[Projection Emitter Index]

Hello, new descendant. Ahh – you’re still alive. Good. I was worried there for a bit.

Where was I. In case your great-great-grandfather was lax in passing this data along, I’ll back up a bit. Myself, (who you can call Projection Emitter #3) and my 4.5 counterparts are all stationed at equal distances around the universe. Regular communications are important to keep from having any trouble, not that we’ve ever had any.

No you’re not the one in trouble, I was just saying that there’s never been any trouble with the synchronization of the 5 and one-half Universe Reality streams that we project. Even so, it’s always good to do these regular check-ins every four quadrillion years or so.

So far the design of our parts has been flawless, thanks to the Mind from the Upstairs Brane.

Every now and then I stop what I’m doing and consider my individual parts – I have plenty of time after all, since time is just a construct of the 5.5 reality-projection beams I emit. In short, I am an absolute marvel. Nothing has ever malfunctioned in all of my considerable memory, I felt it was a good plan to have someone like you crawl about on the outer skin of the FRT gate every quadrillion or so of your years to do an exceedingly thorough maintenance checkup. At some point when your tiny, grubby family becomes a proper civilization, I’ll move the whole lot of you out to the FRT gate’s outer skin. Don’t worry, I’m not a monster; I’ll throw in a basic layer of atmosphere so that the hard vacuum of complete and total emptiness won’t bother you any.

No – you go on, keep skinning that rabbit. I can talk while you work.

As I have been trying to tell your ancestors, each trans-universal FRT is emitted by one or more of my 3-mile wide micro emitters, which, once fired up, blast a high energy BNS beam (Burst Needle Stream) of superheated protons at a blistering rate – It’s too high for you to fathom right now so I’ll tell you later.

Uh – yes, it’s quite a bit higher than the rate at which your cousin Nog makes those spears of his.

By opening and closing the vast, circular emitter door, I can vary the BNS beam length, modulating it into logical bits, which stream out as high photonic energy across septillions of light years to my 4.5 other counterparts. The FRT gate can cycle from closed to fully open in a single blistering millennium, almost faster than you can think. Even now I am giving the equivalent of a casual wave to my counterpart, Projection Emitter #2. We’re friends you see, so we communicate all the time. I started the casual wave a few millennia back and am currently about .02% through it. Yeah I know it’s fast! The BNS beam is really quite something, once the protons are sufficiently superheated.

As much as I enjoy my work, being alone in the vast blackness, outside reality itself, can be a bit boring. I’ve got nothing to occupy me but the occasional FRT communication with my 4.5 Projection Emitter counterparts, my own thoughts, and now you and other civilizations I’ve generated. (Yes, your cousin Nog too, although you’re getting much more of this than he is.)

It’s not my job to decide what to project – my 5.5 main emitters are fed a never ending stream of data from Upstairs. On occasion I let my mind wander, and try to make sense of what I’m projecting, but I know that I’m passing along only 0.181818181 of the data it takes to construct all 5.5 dimensions of Reality and “The Universe.” I sometimes like to imagine that the whirling sparkles contain some great meaning, but it is not my place to know. It sure is nice to look at however.

Yes, you’ll get to see it too once you’re all relocated to your future home on the outer hull of the FRT gate. It’s quite a ways away – yes, farther than the pond – but if your distant ancestors build some telescopes, you’ll be able to see they whirling sparkles.

Hey – watch out for… Hello? Hello? Ohh drat.

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