I take it you ran phase 3 on 6,6,36? If so now run phase 4 on it Phase Four: Human test run. Strap a few (preferably willing) conscious humans and perhaps roboticised humans into an autonomous drone and send them in. Five minutes then return. If they haven't gone immediately mad/dead/abominable, record their experiences and analyze. after careful analysis, if acceptable, move to phase five
Phase 1 on:
Phase one: Unmanned drones containing a sample of each element. Wait one minute, bring drone back if nothing explodes, dissolves, grows into an abomination, or otherwise becomes useless
11,28,89
42,42,42
7,19,90
the 6,6,36 probe came back with living but sick animals, remember? Sick animals that have started going critical and which scans reveal to have massive parasitic infestations. One of the rabbits has started vomiting baby spiders.
1. This universe seems abnormally small, and filled with some kind of fluffy pinkish red matter. No damage but also vacuum, very little heat and no gravity.
2. Only half the probe returns. It's been neatly sliced in half with a slight curve to the cut, as though a large circular section was removed and the probe just happened to intersect the edge of it. Beyond this, the probe's cameras reveal a universe of black smoke and haze. The probe comes back completely sterilized of all life, including in the sealed internal parts. Not even a single bacterium is left.
3. Null
Yeah. Phase 4 into Goo-verse. Some NPC's. Suited up and safe, of course.
Let's do phase 3 on 7,7,7? Nitrogen/Argon sounds... At least livable. Let's send some small animals to find out. One in a contained living bubble, the other outside. Let's see what happens.
The npcs report the universe to be a lot like being submerged in jello. They also report, however, that the stuff seems to have inconsistent currents and that the ship got dragged around a fair bit, though it was only perceptible because they were leaving glowsticks around. There's a mild sensation of gravity, in the same way you might get underwater; not powerful but existent. They report no negative symptoms.
The one outside suffocates, because nitrogen and argon aren't oxygen. The one inside is unharmed.
Alright, anyone want to go spelunking or are we leaving this to the NPCS?
(this is for the caverns universe. Anyone interested? Dester is going. (gotta get the ball rolling...)
Alright, is that it? No one else?
Playing with probes:
1.Try sending a probe to (0,0,1), which is null, and then sending it directly to (0,0,5), which is also null, without bringing it home first.
2.If that works, send a probe to the gooverse, and then transfer it to (0,0,1). Send a second probe from home to (0,0,1), make it examine the probe from the gooverse, and then bring it back. Leave the gooverse probe in (0,0,1). Does this all work as a way to examine universes without risking our own?
3.Regardless of the above results, send two probes to (0,0,9), which is null, then bring one back. Where was it, relative to the other?
4.Repeat the above experiment, but attempt to transfer one probe within the universe, to a set location relative to the other probe. Basically, if A is 500 meters in front of B, try to teleport A to 500 meters behind B, without teleporting to an intermediate universe.
5.If we can't teleport without changing universe, use (0,0,5) as an intermediate. Does that work?
Ask the Doc (over texts):
6."Is there any danger inherent to transferring between different universes frequently? If we did it often enough, is it possible we could attract the attention of something unpleasant?"
7."Is there any limit to how much we can transfer, beyond that? Does the machine have a limited number of uses, or do we require some sort of difficult-to-obtain fuel?"
Personal:
8.No, I have no more info on what the device I got for Christmas 2013 does. I never tested it, because I was terrified it was a bomb meant to solve my Tinker addiction. Still am, to be honest. Can you come up with a new function, or should we just assume it's a completely nonfunctional hunk of metal?
A strange machine; It's quite large, maybe three feet wide and 2 tall with a square central section and two circular lobes coming out of either side. The only controls are a button and a knob with numbers 1 to 10.
Put it on one of our warships, and put ten humans, five sods, and five robosods on the ship with it. Humans secured, sods not. Then, have one of the sods set the dial to 2, and press the button. Anything happen?
((@M26 team
I changed the universe format on our wiki page. Universes are now organized by contents, rather than coordinates. Does the new format work, or would people prefer the old? If the latter, it's easy to revert.
On a different topic, I'm starting to think we should just live in a null 'verse, at least to start. Since we can freely (and presumably cheaply) teleport between universes, we have essentially infinite resources to mine in other places. Setting up a massive space station in a null verse, for humanity to live in while they search for a better home, doesn't seem like a bad plan.
@Gentlefish
Thanks for asking, but I'm more interested in the mechanics of how universe hopping works. Knock yourself out with (7,7,7).))
1. the probes hops between the two and returns without issue.
2. You can move them through, if thats what your asking. Some of the goo from the gooverse is gonna stick to the probe when you bring it through the null, though. Null isn't a power wash.
3. They appeared about 50 feet apart.
4. You attempt to teleport in the universe and it works, but, after several tests, you find there is a margin of error of about 20%. Which is fine for small things but...well. We can teleport an object in at the same point every time. Lets call that universal origin or UO. However, if we attempt to teleport something in at 10 meters from UO, it could show up at anywhere between 12 and 8 meters from UO. So, if we were doing it at 10 light years from uo, it could show up anywhere between 12 and 8 ly from uo. Which is a very large margin of error.
5.-
6. "unknown"
7. "it runs using specific geometries. It should function indefinitely, but the current one does have an upper size limit. We could overcome that with a larger rig, but the rig is always larger than the maximum transport size."
8.Uh. I can. Or I can just give you a completely new artifact, free of charge. Your choice.