Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 18:14:51 mst
From: hassell (Christopher Hassell)
Subject: ST:TCG let's get some stuff straight too:

For those who are wondering..... there are two realms the Croutonprize must
deal with: 	Fizzikspace and Cyberspace

You all thougt that it was the same as ST:TNG physics... didn't ya!!

Well... since we are 500 years later... the world has realized that the realm
of normal fizzix interfaces with another realm that exists once one has
perfected and enabled computers to be connected in larger and larger masses:

	To show those which are more often found in the Cyberspace:

		The Queue: the nasty omnipotent being which warps cybertime and
			makes things seemmmm tooo taaaakkkkeee fooorrreevverrrr

		Dave Mercer: someone who actually is enveloped in cyberspacial
			reality, but appears only as a stowaway on the 
			enterprise 

		Tom Martino: constantly comes in to check out the connections
			and stuff so he can broadcast in fizzikspace, also keeps
			a RandNum (R) reactor which spews out the random
			numbers he uses for his reporting facts.

		Bo Jackson: that is how he knows "*" of course :->

		_ranch _dresinge: the original Ranch Dresinge's computer
			counterpart, programmed by the evil mind of Ranch 
			himself.  (p.s. Ranch was the founder of Hidden Valley
			Empire... but has moved away because of his own greed)

		Dave: he keeps his secret Top-Ten-list-mine only in his
			cyberspacial palace/fort before they are exported at
			great cost to Fizzikspace

	
	For those who wonder which crew members actually have studied and 
		actually employ forces of and travel in cyberspace:

		Ad. Avenger is known to deal somewhat well with cyberspace,
			but only in that he can usually move and search for 
			his information at large speeds [80wpm], otherwise, he 
			uses it only to communicate with Ad. Coulter.

			His specialty is fizzikspace, however, and he'd rather
			not deal with the wierdness of unreality 

		Capt. Croutons himself is known to be quite agile and well
			understood in cyberspace, but at times he does appear
			to become trapped and or afflicted, and is unable to 
			perform general mental functions without using 
			cyberspacial reactions first... thus reducing his
			existance in his declared forte' : fizzikspace.

			The captain is also afflicted at times with a disease
			known as Hypoconnyism, and searches through cyberspace 
			at times, looking in for some lost cure.

		Lt. Frechette actually has acheived a large understanding of
			cyberspacial principles and will meditate upon them
			for long periods of time, and actually live with a 
			growing cult known as the MUDdites which, though 
			violent and generally obnoxious, (they kill each other 
			constantly) is a strange and generally wierd existance 
			in cyberspace. 

			Lt. Frechette is involved with them, but doesn't 
			generally follow their principles, for he enjoys
			specifically a large amount of fizzixspace every once 
			and a while 

			The best analogy to his existance there is a Netspace
			Cowboy, as you may see in his existential description,
			if you meet him there.  (note... he sometimes reverts
			to a more cyberspacial dialect known as Fonetic and it
			usually kills the brain cells of those left in its path)

		Lt. Zortyl Wankoid is extremely well versed in cyberspacial
			principles, as he was a major researcher after he left 
			Yoyoqop and went to the U. of Tranalikizine 

			He has added alot to the field, though most of it only
			manifests in his translated works, because, of course,
			he speaks Wankoidian, which is only understandible to
			his native kind, and not even then much because it has
			altered so quickly over time.

			He is on board the Croutonprize studying the warping
			of the Cyberspace as Zen performs certain tasks, as
			well as generally trying to perfect the kumquat/quava
			melagne, a delicacy on Yoyoboq (because of the names 
			of course).

			He has beachfront property which converts to a mountain
			cabin in Cyberspace, and he spends alot of time
			there... actually just about all time... actually he
			hasn't come out for quite a while, now.

		Zen: Of course, Zen is a computer and is therefore made IN
			cyberspace almost entirely.  He does, however,
			frequently voyage outside to the real world and doesn't
			come back until the ship starts to veer into the
			nearest planet.

	For those less familiar with Cyberspace:  A description is in order

		Cyberspace is the world where matter is information except for
		a few small reactions which affect everything:

			Cybermatter can be divided and gathered but other
				reactions follow.

			Cybermatter can be destroyed, and several particles 
				can collide, collapsing down to a single 
				half-bit (a cyberspacial particle), but that 
				can never be destroyed itself, only collided 
				further.

			When this occurs, it produces an effect called 
				"chaos", which is analogue to energy in 
				cyberspace.

			From chaos, when crystallized properly around at least
				one pair of particles, comes more cybermatter, 
				but most times this matter is unstable and 
				immediately is evaporated again, unless it is 
				able to be protected from too much chaos.... 

				or, in overly chaotic environments, by 
				squeezing chaos out of it continuously, like a 
				refigerator does with heat.

			Cpt. Croutons and Zortyl Wankoid are even now figuring
			out a decent Cyberspace-drive to quickly get around,
			and also cyberspacial weapons are under study.

			As for normal analogs to the things you hear about in
			the show:

				Memory is like a data-refigerator/protector.
				Transmission is simply the protected movement
					of cybermatter (using a car or
					something)
				A "process" is chunk of cybermatter, or an 
					object.

				A network is a set of gates between bunches of
				objects, like stars and interspace routes

				

	Now that I've spoken enough wankoidian to fill several bookshelves iwth
	unreadible material.... I feel like I've accomplished something.


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