Intergalactic Summit

Touch it and I'll shred everything and every one you send.

Tell me Anslo, who recruited you into the Interstellar Knee-Jerk Reaction Squad? They're clearly not being paid enough for their spectacular membership scouting abilities.

Knee-Jerk? More like Drama-Pot-Stirrer Club.

Problem? Show up at area with problem and exacerbate the problem. Draw attention to self.

That's what it looks like to me.

I say start evacuating first, dismantle second. We do not know if the device is rigged to activate at the slightest provocation. Might want to set up a quarantine zone while the evacuation is in progress.

Site One is compromised, if the (fake?) Hilen transmission was anything to go by. The one where artifacts are being dropped in Site One. Quarantine will thus ensure that nothing gets in and nothing gets out, to minimise the probability of the acceleration gate being tampered with, IF it's not already tampered with. Also, the personnel who worked on Site One should be tracked down and questioned, and every document related to Site One should be recovered and studied, priority being placed to locating contradictions, omissions and tampering.

Well we did force you to dock for an entire night and you have yet to come back to help the Cal/gal warzone. So I guess you are right!

With all due respect, there are 709 type K5 stars in the New Eden cluster, including the 216 in wormhole space; admittedly, it's a bit of a stretch to include wormhole space in a summary of the cluster, but you get the point. For instance, the Dead End and Exit systems have a K5 star; we could as easily engage in making tinfoil headware of that as well. We could claim a gun is pointed at the collective head of the Intaki people, given their star; or that a symbolic blow to CONCORD could come from blowing up the star of Youl; or a crushing blow to the Gallente capsuleer economy with the loss of Dodixie; or what about Roua, the only named system in the domain of the Society of Conscious Thought?

In brief, beware apophenia.

I know it's difficult in this trying and tumultuous time, but beware it all the same.

I wonder if there is a connection between the destruction of red giants and theological paradigms?

Lets see, having been born in Eram, and after leaving the RMS, lived there aside from the last 9 months, nothing seems to be different. I will say I haven't been there in a month or two, but I highly doubt that anything has changed that much. Please bare in mind I'm not an expert on what's going on in site one or whatever. What exactly has changed in the last month?

Hmm..... makes sense, but still its just speculation right? I Just don't see why we should react due to a shadow rather than anything that we can truly prove. Yes, it happened in W477-P, but who's to say it'll happen in Eram, ya know?

Being born and living most my young life on Eram I, I have a strong tie to Eram and it's sister system Yrmori. I was concerned when I first heard of Site One being built in Eram but in the end I saw it mostly as a good thing, providing the system with some extra trade and, at least until now, no real extra costs at the expense of those living there.

Certainly the extra attention it's received in the past few months has been alarming for me, even causing me to raise my standings with the Republic again so I could re-enter my own home and check on it myself. Despite my concerns, I still think you are jumping quite far.

Yes, both systems share, or shared, a K5 Red Giant. Since Ms. Priano already pointed it out I will just restate; K5 Red Giants are not an uncommon thing. The nature of Red Giants is that they have already used the hydrogen fuel in their core and are slowly consuming the hydrogen floating outside. The surface temperatures are often cooler than before despite them growing in size and luminosity. The life of a Red Giant goes through many stages, expanding, collapsing, and sometimes expanding again before it collapses into a White Dwarf and ejecting extra gasses, creating a nebula.

This stage of the Red Giant is perhaps the most important, especially with all circumstances considered. Depending on the mass of the Red Giant, the star will fuse helium in different ways. If it is small enough, then something called a "helium flash" could occur, where the rate of fusion increases so dramatically that it creates more energy in a short period of time than it was ever able to before. This event only lasts a few seconds, but it perhaps could be something to investigate. Another event that could happen is of course a supernova.

A supernova can be caused by two known events but they both are a result of too much mass; in a binary system a white dwarf can literally suck the mass from another star into its own core; if it's a single lonesome star then it must be too massive when it contracts that it explodes as the gravity can no longer contain it.

K5 Red Giants are also known to be very stable and medium temperature on the scale of things. It is this final stage of their life that has the natural possibility to go supernova but because of it's size, it is unlikely.

Certainly it wasn't a natural supernova that occurred, as the circumstances surrounding it show, and I think anything that has that power doesn't need a specific type of star. I will say that Caroline's Star seems to now just be a nebula that we can see, and a green one at that. The color of the gas might be something worth investigating as well.

Another thing to note is that the Circadian Seekers and Drifters have both been keeping distance from Site One. Who knows why, but there is either hesitation or no need for them to visit that place so far. If they were using it as some sort of catalyst then I'd think they would be monitoring it regularly.

As for the state of the acceleration gate, Site One and even Arek'Jaalan was for the most part abandoned years ago with the disappearance of Tukoss and the A'J organization dying down to a murmur, only now resurrected into what is a shadow of its former glory. Quite frankly there is no need for the acceleration gate as there's very little need for extra space. Site Two may never be finished.

You're also going on a big assumption to say that all you need is a Talocan Static Gate or something similar, and a cache of Isogen-5 to make a star go supernova. Any proof for this?

It's not surprising to me to see people take small facts and try to piece them together into a larger "truth", after all, it's become even more common practice lately with all the unknowns flying around the cluster lately. I strongly warn people against taking such steps in their logic to jump to any rushed conclusions though. Accept that we know almost nothing and prepare for the worst, certainly, but you need supporting facts and evidence if you ever hope for such a petition to gain any momentum.

So with all that aside, I do respect the call of this petition for the Sebiestor and Republic to take action and do the best they can to safeguard themselves and their core systems, however, with all due respect, I think the conclusions and the reasons you found these conclusions are pretty far-fetched and it'd do a lot of good to perhaps do a similar petition with less "what-if" and more substantial facts and information.

-Eran

Edit: Corrected some misinformation/poor wording. I'm not an expert on stars by any means.