Lt. JG. Gnai - Hunting For A Planet
Lich
(( Holodeck 2 - Deck 2, USS Artemis-A ))
Space stretched out before the two of them, completely encircling the pair as they hung among the stars. It was in the holodeck, of course, or Gnai would have been extremely worried for Ens. Imril’s continued survival. A line stretched brightly across the cosmos, tracing out the path that Ens. Imril had traveled over their life, overlapping with Gnai’s own mental line that traced its travels (as few as they had been).
Gnai: Thank you for letting this relive some of its travels, even if not all the memories are pleasant. ::flashing with gratitude, before switching gears, now curious again:: What were your travels like, before the Artemis? ::pointing to Bajor:: This only got to experience a bit of the wilderness on Bajor… and a hospital. None of the cities, or anything like that.
Imril: ::looking at Bajor’s star:: I lived there for a time. Jalanda City. That’s where I did most of my studying to get into the Academy. Good food, good people. Nice, hot summers. Lots of places to walk around and explore. The busiest starport I’ve seen wasn't on Earth. A nature preserve. Old, old archeological sites, one of which I got to visit as part of my Academy prep.
Gnai: That must have been fascinating… if this recalls correctly, Bajoran civilization stretches far beyond most other humanoid species currently present in the quadrant.
Not longer than Galadoran civilization, of course. They hadn’t needed to develop things like “bones” or “ears”, which had caused the humanoid races of the galaxy to lag far behind in their evolution. Sure, that gave Galadorans a bit of an advantage in claiming to be older than some of the others, but the humanoids should have thought of that first before focusing valuable time on “spleens” when they could have been focused on building a civilization.
Imril: The places between there and Earth... To be honest, a lot of those stars were just pitstops along the way to the Academy. I didn’t so much as get off the ship or shuttle I was on for some of them, maybe a quick look around a starport for some of the others. ::pointing to the section linking Sol to Starbase 118:: I was on a Centaur-class patrol ship for that whole stretch, a cadet on my way to the campus on Starbase 118. I spent most of my time there attending remote classes and being put through battle drills. I barely had time to look outside a porthole, let alone stretch my legs at a starbase. The one time I touched down on a planet was my first real mission. A rescue mission. The colonists on Huith IV thought the world was uninhabited. It wasn’t. ::a small laugh:: Turned out the natives needed rescuing, too.
Gnai: Seems like a lot of what Starfleet does could be counted as rescue missions…
In particular, it was reminded of the mission to Laoi III.
Imril: Should we begin? ::looking around:: Oh. I didn’t mean to have no ‘floor’ in this thing. I think the computer faded it out when I told it to reduce the nearby star. Let me fix that.
Below them, a platform faded in at Ens. Imril’s commands. It wasn’t necessary, but Gnai suspected that Ens. Imril felt the need to have something visible beneath their feet, just for sanity’s sake. Gnai, for one, was perfectly comfortable floating through space still. But for politeness’ sake, it bobbed gratefully in its tank.
Gnai: Thank you, ensign.
Imril: Computer, save program under the original name, and then blank my star-map and re-save it as…?
Gnai: Galador Prime
That was as good a name as any, and would provide a different name if there ever was a need for a Galador II program.
Imril: So, recovering the location of Galador 1… What are we working with to do that? This simulation is already updated with an up-to-date astrometrics database, which I’ve already tested as you can see. There are older ones we can link in, too. And alien ones, including the Risan map I told you about way back when.
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: Response
It hadn’t been easy, but it had contacted some of the Galadorans it had known before it left, who had been hesitant but eventually willing to poke into some of the databases of the various domed cities that littered the coasts of Galador II. Each city had once been a generation ship, sent off across the galaxy by the original Galadoran civilization, and each had some traces of records left. The only issue was that there were great deals of contradiction between them, stemming from the development of the fractured Galadoran societies on each ship. It had taken a good deal of time to reunify the Galadoran society upon arrival to their new homeworld, another period of time that Galadoran society didn’t look longingly upon.
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: Response
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.
Imril: Response
Tags/TBC :)