Accepting Suessi's report, Dr. Tranny Escort Baskin concentrated on practical matters.
"What Tranny Escort physical threats do we face, as we approach the white dwarf?"
"There is Tranny Escort strong ultraviolet radiation," answered S'tat, one of Suessi's
engineers, from atop a walker unit at the far end of the conference table.
"But our armor seems to handle it without t-trouble."
"How about the intense gravity down there? Will our clocks slow?"
"Tranny Escort Yessss. The Tranny Escort field is intense Tranny Escort enough to make a difference in the flow Tranny Escort of
t-time." Akeakemai nodded, bubbles rising from his blowhole. "By lessss
than one percent."
Gillian nodded. "And the gravitational gradient7"
Sara had done the research.
&
quot;Tranny Escort The tides are several Tranny Escort orders bigger here than at the Fractal World.
You'll feel a tugging sense along the length of your body. I don't expect
them to be pleasant--though they say that older sapients find it
irresistibly attractive."
Gillian nodded.
"The famed Embrace Tranny Escort of Tides. The more advanced a sophont species becomes,
Tranny Escort the more they crave it, and the less they can bear traveling Tranny Escort where space is
flat. That's why we see little of transcendent life-forms. No wonder
they're considered a separate order."
"Separate," Suessi Tranny Escort agreed. "But still ready to meddle in the affairs of
younger races."
Sara watched Gillian shrug, appearing to say--Why worry about things we
can never change?
"So this is transcendence.