Trouble in the Triangulum Galaxy

By John Gaukel

The Hale Astro was a telescope the size of Texas. It’s task at the moment was research. They had just happened to focus on a corner of the Triangulum Galaxy. What they found raised more questions than it answered.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Gaukel
• Release date: Jan 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466076259

John Gaukel

John Gaukel is a Physicist, Inventor, Intellectual Property Analyst, Engineer, Business Manager, Poet and Avid Science Fiction reader.He is a hemiplegic, and has taken up Science Fiction writing to extend himself in new directions. – There are more novelettes and poems in progress.

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Trouble in the Triangulum Galaxy

The Quants confirm there are others traveling between galaxies.

January 1, 202,200 ADHT Terry was tired. He had been up all night, working at a snippy problem which had been troubling him for months. He and a team of Quants had been working a couple of years with the largest telescope ever conceived. They had named it The Hale Astro. It was as big as Texas, and was dual purposed. It was designed to do spectacular astronomy, as well as test a new design method to track near light speed or higher vehicles at great distances. It was located above the galactic plane, and currently was focused on the Triangulum Galaxy.

The Hale Astro was a celebration of the turn of the First Great Age. The whole of the Culminoid races contributed. The Culminoids were a collection of all sentient species in Known space governed by SAOCS, the Far flung ‘Sentient Alliance of Culminoid Species’ composed of over a quadrillion member individuals, Quants included.

The problem at hand was how to differentiate what the researchers were looking for from the residue of signals permeating the universe. The universe was filled with a prolithera of naturally occurring cosmic events. He had a team of several thousand Quants, and dozens of SAOCS’s best working on it. They had come close several times but had to back away and come back at a new angle.

His best team members Jill and Judy, both feline, were just coming into the Lab for the day. The Lab was a large version of a starship. The great hall in the front dedicated to viewing and meetings, with work spaces scattered throughout. There were even living quarters scattered around the outer back edge of the LAB.

The ship, Solaris One, was populated with around two hundred thousand or so SAOCS’s, and one million plus Quants. It was supplied to stay stationary for generations without moving. Supply ships to this area were limited so as to not disturb the sensitive measurements being taken.

Terry had chosen this space because of its inherent stability. In fact, there were ten other similar telescopes half the size of the primary symmetrically spaced around it. They were positioned to atomic accuracy relative to the