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Pribadium gives Sora a go in the equilibrium chamber. He likes it because
anyone can use it, whether they have been biologically or technologically
enhanced, or not. It doesn’t even have to be alive. Bulk forces act on every
object with the force equal to its mass. This allows everything to stay in
place unless moved by some other force. Sora places his cup of tea in
front of him and to the side, as if there were a table there, and it stays.
Gravity doesn’t exist here, atmospheric pressure doesn’t either. It doesn’t
move until he reaches back for it. He even leaves it upside down, and it’s
fine. He says that he forgot to have fun. Elke’s arrival, while it sparked
love in him, was filled with so much anxiety and longing that he stopped
enjoying daily life. He spent all of his time focused on her, both before
and after her death. He can barely recall what his hobbies were. He would
have loved to play in an equilibrium chamber back then, probably. Since he’s
no scientist, he goes off to another area of the outpost to find his bliss.
Pribadium!One and Pribadium!Two, meanwhile, have work to get through. Their
mission is to pull this small pocket of space out of the universe entirely,
and let it exist as its own miniature universe. Once there, they will be
able to travel to other branes, just like The Crossover or Zoey Attar. They
will be able to adjust their own laws of physics, and explore new worlds.
They will break new ground. Neither of them has ever done this before, but
Pribadium!Two has more experience. She offered to transmit the memories and
knowledge into Pribadium!One’s brain, but the latter declined. She wants to
be herself, and not mix each other together.
“No, that’s not gonna work,” Pribadium!Two warns over her shoulder.
Pribadium!One sighs. “I’m starting an arboreal progression. I’ve not yet
gotten to the pruning stage. Do you not remember how we work? How much have
you changed?”
“No, I remember the arboreal technique. I just didn’t think you needed to
start with a seed, since I already have a ton of hard data over here,”
Pribadium!Two argues.
“Yes, I saw your data, but you were mostly looking at it from the main
sequence. Now we’re in the new parallel. We have to start from scratch. We
can compare notes later. But that won’t be until after my tree grows, after
I prune it, and after I climb it.”
“After we climb it,” Pribadium!Two tries to correct.
“No, I want to climb it myself. It’s not that I don’t trust you, it’s that
I’m trying to keep my work contained and isolated, so it stands up to future
testing. I don’t want to be biased by your research. The very basis of
science is reproducible results. If I can’t reproduce them without looking
at your results first, they won’t hold up. In fact, why don’t you go down to
the aux lab, so we don’t even occupy the same space.”
“Why would I go to the aux lab? I’m the one who needs the main
servers for the simulations. You’re still a seedling!” Pribadium!Two
contends
“Oh, the servers down there are fine,” Pribadium!One reasons dismissively.
Pribadium!Two shakes her head. “No, I have been upgrading the primaries.”
“You have?” Pribadium!One pushes her alt self aside to check her
workstation. “Goddammit, I didn’t give you permission to make changes. Now
I’ll need to reconfigure all of my preferences. Just because you technically
have credentials, doesn’t mean you should use them. This is my lab. Yours is
in another reality. Please respect that.”
“I suppose we need to come up with some ground rules before we proceed.”
“I suppose we do,” Pribadium!One agrees.
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