I am Neon, Intro Note



Note:

This story was born out of a challenge issued by Mark Ball of the Sci Fi Ideas web site. When he burst the Gas being bubble.(and boy did he... problem is there aren't any examples of a real gas being in SF literature (TV or Film) I could find. As all samples given were gaseous at best but not “gas”

If we use the definition of established science and define gas as the one of the four classic states of matter. (Solid,Liquid, Gas and Plasma)

No such entity has made an appearance in any story I could find.

Now in the realm of fantasy or “Star Wars type Sci Fi” all I had to do is describe a fancy vapor made of handwavium and give it a personality and poff I have a gaseous sentient being, which is the desired core result of this little challenge.

I thought all I really had to do is go into my universe and pick one of my species that reside there and do not have a solid body.

There are the Non corps of course, Dusty the Interstellar Dust cloud, There are the ghost like Antoo who are trapped between trans spatial conditions, However none of them are made of gas. There are the Bellebee where gas is an important part of their physiology, but they too are not made of gas alone (it is just a medium they use to float.)

Then I realized there isn't a gas being in my entire universe.

So I spend the last two nights going through my library of Sci Fi ( Books, comics, films). A library I am building since 1982 btw.

Yet none of the gaseous beings and life forms I could find, were made of Gas.

The next night spending a considerable amount of time, searching the internet...and all I could find confirmed the results of my previous search....lots of gaseous, vapor like beings. But nothing that could be used in a Sci fi Story (with an emphasis on Sci as in science)



So by my own rules set forth as frame work for my “Galactic Chronicles Universe ”, everything has to be at least based on a scientific plausible foundation. However thin that foundation is and whatever theory I base my stories and my worlds on, it has to be there.

Now in that sense classical gas is out, but luckily we had Einstein and Enrico Fermi. I remembered a paper I read a while back on “Fermi Gas” and that unexplainable spark hit that compels me to write. So here is my attempt and entry :

As with all my stories this one too takes place in the aforementioned Universe. The year is 5069 Old Terran Time.

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