Posted by Lieutenant Commander Soral T’Varan (Chief Diplomatic Officer) in Main Sim: The Arrival at Listening Post 47

Posted by Lieutenant Izak Waryn (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim: The Arrival at Listening Post 47

Posted by Gamemaster WHITE TIGER (Gamemaster Trainee) in Main Sim: The Arrival at Listening Post 47
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“Very well, Commander Vance. We’ll be there shortly.” She said to Commander Vance. “Commander Kelley and Commander Ezeami, along with Ensign Gibbs, to Transporter Room 1 for beam over. We don’t want to have them waiting.” She ordered.

Charlotte Kelley rose from her station without hesitation, collecting her PADD before making her way toward the turbolift.

“Aye, Captain.”

She glanced briefly toward Commander Ezeami and Ensign Gibbs, giving each a professional nod.

“It looks like we’re about to get our first look at what Commander Vance has been dealing with. Let’s stay sharp and keep our eyes open. If there’s anything unusual aboard the station, we’ll assess it quickly and coordinate with their staff.”

Her tone was calm and confident, the voice of an experienced executive officer who understood the importance of setting the example. Turning back to the captain, she added, “Away team is ready when you are, Captain.”

With that, Kelley fell into step just behind Captain T’Nara as they entered the turbolift, bound for Transporter Room One.

Gibbs heard his name called and shut down the screen he was working on at the Science station, transferring the data to his PADD.

“Right Away, Commander” Gibbs replied following the others into the turbolift down to Transporter Room 1.

Ensign Gibbs

The Chief Engineer smiled at Falz’s comment. The man was an engineer by trade himself and still liked to keep his hands busy. Izak figured he’d be very similar if he ever took a post in Operations on another ship.

It was actually nice to have somebody on the bridge with an engineering background. His department was tired of getting complaints like ‘The sensors don’t work right’ or ‘my console is acting funny’ from the bridge crew.

=/\=”Thanks, Lt Hegush… I’ll play nice with Science and Security as well. There’s more than enough sensor power to go around.” It was rare that engineering had a chance to utilize the sensors… the external ones at least. Their job was keeping the ship fully operational, and Lt Waryn decided that in this instance, it meant protecting it from whatever was going on in the anomaly.

The Chief Engineer’s fingers flew over the console’s buttons, trying to analyze any temporal markers and compare it to documented phenomenon.

OOC: Doing scans of the anomaly, primarily anything related to time dilation/time travel/ or other temporal mechanics. Only after that’s done will he compare it to the data the listening post sent over.

Lt Izak Waryn - Chief Engineer - U.S.S. Ark Angel

The ArkAngel’s sensor arrays responded to Lieutenant Waryn’s command, the engineering station feeding additional processing power into the analysis as the Chief Engineer narrowed the scan parameters. The initial readings returned were exactly what the crew had expected — unstable subspace interference, elevated chroniton emissions, and fluctuating temporal distortions surrounding Listening Post 47.

However, as the deeper scan completed, the data began to separate itself from the background noise.

The anomaly was not a simple tear in space-time.

The sensor display highlighted a repeating pattern.

A pulse moved through the affected region at regular intervals, briefly stabilizing portions of the surrounding subspace before the distortion returned. The cycle repeated with enough consistency that the computer was able to begin predicting the next fluctuation.

TEMPORAL OSCILLATION DETECTED
CYCLE INTERVAL: 00:03:14

As the scan continued, additional information began to populate across the engineering and science displays.

A secondary reading appeared.

Something had passed through the anomaly.

The computer isolated the residual signature from the surrounding interference, identifying traces of an artificial warp field embedded within the temporal distortion. The signature was old, damaged, and heavily degraded, but the pattern was unmistakably Federation.

A registry fragment appeared.

NCC-74621

The computer paused briefly as it cross-referenced the information.

VESSEL MATCH FOUND
USS PATHFINDER
INTREPID-CLASS

The sensor returns confirmed what had previously only been theoretical.

The Pathfinder had not been destroyed.

It had been caught inside the temporal phenomenon.

Further scans revealed a localized temporal field surrounding the vessel’s last known position. The anomaly had effectively separated the starship from normal space-time, leaving behind only faint traces of its warp signature.

The readings were incomplete, but enough information was available to determine the situation.

The temporal field was still active.

And it was changing.

A new warning appeared as the sensors detected the anomaly beginning another cycle.

TEMPORAL SURGE PREDICTED
ESTIMATED TIME UNTIL PEAK FLUCTUATION: 03 HOURS, 47 MINUTES

During the surge, the anomaly would become more unstable — but the increased activity would also create a brief opportunity for deeper sensor penetration.

The final portion of the scan revealed one more detail.

A faint power signature.

Weak.

Intermittent.

But artificial.

The Pathfinder was still generating limited energy emissions from somewhere inside the temporal distortion.

The ArkAngel’s sensor sweep had provided the first clear answer in four years of searching.

The missing starship was not gone.

It was waiting.u

WHITE TIGER
GM • USS ARKANGEL
NCC-98729
“Where Legends Begin”

The Chief Engineer blinked when the sensor information started popping up.

There was a lot of information to process, and he found himself pulled in too many directions at once. Another reminder that I never spent enough time training as Duty Operations to feel comfortable with the sensors.

It was the temporal nature of the anomaly that had pulled him away from his engineering duties, so that’s where he started.

At first, the readings were along the lines of what he expected, and he knew the data would be saved and compared to similar temporal disturbances. But then he noticed that the distortion would periodically clear before fading into noise again. That led him down a rabbit hole that revealed a pattern: a repeating pulse. A signal that almost… fortified the anomaly.

But is it natural or artificial? There wasn’t enough information for Izak to confidently say one way or the other.

The pending surge was another matter altogether. Initial indications suggested their sensors would be able to penetrate deeper into the anomaly when it happened and maybe gain critical information about the temporal phenomenon. That was an exciting prospect for Lt. Waryn… but he wondered if the Pathfinder had a similar idea, and whether that was how it had ended up in its current predicament.

=/\=”Engineering to Bridge. I’m highlighting a couple of different sections of the sensor data. There’s some sort of pulse occurring every 3 minutes and 14 seconds that seems to be strengthening the surrounding subspace. The temporal field isn’t stable, though… the computer is predicting a surge in just under four hours.”

Lieutenant Commander Storm had been left in charge with both the CO and XO on the away team, so he deferred to the Chief Helmsman to assess what to do about that.

OOC: Since I was specifically looking for information on the anomaly, and others were using the sensors as well, I figured I’d let somebody else respond to the warp field and the power signature.

Lt. Izak Waryn - Chief Engineer - U.S.S. Ark Angel

Lieutenant Commander Soral T’Varan studied the sensor data as it populated across the science console, his fingers moving with deliberate precision as he isolated the newly identified readings from the surrounding temporal interference.

The computer’s analysis was compelling.

A repeating temporal oscillation.

Residual Federation warp signatures.

A partial registry.

And, most significant of all, intermittent power emissions.

He initiated a series of independent verification scans, allowing the Ark Angel’s secondary sensor processors to compare the data against Starfleet’s historical database. Several moments later, the results matched the initial findings.

There was no statistical basis to dismiss the readings as sensor artefacts.

Soral turned slightly toward Lieutenant Commander Storm.

“Commander.”

His voice remained calm and even.

“I have verified Lieutenant Waryn’s findings. The residual warp signature is consistent with a Federation vessel, and the registry fragment correlates with the USS Pathfinder. Confidence level exceeds ninety-nine percent.”

His attention returned briefly to the display as another pulse propagated through the anomaly.

“The temporal oscillation appears cyclical rather than random. Every three minutes and fourteen seconds, the surrounding subspace experiences a brief period of increased stability. It is during these intervals that our sensors achieve their greatest penetration.”

Another set of figures appeared on his console.

“The intermittent power emissions are likewise consistent across multiple scan cycles. Although weak, they exhibit characteristics associated with an active matter-antimatter power distribution network.”

A brief pause.

“If these readings are accurate, the vessel has retained at least partial power throughout its displacement.”

He refrained from offering speculation.

Instead, he presented only what the data supported.

“I cannot determine the condition of the crew. However, the continued presence of artificial power strongly suggests that the vessel has not undergone complete systems failure.”

His fingers made one final adjustment to the sensor array.

“I recommend maintaining continuous passive observation of the anomaly. During the predicted temporal surge, we should maximize sensor resolution and record the phenomenon in its entirety. The increased instability presents additional risk, but it also represents our greatest opportunity to obtain definitive scientific data.”

Soral allowed the recommendation to stand on its own merits before returning to his console.

For the first time in four years, the evidence suggested that the USS Pathfinder had not simply vanished.

It had been waiting.

Lt Cmdr Soral T’Varan
Chief Diplomatic Officer
USS Ark Angel

Cross sat quietly listening to the cross talk of the bridge crew as they discussed the sensors findings. He felt a sense of impending excitement which he was trying to temper. There was no garuantee of who was left alive on the Pathfinder. And would they be able to help them?

Lieutenant Alex Cross
Chief Counselor
U.S.S. Ark Angel