~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Start of Compile, Part 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mission: Dream of the Past, Day 9 Stardates: 2406.10.18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List of Headers: (Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - 1252) -(Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - Infinity) (USS Boudicca – Ten Forward - TAC/AST - 1245) (USS Boudicca - Engineering - ACEO Enaj - 1245) (USS Boudicca – Bridge – OPS Lt. Schafio - 1245) (USS Boudicca - Bridge - TAC/SC - 1245) (Boudicca - Bridge v ACSO Ens Vegra Gretud- 1252) -(Boudicca - Bridge v ACSO Ens Vegra Gretud - Infinity) (USS Boudicca, Bridge, Lt jg Trevan West, 1253) (USS Boudicca, Engineering, Lt jg Trevan West, 1255) (Boudicca-Bridge-Tactical Station-Ensign (jg) John Christopher Fredericks-13:00) (Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - 1310) (Boudicca - Sick Bay - CMO Lt. McQuade - 1311) (Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - 1312) (Boudicca - Counselor’s Office - Dr. Domini Alizara- 1312) (Boudicca - Bridge - CSO/2O Kyle Morie Rin - 1312) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge-TAC/SC - 1320) (USS Boudicca, Observation Lounge, FO & MCO, Commander Grailik & Major Straton, 13:20) (USS Boudicca- Conference Room- Science Officer- Lt. Madison Munroe- 1321) (USS Boudicca- Conference Room- COUNS- Dr. Domini Alizara- 1322) (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – OPS Lt. Schafio - 1325) (USS Boudicca, Observation Lounge, MCO, Major Straton, 13:25) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - SO- Lt Maddison Munroe- 1326) (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – SO- Lt Maddison Munroe- 1326) (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – OPS Lt. Schafio - 1327) (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – Dr. Domini Alizara - 1328) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - Sevant - 1328) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - TAC/SC Ensign Skylynx - 1328) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - ACEO Enaj - 1328) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - CSO/2O Kyle Morie Rin - 1328) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - Sevant - 1328) (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – OPS Lt. Schafio - 1329) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - Lt jg Trevan West - 1330) (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge- CMO Lt. Christopher Douglas McQuade - 1330) (Boudicca - Conference Room -Cultural Anthropologist- Lt Madison Munroe- 1335) (Boudicca - 10 forward -Cultural Anthropologist- Lt Madison Munroe- 1340) (Boudicca - 10 Forward - CSO/2O Dr. Kyle Morie Rin - 1340) (Boudicca - 10 forward -Cultural Anthropologist- Lt Madison Munroe- 1342) (Boudicca - 10 forward -COUNS- Dr. Domini Alizara- 1344) (Boudicca - 10 forward - CSO/2O - Dr. Kyle Morie Rin - 1345) (USS Boudicca, Bridge, FO, Commander Grailik, 1348) (Boudicca - 10 forward -Cultural Anthropologist- Lt Madison Munroe- 1348) (Boudicca - Science Labs - SO Munroe, COUNS Dr. Alizara, & CSO/2O Dr. Rin - 1350) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ==================================== (Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - 1252) ==================================== Sevant quirked his head as he looked at the screen. "Very interesting," he finally said. "Very interesting indeed." He crossed his arms behind his back as he looked at the sensor readings. They had exited the River a few hours ago, intent on dropping another of their sensor buoy's and doing a full survey scan of the area for later use. They had stayed longer then he had intended, they had come across a very interesting area of space. "Yessir," the scientist said. He pointed to the screen, "We've gathered, so far, that this isn’t just a subspace singularity... but a multi-singularity; multiple singularities revolving around each other at greater then the speed of light. Its gravitational pull is truly awesome, we are more then five million kilometers from it, and we are working our thrusters pretty hard." He gestured again, "This star system here is three light-years away, fully, and the gravity from this anomaly is pulling dust and debris away from that star, across the three light-years of space, and into itself. It's quite lovely actually; I've never seen anything quite like it. The debris seems to be consistent with an imploded planet, heavy concentrations of minerals in the rock." The scientist snorted, "This singularity might even have been the cause of its destruction in fact, and the only planets left in that system are those closest to the Star." "If we get closer to that anomaly, will the debris cause us any significant problems?" Sevant looked at it, the dust wasn’t thick, the scene reminded him of stellar matter from a large star being sucked into the gravity of a denser one. The fact that the anomalies gravity-well was strong enough to yank dust and debris from the gravitational field of a star from three light-years was absolutely phenomenal and Sevant wanted more information about it. The Scientist considered for a few moments, "We would want to go in under full Combat shields, Sir; our navigational shields wouldn’t be up to it. But as long as you have us steered away from the worst, we would be ok. I don't recommend getting closer then a couple hundred thousand kilometers however. One burp from the impulse engines and thrusters and we would be lost forever." The Captain nodded, "All hands, brace for possible lurches, we are heading near a high-gravity well." He turned, "All SIF and IDF fields to full." He said to Operations and Engineering. "And I want a constant watch on the engines. At the slightest problem, I want to know immediately." (Reply: Engineering, Ops, if desired) Sevant sat down, "Shields up," He said. He didn’t order any alerts, the shields were up for something other then combat. The ship had already been warned, everything was tight. "Take us in." he said quietly. "All sensors to full and record." (Reply: Conn, Science, Tactical) Sevant had just folded his hands together as the ship started moving when the ship rocked. Sevant's eyebrow immediately went up and he gripped his armrests and pulled them down by habit. It had NOT been gravity which had shook the ship! He was about to order a report when Tactical said "A ship is coming out of the gravity field; the distortions hid her, Firing!" The ship rocked again and Sevant cursed, "Evasive maneuvers! Red Alert, all hands to battle stations!" He looked at Tactical, "Report!" "No damage to shields, the ship is Federation, defiant class running without signature." "Continue evasive maneuvers, get us back to the river!" he said in a deadly voice. "Another ship just exited the river, firing!" The ship shuddered again, Sevant caught a glimpse of a second Defiant class ship. This was not a good situation; this was supposed to be a peaceful shakedown. He grit his teeth, "Get us close to that anomaly," he said grimly. If they could get closer, then the gravity would distort not only their weapon trajectories, but their sensor locks as well. The ship lurched, "Return fire," Sevant said to Tactical in quiet tones, "Aim to disable if possible, destroy them if necessary." He added. He could almost hear the roar of the Boudicca's weapons, though no sound carried in space. The Boudicca was a warship; this was what she had been born and bred to do, even as the Defiant class was born to do. The ship shuddered again, this time with the rapidly changing gravity, as a couple photon torpedoes sped past their location. He folded his hands together and sat back. "I can't get positive locks on the ships anymore," His tactical officer reported. "The gravity is too strong." "Very well," Sevant said, somewhat satisfied. "Keep us as close to the multi-singularity as you can, and..." His words were cut off as several more torpedoes rushed past him and exploded. Sevant gripped the arm-rests again, they weren’t going for targeting anymore, they were launching proximity weapons, hoping to score a few hits. "Evasive maneuvers!" he said again as the ship shuddered with a near impact. The Boudicca's nose heeled over as the Conn officer fought with the controls, and for a moment it looked like they would leave the immediate area of the bombardment, when a couple torpedoes slammed into the rear shields. The Boudicca lurched under Sevant as someone, he wasn’t sure who, bellowed "We've lost our engines!" Sevant's mouth opened as the ship's nose turned to the anomaly. "Three hundred thousand kilometers to the anomaly!" Operations reported. "Getting closer!" "Engineering, we need impulse!" he bellowed, "Full back, all thrusters!" (reply: Engineering, Conn) He could feel the ship straining, but there was nothing that the thrusters could do. They were hopelessly out-matched by the absolute gravity this close to the Event Horizon of the singularity. The Captain grasped the arm-rests even tighter; there was nothing he could do. "Distance to the event horizon?" he asked as calmly as he could. "One hundred thousand kilometers." Was the response. Sevant closed his eyes briefly as the distance announced was cut by half, then half again. He opened them again for a moment; the singularity had taken over the whole screen at 1:1 magnification. ~The story is not supposed to end like this,~ was his one irrational thought. His muscles and sinews were all tense as his Conn officer said, "Contact." ==================================== (Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - Infinity) ==================================== Time seemed slow, his movements slower. He blinked his eyes a few times, but the light seemed dim. They were still alive... "Report," he said, with what seemed to be exaggerated slowness. On the screen he could see a bright light in the middle of what appeared to be a huge space. This singularity was only supposed to be a few meters large, where did all this space come from? His mind whirled, but he didn’t know enough about special subspace physics to even take a guess. "Sensors report nothing, we appear visually to be within a few hundred kilometers of the anomaly, but sensors report we are actually more then ten billion miles from it." Came a slow response. The Vulcan's mind raced, they were experiencing time dilation. If what he feared would happen actually happened, then time would continue to stretch... in essence, they would be stuck in their final moments forever. "Turn the nose!" he finally said, "Get us turned away from that multi-singularity!" Sevant had absolutely no wish to live forever in one moment of pain. He could almost hear the thrusters engage. With agonizing slowness the ship turned away from the anomaly, onto a more parallel path, perhaps an 'orbit' of the multi-singularity. There was something else odd going on, the shields were reacting with something in the anomaly; flashes of light could be seen that left streaks behind them. Sevant filed it away for later study, assuming they survived, which was not for certain in any way. The ship continued to turn, then the power of the thrusters met their match and the ship would turn no more. Sevant leaned forward, "Plot a course around this anomaly," he said, "And get us out where we came in." Time hadn’t sped up any, but it wasn’t getting any 'slower' either, now that they were no longer plunging head-long into the multi-singularity. He knew that anything being done would be done by experience and guesswork, the sensors were useless here. (reply: Any so far, if desired) =^=Impulse engines are back!=^= came the CEO's voice over the comm. Sevant almost smiled, and he decided that whatever else his faults, West was going to be nominated for saint-hood once this was over. The shield reaction continued to get worse as the ship struggled its way around the multi-singularity until the flashes nearly blotted out everything else from the viewscreen. The Conn officer moved like a person possessed, trying to get the ship back into position. ==================================== (USS Boudicca – Ten Forward - TAC/AST - 1245) ==================================== John was enjoying a little free time in Ten Forward with ensigns Samuels and Hodges when the announcement came to expect unexpected movement. All three had looked at each other, then at their drinks and tossed them back just as the ship started surging under them. =/\= Red Alert, all hands to battle stations=/\= came the announcement from the ships comm. system. John looked back to his new friends. ”looks like it back to work time guys” he said as all three ran from the Ten Forward area to the bank of turbo lifts. Hodges and Samuels headed back to their post as John jumped into to first available one. Once inside he called out “DECK ONE, BRIDGE !!!” =/\=Ensign Frederickson to the bridge.=/\= Came the call from his comm. badge. =/\= Frederickson here, on my way=/\= John noticed a strange sensation as he traveled rapidly to the upper decks, The normally rapidly blinking lights had begun to blink slower and stay on longer, even his movements had become exaggerated and sluggish, then it was over and everything had returned to normal. ~Me and my big mouth~ thought John. ~I had to go and wish for some excitement~ As the doors opened and the Bridge was revealed John headed over to the Tac station to see how he could best help. ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Engineering - ACEO Enaj - 1245) ==================================== Saim was checking on the warp field injector. Things were now starting to cool down for her. The past months when every else had been chilling she had been running around repairing the ship and learning her way around. Now Saim knew the Boudicca like the back of her hand, better even. However she had not had the time to socialize and while everyone had been cementing friendships she had been left out on a bit of a limb. Saim promised herself that she had to make more time for activities away from engineering. She remembered the words of her mother, "You must be more diverse Saim. I know you love tinkering but people are not all bad." Saim swore to herself, ~I will go to bed at a reasonable hour, I will eat properly and I will try and be more friendly.~ While making her "New Year's Resolution" the ship started shaking. Saim dashed to a console to see what was going on. Suddenly the engines kicked out. Saim started to try to frantically get them back online when West tore in. Everything slowed right down and then sped up again. "What was that?!" (reply Trevan) "All departments, report to the Observation Lounge in ten minutes with reports. We are continuing at Red Alert indefinitely," blared from the intercomm. ==================================== (USS Boudicca – Bridge – OPS Lt. Schafio - 1245) ==================================== Yalta and Skylynx were two peas in a pod ever since there first date, 9 days ago. They were back from diner with a laugh and once on the bridge, they were serious again. She gave him a smile and turn her attention to her console. Yalta heard the conversation that the Captain was having with a science officer. Until Sevant decided to explore what was going on. "All hands, brace for possible lurches, we are heading near a high-gravity well." He turned, "All SIF and IDF fields to full." He said to Operations and Engineering. "And I want a constant watch on the engines. At the slightest problem, I want to know immediately." “Understood Sir!” Yalta was already on it. Her attention shifted when the ship rocked and it wasn't natural. She held herself with the arm rest of her chair and turn to look at the viewscreen, the confirmation came quickly. "A ship is coming out of the gravity field; the distortions hid her, Firing!" ~I knew that this time of quiet was too good to be true!~ "Evasive maneuvers! Red Alert, all hands to battle stations!" He looked at Tactical, "Report!" Sevant said. "No damage to shields, the ship is Federation, defiant class running without signature." "Continue evasive maneuvers, get us back to the river!" he said in a deadly voice. "Another ship just exited the river, firing!" ~This goes bad from worst!~ Yalta was busy sending repairs crew to make sure the ship would hold. Yalta was too focused on what was going on through out the ship but then everything seem to slow down. Her hand seem to take forever to reach the keys on console. She turn her head, and saw that it was happening to others as well. ~What the???~ Yalta return to her console, her slow movement were frustrating her. Then suddenly everything came back to normal "We are sailing clear, Captain." Came the exhausted voice of the Flight officer. "Full scan, find those federation ships." Sevant said, "And get us away from this damned singularity!" he barked. “No casualties, but I have reports of cuts, bruises, broken bones, ten forward, deck 3, 17 and 9. The structure hull suffered a little but no integrity failure reported by the sensors or other wise. Engineering is putting things in order again, repair crews have been dispatch on deck 4, 6 and 12.” (reply: Tactical, Conn) Yalta listen to what was going on with one ear and work dispatching, she knew what would happen next when she heard the science officer say. "A star calibration confirms it; we are seven-hundred and twenty years, plus or minus ten, from the time we started." "Time travel," Sevant muttered darkly. His first instinct was to deny it, but what was the use of scientists if he didn’t believe what they told him? He turned back again, "All departments, report to the Observation Lounge in ten minutes with reports. We are continuing at Red Alert indefinitely." Sevant had just stood up when the scientist said "Sir?" Sevant turned and said not a word. The scientist smiled wanly, "There is evidence of a pre-warp culture on that planet." “Red alert indefinitely Sir!” ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Bridge - TAC/SC - 1245) ==================================== Ryko was laughing. He was making his way to the bridge, as usual with Yalta, standing in the turbolift doing what had become comfortable to him. He held her hand, savoring the last few minutes of freedom before they were separated by rules and authority. ~Life is good,~ Ryko thought. He was right, it had been great in this past week or two. He and Yalta were like 2 peas in a pod, ever since they had that breakfast those three months ago, Ryko had a feeling she was special. Now he knew for sure. He was happy, but his mood was about to change. He took the tactical station, brought the defensive systems to power, and waited. There was nothing much else to do, considering they were dropping sensor beacons and not much else. He looked at the main viewer at the same time everyone else saw it. A multi-singularity. It was eerily beautiful, he had to admit. But looks were deceiving. "All hands, brace for possible lurches, we are heading near a high-gravity well." Sevant said. He turned, "All SIF and IDF fields to full." He said to Yalta and Trevan. "And I want a constant watch on the engines. At the slightest problem, I want to know immediately." "Understood Sir!" Yalta was already on it. Ryko looked at her. ~Well, she's calm, nothing to worry about.~ Ryko had learned to trust Yalta's intuition. If something wasn't wrong, don't worry. But the next few seconds suddenly changed his mind. The ship rocked violently. At first Ryko thought it was a gravity spike, but the tactical sensors told him otherwise. "A ship is coming out of the gravity field; the distortions hid her, Firing!" He shouted, readying himself for combat. ~So much for a quiet day!~ Ryko thought, making sure he was ready. "Evasive maneuvers! Red Alert, all hands to battle stations!" He looked at Tactical, "Report!" Sevant said. Ryko wasted no time in moving the Boudicca out of harm's way. "No damage to shields," Ryko said. Then his face turned to surprise. "Sir, the ship is Federation, defiant class running without signature." "Continue evasive maneuvers, get us back to the river!" Sevant said in a deadly voice. "Another Defiant off our starboard bow, just exited the river, it's firing!" ~Hold her together, Yalta, this is gonna be a bumpy ride,~ Ryko thought. He knew he wasn't telepathic, but he hoped she would hear him anyway. "Aim to disable, destroy if necessary!" Sevant's voice nearly deafened him, trying to be heard over the constant hail of fire. Ryko's wrists flexed. "Alright, y'all. Time to show you why they call me "Sky"." Ryko said, very quietly. He moved his hands, and the response was instant. The boudicca arced through space, and drew level with the closest Defiant. A head on attack wasn't really an option, as the Defiant was designed to resist such a thing. Ryko moved through manoeuvers automatically, all the time searching his mind for a tactical weakness. Then he remembered his training. Of course, it was simple. The slice and dice manoeuver. He checked the engine status. They were a little pressed, but they could handle it. "HOLD ON!" Ryko yelled above the din, before wrenching both of his hands back to bring the Boudicca perpendicular over the attacking ship. He twitched his right thumb, and a low intensity phaser beam burst out of the Boudicca's forward array, contacting the target's rear dorsal hull. Ryko waited for about 3 seconds and fired off a volley of torpedoes. The manoeuver worked, the torpedoes managed to slip through the vessel's shields and detonated against the engines. The defiant ground to a halt. Ryko brought the ship back to forward position, preparing an offensive on the second ship, when the sensors went haywire. "It's no good!" Ryko yelled. "There's too much distortion, I can't get a positive lock on the remaining ship!" he said. Sparks flew and Ryko cursed. The best he could do was guess and avoid. That was all well and good in a fighter, but the boudicca was too large for a scheme like that to work. Ryko thought for a second, before he saw a huge mass of white on the viewer. Nothing but eery, unholy white. And then there was one word. "Contact." Ryko looked at Yalta, and thought he had died, he seemed to be looking at her indefinitely, unable to move. He tried to look back to his console, but it took him what seemed like ten minutes just to move his head. It was like the whole ship was just...slowing down. Ryko hadn't encountered time dilation before, but he had what his father had told him. ~"If there's one thing you have to stay away from, it's a temporal anomaly." Yeah, like those wise words are any use now,~ he thought. Suddenly time was moving normally again, and the next thing Ryko heard lifted a huge weight off his shoulders. "We are sailing clear, Captain." Came the exhausted voice of the Flight officer. Ryko breathed. He glanced around. Everyone seemed okay, albeit a little shaken. "Full scan, find those federation ships." Sevant said, "And get us away from this damned singularity!" he barked. "No casualties, but I have reports of cuts, bruises, broken bones, ten forward, deck 3, 17 and 9. The structure hull suffered a little but no integrity failure reported by the sensors or other wise." Ryko smiled weakly as for the briefest second he thought Yalta looked at him. He merely shrugged and busied himself with his work. "Engineering is putting things in order again, repair crews have been dispatch on deck 4, 6 and 12," Yalta said. "Shields at 86 percent, regenerating," Ryko said. "But there's no sign of those ships," he reported. ~That's impossible, there was one dead in space!~ Ryko looked up. "Where the hell are we?" he said. "A star calibration confirms it; we are seven-hundred and twenty years, plus or minus ten, from the time we started." Yalta said. Her voice was clear and undaunted. Ryko was surprised to say the least. He said it the same time as Sevant. "Time travel." "All departments, report to the Observation Lounge in ten minutes with reports. We are continuing at Red Alert indefinitely." Sevant had just stood up when the Scientist said "Sir?" Sevant turned and said not a word. The scientist smiled wanly, "There is evidence of a pre-warp culture on that planet." Ryko couldn't help the tiniest little smile as the tension mounted in silence. "Red alert indefinitely Sir!" Came his immediate reply. Ryko looked back to the tactical station. Evidently Sevant's nerves were at breaking point. He wrapped up his business and tapped his badge. "Ensign Frederickson to the bridge." He said, knowing John understood that he was to relieve the tactical station, and closed the channel. He headed for the meeting. ==================================== (Boudicca - Bridge v ACSO Ens Vegra Gretud- 1252) ==================================== "Very interesting," he finally said. "Very interesting indeed." He crossed his arms behind his back as he looked at the sensor readings. They had exited the River a few hours ago, intent on dropping another of their sensor buoys and doing a full survey scan of the area for later use. They had stayed longer then he had intended, they had come across a very interesting area of space. "Yes sir," the scientist said. He pointed to the screen, "We've gathered, so far, that this isn’t just a subspace singularity... but multi-singularity; multiple singularities revolving around each other at greater then the speed of light. Its gravitational pull is truly awesome, we are more then five million kilometers from it, and we are working our thrusters pretty hard." "This star system here is three light-years away, fully, and the gravity from this anomaly is pulling dust and debris away from that star, across the three light-years of space, and into itself. It's quite lovely actually; I've never seen anything quite like it. The debris seems to be consistent with an imploded planet, heavy concentrations of minerals in the rock." The scientist snorted, "This singularity might even have been the cause of its destruction in fact, and the only planets left in that system are those closest to the Star." "If we get closer to that anomaly, will the debris cause us any significant problems?" Sevant looked at it, the dust wasn’t thick, the scene reminded him of stellar matter from a large star being sucked into the gravity of a denser one. The fact that the anomalies gravity-well was strong enough to yank dust and debris from the gravitational field of a star from three light-years was absolutely phenomenal and Sevant wanted more information about it. The Scientist considered for a few moments, "We would want to go in under full Combat shields, Sir; our navigational shields wouldn’t be up to it. But as long as you have us steered away from the worst, we would be ok. I don't recommend getting closer then a couple hundred thousand kilometers however. One burp from the impulse engines and thrusters and we would be lost forever." The Captain nodded, "All hands, brace for possible lurches, we are heading near a high-gravity well." He turned, "All SIF and IDF fields to full." He said to Operations and Engineering. "And I want a constant watch on the engines. At the slightest problem, I want to know immediately." (Reply: Engineering, Ops, if desired) Sevant sat down, "Shields up," He said. He didn’t order any alerts, he shields were up for something other then combat. The ship had already been warned everything was tight. "Take us in,¦ he said quietly. "All sensors to full and record." (Sensors recording¦ said Vegra As Vegra said that a few moments later the ship lurched every were with torpedo hits. As they went though the event horizon Vegra fell and hit is head but stood straight back up. (Boudicca - Bridge v ACSO Ens Vegra Gretud - Infinity) Vegra could feel everything slowing. "Report," barked the captain "Sensors report nothing, we appear visually to be within a few hundred kilometers of the anomaly, but sensors report we are actually more then ten billion miles from it." Came a slow response. "Turn the nose!" the captain said, "Get us turned away from that multi-singularity plot a course around this anomaly," he said, "And get us out where we came in." Vegra felt time getting slower more. (Captain the singularity is distorting the gravity on the ship. Sir I hate to say this to but I think were in a infinity time zone¦ Said Vegra =^=Impulse engines are back! =^= came the CEO's voice over the comm (Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - 1310) As the ship came back out of the multi-singularity Vegra heard the captain tell everyone to meet in the observation lounge in ten minutes as Vegra prepared to leave he downloaded all the visual and sensors scans to a holo-projector and left. ==================================== (USS Boudicca, Bridge, Lt jg Trevan West, 1253) ==================================== Trevan was at his duty station, making sure everything was nominal when the Captain's voice boomed. "All hands, brace for possible lurches, we are heading near a high-gravity well." He turned, "All SIF and IDF fields to full." He said to Operations and Engineering. "And I want a constant watch on the engines. At the slightest problem, I want to know immediately. Trevan turned in his seat at the engineers duty station, "SIF and IDF are now at 110% percent. They'll hold for a while. Everything else is operating normally." It was at that moment, something in the back of Trevan's head, told him he should make his way down to engineering. "Captain, I should be in engineering sir. In case of...." his voice trailed off, it wasn't necessary to finish, the Captain looked like he understood. ==================================== (USS Boudicca, Engineering, Lt jg Trevan West, 1255) ==================================== Trevan burst into engineering speeding out of the turbo lift and heading directly for the warp control area. He checked the status screens and made sure everything was okay. Then he proceeded to try and boost more power to the fields. "Bridge, West here. SIF and IDF are now at 113.2% percent, I can't make them any stronger unless I rob power from other systems." (reply Sevant) "Aye sir, standing by." Then, while checking out some other power systems, the room was rocked several times, from the jarring motion, Trevan knew it was weapons fire. No gravity anomaly would effect them that severely. He hoped anyway. Engineering were running rampant, damage control teams were being dispatched to affected areas, Trevan was busy maintaining shield power, then he knew they were being attacked. The Red Alert klaxon sounded. A few more hits, sounded like they hit the hull, however all pressure readings were normal so that was a good sign. Trevan was about to contact the bridge when the impulse AND warp drive went off line. =/\=Engineering, we need impulse!" he bellowed, "Full back, all thrusters!=/\= Was what came through the speakers, "Aye sir, thrusters are online." and he closed the channel, trying to get impulse engines online was going to be a huge task. "Computer, this is West, theta 2 9 9 7. Transfer replicator power to Impulse systems, re route impulse control through the secondary computer processors." "That procedure is not recommended." "Computer, override safety systems." "Confirmed." Within minutes the impulse engines were warm again and good to go. "West to bridge,Impulse engines are back.You now have 3/4 impulse. Give me another few moments and you'll have full impulse." Then suddenly, he felt the hull start to strain. They were too close to the singularity, the hull was beginning to weaken. "Bridge, micro hull fractures forming along outer edge of the ship. Stress points above tolerance. CONTACT Time seemed to compress, everything moved slowly, of course it was all, relative. Basically in human equations, Time equals infinity. You could spend 30 minutes in the singularity, hoping the ship would survive, and have days pass above you. However, most ships couldn't handle the stress, except the Boudicca. His ship. ==================================== (Boudicca-Bridge-Tactical Station-Ensign (jg) John Christopher Fredericks-13:00) ==================================== ~700 years back in time~ John tried to reel in his rapidly changing thoughts. ~Got to concentrate on the here and now~. “Next time I ask for a little bit of action somebody kick me” He mumbled to himself. John had already run through the checklist and everything on the tactical station and everything was good to go. Sensing that there was a great tension on the bridge, John opened himself up to the feelings being projected on the bridge and as far out as he could sense. ~I’m not prying he told himself, after all I was trained for this as well and if someone is going to snap I would like to know where it is coming from~. John didn’t feel anything close to terror or even as much fear as he had felt when he boarded the ship after the “Psyders” had attacked. Satisfied and since this was as close to mentally spying on his ship mates as he wanted to get even though he was just receiving he re-established his own mental shield and once again concentrated on the matter at hand. On an impulse John had the computer do a quick search for the time 25 years proceeding this time period to the current present date and send it to his reader in his quarters. ~should make for interesting reading later~. After a bit he called down to the Security office to check and see how things were going. Ensign Hodges had told him that at first there had been a small disturbance but everyone had gone back to either their duties or quarters with no further disturbances to worry about. ==================================== (Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - 1310) ==================================== And then, either seconds or days after they had entered, the ship broke the event horizon again and the impulse engines engaged full strength. Slowly, ever so slowly, the power of the engines broke the Boudicca free from the utter intensity of the gravitational forces. Sevant's heart-beat raced in time with the engines, all the while he waited for them to fail and the ship to fall back into that hell of a subspace event. After several moments however, it was over. "We are sailing clear, Captain." Came the exhausted voice of the Flight officer. "Full scan, find those federation ships." Sevant said, "And get us away from this damned singularity!" he barked. (reply: Tactical, Ops, Conn) Moments passed, and his tactical officer said. "There is no evidence of either Defiant class ships, Sir." "Keep searching," he ordered. "We are steady at seven hundred thousand kilometers." The Conn officer said after several tense minutes. Sevant frowned, "All stop, station keeping." He said. He turned in his seat and looked at the science officer on duty. "Care to explain any of that to me?" he finally asked. The scientist turned back to him, his face white. That wasn’t surprising; Sevant's color probably wasn’t the best either, after that hell-ride. Sevant could recall one such trip that had been taken by a Starfleet ship in the past, but the details of it were beyond him at this moment, he would have to look at it later. Most ships that entered a subspace event never returned. "Sir, those flashy reactions we had while under the event horizon..." the officer broke off and swallowed. "Sir, I was recording everything and I was looking at them to keep my mind off..." he didn’t have to finish that sentence, Sevant perfectly understood it, he too had been sure they were going to die in there. He nodded for the scientist to continue. "Sir, those flashes were a reaction of our shield harmonics and some of the dust that had been sucked into the anomaly by that planet, or, dust we dragged in with us and were caught in the shield matrix. Uh, some of the minerals and metals contained within reacted in a very strange manner. Either way..." Sevant frowned and leaned forward. "Continue," he barked. "Uh, there is no more dust here. And, sir..." he turned and punched a button on his console. In the corner of his eye he saw a flash, and immediately turned to look at it. It was a long-range sensor scan. Sevant was about to turn and demand to know just what the Scientist was smoking when his eyes suddenly narrowed. He looked at it closer, and then counted the planets he saw. There was one more present then there was before they had entered the anomaly. "Explain that," he said quietly. "Sir, that planet's orbit is consistent with the debris field that was left. The preliminary figure I had figured before... all this... was that that planet had been destroyed between six and eight hundred years ago." Sevant closed his eyes briefly and turned back. He didn’t say a word; the question was plainly obvious on his face. The scientist went whiter still and nodded, "A star calibration confirms it; we are seven-hundred and twenty years, plus or minus ten, from the time we started." "Time travel," Sevant muttered darkly. His first instinct was to deny it, but what was the use of scientists if he didn’t believe what they told him? He turned back again, "All departments, report to the Observation Lounge in ten minutes with reports. We are continuing at Red Alert indefinitely." Sevant had just stood up when the scientist said "Sir?" Sevant turned and said not a word. The scientist smiled wanly, "There is evidence of a pre-warp culture on that planet." ==================================== (Boudicca - Sick Bay - CMO Lt. McQuade - 1311) ==================================== "WTF.... " Chris had started to say when his entire Sick Bay was being thrown here and there. All the instruments had been scattered all over the floor. As motion become normal once again, he tapped his combadge, "Sick bay to Bridge, I know that we have not seen any action in a bit but do you need to upheave my entire Medical Department to give us something to do?" (reply Bridge) "Aye, if possible give us a bit of a warning next time. We are ready for any casualties and in fact we have some arriving now. McQuade out" He cut the line as the influx of injured starting to come in steadily. As Chris and everyone in his department was tending to the rush of so called injuries, they all come in when the ship has a slight bump, the captain put a call out for all department heads to be in the observation lounge in ten minutes. "Oh good I get to report on all these major injuries that he caused." Chris said in a half joking manner. "Well at least *I* will get a break from them anyways. Do you people think that you can live without me?" He asked his staff. They all feigned that they needed him without a question and then started laughing. In that he went to his office to get the PADD with all his reports then walked out heading for the meeting. ==================================== (Boudicca - Bridge - Capt Sevant - 1312) ==================================== "CAPTAIN!!!!" Sevant turned his head, his entire face tight. "Report," he barked. "One..." He said still short of breath and leaning against a near-by wall. "I monitored the entire trip we just took and I being one of science can't even start to believe the readouts. Two..." By now he had caught his breath and returned to standing at attention. "I came across something very interesting in my father's diary... He went on to talk about one such federation ship which endured the same such 'time travel'. Since my father was onboard many ships during there maiden voyage of shaking down the warp core and testing certain equipment Sevant quirked an eyebrow as he moved to stand next to the officer. "I will require more then half-remembered memories." "Certainly, I have the diary right here sir." Sevant took the diary and thumbed it. His mind was certainly not on reading however. "Should I return to my post sir? or stay present for now?" the CSO said. "Be at the meeting; otherwise be where you will be the most use." (reply: if desired) ==================================== (Boudicca - Counselor’s Office - Dr. Domini Alizara- 1312) ==================================== Domini woke up on the floor of her Office, with a nasty bump on her head. She got up, feeling somewhat confused. ~What just happened?~ She thought to herself, holding onto the table. She looked at the flashing light, and hit the button. The Captain had ordered everyone to report to the Observation Lounge. Domini leaned against the wall, running her medical tricorder up and down her body. She didn't see anything out of the ordinary, other than elevated levels of adrenalin. ~I guess the Captain will tell us what happened.~ She thought to herself, hitting herself up with a hypo of anti-dizziness medication, and seeing the world stabilize she took a tentative step away from the wall. She then took another and another, as the medication took effect, she walked faster towards the door, her mind on getting to the observation lounge, hopefully on time. ~I wonder if Spider will be there~ She thought, drifting dreamily into the conference lounge and looking around the table. She leaned over to the person nearest her. "What is going on?" She whispered. ==================================== (Boudicca - Bridge - CSO/2O Kyle Morie Rin - 1312) ==================================== Bursting out of the turbolift with his father's diary in hand, Kyle spotted Sevant standing at his chair addressing one of his scientists. "CAPTAIN!!!!" He said trying to grab his breath from the considerable running he had just did to get on the bridge. (reply Sevant) "One..." He said still short of breath and leaning against a near-by wall. "I monitored the entire trip we just took and I being one of science can't even start to believe the readouts. Two..." By now he had caught his breath and returned to standing at attention. "I came across something very interesting in my father's diary... He went on to talk about one such federation ship which endured the same such 'time travel'. Since my father was onboard many ships during there maiden voyage of shaking down the warp core and testing certain equipment." He paused for a second or two as Sevant walked over and stood next to him about to say something in response. (reply Sevant) "Certainly, I have the diary right here sir." Kyle reached out with the diary in hand as Sevant took it and began to read the passage Kyle had marked. "Should I return to my post sir? or stay present for now?" Kyle stood and waited for a response from Sevant as he watched the captain continue to read the passage. ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge-TAC/SC - 1320) ==================================== Ryko sat down in the same chair he always did, near one of the windows. Yalta smiled at him and he returned the smile. It was good to see that she wasn't hurt. All the better, she looked like she had enjoyed his little "ride". He cleared his throat and paid attention. All the while he was waiting, one thought played through his mind, and he actually smiled as he dismissed it. ~So this is it, we're going to die,~ he thought. Rubbish. Utter rubbish. Not on his watch. ==================================== (USS Boudicca, Observation Lounge, FO & MCO, Commander Grailik & Major Straton, 13:20) ==================================== Grailik entered the lounge walked over to the replicator and got himself a fresh cup of hot coffee before moving over to his usual seat, to the right of Captain Sevant's seat. He sat sipping his coffee, nodding a greeting at the other officers already present. ~600 to 800 years in the past? I suddenly don't feel so old any more.~ A short time latter the doors to the Observation Lounge opened again and Major Straton walked in, sweeping the room with her hard icy stare. Without a word, she moved over to a seat and sat down to wait for the meeting to commence. ==================================== (USS Boudicca- Conference Room- Science Officer- Lt. Madison Munroe- 1321) ==================================== Lt. Madison Munroe stood outside the conference room contemplating why she had been asked to join a staff meeting. It was her first time and she was a little nervous. She never considered herself to be an officer, but a scientist. In her mind the Lt. was an honorary thing. It was the PhD. that was important to her. Of course, even that was not as important as her work. As a Starfleet cultural anthropologist, meeting new races was always an experience in thinking fast and interpreting data quickly enough to make generalizations, that would quickly turn into specifics of another race. And if she didn't mind saying so herself, she was pretty darn good at it. of course her favorite time period to work around was the late 20th early 21st century Earth. They had the most amazing toys to play with. And Maddie loved her toys. She was still a little shook up from their experience just ten minutes earlier. She got the impression that they were lucky to still be around. She took a deep breath and pulled herself to her full 5' 8" height. She new she was shorter than most, but tried to compensate in attitude. She tried to tone down her excitement at being invited to a staff meeting and then walked through the door. Once inside she came to a full stop. Apparently she was one of the last to arrive. The room was already filled with the senior staff. She forced her legs to move around the room, smiling at the officers she knew, and trying to make eye contact with the ones she didn't, which was most of them. She knew that making eye contact was important. It let them know that she wasn't a prey. She had to go all the way around the table before finding a seat. It happened to be beside the ships Counselor, Domini Alizara. She flushed a little when she saw who it was. She enjoyed the company of the Betazoid counselor, although it made her uncomfortable with the idea of how she really felt about her. She tried to stay focused and keep her emotions in check. "Hi counselor, fancy meeting you here." ~Oh God, what a dork.~ ==================================== (USS Boudicca- Conference Room- COUNS- Dr. Domini Alizara- 1322) ==================================== "Hi counselor, fancy meeting you here." Domini heard from next to her, pulling her out of the clouds of what she had been thinking about, back to the conference room. "Madison!" Domini said with a smile. "I didn't know that you had been invited, but I'm glad that you are here." Domini said, grinning foolishly, for a second. Something about Madison made her feel like she was fourteen and in lust for the first time. ~Now, Domini, there is nothing in Madison's files to indicate that she is interested in anyone, let alone a girl. And besides, you have been having a lot of fun with Spider.~ She thought to herself, glancing over at Spider and then back at Madison and truly flushing. ~God I hope Sevant starts this meeting soon.~ "I..uh..Madison, do you want to go get lunch together after the meeting ?" Domini asked, feeling on somewhat firmer footing with Madison than she had with Spider. It was not the first time Domini had asked a girl out, after all, and Madison was just a friend. ~Yeah, and that's how you feel about her. Right.~ Domini noticed her hand shaking a little bit and put it firmly in her lap, telling herself to calm down. ~Please please please let Sevant start this meeting, please please please....~ She prayed to herself. ==================================== (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – OPS Lt. Schafio - 1325) ==================================== Yalta took a moment to observe everyone, she saw the look that Counselor Alizara gave to Spider and thought. ~Humm, I'm not the only one I guess.~ She look at them again, mentally picturing them together. ~They look good together and it's nice to see that she doesn't look stress out. We will need a girls night out, that would do us good too.~ Yalta wonder what was thinking the Captain, his silence and deep in thought was more or less reassuring. The new officer looked at her and smiled. “Hi... Lt. Yalta Schafio... OPS. There would have been better ways to meet everyone but you know.” She lift herself up and extended her hand to her and they shake. ==================================== (USS Boudicca, Observation Lounge, MCO, Major Straton, 13:25) ==================================== Eva sat silent, looking over a PADD that contained the marines current training schedule. It's what marines did on a day to day basis. Train mercilessly and keep their equipment in top working order. When the time came to do battle they would be ready. Her and Drizzt had made sure of that. The Wolf Pack, the company's new name, would be ready. Eva suddenly felt an unfocused wave of emotion wash over her and looked up from her PADD, her penetrating glare locking on the culprit of the emotional projection, Domini. ::Domini, your shields. You are projecting,:: Eva sent to the Counselor, returning her gaze to her PADD, forgiving the Counselor her unintentional slip. As an empath a Betazied could not only sense the emotions of others, they could project their own emotions onto others. An ability that could be used to exploit the unaware or overly emotional races, but to do so was a severe breach of social etiquette by Betazied standards AND against the code of honor of both their Orders. (Reply Domini iyw) A few minuets latter and the Captain called the meeting to order. Eva sat silently listening to their current situation, only her eyebrow rose at the news of being 700 years in the past. Her thoughts turned to her home world and what life would be like their during the present time. ~Some of the greatest masters of the Order lived during this time. Meeting them would be a great honor.~ Sevant turned to the Marines next, "I want the Marines on standby, there was no evidence that there were any space-borne races near us at the time, but we didn't have much research time. And..." he turned to look at Security again, "I'm putting you and yours under Security, just in case we are followed through the anomaly." ~Under? UNDER!?~ Eva's eye's narrowed at the Captain's choice of words. Her hard gaze moved from Sevant to Skylynx, were it rested for a second, then moved back to Sevant. ~Skylynx is a reckless inexperienced pup. His 'heroics' during the psi-der conflict nearly resulted in the total destruction of the ship. Only Drizzt and his CE's quick thinking saved the ship from a warp core breach. I will not take orders from the likes of him.~ "The marines stand ready to work *WITH* security, Sir," She replied, none too diplomatically. ==================================== (USS Boudicca " Conference Lounge " SO- Lt Maddison Munroe- 1326) ==================================== "Madison!" Domini said with a smile. "I didn't know that you had been invited, but I'm glad that you are here." Maddie couldn't help but notice that the counselor seemed suddenly flustered. She kept looking up to see if Captain Sevant was looking or speaking. "I..uh..Madison, do you want to go get lunch together after the meeting ?" Maddie beamed, her bright green eyes shining. "Sure, I'd love too. but no shop talk." Then Maddie noticed someone looking over at her. If she wasn't mistaken, the woman looked Elasian. She smiled at the woman. "Hi... Lt. Yalta Schafio... OPS. There would have been better ways to meet everyone but you know. Schafio stood up and offered her hand. Maddie put out her hand aswell. The Elasian's grip was firm and strong, but not over powering. "A pleasure," Maddie replied. She wasn't sure what else to say. "Ummm, we're going to get a bite to eat after the meeting. You could join us, unless you're supposed to be on duty." But the next sound they heard was Sevant as he began the meeting. ==================================== (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – SO- Lt Maddison Munroe- 1326) ==================================== "Madison!" Domini said with a smile. "I didn't know that you had been invited, but I'm glad that you are here." Maddie couldn't help but notice that the counselor seemed suddenly flustered. She kept looking up to see if Captain Sevant was looking or speaking. "I..uh..Madison, do you want to go get lunch together after the meeting ?" Maddie beamed, her bright green eyes shining. "Sure, I'd love too. but no shop talk." Then Maddie noticed someone looking over at her. If she wasn't mistaken, the woman looked Elasian. She smiled at the woman. “Hi... Lt. Yalta Schafio... OPS. There would have been better ways to meet everyone but you know.” Schafio stood up and offered her hand. Maddie put out her hand aswell. The Elasian's grip was firm and strong, but not over powering. Ryko watched from his seat as the present crew greeted the new SO. ~More meat for the grinder~ he thought. ~Seems like we're getting a lot of new crew around here.~ He watched as she greeted Yalta and Counselor Alizara, but didn't offer greeting himself. He thought for a moment about what had happened. Flung back 700 years in time to a point where everything was different. Earth didn't exist in the way he knew it. His great-great-great-great grandfather hadn't even been born yet. This was getting too weird. Ryko hoped for answers and a way back to the norm. ~Well, here's hoping,~ he thought as Sevant started to speak. ==================================== (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – OPS Lt. Schafio - 1327) ==================================== “Hi... Lt. Yalta Schafio... OPS. There would have been better ways to meet everyone but you know.” She lift herself up and extended her hand to her and they shake. "A pleasure," Maddie replied. She wasn't sure what else to say. "Ummm, we're going to get a bite to eat after the meeting. You could join us, unless you're supposed to be on duty." But the next sound they heard was Sevant as he began the meeting. “For eating, that is perfect... it's been a while since we had a girl get together. Has for duty, that will depend on what will transpire on this meeting. This might interest you by the way, sensor scan of the post-warp planet.” Yalta showed her a padd. “Unless you have this result already!” ==================================== (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – Dr. Domini Alizara - 1328) ==================================== Before Domini could respond to Madison, Yalta butted in. Domini tried very hard not to scream. ~What does SHE want...stupid interloper....~ “Hi... Lt. Yalta Schafio... OPS. There would have been better ways to meet everyone but you know.” "A pleasure, Ummm, we're going to get a bite to eat after the meeting. You could join us, unless you're supposed to be on duty." Domini was happy that Madison seemed unsure of how to proceed with Yalta's interference. ~Good maybe Yalta will get the hint.~ “For eating, that is perfect... it's been a while since we had a girl get together. Has for duty, that will depend on what will transpire on this meeting. This might interest you by the way, sensor scan of the post-warp planet.” Yalta showed her a padd. “Unless you have this result already!” Domini wanted to shake her head in disgust. Instead she ignored Yalta, and glanced out of the corner of her eye at Madison. She really was quite pretty. Then Domini's blood ran cold. Was Yalta interested in Madison ? ~Don't be silly, You don't even know if Madison is even interested in girls...~ Domini's thoughts ran around in a circle. Sevant had tried to start the meeting, but hadn't succeeded as people were collaborating back and forth, talking about the various things that had transpired. Domini learned a little bit, somehow they had been flung back in time ? She continued to try to catch Spider's eye, but he was talking with Eva. ~I wish I were anywhere but here. Maybe back on Earth with Jade. I miss her and Meiko....~ Domini thought, then remembered that Meiko had died a few months previous on the Cochrane. ~Poor Meiko.~ Jade was a pretty high profile person,a nd thusly protected from Doenitz's displeasure. But Meiko had only been an Ensign...she didn't deserve to die killed by a rogue Admiral. Domini sighed softly, fantasizing about something not here... ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - Sevant - 1328) ==================================== Sevant tapped his fingers, letting the officer's talk amongst themselves for a few moments. He had tried once to start the meeting, but a report on his PADD had distracted him and the crew were talking shop amongst themselves, or introducing themselves to new key members that Sevant himself had ordered over. It was, however, time. Sevant stood and rapped his knuckles hard on the table, making sure that everyone heard him. "That will be enough." He said in short tones. "We can have a coffee and tea break when we are off red alert." (reply: any, as desired) "Alright," Sevant said as he sat back down. "We have problems, serious ones." He leaned back and folded his hands together as he looked at everyone. "For those who were not on the bridge, we were briefly attacked by Federation attack craft, Defiant Class. We were forced..." his face took on an almost pained expression, "into a multi-singularity. Only the quick work of various peoples, foremost Engineering in getting our engines back online and Conn for the unassisted flying, got us back out again." Sevant paused, and then gestured to the scientist that had been advising him from the start of this mess, an astrophysicist. "We skipped ourselves seven hundred and twenty years into the past," the scientist began. "How we did so is still being worked on, my best data so far is that a metal mix in the space-dust from a destructed planet in near-orbit reacted to our shield harmonics and perhaps some other few ungodly variables. The result is we hopped back, to a time before that metal mix existed." He looked at Sevant briefly, "I haven't had enough time yet to discover what exactly about the dust was reacting, nor in what ratios, I can't wager a guess yet if we can get back the same way." The Astrophysicist looked over at the CSO, the head of his department. He was good at what he did, and he had been on-station from the start, but he wasn't the big man around. (reply: CSO, if desired) Sevant looked at everyone over his folded hands. "That is the long and short of it." He finally said. "We are stuck seven hundred years from home. The reasons we came are still under investigation," He threw a significant glance at the CSO and Astrophysicist, "And those reasons WILL be discovered." He looked back. "Our other major problem is that the planet which had been destroyed in our time now shows evidence of a pre-warp civilization. We are going to move as close as we can without being detected so we can study them, also in preparation if we have to go planet-side to grab a few tons of dirt and metal, or whatever else we might need to get back after we find out what exactly was reacting inside that anomaly." Sevant looked around, "Comments?" (reply: any) Once that was over, the Captain sat forward. "And now, before we go anywhere. Lieutenant, status of the Engineering section?" (reply: Engineering) The Vulcan turned his gaze to the Operations officer. "Status of the ship on the whole?" (reply: Ops) "Tactical status?" he asked once Onyx had spoken, "And status of Security forces?" (reply: TAC/SC) He turned to the Marines next, "I want the Marines on standby, there was no evidence that there were any space-borne races near us at the time, but we didn't have much research time. And..." he turned to look at Security again, "I'm putting you and yours under Security, just in case we are followed through the anomaly." (reply: MCO) "Medical status," he said as he turned his head to their new Medical Chief, the same one who had said a few rather unprofessional things earlier. "How many serious injuries and such?" (reply: Medical) "I know it's too early," Sevant said, "But once our situation gets out we are going to have a number of counseling issues, fear and paranoia at not getting home." He looked at the counselor. "I want to know the second such issues start arising." (reply: Couns) He turned and looked at his Scientists for a few moments; they were the department the most represented here. "Chief, I will rely on you and yours to get us out of this mess. The goal is obvious, we want back home in our proper time." He turned his head slightly to look at his Cultural Anthropologist, who was the closest thing to a First Contact Official they had onboard at this moment. "And I will rely on you as well once we get close to that planet." He looked at both of them in turn, "I want a general plan in one hour on how we are going to approach that planet, you have free use of all our long-distance arrays in order to ascertain their current level of detection technology. We already know this planet is destroyed sometime in the near future, the Prime Directive is more malleable here then otherwise." (reply: CSO, Maddison) "Is there anything else?" ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - TAC/SC Ensign Skylynx - 1328) ==================================== Ryko allowed his gaze to drift to the window he was sat next to as the crew continued conversation. In his mind there was nothing to be said, and he was surprised at how calm he felt in this situation. Sevant stood and rapped his knuckles hard on the table, making sure that everyone heard him. "That will be enough." He said in short tones. "We can have a coffee and tea break when we are off red alert." Ryko looked away from the window and towards Sevant. Yalta sat opposite him, just as she always did.He shared a brief smile with her and paid attention. "Alright," Sevant said as he sat back down. "We have problems, serious ones." He leaned back and folded his hands together as he looked at everyone. "For those who were not on the bridge, we were briefly attacked by Federation attack craft, Defiant Class. We were forced..." his face took on an almost pained expression, "into a multi-singularity. Only the quick work of various peoples, foremost Engineering in getting our engines back online and Conn for the unassisted flying, got us back out again." Ryko felt a little depressed for a fleeting moment. The Slice and Dice had been no easy feat, especially with increased gravity and flying near blind. It didn't matter now. Sevant paused as the resident Astrophysicist summarized the situation. Ryko barely listened. This was old hat. He knew where they were and what was going on. He caught Sevant's eye and straightened up. The last thing he needed now was a lecture on conduct. The captain spoke. "That is the long and short of it." He finally said. "We are stuck seven hundred years from home. The reasons we came are still under investigation," He threw a significant glance at the CSO and Astrophysicist, "And those reasons WILL be discovered." He looked back. "Our other major problem is that the planet which had been destroyed in our time now shows evidence of a pre-warp civilization. We are going to move as close as we can without being detected so we can study them, also in preparation if we have to go planet-side to grab a few tons of dirt and metal, or whatever else we might need to get back after we find out what exactly was reacting inside that anomaly." Sevant looked around, "Comments?" Ryko merely looked out of the window again, almost oblivious to responses for this particular question. "And now, before we go anywhere. Lieutenant, status of the Engineering section?" (reply: Engineering) Sevant turned his gaze to Yalta. "Status of the ship on the whole?" (reply: Ops) "Tactical status?" he asked once she had spoken, "And status of Security forces?" Ryko breathed. "Weapons systems are ready to go at a moments notice. With the quick thinking of Mr. West, the thermal problem in the torpedo launchers has been fixed, and all security teams have been placed on level 3 quarantine, just in case something gets on board," Ryko said. He glanced at Straton. "Having said that, those maneuvers I took this ship through managed to shake off our attackers, but they still managed to take a chunk out of our shields. They require some minor tweaks, on decks 12, 14 and 18." Sevant followed Ryko and turned to the Marines next, "I want the Marines on standby, there was no evidence that there were any space-borne races near us at the time, but we didn't have much research time. And..." he turned to look at Ryko again, "I'm putting you and yours under Security, just in case we are followed through the anomaly." (reply: MCO) Ryko caught Straton's eye again and nodded. Last time they had worked together he had come across as more than a little reckless. He hoped she wouldn't hold that against him. Working with Spider, on the other hand, was going to be fun. A fellow marksman and like-minded combat thinking officer was going to be an asset to him. "Medical status," he said as he turned his head to their new Medical Chief, the same one who had said a few rather unprofessional things earlier. "How many serious injuries and such?" (reply: Medical) "I know it's too early," Sevant said, "But once our situation gets out we are going to have a number of counseling issues, fear and paranoia at not getting home." He looked at the counselor. "I want to know the second such issues start arising." (reply: Couns) Sevant turned to the Scientists for a few moments; they were the department the most represented here. "Chief, I will rely on you and yours to get us out of this mess. The goal is obvious, we want back home in our proper time." He turned his head slightly to look at his Cultural Anthropologist, who was the closest thing to a First Contact Official they had onboard at this moment. "And I will rely on you as well once we get close to that planet." He looked at both of them in turn, "I want a general plan in one hour on how we are going to approach that planet, you have free use of all our long-distance arrays in order to ascertain their current level of detection technology. We already know this planet is destroyed sometime in the near future, the Prime Directive is more malleable here then otherwise." (reply: CSO, Maddison) "Is there anything else?" Ryko waited until all comments had been expressed. When everone was given orders to dismiss, Ryko stood and addressed Sevant. "Sir, may I speak with you in private?" Ryko asked as he approached him. ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - ACEO Enaj - 1328) ==================================== When Saim heard what the situation was she was stunned. ~700 years back in time! How did that happen. And a multi singularity, now wonder it felt strange.~ Saim then tried to get a grip on herself. ~There is no point getting worked up. You just have to think how you can best help us get out of this mess. If we can get out of this mess. I thought I was trying to be positive.~ Saim focused again on Sevant's voice... ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - CSO/2O Kyle Morie Rin - 1328) ==================================== Sevant turned and looked at his Scientists for a few moments; they were the department the most represented here. "Chief, I will rely on you and yours to get us out of this mess. The goal is obvious, we want back home in our proper time." He turned his head slightly to look at his Cultural Anthropologist, who was the closest thing to a First Contact Official they had onboard at this moment. "And I will rely on you as well once we get close to that planet." He looked at both of them in turn, "I want a general plan in one hour on how we are going to approach that planet, you have free use of all our long-distance arrays in order to ascertain their current level of detection technology. We already know this planet is destroyed sometime in the near future, the Prime Directive is more malleable here then otherwise." Kyle finished punching some figures into his PADD and faced Sevant to respond. "Aye sir, we might have something within the hour if all goes well." ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - Sevant - 1328) ==================================== "And now, before we go anywhere. Lieutenant, status of the Engineering section?" The Chief turned in his chair, "Well, the good news first. We have impulse power and life support is working. Most of the Boudicca's major systems are still on-line. The bad news is, the warp drive is offline. And I can't even tell you how long it's going to take to fix sir. We don't even know why it's off-line." he sighed, "Also, main shield generators are out. We are on backups now, I think the quantum flux from the singularity knocked them for a loop or something. I am working on the problems sir. I will have an update for you in about an hour." Sevant nodded, then turned to Ops. "Status of the ship on the whole?" "If we don't have to fight in the next 24 hrs... We will be alright. I predict that within those times, we will manage to repair nearly all the ship systems.The shields are on backup, repair crews are all for engineering duty. We are right now on yellow status in energy preservation just in case of a fight would accure. I have listen to the planet below, so far they don't seem to have seen us, but I can't be 100% sure. Long rang sensors are offline, short rang are the only one working.." Sevant nodded, and the meeting proceeded. "Tactical status? And status of Security forces?" "Weapons systems are ready to go at a moments notice. With the quick thinking of Mr. West, the thermal problem in the torpedo launchers has been fixed, and all security teams have been placed on level 3 quarantine, just in case something gets on board," Ryko said. He glanced at Straton. "Having said that, those maneuvers I took this ship through managed to shake off our attackers, but they still managed to take a chunk out of our shields. They require some minor tweaks, on decks 12, 14 and 18." Sevant followed Ryko and turned to the Marines next, "I want the Marines on standby, there was no evidence that there were any space-borne races near us at the time, but we didn't have much research time. And..." he turned to look at Ryko again, "I'm putting you and yours under Security, just in case we are followed through the anomaly." "The marines stand ready to work *WITH* security, Sir," Sevant ignored her, he didn't have the patience to spar over his use of the English language. "Medical status," he said as he turned his head to their new Medical Chief, the same one who had said a few rather unprofessional things earlier. "How many serious injuries and such?" (reply: Medical) "I know it's too early," Sevant said, "But once our situation gets out we are going to have a number of counseling issues, fear and paranoia at not getting home." He looked at the counselor. "I want to know the second such issues start arising." (reply: Couns) Sevant turned to the Scientists for a few moments; they were the department the most represented here. "Chief, I will rely on you and yours to get us out of this mess. The goal is obvious, we want back home in our proper time." He turned his head slightly to look at his Cultural Anthropologist, who was the closest thing to a First Contact Official they had onboard at this moment. "And I will rely on you as well once we get close to that planet." He looked at both of them in turn, "I want a general plan in one hour on how we are going to approach that planet, you have free use of all our long-distance arrays in order to ascertain their current level of detection technology. We already know this planet is destroyed sometime in the near future, the Prime Directive is more malleable here then otherwise." Kyle finished punching some figures into his PADD and faced Sevant to respond. "Aye sir, we might have something within the hour if all goes well." "If you don't mind Captain, Dr," Maddie added, "I'd like the counselor to be in on this. I think that her input would be most valuable for a first contact." "Very well," Sevant said. "Counselor, see to it." (reply: Any) "Is there anything else?" he asked. "I do... for five singularities to develop the way they were, there must have been a great amount of energy to create them... what could have done this?" Sevant looked to his science department. Singularities were a scientific black hole, no one could explain them fully. IF there was something strange about this one, he was sure they would figure it out. Even so, he waited for them to give their opinion. (reply: Science) "Alright then," Sevant said. "Unless there is anything else, Dismissed." People started filing out, though after a few seconds it was obvious that his TAC/ASC wanted to speak. "Sir, may I speak with you in private?" Sevant nodded, still sitting. ==================================== (USS Boudicca – Conference Lounge – OPS Lt. Schafio - 1329) ==================================== The Captain decided to speak up, Yalta was a bit surprised but refocused her attention to him. "That will be enough." He said in short tones. "We can have a coffee and tea break when we are off red alert." Yalta said nothing, there was no point. So she waited for the rest which came as he summarize the situation. She listen to the reports of crewmates. "Status of the ship on the whole?" “If we don't have to fight in the next 24 hrs... We will be alright. I predict that within those times, we will manage to repair nearly all the ship systems. The shields are on backup, repair crews are all for engineering duty. We are right now on yellow status in energy preservation just in case of a fight would accrue. I have listen to the planet below, so far they don't seem to have seen us, but I can't be 100% sure. Long rang sensors are offline, short rang are the only one working..” She finished her report with that. Truth be told, it wasn't a pretty situation they were in. (Reply from Sevant, IYW) Yalta listen to the other reports, and wonder what would be next, yet she had a question that kept popping in her head. "Is there anything else?" “I do... for five singularities to develop the way they were, there must have been a great amount of energy to create them... what could have done this?” ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge - Lt jg Trevan West - 1330) ==================================== The Captain sat forward. "And now, before we go anywhere. Lieutenant, status of the Engineering section?" Trevan swiveled around in his chair and tapped his PADD. "Well, the good news first. We have impulse power and life support is working. Most of the Boudicca's major systems are still on-line. The bad news is, the warp drive is offline. And I can't even tell you how long it's going to take to fix sir. We don't even know why it's off-line." he sighed, "Also, main shield generators are out. We are on backups now, I think the quantum flux from the singularity knocked them for a loop or something. I am working on the problems sir. I will have an update for you in about an hour." ==================================== (USS Boudicca - Conference Lounge- CMO Lt. Christopher Douglas McQuade - 1330) ==================================== Chris sat there listening to the conversations that some of the crew were having and especially the one between Munroe and the good Counselor. From where he had sat, it was hard not to think that maybe there was something between them. That something it seemed to be more than just friends, but, he really did not care as it was their lives and as long as the job got done....... As the meeting commenced and Sevant spoke to the different departments, Chris just listened to what was said. Then Sevant looked at him and Chris could tell that the comment that he made when calling the bridge had not gone over very well. "Medical status," Sevant asked "How many serious injuries and such?" Chris swallowed hard before answering his question, "Sir, with the jolting around that was given the ship earlier without any warning we have had a few scrapes, bruises, broken bones, etc, but, nothing we can not handle as of yet. I would appreciate a little bit of warning the next time we are going to be thrown around so my department can put things away, if there is time." Chris was not sure that Sevant was taking what he said happily as Vulcans were hard to read. "I think that being this far back in time will be an exiting time to see what is going on and to be able to possibly do some real healing for a change." ==================================== (Boudicca - Conference Room -Cultural Anthropologist- Lt Madison Munroe- 1335) ==================================== Maddie listened intently to what everyone had to say. she was intrigued by the relationships that seemed to have been formed by this group. Watching the body language and the way they addressed each other their ocal intonations. It was all very interesting. She almost missed it when she realized the captain was talking to her. ."And I will rely on you as well once we get close to that planet." He looked at both her and Dr. Rin and went on. "I want a general plan in one hour on how we are going to approach that planet, you have free use of all our long-distance arrays in order to ascertain their current level of detection technology. We already know this planet is destroyed sometime in the near future, the Prime Directive is more malleable here then otherwise." Kyle finished punching some figures into his PADD and faced Sevant to respond. "Aye sir, we might have something within the hour if all goes well." "If you don't mind Captain, Dr," Maddie added, "I'd like the counselor to be in on this. I think that her input would be most valuable for a first contact." (reply Sevant, Rin, Domini) Then she turned to Schafio, "Sorry Lt, looks like we're going to have to put off our girls lunch time for another day." When the meeting was over she gathered with the CSO and counselor. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed not to have some time alone with her new friend, but there's always time for that later. Right now it was business. With that thought her tummy gurgled quite loudly. They both looked at her, smiling. "Sorry," she apologized. "Can we do this over lunch. I haven't eaten all day, and I don't think well, with an empty stomach." ==================================== (Boudicca - 10 forward -Cultural Anthropologist- Lt Madison Munroe- 1340) ==================================== By the time they hit 10 forward Maddie was starving. People couldn't believe that she ate as she did, since she never seemed to gain weight. She always put it up to exercise and a fast metabolism. She worked out, but nearly as much as she probably should. After all, she was a scientist, not some martial ars master. She once had a friend that said her work out was lifting those books she was always reading. They were so big and heavy. They also blamed those same books for her never having a boy friend. Maddie made a bee line to the replicator and ordered up a lunch that would have made a teen age boy proud. Of course, she started with a salad, then moved on to a hamburger and fried, with a thick strawberry shake. She contemplated getting a desert, but didn't want to overdo it with her boss at the table. Besides, she could always go back for more. She sat down at a table and waited for Domini and and Dr. Rin to join her. ==================================== (Boudicca - 10 Forward - CSO/2O Dr. Kyle Morie Rin - 1340) ==================================== Maddie made a bee line to the replicator and ordered up a lunch that would have made a teen age boy proud. Of course, she started with a salad, then moved on to a hamburger and fried, with a thick strawberry shake. She contemplated getting a desert, but didn't want to overdo it with her boss at the table. Besides, she could always go back for more. Picking out a replicator and trying his hardest to think of something to order from it. Kyle watched as Madison began ordering what seemed like a feast fit for a king or queen for that matter. Across from where he stood the Lieutenant finished with ordering her meal and about the same time Kyle had thought of what he was dying to try. "Uh... Hamburger, fries, uh... stawberry-chocolete shake...and i'd like um....green tea?" The computer responded with the usual hum and the meal materialized in front of him. He picked up the food which sat in front of him and carried it over to where Madison was sitting. Kyle took a seat opposite from her and set down his food taking a quick glance over towards her, he noticed that he had ordered the same thing. "Um... hamburgers seem to be in style these days aboard starfleet ships I take it?" He closed his eyes and felt stupid. ~Good job... nice bit of small talk... IDIOT!!!~ he thought to himself as Maddie answered. (reply Madison) A quick red blush covered his face as he picked up his hamburger and tried to cover with a bite. "I mean um... I’ve seen lots of officers ordering them from the replicators." Finishing his bite he set down the burger and tried to think of something else to say like maybe the situation at hand. It was kinda late for that he noticed that Maddie had already taken a sort of stun from the previous question. (reply Madison) "What I meant by that was...." He paused trying to think of something quick to cover with. ~Oh, now this is a perfect scene I’m hitting on Lt. Munroe which I hold the utmost respect for and whose skill I’m gonna need a great deal of. Great job dumbass.~ "...It must remind allot of people about home, don't you think?" ~Bullseye, can you not become anymore of an ass towards yourself.~ (reply Madison if you want) By now Domini had sat down with quite the smirk on her face pointed towards Kyle. ~Oh man, I forgot am half betazed..and because I haven't gotten down my skill yet I've just broadcasted that whole conversation outward.~ Kyle picked up his burger and stared down at his fries hoping Domini wouldn't say anything in comment to Kyle's halfassed attempt at making smalltalk, if that was at all what you could call it. ==================================== (Boudicca - 10 forward -Cultural Anthropologist- Lt Madison Munroe- 1342) ==================================== Maddie watched as Dr. Rin sat down. She giggled as she noticed that he had almost the exact same meal that she did, including the strawberry milkshake. "Um... hamburgers seem to be in style these days aboard Starfleet ships I take it?" he said, seeming a bit nervous. Maddie hadn't really worked with Dr. Rin, since their fields seldom crossed paths, but she had some dealings with him as her department chief. He had always seemed pretty nice, even sensitive, which was rare in a man, even in the 25th century. Then she remembered he was half Betazoid, which probably explained a lot. He was also a lot younger than she was. At 22 he was already CSO, which also said a lot about him. Maddie called him Dr. Rin, not only out of respect, but so that she wouldn’t call him boyo, or some other cutsie nickname that she liked to come up for people. He was kinda cute too. To bad. "I didn't realize I was making a fashion statement with my food," Maddie replied. "Although I do like the pink color of strawberry shakes," she smiled and winked. "I mean um...," Rin began to stumble on his words and his face looked a little redder than before, "I've seen lots of officers ordering them from the replicators." "Really," Maddie said, biting a fry, "I hadn't noticed. Maybe I'm just a trend setter." "What I meant by that was....," Rin's discomfort was becoming even more apparent, "It must remind alot of people about home, don't you think?" Maddie was suddenly aware of Rin's discomfort. She was torn, wondering how much fun it would be to continue this torture, and how much the young CSO would appreciate her saving him from himself. "Food does have a calming quality to it," she began to analyze his statement. "Indeed, many cultures pride themselves on their culinary experiences. Perhaps your right. Does it remind you of home? I didn't realize you were born on Earth." Before Rin could say anything else Domini sat down at the table. She had a look on her face, like the proverbial cat who swallowed the canary. She was looking at Rin. Maddie looked from Domini, to Rin, back to Domini. She opened her hands and looked worried. "What?" she asked. ==================================== (Boudicca - 10 forward -COUNS- Dr. Domini Alizara- 1344) ==================================== While Domini gathered her food from the replicator, today a small plate of steaming combination lo mein, 3 egg rolls, a small bowl of egg drop soup with the crunchy noodle things and a pot of steaming, fragrant green tea, she looked around the lounge to see Maddie and Rin chatting at one of the tables. She tried very hard not to listen to Rin's thoughts as he projected them for everyone in the lounge to hear. Domini had been working with Rin on controlling his telepathic abilities, and she thought they had met some success. When she heard him project very clearly that he was an idiot she smothered a grin as she sat her tray down. ::You are projecting.:: She said, smiling at Rin, and trying very hard to keep her eyes off of Maddie. "What?" Maddie asked, a worried look on her face. "Nothing." Domini managed to stammer out. "Nothing at all." She looked at their identical plates. "I guess that I missed the memo." She said, indicating their lunch. She watched Rin bite into the big juicy hamburger and tried not to wince. She hated the texture of ground beef. "How can you eat that?" She asked, a 'mr. yuck' look on her face. "Isn't the texture revolting ?" she spun the lo mein noodles around on her fork and took a big bite of it, closing her eyes in blissful culinary pleasure. She ten picked up a napkin and cleaned off the corners of her mouth. "I love chinese." She said, sipping the green tea, then dipping the egg roll into the egg drop soup. "Yummmm" She purred, opening her eyes to catch the expression on Maddie's face. "You have something to say, Madison?" Domini teased. ==================================== (Boudicca - 10 forward - CSO/2O - Dr. Kyle Morie Rin - 1345) ==================================== Setting down the hamburger along with a disgusted look covering most of his face. Kyle swallowed what occupied his mouth and wiped his face with a napkin. "Well... it doesn't exactly match up to my mother's meals." He said with a sour look. "Madison, your welcome to the rest of my fries if you want..." With that said he stood up and walked back over to the replicator. "Could I have a Betazed Chinese egg roll Danish?" Once again the replicator hummed and the meal appear before him, Kyle picked it up and made his way back over to the table. Setting down what he ordered and returning to his seat he saw that Domini had an odd look on her face. "Oh, this? my mother use to make it. It's pretty much just an over-sized egg roll with a few added Betazoid traditions mixed in. I programmed it into the databank after I got settled in on the Boudicca." Kyle picked up his fork and cut a section off and placed it into his mouth. He chewed it slowly to savor the taste then swallowed it of course this time he ended with a smile. "Before you get any bad ideas Maddie I’ve never actually had hamburger before. As for now I don't really seem to be in the mood for it." Kyle froze and realized what he had just addressed Lt. Munroe by. (reply Madison) ~I've never called her that before....Maddie? huh...actually if ya think about it it's kinda cute.~ Kyle cleared his throat trying to break any concentration Munroe had over what had just been said. ::Did I seriously just say that aloud Domini?:: He sent over to her with a red blush across his face. (reply Madison & Domini) "Um, Lieutenant..." He began trying his damnest to stray from making a fool of himself any further. "What course of action do you think we should take towards the problems which lie ahead?" Picking up his green tea he took a sip and sat back in his chair taking glances back and forth between Domini & Madison he smiled and waited for the lieutenant to answer. ==================================== (USS Boudicca, Bridge, FO, Commander Grailik, 1348) ==================================== Grailik had left the Conference room after Sevant had called the meeting to a close. He had taken command of the ship while Sevant met in private with Ensign Skylynx. He at in the command chair looking over the sensor data on the planet they had collected so far. A sense of wrongness growing within him. The more he looked at the planet the stronger the feeling got. ~Something is not right. What have we gotten our selves into?~ Grailik could find nothing to justify his growing sense of unease, but the feeling continued to mount as he read over the data. "Status of the cloak?" Sevant said, heralding his arrival on the bridge. Grailik moved to vacate the center seat for Sevant moving to his customary position on the Captains right hand. "You're with me," Sevant said, looking at Grailik. Grailik nodded and rose from his seat and followed the Captain to the turbo-lift. "Science Labs." Sevant barked, once the doors had closed. The lift started. "This is not turning into a simple shakedown mission." he finally said to Grailik. "No. No it isn't,"Grailik said, a little distracted. Then making his decision he turned to fully face Sevant. "I've got this growing feeling that something is wrong and I don't mean us being thrown back in time. Something with the planet, but I don't know what. It's like we have stumbled onto a path and now must see it through. No matter where it leads." (Reply Sevant) NRPG: Room for more. RPG: The lift doors opened and Grailik followed Sevant out into the science labs. He watched with Sevant for a brief time as the science personnel moved about working on figuring out their current predicament. "Get in touch with cultural anthropology and review as much of the sensor data on that planet as possible, it never hurts to be prepared," Sevant said, turning his head toward Grailik but keep his eyes on the room in general. "Right away," Grailik said, nodding his head. He moved off to find Lt's. Munroe and Alizara. ==================================== (Boudicca - 10 forward -Cultural Anthropologist- Lt Madison Munroe- 1348) ==================================== "What?" Maddie asked, a worried look on her face. "Nothing." Domini managed to stammer out. "Nothing at all." She looked at their identical plates. "I guess that I missed the memo." She said, indicating their lunch. Maddie shrugged at the coincidental meals, taking abig bite from her burger. Her closed as she enjoyed the mixtures of flavor and texture. "How can you eat that?" Domini asked, looking quite disgusted. ""Isn't the texture revolting ?" She took a bite of her own food. "I love chinese. Yummmm." Maddie was surprised by her obvious pleasure with her food. But when the counselor purred, actually purred, she wondered what else could elicit that reaction from her. "You have something to say, Madison?" Domini teased. Maddie turned a little red, wondering if the Betazoid was sensing her reactions. "Actually, I quite like the texture," Maddie managed to say. Then she smiled, "You might be surprised at the things I like." "Well... it doesn't exactly match up to my mother's meals," Rin said, as if he suddenly realized he didn't like the food. "Madison, your welcome to the rest of my fries if you want." "Don't mind if I do," she replied, reaching across and picking one of the fries up and putting it between her lips. "Yummy." Rin got up and went back to the replicator. When he returned he had a meal more like Domini's. She wasn't sure waht had caused the sudden change in his appetite, but she looked at Domini with a little more curiosity. She was looking at Dr. Rin with puzzled look. "Oh, this?" Rin said, "my mother use to make it. It's pretty much just an over-sized egg roll with a few added betazoid traditions mixed in. I programmed it into the databank after I got settled in on the Boudicca." "Before you get any bad ideas Maddie," he turned his attention to her, "I've never actually had hamburger before. As for now I don't really seem to be in the mood for it." ~Maddie is it now.~ She smiled at his sudden familiarity. "Ah well, moods change. More for me." A big smile drew across her lovely face as she enjoyed another of the stolen fries. She noticed something seemed to be going on between Rin and Domini. It was more of a feeling than actual evidence. Maddie had always believed that her strength in science was her ability to intuitively notice things rather than analyze the hard data. She was usually right. "Um, Lieutenant," Rin said, "What course of action do you think we should take towards the problems which lie ahead?" ~Ah back to business.~ But she did enjoy her business. She got excited at the prospect of this new civilization, which in their reality, was actually long extinct. "Well I did manage to get some preliminary data on the planet. that it is inhabited , in a pre-technology age, post-industrial age. They actually communicate via these devices using a combination of radio and micro-waves." She was starting to get excited now as she began to relate what she knew. "Even better, they still watch a thing called "television." It's a form of media, entertainment, information distribution that was used on earth centuries ago. Fascinating stuff. I've always wanted to see one in use. We will, of course, need to go down there and see what this place is like, meet the people and their society. Perhaps it can lead us to understand what happened to their planet." ==================================== (Boudicca - Science Labs - SO Munroe, COUNS Dr. Alizara, & CSO/2O Dr. Rin - 1350) ==================================== Taking a faster stride ahead Kyle entered the science lab first while Munroe & Alizara followed behind. "Alright people!" Kyle spoke up with a stern voice. "We've got a singularity, and a prewarp culture the captain wants the best approach for getting us home. I need two teams, the first will study are current 'time travel' incident... The second needs to find us a way home, should Captain Sevant or Commander Grailik ask for our current status do everything in your power to assist them." (reply Munroe, Alizara, any if you want) Pausing for a second he watched as the science teams formed up and began working on the various problems ahead of them. Kyle turned around and focused his attention onto Madison & Domini. "Madison, i'm placing you in charge should anything come up inform me at once, Domini before you join Munroe could I see you for a second in my office?" (reply Munroe, Alizara, any) Giving the Lieutenant and Counselor a brief nod, Kyle turned his attention back towards the science teams with a quick look of satisfaction on his face he took his leave. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End of Compile, Part 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~