veristitalian: (squaring up to the challenge)
Jasnah Kholin ([personal profile] veristitalian) wrote in [community profile] reverienet2018-06-18 08:17 pm

voice- un: brightness_kholin

People have been vanishing. Not many, not often, not at a volume where we've noticed quickly, but a small number of the ones who initially arrived here have simply disappeared. They've been vanishing since before the doors into space opened, and at enough of a rate that we'd notice the diminishing number of suits if they were all falling off the station into the black.

Initially I had assumed it must be because this place is dangerous. If that were the case we should be tripping over the corpses by now. We clearly aren't.
donkeyballs: (damn)

[personal profile] donkeyballs 2018-07-26 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that's the thing. We do got some sunlight - but even inside, the star in this system is sendin' out invisible radiation all the time. Visible light only makes up a part of it.

Now - it's hard to tell, but the planet below has got water, so there's probably a magnetic field around it - and hopefully, that means, around us, too - so that'll keep some of the worst of the radiation out. Think of it - uh - like an invisible shield, that envelops the planet in almost a tear-drop shape.

[ He paused, looked a little helpless. ]

I don't know how to explain it in a way that'll make sense. But generally speakin', shieldin' is the most important. Water's the best, and most stations or ships will have a room in 'em that's got thick lead walls or surrounded by a water tank, for solar flares. That's when a star kicks up a lot more energy than it would otherwise. You can actually see 'em, with a good enough telescope.
donkeyballs: (talkin with my hands)

[personal profile] donkeyballs 2018-08-06 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Radiation meds are pretty common, where I'm from - even a really hard dose of nuclear radiation is somethin' you can survive, long as you get the meds in time - though you ain't havin' any children, after.
donkeyballs: (what the)

[personal profile] donkeyballs 2018-08-14 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It ain't a good idea in space, regardless. Even Belters generally try to get down a gravity well.

[ His is completely said with empathy. Miscarriages go up dramatically, outside of Earth's gravity. He knows from experience. ]

Yeah. As long as we find it. Or find a way to synthesise it.