Chapter 2 Is time really important?

Act 1 Eons of the same.

Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming: whrah, whraah, whrahh, whraaah! No, I still can't say what I'm thinking; In a planet of gas a being shadowed by clouds moved through it slowly, as any creature that size should move, yet it gave out sounds too low for its gigantic but slim eel like frame.

I kept moving, going into the dark place, getting faster, and then going through the bright place, until I'm out of the cloudy place. and closer to the blue ball, yet I always end back on the cloudy ball. . . I kept doing this over and over. until I saw something moving closer, it was slow, but it was getting closer.

Until I jumped, I felt it. . . a large something bonked me, it stopped moving, as I stopped moving. I looked towards the blue flaming ball, it was still too far.

I looked back at the thing that kept me from moving towards the blue flaming ball. . . I took a bite on its crunchy surface. It tasted salty? No, something else. . . it tasted nutty and earthy, it was good, I kept biting and chewing at the thing.

But then I took another bite and then started chewing something very crunchy. . . it was good, but as I ate my thoughts faded again. damn, why does this keep hap. . pen. . . ing.

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Where? I felt heavy, I was moving, just like my last time awake, my body moves even though my mind sleeps. . . sweet, a thought passed me, I looked around and realized I was feeding on the yellow clouds again. except I felt stronger and larger.

I looked up and then started swimming, this time as I broke free from the clouded place. I wasn't being forced to go back. I felt no pull strong enough that I needed to fight it. . . no, it's still there. I followed that pull, and then I was back inside the bright part of the cloudy place.

I went outside again. And just stayed there swimming forward, close to the clouded place. I looked at the blue fireball. I can feel like I reach it this time, even without igniting that ember I feel inside me.

I looked away from the blue thing, and saw more of those meaty things but they were around another cloudy ball. I looked back at my cloudy ball and then I started swimming towards the other cloudy ball with a ring of nutty things.

But as I did, I felt everything moving farther than me, the cloudy place I was going to was getting farther as I moved closer, then I looked back and saw that my cloudy place was closer to me as I moved away from it. . . I stopped moving, and then just floated on the surface of my cloudy place, being moved by it's pull.

For once I closed my eyes, I started to look inside of me, not just in my mind and thoughts, but also inside my new flesh. and felt for the pull that I know was there. and, it was very weak, but I tried and let it pull me. I opened my eyes and now I wasn't moving. My cloud place was getting farther as the other cloudy place was getting closer and all I needed to do was wait.

Act 2 The observer.

Log date, 3 o by 5199 of 119 AMH

It has been 3 orbits of this system since I found a peculiar stellar life form. I have been going through this star cluster, as an exploratory agent, for my home-nest that was a few systems away, I initially ignored the life form and kept surveying the system.

Yet as I worked cataloging and mentally labeling parts of a sector of the system, I kept periodically checking on the large lifeform. Who was attempting to reach the star of this system, it kept trying and trying but then an asteroid came by and struck the lifeform, but opposite of my predictions it wasn't squished by the asteroid as first suspected, but simply bounced off the lifeform, losing all momentum.

And then I saw it starting to eat the asteroid. It took 4 cycles before it finished eating the whole space rock, but it did. and then it went back to the gas giant it kept returning to everytime it jumped and then it stayed there. from my understanding of zoology most large animals after eating more than half their weight hibernates.

Buzz- - - Buzz - - -Buzz

Log date, 18 o since arrival to system HN505-C4-S012 by 5199

It took 10 orbits for the peculiar stellar life form to resurfaced. I was surprise when I saw it while I was in the middle of finishing my survey of the first of four sectors of the system. I noticed it, leaving it's gas giant, but then it looked different, almost making me believed it was a different life form altogether, but no. it had the same vibrational ID that I had marked it with, like everything else I surveyed in the first sector.

Unlike its first gigantic form where it had looked like a gaseous aquatic lifeform, it was like an Eel. with a long finned body ending with pointed tail-fins, it was like an elongated teardrop, it's head was the largest part of it with two long whiskers, and its mouth was toothless and eyes a pure light blue, yet every inch of it was gaseous, dawn yellow, with different shades darker on its lower half, and lighter on the upper half.

But now it was smaller and but yet it looked like it had gained weight, and bulk, now it appears more like an armoured seal rather than a gaseous serpent like Eel. Using my main arms, with the help of my long fingers I remade the organic telescope I was using to observed the system widely and turned it into a focused stellar microscope. 

As I peered into my rough creation, I saw and then Identified what it was covered in. . . no what it had integrated with, I first suspected it made the metals of that rock into some kind of shell, like how some crustaceans do it. but no, it had made it into a kind of metallic scales. and as I looked at the space between those scales, I saw condensed gasses almost liquid, yet to hot to liquify.

It was now just floating in space, as it had somehow have been taken by the gravity well of a much smaller gas giant with a ring of metallic and ice asteroids. while ignoring the gravitational pull of it's home giant. I was refocusing my thoughts as I disassembled my rough work and created a more pristine version that had two scope types, focus and wide view.

I never really thought or needed making a scope like this, because stellar surveys was easily done using a 1 to 8 to 0.001 scope that was enough to Identify stellar objects without being in any danger of them. . . but now when stellar fuana is a concern it would better to be cautious and have sharper yet farther survey of them.

Act 3 Another visitor.

Log date, 20 o since arrival to system HN505-C4-S012 by 5199-12

I was halfway finished with the second sector when I felt a Vibrational rip coming from the other side of the system. Another Vibranty? did they sense the message I was sending out? I looked towards the moon I made a message beacon that was sending a message of me needing a courier.

I felt it as the ship of the other vibranty entered the system, her ship was a generation older in design than the one I'm using it's vibration amplifiers seem to be better than mine, at least 10% more effective but has 2% higher efficiency lose than my model. 

I sent out, greetings. and she gave me one in return. I sent out another message of vibration ID and then went towards one of the moons that had a hydrogen rich atmosphere and landed I it took no time before the other vibranty had landed near my ship.

I was on a snow filled barren hill, as the other Vibranty approached, she was much older than I was, which means larger with a more developed manipulation limbs she has two pairs unlike me who had only had a large pair and from the way she moves, she might have already passed her third moulting.

I raised my hands, as our way of telling each other I was the younger of us and she accepted, holding my hands as we started to communicate I told her of my work and what I had found she was surprised by my observation of the stellar fauna and as I finished giving her my 300+ years worth of Experience, she started giving me hers. and it was extensive my body was too immature to take in her full 10,000+ years worth of knowledge, experience and skills. . .

So she only gave me a 100 years worth of her recent exploration experience of meeting an alien race and exploring an outer-ring star cluster. and 100 years worth of skills learned developing exploration ships, and a 100 years worth of knowledge learned through observation and practical testing. . . I never knew a higher sugar concentration in our exploration liquids is the reason resting periods was becoming less effective.

I felt her intent, "tell me, do you want me to take over the investigation of that stellar life form little sister?" I'm not sure, I want to learn about the new alien stellar fauna I've found, but I know I'm not experience enough, that I could only do distant observations on it. . . "Yes Elder sister, I'm too young to fully understand the new alien." She gave a shake, of approval. "Finish the survey of the system and then mark this system as as occupied by an anomaly, and then continue your exploration of this star cluster, I'll go to the closest Home-nest and report my findings before returning here." after that she severed are connection and started working on his ship.

I saw her reshaping and improving her ship, making it at my level of skill, better than my own. and then she started her ship it started sucking in the earth and snow, she used them turning them into organic aloy that expanded her ship.

I stopped watching her upgrade her ship, as I started working on my own, using the skills and knowledge that I had just gained. enjoying the twisting, and flow of vibration from my core as it makes it way to the tip of my fingers, as they vibrated so fast that I was melting my ship and reforming its structure.

Act 4 All the rocks you can eat.

It took me awhile before finally the pull became stronger and as it did, I started to move faster, and faster and then I was here. the place was the same, as the place I first opened my eyes in. it was a ball of yellow gases, with more of those crunchy stuff I was hungry after floating all the way to my new home so I lost myself as my body satisfied it's hunger.

I wasn't in full control as my instincts took me, I was on the surface of the gas giant and then I took deep breath, I felt it every inch of my body pulling the gasses under and around me, within a moment the entire gas giant was without its thick atmosphere as I saw a boiling planet underneath all that gas. but it quickly recovered, as I breathed out but the gas I was breathing wasn't tinge in yellow but clear, colorless.

I felt that ember within me turning into a candle like flame. . . and then my mind started clear as I finally started to vaguely remember a conversation. but my head started to fog again as I started to devour the crunchy stuff.

As I ate a thought finally appeared. maybe I can get big enough, that I can block that blue sun! even if takes years a passing exploration ship would detect something that anymoulos! a sun deeming suddenly would be a sign of Dyson sphere construction! hopefully this works. that was my final thoughts as I continued to eat.