{"data":{"id":13049,"title":"News Update: Death of a Planet","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13049-News-Update-Death-Of-A-Planet","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13049","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13049","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":550,"name":"NUDeathPlanetFI1.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/6tdcrldgq3qn0r\/source\/NUDeathPlanetFI1.jpg","alt":"","size":415269,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-07-19T05:11:09+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/550","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/550\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"NEW UNITED NewsOrg\n\n>>\nDEATH OF A PLANET by Martin Betemit Staff Writer There are moments that remind Humanity how extraordinary our journey into the stars has been. Despite the horrible blunders we\u2019ve committed as a species, it is worth celebrating the soaring achievements and truly mind-boggling events we\u2019ve come to witness.\n\nFor years, the scientific community has been mesmerized by what amounts to a ballet on a cosmic scale, after a celestial collision between a wandering asteroid and Ellis XI\u2019s small moon began that satellite\u2019s slow, certain plunge towards the planet\u2019s surface. Some scientists did gather early on in enthusiastic, but inevitably fruitless, brainstorms on how to deflect the asteroid or, later, return the moon to its natural orbit. In the end, the planet\u2019s lack of perceived value and the exorbitant costs of the proposed schemes led them to admit failure.\n\nFrom then on, the scientific community\u2019s efforts became two-pronged: half watching and studying the slow death of moon and planet like children awaiting Christmas, and the remainder performing the reams of calculations required to anticipate all of the effects \u2013 and to minimize the collateral damage. Since then, there has been a non-stop flurry of activity in almost every bureau of the UEE.\n\nAt the eye of the hurricane, Senator Clay Harren distinguished himself by spearheading the government\u2019s response, coordinating with the High Command to implement the safety protocols to protect Ellis\u2019s inhabited planets from the potential debris, as well as folded in mining and scientific contracts to help offset clean-up costs.\n\nPlans were enacted. Contracts were signed. Even Xi\u2019An scientific committees appeared to watch this cosmic event unfold. All that was left was to wait. And wait the universe did.\n\nFinally, it happened. 6.6.2943:03:11 SET, the moon impacted the surface of Ellis XI. The silent explosion of celestial objects was beyond description. Due to the minimum distance parameters given to the media, the scene initially felt like another of the simulated images that have been saturating the Spectrum for nearly two years. It took a few moments to realize that it was real, that this scene of cosmic destruction unfolding was indeed happening.\n\nThe moon struck Ellis XI at sixteen degrees above the equator. Some analysts estimated that over ten billion megatons of energy were released during the impact \u2013 100 times the estimated impact of the Chicxulub asteroid on Earth in prehistoric times. The size of the impact actually moved Ellis XI a fraction of a degree out of its orbit, even while the massive tectonic activity from the collision began to tear the planet apart. The planet\u2019s final act will be to leave a new asteroid belt as the epitaph to its epic demise.\n\nIn the aftermath of the collision, the military began to escort scientific crews into the wake of the destruction. Fortunately, Ellis X, the planet\u2019s closest astronomical neighbor, was on the other side of the system at the time of the collision, and Ellis XII\u2019s orbit is much more distant, so there is no significant perceived risk to either of its planetary siblings.\n\nAs the scientists now begin to study the inner workings of planets on an unprecedented scale, what does this event mean for the rest of the UEE? As far as a death of a planet goes, one couldn\u2019t ask for a better candidate. Since Ellis XI was not an inhabited planet, there are no settlers to be relocated. The planet held little interest for mining or scientific communities. At best, Ellis System will simply require a few months of travel warnings and an update to the System Almanac and Galactic Guide to excise the deceased world and add a new asteroid belt.\n\nAlthough that\u2019s not entirely true. Outside of the science and mining community, the destruction of Ellis XI holds significant value to another organization: the Murray Cup Racing League. The MCRL has set up the Ellis System as their homebase of astro-racing and is in the process of updating their rules to accommodate for the new obstacle course in their system.\n\nSo the moment has passed. The months and months of planning and anticipation have turned what many considered to be the penultimate form of destruction into a wealth of scientific research and mineral resources.\n\nYes, Humanity was allowed to bear witness to the passing of a planet. That, in and of itself, is remarkable, but more so, we were in a position to learn from it which, in the opinion of this reporter, is an even greater achievement.\n\n. . . END TRANSCRIPT","de_DE":"NEU VEREINIGTE NachrichtenOrganisation\n\n>>\n\nTOD EINES PLANETEN\nvon Martin Betemit\nStaff Writer Es gibt Momente, die die Menschheit daran erinnern, wie au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlich unsere Reise zu den Sternen war. Trotz der schrecklichen Fehler, die wir als Spezies begangen haben, lohnt es sich, die hochfliegenden Errungenschaften und die wirklich umwerfenden Ereignisse zu feiern, die wir erlebt haben.\n\nSeit Jahren ist die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft fasziniert von einem Ballett auf kosmischer Ebene, nachdem eine himmlische Kollision zwischen einem wandernden Asteroiden und dem kleinen Mond von Ellis XI. begann, dass dieser Satellit langsam und sicher auf die Oberfl\u00e4che des Planeten st\u00fcrzt. Einige Wissenschaftler versammelten sich schon fr\u00fch in enthusiastischen, aber unvermeidlich erfolglosen Brainstormings dar\u00fcber, wie man den Asteroiden ablenkt oder sp\u00e4ter den Mond in seine nat\u00fcrliche Umlaufbahn zur\u00fcckbringt. Letztendlich f\u00fchrten der Mangel an wahrgenommenem Wert des Planeten und die exorbitanten Kosten der vorgeschlagenen Systeme dazu, dass sie ein Versagen zugaben.\n\nVon da an waren die Bem\u00fchungen der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft zweigeteilt: die H\u00e4lfte beobachtete und studierte den langsamen Tod von Mond und Planet wie Kinder, die auf Weihnachten warteten, und der Rest f\u00fchrte die unz\u00e4hligen Berechnungen durch, die erforderlich waren, um alle Auswirkungen zu antizipieren - und die Kollateralsch\u00e4den zu minimieren. Seitdem gibt es in fast jedem B\u00fcro der UEE eine ununterbrochene Welle von Aktivit\u00e4ten.\n\nIm Auge des Hurrikans zeichnete sich Senator Clay Harren dadurch aus, dass er die Reaktion der Regierung anf\u00fchrte und sich mit dem Oberkommando abstimmte, um die Sicherheitsprotokolle zum Schutz der bewohnten Planeten von Ellis vor den potenziellen Tr\u00fcmmern umzusetzen, sowie durch Bergbau- und wissenschaftliche Vertr\u00e4ge, die zum Ausgleich der Reinigungskosten beitragen.\n\nPl\u00e4ne wurden umgesetzt. Es wurden Vertr\u00e4ge unterzeichnet. Sogar Xi'An wissenschaftliche Komitees schienen dieses kosmische Ereignis zu beobachten. Alles, was \u00fcbrig blieb, war zu warten. Und warte, bis das Universum es tat.\n\nEndlich ist es passiert. 6.6.2943:03:03:11 SET, hat der Mond die Oberfl\u00e4che von Ellis XI getroffen. Die stille Explosion von Himmelsobjekten war unbeschreiblich. Aufgrund der Mindestabstandsparameter, die den Medien gegeben wurden, f\u00fchlte sich die Szene zun\u00e4chst wie ein weiteres der simulierten Bilder an, die das Spektrum seit fast zwei Jahren s\u00e4ttigen. Es dauerte einige Augenblicke, um zu erkennen, dass es real war, dass sich diese Szene der kosmischen Zerst\u00f6rung tats\u00e4chlich entfaltete.\n\nDer Mond traf Ellis XI sechzehn Grad \u00fcber dem \u00c4quator. Einige Analysten sch\u00e4tzten, dass w\u00e4hrend des Aufpralls \u00fcber zehn Milliarden Megatonnen Energie freigesetzt wurden - das 100-fache der gesch\u00e4tzten Auswirkungen des Chicxulub-Asteroiden auf die Erde in pr\u00e4historischer Zeit. Die Gr\u00f6\u00dfe des Aufpralls bewegte Ellis XI tats\u00e4chlich um einen Bruchteil eines Grades aus seiner Umlaufbahn, obwohl die massive tektonische Aktivit\u00e4t durch die Kollision den Planeten zu zerrei\u00dfen begann. Der letzte Akt des Planeten wird darin bestehen, einen neuen Asteroideng\u00fcrtel als Epitaph f\u00fcr sein episches Ende zu hinterlassen.\n\nNach der Kollision begann das Milit\u00e4r, wissenschaftliche Besatzungen nach der Zerst\u00f6rung zu begleiten. Gl\u00fccklicherweise befand sich Ellis X, der n\u00e4chste astronomische Nachbar des Planeten, zum Zeitpunkt der Kollision auf der anderen Seite des Systems, und die Umlaufbahn von Ellis XII ist viel weiter entfernt, so dass es kein signifikantes wahrgenommenes Risiko f\u00fcr eines seiner Geschwister gibt.\n\nW\u00e4hrend die Wissenschaftler nun beginnen, das Innenleben von Planeten in einem beispiellosen Ausma\u00df zu untersuchen, was bedeutet dieses Ereignis f\u00fcr den Rest der UEE? Was den Tod eines Planeten betrifft, so k\u00f6nnte man sich keinen besseren Kandidaten w\u00fcnschen. Da Ellis XI kein bewohnter Planet war, gibt es keine Siedler, die verlegt werden m\u00fcssten. Der Planet hatte wenig Interesse an Bergbau oder wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaften. Im besten Fall ben\u00f6tigt Ellis System nur ein paar Monate Reisewarnungen und ein Update des System Almanac and Galactic Guide, um die verstorbene Welt zu beschneiden und einen neuen Asteroideng\u00fcrtel hinzuzuf\u00fcgen.\n\nObwohl das nicht ganz richtig ist. Au\u00dferhalb der Wissenschaft und des Bergbaus hat die Zerst\u00f6rung von Ellis XI einen bedeutenden Wert f\u00fcr eine andere Organisation: die Murray Cup Racing League. Das MCRL hat das Ellis-System als Basis f\u00fcr Astro-Rennen eingerichtet und ist dabei, seine Regeln zu aktualisieren, um dem neuen Hindernislauf in seinem System gerecht zu werden.\n\nSo ist der Moment verstrichen. Die Monate und Monate der Planung und Vorfreude haben das, was viele als die vorletzte Form der Zerst\u00f6rung betrachteten, in eine F\u00fclle von wissenschaftlicher Forschung und Bodensch\u00e4tzen verwandelt.\n\nJa, die Menschheit durfte Zeugnis ablegen \u00fcber das Vergehen eines Planeten. Das ist an sich schon bemerkenswert, aber mehr noch, wir waren in der Lage, daraus zu lernen, was nach Ansicht dieses Berichterstatters eine noch gr\u00f6\u00dfere Leistung ist.\n\n\n\n\n. . . ENDE TRANSRIPT","zh_CN":"NEW UNITED NewsOrg\n\n>>\nDEATH OF A PLANET by Martin Betemit Staff Writer There are moments that remind Humanity how extraordinary our journey into the stars has been. Despite the horrible blunders we\u2019ve committed as a species, it is worth celebrating the soaring achievements and truly mind-boggling events we\u2019ve come to witness.\n\nFor years, the scientific community has been mesmerized by what amounts to a ballet on a cosmic scale, after a celestial collision between a wandering asteroid and Ellis XI\u2019s small moon began that satellite\u2019s slow, certain plunge towards the planet\u2019s surface. Some scientists did gather early on in enthusiastic, but inevitably fruitless, brainstorms on how to deflect the asteroid or, later, return the moon to its natural orbit. In the end, the planet\u2019s lack of perceived value and the exorbitant costs of the proposed schemes led them to admit failure.\n\nFrom then on, the scientific community\u2019s efforts became two-pronged: half watching and studying the slow death of moon and planet like children awaiting Christmas, and the remainder performing the reams of calculations required to anticipate all of the effects \u2013 and to minimize the collateral damage. Since then, there has been a non-stop flurry of activity in almost every bureau of the UEE.\n\nAt the eye of the hurricane, Senator Clay Harren distinguished himself by spearheading the government\u2019s response, coordinating with the High Command to implement the safety protocols to protect Ellis\u2019s inhabited planets from the potential debris, as well as folded in mining and scientific contracts to help offset clean-up costs.\n\nPlans were enacted. Contracts were signed. Even Xi\u2019An scientific committees appeared to watch this cosmic event unfold. All that was left was to wait. And wait the universe did.\n\nFinally, it happened. 6.6.2943:03:11 SET, the moon impacted the surface of Ellis XI. The silent explosion of celestial objects was beyond description. Due to the minimum distance parameters given to the media, the scene initially felt like another of the simulated images that have been saturating the Spectrum for nearly two years. It took a few moments to realize that it was real, that this scene of cosmic destruction unfolding was indeed happening.\n\nThe moon struck Ellis XI at sixteen degrees above the equator. Some analysts estimated that over ten billion megatons of energy were released during the impact \u2013 100 times the estimated impact of the Chicxulub asteroid on Earth in prehistoric times. The size of the impact actually moved Ellis XI a fraction of a degree out of its orbit, even while the massive tectonic activity from the collision began to tear the planet apart. The planet\u2019s final act will be to leave a new asteroid belt as the epitaph to its epic demise.\n\nIn the aftermath of the collision, the military began to escort scientific crews into the wake of the destruction. Fortunately, Ellis X, the planet\u2019s closest astronomical neighbor, was on the other side of the system at the time of the collision, and Ellis XII\u2019s orbit is much more distant, so there is no significant perceived risk to either of its planetary siblings.\n\nAs the scientists now begin to study the inner workings of planets on an unprecedented scale, what does this event mean for the rest of the UEE? As far as a death of a planet goes, one couldn\u2019t ask for a better candidate. Since Ellis XI was not an inhabited planet, there are no settlers to be relocated. The planet held little interest for mining or scientific communities. At best, Ellis System will simply require a few months of travel warnings and an update to the System Almanac and Galactic Guide to excise the deceased world and add a new asteroid belt.\n\nAlthough that\u2019s not entirely true. Outside of the science and mining community, the destruction of Ellis XI holds significant value to another organization: the Murray Cup Racing League. The MCRL has set up the Ellis System as their homebase of astro-racing and is in the process of updating their rules to accommodate for the new obstacle course in their system.\n\nSo the moment has passed. The months and months of planning and anticipation have turned what many considered to be the penultimate form of destruction into a wealth of scientific research and mineral resources.\n\nYes, Humanity was allowed to bear witness to the passing of a planet. That, in and of itself, is remarkable, but more so, we were in a position to learn from it which, in the opinion of this reporter, is an even greater achievement.\n\n. . . END TRANSCRIPT"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":80,"created_at":"2013-06-11T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-15 00:45:56","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13048,"next_id":13050}}