This can't be good

[Atragon9 0]

The Pensacola had been traveling for weeks, heading to the last known assignment for the Manticore. They were sent to resupply the Special Ops base at Rylos-IX, part of the Beta Trianguli system (see map). The base is covert and often operating under a comm shroud, so the crew was not especially worried that the calls they sent out have gone unanswered. A9 was grateful to Captain Tahna Bek for allowing him the use of the Science station on the Bridge so he would have a place to sit. At the same time, he had weeks with nothing to do, as the ship simply flew in a warp-induced straight line. It was starting to make him stir crazy, but he was painfully aware to not show any sort of "crazy" behavior.

 

The Pensacola dropped out of warp a week ago and he relinquished his seat to the Science officer so that sensor scans of the area could be initiated. There is nothing they expected to find, it is simply standard procedure, every time they return to normal space. As is so often the case when he is around (is he jinxing the mission of another crew?), the sensor scans turned up anything *but* normal space. The spatial anomaly had a very distinct chroniton flavor that told everyone that they were looking at a temporal distortion field.

 

The Carthage has been dispatched to provide support and a "second pair of eyes" on the disturbance while the Federation Council is currently warning all ships away from the system due to "a plasma leak" (does anyone ever believe this excuse?) So, now A9 and the Pensacola waits once again, staring right at a distortion field that encompasses the entire Rylos-IX planetoid. If the Manticore is in there, how does the Pensacola get to them without being affected as well, and just what kind of temporal anomaly is this, what is going on in there?

 

Four days after they arrived, there was a huge spike in chroniton particles and then it settled back to the same levels as before. Six days later, it happened again, so there is no way of being able to predict these severe events. This can't be good, especially, as we just sit here and wait for the Carthage. They are due in the next day or two, but even after they arrive - what's our next step?