#zeropoint au

[fearforthestorm]

there is a ghost.

ghosts aren't real.

what else do you call him? the person he was is dead, figuratively and literally. and he's still here. that makes him a ghost, doesn't it?

viking sighs. he needs to stop being so dramatic.

…to be perfectly fair, the drama is warranted.

to be even more fair, hey, he's not even the first person who called him a ghost! nevermind that the person who did call him that wasn't supposed to see him. nevermind that it's all because the only trial he ever put his life's work to left him shattered and dispersed beyond recognition. nevermind all of that.

he sighs again. glances back over at his commlink. thinks about the studies he's been keeping tabs on.

there's a project that just launched, by ground source energistics. they haven't said much about the actual studies, but it's called project zeropoint, and it doesn't take a genius to connect the dots. it also doesn't take a genius to know that it's a) a farce and b) completely and utterly doomed. does it count as doomed if that was the intention? whatever. it's doomed.

just like he was, he supposes.

ghosts aren't real. so why are his mistakes still haunting him?

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tell me about the space AU

with pleasure, anon!! let me introduce you to my Dominion space AU!

PROJECT: ZEROPOINT is a research mission being run to gather data on zero-point energy. and this is where i inform you that this whole AU is a farce for me to be a nerd: zero-point energy is an actual theorised thing in quantum physics. tl;dr of it is, by the rules of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the quantum void is teeming with energy.

so, in this au, we've got this research team of a dozen or so people across two spaceships, going out into the void to gather data. there's absolutely no way this could ever go wrong.

the first ship is crewed by Jamie (captain, and on paper the head of the whole team), Grady, Fixx, Mongo, and Nuke. while the ships don't actually have official names, this ship has been dubbed the Uncertainty Principle!

the second ship is crewed by Legundo as the captain, Taneesha, Shadow, Sneve, and Joy; and this ship is the Flaming Laser Sword! (i will not elaborate here but ooooh ask me about the significance of the ships' names you know you wanna ask)

(oh, hang on, where's Viking in this au? good question, to which i answer *sticks hands in pockets and whistles nonchalantly*) (he will be there. just not at first. he gets a suitably ominous entrance and everything, don't worry!)

i don't really want to spoil the plot because i do genuinely plan to write this, but there's corruption (in more ways than one), there's betrayals, there's mysterious plots and mysterious plotters. it doesn't quite go full space pirates but it gets pretty close at a point! feel free to ask more about characters or worldbuilding stuff and as long as it doesn't spoil the story we'll answer it ;D

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

did someone say SPACE AU??????

hi. here's the prologue to Project Zeropoint, my longform Dominion space/sci-fi au! i don't really have a lot to say about it that you can't find under the au tag on my blog so i'm just gonna throw this at yall and say enjoy! :D

(fair warning this will probably make you cry. i may have cried while posting it. it's fine. please feel free to yell at me in the comments about it.)

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(described in alt) in light of recently revealed information: the only thing I'll ever write about Zeropoint!Viking's backstory. maybe. i swore up and down it'd remain a mystery but oh my god i kind of want to go write his backstory now since dominion Viking apparently died/became a ghost in some sort of lab experiment gone wrong. idk. I'll think about it!! :3

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About zeropoint au; one ship is obviously named based on the scientific principle but why name a ship flaming laser sword????

(very curious just saw the post and would love more info about the au)

the name is from the philosophical razor Newton's Flaming Laser Sword! it's essentially occam's razor taken to a logical extreme - anything that can't be proven isn't worth debating. this is thematically appropriate for Reasons! also Team FLS is a little skeptical, a little untrusting, and a whole lot stubborn, so like, yeah that tracks.

also because "flaming laser sword" sounds like something a ten-year-old would name their imaginary spaceship and that felt hilariously fitting to me.

in my mind (i have written a prologue minific, which I'll post at some point, but this specific scene isn't part of it), the last night before mission launch, the whole Zeropoint team go out one last time for like, a team dinner and some drinks or whatever, and that's when they finally give their ships names. Jamie chooses Uncertainty Principle for the very force they're going to help study, and because this is a mission about pushing the upper limit on their knowledge a little bit further. Legundo chooses Flaming Laser Sword because this is a mission to do the illogical, to prove the unprovable, and they're not here to debate they're here to do. or something like that!

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ooooooohhh you wanna send me asks about my aus sooooo bad. ooooh you wanna ask me about zeropoint au. send me asks please i wanna talk about zpau