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text | @silent | Oct 21

[callada]

I imagine you've already seen what I just put on the network.

Do you know the distance from here to any of the stars? It sounds like we can use that to help see if there's a pattern in which stars are going dark. Maybe predict which ones will go next. Maybe see how much time we have.

[beaconkeeper]

Yeah... Troubling stuff you got there. Good thinking on tracking the sky like that.

Oh, damn, that's a good idea. I... miiiiiight be able to figure something like that out? I bet I have the instrumentation for it. Probably? IDK, I'll talk to Will and see if he can give me a hand. Star math is kind of his bag.

[callada]

Yeah, Dr. Ingram has been helping me with all this so he has all of my photos already. I imagine he'll be interested. Keep me informed with what you find.

If for some reason either of you could use an extra hand, Daylight also knows far more about this than I do. He's the one who suggested measuring parallax. I'm still trying to make sense of half of the things he and the others suggest, sometimes. I just take the pictures and draw the maps.

[beaconkeeper]

Oh does he? Good to know.

Parallax??? Wow we got some smarties among us, it sounds like.

How sure are you guys that these stars are vanishing because of the World Eaters? Stars don't like... normally do this, right? I don't know a lot about space.

[callada]

It's a guess. But I've never seen stars go out and stay out for months. Never heard of it happening back home, and if anyone would know, it's a world full of sailors.

You've never seen this before? Been here decades and never thought to look?

[beaconkeeper]

:/ No, but I'm not the scientist around here.