Captain Serala: I Actually Understood That! It's About Time!
Serala
Stapledon: I think we have sufficient space for now but I can check. Here is a question though, is there anything additional you think we could be doing for you and the rest of the crew in science?
Serala was relieved. It had been difficult enough to find space for T’Ama and the Ops center. Room for more labs would have been difficult.
Serala: Actually, there is. And I think Commander Ada’s expertise can help with this. As you know, when I was frocked, Admiral Washington tasked us with exploring the Solerian Sector as well as the Par’tha Expanse. Now, I don’t have any immediate plans to go there, but I would like to start getting some preliminary astrometric data from the region.
Stapledon: Okay, that sounds like a good idea
Serala: We’re going to go there eventually, Lieutenant. I want to be prepared as much as possible for when we do.
Stapledon: Aye captain.
Serala: Excellent. And what about the rest of your scans? Anything of interest?
Stapledon: The region has been pretty interesting so far. We ended up discovering a few temporal anomalies. I've done my best to map out what we observed and occasionally encountered.
Serala: More temporal anomalies? Such as what, exactly?
It concerned her that so many were popping up. She was no expert, but far, but even she knew that there shouldn’t be so many in such a tightly packed space. Something was causing the issue.
Stapledon: We had the odd beaver-like aliens at the crash site on Yatil I and then the whalesong we were tracking for a bit last shoreleave. Luckily the anomalies that actually affected the ship slowed and stopped over the days after we returned from the incident with the Qin. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the immediate aftereffects of the Organians' work to repair things involved briefly exposing parts of subspace in this region.
Serala nodded, surprised she was actually following Stapledon for a change. She wasn’t good with science, but she did have some knowledge or she never would have graduated the Academy. And her intervening years had provided additional exposure.
Serala: That makes a certain amount of sense to me. What can we do to confirm this theory? I’d like to make sure we’re not dealing with a larger problem.
Stapledon: Response
Serala: And how would you go about doing that?
Stapledon: Response
Serala tried to track the response as best as she could then nodded.
Serala: And what kind of precautions would we need to take, if any?
Stapledon: Response