Special Particle Collider fires first particle beam

[Orion]

The massive Special Particle Collider (SPC) facility came online for the first time at 10 PM last night, performing an inaugural full test of the countless systems that interlock to make the 100km supercollider work. The superconducting magnets, power transfer systems, and large-scale refrigeration systems are all new innovations for the designers of this megaproject, and have been tested numerous times separately in the past 20 years.

Yesterday, it all came together for the first time. The physicists and engineers working on the project sent a 50 TeV beam flying around the ring at only a few metres per second less than the speed of light. Cheers erupted all around the SPC Campus when the status readings came in; 28 years of work was finished, and now they could reap the rewards.

The SPC represents kerbalkind as a whole, our ingenuity and our drive for improvement and progression. Thus, although primary research slots will be reserved for Veiidic scientists who worked on the project, the SPC is open to anyone with a correctly formatted time slot request and a signed waiver stating the user will stop aiming the beam at local pigeon populations.

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Layout of SPC accelerator stages and facilities

[HerrCrazi]

A great leap for the entire field of fundamental physics ! Fegeland salutes such a great endeavor, a necessary step on the way to our own similar megaproject started 21 years ago under Namresh's reign and yet to be completed. The INRC has great hopes for scientific cooperation with Orion in the field.

[Squiddy]

Apex Mazdok extends the congratulations and good wishes of all Ikonic citizens towards Novenad and her people. We marvel at the industry and science of our north-westerly neighbours, and hope that advancmenets in physics made in this institution may benefit all in Baskay. The unmitigated dispersion of scientific advancements to all members of the world community is a signfiicant threat and would be a terrible outcome. New discoveries must be guarded by those with the sense and wisdom to use them, such as ourselves.

[HerrCrazi]

Apex Mazdok extends the congratulations and good wishes of all Ikonic citizens towards Novenad and her people. We marvel at the industry and science of our north-westerly neighbours, and hope that advancmenets in physics made in this institution may benefit all in Baskay. The unmitigated dispersion of scientific advancements to all members of the world community is a signfiicant threat and would be a terrible outcome. New discoveries must be guarded by those with the sense and wisdom to use them, such as ourselves.

Prime Minister Tanaka deplores the backward thinking of his Baskayan colleague, citing :
"The Free World needs no big concrete domes to prevent the genius of Kerbalkind from seeping in and keeping its valorous Citizens from escaping for more promising horizons! We here in Fegeland believe in true Freedom and Democracy"

His response was immediately ratioed on LineMana by anonymous user "Deleted Account", citing :
"lol fat tanaka days without propaganda challenge (impossile) - in this country we dont need the virgin 'big concrete domes' when we have the chad 'paying rent in fegua' to wipe tanaka's ass with gold plated toilet paper" with an attached image of an obese elder staircase chair descending into hell.
The post was immediately removed for "hate speech and political agitation".