Fighting With Faith- Fourth Entry
Not knowing why he felt so jovial this morning, Benlian skipped gaily down the worn rockcrete path, the signs and symbols engraved onto the road already faded out after over fifty generations of people using the same road. It was a warm and sunny day, with the twin-suns on one-eighth of its journey to mid-day. He had just had his morning supplements and was heading from his house to the work shed, where he would retrieve his zink-axe, used for harvest the well-renown Frazium found within the Asat system only, and head on down to the harvesting fields.
Frazium, when refined and intoxicated, can be used for a variety of things. Vehicular combustion processes, building construction, some even confess that it has medicinal purposes. It is a hardy and very inert element which all the more makes it easier to harvest and store efficiently. Hence, some people say that the only reason the Imperium decided to stretch its helping hand to the Asat Cluster was not to embrace the system in safety, but to grab the Frazium resources.
The way Frazium is harvested is unlike any other. The Asat system has two suns and fourteen planets. Seven planets revolve around each sun. Hence the system is divided into two parts, namely Asat-prime and Asat-minor. Asat-prime is the seven planet sub-system which has the capital planet, Selfath, the third planet from the Asat-prime sub-system’s sun. Between the two suns, there exists this “vertical sphere”; a flat, circular cylindrical area which measures a mere few hundred kilometers in thickness but millions of kilometers wide. Within it, drifts millions of Frazium fragments, some as huge as some planets, some as small as a pebble. It is in this area that one of the most spectacular acts of natural cosmology occurs. The drifting Frazium fragments will drift at a constantly increasingly velocity, in a circular motion, from zenith to veneer, or otherwise. The fragments beginning their journey at the bottom of the sphere will work their way upwards, only to be met by the downwards traveling fragments. It is here that “space-booms” occur. The fragments will collide at such great speeds that even more fragments will be asunder in all directions in even greater speed. Inevitably, these fragments will be caught within the gravity wells, powered by mighty invert-polar orbital stations positioned around the four planets that receive the raw Frazium fragments being rained down upon them. It is the harvesting fields that where the fragments land.
Not knowing why he felt so jovial this morning, Benlian skipped gaily down the worn rockcrete path, the signs and symbols engraved onto the road already faded out after over fifty generations of people using the same road. It was a warm and sunny day, with the twin-suns on one-eighth of its journey to mid-day. He had just had his morning supplements and was heading from his house to the work shed, where he would retrieve his zink-axe, used for harvest the well-renown Frazium found within the Asat system only, and head on down to the harvesting fields.
Frazium, when refined and intoxicated, can be used for a variety of things. Vehicular combustion processes, building construction, some even confess that it has medicinal purposes. It is a hardy and very inert element which all the more makes it easier to harvest and store efficiently. Hence, some people say that the only reason the Imperium decided to stretch its helping hand to the Asat Cluster was not to embrace the system in safety, but to grab the Frazium resources.
The way Frazium is harvested is unlike any other. The Asat system has two suns and fourteen planets. Seven planets revolve around each sun. Hence the system is divided into two parts, namely Asat-prime and Asat-minor. Asat-prime is the seven planet sub-system which has the capital planet, Selfath, the third planet from the Asat-prime sub-system’s sun. Between the two suns, there exists this “vertical sphere”; a flat, circular cylindrical area which measures a mere few hundred kilometers in thickness but millions of kilometers wide. Within it, drifts millions of Frazium fragments, some as huge as some planets, some as small as a pebble. It is in this area that one of the most spectacular acts of natural cosmology occurs. The drifting Frazium fragments will drift at a constantly increasingly velocity, in a circular motion, from zenith to veneer, or otherwise. The fragments beginning their journey at the bottom of the sphere will work their way upwards, only to be met by the downwards traveling fragments. It is here that “space-booms” occur. The fragments will collide at such great speeds that even more fragments will be asunder in all directions in even greater speed. Inevitably, these fragments will be caught within the gravity wells, powered by mighty invert-polar orbital stations positioned around the four planets that receive the raw Frazium fragments being rained down upon them. It is the harvesting fields that where the fragments land.
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