Jack looks around and around the telescope, reaching out and patting the sides a few times. "The question has been put on the table, is there a crystal in this thing?"
"Which would make a lot of sense. These things work by collecting and reflecting or refracting light. The most basic versions used mirrors. Sooo," Jack pats a panel in the middle section. "What if it's using a crystal to refract the light, instead?"
Jack hands Ramza a screwdriver. "Help see if we can get this section off, before we start changing anything. Just gonna remove the casing, take a peek at the insides."
And, sorry, everyone, but it's story time. "Because, funny story," Jack starts at the screws on one side, "but this isn't the first time I've seen a telescope that wasn't a telescope."
"1879, Earth was under a very subtle alien attack. The alien in question was a Haemovariform, a complicated way of saying it could reproduce through infecting a human host. Getting infected would also lead to some changes in the human's biology, activated by certain wavelengths of light, in this case, a full moon."
"Plan was to infect the United Kingdom's Queen, take over the world that way. But, it got stopped, thanks to a device that was supposed to look like a telescope, but, instead, it collected and focused the light of the full moon. When a certain diamond was put into its focus point? Bam. Turned the light into a way to destroy the Haemovariform."
The full story is a lot more complicated, and a lot more close to Jack's heart. Of course he knows the full details, they're in the Torchwood Charter, because the wake of that incident caused the creation of the organization he eventually took over. Jack pauses for a few moments, focusing on unscrewing part of the panel, and trying not to think of Rose Tyler.
"I got to see the thing once. It's in archive, or really, the whole building it's housed in is an archive now. So if this thing," taps the metal panel, "works the same way, I should be able to tell."
Re: Thread For Messing With The Telescope
"Which would make a lot of sense. These things work by collecting and reflecting or refracting light. The most basic versions used mirrors. Sooo," Jack pats a panel in the middle section. "What if it's using a crystal to refract the light, instead?"
Jack hands Ramza a screwdriver. "Help see if we can get this section off, before we start changing anything. Just gonna remove the casing, take a peek at the insides."
And, sorry, everyone, but it's story time. "Because, funny story," Jack starts at the screws on one side, "but this isn't the first time I've seen a telescope that wasn't a telescope."
"1879, Earth was under a very subtle alien attack. The alien in question was a Haemovariform, a complicated way of saying it could reproduce through infecting a human host. Getting infected would also lead to some changes in the human's biology, activated by certain wavelengths of light, in this case, a full moon."
"Plan was to infect the United Kingdom's Queen, take over the world that way. But, it got stopped, thanks to a device that was supposed to look like a telescope, but, instead, it collected and focused the light of the full moon. When a certain diamond was put into its focus point? Bam. Turned the light into a way to destroy the Haemovariform."
The full story is a lot more complicated, and a lot more close to Jack's heart. Of course he knows the full details, they're in the Torchwood Charter, because the wake of that incident caused the creation of the organization he eventually took over. Jack pauses for a few moments, focusing on unscrewing part of the panel, and trying not to think of Rose Tyler.
"I got to see the thing once. It's in archive, or really, the whole building it's housed in is an archive now. So if this thing," taps the metal panel, "works the same way, I should be able to tell."
He hopes.