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Into the Void



Maria walked into the hanger where the first probes were under construction. Adam was working at a table, applying fields to the probe.
"Where is Steve?" she asked Adam.
"He's talking with Mitso about the surface treatment of the probes. It seems that she has some materials that emit purple and green when subjected to the fields we will be using to superposition time. A ship slowing down to normal time can be painted so that it will glow purple and green."
"Well, that will look interesting."
In ancient times, space probes without people were called "Purple pigeons." With the natural gray color of the material we need to use, it would have been appropriate to call them 'pigeons.' But now, we will have painted pigeons." He grinned.
"Introducing, the new ... Pigeon of War!" Maria joked.



"Madame said that we should start thinking of ways to 'sell' our Space Exploration, and that we needed advertising gimics like ships that emit colors when coming out of time superposition."
"Yeah, we need a fun sentence like 'Look! There it is!'"
They laughed.
"We are going to send these things out a certain point in space, let them stop, have them take photos, and then return to earth. We will time the duration of the trip, and then use the photos to confirm that they reached the intended destination. It is possible they might be gone for the expected duration of time, but that the time dilation did not occur as expected, and that they didn't go out as far as planned."
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