Log Entry 113

The view from the Null Zone gravity anchor. The sensor readings don't show the construct, but what you might think the world it was built from once looked like.

Another view of the construct, exactly opposite the speaker side that generates the gravity wave signal. There is so much going on here. I don't know if I have any chance of truly understanding this place.

The halo of light makes it appear as if the construct were a living world, and not the broken and bleeding husk that it is. Yet, from this position, all sensor readings suggest it is a living, breathing world. Shift too far in any direction, and you see the broken, bleeding world of the construct. Yet, right here, inside a tiny spot in space behind the construct. It is as if it is not that shattered and bleeding world, but what you might think it once was, before being turned into what it is now.

This point is space is fascinating unto itself. It is the smoothest region space I have ever detected. A bubble the size of a large moon, maybe 5500 kilometers in diameter. Yet here, even the presence of the Viteză Furie doesn't effect it or disturb it. Even when I triggering my own gravity waves here, I find that they don't propagate outside of the ships hull. It is really weird.

Adding to the weirdness of the smooth space area. There appears to be gravitational force lines coming off the construct. Those lines of gravitational force look like anchors, as if the construct was anchored to this spot in space. They terminate against the bubble of smooth space, creating a sphere of static gravity. It is that which drew me here to investigate.

Distance measurements are skewed out here as well. The gravitational force lines, the sphere of gravity around the smooth space, the smooth space itself. All this ruins my ability to measure distances with any accuracy.

I suppose I ought to call the region inside the gravity sphere a gravity null-zone, as that is more accurate. I am guessing, based on an average measurement, that the null-zone, what appears to be the anchor in space for the construct, is seventy million kilometers from the construct. Although that is again, just a guess based on an average measurement. I dropped the extremes, which were ten meters and five hundred light-years.

I've sat in the null-zone watching the construct for weeks. I find it hard to understand what I am seeing, because it just doesn't match. Maybe what I am seeing is what the construct was, before whoever turned it into what it is now. I even get readings as if there was a star beyond it, and it sure looks like a star is just hiding beyond the limb of the construct.

I cannot enter the null zone, accept from the far or near side of the zone. There are several gap in the gravity sphere, where the force lines connect to it, and each other. Most of those are too small for the Viteză Furie to slip through. I have sent probes through them though. The observations are simply astonishing. There is a clear demarcation, so thin I cannot get a measurement on it. That means that the point where the readings change from what you see inside the null-zone, to what you see outside it, is less than the width of a proton.

I decided to do some additional experiments, passing drones and probes in and out of the null-zone. I have also been observing other objects, such as the Viteză Furie, and the nearby universe. I'm not quite sure what to make of the readings, but there are differences. They are subtle, and different depending on which of the holes in the gravity sphere that the observation is done, and through which the probe passes. Outside the sphere is one thing, but inside is different. almost as if they were windows. At least that is what occurs to me as I look out the windows of the Viteză Furie on the construct.

An additional point. I have been here for nine months now. Observing, downloading everything the construct will give me access to, going down to the surface when my drones find a new, viable wreck to check out. In that time I have watched a dozen ships appear, using at least that many types of drive. Three left after a week of scanning the construct, the rest attempted to make it to the surface. None made it. I tried to reach out to them, when I was close enough, but my signals were ignored. They have given me interesting, fresh wrecks to investigate, massive amounts of data to go through, new tech to integrate, and bodies to examine.

There is no longer any question that space fairing intelligence is out there in the wider universe, and some of them are drawn here to the signal. I have some new computer technology I obtained from one of the wrecks. An significant advancement on the systems that I already have, and if I understand it right, it will let me create a working artificial intelligence. I doubt I will use it for that, but I have so much data to go through, it will be good to have more processing power to help go through it. The processors are powerful enough, I might actually be able to get closer to live image processing from the Arc Drive room display.

Time for the next round of experiments, and then down to the surface. There is a fresh wreck I didn't see happen. Maybe this one will have survivors. It isn't beat up as badly as most.