Intergalactic Summit

Greetings to the Summit.

Those of you who know me may know that I specialize in the various sights that can be viewed across known (and, to the extent we can access it, unknown) space. I try to keep tabs on certain sites of particular interest to me, including the object that brings me to the Summit today, the Violent Wormhole in Promised Land.

For those of you who may not be familiar, with Violent Wormhole is a relic of Sansha Kuvakei's initial incursions into CONCORD space, when he was appeared to be directly controlling the fleets. Apparently using some sort of technology able to generate wormholes still unknown to us (though, based on further findings, speculated to be derived from Talocan technology), he was able to flee from the heart of CONCORD space, initially resting in the system of Promised Land, near the Eve Gate, before retreating entirely to his hidden base. Although the Yulai-Promised Land wormhole quickly collapsed, the Promised Land-home base wormhole survives to this day, although its gravitational sheer and exotic radiation means it would be deadly for any ship, probe, or capsuleer to pass through. Given my interest in where Sansha Kuvakei is hidden and where he obtained his wormhole technology, I've made a point of checking in on the Promised Land WH every so often (in fact probably more frequently than necessary).

The wormhole in Promised Land has remained relatively unchanged for years. An increase in camera drone resolution allowed a better view through the wormhole's aperture, as you can see here and here, which surprisingly seemed to indicate that the wormhole's other aperture was somewhere in the region of Pure Blind, but after the discovery of epicenters with violent wormholes of their own that also appeared to terminate in Pure Blind (and a thorough search through Pure Blind with the help of interested capsuleers), however, I dismissed it as an odd visual artifact.

Yesterday, however, I visited the Promised Land wormhole and noted a significant change. Although the view through the wormhole remained unchanged, the entire view from the other side has been shifted to the red end of the visible spectrum. A few images taken from my camera drones can be viewed here. Note that you can still make out the familiar contours of Cloud Ring, even if it's color has been red-shifted.

On a hunch, I decided to investigate the other known example of violent wormholes found at Talocan epicenters in certain Anoikis systems. The most easily found example can be found in Thera. As can be seen in my image gallery, the violent wormholes in the Thera epicenter display a similar shift in coloration to the red end of the spectrum while maintaining the same view. I have little reason to doubt that other epicenters display similar changes.

I'm at a loss to explain the change in coloration, or precisely what it means, but perhaps greater minds than mine may be able to determine the reason for the change. I look forward to any insights anyone may have.

So we may have a fairly stable link to yet another area of space millions of light years away.

What i wouldn't give for drifter stabilization tech right now...

I'll make sure this happens on the next fleet, if we don't send a scout by themselves beforehand.

I'm going to facetiously suggest that this is a Sign of the Blood Age of Blood's imminent bloody arrival, and/or a Sign of the End Times.
"End Times ahead, next left", says the Sign. Woe to the Unbelievers, for the Blood Age of Blood is Arriving. Woe.

There you go, this will allow you to get your denials about this being some kind of apocalyptic Sign in early, before the real crazies start arriving.

Otherwise, "Hmmm, curious."

I had my associate look into it in J010000.

He confirms the visual artifact on all 5 Violent Wormholes present, some images over here.

No notable changes at the epicenter site itself, no changes in spatial rifts present. Three sleepers still patrol it.

I relish the opportunity to crush you [Valerie Valate] in space.

Hello Mark,

Excellent work.

I'll have to disagree with Ms. Priano's hunch that this is the result of "an improvement in the mediation system" in regards to our optical interface. We're still using the same equipment, and in viewing any other celestial object, we're "seeing" things with the same degree of accuracy as before. Ergo, the change is within the violent wormholes.

As Mr. Biko suggested, this could be a matter of "redshift." Redshift occurs when light or other electromagnetic radiation from an object is increased in wavelength, or shifted to the red end of the spectrum. Basically, whenever a light source moves away from an observer. This could indicate a lengthening (an oversimplification) of the distance from our side of the wormholes to the other. This could theoretically happen if the "exit" system were in a Coreward position relative to our own in the galaxy. In short, the exit is closer to galactic center than we are, and is now moving away from our position at a greater rate of speed. However, this could be a case of relativistic optical effect, separate from the underlying Lorentz contraction which is the same for an object moving toward an observer or away. Or, we're Coreward and the exit location is Spinward. Aberration of light (also referred to as astronomical aberration or stellar aberration) is an astronomical phenomenon which produces an apparent motion of celestial objects about their locations dependent on the velocity of the observer.

I don't think this is the case, however. We haven't noticed any appreciable redshift or blueshift in relation to wormholes leading to J -Space or Thera, which would indicate that they are "close" to us in relation to other points in the galaxy. We're in the same "neighborhood." While we have much to learn about wormhole generation, I think it might be safe to say that it would require a great deal more energy to produce a wormhole that could lead outside the "short" ranges we've seen (Ever notice how a Titan can only "jump" within a certain number of nearby star systems? Same thing.). So the exit systems would have to be in the same range to us as is Thera or J-Space. There is, of course, the possibility that these wormholes could lead different facets of the "multiverse," but let's not get too exotic.Nine times out of ten, the simpler answer is the most likely.

I think it's more likely that the "exit" system has been changed. There are many systems in K-Space and J-Space that have Red Giant stars. While it would be tedious to try and examine each of them, it seems to me that we're looking through the same distortion, but at a different destination. If it's not Cloud Ring, then where?

I'm not going to begin to guess why or how the exit system has changed. I'm not going to indulge Ms. Valate's "Blood Age" fantasy. But until we know more, this should be a cause for continued study, if not concern. There's still too much we don't know to begin to construct an actual hypothesis. Right now, we need data.

If there's anything I can do to assist in collecting data, please let me know.

Huh.

ECAID has confirmed that the disappearance of the red colour is the result of software fixes. So, either it was a bug, or CONCORD is covering things up.

I can also confirm that the redshift effect seems to be gone.

We've had a C414 Wormhole in the area, so I lead a few of our newer pilots on an exploration mission.

And while CONCORD does hide a great deal, I still don't believe this is connected to them. Something is changing.

Let's be ready.