Tom
An Old Friend
In this thread the goal is to create a paragraph or five based on the specific criteria concerning "The Sliver".
Before I start giving the details on that criteria, Here are some rules:
There is no limit as to how you express yourself as long as the criteria are met.
I am in the US. If you wish to use metric equivalents you may.
Your creative content can be 'Before', 'After' or 'During' the event.
You may create in any 'person view' you want. 1st person, 3rd person, descriptive...etc...
Keep foul language to a minimum.
Any ideas you get from what I write you may freely use without my permission.
Get permission from all other participants before you use their content.
The time frame for 'The Event' is tomorrow at our present technology.
There are no superheroes, magic or established AIs.
Your content should be as close to realistic as possible.
'The Sliver' scenario is unrealistic and fantasy but your content should be concerned with how it is perceived.
This is a story building exercise. You may use any form of expression that applies to your creativity as long as it is in alignment with the criteria. All entries must fit in the character limitations of a single post. If you want to expand upon your work you may do so in your own topic, your own short story, novel, movie or publication.
Along its way, various gravity encounters have slowed this sliver of super heavy material. We first detect its influence slightly between Mars and Earth. We noticed not the sliver but the changes in known asteroid trajectories. It was just under one million miles away and moving at 120,000 mph when we finally detected the actual sliver itself.
The Sliver is 250 miles long, three miles deep and one mile wide. It has a density of 1 million pounds per square inch. It is similar in appearance to a jagged knife edge. It is slowly tumbling end over end.
The sliver impacts the Earth and bores down to the core and embeds itself in the Inner Core.
Ideas for Creative Content:
Before I start giving the details on that criteria, Here are some rules:
There is no limit as to how you express yourself as long as the criteria are met.
I am in the US. If you wish to use metric equivalents you may.
Your creative content can be 'Before', 'After' or 'During' the event.
You may create in any 'person view' you want. 1st person, 3rd person, descriptive...etc...
Keep foul language to a minimum.
Any ideas you get from what I write you may freely use without my permission.
Get permission from all other participants before you use their content.
The time frame for 'The Event' is tomorrow at our present technology.
There are no superheroes, magic or established AIs.
Your content should be as close to realistic as possible.
'The Sliver' scenario is unrealistic and fantasy but your content should be concerned with how it is perceived.
This is a story building exercise. You may use any form of expression that applies to your creativity as long as it is in alignment with the criteria. All entries must fit in the character limitations of a single post. If you want to expand upon your work you may do so in your own topic, your own short story, novel, movie or publication.
The Sliver
Far above the galactic plane of the Milky Way Galaxy, 140 Million Years Ago, A giant star went Super Nova and shattered a nearby long dead dwarf star. A sliver of that star started its long journey that ultimately ends in our Solar system.
Along its way, various gravity encounters have slowed this sliver of super heavy material. We first detect its influence slightly between Mars and Earth. We noticed not the sliver but the changes in known asteroid trajectories. It was just under one million miles away and moving at 120,000 mph when we finally detected the actual sliver itself.
The Sliver is 250 miles long, three miles deep and one mile wide. It has a density of 1 million pounds per square inch. It is similar in appearance to a jagged knife edge. It is slowly tumbling end over end.
The sliver impacts the Earth and bores down to the core and embeds itself in the Inner Core.
Ideas for Creative Content:
- Descriptive content based on what the first astronomers that detected the sliver saw.
- Backstory content based on the sliver's journey
- Dynamic accounting of our preparation for the impact
- World view of pending doom
- Personal accounting of how the pending disaster affected someone's life
- Description of what various people witnessed as the sliver impacted
- Descriptive accounting of the mechanics of the impact
- Personal accounting of someone at ground zero.
- Personal accounting of someone on the direct opposite side of the planet during impact
- Descriptive accounting of the aftermath of the impact
- Specific accounting of individual attempts at survival
- Description of changes to the planet, its orbit and other spacial/mechanical changes
- When the sliver impacted the Earth's core did it ring like a giant bell?
- Did it poke thru the continental plate like a needle or hit on its side like a knife?
- Did it continue to rotate thru the mantle?
- Was there a 'rain' of meteors that were pulled along with the sliver?
- Did its mass change the Moon's orbit?
- What happened to Earth's gravity as it approached?
- Did it knock Earth into a new rotation or Solar orbit?
- Did its impact push the core off center?
- Could any life survive?
- Did it crack a tectonic plate?
- Did new volcanoes form where none were present?