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“Not a typical class at the marine academy,” Jen said wryly. That had been rather beyond him in both the science and notion. Planet killing and resurrecting technology was something that they’d rather avoid even in the marines; something like that too quickly had a way of coming back to bite one in the extremities.

OOC: Lieutenant Spock. He probably was the oldest Captain in Star-Fleet.

OOC: He was in wrath of khan I think lol

IC: It seems likely we had two experiments that had an integrated reaction and two separate effects on the two ends. The integrated reaction was the wormhole and on the Federation side was the regeneration of a whole world and on this side, with the rapid evolution of a planet full of a race.

GM

“What if there was a rapid evolution of this planet’s species no different than what occurred with Spock on the planet Genesis before it blew up? Cara, Tenzig,” she called out to the two officers, “Could the biometric gel have played a part in this?

Kelly Bordeaux CO

“Hypothetically, mixing dark matter and biogel could have adverse actions, Captain, ” Trainor suggested.

Cara looked at Tenzig. She was no scientist. Well not in those areas anyway. Then she addressed the captain. “We know it has applications in the creation of biogenic weapons and organic explosives, as well as illegal genetic and cloning experiments. I don’a suppose it is outside the realm of possibility that they attempted ta do such a thing. It is no my area of expertise, so I would no hazard a guess on how successful they were.”

Lt. O’Farrell, counselor

“Do we think a simulation could replay the events?” Tenzing asked no one in particular, “If the two did come into contact, I’m sure the computer could throw out some hypotheses of the result.”

“Rapid evolution. Remade. Reformed. But what then do we have? A ‘reptile brain’ as humans call it controlling a ship killing organic vessel?” Jen offered with a wince.
- Jen, XO

Looking at Cara, Kelly got a deep in thought expression on her face. “There are a million and one reasons past the sane ones about why we don’t allow sentient cloning but I thought I read an article once about the impacted mental state of rapid cloning. Something about causing the individuals to have unstable emotional regulation since they did not have the maturation time of experiences as the body grew. If the species here was rapidly growing could it maybe account for the aggression? Kinda of an exaggerated fight or flight response?”

Kelly Bordeaux CO

“Essentially they’d have the emotional capacity of a toddler?” The CSO asked, looking at the Counselor.

Lieutenant Commander Tenzing Trainor
Chief Operations Officer/Science Chief

“If we were talkin’ about a humanoid mind, I would say without doubt that yes, they have most likely driven themselves insane. However, this is an insectoid mind that we have no knowledge of. Also, if they rapid grew, it is more likely. However, if they were simply doin’ rapid evolution but allowin’ individuals ta grow and mature naturally, then perhaps not,” Cara offered. There were just too many unknowns so far. “From a Federation stand point their actions are violent and seem unstable. For their society, even before this, may have been xenophobic and spiciest. It may be normal for them but exasperated by the rapid changes. I’m sorry Captain, I can no give you more definitive answers without more data.”

Lt. O’Farrell, counselor

Jen found speculation on any subject to be interesting to a point. However .. “I’m sure we can come up with other possibilities,” he said. “The essence here - what they were doing here coincided with our experiment and something bad resulted and we have a barren world here, a sociopathic group of aliens called the Darkness, and possibly a way back home in this region if we can dodge the Darkness long enough to do it. The question is: do we see anything in this data that may pinpoint where the gateway home is that we can begin with?”
- Jen, XO