Testers

Camfire tales the nebulae

**Campfire Tales**
*The nebulae*

Traveling through space in his cuttle fish ship, Kosmic was exited to check on the nebulae that he had started thousands of years ago. After much hard work and patience the stars that he had lighted up by collecting enough material should have stabilize by now and he could check what type of stars had formed. It was a rutinary procedure, so he didn't think much of it. But then, an alarm went off! Another tester has been detected on the proximity as high levels of densely compressed strange matter where detected by the infrared radiation that it emanated. This was strange, as testers only interacted with gas clouds only if they where primal or if they already had been working on them previously.

Knowing he had started working on this nebulae from its primal state, Kosmic didn't understand why was this other tester here. What was it doing to its precious stars? Had it detected an anomaly that he did not accounted for? Curious to know what was the other tester there, Kosmic waited and observed the other tester work analyzing the energy patterns and the flow of matter. The work wasn't like any other thing he had ever recorded. How was it possible that a tester could stellaform systems with so much skill and mastery? The process wasn't as flashy as others that he had witnessed before, it wasn't as impressive as some that he had been told about before. But he could tell that the stars where all ideal for systematical global arrangement, in simple terms a testers ideal dream proyect. He had to know who this was.

Stepping out of his spaceship, Kosmic decided to get the attention of the other tester, so he took a small dense neutron star fragment and ate it. The strange matter unstable and interacting with his body, decayed releasing massive amounts of particles that lit up a portion of the nebulae. The other tester noticed the high energy particles and rushed to check what was happening making a short jump on its ship towards where Kosmic was. The tester realized it was another one of its kind, if it was here it meant this was the tester that started the nebulae's stars. So excited to meet a new friend excited its ship (this tester had a space ship that looked like a nautilus) and flew towards the energy source. It emited some energy pulses to greet Kosmic, and Kosmic emited some pulses to greet the other tester as well. In an instant they flew towards each other in a spiraling motion moving around the gases and particles that where highly excited by the radiation that both where emiting. It was a great light show as both got closer and closer together.

"Keep in mind all of this happened throughout hundread of years" said the alien to the space man.

"What? just to get close to her it took you hundreds of years, that's crazy" asked space man.

"Yeah, but once we started talking eberything felt like it moved at warp speed" said the alien

"Well what did you say to her?" asked the spaceman

"Well it's space so we talked in pulses basically, its like talking in Morse code or signlanguage, cause you really cant hear anything when you are out there working, but I'll translate what we said to you so you can understand" said the alien.

Kosmic wanted to tell the other tester what amazing craftmanship it had witnessed. But it didn't know how to express it. As he was thinking the other tester began pulsating some information.

"Oh hello! Sorry to intrude on your nebulae, I was just so excited to come across it and I realized the potential it had so I just had to stellaform it to stabilize the stars properly. I just could not wait to explore the possibilities that awaited this globular system. I knew someone else was already working on it, but I just had to interfere... I hope you can forgive my intrusion. I am Cassiopeia by the way, a pleasure to make your acquaintance" said the tester

"Cassiopeia, Kosmic, the pleasure is all mine." said Kosmic and added "I am impressed by how well you stellaformed the clusters and made the star's habitable zones to match each other. Its not often you see such attention to detail"