Black Hole Sized Gravitational field... what is that Moon doing here?

Posted on 17 Jun 2019 @ 10:47am by Lieutenant JG Lilura Karakalakss

Mission: Mission 1 - In the pale moonlight ...
Location: CEO Quarters/Engineering Main
Timeline: MD1 23:59 - MD2 0007
429 words - 0.9 OF Standard Post Measure

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Lilura was settled into bed, reading, waiting for her body to finally decide it wanted to sleep. Her tail was curling and uncurling about her right foot as it settled down. Suddenly, the ship lurched, and Lilura felt the ship come to a dead stop, which could never happen, not according to how physics and quantum mathmatics were concerned. The lights were out, emergency power wasn't on, and only battery backed up systems were running, such as life support, gravity, inertial dampers, etc. However, aux computers weren't up yet.

She lept up and was pulling on her uniform as she headed towards the door. Of course, it didn't open. She used her telekinetics to force it open, and then ran over to the nearest Jeffries tube, and began sliding down to Engineering. Part way down, emergency power from the Auxilliary Warp Reactors kicked in.

A few minutes later she is opening the Jeffries Tube Hatch into engineering. She strides towards the M/A Reactor, also known as the 'warp core', and barks out, "STATUS!!"

The Engineering Office of the Watch (EOW) comes over, "Ma'am, a large gravitational force, equivalent to a class 3 black hole, caught us and somehow, unknown as of yet, shut down the Warp Core, Impulse Power, and AWR's (Aux Warp Reactors). Only Battery power remained and it was shunted to emergency systems, including navigational shields as that is the only thing that saved us from becoming a pancake against a moon that is caught in the same Gravitational field."

Lilura frowned, then said, "Okay, run fifth Harmonic simulations with 9th order disharmonics thrown in. We need to find the dampening energies and get them countered so we can get out of here. With this much gravity, we will find ourself between a moon and another moon sooner rather than later.

The EOW's eyes widened as he realized what Lilura meant. If this gravitation field caught a Moon, and then a Refitted Galaxy class starship, it wouldn't be long for another celestial body to join in the sargasso sea and crush the Andromeda between them. "On it, Ma'am."

Lilura nodded and went over to the core. It was still totally dark, and the AWR's were coming online, then going offline. Only the few normal APR's that were designed around the fusion power of the Impulse engines were still active. Lilura's eyes narrowed, then she began running through computations of energy signatures and natural emf field varients between APR's and AWR's.

TBC

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●○ Lieutenant JG Lilura Siana Karakalakss
Chief Engineering Officer
USS Andromeda