Mission 12: "When It Rains..."

[Morgan Freeman]

Walking onto the bridge Morgan was all smiles as he heard Mr. Sarpedon's report.  Turning to the officer Morgan said "Don't worry about that Mr. Sarpedon, I am well aware of the changes to the warp drive."  
He walked over to the engineering station directly behind the captain and logged into his terminal.  "Captain, we are standing by at your command."

[T'lana]

T'lana and Morgan got to work on the Jumpdrive. First came programming the Industrial Replicator with the knowledge of how to build the separate parts. These included a Vacuum Energy Field Manipulator, Negative Energy Projector, Particle Accelerator, Free-Spin Dynamo, Vacuum Energy Collector/Converter, Hyperspace Motivator, EPS Adapters, Gravity Wave Inducer and several Flux Capacitors etc.

The whole unit once put together by Morgan Freeman, T'lana and two other privileged engineers; weighed 365 kg and had the dimensions of 2m x 1m x 1m. Someone might say after seeing the unit that it was too small to fold spacetime, but that was the point of the Jumpdrive, to be unobtrusive and connects to an existing Warp Core.

As the Nacelles generate a Warp Field, or Negative Energy Bubble, so to can they be used to fold spacetime for Wormhole Induction Propulsion.

Star Fleet scientists have been searching for decades a way to induce traversable wormholes, because in the grand scheme of things, Warp Drive is too slow.

T'lana's Jumpdrive allows both to be used with little alteration, the Jumpdrive's dedicated Quantum Nanotech Computer, which was the final piece to be added to the Jumpdrive, allows for accurate spin of the dynamo and monitors the influx of Negative Energy and Vacuum Field Energy to make sure spacetime folds as it should.

The one thing about wormholes, or Hyperdimensional Corridors through Spacetime, is that they can literally go anywhere and anytime in the multiverse. For time travel, you must accelerate the wormhole to the speed of light, either clockwise or counterclockwise for traveling forward or backwards respectively.

Multiversal travel occurs when the Jumpdrive's Computer alters the quantum frequency of the induced traversable wormhole.
There are fail-safes built into the Jumpdrive to prevent Time Travel or Multiversal Travel to occur, but there is always the danger of a misjump, but then nothing in life is 100%.

Once complete and attached to the Warp Core, the Jumpdrive was an impressive sight. T'lana was proud of her accomplishment and why not, of course she would never admit to it.

T'lana went to the main engineering console and transfered the Operating System for the Jumpdrive from her PADD to the Rivendell's Main Computer Core.

Once complete Morgan Replicated 4 flutes of Champaign for them to celebrate.

The whole event took but 2 hours to complete and when they had finished celebrating, T'lana decided it was time to inform the Captain.

=A=T'lana to Taurik=A=

"Captain, the task is complete and can be tested at anytime."

=A=T'lana out=A=

[Chaya Sar]

"Please call me Chaya. Where would I find Admiral Karelia then Taurik?" Chaya Sar asked more calmly now.

Having so many positive reflections in the force on and around the station was quite refreshing and gave Chaya Sar a sense of well being that she had not felt in a long time.

[Luke Voison]

"Great!" Luke said out loud, almost unnecessarily. He hurried out of the bridge, he couldn't wait to get some recreation time.

[Morgan Freeman]

Morgan finishes the scans and looks up "Its clean"

[Holographic Officer Beta]

Beta's holographic face formed into a smile. "Thank you, Captain." he said, moving towards tactical. He logged into the system and brought up the systems display.

"All weapons and shields are nominal Captain. Internal sensors report no intruders and tactical sensors are working at full capacity."

[T'lana]

T'lana looked at Taurik, then to Morgan, then back to Taurik.

"I have no problems with that Captain, it would be the logical thing to do."

[Givrillian Sarpedon]

"What course shall I set, Captain?" Sarpedon asked, helm now fulled powered up and ready for use. As he said it, he powered up the impulse drives and manoeuvred the ship out of the dock.

[T'lana]

OOC: This is what I was worried about, people hear wormhole and they think a mouth or window will open in front of the vessel. In actual fact that wouldn't happen. Think STAR WARS and the retconned Battlestar Galactica. In colloquial terms we are actually jumping into Hyperspace, but the technical side of it would be Wormhole Induction Propulsion.
You are folding spacetime between the destination and the ship, which means the ship and it's destination coexist for the jump.
A spacetime vortex would appear for a very short period of time, I gave it 3.26 seconds due to a PARSEC distance, one PARSEC being 3.26 light years. But during a fold it would be the time taken in the vortex for a maximum of 20 light years.

Once the Jumpdrive is activated, vacuum field energy is accelerated through a dynamo producing Gravito-Magnetic energy.
Outside of the vessel a pulse would appear from the front of the vessel to the rear, almost instantly a burst of Quantum Energy and light would appear at the center of the vessel engulfing it.

Aboard the vessel, the ship would appear to go out of focus as spacetime is folded to generate a hyperdimensional corridor. The vessel would suddenly be in a vortex of blue-shifted quantum foam. At the other end of the vortex the initial bursts of Quantum Energy and light would be reversed, jump complete.

[Taurik]

"You are onboard a starship of the United Federation of Planets. Perhaps if we knew where you came from, we could try to locate it in our cartography database."

[T'lana]

T'lana was watching her console, running a simulation with the external sensors and Main Deflector protocols, in order to make a more accurate transition with the Jump Drive. T'lana had finished with her twenty third simulation, using Interdimensional Mathematics. When the particular sensors she was using, registered a real Interdimensional energy emission.

"Captain, I believe we are receiving a signal, it appears to be an emergency transponder beacon, but I can not be sure. It's frequency output is sufficient enough to fold spacetime, which leaves out most lifeforms in the Milkyway galaxy as a possible source."

[Morgan Freeman]

Morgan turned to T'lana and whispered a joke "Great, I no longer outrank you.  Congratulation's my dear friend."  He stayed around for a few moments and then returned to engineering.  There was still work to be done and Morgan was not going to neglect it.

[Holographic Officer Beta]

"Captain," Beta said, looking up from his console. "I am reading a starship a few clicks off our port stern. I believe this may be where the signal is coming from. The signal is distorted, however, and I am unable to get a read of it's class, or origin currently."

His computerised logical 'brain' deduced that there was a possibility that the distortion was intentional, and therefore there was also a high probability of an ambush. While he spoke to the Captain, he raised the shields and began trickling power to the phaser banks - just enough to get them ready for full power at a moments notice, but not enough for it to be detectable.

[Taurik]

"Transfer the coordinates to the helm. Mr. Sarpedon, alter course to intercept and increase to maximum warp."

[Will Karelia]

"Rivendell, this is Starbase Avalon Command and Control. It's good to have you back. Proceed to Docking Pylon Twelve, inner ring."