PNPC Lt. JG. Gnai - Let's Look At It Your Way...
Lich
(( Holodeck 2 - Deck 2, USS Artemis-A ))
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: 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.
Perhaps, but Gnai wasn’t sure just how many other species would have been looking at the exact time to catch such a sight. The remains of it, however, would be far more likely to be spotted, even if it was still somewhat like searching for a needle in a haystack, to use a humanoid phrase,
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: 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?
It swayed back and forth in its tank, unhappy that it had no better answer for Ens. Imril.
Gnai: Just that it was a wormhole, an opening in space that swallowed up Galador. ::shrugging with the arms of its suit:: It’s a bit poetic, rather than scientific, this is afraid. Nothing concrete.
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.
That was a good way of thinking… but Gnai found itself minorly distracted by another thought that crowded out the first in its mind.
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: Response
Gnai: That could be something to investigate further at another time, if such an occasion arises…
The odds that they would be able to arrange such an exploration, if they were to even find evidence of where the other end of the wormhole had ended up, were basically zero, but the thought of potentially being able to observe directly the remains of its species original home planet… It was too much to pass up, even if it was deeply unlikely.
Imril: Response
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.
The wormhole itself would have wreaked havoc on the gravitational equilibrium within the system, Gnai suspected, as it moved and grew. And with the destruction and possible disappearance of a large amount of planetary mass? Ens. Imril was right - one of the best bets they had was to look for how the wormhole had disrupted the rest of the system that it hadn’t destroyed… and the knock-on effects of that in other systems, and other systems beyond…
Imril: Response
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…
The math would be horrendous, but that’s why they had the holodeck and the Artemis’ computers online with them.
Imril: Response
Tags/TBC :)