Posted Aug. 21, 2018, 3:53 p.m. by Gamemaster Novus Ordo Mundi (GMT) (Jeremy DeSpain)
Posted by Major Memphis Summervale (Marine Commanding Officer) in Flicker in the Dark…..Stellar Cartography
Posted by Major Memphis Summervale (Marine Commanding Officer) in Flicker in the Dark…..Stellar Cartography
Posted by Lieutenant Tyler Michael Wells (Chief Science Officer) in Flicker in the Dark…..Stellar Cartography
Posted by… suppressed (1) by the Post Ghost! 👻
It had started as just a notation on the moving charts that auto-updated as the Atlantis soared through the cosmos. It was not the most elegant or glorious of jobs on a starship. Duty officer in the Stellar-Cartography lab. It was rather boring, until it was not.And suddenly it was not. There was a blip on the charts. A small sub notation. Then it was a box outlined in red. Then it was beginning to zoom in on the location. The Sensors had located some sort of Anomaly that did not match the existing star charts. The chart said the area was a subspace hole, the sensors said there was a collapsing star there, either way the box was red, and pulsating angrily. So either the chart was wrong, or the sensors were wrong. Or something else entirely?
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As CSO, Tyler suddenly found himself in charge of the duty rosters and shift schedules. That mean he had the liberty to assign himself to the shift in Stellar Cartography, which usually was a solo post. He enjoyed the solidarity, and the work itself was fairly simple.
Now there was some sort of strange anomaly on the sensors. He double checked the readings, and something was definitely off.
=/\= Computer, run a diagnostic on the sensor array =/\= Better to determine if there was an error in the data coming in first.
-Tyler Michael Wells, CSO
The computer warbled, and responded, =^= Sensors functioning with in standard parameters=^= It appeared it was the charts or something else. What ever it was an unlabelled star, 3 AUs starboard from there current location, reachable in 18 hours.
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Meanwhile once the diagnostics completed, the system updated the notation on the chart to mark them as unknown, binary Alpha Sigma Draconis Gamma. As one angry red square became two, orbiting each other closely, and seemingly planetary systems were shimmering into sensor ghosts as well. All in all it was as if the entire system had been cloaked?
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Ooc giving myself credit - Jeremy
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