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=/\= Processing request..=/\= The computer intoned.

Najjar was next, coffee cup in hand. “Good morning, Lt.” She looked around the lab. “As I’m not a scientist, I’m not sure how much help I’ll be on this assignment, but I’ll try to contribute.”

—Najjar

Demil came literally running in seconds later. “Sorry I’m a bit late,” he said. “I got stuck behind a malfunctioning door.” He walked over to a workstation and sat down. “I would suggest that Lt. Najjar examine the mental state of both crews from the scans, Lt. Lokaa work on the temporal analysis, and I go over the distress call. Is that acceptable, Ma’am?” he asked Ella.

Ens. Lis

Ella nodded, “Works for me you know I love getting my head stuck in temporal analysis!” She chuckled with a smile before heading over to the larger computer systems with dual screens. Sitting down she began to input the latest data they had received on the ship and began running it through several types of analysis to see what it would turn up. She watched as the computer, far quicker than she could process the information.

• Lt JG. Ella Lokaa, Science

As Lokaa checked the computer’s progress she found it was still processing and analyzing data....

“Yes, I’ll get right on that.” Mykl seated herself at an empty console and called up the available scans (are they video of the incident or brainwaves?).

—Najjar

For Najjar and Lis, there was of course the scans of the area within the past hour or so, their was also the distress call that they had received which had originally gotten Starbase 243 to assign them to investigating this area of the Warrens. Then there was of course also scans of the brainwaves of both the Ark Angel and Synthesis within the past hour too on file.

Meanwhile the computer was STILL processing Lokaa’s request....

GM CockRoach

“Computer, create a holographic simulation of the Synthesis’ bridge to launch specifications. Then analyze the logged distress call and modify the simulation to fit the most likely situation, based on the background noise,” Demil said, his fingers flying over the console as he spoke, looking at the data for himself.

Ens. Lis

There was a further beep from the computer at this request, =/\= Processing! =/\= it said.

Ella continued to pay attention to her own screen, she was aware if the others at work but totally engrossed in the computer as waves upon waves if data flooded the screen. “Computer, concentrate the analysis to this sector of space and anomalies similar to what were experiencing now” she cupped her chin in her hands which were supported by her elbows as she placed them on the desk in front of her.

• LT JG Ella Lokaa, Science Officer

OOC: So I just wanted to say first off apologies for the delay on this! As I said in Discord I’ve been horribly sick the past few days and I sadly let this slip off the boards, secondly I want to applaud you all for your inventive use of investigation! Really made me think on how to make this info dump of a reply up! So keep it up! HAHA

Finally for Lokaa the original request for information came up! The scans of the area did not show any obvious known signs of a temporal anomaly present. No chroniton particles for example were in evidence, nor were there any signs of above average levels of taychons or similar radiation effects. The big oddity was the age of the solar system they were in really. The system was very young by stellar terms maybe a few thousand years at best. The solar system’s sun was quite young, the three proto-planets in the system barely formed in a formational sense much less having any form of planet, animal or any other life or atmosphere for that matter. This was at odds with the Warrens at large, which for a massive stellar nebula as it was in turn was quite old spanning many millions or more years. While it was not out of the question for the Warrens to ‘birth’ new stars, planets or such it did stand out as the oddity on her scans beyond the Synthesis herself being without any problems that drew them here!

As Lokaa’s second request came up, the information was pretty much the same, nothing stood out beyond what was highlighted above. The Synthesis was by metallurgic aging was at best a year or so old based on decay rates of their ship’s hull. Where as if they had been out in space since 2162 till now they would be well on 235 years of age in decay rates. Added to this there were no signs of any abnormalities of known residual decay from a wormhole, chroniton shifts, black hole encounters, or other things which could cause time dilation effects. So in short they would have to think outside the box on this compared to known sciences or past experiences to likely solve this mystery, in short more information was needed or new ways of getting said information had to be pursued.

Meanwhile as this all got displayed for Lokaa, Lis’s request emerged from the holographic display projectors within the lab. A pair of small 3x3 foot projections of the Synthesis bridge came up. On the left was a stock, normal operations of the bridge for the Unity class, while on the right was an image of the bridge as extrapolated from the distress call logs.

OOC: Reference outline of the Unity class ship spec can be found here! https://www.star-fleet.com/library/bookshelf/tm/unity.html

The stockbridge was showing tiny holo crew going about day to day operations, really nothing to speak of worth. The right side formed up differently of course. On it the tiny holo crew were shown to be frantically moving out. At the center of the bridge, the Captain was in their chair, calling for help, describing a loss of control of the ship’s systems and their computer functions. To port of him one of the ship’s tactical oriented officers was seen to be under a console doing something with some tools, while just behind him an engineering officer was seen literally kicking at a console. Both of these were extrapolated actions based on background sounds the computer had analyzed and picked up from the Captain’s distress call. On the starboard side of the bridge, by the science and communication consoles, one of the ship’s science officers was laying on the ground seeming in pain or injured from some unknown source, while nearby the comm’s officer was talking about picking up a transmission on a high band frequency originating on E deck from the ship’s computer core, but was unable to make out what it was. Again the computer had made up this projection based on the moans/groans of pain the distress call had originated and by touching up the audio quality of isolating the comm’s officer’s background report in the call. The last position of note was the rear of the bridge section designated as the ship’s ‘briefing area’ a step down console table area with chairs. There the projection of two tiny crew projections of undetermined department origins were busy frantically punching in commands of some sort to the control systems there. The Ark Angel’s analysis of the hand functions surmised that both NE’s were attempting some kind of power shunting, the first was attempting to shunt power from the ship’s warp drive into the impulse generators, while in turn the second was then attempting to take that energy flow and attempting to send an controlled overflow of energy out the impulse propulsion motors to avoid an uncontrolled power surge.

Finally for the counselor brain wave pattern results came up on their console. The output of the Ark Angel crew’s report was a lengthy one of course to scroll through and analyze given the Mythology class had well on almost 1000 people aboard! Even with the computer narrowing things down for anything standing out there was still a bit of information to go through. However, beyond a few stand out crew who likely would be in need of some psychological and medical treatments for chemical imbalances or such, nothing stood out that seemed to be recent or not on file already before their entry into the Warrens and/or with encountering the Synthesis. So this seemed for now a bit of a dead end.

As for the much smaller Unity class cruiser USS Synthesis crew of 100 living souls on board, sadly no records were on the Ark Angel’s file of their medical records from 2162. So all they had to go on were the current scans picked up since they came into contact with them. That said going off the results, she could deduce a few things. First off all of the crew were within the age range on records that still existed for the ship, their health was more or less within expected parameters, further from a biologicals decay standpoint both mentally and physically all was within normal matters too. Their ‘age’ was appropriate for a crew coming from 2162, and not a crew that had been out here for well on some 235 years, much less somehow never aged or had clones or something made. So they were definitely dealing with normal living crew members and not say some kind of artificial life or clones or energy based beings that they could tell. As for any stand outs of unhealthy crew on the Synthesis from a brain wave/mental standpoint things seemed there again on the up and up. There were some stand outs showing they were either currently or could be in use of some kind of medical or psychological treatment but nothing that seemed to line up with anything anomalous or dangerous due to their time in the Warrens, whether that was a few days ago as the ship’s Captain to Drudoc had said or by some temporal anomaly transition. Nor did their seem to be anything obvious from the Warrens itself that was unhealthy to either ship’s crew.

More investigation and outside the box thinking on both fronts would need to be thought of it seemed, and/or more evidence gathered to get to the bottom of this crazy mystery!

GM CockRoach