Re: The Blackness 1-1
Bartja shakes his head "negative" and stares at the device as if waiting for it to reveal to him its hidden secrets. He begins mumbling his thoughts hoping that something said will spark additional thoughts from his comrades.
"You think that an alien was pulled here by this device? Interesting!"
Holding up the pen-like device, he absently "shines" the infra-red beam on one of the lenses. "This sathar coordinate device seems to repel the blackness, or hold it back. Perhaps the carrier of it is not affected as are the other things that come into contact with it? After watching the assassin disappear through a wall leaving only the black shadow, I'm inclined to conclude that it is some sort of gate yet why did this not go with him? Could it be a locating device and we need only wait for his return ... or a bomb to drop?
However, the systems have detected an unknown chemical in this area - so is the blackness chemical? If it is chemical, then how could a chemical act as a portal? If not a portal, then where did the assassin disappear to?
If a chemical, it would explain the appearance of the 'substance' around the assailant and the residues left behind. It could be a cloaking device, something like a hologram or stealth suit. If it is an energy field, that would explain how this Sathar device can repel it slightly - opposite forces at work. Perhaps it is a little of both? A chemical that develops an energy field foreign to all of our detection equipment?"
Bartja was deeply intrigued by the possibilities and continued to stare at the Kyrn (presumably) device. "Now this thing is another puzzle, but before we remove the lenses and disks, we should figure out why the Sathar are after it.
Now if our guess is correct, this light can be switched on or off - presumably after a disk is inserted. What other devices here use these disks? What might be on the disks? Images perhaps?
Now the disks puzzle me. Why reset them if they don't record? They must either hold a recording of some type or they record what this machine does - perhaps the results of the light and lens configurations.
As for the light, it seems straightforward. The lenses are curious. When installed, does changing the first lens alter the color or tint of the next lens? What light levels or frequencies does it take to make these lenses change their colors, and what is the resultant color at the receiving end?"
Next Bartja turns to the computer and looks it over for a disk slot, reset, and jar similar to the laser device. It's a hunch that may lead nowhere, but he's involved now and must satisfy his curiosity.
"S'Krllk" he says, trying to enunciate the name properly. "What do you think will happen if you get the five crystal lenses to change into the five colors of these five stars in this message? What will happen if we do that, and put them in the device in the order suggested here? There may be other correlating colors I'm not considering. Could the purple lens simply be an incomplete color change or does it represent a white dwarf for example?
If my hunch is correct and we can save these five stars onto five disks, does inserting them into the laser and turning it on change one crystal or all crystals? Do we try them one at a time first or set five crystals and five disks in place? What color then should each crystal be?
I think we try one disk on one crystal to see if the crystal changes color. If not, then we try all five and five and see what happens at the receiving end. If it pulled an alien here from another system or universe, what else could it do! It brings me back to one of my original questions when I began these space travels - could there be life in the Void and if so, what might it be like?
If we're not going to discover the purpose of this technology, we should pursue the assassin and stop the Sathar.
My personal guess - likely one of the Kyrn is a Sathar agent and we're dealing with not only their insidious terror tactics but espionage as well."