HOI-POI 001 ✩ Video/Action

[curiousgenius]

[Bulma sighs as she walks towards the residential area where she has been told that her room is, her steps are heavy and tired. She's exhausted, emotionally rather than physically and her eyes are red from crying. They haven't swollen up yet but it won't take long, now that the last stamp was put and she got the stupid towel, the guide and

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[chocogun]

You can't calculate it because there is no speed per say.

To move, S.S.Thor uses something called "Improbability Drive" [aaand he doesn't feel like typing out what that is, so he links her to this (first minute)]

There are no coordinates, everything is at random and its the driv4e that "chooses" were we will be ending up next.

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[curiousgenius]

So if I've understood it correctly it's basically a situation of: "we know where the door we're crossing is but we don't know where it leads", and it can lead from a few meters ahead to the other corner of the universe. Is that right?

If so, do you know if the drive is controlled as to when to happen or is it some sort of uncontrolled phenomena?

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[chocogun]

Exactly.

At the end of each month, S.S. Thor captains activate the drive and for a couple of days we'll be suffering from relatively safe and temporary side effects - these side effects vary a lot.

As consequence of using the ID, wormholes are created, although these are constantly happening through the whole month; they are also the ones that bring people to Thor.

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[curiousgenius]

That makes sense of some things, wormholes are also the ones to blame for people being from different timelines, right? Or so I've come to understand.

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[chocogun]

Yes, they are. A wormhole opens on Thor, connecting it to a time and place, either be it the past, the present or the future.

There is also the chance they will send someone back to their world and timeline, allowing them to stay there until they caught up with the "future". Then, the wormhole will grab said person again and bring them back to Thor.

While on Thor only a couple of days have passed, the person might have stood on their world for months, even years.

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[curiousgenius]

That's quite troublesome. Wait, then according to that my planet could still be there after all? This could be a distant future in my timeline and I ended here just because of the wormhole, is that possible?

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[chocogun]

That is what I've come to understand.
Your planet will explode. If it has already exploded, if it will explode tomorrow or in 5000 years, there is no way of telling; ID does not take that in account.

But someone arriving from "the future" can only mean the planet still exists until that time line at least.

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[curiousgenius]

I see, that's great then! Though it's annoying to think that we can't know when it happens, but that's how life normally is anyway.

I have another question if you don't mind, does the S.S. Thor often make stops at planets? I've seen that we're currently over one, at least.

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[chocogun]

We tend to stop by a planet for the whole month. All the planets we've visited are different, on very different coordinates, different galaxies, sometimes I wonder if in different universes or dimensions.

It's impossible to keep a map not only because of that, but also because the universe is pretty big.

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[curiousgenius]

I suppose that with the way ID works the possibility of them being different universes even isn't a crazy thought. Though if that's the case I wonder how do those people know that the planets we're from are destroyed, just because they are destroyed in one universe doesn't mean they will be destroyed in another universe. But then again there's not much of a chance to check on that, is there?

I wouldn't dream to make a map, besides there's not much point on making a map of the universe. But it's really annoying, I suppose I'll have to content myself with being able to know when we're close to where I want to go.

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[chocogun]

It's one of the things we still don't know. Other is that the Vogons seem to know when someone is sucked permanently by a wormhole, or if they will return. How, we also don't know.

You cannot leave Thor.

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[curiousgenius]

We can't? I thought we could go down to the planet were the ship stops by.

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[chocogun]

ID is keeping you alive.

You were pulled from your world and supposedly you should be dead; instead, the drive picked you and kept you alive. So, if you stray away from Thor you will die.

"Dying" is a matter of how long you stay away from Thor, it has nothing to do with proximity of the ship. It doesn't, however, happen right away. It depends on the person and the circumstances under which they were rescued.

We know at least that you can stay away from Thor for 6 months.

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[curiousgenius]

That's definitively a twist I didn't expect... So, assuming I got the best circumstances, I would have six months of being able to stay away from the ship before I die. Wouldn't that be fixed if I get back to my world and time before the time expires?

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[chocogun]

It wouldn't because the drive still "saved" you in first place.

Truthfully, the whole thing is very confusing and it doesn't make much sense. Many refugees wish to believe that the captains are hiding things and our planets were never really destroyed. Whatever you believe, these are the facts presented to you; if you want to risk it, you can move away from Thor, but you have 50% chance you'll die.

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[curiousgenius]

I see, it really is confusing, but you presented the facts clearly enough. I'm honestly not someone to risk at 50% chances, but I will try to learn more about it all to see if there's a solution after all.

Just one thing, you mentioned that the wormholes sometimes suck people in permanently, is that like what you said about going back to your world and time and later being returned here? Except that there hasn't been said return yet as far as we know?