New Mexico, Arizona, California, then ocean, and it was safe to speed up to 0.2 c. Thunder and lightning behind her as she cut diagonally southwest across the plains, heading for desert and as much emptiness as possible for her trailing shockwaves at 10% of c. She checked that her land path was clear, cued a context dump to her visor, and went out the doorway at 50 kilometers per second, leaving the force fields to refill the gap that never held a physical door when she was on call. It wasn’t that he was unwilling it was just that there wasn’t usually much she could contribute if he was already there. The Volunteer rarely called her–or anyone else–for help. That didn’t happen often most interventions she did were her own, reacting to Database alerts.Ī request for assistance came in, from the western Pacific–inside the typhoon that was pounding the Philippines. A section of her time when others could call for assistance, knowing she was ready.
But it would be so much easier if human memories came with timestamps.Ī few weeks ago, not long after Stella had given that advice.įlicker was On Call. Your models of human memory were skewed by the Database–and Doc is not a good example to try to emulate. Take the memories as they come, don’t try to force them, even if they aren’t in order. Have an excerpt from the next chapter of Princess, out Soon (hopefully within the next 2 weeks.) Other stories page link here. Computer situation is still a bit rickety, and I’ve been having issues with rabid perfectionism and proper sequencing, but I wanted to thank all the people who have contacted me with support or just wondered if I was ever going to continue.
She knows a lot more than she is saying and acting surprised at things she has already guessed at, because having Doc talk to her about technical details is something that is psychologically useful at that point.īack at writing but it is going slowly. Now Doc has just met Stella, but he knows Flicker has talked to her at least a little about the aftereffects of Speedtest, as is shown in Princess. The temperature Doc quotes (4 billion K) would be too low as well, because the Hagedorn temperature (where nucleonic matter breaks down into a quark/gluon plasma, and that Flicker mentions in Princess) is above 1 trillon K, though that can be finessed as a surface temperature Flicker was concentrating her massive excess entropy in a small region inside her body in order to up her radiation rate of neutrinos, which were the only thing that could get out of ther body with sufficent efficiency while she held herself together 8-) I tried to stick close to the spirit of it, but there are a few things that will need to be revised because I was needlessly detailed before I had worked out the physics. I wasn’t thinking about continuity at all (it was just a disconnected vignette at that point). Mostly retcon - “Speed” is the single oldest thing I wrote that ended up in Fall, and I had barely started writing.
Is this a retcon and/or Doc shading the truth for someone he only just met and/or did Flicker conceal facts from Speedtest? He also doesn't mention that an outside attack was what caused her to lose control of her entropy-dumping which caused the disaster. In Princess ch.9, Flicker KNOWS that she got up to 0.99999994C and that she didn't finish. In "Speed" from Fall, Doc tells Stella that Flicker's 'estimated' max speed in Speedtest was 0.9999946C and that she was still accelerating at loop 50.
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