{"data":{"id":13474,"title":"This Day in History: A Dangerous Flight","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13474-This-Day-In-History-A-Dangerous-Flight","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13474","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13474","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":727,"name":"ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/j9vnjqd2pny04r\/source\/ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","alt":"","size":1869743,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-08-19T21:16:16+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727\/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":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nJanuary 14, 2884 SET\n\nA Dangerous Flight\n\nThere\u2019s something equally admirable and insane about the scientific mind. It is that need to question and revisit that has undoubtedly led to some of Humanity\u2019s greatest achievements, but also led to such spectacular disasters.\n\nBy all accounts, Russell Valem was a wunderkind. Passing his Equivalency at 12 years old, Valem attended a handful of universities in Rhetor and completed a triple doctorate by the age of 24. Shortly thereafter, he received the illustrious Kilian Quaesitor Grant for his dissertation entitled \u201cTheoretical Applications of Antimatter Propulsion.\u201d\n\nThe young Dr. Valem believed that Humanity had become complacent in their development ever since Nick Croshaw discovered the first jump point almost seven hundred years earlier.\n\n\u201cSimply because he had found a means for us to cross space, didn\u2019t mean that we had conquered the vast and terrifying distances of the universe,\u201d Dr. Valem said at the Science and Technology Summit in 2873. \u201cJump points are an illusion of control. There is so much more out there for us to discover. Maybe an entire civilization could be closer to Earth than Croshaw system, but we won\u2019t know because everyone\u2019s out there looking for jump points.\u201d\n\nDr. Valem\u2019s passion was engines, specifically building an engine capable of travelling at speeds equal to or faster than the speed of light. With that, the universe \u201cwould be truly open for exploration. Gone would be the chokepoints of jump points.\u201d\n\nTirelessly collecting any and all data from scientists who had attempted similar endeavors over the centuries, Dr. Valem spent years sifting through the theories, formulas and schematics, convinced that somewhere in the vast troves of data lay the secret to unlocking \u201cabsolute freedom.\u201d He even began to study controversial experiments in fringe technology performed during the height of the Messer Era.\n\nIn late 2882, Dr. Valem resurfaced to organize a scientific symposium for some of the most celebrated scientific minds of the age. The finale of the event was advertised as an \u201cannouncement that will change the direction of Human expansion,\u201d an appropriate level of theatricality that had become synonymous with his presentations in the past. The scientist who emerged seemed different than the focused, passionate thinker who abandoned the spotlight almost a decade earlier. This new man was wild, argumentative and even more headstrong.\n\nDr. Valem revealed that through a list of private investors including several Xi\u2019An entrepreneurs and Banu traders, he had developed a prototype engine named CHARIOT that was capable of reaching speeds near or exceeding the speed of light.\n\nParanoid to the extreme that other scientists would steal his tech, he had eschewed any field testing, opting for extensive simulation and laboratory tests instead, but claiming that his science was sound. He was going to give the universe the opportunity to see the engine at work live, in its first field testing shortly after the New Earth Year.\n\nThe scientific community and NewsOrgs turned out in force on the 14th of January in 2884 to see Dr. Russell Valem\u2019s first display of the CHARIOT engine. He chose to stage his demonstration above Angeli in the Croshaw system as \u201ca testament to the brilliance of Nick Croshaw as well as a condemnation of the shackles that his discovery bound onto Humanity.\u201d\n\nUsing a spacecraft of his own design, Dr. Valem prepared to fire the CHARIOT. He gave a final message to the crowd of onlookers.\n\n\u201cI leap forward to unveil the universe.\u201d\n\nDr. Valem then activated the CHARIOT.\n\nThe explosion nearly ruptured the observation station\u2019s hull, causing dozens of injuries to the scientists and journalists aboard. By the time everyone came to, there were only fragments of Dr. Valem\u2019s ship that hadn\u2019t been completely incinerated.\n\nCelebrated satirist Lasse Hatwell, who was just starting his career as a journalist for the Terra Gazette, summed up the display with what would become his signature style of humor:\n\n\u201cWhile the scientific community and Spectrum representatives had probably turned up expecting a failure, there was a small part in all of us that was hoping for something monumental,\u201d he wrote of the day\u2019s events. \u201cOn the bright side, Dr. Valem\u2019s engine and ship exploded faster than any ship I had seen before.\u201d","de_DE":"AN DIESEM TAG IN DER GESCHICHTE\n14. Januar 2884 SET\n\nEin gef\u00e4hrlicher Flug\n\nDer wissenschaftliche Verstand hat etwas gleicherma\u00dfen Bewundernswertes und Wahnsinniges. Es ist diese Notwendigkeit der Infragestellung und des Wiederbesuchs, die zweifellos zu einigen der gr\u00f6\u00dften Errungenschaften der Menschheit gef\u00fchrt hat, aber auch zu solchen spektakul\u00e4ren Katastrophen.\n\nNach allem, was man h\u00f6rt, war Russell Valem ein Wunderkind. Valem bestand seine \u00c4quivalenz im Alter von 12 Jahren, besuchte eine Handvoll Universit\u00e4ten in Rhetor und schloss im Alter von 24 Jahren eine dreifache Promotion ab. Kurz darauf erhielt er f\u00fcr seine Dissertation mit dem Titel \"Theoretische Anwendungen des Antimaterieantriebs\" das renommierte Kilian Quaesitor Grant.\n\nDer junge Dr. Valem glaubte, dass die Menschheit in ihrer Entwicklung selbstgef\u00e4llig geworden sei, seit Nick Croshaw fast siebenhundert Jahre zuvor den ersten Sprungpunkt entdeckt hatte.\n\n\"Einfach weil er ein Mittel gefunden hatte, um den Weltraum zu durchqueren, bedeutete das nicht, dass wir die enormen und schrecklichen Entfernungen des Universums \u00fcberwunden hatten\", sagte Dr. Valem 2873 auf dem Wissenschafts- und Technologiegipfel. \"Sprungbretter sind eine Illusion von Kontrolle. Es gibt so viel mehr da drau\u00dfen, das wir entdecken k\u00f6nnen. Vielleicht k\u00f6nnte eine ganze Zivilisation n\u00e4her an der Erde sein als das Croshaw-System, aber wir werden es nicht wissen, weil alle da drau\u00dfen auf der Suche nach Sprungpunkten sind.\"\n\nDr. Valems Leidenschaft waren Motoren, insbesondere der Bau eines Motors, der mit Geschwindigkeiten gleich oder schneller als die Lichtgeschwindigkeit fahren kann. Damit w\u00e4re das Universum \"wirklich offen f\u00fcr die Erforschung. Vorbei w\u00e4ren die W\u00fcrgepunkte der Sprungbretter.\"\n\nDr. Valem sammelte unerm\u00fcdlich alle Daten von Wissenschaftlern, die im Laufe der Jahrhunderte \u00e4hnliche Versuche unternommen hatten, und verbrachte Jahre damit, die Theorien, Formeln und Schemata durchzugehen, in der \u00dcberzeugung, dass irgendwo in den riesigen Tiefen der Daten das Geheimnis lag, \"absolute Freiheit\" zu erschlie\u00dfen. Er begann sogar, kontroverse Experimente in der Randtechnologie zu studieren, die w\u00e4hrend des H\u00f6hepunkts der Messer-\u00c4ra durchgef\u00fchrt wurden.\n\nEnde 2882 tauchte Dr. Valem wieder auf, um ein wissenschaftliches Symposium f\u00fcr einige der ber\u00fchmtesten wissenschaftlichen K\u00f6pfe der Gegenwart zu organisieren. Das Finale der Veranstaltung wurde als \"Ank\u00fcndigung angek\u00fcndigt, die die Richtung der menschlichen Expansion \u00e4ndern wird\", eine angemessene Ebene der Theatralik, die in der Vergangenheit zum Synonym f\u00fcr seine Pr\u00e4sentationen geworden war. Der Wissenschaftler, der auftauchte, schien anders zu sein als der fokussierte, leidenschaftliche Denker, der fast ein Jahrzehnt zuvor das Rampenlicht verlie\u00df. Dieser neue Mann war wild, argumentativ und noch eigensinniger.\n\nDr. Valem enth\u00fcllte, dass er durch eine Liste von Privatinvestoren, darunter mehrere Xi'An-Unternehmer und Banu-H\u00e4ndler, einen Prototyp-Motor namens CHARIOT entwickelt hatte, der in der Lage war, Geschwindigkeiten nahe oder oberhalb der Lichtgeschwindigkeit zu erreichen.\n\nParanoid bis zum \u00c4u\u00dfersten, dass andere Wissenschaftler seine Technologie stehlen w\u00fcrden, hatte er jeden Feldtest vermieden und sich stattdessen f\u00fcr umfangreiche Simulations- und Labortests entschieden, behauptete aber, dass seine Wissenschaft solide sei. Er wollte dem Universum die M\u00f6glichkeit geben, den Motor bei der Arbeit live zu sehen, bei seinen ersten Feldtests kurz nach dem neuen Erdenjahr.\n\nDie wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft und NewsOrgs haben sich am 14. Januar 2884 in Kraft gesetzt, um Dr. Russell Valems erste Ausstellung des CHARIOT-Motors zu sehen. Er entschied sich daf\u00fcr, seine Demonstration \u00fcber Angeli im Croshaw-System als \"Beweis f\u00fcr die Brillanz von Nick Croshaw sowie als Verurteilung der Fesseln, die seine Entdeckung an die Menschheit gebunden hat\", zu veranstalten.\n\nDr. Valem bereitete sich mit einem selbst entworfenen Raumschiff darauf vor, den CHARIOT zu feuern. Er gab eine letzte Botschaft an die Menge der Zuschauer.\n\n\"Ich springe vorw\u00e4rts, um das Universum zu enth\u00fcllen.\"\n\nDr. Valem aktivierte dann den CHARIOT.\n\nDie Explosion brach fast den Rumpf der Beobachtungsstation und verursachte Dutzende von Verletzungen f\u00fcr die Wissenschaftler und Journalisten an Bord. Als alle zu sich kamen, gab es nur noch Bruchst\u00fccke von Dr. Valems Schiff, die nicht vollst\u00e4ndig verbrannt waren.\n\nDer gefeierte Satiriker Lasse Hatwell, der gerade seine Karriere als Journalist f\u00fcr die Terra Gazette begann, fasste die Ausstellung mit dem zusammen, was zu seinem typischen Humorstil werden sollte:\n\n\"W\u00e4hrend die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft und die Vertreter von Spectrum wahrscheinlich mit einem Scheitern gerechnet hatten, gab es in uns allen einen kleinen Teil, der auf etwas Monumentales hoffte\", schrieb er \u00fcber die Ereignisse des Tages. \"Auf der anderen Seite explodierten Dr. Valems Motor und Schiff schneller als jedes andere Schiff, das ich je gesehen hatte.\"","zh_CN":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nJanuary 14, 2884 SET\n\nA Dangerous Flight\n\nThere\u2019s something equally admirable and insane about the scientific mind. It is that need to question and revisit that has undoubtedly led to some of Humanity\u2019s greatest achievements, but also led to such spectacular disasters.\n\nBy all accounts, Russell Valem was a wunderkind. Passing his Equivalency at 12 years old, Valem attended a handful of universities in Rhetor and completed a triple doctorate by the age of 24. Shortly thereafter, he received the illustrious Kilian Quaesitor Grant for his dissertation entitled \u201cTheoretical Applications of Antimatter Propulsion.\u201d\n\nThe young Dr. Valem believed that Humanity had become complacent in their development ever since Nick Croshaw discovered the first jump point almost seven hundred years earlier.\n\n\u201cSimply because he had found a means for us to cross space, didn\u2019t mean that we had conquered the vast and terrifying distances of the universe,\u201d Dr. Valem said at the Science and Technology Summit in 2873. \u201cJump points are an illusion of control. There is so much more out there for us to discover. Maybe an entire civilization could be closer to Earth than Croshaw system, but we won\u2019t know because everyone\u2019s out there looking for jump points.\u201d\n\nDr. Valem\u2019s passion was engines, specifically building an engine capable of travelling at speeds equal to or faster than the speed of light. With that, the universe \u201cwould be truly open for exploration. Gone would be the chokepoints of jump points.\u201d\n\nTirelessly collecting any and all data from scientists who had attempted similar endeavors over the centuries, Dr. Valem spent years sifting through the theories, formulas and schematics, convinced that somewhere in the vast troves of data lay the secret to unlocking \u201cabsolute freedom.\u201d He even began to study controversial experiments in fringe technology performed during the height of the Messer Era.\n\nIn late 2882, Dr. Valem resurfaced to organize a scientific symposium for some of the most celebrated scientific minds of the age. The finale of the event was advertised as an \u201cannouncement that will change the direction of Human expansion,\u201d an appropriate level of theatricality that had become synonymous with his presentations in the past. The scientist who emerged seemed different than the focused, passionate thinker who abandoned the spotlight almost a decade earlier. This new man was wild, argumentative and even more headstrong.\n\nDr. Valem revealed that through a list of private investors including several Xi\u2019An entrepreneurs and Banu traders, he had developed a prototype engine named CHARIOT that was capable of reaching speeds near or exceeding the speed of light.\n\nParanoid to the extreme that other scientists would steal his tech, he had eschewed any field testing, opting for extensive simulation and laboratory tests instead, but claiming that his science was sound. He was going to give the universe the opportunity to see the engine at work live, in its first field testing shortly after the New Earth Year.\n\nThe scientific community and NewsOrgs turned out in force on the 14th of January in 2884 to see Dr. Russell Valem\u2019s first display of the CHARIOT engine. He chose to stage his demonstration above Angeli in the Croshaw system as \u201ca testament to the brilliance of Nick Croshaw as well as a condemnation of the shackles that his discovery bound onto Humanity.\u201d\n\nUsing a spacecraft of his own design, Dr. Valem prepared to fire the CHARIOT. He gave a final message to the crowd of onlookers.\n\n\u201cI leap forward to unveil the universe.\u201d\n\nDr. Valem then activated the CHARIOT.\n\nThe explosion nearly ruptured the observation station\u2019s hull, causing dozens of injuries to the scientists and journalists aboard. By the time everyone came to, there were only fragments of Dr. Valem\u2019s ship that hadn\u2019t been completely incinerated.\n\nCelebrated satirist Lasse Hatwell, who was just starting his career as a journalist for the Terra Gazette, summed up the display with what would become his signature style of humor:\n\n\u201cWhile the scientific community and Spectrum representatives had probably turned up expecting a failure, there was a small part in all of us that was hoping for something monumental,\u201d he wrote of the day\u2019s events. \u201cOn the bright side, Dr. Valem\u2019s engine and ship exploded faster than any ship I had seen before.\u201d"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":88,"created_at":"2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 02:37:36","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13473,"next_id":13475}}