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NullAshton said:
I wonder what a null-space cannon firing into that gateway would do...
Anyway, the g-spike engines of my battlemoon use their drive to fix this universe. Wooooooohooo!
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(A one-liner to fix a 3-4 paragraph post which ties itself into a previous post? Please.)
Glancing at the portal, Jack notices it still goes somewhere.
"Wha? Someone manage to stop the trap? Ah well, I guess I'll just call in that favor anyway, like I had originally planned."
Jack waves his hands briefly, and then stands there talking, apparently to the air.
"Yeah, is Yaranthozniaha available?"
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"Great; could you put him on?"
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"Yaranthozniaha, it's time to pay up one of those chips I won from you at our last game."
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"Hey, you know I never gamble for cash; after all, what good is money to such as us?"
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"I need you to turn up the entropy rating on a particular plane: "
Jack lets out with a long string of liquid and oddly musical sounds "I don't have the all-surpassing patience to wait on
natural decay in this instance."
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"Very. I want the big freeze and associated proton decay to happen in about an hour."
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"Five minutes till I can start to see results? Good. See you at next millenia's game."
With that, Jack briefly waves his hands again, turns around, and stares out the entryway portal. After a moment, he produces a small golem and sends it through; he then changes the channel on the TV, and it shows what the golem sees.
The golem looks up at the sun, and watches as it goes out, no longer being able to maintain any amout of energy. It watches as a nearby battlemoon crashes into the ground, able to neither maintain any potential energy in it's orbit nor enough thrust to fight gravity. Strangely, it doesn't explode on impact - it no longer has the energy necessary to do so; it all turned into useless waste energy. It's power systems simply couldn't keep up.
After a moment, the golem watches as the crumpled hull plating just seems to evaporate, as its heavier elements lose their binding energies and decay to elementary particles.
At this point, Jack casts a spell to make an announcement in the doomed plane:
"Better Hurry - that ship, she's a sinkin. All carbon-based life-forms will want to evacuate before carbon bonds can no longer maintain their structure."