Posted Nov. 4, 2022, 5:55 p.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Gavin Stacey (Chief Medical Officer) (Ray Branch)
Posted by Commodore Drudoc Andone (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge - En route to J17
[snip]Once everyone had gotten through things, Drudoc reviewed the logs on her own, she felt like there was something possibly being missed here. While she reviewed this playback she said to the helm NE, “..Helm, drop us from warp and bring us to a halt, we need to hold station and evaluate everything before proceeding further to J17..” She said.
”..Aye ma’am, coming to all stop..” the NE said as the Ark Angel dropped from warp about now 3 hours from J17 by warp and came to a full stop.
Speaking up then after reviewing the play backs Drudoc spoke to those still present, “..Ok it seems we have missed some important details of the probe’s data that no one has mentioned yet. That being the Volgograd and the Forseth ships inside J17 have been ripped apart physically as if by some giant beast or hands. Also the planets are now all lifeless hulks and stripped of their atmosphere and any organisms or the like, as if a swarm of Terran locusts swooped in and raised everything to the ground. We also got the final image by the probe showing it being swallowed by something with what might be claws or teeth..” Drudoc said, one by one showing such things in freeze frame on the ship’s bridge screen.
”..Clearly there is some kind of temporal anomaly going on here. But is not one that is giving off normal chroniton or other expected particles or signatures that we know of. The only constant seems to be these old echoing radio signals that have a slightly higher variance frequency then we might be expecting for most sublight natural or artificial radio traffic in space..” She said. “..There is also the issue that the Volgograd was up till the cut out seeming safe and in our own sense of temporal alignment, this to me implies that up to that moment we were within sync with them. So up till that moment the Volgograd was not effected by the rapid evolutions of the Forseth inside J17. There’s also the fact that whatever happened to the Volgograd shortly after say within 10 years also effected J17 but yet all this has happened several thousands of years ago..” She went on.
”..So we must ask, was originally the Volgograd outside the influence of a temporal echo that was showing normal development for the Forseth but only to our unaffected perceptions and sensors seemed vastly sped up, meaning that what we were seeing was in fact events happening in the past thousands of years ago which then the Volgograd somehow got caught within transporting them into the past where they were ripped up and destroyed before roughly 10 years later the same event befell the Forseth and J17? Personally I have not heard of any exact temporal anomaly that comes close to this. There are some things similar in our databanks but nothing quite like this. We must also consider that if the event did somehow expand or has a radius of effect is it expanding further and how far could it spread? Not to mention its source and what sort of creature or anomaly could rip apart a ship like that and whole planets.” She said returning to her seat.
”..Comments or thoughts?” Drudoc asked.
Drudoc Andone CO / GM CockRoach
“Surely a life form of that size could be no match for a Federation starship, we need the combined efforts of a fleet. As for the temporal anomaly question, I’m afraid I’m stumped.” Kyle adopted his typical ‘lost in thought’ pose, leaning across the tactical console with one arm on either side.
-Lieutenant Kyle Anders: Chief of Security-
Drudoc considered Ander’s comments. “..It is true if such a large organism is present and ‘ate’ the probe and tore up the Volgrad and the Forseth ships and is hostile for some reason like feeding or being territorial it would be a threat for sure. But this would mean it can transition somehow fluidly through time. Or perhaps its presence effects the local temporal patterns in this case the creature WAS present thousands of years ago within the J17 system, and then took notice of the Volgrad and when it came from say the past to our present its destruction of the Volgrad or attack dragged the remains back into the past, by which point in theory the creature’s return to the J17 system’s interior where it could lair caught the attention of the Forseth, or they it, resulting in their destruction that we now see.” Drudoc said.
”..Of course proceeding further without support is a dangerous attempt either way, even with a fleet of ships if this creature could say attack and pull a ship into the past it would just pick off such a fleet one by one..” Drudoc said leaning on her CO chair thoughtfully. Then her eyes seemed to light up with a spark of an idea. Turning then back to Anders she said, “..Lieutenant, open a wide band subspace channel, all bandwidths, flood the local area out as far as you can go. Our long range comms without using subspace buoys should reach J17..” She said.
Once the channel was open, Drudoc spoke up to the wide open channel. =/\= This is Commodore Drudoc Andone of the USS Ark Angel. Attempting to contact the USS Volgrad. Please respond…=/\= She said then hitting the mute function on her CO chair. “..Everyone here monitor that wide band hail and pattern. Look for any matching patterns in sending or receiving however slight that could match any of the background echo traffic we and the Volgrad had picked up previously before all this came present..” She said.
GM Cockroach / Drudoc Andone CO
Gavin excitedly tapped his comm, “Bridge, this is Doctor Stacey,” The CMO announced as he paused momentarily to catch his breath, “I’m sending up data, as well as a probable response from the Volgrad, from our previous hail.” While not too familiar with the comms system, the Doctor tried his best to transfer the visual and audio data that was available to the CO and XO’s panels. “Science should have a field day with this…” He stated.
Dr. Stacey
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