Posted by Captain Arialla Bovar (Captain) in MAIN SIM pt 1: Intriguing Nebula
Warp 3.5 for a couple weeks. That had been the direction they had been given as one of three choices after the refit. So here they were, about 4 hours out from where they could start getting readings. Ari was in the Ready Room looking over what little information she had.

Captain Arialla Bovar
CO

OOC: Just splitting this into the bridge thread taking place just a little later!

IC: Hours passed on the bridge without much incident, though it was possible the nebula was having an effect on sensors. With an hour to go until reaching a better range a sensor ghost of the Bonaventure registered several thousand kilometres off the port bow of the ship. With only half an hour to go there was a minor disruption in the comm array, the backup universal translation matrix interface module overloaded in a shower of sparks at the comm station. The main system, however, remained online.

Once within higher resolution range of the nebula further confirmation of Star-Fleet’s findings were found. The bright-glowing magenta nebula was mostly hydrogen and helium, fairly typical, and had a somewhat higher concentration of magnesium and potassium, though that was hardly unusual. What was unusual was the luminosity, heat and other radiations, and from up close it also appeared to be sending out gravitmetric distortions, all signs that it was expending much more energy than it is expected to have on hand. The distortions were proving to be a downside to the sensors, they could only penetrate the nebula to a depth of 200,000 kilometres, barely enough to scratch the surface.

Some of the waves were also affecting the communications system. As the ship got closer some of those episodes of light turbulence were accompanied by the communications panel registering three or four incoming subspace or simple radio channels, but they disappeared just as quickly as the distortions passed and each seemed to come in on random bands.

Nebula J218 was turbulent, but the ship could safely withstand the condition of what parts for weeks and even longer if the hull was polarized.

GM Roadrunner