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[001] [256] Panic.
So it's November and I'm kicking it off with a three-day weekend! Aaaaah. I owe a billion tags and I'm just kind of staring at them, wondering where to start, but start I will shortly. Also figuring out a few last points of Wanda's fear plot, which I waited until the absolute last fucking second to get a jump on, and then EPing Reggie. I am cleaning up my act, guys, I am hitting the ground hard this month.
How about a poll? I meant to get this up a few days ago, but then I decided to wait until my days off because I'm lazy like that. Aaaah.
Panic!
From your seat at the helm of the Starship Traveller you study the VDU anxiously. Engineering Section has reported an overdrive malfunction which has locked the warp engines at a 10 per cent velocity gain. You are watching the velocity indicator advancing rapidly through the safe region towards overload. You hit the communicator button and call Engineering for further news...
It is not good. The malfunction cannot be traced and it will take another thirteen minutes for a systems check to provide a full analysis.
You are heading towards the Seltsian Void, a known black hole. You may or may not avoid it, but your Science Officer has another plan. If you swing the ship through its immense gravitational pull, its gravity drag may help reduce your speed as you travel away from it. This is worth a try, but the navigational tuning will have to be precise...
You swing the starship hard to starboard as you enter the Seltsian's gravitational field and fasten your eyes on the velocity indicator. To your great relief the plan seems to be working! The gain comes down from 10 per cent to 5 per cent to zero, to -5 per cent!
Loud cheers come from the crew, but you are still watching the velocity indicator. It is now showing -15 per cent, then -25 per cent and still falling. The ship is being sucked into the Seltsian Void!
You hit the red alert button and instruct all ship's personnel to strap themselves down. The ship begins to whine and shake as it rapidly accelerates towards the black hole. There is nothing you can do to avert the impending disaster.
An almighty explosion rocks the ship and all the crew, including you, lose consciousness.
You and the other members of the crew are regaining consciousness. Again you hit the communicator and call for systems damage reports. All systems appear to be intact, until Engineering reports that the warp drive engines are dead. You are floating in space! But your drive reactors should be operational in twenty to thirty minutes.
You navigation officer is bewildered. He cannot identify your whereabouts and the computer reports you are in uncharted space. Your Science Officer has run an event analysis and you appear to have gone through the black hole, through a dimension warp, and you are now in what seems to be a parallel universe.
After some delay you regain warp drive. Long-range scan indicates three solar systems ahead, of which two may have intelligent life.
How about a poll? I meant to get this up a few days ago, but then I decided to wait until my days off because I'm lazy like that. Aaaah.
Panic!
From your seat at the helm of the Starship Traveller you study the VDU anxiously. Engineering Section has reported an overdrive malfunction which has locked the warp engines at a 10 per cent velocity gain. You are watching the velocity indicator advancing rapidly through the safe region towards overload. You hit the communicator button and call Engineering for further news...
It is not good. The malfunction cannot be traced and it will take another thirteen minutes for a systems check to provide a full analysis.
You are heading towards the Seltsian Void, a known black hole. You may or may not avoid it, but your Science Officer has another plan. If you swing the ship through its immense gravitational pull, its gravity drag may help reduce your speed as you travel away from it. This is worth a try, but the navigational tuning will have to be precise...
You swing the starship hard to starboard as you enter the Seltsian's gravitational field and fasten your eyes on the velocity indicator. To your great relief the plan seems to be working! The gain comes down from 10 per cent to 5 per cent to zero, to -5 per cent!
Loud cheers come from the crew, but you are still watching the velocity indicator. It is now showing -15 per cent, then -25 per cent and still falling. The ship is being sucked into the Seltsian Void!
You hit the red alert button and instruct all ship's personnel to strap themselves down. The ship begins to whine and shake as it rapidly accelerates towards the black hole. There is nothing you can do to avert the impending disaster.
An almighty explosion rocks the ship and all the crew, including you, lose consciousness.
You and the other members of the crew are regaining consciousness. Again you hit the communicator and call for systems damage reports. All systems appear to be intact, until Engineering reports that the warp drive engines are dead. You are floating in space! But your drive reactors should be operational in twenty to thirty minutes.
You navigation officer is bewildered. He cannot identify your whereabouts and the computer reports you are in uncharted space. Your Science Officer has run an event analysis and you appear to have gone through the black hole, through a dimension warp, and you are now in what seems to be a parallel universe.
After some delay you regain warp drive. Long-range scan indicates three solar systems ahead, of which two may have intelligent life.
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Press on towards the life-bearing system ahead.
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Turn to port towards the other life-bearing system.
1 (11.1%)
Turn to starboard towards the barren system.
1 (11.1%)
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