Lyra and Hawking
12 Feb 2023Diedericque
Let's start by letting you know that this isn't a love story.I always wanted to explore the more "lonely" regions of the Milky Way.
One in particular, galactic region #39, Tenebrae.
It's, well how should I say, on the longer ends of one of the galactic arms extending outwards into the greater void.
Not necessarily hard to reach depending on your own strength of will.
If it was up to me, Tenebrae should have gotten number 42, the last number of the all galactic regions. Why, you ask?
To reach Tenebrae, you first need to go through Lyra's Song. If we'd imagine that Lyra has a song, it would be one to listen to for many many hours.
The hours you need to be in this region in order to reach Tenebrae, even though it makes a worthy memory.
I was lucky to discover the various jewels and gems along the way. From my first Recepta Deltahedronix to the most valuable type of grass, or Tussock that is?
Getting close to the border of Tenebrae, jump by jump it became clear that actually getting there was going to demand a long breath.
"Abort journey", advised by the Scala computer. I considered it to be serious and turned around my Phantom.
Getting back to another region however, well oops!
Going to the center was my next plan, but that plan was crushed under the existence that is known as Hawking's Gap. It felt as if I went as far as it goes. To me, that's what region 42 should be like.
I really underestimated the remoteness of the place where I was. I followed a long way back, again through the region of Lyra's song.
The star density eventually increased, the physical borders of the regions finally closing up...
I never reached Tenebrae. Perhaps I should have made other preparations for such journey.
It sure is what it says, 'Hawking's Gap'.
And I would love to do it again, it's the good stuff, but I would do it without the oops.
- CMDR Diedericque -