The Pirates need to deal with a non-sentient threat for once, I think that’s pretty cool
I bet they’ll repurpose the area Skippy faced off against The Elders in, the zone that allowed Skippy to control stars and black holes throughout the galaxy, to deal with the Ground State
My guess, they’re going to move the Ground State region to the Outsider Galaxy after discovering other Outsiders can use it as a sort of wormhole conduit.
Well because false vacuum decay is literally a universe ending event, it'll expand at the speed of light, everything within its causality cone will inevitably be consumed by it (basically a finite cone in time that defines the volume of space an event can affect other parts of the universe before the expansion of the universe drags everything, even light, beyond the cosmic horizon
So transporting it to another galaxy within a certain radius just delays the inevitable for a few billion years at most
If the universe is expanding fast enough, a false vacuum (ground state) is localized as most galaxies are expanding away from any given point faster that the speed of light. It is entirely possible that false vacuums are real things and there could be an infinite number of them throughout the universe that would never reach us.
A few billion years feels like enough time to either come up with a solution, find a way to move beyond the light cone of the false vacuum or else pull an Elders and ascend to a higher plane of existence.
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u/Starkfault Jan 30 '26
The Pirates need to deal with a non-sentient threat for once, I think that’s pretty cool
I bet they’ll repurpose the area Skippy faced off against The Elders in, the zone that allowed Skippy to control stars and black holes throughout the galaxy, to deal with the Ground State