Sciforums Fleet

Dave strode on to the bridge after a lengthy powering down session. He felt refreshed and ready for action.
Shame there wasn't any, really.
"BEEP. Comms, on the 1MC." he ordered.
The tone sounded throughout the ship, alerting the crew to an important message.
"BEEP. Crew of the Endeavour, this is the captain. As you already know, our situation is bleak. We are in an uncharted portion of space, possibly not even in our own dimension, and help from our own people looks highly unlikely. However, we are trained for this and we still have a mission to carry out. Moments ago, I received data from one of our long range trailing probes that shows a cluster of planets within a few days travelling distance. It is my intention to head for this system and begin our job of exploration. Do your jobs and remember your training and no harm will befall you. That is all."
The tone sounded again as the 1MC was cut.
Dave sat in his command chair and swivelled to face the bridge crew.
"BEEP. Helm, set a course for the planetary system I just mentioned. You'll find coordinates in your computer, under 'New Folder'."
"Helm, aye."
"BEEP. Weps, I want all ship's defences and weapons checked and greenlit. We don't know what we're heading for."
"Aye sir."
"BEEP. Chief of the Boat, make your rounds. I want this ship ready for anything. And have Mr. Tiberius run a complete diagnostic on the engines. something feels a bit off."
"Aye, captain."
Dave sat back, adjusting his bra, and watched as the bridge crew sprung into action.

(OOG: I was thinking of coming across a planet with a civilisation in the medieval stages of development, just for poops and giggles!
Also-- new guy: welcome to the game! Get stuck in old son!)
 
Shin ran to the ops room as soon as he heard the message, it is repaired, it looks brand new. Shin opened the door, some of the personnel were already there, they snapped to attention and saluted,

"Sir!"

Shin returned the salute and said,

"At ease,"

He then ran and leaped into his chair swiftly, he scanned his fingerprints, retinas, DNA and then inserted ID. He then brought up his screens, holographic projectors, keyboards .etc He then sent an order throughout the ship,

"Personnel to main Ops Room and secondary Ops immediately,"
 
I walked into the bridge, made a brief salute and than sat down at my console. "ready to roll" I said

"warp drive is operating at peak capacity" I said
 
Shin and then ordered,

"I want a precise map of the sector,"

"Yes sir, on it,"

Shin and then brought up their course on his screen and his holographic projectors.
 
the star map was completely innaccurate, that much we figured out. When I demanded an explanation I was told by the science officer that our maps are based on the speed at which light travels, what our pictures were based off of were measurements that arrived at our planet a few thousand years after they left their origin.

Even with some predicting they were wildly innaccurate.

"Okay, we need some sort of star chart, how do we go about that" Kato said

"Well, we have some planets on longe range that may support life, maybe one of them will be intelligent." The science officer said

"Lets just hope they are somewhat happy at the sight of visitors" I said sarcastically.
 
"Activate scanners and give me a detailed scan of our surroundings, get the science crew to preform calculations based on current observations to correct the star map," Shin ordered, he then continued, "I need the star charts, they are critical, make it a class A priority,"

"Aye sir, on it immediately,"

Shin and then ordered,

"Prepare the ship for battle at a moments notice, send a notice the bridge of recommendation for General Quarters, and battle mode,"
 
Shogun, if you don't mind, can we wait until maybe two or three planets into the story till we make any serious enemies?

In game:

"Shin, the fact is that we cannot know a full layout of the star chart accurately without doing a survey throughout the entire galaxy which would take decades, even if we could travel that fast. I think for the time being we are going to have to be content with only knowing a few systems at a time." I said

"Unless we could get somebody else's" some ensign piped up

"Assuming there is somebody else, and assuming they are friendly, and assuming they won't destroy us" I corrected
 
Yeah, but no harm in being on standby.

In Game:

Shin then received the message over the intercom. He then replied,

"Not necessarily, we can get relatively reliable charts by mathematics,"

Out of Game: Actually our star charts are not thousands of years if we are in a different galaxy, try millions.
 
(Well I wanted to add to the universe ;) I though of making a near-human species or maybe a reptile or or.... some sort of ally? Maybe a dozen different species that work together because they all evolved in the same solar system?)
 
Shogun said:
Yeah, but no harm in being on standby.

In Game:

Shin then received the message over the intercom. He then replied,

"Not necessarily, we can get relatively reliable charts by mathematics,"

Out of Game: Actually our star charts are not thousands of years if we are in a different galaxy, try millions.
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OOC: The idea of having unreliable charts is that while we can visit nearby star systems we would need to make a deal with some other civilization in order to get accurate ones.

"Yah, but the reliability can be questionable" the science officer said

"Theres no way around it, we will need to get them from someone else" the ensign said

I sighed "fine, we have three habited star systems, I think that only two of them are advanced enough for ftl."

"so flip a coin" the ensign said sarcastically.
 
"How far away are they?" I said

"The closest one is five lightyears away, EF109" The science officer said

"Okay, give me the course" I said

"Yes sir," the science officer sent the coordinates to the console, I inputed them to the slipstream drive.

"Engaging slipstream drive" I said

The deflector array at the front of the ship began pulsing graviton and tachyon particles and than projected the bluish beam infront of the ship in a cone, it started creating a blue hole, like a tunnel, the ship was sucked into the tunnel and than the entrance collapsed behind the ship. And the slipstream tunnel was accelerating the ship far beyond the speed of light towards EF109. Their first planet in a new galaxy.

"ETA, ten hours" Kato said
 
Out of Game: Physics time! Okay I will be brief

I already said something about gravitons, see the Dominion vs Empire thread for it.

Also pulsing gravitons? NO SUCH THING!!

Tachyons? What do you want to do with tachyons? They are the only hypothetical particles traveling faster than time that escapes Feynman's Equation, because it exists in imaginary proper time, due to its properties, the best it can do is to use for FTL communications.

I am putting the information here just for the record, you can have those if you insist.

P.S. We aren't going to one with high tech, one that have medieval tech first. Also, the course is already set, so sorry about your plans, we are going with the original one.
 
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fedr808 said:
"so flip a coin" the ensign said sarcastically.
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Out of Game:

Misaka's trick! ( from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun ) :D

Just for that, the ensigns' name is Misaka Mikoto ( you haven't named her, so yeah :D )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOrKuPg5k5Q

Watch the entire video for the trick ( that will appear multiple times ). I tried it many times in real life, worked like once or twice, but mostly failed.
 
Shogun said:
Out of Game: Physics time! Okay I will be brief

I already said something about gravitons, see the Dominion vs Empire thread for it.

Also pulsing gravitons? NO SUCH THING!!

Tachyons? What do you want to do with tachyons? They are the only hypothetical particles traveling faster than time that escapes Feynman's Equation, because it exists in imaginary proper time, due to its properties, the best it can do is to use for FTL communications.

I am putting the information here just for the record, you can have those if you insist.

P.S. We aren't going to one with high tech, one that have medieval tech first. Also, the course is already set, so sorry about your plans, we are going with the original one.
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I didn't mean that the gravitons were pulsing. I meant like the generator. that wasn't physics, that was more special effects.

Besides, if gravitons do govern the law of gravitation than it would make sense based on the normal conceptual picture of gravity being like a blanket with massive objects causing dents in the space time plane than a massive graviton surge could bend and influence the plane.

Anyways, science fiction.

Shogun, I am an engineer, I am the kind of person where it is not good enough to say: "And thus, a blue tunnel openned up and we flew into it." For some damn reason I have to come up with a solution for how it would be done, which gets to be rather annoying after a while :(.

I just threw tachyons in there because I figured it couldn't hurt :p.
 
Shogun said:
Out of Game:

Misaka's trick! ( from Toaru Kagaku no Railgun ) :D

Just for that, the ensigns' name is Misaka Mikoto ( you haven't named her, so yeah :D )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOrKuPg5k5Q

Watch the entire video for the trick ( that will appear multiple times ). I tried it many times in real life, worked like once or twice, but mostly failed.
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no way, my ensign, I get to name him :p.

Never heard of it, I just figured it would be amusing.

in game:

"Were approaching the planet" someone said

"All right, all stop" I said

The tunnel openned up as another wave of gravitons from the deflector tore open the slipstream. We appeared back into normal space in high orbit above the planet.

We recieved a hail

"On screen" I said while standing up

A humanoid figure with ridges on his cheeks and eyebones and rather orange like skin was there.

"This is the planet yahel of the Orbin Republic, identify yourself"

"I am Chief mate Kato of the earth exploratory cruiser Infinite." I said

"What do you want?" The person said

"Were looking for star charts" I said

"Of what?" he said

"Of the galaxy" I said... a little quietly

The man looked confused for a few seconds and said "where are you from?"

"Pretty far away" I said

"Okay, meet me at the orbital base at these coordinates, we will send some ships to protect you"

The link closed and the image disappeared off the screen.

"Protection from what?" the ensign said

"Don't fool yourselves, the ships are more for keeping an eye on us than protecting us" I said
 
fedr808 said:
I didn't mean that the gravitons were pulsing. I meant like the generator. that wasn't physics, that was more special effects.
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Okay

Besides, if gravitons do govern the law of gravitation than it would make sense based on the normal conceptual picture of gravity being like a blanket with massive objects causing dents in the space time plane than a massive graviton surge could bend and influence the plane.
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You think relativity makes less sense? You got it all wrong, the "blanket" is the fabric of spacetime lol. it is not a conceptual picture lol, well it is kinda, the "fabric" of spacetimes is A LOT more complicated than a blanket

Dude, relativity is proven right. If it is gravitons, then it exerts gravity using stress-energy tensors ( same as relativity ), but what about time dilation in high gravity? Gravitational waves ( a rare phenomenon )? What you are thinking is not how gravitons will work.....replace the gravitons in what you think with mass and fix a few things up and you got relativity :D. It is really hard to explain how it will work......so let just put it at that it doesn't work the way you think it does.

Shogun, I am an engineer, I am the kind of person where it is not good enough to say: "And thus, a blue tunnel openned up and we flew into it." For some damn reason I have to come up with a solution for how it would be done, which gets to be rather annoying after a while :(.
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Lol okay, I have a better idea though for an explanation, but it will be too confusing so I am not saying anything about it. You are not the engineer, you are a helmsmen...

Oh wait, did you mean engineer-type in real life?

I just threw tachyons in there because I figured it couldn't hurt :p.
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lol but what are you planning on doing with it?
 
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fedr808 said:
no way, my ensign, I get to name him :p.

Never heard of it, I just figured it would be amusing.
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Aww....I will make someone in ops have the name Misaka.

Watch the vid, her coin trick is AWESOME!

Basically you flip it then when it comes down, then strike it in your thumb to make it like a projectile. You have to watch it to get it :D
 
Remember the ps in most post

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P.S. We aren't going to one with high tech, one that have medieval tech first. Also, the course is already set, so sorry about your plans, we are going with the original one. "
 
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