Outta Time

[Dumbass 0]

The shift began pretty much the same way the shifts have been for me for the past couple months, uneventful. Zaphod asked me for advice on mentoring those two sons of a BcH but I don't think he found my answer very helpful. He went off on his own, probably to play with a ball of string or something.

 

Just then my long-range scanners detected a ship off in the distance. Then it was gone, almost as if it was phasing in and out of existence. From our distance I couldn't confirm if this was happening since a gas cloud stood between us. The small ship appeared and disappeared again, closer but still too far away to be considered a threat.

 

Then it happened. Either the ship materialized inside our hull or it simply ramed into us, but whatever it was it was too fast to tell the difference. Our systems went haywire. My consol had shorted out so I could no longer effectively route power or coordinate the repair teams. On a hunch I had the computer give our space-time coordinates, thinking the other ship's phasing might have affected us as well. My suspicion was confirmed when the computer replied we had broken the time barrier and were now in orbit around early 21st century Earth.

 

We are probably already visable to the primitive sky tracking devices of the time. Obviously our cloak must be our first priority followed by repairs to our ship and a thorough examination of the other vessle's data banks.