Exploration: The Third Book in the Celeste Trilogy Chapter 2, and 3

 Chapter 2

Larry Keysmann and Helda Heldagaard meet with Frank Elderhoss at the Kalest Institute For Intergalactic Travel.

Frank: Now that we can do intergalactic travel and our first missions, and our intergalactic starship is built, let me outline the basic plan for the mission you and Helga will be commanding. You two were the perfect choice because without you we would not even have this intergalactic technology, that is if it wasn’t for your missions to Celeste and Ensayo. As well you Larry, a mathematician and computer scientist and Helga you a historian it works out well. You two have educations that will allow for mission reliability, in that you Larry are technologically and mathematically savant. Many of the worlds you will be visiting will be in their primitive stages, and this requires a command of anthropology and archaeology of other planets, which You Helga have from your doctorate in History. Some of the worlds you visit will be more advanced than we are, and this will require your understanding of higher mathematics Larry, especially in its applications to physics.

Your mission will begin with first a voyage to the nearest large galaxy, to Kremlon, in order keep things simple for the first mission of this intergalactic cruiser. Then, since the universe gets younger as you go inwards towards its center you will go there first. This, since as you know, the luminosity of a star is given by its mass raised to the power of 3.5, and since

Au/Fe=3.5

That is gold over iron in molar mass is 3.5 then we have:

L=M^(Au/Fe)

Our scientists believe this is important because one of the first tools developed by us in our early development as an intelligent life form, was iron tools. And, in our later development was highly conductive electrical circuitry using gold wires. Thus, first you will look for life in the younger inner universe, then to the older inner universe (less far in and closer to us). Then, to the outer younger universe (presumably more advanced that we are) and then to the older outer universe (even more advanced). Then, to the outer reaches of the Universe, then, report back to us… 

Chapter 3

The Starship was built in orbit around Kalest. It was about a half a kilometer long and and quarter of a kilometer wide. It used a technology that circulated negative tachyons between positive and negative tachyon poles within tardyon field generators. Using this new tachyon technology, it had gravity without the need for creating gravity restricted to rotating compartments utilizing centripetal force.

The ship had 200 cabins, each equipt with two beds and a kitchenette with a small plastic dining table. The kicthenette which was a small counter with a cybercooker embedded in the wall above it. The small plastic dining table was in the kitchenette. There was a small bathroom as well. Each cabin had a Kalest gravity to mimic life on the home planet of its residents.

At the front of the ship, in the command capsule, Larry ordered the technicians to make the first jump out of their star system. Then to another star system and so on until the ship was at the edge of the galaxy. Once just outside of it, whoosh! The ship made the jump to the nearest large galaxy to theirs. They arrived in no time as well. Then, once inside of it, they made jumps from star system to star system, looking for one suitable to their needs, around which they would go into orbit, and then teleport down to the surface of a planet with an exploration crew. Teleportation over short distances had been done in their early space exploration days since the early development of it from the discovery of the spooky action at a distance consequence of quantum mechanics, known as quantum teleportation.