Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Mess Hall - Chat With Elm
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El quietly sipped on the tea, cupping it in both hands. It gave her time to think. Elm mentioned a signal. As far as she knew there had been no signal. Sure she had been in engineering and didn’t know of anything like that, but she had been on a long away mission and surely that would have been mentioned. If the Greyhound had arrived over a century ago and sent a signal the chances of Earth identifying it or even getting it was .. unlikely. Did they know that they had even traveled into the past? What had they thought when there was no reply? When they sent their people down to the planet to help Elm’s people, did they think it was only a matter of time before they someone came? How long did they wait after the Greyhound was destroyed before they gave up hope of help coming? What would El have done should she have been in that position? “Sir, do you think that the gravitational eddy was some kind of ‘flare’ that was sent out? Perhaps sensors there detected us and triggered it?” Not that it was a very .. nice flare - not too far from a fly suddenly careening into a spider web. It did, however, totally get their attention.

• El, Eng

Jonathan thought about it for a moment. “With time travel involved anything is possible. My theory is that the gravitational effects are a result of whatever is causing the planet to skip through time. It would probably help to get a look at one of the Serpent ships, if any still exist. Looking at the tech, it’s definitely not all Starfleet. And I’m drawing a blank on how one could create a hop through time with what we have on board this ship.”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

Elm meanwhile had finished her hot dog, and looked blankly and confused at the XO and El as they exchanged words. Since no one had asked her further questions she had nothing to reply too or offer currently.

Meanwhile outside the window tiny explosions dotting the ocean showed here and there naval battles were in progress to north and south, and likely in some form or another nuclear exchanges on a limited level were still ocurring.

GM CockRoach

El pondered that, her mind running through a great deal of equations and the like to try to match what she knew with what the XO said. Finally she said, “I don’t know, sir. The simpler solution was that the Greyhound traveled back in time. It is easier to fathom than an entire planet doing some kind of time jump. The fact that the planet reappeared in the precise location where it was supposed to be suggests more of something out of phase than time. Elm speaks of over a hundred years passing on her world with the survivors of the Greyhound.” She looked to Elm for confirmation and, glancing out the window. “Sir, is there anything we can do to stop that? Some kind of communication to the world to cease and desist, saying we’re the sister ship of the Greyhound as a sense of authority?”
- El, Eng

Elm just gave a nod of ‘yes’ to confirm what El had said before about the time passing. But more than this she obviously was out of her depth, to distract herself she stood and strode over to where bits of space junk from blown up satellites and weapon platforms and tiny space stations now nothing but space junk below in their orbital plane drifted on by.

GM CockRoach

“That I think is the main question Ensign, and up to the Captain to decide. Where the line is between what information we share with the locals, and what we don’t for both there and our own protection.”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO