<USS Avalon> Temporal Rules by Lieutenant JG Anthony Manson
- From: Anthony Manson <circus_ofde_damned@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Avalon Sim <avalon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:28:37 -0800 (PST)
Temporal Rules
by Lieutenant JG Anthony Manson
Temporal Mechanics was not a topic that Anthony had covered much during the
Academy. It was an extra semester of it and was warned by other cadets that
some painkillers for the brain, and coffee or something stronger for the body
was needed in order to stay in that class. During those days, he found out that
endless amount of temporal training and studying was the root of the class?
curriculum. He ended up never attending it since he had several other courses
that took already his depleted time. Aside from the basics of passing the
Academy, a lot of his time was spent on navigation and piloting, operations and
rudimentary- but well informed enough- on ships systems, and a second level
tactical training that complemented his basic tactical studies.
While temporal mechanics was an option, it was still part of his Academy
training, and Starfleet had made it a point to have everyone train- no matter
how small that may have been- for the possibility of any occurrence. Anthony
could only thank silently for whomever insisted they get this training for now
it became an invaluable resource for collective calmness, and to proceed
looking up the temporal regulations.
Temporal regulations were set up by the Federation Department of Temporal
Investigations. Upon looking at it?s data, Anthony wasn?t too please with what
it had to say. Not too please wasn?t the better word for it, just out right
angry was a better description. Though he swallowed it and looked upon it.
Apparently when a ship or a person has traveled either in the past or the
future, the risk of being discovered was not to be an option unless otherwise
necessary. Which altogether meant that circumstance had to stick a poor time
traveler between a rock and hard place. It also mentioned that no contact was
to be allowed for the time continuum may be disrupted and history would could
temporal anomalies that could prove disastrous.
Anthony understood that these were the fundamental rules of temporal
displacement, but he wanted to know if there had been any options of how to get
back in time. The FDTI had covered the fact that if a ship traveled around a
sun- a Feynman?s curve- and thus landed in a different time period; it could go
back. There were exceptions that if they ship and it?s crew had disrupted the
time period, the curve would collapse and the crew would be stuck at their new
time zone. But if the crew and their ship made no such disruption, retracing
their Feynman?s curve would not be a problem since their subatomic chronometric
particles would be in-synch with their original subatomic chronometric
radiation in their universe- which in terms meant that they would belong back
into their time.
This was already giving a headache to Anthony.
But the crew of the Avalon had gone through a region of space that was
significantly distorted by time, and going through it had place the entire crew
in-synch with the current universe they were in. Which meant that going back-
they would have to re trace their Feynman?s curve. Unfortunately, they hadn?t
established a Feynman?s curve- which also meant that attempting one would cause
errors. Establishing such a curve would then be a matter of not physics- but
philosophy: which also meant that it was just uncertain that they would enter
into their correct time frame.
Anthony read further, making a run around the sun not only cause the temporal
slingshot to go out of whack, but since their first establishment would be
through the rift, going back into time further from their original start point/
end point would only mean that they were deeper in temporal displacement.
If they couldn?t get to the past- or their current- Federation Temporal
Regulations were clear- it was to be their new home. Anthony shuddered at that
having no desire to be in a place where there was five hundred years of
catching up to do.
The regulations ended it at that. Stating that the only possible way to get
back was to have access to either advance technology, or to have a means to get
back on their own without disrupting the timeline. And that had only been the
introduction- he didn?t bother looking any further. It bit either way since the
rift had closed, their line- as it were- cut and until so ordered, the ship was
maintaining a distance from any ship that had passed by. So far there were
none. It was strange considering that he expected at least a few ships would
have passed by- but not so much as that aside from spatial dust.
Closing his eyes and breathing out as the light had seem to irritate his
retinas, "Lt. Manson?"
He opened his eyes and saw a young human ensign looking at him. "Yes?"
She looked at him, "these are the latest reports from several other departments
including the power regulations and consumption reports since the
fluctuations." She placed the PADD on his console.
He gave a small smile, "thank you, ensign." She walked away. This particular
person he wasn?t familiar with. Laura usually came around with the updates, but
he figured she may have had some other assignments to get done.
Five hundred years, and time was still on their side and at the same time- no
even there.
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