USS Cherokee 
LATEOT, by Steve Weller, Part 5
11811.11

Starring_
Steve Weller as CO_Ayidee, Maxwet and Producer
JR Klein as CEO_LtJG_Truus and Adm_Skalic
Zach Farland as CNS_LtJg_Daniels
Pablo Delsoglio as CIV_Capt_Marek
Absent
Dawn Freeman as OPS_Nash
Leave of Absence
Topper Loghry as CTO_LT_Q`ten
Trish Yarborough as CMO-McIntyre
Ship's Log, Stardate 11811.11, Captain Ayidee recording.  We are still working to find a way to get the Lateot ship home.  I am hopeful, but there is still a great deal to be done.

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Host CO_Ayidee says:
::On Bridge, trying to marshal Starfleet resources to deal with this situation.::

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
::at his station, dealing with engineering specs on the brussard collectors;;

Host Maxwet says:
@::On Breech Jumper, trying to find a way to power up the capacitors.::

CEO_LtJG_Truus says:
::at science console, running calculations.::

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
::On the bridge conversing with Captain Maxwet::  COM: Maxwet: You have to understand.  We are very curious about you so, if you don't mind I'd like to continue our conversation.

OPS_Cmdr_Nash says:
::on Bridge, at her post::

Host Maxwet says:
@::Looks up.::  COM: CNS: Oh, yes.  If you don't mind me being interrupted as repairs continue.  Next step is finding a way to charge the capacitor banks.  Not even a star close enough to charge off of… What else do you wish to know?

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
COM: Maxwet: By all means, continue with your work.  Your government is very interesting.  Tell me, who is responsible for keeping congress honest?

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CNS: Each planet is different, but most follow similar systems.  But the corporations work to keep each other in check, in general.  If the aircraft manufacturers try to raise prices, for instance, the fuel, land transport and sea transport industries; amongst others; put pressure on them to stay true to the needs of the planet. If it needs more than that, typically the representatives will be "encouraged" to change course, but they seldom have the ability to resist the other checks.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
COM: Maxwet: I see.  So, if I were to ask the average citizen, regardless of which occupation they have, how they like the way things are run.  What would they say?

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CIV: The information they sent over, do they include star charts?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CO: Checking sir...

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CNS: What isn't to like?  They are represented by their peers, peers who have similar interests.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
COM: Maxwet: So, everybody is happy?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CO: Sir.. they did. We have some interesting stellar charts.  However they represent an area totally unknown for us. My logical conclusion is that due to this incident they are far from their known space coordinates.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CIV: What if we look for a larger "landmark", instead of a star maybe pulsars, or even galaxies?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CO: I'm on that sir. Entering the data on the computer for an exhaustive analysis.

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CNS: Is that true anywhere?  There are problems but the system gets it right more often than not.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
COM: Maxwet: I'd like to visit your world.  It sounds nice.

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CNS: When we find a problem, we look for a solution.  Sometimes, we miss.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
COM: Maxwet: That's the same for us.  Maybe we're not so different after all.

CEO_LtJG_Truus says:
All: If their energy runs out, they do have an external power receptor they can use to recharge. It's safe to use in our space too.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
::hears some beeps and reads the info on the screen:: CO: Captain, the computer is processing the information. It probably will identify some major landmarks, but from what I saw, it will take a while. We are talking in hours.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CIV: Keep at it, we can't find them a way home until we find where that is.
CEO: So we could help them recharge with our systems?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CO: I will Captain. I have instructed the computer to compare their chart with all our available navigational data, from the whole Federation.

CEO_LtJG_Truus says:
CO: Maybe.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CEO: See if you can make it work.  Supplying them with enough anti matter to repair themselves is problematic, but power we should have enough with another ship or two.

CEO_LtJG_Truus says:
::nods and moves to the engineering console::

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CNS: Perhaps, although our makeups seem rather...incompatible.  Or mutually annihilative.  We still have a lot to learn.

CEO_LtJG_Truus says:
::begins an energy transfer to the other ship, but not enough to significantly drain the Cherokee's systems::

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: Cherokee: We are receiving the power boost, thank you Cherokee.  At least now we know our shields won't run out of power trying to keep space out.

CEO_LtJG_Truus says:
All: It would take them 3 days to power up the capacitors. Their fuel won't last that long.

CEO_LtJG_Truus says:
CO: Tell them to transfer that power to their capacitors.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
::still dealing with the brussard collector specs, while hearing the CEO and thinking... I'm a Captain, not an engineer...:

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CEO: Neither would ours.  Keep them supplied with enough power until the other ships arrived.

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CEO: We are, thank you.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
::the computer beeps:: CO: Captain, the computer has been able to narrow the area to a region of space somewhere between 7 and 20 billion light years away from our present coordinates.

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CEO: And yes, our fuel will not last long.  Most of our deuterium was lost when the primary containment tank blew.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CO: I will keep you posted on further progress.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CIV: Billion light years?  That could be a problem to say the least.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CO: And you got that right Captain. ::Raises an eyebrow::

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
CIV: Seven to twenty billion?  Can we narrow that down a bit.  That's a big space.

CEO_LtJG_Truus says:
COM: Maxwet: We have more ships enroute to support us.

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: Cherokee: Billions of light years?  Our drives have never jumped further than 10 light years.  Even with a power interference we've never been off by more than half a light year.  What did we hit?

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CEO/ COM: Maxwet: What kind of power source could drive your wormhole that far?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CNS: The computer is comparing it to all our navigational database. I am confident it will be narrowed down.. but it will take some time

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CO: There aren't many stellar phenomena that powerful.  Most of the ones that are that powerful we'd have seen before we jumped.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
All: So, the wormhole they created to make their jump was magnified some how?  That must of been a heck of a power surge.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
All: What could be that strong and yet not be seen on scans?  Any ideas?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CNS: A heck of an incident... I am surprised their vessel supported the enormous forces and remains in one piece.. or barely.

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CIV: The other times the wormhole encountered an outside force it was just the wormhole that was effected.  Kind of like if lightning struck a power line, give you more power but as long as the transformers did their job the end products would be fine.  This was just a much larger lightning strike.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CO: Some sort of non natural phenomenon?

Host Maxwet says:
CIV: That's what I'm wondering, there are many powerful stellar reactions in space, but most are detectable.  What ones aren't?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
COM: Maxwet: A power overload... maybe some reaction to an unbalance or miscalibration in your engines?

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CIV: More likely something we do not understand, our engine output wouldn't have enough strength to jump us nearly this far.  We'd be lucky to reach 12, 13 lightyears.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CO: The ones created by others than nature... artificial ones I supposed.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
@COM: Maxwet: Sometimes it takes only a spark to start a fireball... I think we should focus on your last navigational and engineering logs, looking for something unusual in them.

Host Maxwet says:
<SO Hawkes> All: Black holes, pulsars, those kind of things could provide the energy but would be well noted.  But cosmic string maybe?

Host CO_Ayidee says:
SO: That could provide such a boost.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
All: But can we recreate that and calculate a jump home for them?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
All: Due to the strange circumstances of this whole situation.. I would put my money on a highly improbable variable that went out of control .. and maybe just maybe some human error potentiate it.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
All: should I say alien error?

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
COM: Maxwet: If we calculate the correct figures and get the necessary energy ... we should be able to.

Host Maxwet says:
@COM: CIV: I hope so, but at least we know what happened.

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