Intergalactic Summit

I started a repository of sightings on an unmonitored feed yesterday. Unsure why I did not also save the information here.

I will continue to update the feed as more information is available - currently the Bright Star is believed to be physically located in VYX2-I , N-K4Q0, or REZ-YZ in the BS8-ZQ constellation (credit to Joethemachine). W477-P in UUA-4 is also possible, and numerous reports have supported that system as the location.

I will update the repository as I can.

Caldari Prime?

What can I add to this? Not much, but what I've observed. This morning, I went out on patrol and there was a new star in my sky. This star was only visible elsewhere yesterday and nowhere last year. So while I don't believe physics is broken, I think our understanding of it is.

I know that even a new pilot like me is finding it ridiculously easy to find wormholes in The Forge.

I know this phenomena is visible here in Saisio, visible in Jita, visible from New Caldari.

Some of you say this could pose a threat? I don't think it is time to panic yet, but a little prudence and preparation couldn't hurt.

That's all I can add.

A question:

Is not the speed of light defined as distance traveled over time through a medium?

Isn't that how we are able to get around the speed of light in our ships on a routine basis? We generate a warp field ( and therefor a unique medium ) that allows megatons of solid matter to travel at speeds that exceed the apparent speed limit outside of the field?

Is it so strange to imagine a stellar event so energetic that it projects a similar field, one allowing for an apparent acceleration of near-massless photons to super-relativistic speeds?

This is, of course, the second time this has happened. We are obviously not looking at a unique phenomenon.

The Bright Star event of Y110 manifested in exactly the same way: as an ultra-energetic celestial visible simultaneously from all parts of the New Eden cluster. BSE110 disregarded the apparent laws of physics and the speed of light then, just as BSE116 is doing now. Whatever laws of physics we believe were and are being broken with BSE110 and now BSE116, the simple fact remains that a basic property of our universe is being demonstrated to us again, regardless of whether or not we understand it.

And of course, there is the theoretical ( because correlation does not equal causation ) side-effect of BSE110: the destabilization of local space allowing for the spontaneous formation of wormholes to other regions of space. Whether or not we will experience similar ( or possibly accelerated ) destabilization of local space is, in my opinion, the greater question at hand.

Let us not get so bound up in the argument over the 'how and why it happened' that we ignore the 'what do we do next if it happens the same way again?'

Do we know anything about the UUA-F4 region?

Last time something like this appeared it was outside charted space, but this is inside a region that is listed as having stargates but is unconnected to the cluster at large, much like Jove space, but unlike Jove space, I can't remember ever hearing any references to any possible inhabitants

This sort of analysis is outside my sphere of education. And while I'm not always about speculation, there were two key points in the recent news article that I think will become extremely important in the next few days.



As I recall correctly, the Imperial navy saw some recent success with a research operation. Surely I'm not the only one who's instinct is pointing towards some unknown relationship here. Other than simple coincidence.

The last time this has happened, we had unstable wormholes popping all over the place.

I conclude that both events are linked. Do we know exactly how these wormholes are generated?

This is probably going to be the strangest thing I'm saying today but I think the light from the object did not travel through space-time conventionally. They got to all these observable points by wormholes too small to be picked up by our equipment at the time. The object itself might actually be made entirely out of wormhole-generating seed materials, whatever it is.

The possible implications this could lead to are both highly interesting and highly concerning...
After digging though the reports by miss Grace, as well as new releases, what we have is a Star, that is growing brighter, and scientist within the empire who are essentially saying, "We do not know what the hell is happening".

Wormhole pilots have said that the star is not seen in w-space.

So,

More stragnely, early this morning our on board scanners detected stargates on the jove space dissappeared. together with regions A821-A, J7HZ-F, and UUA-F4..

Based on the radiation levels and UV signatures, these regions together with the stargetes just go poof in a giant supernova caused by the same anomaly publicly known as "Bright Star"