Ensign Imril - Star Talk
Chris Taylor
(( Holodeck 2 - Deck 2, USS Artemis-A ))
The experiment had a name now. The very name of the place the pair of officers intended to find.
Gnai: Well, this isn’t too certain exactly on the dates when the original Galadorans left the system, except that it was an extremely long time ago… It wasn’t tracked very accurately on the generation ships that transported Galadorans to Galador II.
Imril: Hmm… ‘An Extremely long time ago’ in stellar terms could mean the difference between looking for a main sequence star and something else. Red giant, white dwarf, a nebula. The better approximation on dates we have, the better we may know what type of stellar body could be there now.
Gnai: ::holding up a PADD:: This has some estimates on the exact timing of the diaspora. The one most useful fact, however, is that the reason for the departure from the original Galador system is known. ::pointing to Bajor’s star in the starfield in front of them:: The original system was destroyed by a wormhole.
Imril took a look at the padd. The estimates had a pretty wide range of earliest and latest dates. But not so long ago as to tick off significant portions of a star’s life cycle. (Though the presence of a wormhole might have affected that cycle…)
Imril: And that wormhole might have been detected by outside observers. Each one recording it at different times as determined by the speed of light. That data could be mathed back to a singular point in space and time.
Gnai: Exactly - the estimate of departure time in addition to long-range sensor scans across the galaxy could hopefully narrow down the search to a specific region. Even if the wormhole is long gone, there should still be signs of where it once existed. Your Risian map will likely be of great use here, as will any recent sensor scans saved to Starfleet’s databanks.
Though the typical indicators of a wormhole -- quantum flux, neutrino emissions, and so on -- would be long gone, the wormhole could have left a footprint in other ways. Opening up a different line of inquiry.
Imril: The best evidence of an ancient wormhole’s presence in a given system would be the permanent impact left on the bodies in the system. Is there any indication of how the system was destroyed?
Did the system’s star or stars go supernova? Did solar radiation outputs change in a way that made the planets uninhabitable? Were the planets thrown out of orbit by gravitational eddies from the other side of the wormhole? Ground to dust by those same forces? Any one of these, or countless other possibilities, would leave evidences which could be held already in a stellar database, or gone out and looked for.
All Imril could guess for sure in the moment was that said destruction didn’t occur all at once. As indicated by the fact that the Galadoran people had time to build their generation ships and escape en mass.
Gnai: Response
Imril: It’s an astrophysics problem, but I’m looking at it as an engineering problem. There was a working system in place with Galador I’s home star at the center. Planets orbiting the suns, moons orbiting planets, all of that gravity deciding the courses of comets and asteroids, sunlight feeding life cycles, planetary magnetic cores keeping that light from becoming a threat to life. And then something from outside came in -- the wormhole and whatever was on the other side -- and rumbled it. Affected the system in a way that can be identified and documented. ::correcting themself:: May have been documented.
Gnai: Response
TAG/TBC
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Ensign Imril
Engineering Officer
USS Artemis-A
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