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DEATH 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’ve committed as a species, it is worth celebrating the soaring achievements and truly mind-boggling events we’ve come to witness.

For 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’s small moon began that satellite’s slow, certain plunge towards the planet’s 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’s lack of perceived value and the exorbitant costs of the proposed schemes led them to admit failure.

From then on, the scientific community’s 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 – and to minimize the collateral damage. Since then, there has been a non-stop flurry of activity in almost every bureau of the UEE.

At the eye of the hurricane, Senator Clay Harren distinguished himself by spearheading the government’s response, coordinating with the High Command to implement the safety protocols to protect Ellis’s inhabited planets from the potential debris, as well as folded in mining and scientific contracts to help offset clean-up costs.

Plans were enacted. Contracts were signed. Even Xi’An scientific committees appeared to watch this cosmic event unfold. All that was left was to wait. And wait the universe did.

Finally, 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.

The 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 – 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’s final act will be to leave a new asteroid belt as the epitaph to its epic demise.

In the aftermath of the collision, the military began to escort scientific crews into the wake of the destruction. Fortunately, Ellis X, the planet’s closest astronomical neighbor, was on the other side of the system at the time of the collision, and Ellis XII’s orbit is much more distant, so there is no significant perceived risk to either of its planetary siblings.

As 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’t 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.

Although that’s 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.

So 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.

Yes, 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.

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TOD EINES PLANETEN
von Martin Betemit
Staff Writer Es gibt Momente, die die Menschheit daran erinnern, wie außergewöhnlich 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.

Seit 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 Oberfläche des Planeten stürzt. Einige Wissenschaftler versammelten sich schon früh in enthusiastischen, aber unvermeidlich erfolglosen Brainstormings darüber, wie man den Asteroiden ablenkt oder später den Mond in seine natürliche Umlaufbahn zurückbringt. Letztendlich führten der Mangel an wahrgenommenem Wert des Planeten und die exorbitanten Kosten der vorgeschlagenen Systeme dazu, dass sie ein Versagen zugaben.

Von da an waren die Bemühungen der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft zweigeteilt: die Hälfte beobachtete und studierte den langsamen Tod von Mond und Planet wie Kinder, die auf Weihnachten warteten, und der Rest führte die unzähligen Berechnungen durch, die erforderlich waren, um alle Auswirkungen zu antizipieren - und die Kollateralschäden zu minimieren. Seitdem gibt es in fast jedem Büro der UEE eine ununterbrochene Welle von Aktivitäten.

Im Auge des Hurrikans zeichnete sich Senator Clay Harren dadurch aus, dass er die Reaktion der Regierung anführte und sich mit dem Oberkommando abstimmte, um die Sicherheitsprotokolle zum Schutz der bewohnten Planeten von Ellis vor den potenziellen Trümmern umzusetzen, sowie durch Bergbau- und wissenschaftliche Verträge, die zum Ausgleich der Reinigungskosten beitragen.

Pläne wurden umgesetzt. Es wurden Verträge unterzeichnet. Sogar Xi'An wissenschaftliche Komitees schienen dieses kosmische Ereignis zu beobachten. Alles, was übrig blieb, war zu warten. Und warte, bis das Universum es tat.

Endlich ist es passiert. 6.6.2943:03:03:11 SET, hat der Mond die Oberfläche von Ellis XI getroffen. Die stille Explosion von Himmelsobjekten war unbeschreiblich. Aufgrund der Mindestabstandsparameter, die den Medien gegeben wurden, fühlte sich die Szene zunächst wie ein weiteres der simulierten Bilder an, die das Spektrum seit fast zwei Jahren sättigen. Es dauerte einige Augenblicke, um zu erkennen, dass es real war, dass sich diese Szene der kosmischen Zerstörung tatsächlich entfaltete.

Der Mond traf Ellis XI sechzehn Grad über dem Äquator. Einige Analysten schätzten, dass während des Aufpralls über zehn Milliarden Megatonnen Energie freigesetzt wurden - das 100-fache der geschätzten Auswirkungen des Chicxulub-Asteroiden auf die Erde in prähistorischer Zeit. Die Größe des Aufpralls bewegte Ellis XI tatsächlich um einen Bruchteil eines Grades aus seiner Umlaufbahn, obwohl die massive tektonische Aktivität durch die Kollision den Planeten zu zerreißen begann. Der letzte Akt des Planeten wird darin bestehen, einen neuen Asteroidengürtel als Epitaph für sein episches Ende zu hinterlassen.

Nach der Kollision begann das Militär, wissenschaftliche Besatzungen nach der Zerstörung zu begleiten. Glücklicherweise befand sich Ellis X, der nächste 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 für eines seiner Geschwister gibt.

Während die Wissenschaftler nun beginnen, das Innenleben von Planeten in einem beispiellosen Ausmaß zu untersuchen, was bedeutet dieses Ereignis für den Rest der UEE? Was den Tod eines Planeten betrifft, so könnte man sich keinen besseren Kandidaten wünschen. Da Ellis XI kein bewohnter Planet war, gibt es keine Siedler, die verlegt werden müssten. Der Planet hatte wenig Interesse an Bergbau oder wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaften. Im besten Fall benötigt 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 Asteroidengürtel hinzuzufügen.

Obwohl das nicht ganz richtig ist. Außerhalb der Wissenschaft und des Bergbaus hat die Zerstörung von Ellis XI einen bedeutenden Wert für eine andere Organisation: die Murray Cup Racing League. Das MCRL hat das Ellis-System als Basis für Astro-Rennen eingerichtet und ist dabei, seine Regeln zu aktualisieren, um dem neuen Hindernislauf in seinem System gerecht zu werden.

So ist der Moment verstrichen. Die Monate und Monate der Planung und Vorfreude haben das, was viele als die vorletzte Form der Zerstörung betrachteten, in eine Fülle von wissenschaftlicher Forschung und Bodenschätzen verwandelt.

Ja, die Menschheit durfte Zeugnis ablegen über 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 größere Leistung ist.




. . . ENDE TRANSRIPT
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DEATH 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’ve committed as a species, it is worth celebrating the soaring achievements and truly mind-boggling events we’ve come to witness.

For 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’s small moon began that satellite’s slow, certain plunge towards the planet’s 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’s lack of perceived value and the exorbitant costs of the proposed schemes led them to admit failure.

From then on, the scientific community’s 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 – and to minimize the collateral damage. Since then, there has been a non-stop flurry of activity in almost every bureau of the UEE.

At the eye of the hurricane, Senator Clay Harren distinguished himself by spearheading the government’s response, coordinating with the High Command to implement the safety protocols to protect Ellis’s inhabited planets from the potential debris, as well as folded in mining and scientific contracts to help offset clean-up costs.

Plans were enacted. Contracts were signed. Even Xi’An scientific committees appeared to watch this cosmic event unfold. All that was left was to wait. And wait the universe did.

Finally, 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.

The 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 – 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’s final act will be to leave a new asteroid belt as the epitaph to its epic demise.

In the aftermath of the collision, the military began to escort scientific crews into the wake of the destruction. Fortunately, Ellis X, the planet’s closest astronomical neighbor, was on the other side of the system at the time of the collision, and Ellis XII’s orbit is much more distant, so there is no significant perceived risk to either of its planetary siblings.

As 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’t 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.

Although that’s 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.

So 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.

Yes, 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.

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