Ensign Imril - What Do We Know?
Chris Taylor
(( Holodeck 2 - Deck 2, USS Artemis-A ))
Gnai: Whatever was on the other side… ::thinking for a moment:: Do you think that any part of the planet might have been transported by the ancient wormhole, rather than being outright destroyed?
Imril thought back on what they had heard and read of the destruction of the moon of Moric. The ejection of parts of its surface into the surrounding space-scape. It wasn’t impossible that Galador 1 broke up in a similar way, allowing the wormhole to claim some or most of the planet’s mass. But the odds of it having happened at all were impossible to calculate via the computer with the information Imril had at their disposal.
Imril: Without knowing more about the wormhole itself, I don’t suppose I could say one way or the other. If a piece of the planet ended up on the other side of the wormhole, we can assume that any atmosphere that was carried with it either escaped into space or froze around the asteroid. If such a piece ended up orbiting a new star, it might be a comet now.
Proximity to a star would allow for such a ‘tail’ of warm gasses to trail the piece of Galador 1.
Gnai: That could be something to investigate further at another time, if such an occasion arises…
Imril: Sorry, I’m letting supposition get ahead of the data.
Gnai: But yes, this is getting distracted. ::thinking again:: You were right though, to think of this as a system, rather than just as one singular moment in time, one singular act of destruction. Whatever the wormhole did to Galador would have also impacted the rest of the system gravitationally.
Imril: There would almost certainly be other planets in the system that would have been affected. Going by the standards of how star systems form.
Gnai: Precisely. The chances of a system with a planet like Galador, able to support life, only having one planetary body total? Minimal, at best. Perhaps one way to go about would be to look for sightings of rogue planets, and then trajectories can be traced backwards…
Imril: Astrometrics does maintain a database of rogues, and in some cases estimated systems of origin, which could be added to this program. But at present, we don't know if a rogue was ejected from the planet at all. I’m thinking we should program a simulation of Galador 1’s destruction based on the information we do have, and use it to project what the various results of the planet-wormhole interaction were.
From there, they could start looking for interspatial ‘oddities’ among stellar databases modern and ancient.
Gnai: Response
Imril: Does your list of facts include any data about the wormhole itself?
Gnai: Response
Imril: What about the planet? Its neighboring worlds? The properties of its sun?
Gravitational interactions were at the crux of determining if a rogue could have been ejected from the system. So any knowledge of the various planets’ orbits would be very useful.
Gnai: Response
Tags/TBC
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Ensign Imril
Engineering Officer
USS Artemis-A
A240110I12