"Space 2099 ideas for different disaster" Topic

There has been some buzz for several years about getting Space 2099 going. If this should get the green light, how you create the disaster that gets the Moon out of orbit and moving to different parts of the galaxy quickly in a manner that follows the story?

David

Faster Than Light engine test gone horribly wrong.

Massive solar flare that pushes the moon out of the solar system (yes, it would fry everything in it's path and probably burn the moon to a crisp, but I won't say anything if you don't).

US, Russians, Chinese, Indians and anyone else with a nuke gets REALLY miffed that GB built a moon base without telling any one. The ensuing missile strike against the moon pushes it out of orbit.

Just blame Dark Matter.

Faster Than Light engine test gone horribly wrong.

Yeah -- if it's a warp drive they can just randomly jump from adventure to adventure rather than explain how they fly so fast.

Yeah -- if it's a warp drive they can just randomly jump from adventure to adventure rather than explain how they fly so fast.

I like this idea. Supposing the FTL drive is totally out of control (perhaps due to or in conjunction with an AI gone loony), it would automatically add a huge element of tension (and a convenient deus ex machina), since the crew would never know when the planet was about to warp out (to next week's episode).

Doug

It can also allow for non-alien interaction plots…
Professor Lars Brayne thinks he might have a solution to the FTL problem, cue civil division between those who want to try the proposed solution and those that don't.

Use a Keyhole/Gate Drive tied to a particle accelerator experiment, use radar telescopes to detect the wormhole, fire the particle accelerator at it, inverse the polarity of the particle wave which allows the wormhole to do all the work, have a protective force field as a by product to protect the installations and WANGO-BANGO!!!..followed by console and power system explosions, a gruesome gravity wave death for people caught outside the force field and a great soundtrack other than "DunDAADUUUM!" Afterwards a mad scramble to repair the systems for a attempt to get back to SOL during a Alien Attack with captured Alien POW's.

OK, off you go…

Gummi Bears discovered to be highly toxic: stockpiled on lunar south pole. Reacts with He-3 and solar wind: hyperluminal explosion. Nyau, nyau, nyau-nyau, nyau. Nyau. Na-na-na-nyau. Na-na-na-nyau.

A rogue planetoid traverses the system at 3% Cee, narrowly missing Earth and ripping the moon out of orbit.

But I bet they use a Wormhole generator.

2016 – CERN achieves transient black hole in a 5th dimensional plane.
2019 – CERN opens demensional rift to 7th dimensional plane. Major gravitational distortions from that dimension damage CERN beyond repair.
2022 – Shanghai accord. Permanent ban on terrestrial supercolliders.

2024 – Joint US/Russ/EU/PRC permanent colony established on moon.
2037 – First human birth on the moon.
2048 – Multiple commercial ventures establish facilities on the moon.
2059 – Permanent human population on the moon exceeds 3000.
2062 – All lunar settlements achieve eco-stability, becoming fully self sufficient.

2067 – Plans for the lunar Titan megacollider are approved after the successful test of the Moffat quantum gravity shielding.
2076 – Construction of Titan control facility begins on the Mare Vaporum.
2083 – Titan comes on line.
2085 – Titan achieves 250m GeV threshold.
2087 – Titan confirms existence of 3 additional dimensions.
2090 – Titan achieves 500m GeV threshold.
2093 – Titan confirms total of 9 additional dimensions.
2095 – Titan achieves what appears to be a garbled communication with sentient life in a parallel dimension at 750m GeV.
2098 – Major gravitational disturbance from 8th dimension successfully contained by Moffat shielding.
April 11, 2099 Titan safely achieves 850m GeV. Interdimensional communication still garbled.

September 4 2099 – During a routine power up to 350m GeV, a Gamma Ray burst overloads the control system resulting in an uncontrolled firing. Titan achieves 1014m GeV. At the collision point, Higgs Boson particles begin to become metastable. Reality essentially begins to "melt." The Moffat shielding contains the chain reaction, but the metastability reaches runaway. The shields must inevitably fail. When they do, the moon and the earth will be consumed. In a effort to spare the earth, with 88 seconds remaining, the decision is made to take one shield generator off line. Local space time is distorted. The moon, as if surfing atop a wave, is carried off into space.

It is quickly determined that the metastability can be used to power the shields. They can be closed again, allowing the moon to stop, but never for very long. If the shields are destroyed, the metastability will consume the entire universe.

Can the metastability be reversed? Where will our heroes find themselves next week?

Cue credits…

The original just does not make any sense. Some said it fell into a black hole and that is why it got from place to place so quickly. OK, nearest black hole would have to be XX light years away…

FTL test gone wrong is the best bet. For a slightly different direction have it be jumping to parallel universes – always in orbit of "Earth" but not our Earth. Each episode they go down to the planet and find some reason not to stay.

I like the parallel universe idea, easy to get to Earth, will need a lander other than Eagles, get to wave at Gallileo…

Here is something that I found on You tube about the moon involved in a wormhole accident gone bad

YouTube link

Enjoy

I was rewatching the first season a couple months back and there was a hint that there was a wormhole involved after it left orbit, around Jupiter or something.

There are other hints of a race that is controlling the wormholes that was either trying to get them somewhere or where intentionally dropping them in the areas they ended up.

Of course, upon reflection, the sad thing about this is that we did not actually have a real-life moon base by 1999, which seemed pretty plausible in the '70s. Even sadder is that 2099 would be pretty optimistic for us to finally have one now.

Doug

Just hope that funky music remains!