Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
Just before spring, a burst of golden light flared in Twilight Sparkle's bedroom. "Is this a good time?" said Sunset.
The months after the world changed were full of learning experiences for Twilight. Among them was the art of managing an omnipresent girlfriend who sometimes forgot that people weren't always in friendly moods. This, she reflected, was definite progress; a few months ago, Sunset hadn't bothered asking before spilling her guts. Twilight put down her book and patted her mattress. "Sure."
Sunset hopped on. That she didn't immediately wrap her arms around Twilight made the other girl sit up more. Twilight wasn't sure how much was being a pony, how much was the "Spirit of Harmony" thing, and how much was just Sunset, but she was usually very huggy when they were alone. "Everything okay?"
"It's... embarrassing," said Sunset. "And more than a little worrisome."
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"No, I definitely want to. Someone else should know. I..." Sunset bit her lip. "I had a bit of a slip-up. Uncomfortably close to Earth."
"How close are we talking?"
"About forty light-years. A constant wasn't, a star went nova prematurely... I didn't think I had all of the physical hiccups sorted out, but I thought for sure that this galaxy would be fine by now."
Twilight initiated the hug. "Hey, you've got a lot on your plate."
"I can feel your unease, Twilight. And I don't blame you. That's stupidly close by cosmic standards." Still, Sunset leaned into the embrace. "I've gone over our whole galactic arm with a fine-tooth comb since, but I should've earlier."
The question slipped out before Twilight could stop it. "Was there life?"
"Not sure. Couldn't bring myself to look. There were planets. Several Earth-sized ones. I moved them to a relatively nearby dwarf star. Kind of crowded little system at this point, but it's not like anyone's going to notice, right?"
"Uh, about that..." Twilight pulled up an article on her phone and handed it to Sunset.
"NEISA telescope reveals largest batch of..." Nerveless fingers dropped the phone. "I keep forgetting just what you were all capable of even without magic."
"Given the lightspeed delay, I'm assuming it was at seven before you evacuated the others."
By this point, Sunset's face had turned almost as red as half of her hair. "If I promise to mention it when someone announces plans to colonize them, can I not until then?"
Twilight shrugged. "Up to you."
I don't find much inspiration in current events, given their current state. This, however, seemed perfect.
Also, Sunset isn't ever this bad... but she has come close now and again. Though at least she's never refenestrated herself.
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That's gonne be crowded!
Im surprised no one got inspired with that one dyson cloud system
I'm not an astrophysist but isn't that supernova going to be rather noticeable in about 40 years? Is that close enough for a supernova to have a significant effect on the solar system?
7981733 only if it's pointed towards us. The multi light year ray of death from a supernova is not omnidirecional. It's actually quite narrow.
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Even if you're not in line with the GRB (and it doesn't appear that all supernovae produce GRBs), there's still a lot of energy coming off of a supernova (rule of thumb: however big you think they are, you need to think bigger). One within 40 light years is definitely cause for concern. The gamma rays aren't likely to be a direct problem, but they will interact with the upper atmosphere. A particular concern is large-scale conversion of N2 to various oxides of nitrogen, right by the ozone layer (NOx are precursors of ozone, but N2O is a major depletant)
7981832 It also depends on the type of star/nova. Just plain nova, super nova, hyper nova. Scale is important!
Thankfully, hypernovae are exceedingly rare, even by intergalactic standards.
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Sunset only said the star went nova. Sure, in about 40 years that star is going to get bright, but a nova simply is not on the same magnitude as a supernova.
In most cases (though probably not in this case given the way Sunset phrased it) a nova doesn't even mean the destruction of a star. Simply that something has flared up so that the star is significantly brighter for a brief time. Interestingly, stars that go nova in such a way have the potential to go fully supernova in an absolutely spectacular way. Type Ia supernova are outrageously violent.
I heard it wasn't NASA, but I didn't fact-check it myself.
You know, this reminds me of something. A Friend of mine mentioned how any number of the Stars really close to us, relatively speaking could already be dead but we can't tell because all we see is the light itself which takes time to get here. And that the really close ones, if they've already gone Supernova could potentially mean we are already dead, we just don't know it yet as the explosion has yet to reach us.