I finished project 4 today. It looks great with the light behind it. This project is dedicated to my dad. He raised me with a great love for the wonders of the unknown universe
and keeps me searching for new answers.
I have almost completed the 4th beaded project. Now I just need to figure out what to use it for. As Victoria has arrived in the new star system in my rough draft, it was great inspiration for describing the anomaly to her sister.
Derringer 8
Goodbye for now Annalis,
I know this sounds final, but this is the last letter I will be able to send before the two year journey to the Alpha Centauri system. I did the calculations on your regen and if all goes well you will just be starting your second year of stasis when I arrive at the Phycodurus-8 station. If the lab setup goes as planned, you will have one full year of data to sift through when your two year journey is over. That is quite a few if’s but life if full of those. I hope your trip goes as smooth as mine has so far. I will be placed in my cube tonight for the final injection and the following night the Derringer 8 will arrive at the jump location just outside the orbit of Pluto. Unfortunately I will not be privy to that incredible site but that is the price we pay for comfortable travel.
As the Gambol process used by the ship interferes in the space surrounding it, the jump location is place well away from any astral body. The nearest thing to the launch location is Pluto, and that is still far enough away not to be affected by the ship’s jump. They will turn off the artificial gravity right before the Gambol process is initiated and the entire process will be turned over to the automated system as the crew will also be placed in stasis. I guess there is an accelerated procedure for them and the med staff. It is not a very pleasant process and is not near as smooth as for the passengers, but it only takes twelve hours instead of six days. As this process is used for all passengers on the freight fleet, that was also a consideration when I decided to book on a passenger line.
I have been studying the Gambol process over the last few days as I am not fit for much else other than reading at this moment. Since I am not a physicist the process is way beyond my comprehension. I realize you are well aware of how the process works, but as it helps relieve my anxiety over what will occur over the next few hours please bear with me as I make a lame attempt at an explanation.The process uses an extreme gravitational field to change our matter to its anti-particle for a brief moment in order to break the light speed barrier. Then once the correct travel speed has been achieved our matter returns to its normal state. As I said it is way beyond my limit of understanding so please do not quote me. However it works it sounds like magic to me as I have always been told that matter and antimatter are not interchangeable. I guess this is not the case here as we will not be meeting our anti-particle selves but switching places with them for a brief moment in space and time.
I have included with this message my final sketch of the anomaly plus all the data I have accumulated over the last two weeks. This will give you just under a year’s time of research before you also set off to the Alpha Centauri system. I suggest as before that you also take a passenger line. It has been well worth the extra costs and the medical staff on board have been exemplar. We can limit the size of my studio on New London to offset the costs. It will make no difference for me as most of my work will be completed out of doors staring up into space.
I am still trying to get a handle on the time difference between the data we have accumulated from Earth the last four years and what I will discover once I arrive at the new lab. The view of the anomaly we see from Earth at this moment in time has taken four years to reach our home planet. As the ship I am in is traveling twice the speed of light and will get me there in just over two years. This means I will be ably to study the array from two years ago from a different location when I arrive. It will be interesting comparing what we have observed from Earth to the view from a closer perspective. The new figures will also provide a glimpse from another side of the anomaly from what we have seen previously. This sounds like a paradox, but I am excited about the prospects. As we know from the data now, the anomaly began to expand towards the Flynn satellite just over 2 years ago. I can then focus most of our new research in that particular location in the system to get a more specific point of study. The new data can then be compared to the data previously collected from Earth for the same time period.
On a more sober note I need to also discuss a bit more unpleasant business. As there are understandable risks with this type of journey I would ask you to handle the paperwork if something unforeseen does happen to me. I have left all that is required for my passing with our solicitors in London. This also includes the release of all my research material and the artistic license to you. I know this is a bit morbid, but I did not want to leave this to Dad.
I feel I should be writing some deep felt message to my dear sister as this could be my final communication with you. I am going to forgo that as I feel confident we will both succeed and meet on the other side. I will give you a final thought before I sign off. For a brief moment in time, you and I will be exactly the same age. Half way through your stasis and upon my arrival in the Alpha Centauri system we will both be 30 years old. Sadly once you arrive we will be back to a year apart and I will be the older sister once more.
Please give my love to our parents and I wish you a good trip. See you in our new home.
Love
Victoria
Slowly making progress with my 4th project. Looks more impressive with the light behind it. This has been the most challenging beading project so far but I am experiencing the needed visual effect I was looking for to influence my writing project. I can now invision where my character is traveling to.
I began a new project this week. It will be a beaded galaxy when it is complete. As it is an original design created by me I began by mapping it out on graphing paper. This did not work so well so I am free beading without a pattern. We will see how this goes as I normally work from a set pattern.
Derringer 8
Dearest sister,
I was delighted to receive your letter, including the attached data from your last few weeks of research. It supports my observations of a trend towards the Flynn foundation satellite. I have gathered as much information as is publically available from the Flynn research site but nothing to make a definitive conclusion about the effects of the anomaly. With your professional credentials you may be able to request further information. For me, I am at the end of my access. As I am now in the third day of stasis treatment, I am fairly certain I will have to leave off any further work until after the jump. It has a subtle effect on me for the moment, but I feel my mental acuity is not at it’s top form. After the jump I anticipate you will have enough new data to instruct me on the setup of the lab equipment for optimum results. If the trends remain the same for the shift in the anomaly, I think our first target should be the area of the array closest to Proximus. I can program the equipment to adjust for different areas of the phenomenon every six months. Any shorter time than that and the data will not be conclusive.
From what I have read there will be an official designation for the array by the time I am out of stasis. I know there has been much debate between the scientific and artisan communities on how to categorize the phenomenon. As there is still not enough information to place it in any type of scientific genre, I am curious if they will come up with something completely descriptive or push for a more scientific approach. Three of the members of the committee are from the Louvre so I am leaning toward a more artistic name. Maybe that is just the artist in me but I can still dream.
The internal humm of the ship has changed as of this morning. It has been a constant companion during the voyage and until this morning has had a calming effect on me. That has now changed and I feel my entire system is on edge. I don’t know if it is due to the stasis treatment or if the engines of the Derringer 8 are also preparing for the jump. Sadly Nicolas has not taken well to the stasis injections and has already been moved to his cube yesterday. I am surprised how quickly we have become friends and I miss his company already. Once he was moved to his jump cube I have not been able to see him. This is unfortunate as I did not get to say goodbye and I will not see him again till after I have set up the lab. Even then it is possible I may not see him till we arrive on New London. The med staff has informed me that his reaction is not uncommon and as soon as he is removed from stasis at the other end of the jump he will be back to normal, but that might mean he will have to be under medical observation longer than the rest of us.
I will write one more time before I am placed in my designated cube for the trip. I finished my last drawing of the anomaly last night and will include that with the next letter as it still needs to be scanned for encryption. Included you will find the color spectrum changes I have observed in the holos and also a more detailed sketch of the leaf like structures expanding near Proximus. I do not want to do any further renditions till I am recovered from stasis at the end of the journey. Having developed a small tremor in my right hand from the injections, I fear it will effect my work for now. I would not want to taint any of my future interpretations of the phenomenon with the effects of the treatments. As we have seen in the past, even an emotional trauma such as your accident can affect how I interpret the structure of the array. I did keep the sketches during that awful period after you lost your arm, but I will not use them for our research. They feel wrong!! I know how you regard my unscientific notions concerning the anomaly, but I cannot change who I am. Once a Hermeticalist, always a Hermeticalist. My art professor once described me as the most esoteric of the Hermetics and I took that as a compliment. (I do not believe he meant it as one) But do not worry. I will not be joining the Cultivation society when I arrive in New London. You know how I feel about followers of the Machiavellian arts. I am too realistic to believe in that sort of nonsense.
Again I cannot tell you enough how much I miss you and wish you were here.
Love
Victoria
Here is the completed Leafy sea Dragon. I decided in the end to make it a sun catcher as it looks great with the light behind it.
Project 3 – Leafy Sea Dragon
Almost completed project 3. I decided to complete it so it could be hung in a window. It looks great with the sun behind it.
So I have almost finished the 3rd of my beaded projects. I am still not sure what to use this for as it is larger than the amulet bags I normal create. Any suggestions would be welcomed. It gives a hint as to what the anomaly looks like in my letters from Victoria series.
The Beaded Tapestry 
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