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  SPATIUM UPENDED

  A TRILOGY

  PART I

  ØICRÔ

  OA BRAVO

  COPYRIGHT

  This is a work of fiction. Al of the characters, organizations,

  and events portrayed in this novel are either products of

  the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  SPATIUM UPENDED

  A TRILOGY

  PART I

  ØICRÔ

  Copyright © 2021 by O.A Bravo

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  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  This book

  is dedicated

  to the loving

  memories of

  Dad,

  Jojo,

  Mabel

  &

  Osas.

  See you all

  in hjâ.

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  COVER

  TITLE

  COPYRIGHT

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  ᗝ: DISCLAIMER

  0 = ᗐ: HÑÊØ NEBULA

  1 = ᗑ: ÊLKÊNQÎ

  2 = ᗒ: QHN

  3 = ᗓ: ŽØÊRH

  4 = ᗔ: VØHÇÛ-Œ

  5 = ᗕ: WHITE RIVER

  6 = ᗖ: QŸÊØ

  7 = ᗗ: THÊ SEČRET

  8 = ᗘ: HALF MØØN

  9 = ᗙ: ØMEN

  10 = ᗑᗐ: VISITØRS

  11 = ᗑᗑ: HÛØŽ

  12 = ᗑᗒ: TŒMŃK

  13 = ᗑᗓ: RØCK VAPØR

  14 = ᗑᗔ: ŒÊLK

  15 = ᗑᗕ: THE VØID

  16 = ᗑᗖ: ŒÊLKEMIST

  17 = ᗑᗗ: VHŸŠØQÎ

  18 = ᗑᗘ: ØH SPATIUM!

  19 = ᗑᗙ: ÆPHŒ

  20 = ᗒᗐ: ŃXHÆ DEÛX

  21: DRAMATIS PERSONAE

  ᗝ: DISCLAIMER

  HÚSAVÍK, ICELAND. EARTH. WINTER.

  THIS SOLEMN DISCLAIMER attests to the complexities of capturing the lives of the subjects depicted in this trilogy while painting a realistic portrait of their unique characteristics as individual agents and as a collective.

  I wrestled enormously with this undertaking's premise. I imagined I could draw inferences from my own relatively diverse experience as a human being on Earth. With the overarching aim being to then attributing this to the very alien nature of the plot-line.

  As the essay will show, specific research went into modeling rules around how conversations between characters devoid of speech patterns, as we have come to know it, be presented prudently. I sought to extrapolate and then articulate the underlying message in the limited language of instruction under which I was working.

  The subject matter tackled in this trilogy represents the sum of my experience inhabiting my principal characters' minds for this first in the trilogy book. All references to themes of astrophysics, spirituality, morality, religion, and politics that bear inferences or resemblance to our planet's entities were accidental. I had to maintain the fine line between my third-person narration of events depicted here and those that purportedly took place in a space-time continuum, millions of light-years away from our planet and current civilization. After all, not all perception is reality, or so we are told.

  While there are evolving and continuing parallels between what we conceive as norms and the lives of my subject matter as depicted here, this is where the similarities end. As humans, we function within our senses' confines as we evolved here on our planet and as defined by the guiding laws of physics, handed down from antiquity by the enlightened ones in our midst. They rule and advise our lives from birth to passing.

  Extracting ourselves from this supposedly rigid definition of the laws of the Universe and the greater Cosmos opens up heretic level dissent that would be mocked into oblivion by the mainstream of thought and framework that underpins the scientific orthodoxy of the day.

  Speaking of heresy, the themes of astrophysics, philosophy, metaphysics, spirituality, and religion touched on in this volume might be misconstrued as casting aspersions on to the established laws handed down from antiquity. Entities we have come to regard universally—at least here on Earth—as the enlightened philosophers, originators of scientific models and concepts, and at other times as the direct conduits and messengers of a monolithic, Almighty Creator. Again, we deeply regret any real or perceived inferences and suggestions drawn from this work that might come across as being, in any way, heresiarch in nature. For fidelity, I had to inhabit the minds of my subject matter, and from that came what I believe to be my best human depiction of what was communicated.

  The civilization portrayed in this volume existed in a reality that adapted to a completely different evolutionary track and understanding of their surroundings and a starkly different definition of the laws of physics that guided their interactions with their immediate Cosmos. A glaring example would be their adoption of a uniquely native interpretation of the forces that propelled life on their planet and its allied clusters and constellation. This native understanding would underpin their mastery of power generation, using this same inherent force that was abundant and commonplace.

  They developed a propulsion system tethered on the construct of the space-time continuum, similar to the Alcubierre Drive, but one that existed within the framework of the physical world's inherent characteristics around them. This system was markedly different from our approach, which tends to engineer solutions to live independently, outside of the light, as this force was known.

  Their adoption, articulation, and deployment of this very alien interpretation of the Unifying Theory of the Universe remind me that, conceivably, all isn't what it seems from our perspective, here on planet Earth and the farthest we have thus far ventured from it.

  Extensive knowledge of the Cosmos handed down from ancient civilizations such as the Sumerian, Egyptian, Incan, Greek, and Mayan, helped unleash the cadre of transcendental religious, spiritual, and metaphysical heavyweights of antiquity. The teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, Buddha, Mohammed, Shiva, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle come to mind. More recently, intellectuals such as Poincaré, Einstein, Alcubierre, Heaviside, Tesla, Newton, and Michael Faraday—clearly not an exhaustive list—have done more to bring our civilization closer to the mechanics at work in the Universe. Their collective body of work, especially in the areas of spirituality, morality, hyper-quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and gravitational sciences, has interfaced elegantly with how these elements and their guiding laws instruct our time here on planet Earth.

  Like us, the subject matter depicted in this essay struggled with the themes of self and ego and how they deployed these fundamental attributes to the understanding and the expression of the more prominent constructs of spirituality and science. br />
  To what does this equate? What defines spirituality as an abstract entity from science, and how its empirical laws are articulated? From where and by whom are these big ideas conceived, nurtured and then deployed to be then embraced by the dominant and often elite orthodoxy of thought?

  Competing schools of thought as to what is considered spirituality and how that maligns the physical sciences, for instance, dramatically exaggerates the thin line that separates them. Many philosophers, thinkers, theologians, scholars, and scientists of antiquity have publicly articulated allegiances and deep-rooted convictions to both the religious and, sometimes, dogmatic teachings and eccentricities of their day, espousing their deep scientific roots and fidelity to its imperial outcomes.

  A great many of them went to their graves, proving this wasn't just a fad.

  In the end, it all aggregates to the two opposing forces at play in the greater Universe—Ego and Love. While the one constantly needs to be nurtured and fed, the other, by contrast, encourages and gives unconditionally.

  So also can be deduced from the birth and death of stars. The new sun, stars, planets, moons, asteroids formed from the supernova event forces us to rethink the lesson taught. Why are the smaller cosmic entities tidally locked onto more giant planets with corresponding masses and gravitational forces, compelling them to reflect the light from their sun or primary star, often in perpetuity? Like millions of others yet, this odd relationship can't be considered equitable nor fair.

  Like clockwork, we are unwilling witnesses to the level of violence on display, where large asteroids slam onto barren planets forcing them into a million more years of barrenness. A wild Universe, where whole galaxies hurtle yet onto others, colliding and, in the process, destroying billions of stars, planets, and other celestial bodies in their wake. A restless void, where black holes envelop and ensnare whole galaxies, making them and the billions of complex lifeforms they might hold disappear into the vast emptiness of space itself.

  We also marvel at the same Cosmos, where colorful Nebulae hold in their thick yet colorful formations billions of dwarf and neutron stars. These newly formed celestial entities tumble toward the other, engulfing the void in their tumultuous path, traversing millions of light-years apart, fated to be willing partakers in the destruction of the other, without malice, nor remorse. We can't help but ask, what purpose does it all serve? What is the Universe telling us while unleashing disquietude in the process of creating new life?

  A vast, living, and breathing Universe proceeds unwittingly through the sniping, conflict, pain, birthing, and passing, leaving in its stead deprivation, destruction, life, beauty, and everlasting memories to which conscious and subconscious minds alike can relate.

  Our varying belief systems lead us; we're also exposed to the Law of Relativity, a great deal of whose collective mysteries remain unexplained. Spatium Upended - The Trilogy plows eons of light-years into the vast Cosmos to bridge the forces at play here on Earth with the invisible energy that controls it all from afar.

  As the three parts of this journey unfold, we will become willing partakers in the travails of this highly advanced Type-II civilization. The intricate plot lines will take us from a mostly Space Opera sub-genre to a trilogy finale deep in the trenches of a Cyberpunk world, faintly familiar to the one in which we currently live.

  Enjoy.

  0 = ᗐ: HÑÊØ NEBULA

  CONSTELLATION ÆDONIS.

  THE BLUE SUPERGIANT star heaved its final luminous breath and exploded into an enormous supernova.

  A mere millisecond before the fated explosion, a cascade of vivid and brilliant colors beamed from its constantly expanding surface, a violent mix of electrons, protons, gamma, and x-rays. It then collapsed under its gravity's weight, its atomic nuclei having had enough. This nuclear fission event resulted in one supernova for posterity.

  The endless void encapsulating the dying star suddenly pulsated with a restless energy field, one seething with electromagnetic energy.

  This reverberant death of a star gave rise to octillion tiny starlets. Many more petite radiant balls of gas traveled as far as tens of millions of light-years away from the death zone. The resulting cluster painted a nebula in the vast emptiness of the space around it, replete with a colorful debris field of electromagnetic resonance and intensity.

  A peculiar pattern had evolved from the eruption of the great supernova.

  The more prominent breakaway stars tugged at every smaller spatial object in their gravitational field of influence and magnetosphere—stars, asteroids, meteors, moons, and even whole planets—thus creating a rhythmic cluster of stars. Each of these stars had its distinct solar orbital systems. Over time, an infinite number of these systems would steadily evolve from the epic supernova's dust residues.

  Amid these stellar evolutions, the long-held legend of Ÿûxâ, a super massive black hole known as the Passing Void, was on a distinctly deathly mission. It ensnared every breakaway star and, in some instances, whole clusters and nebulae by pulling them into its fiery core.

  Ÿûxâ had become adept at making them disappear with only space dust and nebulae clouds left in its wake—hence its name, the Passing Void.

  The hñêø Nebula was one of the last clusters to form a stable orbital system. It was composed of seventy-seven planets of varying sizes, rock densities, biochemical compositions, and electromagnetic properties.

  The legend of Ńxhæ—the flawless maiden—was believed to have resided atop the throne over the hñêø Nebula. The political seat of her kingdom, Çîhû, was nestled on the giant star in the cluster, Vrâê.

  All seventy-seven planets that make up the hñêø Nebula were pulled towards and later orbited Vrâê. In return, Ńxhæ provided light, heat and controlled the magnetosphere that kept the cluster in place.

  At the same time, Ńxhæ's arch-nemesis, the legend of Qûæ, also known as the Valley Angel, nestled on the dense, gaseous surface of Ÿûxâ, the super massive black hole.

  Like Ńxhæ, Qûæ was a single-winged deity known locally in the hñêø realm as Ÿâzêø. She was also the leader of a breakaway faction of Ńxhæ's Ÿâzêø army. The Ÿâzêø were invisible celestial entities that could take on the physical attributes and characteristics of any of the trillions of life forms scattered across the many galaxies.

  Qûæ relied on the help of Ÿûxâ's fiery nature and size to wrestle control of all the stars in the hñêø Nebula. She figured she could do this by tapping into Ÿûxâ's modus operandi of making them disappear into the vast nothingness at its core.

  This practice would be consistent with the fatal ending that the Ÿûxâ had thus far meted all the stars in its immediate sphere of influence. Cross paths with the passing void and then disappear into the emptiness at its core.

  Qûæ's calculus revolved around the idea that her intimate knowledge of Ÿûxâ's lethal pathway—believed to be predetermined and fixed—afforded her a more profound insight than any other spatial entity had privy. She reckoned she could mobilize her breakaway army of loyal Ÿâzêø to seize control over the hñêø Nebula and then steer it away from Ÿûxâ's impending doom.

  She wanted it all to herself, and nothing was going to stand in her way.

  Ńxhæ's kingdom now had two formidable forces to contend with—an inevitable death from Ÿûxâ's fiery gravitational pull and more urgent aggression from Qûæ and her breakaway faction of Ÿâzêø.

  This brewing tension was one interstellar battle destined to be both lopsided, decisive, and with far-reaching consequences for millions of light-years to come.

  ŽØÊRH

  ŽØÊRH STOOD OUT out as the forty-ninth of the seventy-seven planets that orbited the enormous sun star, Vrâê. It orbited the massive star from around midway relative to the planets’ cluster in their local orbital system. This habitable zone spurred the evolution of complex life forms on its surface.

  It had also developed a thick and peculiar atmosphere that encased an equally uncanny cloud formation. These
eccentricities made for skies that displayed shades of green, mixed with orange in the daytime, and deep purple mixed with shades of red at night. Depending on the season, the colors varied remarkably.

  It took her one thousand, five hundred eighty-nine Earth hours to complete one rotation around its sun star, Vrâê. Unlike over ninety-one percent of the planets in the solar system, Žøêrhâ orbited Vrâê, in a counterclockwise manner.

  The Žøêrhân atmosphere consisted of approximately fifty-five percent Pjôçzî—a gas unique to the planet, twenty-two and a half percent nitrogen, ten percent Oxygen, seven and a half percent carbon dioxide, two and a half percent argon, and traces of methane, amongst other trace gases.

  The top soil comprised mostly of a fine powder cake of silica which was about ten thousand five hundred feet deep. Dig deeper and Žøêrhâ’s crust, which was an almost impenetrable metallic alloy composed mainly of titanium, was revealed.

  The combination of its location in the planetary system, the gases trapped in its peculiar atmosphere, its gravitational pull, and the existence of carbon matter helped conspire to create the recipe for one of the only known habitable planets in all of the hñêø Nebula.

  It had six moons, with its most significant and third closest moon, the orange-colored and bean-shaped satellite named Vøhçû-œ, used primarily as a launching and Cosmos listening station.

  The fact that Vøhçû-œ had a quarter of the gravitational force on Žøêrhâ and one-fifth of its mass meant they initiated more deep space probes from this uniquely shaped moon. It took Vøhçû-œ, eighteen days to complete an orbit around Žøêrhâ.

  Vøhçû-œ would eventually be split into two unequal parts from its mid-center region to create Žøêrhâ’s seventh moon, Pêbøâ-œ.

  The oval shaped Łôîrâ-œ was the closest to the planet which was dotted with purplish colored, rocky mountains, that extended to the surface from its solid metallic core. Due to its small size—about a tenth of the size of Žøêrhâ and a tenth of its gravitational force—it needed only twelve days to complete an orbit.