Captain Airik Mitchell paused as the crew began to stir in their seats. It was Lieutenant Tosh that broke the initial silence.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82493.msg3881954#msg3881954">Quote from: Ryven on 12-11-2010, 19:10:32</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Getting down to business, Lieutenant Tosh spoke up.  "Captain, is there reason to suspect outside interference during this mission?  What I mean is, are we the only vessel to have been called to understand these chronitons?  Entering the Romulan Neutral Zone is not exactly what I had in mind for the McNair's first mission.  I would like to be fully aware of what we're getting into."<br/><br/>He let that sink in for a moment before continuing.  "I would also like to inquire a little more about the chroniton discovery.  Is there going to be a possibility of visiting the surface of Rkar N'ra?  I would like my officers to be ready should such an away team be needed."  Tosh explained.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Airik looked over to the Angosian Chief of Security. It would have been very odd for him to not ask the pointed questions. “Starfleet has assured me that we won’t have intervention from the Romulans. Though they didn’t inform me of how they came to that information. We should remain on alert during the full duration of the mission.”<br/><br/>“As the premier science vessel in the Federation, Starfleet felt we had the best chances to investigate and evaluate the nature of the chroniton emissions.” Airik didn’t go into a lot of detail, but sufficed to say the ship had significant experimental technology including modifications for temporal occurrences.<br/><br/>“I believe you should prepare your teams for planetary investigations. Before anyone leaves the McNair, we’ll conduct extensive investigations into the safety of such a course of action.”<br/><br/>Airik turned to Commander Makarai and then to the Chief Medical Officer who asked more about the temporal nature of the mission.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82493.msg3882650#msg3882650">Quote from: Barnbean on 12-11-2010, 22:40:58</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As the CMO addressed him, asking for clarification on what he had said, Makari sat back up in his chair. He took a moment to run his hands down the front of his uniform and remove the wrinkles his slouching had caused in it and looked at her with a small smile. "I don't have all the technical terms or anything, you need scientists and engineers for that, but chroniton particles can be a sign of a time shift, or a time jump... they can even still be occurring when you are around them.... you can get pulled to another time, or place, could end up just gone from existence, or in your own past... its time travel... I can't explain it but know it can get messy. What if your lungs revert to infancy or your cells age rapidly? What if noxious gasses from uncharted planetary history end up all you have around you to breath? And that's just the medical things that could happen... We need to be ready, that's all I'm saying," Makari explained. He didn't have all the details, not even close. But he knew better than to act like an emergency with an unknown particle was safe, was easy. This would be anything but. And he hoped everyone realized that, even if his examples may have been outrageous, they were possible.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Airik nodded as Makari spoke. “We have to be even more judicious in our work as early investigation of the sensor readings from the passing cargo ship show a distortion in the chroniton emissions. They frankly are not certain they ARE chronitons. They are like chronitons.”<br/><br/>He looked around. “Are there other questions?”<br/>