Humans weren’t meant to be hurtling at 50 times the speed of light, in space, in a glorified metal tube, but they did. The number of things that could go wrong was limitless. Every year a dozen ships disappeared without explanation another dozen due to inexplicable ‘mechanical’ errors. It happened to ships big and small, Star-Fleet and independents without rhyme or reason… “I should have stayed on Earth” He couldn’t help but say aloud, while the other thoughts ran through the mind of the young ensign assigned to the science station of the Chimera.

His thoughts were prophetic as the Chimera’s shields snapped on, which was not exactly a correct term, since at warp a ship’s deflectors always were on to deflect micro–particles that a ship running even through the vacuum of space were bound to encounter. The shield surged to maximum power… a moment before the Chimera was rocked suddenly to port swerving radically as she tumbled out of warp.

OOC: The time is 22:42 hours. Please open a thread at the location you would be at 10:42 pm. You can be anywhere and with or without company. There are six missions within this Sim so don’t be worried about being somewhere unimportant.

GM