Hi all,

I thought I would do a short recap on where we are with the sim, noting that there is a lot going on and it all needs to start converging so that you can arrive at the answer to the question “WTF is happening?”.

Prelude

The Memorial came across a derelict ship, and beamed an away team aboard. The away team found Frax and a mysterious cube, before having to be beamed back to the Memorial as an unidentified, cylindrical ship was closing on their position. The Memorial headed away from the ship, which engaged a Ferengi vessel that had come back to collect Frax and their salvage. The Ferengi didn’t fare well, and were destroyed by the cylindrical ship… well, I say destroyed, but it was more disintegrated.

Act One - The Attack

The cylindrical ship started to pursue the Memorial. As it got closer, it fired its weapons at the Memorial, which caused power surges throughout the ship. The cube reacted to these power surges, before finally emitting a huge tachyon field. It was at that time, the Memorial (unbeknownst to its crew) traversed from the ‘Prime’ universe to an alternative (let’s say ‘Alpha’) universe. A few crew change shenanigans later, and you had a new CO and XO.

Act Two - Studying the Problem

Through some scientific hocus-pocus, the science labs were able to better understand the cube. It seemed to be a weapon designed to allow the traversing between universes, and is programmed by the target universe’s quantum signature, which is converted into a frequency. The crew also determined that they were in no longer in the Prime universe. Meanwhile, the Excalibur began approaching the Memorial, apparently trying to communicate with the Alpha Memorial, searching for some form of robotic lifeforms.

Meanwhile, the crew were able to get as much detail out of Frax as they could; primarily that he was scared about the ‘droidlings’ and also had some mysterious bits of metal he had picked up from the derelict ship.

With the ship in an area of space that was recovering from the space-time event that had transported the ship to the Alpha universe, it was no surprise that one of the fighters disappeared into a distortion. What was a surprise was that it came back with significant damage to it. The pilot was saved, and is now in sickbay.

What’s Next?

I’m quite keen to move us to Act Three, but to do that I need the following to occur:

1. A quick study of the distortions and/or a conversation with the pilot (in sickbay) to determine where she went, and what happened to her fighter?
2. An analysis of the objects that Frax not-so-subtly hinted at in the holodeck.
3. A plan for what to do with the cube, now that you know it’s a fancy multi-universe transportation device.
4. A plan about what to do with the Excalibur; do you stay to talk to them, fight them, or return to your own universe?

GM