Lieutenant Commander Marty Tucker - Long Gone Day
Martin Tucker
Evinrude: ::He took a breath, and tried to pull away from the micro details to see the forest, not trees.:: Okay, let's think about this. We've lost a probe, and now-- ::He quickly checked his language, not wanting to use "lost" when lives were on the line.:: Now a shuttle has gone through. But we have other probes that made it back, and this wreckage here...there has to be a trend.
Marty heard an alert go off on his tripadd. Morgan had sent him a present. The data indicated that the chronitons were starting to polarize, which was bad news.
Tucker: According this ::shakes his tripadd in the air:: we’re going to experience a temporal black hole if we’re not careful, and we’ll get sucked in just like they did, supposedly, and possibly blow up, and I don’t know about you, but I’d like to avoid that if possible. :: he smiled::
Nemes: Just imagine, debris or a shuttle would go through such a rift, then the different parts would be in temporal flux and some would be older than others. Just like we can see here.
Singh: The odds of a craft surviving such a...radical transformation are very low. We need to inform the bridge... if the Shinano is found, the people inside will almost certainly be in distress.
So there was a possibility that their Niac and Raga might still be alive, just time-shifted. Especially given that some of these parts didn’t match anything.
Tucker: If the Shinano got caught in the temporal eddy, then we’ve got big problems because that means that eddy is quickly working towards a temporal black hole. And that's the last thing we want to be caught in. Maybe Stellar Cartography can use its specialized sensor array to locate the Shinano…
Marty made a couple of notes on his tripadd, as the data kept coming in. He was wondering though how the breakdown of the black box was going.
Nemes: Response
Singh: This isn't...these aren't our Kurosawa. That's why there's so much temporal flux...we're not looking at the wreckage of a single vessel...it's several. All at once. Look at the quantum signatures of these debris fragments...they're all different. There are two...maybe three different ships here.
Marty ran a hand over his neck, three different Kurosawas, meaning three different pairs of Niac and Rag. And with the way time was acting, it was a complete crapshoot at whatever the eddy coughed up.
oO I wonder if we should try hailing the captain and XO, risky and hard to do with the interference the eddy was putting off and the fact they’d have to get closer, and the anomaly would start messing with people again. He was looking forward to the splitting headache he’d gotten. Oo
Evinrude: I agree with that assessment, sir. We didn't stand a chance, trying to assemble this like a traditional salvage and accident investigation. ::He gestured to a few items highlighted on his screen.:: Explains why we're seeing evidence of multiple failure points. ::Quietly, to himself.:: My god...did Niac and Raga's bodies go through the same transformation?
Tucker: ::he grimaced:: It’s a good bet that might be what happens, get twisted into a pretzel or worse. ::shivering:: That was an unpleasant thought. And I know::pointing at the wreckage:: that damaged warp core isn’t from our Kurosawa, that’s for sure. So no way to assess what happened:he dragged a hand through his unruly red hair:: we’re going to end up going in circles. Not to mention, temporal mechanics make my teeth itch.
Nemes: Response
The Major went back to tapping away at her console. She said something, but he couldn’t hear what she had said. Marty tried not to pace, but gave in and started up again. Everyonce and a while, he’d glance down at his tripadd as it was working on some calculations.
Singh: It doesn't match...none of these have the same quantum signature as the decking below it. Or of any of us.
Evinrude: Major! ::Then, to Tucker.:: Commander! They...they're not dead. Ours aren't dead. The flight recorder should hopefully tell us more about the timeline, but we didn't lose the Niac and Raga that we knew. ::He corrected himself.:: That we know.
Marty gave him a look; anything was possible at that moment.
Evinrude: =/\= Evinrude to...science. ::His voice grew a little impatient, but not angrily so.:: To...anyone in Stellar Cartography!
Stellar Cartography (i.e., Solana/Dekas/Esot and/or T'Fearne): Response
((OOC: Not pulling all of the above into this scene! Just opening an opportunity for data share between the teams. Feel free to pick someone in Cartography to respond and add/remove tags as needed.))
Evinrude: =/\= :: At their response, he slowed his breathing and smoothed his tone.:: Not to rush you, but have you cracked into the flight recorder yet? We may have good news.
Marty crossed his arms across his chest as he came to a stop and watched as a few more bits and bobs materialized on the deck, and one of them didn’t look like it belonged. Marty moved across the deck to the wreckage pieces, and the closer he got, the more he recognized it. It didn’t look like it should belong to the Kurosawa, at least not theirs.
Tucker: ::pointing to the object in question:: Is it me, or is that a coaxial warp drive? I’ve read about them but never seen one before. This could explain a few things.
Nemes/Singh:
Stellar Cartography: Response (optional)
Evinrude: =/\= Right, so even though some version of the Ronin has lost their commanding officers, ours could still be out there. Let us know when you unravel the version of the recorder that found us...I hope it helps us find our missing crew. Evinrude out. =/\=
While Evinrude worked that angle, Marty’s attention was on the warp drive that didn’t belong. What he did know was that they are very unstable and that the Voyager crew came across one in the Delta Quadrant, and if he remembered the report, it didn’t go so well.
Nemes: Response
Tucker: Story time, kids: a Coaxial Warp drive is a theoretical propulsion system proposed by Starfleet engineers. They bounced the theory around for years. The problem was that, when used, it would fold space, allowing the user to travel any distance in an instant. Of course, folding space is a pretty violent procedure. What made this even more dangerous was that, if there was a warp core breach, it could collapse space over a distance of one billion kilometers. That’s B for billions. One of the problems is that the polaric modulator is prone to attack from chronoelectic pulses….
Nemes/Evinrude/Singh: Response
Tucker: I’m just saying, this thing could be a source or at least one of the reasons the eddy is there in the first place. Or at least a contributing factor, as it could have been one of Kurosawa’s, as we know now, there were several, all from different times.
Nemes/Evinrude/Singh: Response
Marty ran his tripadd over the coaxial warp drive to verify its quantum signature. Although he expected the results, he wanted to confirm as a precaution.
Tucker: Yeah, I was right, definitely from a different reality or time, I can’t really tell which. Tricorders and internal sensors are only about half their capacity now that we’ve moved farther from the anomaly.
Nemes/Evinrude/Singh: Response