Progenitor Ships

progenitor ships a fleet of progenitor ships, each of which is approximately 70 kilometers long, emerges from the mass o after the hub completes an orbit around its three suns, precisely every 2467 earth days the mass o absorbs and stores power as it circles the suns, and everyone on the hub can feel the immense power contained within the mass o by the time it is ready to release the ships this event, known as the emergence, is accompanied by three days of cultural, scientific, and religious celebration and ceremony (each day named after one of the suns) these large "motherships" explore the unioverse in search of life at near light speed, and have been sent out for over a million years in every direction odvrmjbumzhenvbjmfmzrkq1tjc4qjewrdfrtvnqm0ld tek3njgzrknprzzruujdrehltvvssko0mu5nqzgyr0u5tk1fuejfrdvrnlvtsko0mus2mlrkntqxsdzbuejfndfnnjjuqkvdres2qvaxmeq1tjc4ulawrurpnjjpuju1r0c2nfrcszqxutzhuejqndfhtjrqotbfrelome9csum1utzbudewqzltstbumzveufbjmfjsstqxszdbuko0rtljtthtudbeveoymfqzoeruuu42t0jfq0hqstbsujy0mu02svbsoevhtu5jueixrtlqsvm= each progenitor can "gestate" an endless supply of discovery landers, although the process takes a significant amount of time when a progenitor arrives in a new system, it is prepared to deploy three landers; it will take roughly 100 years to complete each additional one once a progenitor ship has located signs of life (sentient, flora/fauna, microbial), it will enter a star system and send a discovery lander to every planet supporting life (even if these planets are all colonized by a single species) in the event more than three landers are needed in a system, the progenitor will remain as it gestates additional landers other notes on progenitor ships • progenitor ships are agnostic/inscrutable and function within an expansive time scale a ship finds life, sends a discovery lander, and moves on they don’t double back, instead moving ever outward what the creators set out to do was bring life together, with the understanding that finding all life is an impossible task; the progenitor ships find what life they can, and link that life with the hub, and it is up to sentient life to decide what to do from there • the process a progenitor ship uses to detect life is unknown, but the study of the systems in the crashed ship on mars has led scientists to speculate that qtfqnlvqujveuetoofjsstqxue1huujhrunhnjzts jvdnve2qtgzmtqxujyyu1jlndbinlfqqkpemec2u1bcs0vutk40uvbfndhhnuvrmzvet0c2t1fcnknlrzzju1awq1botkfssjq1r0c3ofezntqxtjzbt0jjq0xqtjg4mkdfou5nrvbcruq1utzvu0gwrurlnkltmtbfvetnt1ixmeviszzbukgwrdfjttjqmtbfse5jmfqzoem1utiwu1jqrurrnkfsouu0murmnfbcreq1tjy4uejjnzhhnthrmzlfq0c2svnqmevese1juejfruhltunrqjm0mvbomfbcm0vmttyyvdm5rfromk84m0vevfeyme85menisu1duujfrdvrnklusju0muhnvvjkm0riuu42uujgre9onve= • during their long travel times between star systems, progenitor ships "digest" (gather and process) materials to build discovery landers qtfqnlvqujveuetoofjsstqxue1huujhrunhnkdpqk 1ds0c2nfbcnurprzc2uei1re9hnjzsukvfrffnuvfcruntrzyyu1jlq0xqnlvrqjrfq00yme9srkrmsu44u1bdndfhtvnqmtbeteloofbcrku5uelpodmxrfbjmjbpqklds0c3ofeznuruudzjvuo1q0dhnzhsudbetedntva5mevmue1bodngq09hnjhpqkleq0c2uu9cs0visu40qkc= • the process of a progenitor ship creating a discovery lander is long and slow (another example of the creator's expansive timetable), more a gestation than mechanical construction • in some places, the reception of the progenitor ship and discovery lander is hostile, with sentient species attacking the unknown and uninvited arrivals