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hi! i hope this isn't too much for you, i understand if you dont want to write 💖

can u do stalker!abby x reader? im obsessed with those stories but almost no stalker abby stories available :((((

On Her Watch

stalker!abby x reader

Warnings: Dark romance, m@sturbation

You meet Abby Anderson before you realize you’ve met her.

It’s fleeting. You’re leaving the biology building one rainy afternoon, juggling an umbrella, your earbuds, and a coffee that keeps threatening to tip out of its lid. She’s sitting under the overhang near the bike racks, hood up, dark eyes barely visible. You glance at her—something about her size, her stillness, the way she doesn’t fidget like everyone else in the cold. She doesn’t look away when you catch her staring.

Just a moment.

And then you’re gone.

You forget. She doesn’t.

⸻

Abby never intended to follow you. Not at first.

She notices you before that moment in the rain. Weeks earlier, actually—when you’d bumped into her in the hallway between classes, shoulder to shoulder. You’d apologized with a quick, sheepish smile, already late to a study group. She hadn’t said anything. Just watched you disappear into a sea of students.

She remembered your perfume. Clean. Soft. She caught it again, by accident, the next week near the rec center—only this time she followed the scent, just to see if it was you. It was.

It starts small.

She times her runs around your class schedule. Makes excuses to study in the same libraries. Notices your friends. Watches you walk from the dorms to the gym at night in too-thin shorts and a hoodie, humming to yourself. Watches you tie your hair up when you think no one is looking.

She starts building a map in her head: where you go, who you’re with, how often you check your phone, how your face changes when you’re tired or lonely. It’s data. That’s how she rationalizes it. Information. Interest. Curiosity.

But that’s a lie, and she knows it.

She wants to know you. Have you. She wants to unzip your skin and crawl inside, wear you like a feeling.

⸻

You meet her again—properly this time—at the gym.

You’re wiping down a machine, out of breath and flushed. She’s standing a few feet away, towel slung around her neck, hair tied up in a bun. You don’t recognize her, not really, though something tugs at your memory.

“You done with this?” she asks, gesturing to the equipment.

You nod, stepping back, your eyes flicking over her briefly.

“Thanks,” she says, and you catch the edge of something in her voice—low, velvety, patient. She holds your gaze a little too long. Not enough to make you uncomfortable. Just… notice.

You do.

That night, she jerks off in her shower to the image of your parted lips, the damp curve of your throat, the way you brushed past her. She hates herself for it. But not enough to stop.

⸻

The friendship starts naturally. Or so it seems.

Abby finds ways to insert herself into your orbit—just enough to make you curious. She makes a dry joke in a study lounge one night that makes you laugh so hard you snort. The next time, she shares her coffee. The next, you’re inviting her to walk with you to class.

She’s easy to talk to. Uncannily observant. She remembers things you didn’t expect anyone to notice: how you hate the texture of oranges, how you never take the bus on Tuesdays, how you always wear that one ratty sweatshirt during finals.

You start to depend on her.

You don’t see the way she watches your every move when you’re not looking. How she memorizes the shape of your mouth when you talk, or your passwords when you unlock your phone. How she waits until you’ve left the library to grab the pen you forgot and pocket it.

You think she’s just intense. Kind. Private. A little possessive. You like it.

You don’t know what you’re inviting in.

⸻

It builds.

One night, she shows up outside your dorm unexpectedly. Says she was “just passing by.” You believe her. You invite her in.

You sit close on your tiny bed, knees touching. You’re laughing at some meme on her phone, and she’s not laughing at all—just staring at you.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” you ask, a little breathless.

Abby leans in a fraction, voice quiet. “You’re just…hard not to look at.”

Your stomach flips.

It’s not the first time someone’s flirted with you. But this is different. Abby’s attention is like standing in front of a furnace—controlled, focused, burning. Like if she touched you now, you’d melt.

You don’t kiss her that night. But you think about it.

She goes home and fingers herself slow and rough, replaying your laugh in her head like a song she can’t stop humming.

⸻

You start finding little things out of place.

Your charger unplugged. Your sweater on the wrong hook. A lipstick you swear you didn’t leave out.

You brush it off. You’re distracted. Studying. Tired.

You never see the way your bedroom window slides back into place, silently, just before dawn.

⸻

She loses control the night she sees you on a date.

It’s nothing serious. Just some guy from your ethics class. You’re at a pub, laughing. Abby sees it through the window.

She doesn’t go in. She waits.

Follows you home after. Watches the way you stumble a little in your heels, tug your phone out to text someone. She imagines it’s him. Wonders if you’re going to fuck him.

You’re alone. She watches the light go off. Waits.

She just wants to look.

⸻

You’re in bed. Rolled to one side. Your sheets low on your hips.

She presses her hand to the glass. Wants to open it. Wants to crawl in, lie beside you, pull your shirt up and taste the warm skin of your stomach—

But she doesn’t.

Not yet.

⸻

Weeks later. After another night of laughter and long walks. You’re a little drunk. She’s not. But she doesn’t stop you.

Your lips are soft. Her hands are iron. You sigh into her mouth like you’ve been holding your breath for weeks.

She kisses you like she’s starving.

You think it’s the beginning of something new.

You don’t realize it’s the beginning of her finally getting what she wants.

⸻

The first time you sleep together, it’s raw. Tense.

She doesn’t take her eyes off you. Not once.

She touches you like you’re something fragile and holy—spreads you out on your bed, breath shuddering, mouth worshipful. She whispers things you barely understand, hands gripping your hips so tightly you’ll bruise.

You don’t mind.

You come with her name in your mouth.

She stays the night. Watches you sleep, fingers ghosting over your wrist, your lips. Her need doesn’t quiet. It just shifts. Evolves.

Now that she’s had you, she’ll never let go.

And you have no idea what you’ve let in.

⸻

a/n: part 2? Send more requests please!!!

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jinx-xxed · 9 months ago

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Beautiful Thing Caged

Chapter 3; Lost in the darkness, you will be found

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A/N; I’ve been looking forward to this one 🙏 sorry it took me 12 years, now I can get to the good stuff hint hint nudge nudge

⇦ Part 2

Part 4 ⇨

Summary; You’ve made up your mind, and no one is going to get in your way.

Content; Werewolf AU, modern AU, werewolf Kylo Ren, human reader, or are they, scientist reader, soulmates, angst, reader has a small panic attack, running away from your problems, lying to and escaping the government, jailbreak time!!, Hux is an ass, size differences, Kylo gets bloody, murder, feral Kylo comes back for a second, becoming fugitives

[Each chapter will have specific content warnings]

Wc; 5.4k

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“You what?”

You straighten your posture under Hux’s scrutinizing gaze, holding firm. “I want him taken off the chains.”

He looks at you as if you’ve lost your mind, and he asks as such. “Have you lost your mind? Those are there as a safety procedure. Who knows what it’ll do if it’s taken off the chains.”

You can’t help the way your brows furrow at how Hux speaks, how he refers to Kylo as if he isn’t a person. He’s just something to be looked at and studied. “With all due respect sir, I’ve been the one down there with him day after day for the past two months. Allowing him off of the chains will help me get more data on him, I could see how he moves around and how it affects his behaviors. If the situation becomes too dangerous, then by all means, put him back on them. But please, let me just try.”

There’s a minute where nothing happens, where Hux doesn’t speak and instead just stares at you with narrowed eyes and pursed lips. It’s like you can see the way his brain is turning, thinking about all the results you’ve been able to get him. It works in your favor because he pinches the bridge of his nose and lets out a loud sigh. “You know what? Fine. I’ll sign my approval. I expect you to know what the fuck you’re doing.”

You smile despite yourself. “Thank you, sir.”

He waves a gloved hand, a glower still stuck on his face. “Don’t thank me. Just go home, doctor, before I change my mind.”

You dip your head, not one to disobey on something like that. “Of course. Goodnight, sir.”

You turn and leave Hux’s office, waves of accomplishment rippling through your body and adding an extra spring to your step. Removing the chains was something you’d been debating on for the past few weeks, wondering if it would even be a good idea to ask with the high possibility of getting denied immediately and raising suspicion. But because it was Kylo, you knew you at least had to try. You saw the way the chains inhibited him day after day, making him unable to stand properly and getting twisted around his limbs. You also saw how the cuffs rubbed the skin beneath raw, causing him pain every time he moved. The fact that they’ll be removed brings you relief.

You think about him as you get into your car, as you start the engine and follow the roads home. You find yourself doing that more and more frequently, ever since you’ve gotten to know him. You refuse to admit to yourself that honestly, he’s all you’ve been able to think about. Even when you’re at home on days off, you wonder about how or what Kylo’s doing. You also have an incessant, irrational fear in the back of your mind that worries about anyone else working on him or bothering him when you’re away. You always brush off those particular thoughts with the reminder that you’re still the only faculty member with clearance.

You’ve been pleased to learn that Kylo is a surprisingly agreeable individual. He’s rough around the edges, he’ll still snap or snarl or threaten you on occasion, but you were able to dig deep enough to find that softer center. He answers your questions with a relative willingness and he seems as fascinated by you as you are of him. He watches you with such intrigue, eyes always roaming over your figure and his body leaning forward to try and see what you’re doing.

You feel like you know a lot of what there is to know about Kylo. You can’t ask him normal ice-breaker questions like “what’s your favorite song?” or “what shows do you like?” because he’s lived in the woods as an animal most of his life; he told you plenty about the different kinds of vegetation and trees he’d come across though. So instead he asks you those questions, listening as you ramble on about things you’ve wanted to get off your chest but haven’t had anyone to do so with. Kylo is the perfect partner for that, with the way he looks so invested in your words and voice. It’s made your cheeks heat up more than a few times.

Every day, you’ve taken another step closer to that glass wall that separates the two of you. It’s like a trust exercise, seeing if Kylo will growl at you again like he did that first day when you got too close. He hasn’t so far, instead just tilting his head in curiosity as he watches you settle in your new spot. Seeing him get closer, become clearer to you, has a voice whispering in the back of your mind about how dangerous he is, telling you to stay back. But then there’s a different voice, a louder voice, that lures you in as it tells you of his beauty and strength, as it tugs on some string that feels like it’s connected to him.

It’s all so strange, and you ponder over it while you eat your dinner, while you shower off the grime of the day, while you get cozy in your bed. Just like all the nights before, you’re still thinking about Kylo even as you fall asleep.

» ☆ «

Nervous energy buzzes beneath your skin when you walk in to work the next morning. If Hux is true to his word, Kylo should be off the chains. You wonder about it as you walk down the familiar halls, as you go down the elevator. There’s a sheen of sweat that coats your palms, so reminiscent of the first time you did all this. You’ve always hated the way anxiety eats at you any time something new happens, even if you’re the reason behind it.

You follow the path you’ve gone down every day for the past two, now almost three, months. You use your badge to open that last door. Your breath gets stuck in your chest as you step into the room.

Feet ahead, behind that glass wall, Kylo is standing. He’s finally standing, his big form stretched to its full height. Even from where you’ve paused at the door, you can see how tall he is. You’re not ashamed of your own height, being just above the usual average, but it feels like nothing compared to him. Just his broad chest moves as he breathes, the rest of him motionless while he stares down at the chains that now lay useless on the floor, like he was only just freed before you got there. You can see the marks that they left on him, the imprints those heavy shackles rubbed into raw skin. It makes you wince.

Kylo finally notices you, head turning to where you still stand frozen in your awe. When your eyes meet, it feels like your world gets flipped on its axis, like everything just shifted in a different direction. There’s an unnamed emotion that wells in your chest and you can see it reflected in his brown irises. There’s something that’s tied you together, something so inexplicable and strong you think if you reach out you can touch it. It makes you feel completed when you’re both in the same room, and it makes you feel like you’re missing a second half of yourself when you aren’t. It’s driven you crazy for the last few months because you’ve never been able to figure it out, never been able to get your hands around it; it’s tortured you day and night and you hated it. But now you feel it so strongly and deeply in your bones that it makes you stumble forward a step, realization hitting you like a truck.

Kylo sees it, he knows. “Come here.” He says, voice deep and rich with command.

You obey, not even giving yourself a choice in the matter as you follow that strong pull that brings you towards him. That rational part of you that would normally shout at you to stay back is silent now as you step closer than you ever have before. You’re slow and cautious as you make your way to that pane of glass, and so is he—until there’s less than a foot of space separating the two of you.

He’s huge. He towers over you, making you crane your neck to be able to look at his face. Every part of his body is so much bigger than yours it’s a little jarring—and insulting. You can finally see him up close, you can finally see all those little freckles and moles dotting his skin like constellations, all the different and pretty shades of brown that swim in his eyes. It’s strange, what you feel in that moment. It’d be more terrifying than anything if you didn’t know that he’s experiencing the same thing, that you’re not alone; you can sense it like it’s your own. The puzzle pieces that are your lives snap together, the knot of the string that ties you to one another is pulled tight and secure. It makes you feel lightheaded, none of it truly making any sense.

Kylo puts his clawed hand against the glass, looking at you with a hint of desperation. You match him, your own hand seeming small in comparison. “You feel it, don’t you? Don’t be afraid, I feel it too.” He whispers to you, shivers running down your spine. He rests his forehead on the divider, shutting his eyes briefly. “Help me. Please.”

Your body quivers, bottom lip trembling from your nerves. It’s all so much. When you look at him, all of him—with the fluffy ears on his head and the slowly wagging tail protruding from his spine, you realize there’s something else inside of you. Something even deeper than a bond that stretches across the different planes of existence. It feels like a second self, like there’s an entirely different version of yourself you’ve never met before because it got buried so far down within you. It’s waking up now, akin to an animal coming out of its hibernation. It feels feral and raw and violent, it feels like him; a kindred spirit from a wilderness you don’t understand. But he does.

“I can help you. I can show you.” Kylo promises, and everything in you wants to believe him. “You have to get me out.”

Your breaths have become short, you heart beating a little faster between your ribs. You know how you look when you meet his gaze again; your unsure, frightened eyes roving back and forth across his face, your brows creased, a downward tug on your lips. “I.. I don’t… I can’t-“ Your words don’t make any sense, you can’t push them out in the right order. You can’t think straight, every thought flying around your brain at a mile a minute so you can’t grab any of them. The sweat on your palm leaves an impression on the glass. You take a step back and it tears you apart, every instinct in you telling to retract the action and go back to him but… but it doesn’t make any sense.

This shouldn’t be real, this shouldn’t be happening. God, this was all just some stupid research assignment. Frustrated tears spring into your eyes, which only serves to upset you more. This isn’t something worth crying over, you don’t cry like this. But it feels like everything you’ve known, the familiarity of your life before this, has been uprooted and ruined. Through your blurred vision you can see how Kylo reacts, the way his ears lower against his hair in remorse, tail tucking close to his legs. He wants nothing more than to comfort you, and you can’t bear the thought.

How else are you supposed to react when it feels like your mind is split between two different people?

You don’t even realize what you’re doing until the door is shutting behind you and you’re hurrying down those sterile hallways, wiping furiously at your eyes.

» ☆ «

You’d gone home early. You’d told the superior on duty that you didn’t feel well, and they’d sent you off with a wave of their hand.

You’d spent the rest of your time walking through your home like a ghost, both there but also not. Your other half was still at the facility, still in that room, staring through that glass panel. You could feel it, incessant and inescapable, even as you tried to block it out by burying yourself beneath a pound of blankets. You knew you’d come to terms with it in a short while, the logical part of your brain always able to come out on top. You just needed to wallow for a little bit, get used to the life-changing revelations and constant stimulation of your mind being stuck in two different places.

You ran over what you experienced again and again in your head, trying to figure out what it was, what it could mean. You’ve never heard of a phenomenon like it before, never seen it documented in research papers. What do you call it when you feel so fundamentally complete when you’re with somebody, like the universe created the two of you specifically for each other? It sounds silly and like a cheesy trope you’d see in a romance novel—definitely not something meant to be in your own life.

It had you researching for the remainder of the night, and it’s what led you to see the message waiting for you in your inbox from Hux.

I want to see you in my office first thing tomorrow morning. There’s a discussion I need to have with you about your project.

- Armitage Hux

That added on to your list of things robbing you of sleep, but you still managed to get out of bed and get dressed with shaking hands the next morning. That’s how you find yourself outside of Hux’s office door. You hesitate before knocking twice.

“Come in.” His voice drawls from the other side. You take a deep breath, steeling your nerves as you open the door into the familiar office. Hux says your name as a greeting. “I’m glad to see you got my email. Have a seat, please.”

You follow his instructions, sinking into the plush chair across from his desk and folding your hands tightly in your lap. “I.. don’t know what this is about, sir, but I can assure you everything is going smoothly.”

Hux hums in thought as he shuffles a stack of papers to the side. “Perhaps that’s the problem.” He mutters. Cold eyes meet yours, so jarringly different from the warmth in Kylo’s. “I’ve had something brought to my attention, doctor. One of the nutritionists on this project mentioned something interesting to me, they said that this… creature is able to speak… they even saw you communicating with it. But it’s curious, because I don’t recall reading anything about that in your own reports.”

Your blood runs cold, body stiffening as fear licks through you. “Sir, I- I didn’t-“ You stumble over words that feel too heavy in your mouth. You can’t think of a way you could cover your ass because saying your true reasoning of wanting to protect Kylo definitely wouldn’t do you any favors. You inwardly curse your track record of being horrible under pressure.

That tells him everything he needs to know and your wide eyes track him as he moves to stand. He nods along to his own thoughts. “Withholding information is a terminable offense, doctor, especially to this degree. You were given this assignment with full trust from the Agency that you would present all information in an honest manner, you signed the forms.” He says, clearly enjoying the way your face falls. “It’s been decided that you’ll be let go from First Order Agencies, effective immediately. Your badges will be disabled, and we expect your office to be cleared of anything important by ten AM. You’ll be notified of further procedure from there.”

You find your body jumping out of your chair, hands slamming down on the dark wood of Hux’s desk. He looks you over with an upturned lip and distaste at your actions, but you can’t find that you care in the moment. You don’t even really care that you just lost your job when there’s something else occupying every square inch of your mind. “What are you going to do with Kylo?” You demand.

“Oh, so it has a name too. How cute.” Hux taunts. “Your project will be transferred to another facility first thing tomorrow morning. You can’t provide any further insight on that creature, even if we ignore your misconducts. New tests will be conducted, they’ll make sure to get everything they can out of it. You’ve dug deep enough, I’m sure you know exactly what happens to werewolves.”

That word sends a jolt through you. So he knew. He knew about the gruesome history of what Kylo is, of what runs in his blood. Hux knew that Kylo is no different than himself or you, he knew that and still treated him no better than an animal. It’s like everything you worked for, every document you submitted, is thrown back in your face—it was all meaningless. It also makes you afraid, knowing how little they hesitate to sentence an innocent human to death in the name of a scientific study.

Hux glances at the clock on the wall. “Now you better hurry along, doctor, you only have an hour left to clean out your office.”

You can’t do much else other than obey. You know the decision is final, you know he won’t hesitate to call security on you. Air blows through your nostrils as some way to redirect your anger, wishing you could punch the redhead. You settle with something else instead, something you’ve been wanting to tell him for years. “Go fuck yourself.”

The smile Hux gives you as you leave his office is nothing short of cruel.

» ☆ «

You don’t know what the fuck you’re doing.

You don’t know how you got here—sneaking back into your former workplace at 1:14 AM. It’s like some otherworldly force was compelling you, and you had no choice but to listen to it.

Your hands are shaking violently when you use them to open the front doors. Your badge may have been deactivated, but you had other ways to get into the building. There was a trick an old coworker showed you when you both were locked out of the facility because you both forgot your badges that day; she said the trick was easier than trying to call and waiting for someone to verify you and let you in. There’s a way you can mess up the sensors on the scanners so it believes there’s a valid badge ID, and that’s what you do to slip inside. You’re thanking the gods that it actually worked, and you’re thanking that coworker who’d gotten fired a week later.

The main halls are void of life and dimly lit, with only the occasional fluorescent overhead light still on. Your hurried footsteps sound far too loud in the silence, your heartbeat pounds in your ears. You make it to the elevator without issue and you spend the entire ride clenching and unclenching your hands at your side, blowing out deep breaths with every interval. This is right. This is the right thing to do. It just might get you arrested or killed but that’s… you choose not to think about it.

The elevator reaches its destination with a ding, the doors sliding open into white hallways that have never been so intimidating before. Your body trembles, your mind is screaming at you, but you know this is what needs to be done. Every step you take feels like another step in the right direction, like it eases the weight off your shoulders. You can feel your nerves steeling themselves the further you go, as if someone else entirely—someone far more confident—is taking control of you. Instead of terrified, you just feel angry. Angry at Hux for doing this to you and to Kylo, angry at the Agency, at everyone who forced werewolves to basically go extinct. It’s all fucked up and you wish you could do more, but for now you can settle with saving at least one.

You reach that final door and you use your trick to break the sensors, successfully unlocking it. The door swings open harshly and as you step inside the observation room, you’re met with an unfamiliar sight. There’s two guards standing right against the glass panel; they’re clad in black padded armor, helmets sitting on top of their heads, guns at their hips. Hell, maybe Hux suspected you would try something and that’s what they’re here for. He wasn’t wrong, you’ll give him that.

The guards snap to attention when you enter. You can see Kylo behind them, ears perked in interest and staring directly at you. You feel something travel across that invisible thread between you, and it feels so right. It gives you the confidence you need. “Excuse me, you’re not authorized to be in here.” One of the guards says roughly, moving to take a step closer to you. “You need to leave now or I’ll have to-“

You’re lunging before you can even fully comprehend what you’re doing. Your limbs don’t feel like your own, it’s like you’re watching from outside of your own body, kicked from the pilots chair. There’s a strength you don’t recognize that you use to grab on to the guard, shoving him back and overpowering him with an ease that shouldn’t be allowed for someone like you. You don’t even know how to describe it, you just feel… feral, angry and vicious. If you could see yourself you’d see your pupils thinned to slits like an animal. The guard chokes when you grip his neck, swinging him and slamming his head repeatedly into the glass pane. He slumps to the ground not a second later.

The element of surprise had greatly assisted you, but now that it’s gone, you’re left vulnerable. That strength that had taken over you has fizzled out, slinking away into the dark recesses of yourself for you to have to try and find again. But you can’t, because the other guard is on you now. He’s bigger than the first, taller and stockier, muscle cording through his arms. You feel those muscles when he uses them to connect a fist with your face and pin you against the wall, his forearm firm on your neck. Fuck.

He snarls at you, pressing in harder. You try to claw at his arm, you try to kick your legs, but it doesn’t make him move an inch. He’s like a brick wall and you have no way of breaking it. You can feel your chest constrict as you’re robbed of air, your lungs struggling to draw breath while your ears begin to ring. You punch and punch and punch again—nothing works. Your vision swims. You feel the dull throb in your knuckles from the reinforced padded armor that makes the guard immune to your adrenaline-fueled attacks. Your eyes lock onto that pistol he has on his belt, it’s your best bet if you could just reach around him and grab it. Your head feels like it’s about to pop, you feel blood begin to dribble from your nose and you’re able to taste it as it drips across your lips. The gun, the gun, the gun- There’s a steady thudding noise, you don’t know where it’s coming from. It might be coming from inside your own head, you don’t know. You can barely think, your brain practically shutting itself down. Your fingers just barely graze the handle but it’s not enough, shit, it’s not enough. Your eyes roll and your body goes limp.

Next thing you know, there’s a deep voice calling your name and a warm hand on your cheek. You take a gasping breath, sputtering around the pain in your throat as your eyes clear and the ringing in your ears finally stops. You see Kylo above you, massive body hunched so he can meet your gaze, worry etching his features. That’s when you notice that there’s blood on his hands, the lights of the facility are flashing red, the alarm is blaring, and the guard who had you pinned is laying decapitated to your left. Looking behind Kylo, you’re startled to see that the glass wall is in pieces. He fucking shattered it—that’s what that thudding sound was. Him hitting the glass again and again in time with your own punches to the guard.

You give yourself only a second to take everything in. Kylo’s actually in front of you. He’s really here, and he’s touching you. It sends a shiver down your spine, sparks tingling beneath your skin. There’s an excited buzzing in the back of your mind, but you don’t have time to linger on those feelings, on him. The alarms are going off and you know it’s only a matter of time before there’s more people down here to kill you both. Even though it feels wrong, you push Kylo off of you so that you can stand. You stumble as your head spins, still trying to recover from getting choked of all your oxygen, and you have to wave Kylo off again as he tries to help you.

You attempt to ignore the blood and gore splattered across the white floors as you step carefully around it to pluck the pistol off the guard. Nausea rolls in your stomach when you accidentally glance at his torn neck, knowing it’s Kylo’s claws that did the damage. You take one of the spare bullet canisters, tucking that and the gun into your belt. Kylo looks tense, muscles bunched beneath his skin and his tail puffed up a size larger than usual. His ears keep swiveling forwards and back, moving to the sounds of the alarm screaming overhead—his ears are probably far more sensitive than your own. You know that it’s blaring through the entire facility, as are the flashing red lights. Everybody will know that there was a security breach.

“Follow me. We can get out through this level.” You practically yell over the alarm. He nods, eager to follow your lead and get out of this prison.

You briefly check your surroundings when you open the door. All clear. You both dart out and you don’t have to worry about Kylo keeping up, he’s right at your heels. He’d run right by you if he didn’t need you to show him the way. You hurry down the halls, careful not to slip as you round sharp corners and burst through doors. You’re scared, yes, but you feel alive. Energy courses through your body like it would a live wire, spurring you forward with Kylo now with you at last. It feels freeing and like everything is finally coming together, even as you’re effectively leaving your entire old life behind.

You come upon a final set of heavy-duty double doors that lead into a tunnel for transports to drive through. It’s what they used to get Kylo in here in the first place. You have to use the strength of your shoulder and a little extra push from Kylo to be able to shove the door open. The tunnel that you run into is dark, becoming nearly pitch black when the lights periodically flicker out with the alarms. You squint against the red lighting, trying to see what’s ahead.

There’s angry shouts, there’s the sound of multiple sets of footsteps, and you know that there’s guards waiting for you. The number of them is nothing to scoff at, many of them being deployed after the alarm started going off. They congregate at the exits so that nothing gets out, or so that they can kill whatever tries. It won’t be easy—or so you think.

Before you have a chance to draw your new gun, Kylo rushes ahead of you faster than you can blink. He’s finally out of his cage, he’s finally free, and he’s relishing in it. He wants to make sure these people know he will never go back. He moves so quick that the guards don’t even get the opportunity to fire off bullets and you merely watch the way his muscles move, his hands slashing with ferocity and a violent grace. The lights flash and when they come back on, there’s a body on the floor.

Flash. Another. Flash. Two more.

The pattern continues until Kylo is the only one left standing. His body heaves, the blood shines on him. He looks terrifying like that, massive form doused in red and shadow, towering over all these dead bodies that he’s ripped through with his own teeth and claws, eyes wild. You run right to him, a sense of awe filling you. He’s definitely not something to be messed with, and you love it. You realize how big of a fool Hux was for thinking he could contain Kylo. His hand is slick with blood when you take it, but it only makes you tighten your grip.

You keep running, pushing past the stench of iron that assaults your senses. The tunnel slopes up and up and up and you follow the path, the alarm steadily getting quieter the further you get. The end of the tunnel gets closer and closer, until you stop at the garage doors. You pause there, puffing breath in and out of your mouth, your body throbbing with the adrenaline. You spare a glance at Kylo, your beautiful monster covered in the blood his captors, and you can feel that this is right where you’re supposed to be. You hit the hatch release button.

The garage door groans as it scrapes on metallic hinges, slowly opening until there’s a wide enough gap for the both of you to slip under it. Fresh, cold night air hits you in the face and you gladly inhale it, washing the smell of blood out of your system. You look to Kylo again, as if making sure he’s still there, and the expression on his face is something you’ll remember for a long time. His eyes are wide, face frozen in what could only be described as shock. You have to remind yourself that he’s been stuck down in the depths of a government facility for the past nearly three months with only white walls to keep him company. You can’t even begin to imagine what he’s feeling.

You have to interrupt though, knowing every second right now is vital. “Come on, my car is just around the corner.”

You begin to walk, but he doesn’t follow. He’s staring into the woods that surround the building, the tip of his tail twitching as he takes a small step forward. He wants nothing more than to go in there, to return to his wolf form and run and run and run. It’s odd that you can feel it too, that primal longing calling you to the wilderness, like there’s something just like him inside of you banging against its cage to get out. You shove it down, you force it back because you really cannot deal with that at the moment. You know you’d just get caught again if you go into those woods. “Kylo,” you hiss and grab his arm, “we need to go.”

Your touch snaps him out of his trance, bringing him back to you. He follows you now around the outer edges of the facility, ever so faintly being able to hear the alarm going off inside. You make it to the parking lot and your less-than-stellar Nissan Sentra, the thing a bit old but it’s always been reliable. You rip open the passenger side door, motioning for Kylo to get in. He hesitates, clearly unnerved by the vehicle, so you resort to shoving him in. He hunches in the front seat, obviously not accustomed to the small space that he doesn’t really fit inside of. You run to the driver’s side, throwing yourself into your seat and shoving the keys in the ignition.

As your car roars to life and you whip out of the parking lot, the facility quickly getting smaller behind you and Kylo sitting next to you, you make the decision that you’re never going to look back.

☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆ .。.:*

Tags (comment if you’d like to be tagged next time!); @coldheartedmar @hazydespair @bullet-clubs-bitch @paristheonewhoreads

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#they’re finally out of that cursed facility let’s go guys #falls to the floor #THIS TOOK SO LONG AHHHHH #star wars #star wars fanfic #star wars x reader #kylo ren fanfic #kylo ren #kylo #kylo ren x reader #kylo fanfic #kylo x reader #kylo x you #werewolf kylo ren #werewolf au #werewolf fanfic

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 8 months ago

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NASA’s TESS spots record-breaking stellar triplets

Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to cosmic “strobe lights” captured by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite).

The system contains a set of twin stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a third star that circles the pair in just 25 days. The discovery smashes the record for shortest outer orbital period for this type of system, set in 1956, which had a third star orbiting an inner pair in 33 days.

“Thanks to the compact, edge-on configuration of the system, we can measure the orbits, masses, sizes, and temperatures of its stars,” said Veselin Kostov, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. “And we can study how the system formed and predict how it may evolve.”

A paper, led by Kostov, describing the results was published in The Astrophysical Journal Oct. 2.

Flickers in starlight helped reveal the tight trio, which is located in the constellation Cygnus. The system happens to be almost flat from our perspective. This means the stars each cross right in front of, or eclipse, each other as they orbit. When that happens, the nearer star blocks some of the farther star’s light.

Using machine learning, scientists filtered through enormous sets of starlight data from TESS to identify patterns of dimming that reveal eclipses. Then, a small team of citizen scientists filtered further, relying on years of experience and informal training to find particularly interesting cases.

These amateur astronomers, who are co-authors on the new study, met as participants in an online citizen science project called Planet Hunters, which was active from 2010 to 2013. The volunteers later teamed up with professional astronomers to create a new collaboration called the Visual Survey Group, which has been active for over a decade.

“We’re mainly looking for signatures of compact multi-star systems, unusual pulsating stars in binary systems, and weird objects,” said Saul Rappaport, an emeritus professor of physics at MIT in Cambridge. Rappaport co-authored the paper and has helped lead the Visual Survey Group for more than a decade. “It’s exciting to identify a system like this because they’re rarely found, but they may be more common than current tallies suggest.” Many more likely speckle our galaxy, waiting to be discovered.

Partly because the stars in the newfound system orbit in nearly the same plane, scientists say it’s likely very stable despite their tight configuration (the trio’s orbits fit within a smaller area than Mercury’s orbit around the Sun). Each star’s gravity doesn’t perturb the others too much, like they could if their orbits were tilted in different directions.

But while their orbits will likely remain stable for millions of years, “no one lives here,” Rappaport said. “We think the stars formed together from the same growth process, which would have disrupted planets from forming very closely around any of the stars.” The exception could be a distant planet orbiting the three stars as if they were one.

As the inner stars age, they will expand and ultimately merge, triggering a supernova explosion in around 20 to 40 million years.

In the meantime, astronomers are hunting for triple stars with even shorter orbits. That’s hard to do with current technology, but a new tool is on the way.

Images from NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be much more detailed than TESS’s. The same area of the sky covered by a single TESS pixel will fit more than 36,000 Roman pixels. And while TESS took a wide, shallow look at the entire sky, Roman will pierce deep into the heart of our galaxy where stars crowd together, providing a core sample rather than skimming the whole surface.

“We don’t know much about a lot of the stars in the center of the galaxy except for the brightest ones,” said Brian Powell, a co-author and data scientist at Goddard. “Roman’s high-resolution view will help us measure light from stars that usually blur together, providing the best look yet at the nature of star systems in our galaxy.”

And since Roman will monitor light from hundreds of millions of stars as part of one of its main surveys, it will help astronomers find more triple star systems in which all the stars eclipse each other.

“We’re curious why we haven’t found star systems like these with even shorter outer orbital periods,” said Powell. “Roman should help us find them and bring us closer to figuring out what their limits might be.”

Roman could also find eclipsing stars bound together in even larger groups — half a dozen, or perhaps even more all orbiting each other like bees buzzing around a hive.

“Before scientists discovered triply eclipsing triple star systems, we didn’t expect them to be out there,” said co-author Tamás Borkovits, a senior research fellow at the Baja Observatory of The University of Szeged in Hungary. “But once we found them, we thought, well why not? Roman, too, may reveal never-before-seen categories of systems and objects that will surprise astronomers.”

TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission managed by NASA Goddard and operated by MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Additional partners include Northrop Grumman, based in Falls Church, Virginia; NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley; the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, Massachusetts; MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory; and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. More than a dozen universities, research institutes, and observatories worldwide are participants in the mission.

IMAGE: This artist’s concept illustrates how tightly the three stars in the system called TIC 290061484 orbit each other. If they were placed at the center of our solar system, all the stars’ orbits would be contained a space smaller than Mercury’s orbit around the Sun. The sizes of the triplet stars and the Sun are also to scale. Credit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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>>You're busily scouring the halls of a veritable palace of corridors and cavernous spaces, the demi-plane of memory and data that represents the inner workings of your psionic powers. To so seamlessly blend the real, the digital, and the abstract, bends the mind into pretzels. So like most of the long-dead possessors of such a highly-personalized space, your mind forms a Partition Suite to navigate it in, in your own way. The entire place is at once compact and endless, a series of chambers and hallways, crammed with books and manila folders, with terminals and server towers, all containing detailed data; experiences, muscle memories, learned skills, schematics. It's all here.

>>You keep a Partition of yourself here full time, both as one of the regular functions of your power, and to act as a systems administrator. You can split your focus this way, without relinquishing control. Normally, you think to yourself, the SysAdmin just pings you via normal telepathy, but this time, you demanded that you come into the Suite and see what's going on for yourself. The corridor dumps you into the main chamber of the demi-plane. Sprawling over what looks like an endless city of towering buildings, the Hub is a floating island above the "Stacks Room." Every building is a server, the true representation of all those folders and books, all those skills.

>>You emerge from a gateway at the edge of the island, a portal exit from a real corridor somewhere else inside the Suite. The island itself is an inverted ziggurat, hosting a sprawling complex at the top. The widest level is consumed with what look to be bizarre crosses between functional buildings, and pieces of computer machinery, blown up to building sizes. All of it leads to a hole in the center of the island, broadly encircled by rings of platforms, climbing upwards until one stands eye-level with the Systems Administrator.

>>You look fondly on the image of yourself as you scramble up the platforms. All Partitions are direct reflection of your own visage, itself subject almost entirely to your whims these days, but the SysAdmin is always a little different. The SysAdmin is inhumanly large, and visible only from the waist up as she emerges from the hole, dressed in a pair of worker's coveralls. Just like you, the SysAdmin likes to show off what they got, and keeps the coveralls unzipped to the belly button. Unlike you, however, the SysAdmin sports six arms to your two, and uses them as naturally as she appears to breathe. The inside of the rings are lined with walls of projected screens, holographic data feeds, input fields, keyboards, everything goes through this Partition of you.

>>This time though, she's not working. The SysAdmin is doing that thing you do, where you vent stress by excessively rubbing your eyes, or by running your hands through your hair. Two of her arms are crossed, and sitting at their intersection is a woman. A woman with fiery red hair down to her tailbone, with features ominously close to your own. There's an energy in her eye that you feel has burned out of your own since the Time Loop was settled. She still has fire, and she's clearly of you. You feel like you've had time-enough to sort out the answer, and you're not sure how you feel about it. There hadn't really been enough time to sort out who she had ever been to you, in the past.

>>But that doesn't appear to matter anymore, because the drive to survive never left her, even as she reincorporated into you, seemingly swallowed up by Partition before you were sealed away. And yet, there she is, sitting mostly naked and draped in a coat she must've stolen from some stray memory in the Suite. There's barely a care on her face, as she stares back at you, you can tell there's a deep uncertainty in her eyes, but you've stared for too long. Unfortunately for you, you lack the words to say anything but her name.

>>"Blair?"

#IC #Not Viewable ICly

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playstation7app · 7 months ago

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Here's a breakdown of the features presented in the schematics for the PlayStation 7 controller, designed to showcase both technical and ergonomic innovations:

8K HD LCD Mirror Screen

Feature: Center display with 8K resolution in a Silicium Black mirror finish.

Purpose: Offers high-definition visuals directly on the controller, enabling in-game stats, real-time updates, and mirrored content from the main console.

AI Self-Learning Capabilities

Feature: Embedded AI that adapts to user preferences and gameplay styles.

Purpose: Optimizes controller response, remaps buttons based on usage patterns, and provides personalized feedback.

Compact, Ergonomic Design

Feature: Approximately one-quarter inch smaller than standard controllers.

Purpose: Offers enhanced portability, making it more pocket-sized, while maintaining ergonomic comfort for longer gameplay.

Connectivity Ports

HDMI: Allows direct connection to displays or peripherals.

USB: Enables device charging, wired connectivity to the console, and data transfer.

Charging Module: Specialized port for rapid recharging of the controller.

Purpose: Ensures multi-functional connectivity for various gaming setups.

Bluetooth, WiFi, and FiWi Capabilities

Feature: Enhanced wireless capabilities, including Bluetooth and WiFi for direct connectivity, and FiWi sensing.

Purpose: Enables seamless, lag-free connections to the PlayStation 7 console and other devices, along with FiWi for future wireless advancements.

Internal Modular Layout

Feature: Internally organized layout with modular components for AI chip, connectivity modules, and display.

Purpose: Simplifies upgrades, repairs, and component replacements, enhancing longevity and customization.

Enhanced Battery System

Feature: High-capacity battery designed for extended play sessions.

Purpose: Supports advanced features and power-intensive display without compromising battery life.

Dual-Tone Color Variants

Colors: Available in Lo Rider DyeCast Yellow, Black, Silver Chrome, Forest Green, and Azure, plus two-tone combinations.

Purpose: Offers aesthetic customization, appealing to a wide audience with multiple design options.

Identification Details

QR Code: Unique QR codes for easy registration and product information access.

Serial Numbers and Model Numbers: Ensures authenticity and facilitates tracking for warranty, support, and inventory.

Purpose: Helps with identification and authentication for warranty, inventory, and support purposes.

Enhanced Sensory Capabilities

Feature: Equipped with advanced sensors to detect and respond to motion, orientation, and grip pressure.

Purpose: Improves gameplay experience by adding a responsive, immersive control experience.

These features collectively position the PlayStation 7 controller as a cutting-edge, user-focused gaming device with both aesthetic appeal and functional versatility, ready for patent submission. Let me know if further elaboration is needed!

The PlayStation 7 controller can enable a consoless gaming experience by leveraging its innovative hardware features, which allow it to function independently from the console in a variety of ways:

Integrated 8K HD LCD Mirror Screen

Description: The high-resolution 8K LCD screen built into the controller displays full gameplay visuals without needing a TV or separate monitor.

Functionality: This screen allows users to play games directly on the controller, effectively transforming it into a standalone gaming device when paired with online gaming capabilities.

AI Self-Learning System

Description: The controller’s AI learns player preferences, adapts control settings, and customizes responses based on gameplay style.

Functionality: This allows for quick, user-specific adjustments without external inputs, creating a more personal and tailored gaming experience even without a console.

Embedded Processing and Networking Capabilities

Description: Equipped with processors for basic game streaming and internet connectivity via WiFi, Bluetooth, and FiWi.

Functionality: The controller can stream games from the cloud or connect to local servers. It essentially functions as a portable gaming device by accessing games directly from cloud platforms.

Modular Connectivity Ports (HDMI and USB)

Description: With HDMI, USB, and charging ports, the controller supports multi-functional connectivity.

Functionality: It can connect to external monitors, TVs, or displays, allowing players to shift seamlessly between small-screen (on-controller) and larger-screen gaming without needing a console.

Advanced Bluetooth and FiWi for Peripheral Pairing

Description: The controller’s Bluetooth and FiWi capabilities enable pairing with additional devices like headphones, VR headsets, or external gamepads.

Functionality: This gives players access to an entire peripheral ecosystem without a console. It supports multiplayer and VR applications by connecting directly to other devices.

Cloud-Based Gaming Infrastructure

Description: The controller is designed to leverage cloud gaming services, with an interface that allows game downloads, storage management, and updates.

Functionality: Users can access and play titles stored on cloud servers directly from the controller, offering console-like gameplay with portability.

Standalone Battery and Power Management System

Description: High-capacity battery allows for extended gameplay time.

Functionality: Without dependence on an external power source, the controller can function as a self-sufficient gaming device, giving players freedom to game from anywhere.

Specialized Sensor Array for Immersive Gameplay

Description: Sensors for motion, orientation, and grip provide feedback and allow for intuitive controls.

Functionality: The sensors support games that require movement and responsiveness without additional hardware, further enhancing the controller’s ability to stand alone as a gaming platform.

Through these innovations, the PlayStation 7 controller essentially acts as a mini console. Its blend of display technology, AI, processing power, connectivity, and cloud gaming access brings a full gaming experience into a single compact device.

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stalkedbytrains · 8 months ago

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Untouched Horizons Timeline 1/-

Prologue

All dates are relative to Earth dates

-2746

The Silence comes to Yàzt

-2688

The Silence overcomes most of Yàzt

-2677

In a last ditch effort a massive interstellar colony ship is built and filled and set off looking for a new world in space to escape the Silence

A millenia old civilization is reduced to a few hives of about 12,000 souls on board

-2675

All contact with Yàzt has been lost, assumed it has been consumed by the Silence

The Establishing

-1628

A probe from the traveling colony ship of the Zlilfian people enters Earth's orbit, it scans most of the Caribbean areas and transmits the location and atmospheric data before all contact with the probe is lost

The decision is made by the council that is awake to head for Earth as it is closest to Yàzt gravity and atmosphere, it’s not perfect and the adjustment period will likely take generations but they’ve been in space for too long and the ship can’t really be doing this for much longer

The first team is selected and equipment is sent towards Earth, the colony ship following slowly behind (changing course towards Earth with such a big ship is going to take a while)

-1624

Team 1 lands on Earth, having found the approximate location of a good place with a probe before the probe died

They are very mindful about invading a new planet and they didn’t have time to scan and analyze the local flora to determine if any of it was livable so the decision was made a long time ago to build an island

This starts with the volcano probe at the connection of the Caribbean plate to make an island forcing the lava to the surface to make an island over and over and over again until the proper shape and size is made (roughly 4,000 square miles of surface area)

This likely reinforces a lot of strange myths of the local tribes in the area (as they are southwest of Cuba and east-northeast of Belize and directly west of Jamaica)

Few plants are planted after 16 months of island building and letting the land settle

-1621

Team 2 arrives and they bring with them much more equipment and seeds for cultivating

Lots more vegetation brought to the island

Working on making rivers and canals and such, digging ditches to make sure the water flows the way they want it too, and piling up the dirt on the edges of the island to make the cliff walls taller to make it much harder to get access to the island from the outside

-1620

The first generation of vegetation has grown under careful watch

Walls have been built up slowly around the island, aiming for 30 foot cliffs on the whole

They start building the main hive of Zlicchaser which will become the central capital and the main hub in the center of the colony at the base of the volcano

-1616

Island mostly finished, nothing more to do until the colony ship and people arrive

The volcanic soil is making for fertile if delicate soil for the vegetation, there are very deliberate placing of the various extraterrestrial crops which they have let grow and die without much tending as they understand the importance of establishing new and old growth

The ship is late

-1615

Ship officially overdue

When the colony ship arrives officially late and crashes within 100 miles, losing lots of materials and technology

They had planned on having lots of computers and building machines and tools brought off the ship; the ship itself was supposed to be repurposed into any number of things

The ship was so old and had been patched so many times and never should have been going this long, a lot of engineers are surprised it made it through the atmosphere without totally incinerating

Rescue efforts underway, very few casualties, but it is still a disaster

Vulnerable stuff lost, fauna is basically screwed, huge disaster, but there’s the skeleton of a city that the teams built so it’s not all bad, and they have plenty of food to eat

Scientists try not to be too doomsday about all of this but without the various native fauna to interact with their native flora they can’t really have a working ecosystem and importing things from Earth to Si Yàzt could be a massive disaster

-1614

Stuff is getting established

A few boats have been sent out to gather materials and such (wood, for forest planting to make building materials and paper notably) is happening

The scientists are extremely nervous about cross-contaminating and are going extremely slowly for all of this stuff

Adapting is going poorly, with the less than ideal conditions and all

-1612

Zlicchaser is officially finished

The bell curve for adaptation sickness is finally starting to creep down

But it won’t be done for a few generations

With a working Hive everyone feels much more at ease

-1610

Things are stabilized more or less so the fertility rights have been granted to everyone

First forest planted official from taken trees on the mainland, down in the lower southwest part of the island

Trees are important for wood for expanding and building new hives (stone is not preferred as it is ‘too cold’) but also for paper making as they only managed to retrieve a few portable databanks and they need a way of copying down all the old world knowledge before they break for good

-1609

Lots of stonework tools and other complex water wheel devices are being made since they can’t progress through the technological eras quite yet

Also lots of glass as they deliberately left an access to the lava bed for melting and forging when a stable source of metal can be found

-1608

Stone and glass are primary materials

Pressed reeds and stuff for writing material

There’s entire teams dedicated to copying knowledge from the computers before they die

There’s exactly 1 scouting party using knowledge from the various probes and fly overs when they landed to look for stuff they knew is out there (like trees)

-1607

The child push ceases, population has grown but worries about overtaxing their young food sources force the halt

-1606

Scientists finally start letting in earth sea life into the water system after years of careful observation

And even in very small zones which are carefully monitored

-1605

The last functional computer is shut off and carefully preserved for the future when technology catches up to it

As much knowledge as possible has been copied off of them

-1604

The sole scouting party has not returned, MIA

Likely killed in some contact gone wrong, or from native Earth diseases

-1603

The main colony is declared officially finished

There are several water mills built, extensive farming and plant cultivation has begun but only around the city

Massive chunks of the island are left untended, which is seen as a good thing as the nature will find its own balance and allow the Zlilfian people to use it later when the young plants have grown old and new growths have taken over

-1602

The last of the advanced technology has given up the ghost and is retired

-1596

The second generation beings to reach adulthood, they adapt better and quicker than their parents but they are not one with the planet Earth yet

A few scattered contacts with the peoples of the Caribbean happen, but the scientists are extremely worried about diseases so extremely quick quarantined rules are enforced

-1592

The second generation are giving permission for open relations and the start of the third generation to begin

-1589

The sanctions on having children are reimposed

They aren’t enforced very well as the general consensus is that things are stable enough to be safe, but the qiins want to be safe so the letter of the law is imposed

-1587

Small outposts start to be built down the river from the colony (to allow river boat access and carrying of stuff) and allow expanded farming and cultivation areas

Slowly but surely expanding the colony’s sphere of influence

-1586

An explorer discovers the southern part of the island is dying in stagnation, the extremely slow introduction of animal life to that part (native or not) hasn’t helped the fertilization or reproduction or growth of the flora

Heated debate in the scientific community between very cautious old guard and the “we’re dying we need a solution” new guard (who know nothing of space travel or a life off the island as they are the first to be born and die on the island itself)

-1585

A series of first contacts is made by scouting parties looking for animals to help with the ecosystem on the island

It goes about as well as can be expected from two alien cultures that have nothing in common

But a disease is carried back to the island

-1584

The disease moves quickly and isolation is quickly ordered but the populace knows this was going to happen sooner or later

And they aren’t unprepared so there is some defenses they can make

-1583

There’s not a vaccination process but there’s plenty for the doctors to do

The disease kills about 10% of the population, most of it being first generation

#untouched horizons #untouched timeline

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petalhost · 6 months ago

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Terry Winters' paintings for Point Cloud Pictures at Matthew Marks Gallery reference data collection methods and patterns from the natural world. The colorful and energetic works leave it up to the viewer to make their own associations.

From the gallery’s press release-

Winters’s work centers on abstraction as a catalyst for exploring the natural world. In his paintings, composition and color give new meaning to a wide range of technical references, which include advanced mathematical principles, musical notation, botany, and chemistry. In the artist’s own words: “I’m taking preexisting imagery and respecifying it through the painting process. Information is torqued with the objective of opening a fictive space or lyrical dimension.”

The title of the exhibition refers to the seven Point Cloud paintings on view, in which overlapping grids of ringed particles create complex, amorphous shapes. Borrowed from the field of three-dimensional modeling, a point cloud refers to a set of data points in space, often used to articulate objects or landscapes in digital models. “The forms can also suggest the collective behavior of animals, such as the murmuration of starlings and the schooling of fish,” Winters says. His paintings build an illusionistic sense of ever-expanding depth, as the varying size, shape, and angle of his painted data points lend a dynamism to his canvases. With the utmost attention to pigment, the paintings are built up in layers of oil, wax, and resin, further eliciting the energetic potential of their compositions.

Created through a parallel process, each painting on paper fills a large sheet from edge to edge. To make these works, Winters chose a paper size called a double elephant, which was first developed in 1826 to accommodate J.J. Audubon’s life-size depictions of birds. As Winters has described, “I’m interested in these givens, working within the parameters of that aspect ratio, and how that affects the building of the work.” Together, the works create a space that is both immediate and imaginary, what Winters has called a “vitalized geometry.”

This exhibition closes 6/29/24.

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scbhagat · 8 months ago

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Payroll Outsourcing in Delhi: Streamline Your Business with SC Bhagat & Co.

Introduction

Managing payroll is a vital part of any business, but it can be a complex and time-consuming task. For companies in Delhi, outsourcing payroll can be an ideal solution that saves time, reduces costs, and minimizes errors. SC Bhagat & Co., a trusted name in financial and tax advisory, offers specialized payroll outsourcing services in Delhi, tailored to meet the needs of businesses of all sizes. In this blog, we’ll explore the benefits of payroll outsourcing and why SC Bhagat & Co. is the right choice for your business.

Why Choose Payroll Outsourcing? Outsourcing payroll has become increasingly popular for businesses looking to optimize their operations. Here are some of the main reasons why companies in Delhi are opting for payroll outsourcing:

Cost Savings Outsourcing payroll can be more cost-effective than managing it in-house. Companies can reduce expenses related to salaries, software, training, and compliance.

Time Efficiency By entrusting payroll management to experts, businesses can free up time for core activities, enhancing productivity and focusing on growth.

Compliance and Risk Reduction Payroll processing requires adherence to various tax laws and employment regulations. Professional outsourcing firms like SC Bhagat & Co. ensure compliance, minimizing the risk of fines or legal issues.

Enhanced Data Security Payroll data is sensitive, and outsourcing to a reputable firm with robust security measures can help protect your employees' information.

Payroll Outsourcing Services by SC Bhagat & Co. SC Bhagat & Co. provides comprehensive payroll outsourcing services designed to streamline operations for businesses in Delhi. With expertise in compliance and a client-centered approach, they ensure accurate and timely payroll management. Here’s what you can expect:

Payroll Processing SC Bhagat & Co. manages all aspects of payroll, from wage calculations and tax withholdings to employee benefit deductions, ensuring timely and accurate payments.

Statutory Compliance Staying up-to-date with ever-changing laws and regulations is crucial for businesses. SC Bhagat & Co. ensures compliance with Delhi’s labor laws, income tax requirements, EPF, ESIC, and more.

Tax Filing and Reporting Payroll outsourcing with SC Bhagat & Co. includes accurate tax calculations, preparation, and filing, helping your business avoid penalties and ensuring compliance with local and national tax requirements.

Customized Payroll Solutions Whether you run a small business or a large corporation, SC Bhagat & Co. offers customized payroll solutions tailored to meet your company’s unique needs.

Key Benefits of Partnering with SC Bhagat & Co. for Payroll Outsourcing in Delhi Experienced Professionals SC Bhagat & Co. is backed by a team of highly skilled professionals who bring years of experience in payroll management and compliance.

Cutting-edge Technology Utilizing advanced payroll software, SC Bhagat & Co. offers accurate and secure payroll processing with real-time tracking and reporting.

Reliable Support Dedicated support from SC Bhagat & Co. ensures that you have guidance on any payroll-related questions or issues as they arise.

Focus on Core Business With payroll management taken care of by SC Bhagat & Co., businesses can focus on core operations and strategic growth.

Is Payroll Outsourcing Right for Your Business? If your company is looking to enhance efficiency, reduce operational costs, and stay compliant with regulations, payroll outsourcing might be the right choice. SC Bhagat & Co.’s payroll services in Delhi offer the perfect solution for businesses that want the benefits of professional payroll management without the in-house burden.

Conclusion For businesses in Delhi, SC Bhagat & Co. provides an exceptional payroll outsourcing service that ensures accuracy, compliance, and efficiency. Whether you are a startup or an established enterprise, SC Bhagat & Co. offers customized payroll solutions that allow you to focus on growing your business.

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Introducing Samsung 24GB GDDR7 DRAM For AI Computing

24GB GDDR7 DRAM

Future AI Computing: Samsung Launches 24GB GDDR7 DRAM. It sets the standard for graphics DRAM with its industry-leading capacity and performance of over 40Gbps.

First 24-gigabit (Gb) GDDR7 DRAM from memory pioneer Samsung was revealed today. Next-generation applications benefit from it’s speed and capacity. Data centers, AI workstations, graphics cards, gaming consoles, and autonomous driving will employ the 24Gb GDDR7 because to its high capacity and excellent performance.

“By introducing next-generation products that meet the expanding demands of the AI market, it will maintain to leadership position in the graphics DRAM market.” The 5th-generation 10-nanometer (nm)-class DRAM used in the 24Gb GDDR7 allows for a 50% increase in cell density while keeping the same package size as the previous model.

The industry-leading graphics DRAM performance of 40 gigabits per second (Gbps), a 25% increase over the previous iteration, is achieved in part by the advanced process node and three-level Pulse-Amplitude Modulation (PAM3) signaling. The performance of it may be further improved to 42.5 Gbps, contingent on the environment in which it is used.

Applying technology previously used in mobile devices to graphics DRAM for the first time also improves power efficiency. Power efficiency may be increased by more than 30% by reducing needless power use via the use of techniques like dual VDD design and clock control management.

The 24Gb GDDR7 uses power gating design approaches to reduce current leakage and increase operational stability during high-speed operations.

Major GPU customers will start validating the 24Gb GDDR7 in next-generation AI computing systems this year, with intentions to commercialize the technology early the next year.

GDDR6 vs GDDR7

Compared to the current 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM, GDDR7 offers a 20% increase in power efficiency and a 1.4-fold increase in performance.

Today, Samsung Electronics, a global leader in cutting-edge semiconductor technology, said that it has finished creating the first Graphics Double Data Rate 7 (GDDR7) DRAM in the market. This year, it will be first placed in important clients’ next-generation systems for validation, propelling the graphics market’s future expansion and solidifying Samsung’s technical leadership in the industry.

Samsung’s 16-gigabit (Gb) GDDR7 DRAM will provide the fastest speed in the industry to date, after the introduction of the first 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM in 2022. Despite high-speed operations, new developments in integrated circuit (IC) design and packaging provide more stability.

With a boosted speed per pin of up to 32Gbps, Samsung’s GDDR7 reaches a remarkable 1.5 terabytes per second (TBps), which is 1.4 times that of GDDR6’s 1.1 TBps. The improvements are made feasible by the new memory standard’s use of the Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM3) signaling technique rather than the Non Return to Zero (NRZ) from earlier generations. Compared to NRZ, PAM3 enables 50% greater data transmission in a single signaling cycle.

Notably, using power-saving design technologies tailored for high-speed operations, the most recent architecture is 20% more energy efficient than GDDR6. Samsung provides a low-operating voltage option for devices like laptops that are particularly concerned about power consumption.

In addition to optimizing the IC design, the packaging material uses an epoxy molding compound (EMC) with good thermal conductivity to reduce heat production. Compared to GDDR6, these enhancements significantly lower heat resistance by 70%, ensuring reliable product performance even under high-speed operating settings.

GDDR7 Release Date

According to Samsung, commercial manufacturing of their 24GB GDDR7 DRAM is scheduled to begin in early 2024. Although the precise public release date is yet unknown, this year’s certification process with major GPU manufacturers is already under way. With the availability of next-generation GPUs that will support the new memory standard, GDDR7 DRAM is now expected to be readily accessible in the market by 2024.