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In the latter half of the 21 century during a survey of some of the objects orbiting the Alpha Centri system it was discovered that a small planetoid was made up of almost 80% of a mineral which was essential to an industrial process of that time. This mineral was extremely rare on earth and since the industrial process had at the time become so important to the activity of several GlobCorps discussions immediately started on the possibility of retrieving some of this planetoid and so eliminating a supply shortage. Proper surveys were made of the regions of space between the sun and the Alpha Centuri system to plan a route. During these surveys it was discovered that the entire image of space which had been assumed to be accurate for several hundred years was in fact an illusion. This was due to pockets of intense gravitational and electromagnetic radiation. These pockets were found to be numerous and had the effect of distorting the line of sight for electromagnetic waves reaching earth. The question of why no-one had noticed these before has obsessed people ever since and in some ways led to the new age 200 years later. Anyway, Alpha Centuri turned out to be much farther away than expected. At the time most people thought it was 4.2 light years away instead as we now know it's almost 8 light years away. The prospect of abandoning the quest for this planetiod was not reasonable however. The populous had been fired with dreams and ambitions of how life would change once products became cheep and plentiful. None of the GlobCorps wanted to risk disappointing them and allow regional governments an excuse to impose controls on their activities. The problem was to design a vessel which could travel these distances. Space exploration had all but been abandoned by this time and the transporters to the Earth orbiting platforms was rigid and established. A number of ideas were pursued. A robot vessel was generally thought to be the most feasible proposition. Warping space had been somewhat of a tradition since the science fiction stories of the previous century. No-one took the idea very seriously for obvious reasons. The distance could not be reduced, and as several cynical thinkers of the day pointed out it seems to be increasing. Stopping the expansion of the universe was not a viable option either although a number of papers were published proposing it. Travelling faster than 10% of light speed was not possible. Extensive research simply couldn't find a way around the problem of increasing mass. The quest for higher speeds was not a serious proposition. The need for a sustainable fuel source for 10% light speed travel was however. At 10% the vessel would require an almost infinite supply of fuel. Even 100 years after the development of the P cell which had done so much to alter everyone's lives such a supply seemed an unrealistic dream. But nevertheless a huge supply of fuel would be needed. Research was concentrated on this area. After the suppression of the southern rebellion in the early years of the 22 century a professor of mathematics at the South Pole university revived a postulate which had been made in 1980 by a group of early particle physicist that an artificial singularity could provide an infinite source of power. The principal is common place now but at the time was quite revolutionary especially when we consider that it came from a professor at a recently discredited university, that the professor was in fact a biologist and that he was, in any case, insane. The proposal was taken on board and all research was directed into this area. The advantages of using an artificial singularity seemed to entirely fulfil every need for deep space travel. Infinite power source, an almost unlimited size of space craft, artificial gravity. Talk was of bringing the whole planetiod back to the solar system in one go. Every detail was examined. Containment would be by means of G waves. These had recently been discovered and were found to block gravitational particles and so eliminate gravity within a field. These G waves were and are extremely exotic concepts of 3 dimensional waves which as every school boy knows use dimensions 3, 4 and 5. The G waves would be produced by a series of emitters placed precisely around the singularity. The one detail which was left out for much of this early research however was how to make the artificial singularity. The existence of 'mini black holes' had been established as a principal culprit responsible for the 'parallax distortion hoax'. Most people assumed that one of these would be harnessed when the time was right. However this could not be done because of several rather practical problems. Firstly, the position of these mini black holes was not certain. Secondly their size was not certain and to survey them would almost certainly mean destruction of the observer. Thirdly capturing one would require an amount of energy similar to that which it was hoped to be produced by capturing one in the first place. And finally the amounts of energy required to travel the distances to one of these mini black holes was also similar to the amounts of energy which the singularity was hoped to produce. An artificial singularity would have to be made. The concept at the time was mind boggling. Nothing like this had ever been attempted before and the arguments of how it could be done together with the effect on our region of space raged. In the latter half of the 22 century the 100 anniversary of the discovery of planetiod 'D' as it was known was looming. Almost all the details of building the artificial singularity had been worked out. An area between the orbit of Mars and the asteroid belt was deemed the best place for the experiment since the orbits of Mars, the asteroids and any comets would leave it vacant for about 40 years. It was thought that once the experiment had been completed some asteroids could be pushed into the singularity effectively sealing it up. All that remained was the courage and the will to start.
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