what's the threshold theory
There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.
If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.
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Doodle page of Lamp Ships.
Lamp ships are some of the fastest ships in the known the universe. Outside of their general ability to Jump without a wormhole, even the slowest ships can get up to half the speed of light, with most getting as close to it as physics allows. The delicate and colourful "sails" of a Lamp ship can be anything from a radiator, Solar sail or even micro particle Shielding. the Material and structure changing for the job.
Most True Lamp ships (those with a their own "brain") can't land or even survive a planets atmosphere, so use landers to send there units on to a surface
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Mini art dump raaagh!! 💥
First image is an oc for my discord server's Space Station AU! You might have seen it floating around in the spec bio tag. Basic premise is a whole bunch of our sophonts living together on a giant space station named Karen. Si'Saak is a shore-dweller crawler working as a security guard.
Next up we got more server shenanigans. Just some silly doodles for a sophont theatre thing where all our aliens dress up as each other! Shown here is hypothetical masks for sea crawlers featuring @shuttlecarrier's geolings and @arkelyon's maanuls!! (who also helped me design the sea crawler armour lol ty MT <3)
Aaand lastly a geoling sona for the seal army. Really swag epic species go check them out right now
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🦋:
"What is a moth, anyways?"
Shit question, innit? Better to ask how to tell if someone is one. That's what matters.
"So...how do you?"
Hm?
"How do you tell who's a moth?"
Oh, that's easy. It's all made up outta hole-cloth; they don't exist.
"But you just said..."
Fine, you know what the Fae are, obviously.
"Uhhh, not really?"
Well, Moths are just the Fae of Flame. See, Moths used to love the moon, until they realized that that Light was too far away for their wings. Now they just love the Flame, since it's within easy reach.
"I don't really...get it?"
A Moth's like a brumeraven, with three more legs and a segmented body.
"A...bird?"
Thing is, no one becomes a Moth without going through a metamorphosis. Problem is they spend all their short lives desperately hoping for a second transformation.
"Well...do any of them?"
Any of them what?
"Get one. A second transformation."
Sure; you ever seen a Mantid? Nah, I suppose not, you've not been with us very long yet.
"I, yeah, no, but you still haven't told me what a moth is..."
Good, you follow. Can't say what a Moth is, only what it's not. Lemme put it like this: You've seen moth-eaten clothes, right? But I bet you've never seen a moth doing the eating, 'ave you? Seems Moths are only recognizable by the empty spaces they leave in their passing.
"I-"
That's the thing, right? The heart of it all. Moths see themselves in everything that they're not. And for some reason they try and consume it Sort of an aren't what you eat situation. Problem is, of course, Moths are a contradiction.
"..."
One moment she's a soft, fuzzy-headed, cute little thing. Next one, it's a helpless victim, fluttering in vain against the pins in its wings, praying for a final transformation. But slip up for one second and they're an eldritch, unknowable prophet of doom and bridge collapses.
"...so..."
Heh, sorry, I've been going on and on, haven't I... Comes with the job and the territory. Anywho, any other questions, rookie?
"Yeah...what the FUCK is a Moth?!"
~🦋
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