Science is hard

"I want a pigeon as a pet!" Odin shouted as he got up from the floor.

The Guardian looked at him in confusion as he swept the floor.

"What?" the Guardian said.

"To be honest, I don't know but I had a dream about a pet pigeon and he was badass like dude was zooming in the air and killing gods and shit he even had his own group of girl pigeons on his side it was like a gangster pigeon." Odin said as he walked towards the counter.

"Are you alright?" the guardian asked as he teleported towards Odin.

"Yeah, but still, what the fuck was that?" Odin asked as he rested on his chair.

"What do you mean?"

"Oh, nothing much, just that I'm somehow connected with an ungodly being who also created the system and made me come here for 'fun'!" Odin shouted.

"Oh, that yeah, don't worry about it. Trust me, it does more harm than. good it's best to never ask questions unless you want to break yourself even further." the guardian said as he leaned on the counter.

"Can you at least answer this for me?" Odin asked.

"Go ahead and ask kido."

"So he's Odin and you're also him. Am I also him and if so, will I die once we sync up?" Odin said softly.

The guardian looked at Odin and sighed. He placed his hand on his shoulder and said.

"It's hard to explain you will still be alive, but it's more like you are a fragment of the whole Odin once you've synced up you'll be whole you won't be dead but in a sense, this part of you will be dead to others."

"So a silent death that I won't notice." Odin muttered.

"Yes, but I can arrange for you a new body if you wish. I can take you out and place you in a new fresh body so you can live how you want but in the end, it's your choice." the guardian said.

"No, I want to fade away this is what I wanted from the beginning the only reason I'm still alive was because I didn't want to sadden my family in the afterlife but knowing I will die quickly and silently they can't blame me for that right?" Odin said with a slight smile.

"I say you are weak, but who am I to judge when I too would wish for a death I couldn't see." the guardian said.

"I feel the same kido." Odin spoke out but his voice sounded different.

"Well, let's make my last days or years count. I want to know everything before I die just cause why not an impossible goal leads to results you won't expect!" Odin got up and ran to his research table.

[has he always been like this?]

"No, but he matches one life I lived. All I can say is gods feared mortals that day." the guardian said as he turned to mist and left.

In the workshop, Odin started trying to recover the data from the tablets and other corrupted devices. As he did that, he also focused and uploading the STC data into his work tablet so he could study the tech.

The process of recovering corrupted data took a long time, so Odin went back to look at the templates. Most specifically, the anti-gravity templates. The reason why was because he wanted to find a way to use them for warp travel, not the 40k version where they traveled through hell and sucked all around, both scientifically and literally.

Warp travel, not the 40k one mind you required space-time to be wrapped hence the name, the way to do so required spacetime to be expanded and compressed like a wave moving a ship but instead of minor increments of distance it would be through tens or even hundreds of light years of distance.

Odin always wondered if humanity was that smart during their golden age how did they not make actual warp travel and dump the old hell gateway, but Odin chalked it up to grimderp things.

Most of the tech was focused on artificial gravity engines for the ship, but if he studied enough, he could modify them. He also had the lancer he could study. The lancer still had a warp drive, but they did not make it for space travel. It had a very short range as it required a lot of energy, but it helped to study it.

Odin bought another lancer and dismantled it, focusing on the stuff that allowed it to warp travel. Odin placed the items on the scanner pad and studied them.

Odin looked happy even if he could barely understand the advanced knowledge. He felt like he was a child again. He was learning things, but still didn't know how they worked. We know why we breathe but not how it's not until later that we learn the process. This was how Odin felt he knew it worked, but what exactly made it work?

Current physicists can't fully explain gravity we know it affects matter it can bend spacetime it's multidimensional the reason is that by definition gravity and spacetime are the same it's also the reason we don't have a unified theory of everything because gravity works differently in the micro world compared to the macro-world.

Odin had to first learn gravities' nature before he could move on to the other parts of warp travel. After he learned this, he needed to find a way to produce negative energy for the warp drive to work.

As he continued with his studies, Odin found out there was still a problem. Even if he made the drive, it still could go faster than light.

"How the fuck does this work?" Odin sighed as he tried finding an info on the subject.

"Very simple it's time." the guardian said as he appeared.

"So I have to learn how to control time. How strong was humanity during the 22nd century if they could control time?" Odin said as he leaned back.

"They didn't. They used the same model you are. The warp drive you want involves an understanding of time."

"The time you know is man-made as you can't see the full aspect of time you only see frame per frame to you time is linear but true time is all past, present future at once there is no past, present, or future all in this form as here let me show you." the guardian said as he spawned a ball out of nowhere.

"Look, I grab this ball and throw it up to the ceiling. It bounces off and hits the ground until it stops. That's what you see, right?" the guardian said as he did the actions.

"Yeah," Odin said as he saw the ball come to a stop.

"Now that is your perception of time here is how it looks really warning it might feel uncomfortable." the guardian said as he flicked his fingers and the space around the two changed.

"I localized stuff so you don't see everything and then cause you to go insane or something." the guardian said as he moved closer to Odin but another him still sat on the workbench.

The scene of the guardian throwing the ball looked like many still frames were placed in the same spot. It was hard to focus on one exact thing, as there was too much going on. The Guardian moved and didn't move at the same time he spoke and didn't. He threw the ball and didn't. The ball flew and stayed perfectly still, making a parabola each action all happens at once infinitely.

"You see how time works like now?" the guardian said.

"A warp drive is doing the stat of throwing the ball and skipping towards the end where it stops."

"But wouldn't that be like teleportation isn't warp travel bending two things close enough and shortening the distance like having a 5-inch paper and having two points on both ends then folding it till there are two inches and then traveling that portion skipping the other 3 inches?" Odin asked as he looked confused.

"Naturally, and this is the same thing. I'm just explaining it in very simple terms. When moving through warp, travel, you move through physical space and time. Light is fast but time is faster." the guardian said as space returned to normal.

"So what I'm trying to do is not move faster than light, but faster through time. That just made things harder!" Odin shouted as he looked at the immense data and equations on his holo screen.

"But isn't it fun it's in our nature to want to do the impossible it starts small like learning warp travel then it progresses to wanting to fight an entire universe alone just to see what can stop you then you end up devouring reality hehe!" the guardian laughed.

"Not sure about that last two, but yeah, it is fun to challenge something hard or impossible. Even this isn't impossible, as they made it before. All I have to do is take my time." Odin said as he got up and stretched.

"So how fast can the warp drive be?" Odin asked.

"Depends on how well it's built it can range from sub light to light to even instant travel what your trying to do is shorten that gap of time when you make it, it won't be instant maybe you'll have a gap of a few light years and that's why you need good thrusters to finish it." the guardian said.

"Well, what should I aim for to travel through the galaxy?" Odin asked.

"Well, if you want to go from one side of the galaxy to the other in a week then you need to have a drive that can go 5,256,000 times faster than light and correction it would take 1.05 weeks to go from one end to the other." the guardian said.

"Ok... Wow, I know space is huge, but once you see it again, you're blown away at how big it is!" Odin said as he thought about the answer.

"Yeah, fun fact. That's why most people use continuum drives even though we say they move at between 10-100,000 times faster than light. They're moving at the equivalent distance of a megaparsec per second or 3.26 million light years a second."

"Then why don't you just put like Mpc/s or something?" Odin asked.

"Cause they are teleporters technically the universe is so weird that you won't question things for long like I remember one time this civilization started a race war and then streamed in on the universal web and to be honest it was boring it was these yellow and green energy people fighting and yeah you can guess how it went." the guardian said as he started into nowhere.

"I have many questions, but I won't ask." Odin said as he sat down and continued to conduct research.