Tales of 450

Klype had a vast amount of information that was previously collected by the probes and the biots. Furthermore, their own probes had reached some of the destinations and started sending a continuously flow of updated information. Have you got enough information, Lucie asked Klype. I have got much more than I can use, Klype answered. But what I really need for a starter is an information crystal related to the faulty comet, the one that missed its planet. You do, Lucie asked ignorantly. Well, the first probe collected that on the original mission. It’s in our storage room.

Klype mumbled something about wasting time by playing games. He lurked into the storage room and found the info-crystal right away. He returned to his consoles and inserted the crystal to the reader. He played the recordings and got increasingly interested in the recordings. Lucie noted his interests and asked for a brief but likely scenario of the events.

Hours later, Klype had made a motion presentation, with graphs another additional data. He figured that such a presentation was what Lucie would accept, not complicated, action oriented and pretty stripped for facts. The presentation should rather be animated than statistical, he thought. He started to tell the story of the lost comet while running the presentation.

The comet, that missed its planet, was still 1000 km in diameter, and passed under the Kuiper belt in high speed and into the Oort cloud. Its direction was altered a little when it passed its planet and the star. It was continuously slowing down, outwards to a distance of 2000 A.U., twice its original distance from the star.

Finally, the star’s gravity won. The icebergs oval orbit came to an end. The star did not seem to shine more than the other stars in the galaxy. The iceberg almost stopped before it started its fall towards the star once again. This time, it was in the plane of the Kuiper belt.

The iceberg hit some objects in its way through the Oort cloud. However, the objects were small and either consumed by the berg, or merely knock off some ice. However, the berg seemed unstoppable until a large shadow slowly began to cover the star.