Almost two weeks had passed since the events on Farsinia II and the destruction of the B’hari, and the Saracen was now only days away from reaching Meridian Station for resupply and crew rotation. The time during that two weeks had been rather uneventful, almost boring really with few ships appearing on sensors and their path back to Meridian not taking them near any interesting star systems.

With Captain Knight away from the Bridge for the afternoon and the crew having gone through their duties, the promise of an uneventful day vanished with the appearance of a blinking warning light on the Helm and Operations console, followed seconds later by every other stations consoles lighting up with their own warnings and sensor readings.

At the relatively short distance of only half a light year to Port of the Saracen the sensors alerted the crew to a subspace distortion having formed, funnily enough, in previously empty space. Before the crew would have time to look up from reading the information the computer fed them about this development the sensors detected a powerful energy spike as the distortion grew, forming a large spatial anomaly. That anomaly emitted powerful energy signatures and produced ‘ripples’ in space that caused the Saracens deflector shields to vibrate while they made an effort to cushion the ship from these ripples. Luckily, the Saracen wasn’t built as a cargo freighter and the disturbance was mostly compensated for, although the crew would feel a slight rocking for just a moment before the ships inertial dampeners helped cushion the effects.

The Saracens computer rapidly tried to make sense of the information from the ships sensors. Science and Engineering would detect an energy signature consistent with a matter/antimatter powerplant coming from the anomaly. Also of interest would be what appeared to be the detection of a Starfleet transponder frequency, heavily distorted, and all the Saracen could make out at this range was the partial readings of NCC-17..... There was no other transmission coming from the anomaly however and at this range, too much interference to be able to receive one clearly if there was one to be received.

-Dave