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Big thanks to Cimmerian, my collaborator on this article.
Thanks to kaktus for review and for the original image!
Thank you to Djoric, Silber, TwistedGears, Tagliafierro, CryogenChaos and others, for reviewing and encouraging the drafting process.
This is related to the post that I claimed from Fausto in the Bright Challenge thread. The premise was a year that disappeared from history. (And, yeah, it has evolved a lot since we started at a generic apocalypse.)
Ca-caw. Pleasure working with you sir. Quite like how this turned out.
You combined my two favorite types of article- space and politics. U da bes, Paro.
+1
While this is generally interesting, there is a pet peeve that prevents me from upvoting: there is no way, short of a humanity-reset button (which is exactly what happens in this SCP, evidently) in an Ennui-5 scale that something like this could remain hidden. Several hundreds of years of astronomical development, written register, background cultural impact and beyond, erased by the Foundation? Edit: I mean, even constellations? Damn. Just damn.
It strains my credibility. A lot. I mean, one thing is to contain information about the events that transpire on a specific year in history; the other is to contain all data and memories of events prior to that year. Saying "woah, reality reconfiguration event" is only going to strain my credibility even further… but that only has to do with me being a sucker for both concepts and not wanting to see them abused.
Finally, a secondary problem. Keter? It should be considered Neutralized at this point, right?
Otherwise, I can understand why people would like (and love) this concept. I don't dislike it myself, it's engaging and all. But neutral vote. Sorryyyy :_(
Edit Edit: And yet another problem, this one is fridge logic. You are a hyper-advanced society of Utopian amphibians that have the means to swap your planet with other planets across the cosmos. What do?
Why, choose an inhabited planet to do so!
That's something only an absolute asshole of a civilization would do, imho. Not to mention that if you have this kind of power you could be using to move the population, spending a lot less energy in the process, but the tech issues underlying to the item itself are irrelevant for this article, that focus on the consequences of the swap.
My reasoning for leaving it at keter is that it's not like it couldn't be done again - there /is/ the possibility that they get swapped again, say, if Theta-c decides to backtrack / take another route for any reason.
In response to your edited comment:
I meant to imply that Theta-c really did not have regards for what they were swapping with, and did not often come across civilized planets. Hence why the sphere is covered in a language only they speak / understand, so they can at least state at a later date "We kinda-sorta warned you, though." It's a sphere that seeks its target autonomously, rather than being guided.
In the supplement, it was stated that Theta-c showed reluctance, again setting this feeling of "Okay, we warned you, but okay." It was also stated that Theta-c showed some reluctance to continue this practice of planetary exchange, though, they'll probably go on with their habits.
That said, it still strikes me as odd that they could not / would not enact swapback and instead went on with whatever overcomplicated effort it took to mindfuck everyone and create an entirely fake history of astronomic records and whatnot.
Not the least because in this operation here, repeatable, which it is, is synonymous with reversible.
Each day on Theta-c is just above 24 Earth hours, to an exponentially minuscule margin of difference.
I don't like the use of "exponentially" here. Also, if it's just above, then you have quantified it, then you can put forth say, what difference is there in a century, if the numbers are that small.
Ultimately, there's too much good here to downvote (especially poor stranded lunar colonists), but I don't feel like upvoting either.
The swap back would not remedy any of the upset caused by the exchange itself. While placing Earth back in its original place, everything that had been in upheaval from the switch would remain in the same tense state, and would possibly continue to deteriorate.
Fixing the "exponentially" discrepancy now. Discrepancy should be fixed, actual value is better quantified. Thank you!
"The swap back would not remedy any of the upset caused by the exchange itself."
Perhaps not (though I really don't see why not), but it would still be a lot more simple, sensible, and believable than what they actually did.
They still come across as gigantic jerks to me. Sorry. :(
I don't disagree necessarily (and not that I find that a bad thing). While it may be rare that they find inhabited planets while moving around the universe, I'm pretty sure the sole purpose of this switch was to swap recipes.
Eh, I'm not finished with the article, but I'm a bit confused.
First off, the picture gives a model of a Theta-3 system, yet you keep referencing a Theta-C. I'm sure you meant for C to be 3, but this should probably be cleaned up.
Also, there is not one place in the text (or at least no in the description) of what exactly Theta-3 and Sol-1 is. As you can imagine, this makes reading about them a bit difficult.
This looks like it could be good, but no matter what, I will not upvote this until you have addressed the problems above.
Image resolved to state Theta-c.
The diagram depicts the Sol as Earth's original system, and Theta-c's old system as its present system. Theta-3 was an error from a previous iteration of this article.
This is so ballsy, I can't help but upvote. The alternate history/cosmology stuff was well constructed, and dammit the old system had a Pluto. D:
We also have one… http://mashable.com/2014/10/02/pluto-planet-again/
How come this skip has access by all personnel? This is an incredibly stunning revelation that changes the way how Foundation rookies and civilians look at things. The fact that a lot of history before 1973 was a total lie made up to keep society stable won't go well with most people.
Also, how come the current reality of earth can't colonize the moon like the previous one? To prepare for another event?
Paroxysm, this has improved so much from the drafts you showed me.
+1 with absolutely no reservations.
