[Scribbling notes for a second before Capa speaks. He sounds distracted and there are occasionally pauses where he'll write something down before picking up his sentence again. His first words are muttered.]It's so strange to me that a man who lived a hundred years before my time could be someone who probably knows more about the way space ( Read more... )

[Oh look. Capa's got the camera on his little glow-in-the-dark stars in his room. On the ceiling. Must be a slow day for him. The camera picks up their light and shape and he speaks, though he doesn't move the camera.]I never thought that stars looked like that. Five perfect points. I never understood why they were always drawn that way, though I ( Read more... )

[Capa's back in his room, having mostly recovered from the bridge experience. At least he's clean now. He's got a chessboard out in front of him and he's got a pretty good game going for himself. He doesn't look away from the board as he speaks.] I don't know exactly who brought it up or when, but I used to hear people talk about the world ending ( Read more... )

At the center of almost every galaxy is a black hole. Not just any black hole, but a supermassive black hole. [A pause and the sound of him scribbling notes.] In fact, the Milky Way has one. It's 26,000 lightyears away from our Solar System. It's the size of Uranus, but contains 4.1 million solar masses. To put it into different terms- that's 4.1 ( Read more... )

[You can only see Capa's hands in this video, as well as the top of the desk. He's playing with a glass rattleback, but hasn't gotten around to spinning it yet.]

I wasn't the type of kid to play with dinosaur figures or collect the cards. I preferred telescopes. [Pause.] Newton's Cradles, magnets, gyroscopes. But these things...they were always ( Read more... )

Okay. Magic.

Magic.

This is ridiculous. As if the "magic" that inherently comes with the barge isn't enough, now-ow! Dammit- we have more. And it seems to make the Admiral a worse pilot.

I don't suppose it's too much to ask for this place to make sense.

Is everyone affected by this? Doesn't that strike you as odd? More than usual?

[Private to ( Read more... )

Dark matter collection is...difficult. [He sounds groggy, like he just woke up, or, more accurately, like he hasn't slept for a while. Exhaustion might also be the reason why he actually brings up something about his past, and why his thoughts are slightly scattered. He'll get to the point eventually...]There were people at home, when we tried it, ( Read more... )

[He’s oh so very awkward... Science always makes it better. So does alcohol.]

We are made of the stars. Every atom in our bodies, every…every molecule that we have…has come from a star. From the birth, from the death, from the very existence of stars themselves. Those points of light that seem so very, very far away. They’re so much more than…what ( Read more... )

There are plenty of people here, I know, who deal with the issue of time. It's something that I've been trying to comprehend since I've arrived here. Different universes? I can buy that. Different times? That's what I'm still struggling to figure out ( Read more... )

[Capa's sitting on the railing, with the camera facing out, towards the abyss. It's a very precarious little perch, but he's happily oblivious to the danger. Being out on the railing means that he'd be closer to the stars. And that is the most important thing.]

A star is not just a star. To most, they're just little pinpoints of light in the sky. ( Read more... )