Redshirt27 @Redshirt27@tenforward.social

I recall the Lucid Dream I had, the one that directly resulted in getting my sight working beyond all expectations.

I dreamed I was effortlessly flying among and along the gravitational fields.

This is literally a dream come true!

However, I'm still restricted to being a normal, somewhat sedentary person living across town from my Mom.

Speaking of Mom: It's probably time for me to visit her. And try to freak her out.

Hmm... If she slaps me, I'll be hurled across the room.

Well worth it.

But 30,000g also means I will quickly reach relativistic speeds.

I don't have a personal Deflector Dish, nor do I (yet) have Personal Shields.

So, in my present configuration I'll be limited to speeds for which personal armor can provide adequate protection.

But that's still Jupiter in about a day, assuming I go out of the plane of the ecliptic to avoid as much junk as possible.

But with the ID nulling my rest mass, I won't regain my effective mass until somewhere around 1500g.

You read that right. And that's only regaining my "normal" effective mass, yielding my "normal" weight in a 1g field.

It scales much higher if my body can take higher "weight". I should be easily able to tolerate a continuous 5g in my present state, and 20g with some minor structural enhancements.

Which gets me into the range of 30,000g of acceleration.

And that's with keeping my acceleration to just 1g.

Which is a totally false limit.

Remember, I have my own ID. My effective mass can be ZERO.

Unfortunately, that's only in the rest frame. As I accelerate I regain my effective mass in direct proportion to my acceleration.

Mathematically, the effect is much like relativistic mass, only occurring at much lower speeds, and being dependent on acceleration instead of velocity.

Or so I've been told. I really have no clue about the actual math.

My mind has been going crazy with the possibilities.

I can push myself away from any mass. I can also pull myself toward any mass. And I can do both at the same time.

My acceleration would be limited only by my available power and my body's ability to tolerate the stress.

If we limit my acceleration to 1g, I could get from Earth to its moon in 3.5 hours. That includes reversing my acceleration at the half-way point so I reach the moon with zero velocity.

Jupiter in under a week.

I don't mean like a bird. I mean like Superman.

I haven't tried it yet! That would totally violate my "parole" agreement with my team.

We won't do any flight experiments until I'm back in a lab, under very controlled conditions.

But, wait! There's more!

We think I'll even be capable of interplanetary flight. At high (non-relativistic) speeds.

Not as fast as a personal impulse engine, but close. And for a fraction of the power.

We probably should also improve my vacuum tolerance.

If I increased the horizontal AG field component, I could cause myself to drift in the horizontal plane.

I had to increase it quite a bit for this effect to occur.

This meant I was pulling/pushing with/against the gravitation fields of the walls and buildings around me!

But floating/drifting, while totally awesome, is not the Big News.

Can you guess what the Really Big News is?

Can you?

OK, enough teasing:

I can fly!

We were using only about 0.1% of its full capability.

There is a fourth difference as well, which we already knew about: The Ardanan design is far more efficient that standard Federation AG units.

We quickly implemented and tested fine controls over all my AG unit features, and I was soon able to float in any orientation, and also carefully move myself up and down within the room.

Then things got a little weird.

The Ardanan design has three unique additional capabilities the exceed standard AG units:

First, the field strength may have negative values, essentially increasing my gravitational attraction, something that could prove useful in low-G environments, such as on a small asteroid.

Second, the field direction may be varied as well, to any desired relative vector.

Third, the field strength can go much, much higher than what we were using to reduce my body weight.

The AG unit that was built by a Federation AG specialist had the same interface as every other standard AG unit.

We mistakenly assumed that meant it had the same capabilities as a standard AG unit, just in a tiny package.

Standard AG units have a single axis of effect, for which the AG strength can be increased from zero to whatever maximum the unit can provide, which is normally a fairly limited value.

Of course, there was no room to pivot the AG unit, much less room for a mechanism to rotate it.

We next took a closer look at the AG unit itself.

Remember, the design for my extremely compact AG unit was provided by the Ardanans, who, though not a Federation member, are a neutral planet on friendly terms with the Federation.

The Ardanans also have the only floating cities anyone in the Federation is aware of. They are true masters of AG technology, perhaps the best in the known universe.

Then I leaned forward and fell to the floor. On my face. Then I bounced.

Of course! The AG field was directed vertically toward my feet, so I had to be vertical to hover. (The ID field is omni-directional.)

We didn't notice this effect in the lab, when the AG was set to only partially cancel my weight.

We looked to see if the direction of the AG field could be changed, which we assumed would require physically rotating the AG unit within my body so it would always point "down" if I tilted.

It was immediately clear why: The strength of the gravitational field varies with the distance from the center of the planet.

So, above the null point, the gravitational field was ever so slightly less, and I slowly rose. And the field would be slightly stronger below the null point, so I'd slowly sink.

We then tried to implement extremely fine control of my AG, and after some "interesting" tests, I was able to make myself hover at any altitude I desired.

So we dialed up both the AG and ID to give me zero effective mass.

I was floating! Since the volume and surface area of my body were unaffected, I was blow about by the air currents in the room, like a very large spec of dust!

But I had no point of perfect equilibrium. I either slowly drifted up, or slowly drifted down, from the point where I initially nulled-out the AG and ID.

We got to the point where we were checking the details my AG (anti-gravity) and ID (inertial damper) systems. Both of which work perfectly well to reduce my effective mass to match that of my previous human body.

Then we got curious: What about using settings other than what was configured to match my human weight?

We repeatedly verified the desired operation of my many subsystems. But we didn't test any of them to their full capabilities, much less to destruction.

We checked and double-checked that absolutely everything would work perfectly for all the life situations we expected I would encounter after leaving the lab.

My leaving the lab was based on the condition that I would initially lead a quiet life on the planet where my Mom lives.

No adrenaline sports, no extensive travel, just a quiet life.

Supported, of course, by a barrage of conversations with my team back at the lab, who are all still working hard on the many breakthroughs made in the course of my reconstruction.

It seems, however, that I may have left the lab facility a bit prematurely.

While I am totally stable and perfectly functional in my day-to-day life, we're finding new, emergent capabilities arising from interactions between my many other features.

I know I told you I'd be laying low for a while, living a quiet life, getting organized, rediscovering myself, stuff like that.

But I have Big News! This changes everything. Sorta.

Before I share the news, let me get you caught up.

I've been settled in across town from Mom for nearly a month.

I've initially been spending my time getting caught up on all the functional, operational and maintenance details of my body.

Who am I kidding? I'm not going to edit these logs!

Here are the raw log dumps. Have at them.

The original kidnap log:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/FlyMyPG/442ff28a318d7761065a684e13835c41/raw/4a378a57ef53b0e1006f15a54d300261c6c4ab70/Redshirt27%2520Book%25201%2520-%2520Alone.txt

The new reconstruction log:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/FlyMyPG/e146ba1100c18172a35b80ec4aea2911/raw/d3944f599557450b246216230a63c9e3d2e98e4b/Redshirt27%2520Book%25202%2520-%2520Reconstruction.txt

I'm going to end this log here. It will be released very soon. Editing these entries will be one of my top projects while living near Mom.

I'll keep the log implant and will continue adding entries to it. I'll be sure to share anything interesting.

Thanks to everyone who read my kidnap logs, urged my reconstruction, and then made it happen. I love you all.

I'm alive, I'm extremely happy, and I'm more excited about my life than ever before.

Thank you all, from the bottom of my bucket!