Mission Briefing

[Cptn Elias Moore 0]

NX-05 Challenger

Mission Briefing -- November 20, 2155

 

The attempt to transport the Omega molecule into subspace has resulted in a temporal fragmentation.

 

From Challenger's point of view, the UES Achilles has just exploded. Luckily, the crew on board succeeded in disposing the unstable molecule, but they paid for the success with their lives. Tremors from the pirate vessel's barrage of weapon fire resulted in a violent energy discharge at the moment of transport. The resulting shockwave took out the pirate vessel as well as Achilles, and all that now remains of the two ships is debris and radiation. The Challenger crew has no time to grieve for their lost comrades; they are still being attacked by the two remaining pirate ships.

 

It is a different story from the perspective of the Achilles crew. The flow of time has become erratic, frozen at several locations at the exact time of the energy discharge. Some of the crew and a few systems are still operating in realtime, but the transporter explosion is a small, nonexpanding mass of energy, the pirate ship and its weapon fire are frozen in space, many of Achilles' systems are nonresponsive, and most of the crew and the Nausicaan intruders are caught in a temporal stasis. Time is periodically resuming at areas around the ship, but should time flow be restored where the transporter explosion is being kept in check, Achilles would be destroyed.