The Sci-fi Nerd
The Artifact
Log entry / / Dr. Eli Vaston, Head Researcher:
"The Artifact, or Artifact SPA-281 as it's been formally catalogued, really is a remarkable object, I mean we have no idea what it is. Is it a weapon? Be f__ked if I know! We really have no idea what it does, but it's perfect - every curve mathmatically exact, every flat molecularly smooth, it's astonishing! We havn't been able to take it apart because whatever it is, it was made as a whole. There are no joins, no seams, it's perfectly sealed, and more ennoyingly, impervious to x-rays, gamma and even ultrasound! It's like whoever built it didn't want to share their secrets. The Artifact has two strange properties - the first, it emits nothing from the surface, not even thermal radiation. This makes it impossible to carbon-date. The other, and this is very odd - it weighs exactly three times as much upside down, than it does upright!
We found it in a cave on Sparta IV, by complete fluke! Sparta's extinct population was tribal and not technologically advanced at all, so it's likely not of Sparta IV or any other planet in the system for that matter.
What mysteries does the Artifact hold? I couldn't possibly fathom. It may not even be possible to study it in depth without damaging it or drilling at it, then again, considering the lack of wear, even that may not work.
If we ever decipher the glyphs on the "stock", speaking in weapon terms of course, it may bring us closer to a technological revolution, but in the mean time, Humanity remains ignorant to the full brilliance of this wonderous object.
Close entry."
The Artifact
Log entry / / Dr. Eli Vaston, Head Researcher:
"The Artifact, or Artifact SPA-281 as it's been formally catalogued, really is a remarkable object, I mean we have no idea what it is. Is it a weapon? Be f__ked if I know! We really have no idea what it does, but it's perfect - every curve mathmatically exact, every flat molecularly smooth, it's astonishing! We havn't been able to take it apart because whatever it is, it was made as a whole. There are no joins, no seams, it's perfectly sealed, and more ennoyingly, impervious to x-rays, gamma and even ultrasound! It's like whoever built it didn't want to share their secrets. The Artifact has two strange properties - the first, it emits nothing from the surface, not even thermal radiation. This makes it impossible to carbon-date. The other, and this is very odd - it weighs exactly three times as much upside down, than it does upright!
We found it in a cave on Sparta IV, by complete fluke! Sparta's extinct population was tribal and not technologically advanced at all, so it's likely not of Sparta IV or any other planet in the system for that matter.
What mysteries does the Artifact hold? I couldn't possibly fathom. It may not even be possible to study it in depth without damaging it or drilling at it, then again, considering the lack of wear, even that may not work.
If we ever decipher the glyphs on the "stock", speaking in weapon terms of course, it may bring us closer to a technological revolution, but in the mean time, Humanity remains ignorant to the full brilliance of this wonderous object.
Close entry."