back on earth had been bombed into primitivity by the halutans and would need millenia to develop any kind of civilisation again. The rise of this part of mankinds family-tree had caused a lot of problems and a lot of trouble for their already established cousins, but for the last six-hundred years nothing had been able to stop Terras ascent for long and, voila ... here we are, two-hundred-fourty-four million lightyears away from home. „If i understand you correct, the humans here are identical to us, but not to lemurans and tefrodans?“ wanted Takor Kasom to know. „Does this increase or reduce the probability of the humans of this galaxy being descendants of our lemuran ancestors?“ „I really can´t help you.“ answered Gruber. The frustration in his voice was clearly audible. „The closeness of tefrodans and the terrans of today after fifty-thousand years of seperated evolution is unlikely enough, but it exists. I can´t even answer the question how much weight natural evolution bears in the process. New species of animals evolve because they adapt to different enviromental conditions. Sentinent beings change the enviroment to suit their needs. If the humans of this galaxy are of lemuran origin, they „evolved“ the same way as us terrans. Two identical populations of humans seperated by a distance of two-hundred-fourty-four MILLION lightyears and fifty-thousand years of time. It should be impossible, but the evidence lays in our sick-bay.“ „Alright, alright.“ Perry tried to calm the tempers down. „Thank you Doctor. As far as i´m concerned we aren´t going to get the answers we want now. Perhaps the interrogation of the prisoner by John and Andre will shed more light on this enigma. I´m confident, that sooner or later we will find an answer.“ „Or the answers will find us.“ mocked Gucky. „I only hope we won´t have to walk into a time-trap and visit the past or will be thrown into another galaxy far, far away.“ The Ilt had a point there. We had „solved“ the riddle of the likeness between terrans and tefrodans by travelling into the past and we had discovered the secret origins of the halutans in M87, thirty-two million lightyears away from the Milkyway. However, none of those „trips“ had been willingly and in both cases it had seemed impossible to return home. It had taken all of our skills, determination, a few dozen coincidences, a hand full of small miracles and a lot of luck to get out of those situations alive. Not everybody of our comrades had been that lucky. „Well, since we are equipted with a dimetrans-drive, at least the spacial distance will be no problem anymore.“ stated Ther Khein. „And until now i have seen nothing that indicates the existance of a time-machine or that the empire as the most advanced power inside this galaxy uses duplos as its troops.“ „We haven´t seen much of this empire so far, so don´t let your hopes rise too soon.“ reminded Icho Tolot with his rumbling voice. It sounded like an avalange going down. „But that would be a technical question and technical questions fall into your ressort, Professor.“ „Thank you.“ grumbled Arno Kalup, his mouth a thin line. „Professor.“ admonished Rhodan. „Please.“ „Alright, alright, young man. The engineering staff and i haven´t investigated all facts we could get about the technology of our new friends for nothing. Just give me a few moments to collect my thoughts.“ Kalup established a link between his note-pad and the conference-table and suddenly a hologram of the fighter used by the rebel-pilot appeared. The image was that perfect, that i would have thought it to be real, if i hadn´t known, that the vehicle was standing in one of our hangars. „What i´m going to tell you now is based on our examination of this fighter, an extrapolation of its abilities in comparison to the big ships of the empire, sensorreadings and information we were able to get from the droidbrain of the fighters astromech.“ „Astromech?“ wondered Goratschin. Kalup switched to another image and some kind of robot appeared, a robot with a height of perhaps one meter, a cylindrical shape and a halfsphere as head. „Astromech.“ answered Arno Kalup. „An R2-Unit, if we interpreted the data correctly. Gentlemen, we are confronted with the products of a technologie, that is vastly inferior to our own in some aspects, but also incredible superior in others. I´ll tell you more later.“ He switched back to the image of the captured fighter. „What we have here is a so-called X-Wing. Thats not its real designation, but the translation, that comes closest. Its name originates from its ability to seperate its wings or s-foils into a position, where it looks like a flying X if watched from behind or before. This way the fighter can increase its fields of fire and manouverability. With a lenght of twelve and a half meter it is a lot shorter, than one of our „Lightning-Jets“ which are twenty-six meters long.“ „And they have a crew of two men, while this „X-Wing“ is a one-man-fighter.“ dared Ther Khein to interrupt the scientist, what caused Arno Kalup to glare angrily at him. „You don´t have to defend our fighters, if you are willing to hear me out.“ stated the Professor with a voice, that was dangerously low. „If i may continue.“ I had a hard time not to chuckle. There was something about the look in Arno Kalups eyes, that allowed him to turn grown men and brave soldiers back into small children, who have been cought with their hands in the cookie-can. „A reactor, comparable in some aspects to the ones used by us, produces the energie by the fusion of a wide array of elements. Considerations of fuel shouldn´t be to much of a problem because of this.“ I nodded in agreement. A rebel-movement had to use, what it could get. The ability to use different kinds of fuel reduced the dependancy on a single or limited number of fuel-sources. „What about reach? Weapons? Shields?“ wanted Kasom to know. „With full fuel-tanks this fighter would have an average reach of fifty-thousand lightyears, plus/less five-thousand lightyears depending on the used fuel and used speed. The higher the speed, the lower the reach. The shields are ordinary ray- and particle-shields. We already observed them at their capital ships during the battle of ORD Friggas. While the ray-shields are close to the hull, the particle-shields can be extended several meters away from it. Against transform-cannons they offer no protection.“ „Damned.“ muttered Ther Khein. „The transform-cannons of our fighters are designed for the use against capital ships. Against fighters bombs with twenty gigatons explosive power are wasted.“ „In that case we have to use the impuls-cannons.“ stated Rhodan. „Or modify the transform-cannons of our fighters for smaller calibres and more bombs. What about the weapons?“ „Well, the X-Wing is armed with four laser-cannons, one kiloton per shot. Individually they are less powerful than the impuls-cannons of our fighters, but there are four of them and the fire-frequency is higher. Next to the lasers there are six guided missiles with a warhead of one and a half kiloton each.“ „You said they are highly manouverable. What are their accelerative capabilities?“ this question came from Perry. The days of my friend being an elite- and testpilot of the U.S.AirForce were long gone, but obviously not forgotten. In air- or space-fighter-combat manouverability and with that acceleration are more important, than simple speed. „200 kilometers per square-second.“ answered Kalup. „In that case we have nothing to fear.“ sneared Ther Khein. „Don´t be so sure about that.“ warned Kasom. As an USO-Specialist Takor Kasom saw many things in a different light, than the common member of the fleet. „Oh, come on, Kasom. Weapons in the kiloton range won´t scratch our highenergie-overload-shields and the acceleration of our Lightning-Jets is with 850 kilometers per square-second more than four times as high. They are armed with one impuls-cannon with five kilotons per shot and one transform-cannon with three bombs with twenty gigatons each and a reach of twelve million kilometers. A snowball in hell would have better chances than one of those X-Wings against one of our fighters. If this is the best this rebel-alliance and the GalacticEmpire as its counterpart has to offer, we have nothing to fear.“ There was a long silence at the conference-table, after the commanding officer of the „DantesInferno“ was finished speaking. Every member of our small circle was considering, what we had heard. „I would agree with you, Commodore.“ Perry finally said. „However, i seem to remember, that Professor Kalup was also speaking of aspects of the alien technologie, that are superior to ours. Am i correct?“ ---- Hmmmm, does anybody know, who is from Londons WestEnd (small hint: Ewan McGregor is his nephew, if i have my facts correct). -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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Spike2002 Title: FF-UK RSA Arena Manager Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 1/8/03 8:27am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Denis Lawson, the guy who plays Wedge is Ewan McGregor's uncle. Nwah ha ha, being english has its advantages:p -----signature----- "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke I agree with halibut Master to Louis_Skywalker Proud Recipient of the Golden Elegos™
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 1/15/03 6:01am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Seems i shouldn´t have given the hint with Ewan McGregor. I hope everybody understood the irony of the scene. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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Spike2002 Title: FF-UK RSA Arena Manager Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 1/16/03 8:23am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	I did. Dunno about anyone else. -----signature----- "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke I agree with halibut Master to Louis_Skywalker Proud Recipient of the Golden Elegos™
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 1/21/03 12:58pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	As soon as i have finished the update of "The tale of Darth Vaders Son", it will be time for the next part of this story, with which we will leave the "techno-babble" behind and i´m wondering, where to continue. We can return to the system of Bakura, that is still under siege by the Ssi-Ruuk, we can have a look at what the rebels are doing, we can watch out for the arrival of the Akons or we can accompany Vader witnessing the "Infernos" arrival at Coruscant. What would you prefer? -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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Spike2002 Title: FF-UK RSA Arena Manager Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 1/24/03 5:40am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Coruscant sounds good to me. -----signature----- "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke I agree with halibut Master to Louis_Skywalker Proud Recipient of the Golden Elegos™
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 2/2/03 4:28am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Up! -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 2/5/03 1:33pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Finished a new part of "The tale of Darth Vaders Son", so this story will be the next to be updated. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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Spike2002 Title: FF-UK RSA Arena Manager Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 2/9/03 5:12am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Excellent. Looking forward to this. -----signature----- "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke I agree with halibut Master to Louis_Skywalker Proud Recipient of the Golden Elegos™
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 2/20/03 12:48pm Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Life sucks. I hate everybody and everything. Now, things are not as worse as they sound, but bad enough. Not only am i going through my usual spring-depressions, but there are also things, that demand more of my attention than usual. I hope i can post a new part on sunday. Sorry for the long delay. See you. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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Spike2002 Title: FF-UK RSA Arena Manager Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 2/22/03 10:52am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Prozac really helps, stopped me from becoming an alcoholic wreck. -----signature----- "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke I agree with halibut Master to Louis_Skywalker Proud Recipient of the Golden Elegos™
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 2/26/03 8:14am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Yes, i know, it is a long time past sunday, but this update turned bigger and more complicated, than expected. That happens if you start with techno-babble and want to bring it to an end, too. Not to forget the little history-lessons. I think the next part will bring us back to the rebels and until then i hope you´ll enjoy this update. See you. The Colliding of Empires The Imperial Star Destroyer has enough firepower to reduce a civilized world to slag or take on a fleet of lesser enemy vessels. There are whole nations which, throughout their entire history, do not use as much energy as an Imperial expends to make a single hyperspace jump ImperialSourcebook, Capital Ships. „Yes. But let me add something about the laser-cannons first. As you know a laser in the vacuum of space would be invisible until having contact with matter. Not good, if you are a pilot and want to know, where your shots are going. The people who engineered the weapons of the X-Wing and probably the other laser-weapons in this galaxy have solved the problem by using some kind of plasma as tracer.“ „Let me guess, this plasma is based on the tibanna-gas, that was mined on Tholaris IV?“ interrupted Takor Kasom. „You are right, Major.“ answered Kalup with an angry glare at the man from Ertrus. Contrary to Ther Khein Kasom wasn´t impressed. I didn´t knew, if this was because of his USO-training or his self-confidance. Like his father Melbar Takor Kasom sometimes appeared to be a braggart. Fortunately for him he was always able to back up his claims and his bragging was mixed with a good-natured humour. Otherwise it would be impossible to endure the presence of the ertrusan for long. „In other words, those lasers are comparable to our thermo-blasters and cannons.“ i added quickly. „As interesting as this sounds, would you please continue, Professor.“ Kalup blew up his cheeks and sighed. „If you wish, Lordadmiral.“ „The Lordadmiral wishes.“ stated Rhodan dry. My friend is willing to grant his top-personal a lot of things and a lot of liberties, but for that those specialists, who form the elite of the SolarEmpire have to be able to endure the „echo“. „Very well. Of course the laser travels with lightspeed, while the plasma needs more time to reach the target. An interesting side-effect is, that the tracer attacks the particle-shields. After all, a laser-beam as pure energy has no effects on particle-shields. Now it wouldn´t make sense for a fighter-sized craft to carry huge canisters of plasma as ammunition, but for the cannons of a big ship... . By combining the destructive effects of an extremely powerful laser and superheated plasma you get a weapon able to fight ray- and particleshields. And that brings us to the capital ships of our new friends.“ Kalup pressed a button and the holographic image of the X-Wing vanished and was replaced with holograms of two of the dagger-shaped images of the one mile long imperial warships. „Until now those imperial vessels have been the ones we were able to observe the most. With a volume of more or less ninty million cubic-meters they are slightly larger than our battle-cruisers with a diameter of five-hundred meters, but smaller than those with a diameter of six-hundred-fifty meters. We already agreed, that they serve as escort for the big battleship and their role was confirmed, when we learned, that they are called stardestroyers by the empire.“ Kalup made a small pause to take a sip from his glas of water, then he continued. „You may wonder why there are two holograms, well the answer is, we discovered, that there are several key-differences between the two ships.“ „Which ships do we see here?“ asked Icho Tolot. „The first ship is the „Devastator“. We classified it as D-Class-Destroyer until we know its proper designation. The other ship is the „Avenger“. „Don´t say a word, let me guess“. This was Gucky. „A-Class.“ We did the small being from Tramp the favour and erupted in laughter. After the noise had calmed down, Perry ordered Kalup to explain the differences. „Considering lenght, height and wide both ships are nearly identical.“ started the scientist. „ The major differences are the bridge-towers, the weapons and the energy-readings. I´ll come to that later.“ Arno Kalup pointed at the bridge of the „Devastator“. „As you can see the face of the „Devastator´s“ bridge-tower is very flat and there are only small windows. In case of a shield-failure, the bridge of this vessel will be better protected, than the bridge of ships like the „Avenger“ which has close to twenty meter wide nodules of windows.“ „Or the „Executor““. added Ther Khein. „I wonder, why somebody would do something like this?“ „Perhaps to get a better view over the battle-field.“ suggested Goratschin. „If you have no windows you are totally dependant on your sensors.“ „And space isn´t always the best enviroment for sensors. Not to forget the problems caused by artificial means.“ stated Perry. „You are speaking of sensor-jamming, Sir.“ mused the commanding officer of the „Dantes Inferno“. „Of electronic warfare. What does this tell about their combat-abilities?“ „Depends.“ answered Takor Kasom. „Probabely shorter ranges for capital ship-combat, than our ships. Considering the size of their fighters and the possibility of electronic countermeasures against targeting-looks their fighters are probabely only effective against another fighter at ranges of two to three kilometers despite possible ranges of their weapons in the thousands of kilometers.“ „Not to forget the time a laser-blast would need to to cover a certain distance“, added Icho Tolot. „Even with the best sensors and computer-assisted targeting it has to be extremely difficult to hit twelve-meter big targets like one of those X-Wings, that can cover thousands of kilometers in seconds.“ „Lets get back to the big ships.“ suggested Perry. „Very well. The next major difference are the weapons. The most heavy weapons of the „Devastator“ are to the right and left of the dorsal superstructure of the ship. There are four huge, bulky turrets with a diameter of fifty meters on each side. Each turret has two massive barrels. You may notice, that the first turret on each side is formed slightly different, than the other three, what indicates another kind of weapon. If we scale up the fighter-sized weapons we have to assume a firepower of at least five-thousand gigatons for those heavy cannons. Other heavy weapons are three turrets at the spine of the ship and inside the side-trenches. Besides that we counted more than hundred smaller weapons-emplacements.“ „Alright, that is the „Devastator“. What about the „Avenger“, i demanded to know. „Now that is the part, where things get interesting, Lordadmiral.“ answered Arno Kalup. The scientist showed me and Perry a dangerous grin. For a short moment the thought occured to me, how much out of place Kalup seemed to be in this briefing. For the last fivehundred years the man had belonged to the top-scientists of the SolarEmpire and, if faith didn´t have other plans for him and us, would belong to them till the end of time. And while this thought seems to lack humility anything else would be wishing ill. Kalup was immortal. So were Perry Rhodan, i and several other people. I was the oldest person among them. Thanks to my cell-activator i had survived the last ten-thousand years. But that didn´t mean, that during this incredible long time my life hadn´t been threatened. Earth had been a very dangerous place during those ten-thousand years and the universe would always be. I couldn´t die of old age, but an act of violence could end my life. As well as the loss of my activator for more the sixty-two hours. The opportunities, where i could have been killed were to much to count. There had been times, when i had wondered about the generosity of the super-intelligence, who had given me the cell-activator, until i learned, that my survival was some kind of statistic anomaly. Most beings immortal thanks to a cell-frequency-activator didn´t last as long as i have. Well, the „Masters of the Island“ from Andromeda had survived for twenty-thousand years, but that hadn´t saved them from getting killed one after the other during the Andromeda-war. That doesn´t mean, that things can´t go different. Anne Sloan, a member of the mutant-corps had been killed only a few months after she had recieved her activator. Poor Anne, the woman had belonged to the first members of the mutant-corps, back in the seventies of the twenty century. Like every important co-worker of Perry Rhodan she had recieved the live-prolonging cell-shower after my friend had solved the galactic-riddle of the super-intelligence with immortality as reward. Anne had survived the following three-hundred years until the access to the physiotron was no longer possible. To make up for it the super-intelligence had spread twenty-five cell-activators and Perry had been forced to decide, who of his co-workers and friends for centuries would live and who would die. It had been a hard time for my friend. Anne Sloan had belonged to the lucky ones. She had gotten one of the cell-activators. And a few months later she was dead. Murdered by a traitor, who had wanted eternal life for himself, not that it had helped him much, since he had been killed only days later. Looking over my assembled friends i realise how lucky we have been so far and... . „ ... the main turrets of the Avenger are less bulkier, than those of the Devastator and, Atlan? Is everything alright?“ Kalup calling my name turned my attention back to present. „Hmmm, what is it?“ „I asked, if everything is alright.“ Somehow Arno Kalup managed to sound concerned and annoyed at the same time. „It is very impolite to sleep, when somebody else is talking.“ added Gucky, making a very serious face. „How embarrassing. What shall our younger men and officers think of you?“ The little being was pulling my leg. „I wasn´t sleeping.“ i tried to defend myself. „No, but you had this faraway look on your face.“ stated Perry. Thank you, old friend. „I´m sure the Lordadmiral was considering matters of great importance.“ tried Kasom to defend me. I´m his boss after all, but it was still a nice gesture. I decided i had enough of the game and nodded my head towards Kalup. „My apologies, Professor. You have to forgive an old man for being a little eccentric after tenthousand years. Please go on.“ „Something is really wrong with you.“ stated Gucky. „Since when are you so gentle and reserved?“ „Unlike a certain mousebeaver we all know?“ Goratschin commented dryly. „Contrary to you daredevil, Atlan doesn´t search for trouble.“ „No, the trouble comes to him. Much more economic.“ mocked Ther Khein. „Bah. He is just very good at covering his tracks.“ muttered Gucky, who had noticed, that he was now the object of his friends good-natured mockery. „If we may continue with the matters at hand.“ called Perry for order, saving the mousebeaver. „The majority of those assembled in this briefing might be immortal, but time doesn´t stand still for anyone of us.“ We all leaned back in our seats and started to listen to Arno Kalups explenations. „As i already said, the heavy turrets flanking the side of the dorsal superstructure of the „Avenger“ are less bulky, than their counterparts on ships like the „Devastator“. The barrels of the turbolasers are longer and much more slender. However, since they take less space, there are more of them. Eight barrels per turret to be precise for a total number of thirty-two on one side and a total number of sixty-four. We estimate their firepower to be somewhere around thousand-fivehundred gigatons.“ „Very impressive.“ commented Ther Khein. „So while they reduced the fire-power of the individual cannon, their total fire-power has stayed the same.“ „Not necessarily.“ answered Arno Kalup. „Comparisons with our own research concerning termo-blasters as energie-weapons and impuls-cannons as plasma-based weapons have lead us to the assumption, that the fire-frequency, the number of shots you can fire in a certain frame of time, has been at least doubled, if we compare the smaller barrels of the „Avengers“ main cannons with those of the „Devastator“.“ „So they actually have doubled their total fire-power.“ brought Perry the explenation of Arno Kalup to the point. „Yes. A broadside from the „Devastator“ would equal thirty-thousand gigatons of TNT. Thirty-two-thousand gigatons of TNT for a broadside fired by the „Avenger“, but two of them in the same time it takes the „Devastator“ to fire one.“ „Not to forget, that they can fight a larger number of targets at the same time.“ added Icho Tolot. „Of course, those would have to be smaller ships.“ „I remember what Vader said about their history. He said they had a great war two decades ago. If i would have to make a guess, i would say that ships like the „Devastator“ were concieved as battleships, while the ships of the „Avenger“-type are also fit for police-duty.“ mused Rhodan. „Interesting, don´t you think? Especially now, that they have to fight an uprising.“ „Oh, as i already said, the really interesting thing is still to come.“ added Arno Kalup. „Your words in our ear, Professor.“ stated Kasom. The genius manipulated some of the displays and some kind of chart appeared. My eyes turned into slits, when i read the discription on its axis. „What we have hear is a chart of the energy-level of the „Avenger“ before the ship activated its faster-than-light-drive and jumped into linear-space. As you can see there is a high amplitude in the energy-reading at the moment of the jump. It seems, that while our ships „slide“ into the faster-than-light-realm between the fourth and fifth dimension parallel to the Einstein-universe, for the ships of the GalacticEmpire going faster than lightspeed is a rather violent act of force, in some ways comparable to our old jump- or warp-drives. I might add, that we had no problems to detect them with our sensors while travelling through linear-space.“ Kalup was silent for a moment. „Gentlemen and gentlebeings, according to those sensor-readings the maximum power-output of one of those mile long stardestroyers nearly equals the power-output of a small star. This is equal to hundred yotta-joules or 10^26 joules per second for an average of fifty yotta-joules observed for the „Avenger, which doubled at the moment of its jump.“ „I don´t see, where the problem is.“ stated Dr. Gruber, who had been silent since Arno Kalup had started with his part of the briefing. „If i remember my lessons in physics about the acceleration of masses correctely the „Dante´s Inferno“ needs the same energy for its maximum acceleration of seven-hundred-twenty kilometers per square-second.“ „Correct Doctor.“ answered Ther Khein. „Just that the ship producing this energy is nearly a hundred times smaller than the „Inferno“. Grubers eyes became wide, when realisation hit him. „Ohhh.“ was all he could say. „You mean, they have access to an energy-source hundred times more powerful than ours?“ asked Takor Kasom. „Actually it would be two-hundred-times as powerful.“ corrected Icho Tolot. „Do we have any idea how they do it?“ wanted Perry to know. I knew him long enough to notice the hidden gleam in his eyes. Over the centuries i had seen this look more than once. „Unfortunately we can only make guesses, since we don´t have enough information to answer that question.“ answered Kalup, blowing up his cheeks. „It certainly can´t be a fusion-process based on myon-stabilised, ultra-dense deuterium. Otherwise we should have discovered it during the last five-hundred years.“ With his thick fingers Kalup rubbed his nose, if out of frustration for being confronted with questions he couldn´t answer or simply because he was tired i couldn´t say. After a moment he continued. „Of course we tried to find an answer by looking at the few pieces of the alien technology and the only thing we were able to find were some references in the droidbrain of the astromech about something called „hypermatter“. Of course this term can cover a lot of explenations.“ „Such as?“ „An incredibly compressed kind of matter from hyperspace as fuel. If so it has to be stabilized somehow and then there have to be facilities, which extract it out of hyperspace into our own universe. An artificial blackhole. A singularity, that works as gate for hyperenergies. Those possibilities would neutralize the need for fuel-tanks. Pulsars and quasars for stationary objects. When they talk about hypermatter, they can mean every one of those possibilities. We are researching such possibilities of power-production, too, but we have barely scratched the surface and such things need their time.“ I could only agree with him. To my shame i have to admit, that my people, the Arkonides, had taken the saying „if it works, don´t change it“ to the extrem. Since our people had only been colonists from Akon, whose people themself were just descandents of lemuran origin, many technologies – like linear-drive for example - had been lost and other possibilities to replace established technologies had never been researched with much determination. We had been far to occupied with the conquest of our own empire. 1971 Perry Rhodan had been sent to the moon by the NASA, where he had met with Thora and Khrest, who had been leading an expedition to find the world of eternal life. At this time the majority of Arkonides was suffering from degeneration and their empire crumbling. Funny, that i think of it as „their“ empire. But i had been forced to spent ten-thousand years on earth and this time alone had created a gap, that made it impossible for me to feel related to the pitiful Arkonides of today. And although this situation has improved since the destruction of the Robot-Regent and my half century as emperor of Arkon, i´m still more like a terran, than one of todays Arkonides. May they call me a servant of the terrans or a mercenary or worse, but that is the way it is. But while the Arkonides were degenerated, their technology was not and it was still millenia ahead of everything the terrans of the late twenty century could ever dream of. Suddenly earths humans had been able to cover centuries, if not millenias of scientific exploration and research in a few years and they needed much more time to emancipate themself from this „gift“, that had suddenly been dropped into their lap. The linear-drive is a prime example for this: While our common ancestors from Lemur had the linear-drive and their colonists on Akon, too, the Arkonides had lost this technology and relied on by comparison primitive jump- or warp-drives. Only after the first contact and the war with the Druuf in the year 2040 did the terrans realize, that there were other possibilites to travel faster than light. Even with stolen plans and a working example of such a device from a captured Druuf-ship it took sixty years and the genious mind of Arno Kalup until the first terran ship with a linear-drive left the shipyard. Kalup had spoken about time. Another matter were resources. Resources to test theories in praxis. Resources the earth of the late twenty century had clearly lacked as well as the then young SolarEmpire, that had to keep its assets and installations hidden from its enemies. Add different political and scientific priorities of research and it shouldn´t come as a wonder, that some things had only been „scratched at the surface“. „Alright.“ brought Perry the discussion to the point. „Considering the potential of an energy-source two-hundred times stronger than the best we have to offer, this „hypermatter“ has to be top-priority. Do we all agree on that?“ Of course there was only one answer. -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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Spike2002 Title: FF-UK RSA Arena Manager Registered: Feb '02	Date Posted: 2/27/03 7:08am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	Yeah, complete technobabble but a good comparison of Imperial ships and their weapons and hyperdrive. -----signature----- "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke I agree with halibut Master to Louis_Skywalker Proud Recipient of the Golden Elegos™
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FTeik Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 3/3/03 11:14am Subject: RE: The Colliding of Empires: A Star Wars / Perry-Rhodan-Crossover AU
	I wonder if everybody understood what "i" was talking about. If not feel free to ask. Oh, and i´ve updated the "Union of the Empires greatest Warriors". -----signature----- My first completet story: Pride's Prize: http://boards.theforce.net/message.aspx?topic=22758760 "In the Battle of Coruscant alone, hundreds of millions of battle droids saw action on the ground and in space. " Insider #86 - The story of General Grievous
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