SINGULARITY INJECTION ZONE
DANGER
NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU,
AND NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU PAINFULLY,
BUT THE SUBJECTIVE TIMESPAN OF YOUR AGONY WILL BE EXTENDED TO INFINITY
(IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY, START RUNNING NOW)
– seen in Unit 3, Dark Star Power Plant, Xavéral
I must confess I don’t understand why, and I do think I’ve run far enough away to safely wonder why it’s a subjective eternity of pain - the observer falling into a singularity should see themselves falling in normally, and it’s only a faraway observer that could never see them enter, right?
If you were falling directly into the hole, that would be true, but that’s not how singularity power extraction works.
Your additional mass (and not splitting apart at the opportune moment) is going to screw up the orbit, but you’re gonna be frame-dragged through the ergosphere, looping around and around and around but not quite crossing the event horizon, for a very, very long time. Lots of opportunities to slow-mo-contemplate your poor life choices.
(Especially in the reference frame of the sign.)
The description made me think strongly of SMAC. I suspect that is one of the games that would be converted for the Imperial market.
Huh. Reminds me of Aphelion 2.0 back cover.
https://www.turbofanatic.com/
You falling into a singularity would result in the moment of your death lasting until eternity (sounds horrific, but means that at any point prior to the heat death of the universe, it might be possible to mount a rescue mission to you)
The actual term of art is “spaghettification,” where your body is stretched out into something most closely resembling a spaghetti noodle.