Jonathan Streamward,
Once a soldier from the age of civil space wars, Jonathan Streamward ended his service by the age of thirty-five, bringing back a wounded body and a useless medal.
Fortunately, he already has a wife who waiting for him patiently at home and really happy to have him back at home in one piece. He also has a son and a daughter, who have a good score in both physical and written education.
Unfortunately, due to a certain sickness, Jonathan has to lose his wife a few years after his service is over. Then his son and daughter each have a deadly accident, one after another, that leaves him finally all alone once more.
Jonathan, at the age of fourtieth, spent almost ten years mourning and regretting his life until one day, an agent came to him and offered him a job as the Dream Weaver. A brand new scientific space base with a mission to learn everything they can find on their journey.
Along with the job offer, the agent also offer him a rare chance to enter the Human Enhanced Project. A newly discovered scientific method that will allow the human body to be enhanced to the next level.
Jonathan accepted the job offer almost immediately, especially after he knew that this was a one-time journey job. He doesn't have to return home anymore, and maybe it will help him to forget his deepest regrets.
Jonathan is taken to a special facility where he will do the Human Enhanced Project. He is put inside a metallic tube filled with tools and quickly lost his consciousness due to anesthesia.
Jonathan woke up a few days later and felt like he didn't know his own body. The project he just did manage to reform his muscles and bones. Recreate it using a more advanced bio-metallic material that grants him an unbelievable level of defense and durability, while also enhancing his strength to the level of superhuman.
Finally, Jonathan joins with his fellow guardsman and guardswoman who also have the same procedure as him. They have to do some physical training to quickly get used to their new Enhanced body.
After all is done, Jonathan finally enters the brand new Dream Weaver, seeing all its glory and wonder for the first time. He dedicated his life to the Dream Weaver quest and put himself closer to the scientists who do all the research.
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Dream Weaver, is a brand new Giant Scientific Space Base, where many smartest and brightest scientists will do their research on physics and many other subjects they can find to unravel the true secrets of the universe.
Their mission is a noble one, and with the earth finally united under one flag, the Dream Weaver becomes not only just a research base but also a sign of advancement and a bright future for humanity.
The grand tale of Dream Weaver does not really begin until they finally find a ruins of an alien spaceship. Based on the design and the damage, this spaceship is almost thousands of years old. Stranded and abandoned in the empty void of space.
The scientists of Dream Weaver is excited beyond belief, as this is the first time they ever found real signs of interstellar civilization except their own.
After the first discovery, Dream Weaver continues its journey and find even more ruins of alien spaceship. Some have more advanced technology compared to Earth while others have less advanced tech but possess some amazing tools that are beyond their own levels.
one of the most useful inventions from alien tech is called Builder Bot. At first glance it was just like any other bot, it did its jobs perfectly as ordered. what sets it apart from other bots is that this Builder Bot possesses an Advanced Limited Creation AI where the bot can re-design any building command based on the need and requirement given to them.
to put it in more simple words, the bot can adjust the shape and tech based on the requirement.
this single kind of bot manages to help the Dream Weaver enter a Glorious Era where the Dream Weaver begins to upgrade one after another. They add some weapons and a lot more scientific supportive design that make Dream Weaver a perfect vassal for science.
several years later, after the anniversary of the twentieth year of Dream Weaver's journey, the scientist found a newly formed black hole in their Void Space Detector. this discovery excites the scientist as the birth of a black hole was never documented before. they begin to operate their recording device and the Dream Weaver starts to approach the newly formed black hole, eager to finally become the first among humans to make records of black holes early days.
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the Dream Weaver approaches the black hole until it reaches a minimum safe distance while the scientist inside begins to record and analyze the newly found data of the black hole. they all move in crazy haste as if the black hole will be gone at any moment. page over page of computer data started to pile up in the scientist database as they began to learn and try everything that came into their mind.
this scientific craziness continued for days until suddenly the black hole showed weird behavior. it started to expand uncontrollably while its gravitational pull got wider and wider. the Dream Weaver, who maintains its course at the minimum safe distance, is late to escape and accidentally trapped in the new black hole's gravitational pull.
at first, the pilot and crew of the Dream Weaver still manage to remain calm as they already have experience in dealing with a gravitational incident. what they didn't expect was that the pull was much stronger than what they usually deal with and the Dream Weaver's body suddenly started to crack under such a heavy gravitation pull.
with Dream Weaver's body suddenly gave up and started to crumble, people began to panic and try their best to escape. only a few scientists and some individuals decide to remain in the Dream Weaver as they know there is nothing they can do to save themselves.
quite a lot of people manage to leave Dream Weaver before it finally turns into pieces of scrap metal in the empty space. these survivors tried their best to escape the gravitational pull of the new black hole. luckily, Dream Weaver was still at the edge of the black hole's gravitational range so quite a lot of people managed to escape using the available escape pod.
these survivors are then directed by their pod Internal Navigation AI to land on a nearby space object with the highest chance of survival. meanwhile among these survivors, is our one and only kind-hearted old man Jonathan who tried his best to survive.
unfortunately, his spaceship is launched at the direction of the black hole which means his flight route is going directly to the core of the black hole.
by a stroke of amazing luck, Jonathan's spaceships manage to reach the core of the black hole while maintaining their shape. the spaceships manage to enter the black hole's core safely while Jonathan who is unable to endure the sudden spike of gravitational power suddenly falls unconscious.
the spaceships keep moving in the black hole's core at the speed of light, way beyond its own speed capability. it moves along the inner part of black holes that is shaped like an inverted cone. due to the space anomaly inside the black hole's core, the spaceship appears to be moving in a weird pattern.
sometimes it was on one side but an instant later it was moving on the opposite side.
after an unknown length of time passed, the spaceship finally reached the sharp end of the cone. the spaceship crashed into the sharp end only to suddenly appear in the same spot but moving backward. the spaceship keeps moving backward until it enters the space anomaly once more.
the spaceship blinks from one spot to another once more, trapped in the random pattern of space for an unknown amount of time until it is finally thrown out from a blinding bright white hole that only appears for a fraction of a second.
the spaceship's Internal Navigation AI quickly kicked in after the spaceship was free from the control of gravitation. it quickly scanned the space around it but failed to find any suitable object that could sustain an emergency life. the AI then tried a few more times with no results until it finally stopped trying and alerted Jonathan who was still unconscious.
a few more hours passed with the spaceship floating aimlessly in the empty void of space, maintaining only the necessary function to keep Jonathan alive as long as possible. a red light slowly flashing to inform that there is no suitable place for the spaceship to land safely.
another hour has passed and finally, Jonathan showed a sign of life. his finger began to move a little as his eyelids slowly opened. Jonathan soon opens his eyes wide and sees the empty space outside his spaceship. the first thing he does after he opens his eyes is pray and thank God for saving his life.
"Praise the Lord Almighty, thank you for saving my life from the deadly black hole."