03-23-2025, 04:28 PM
When they arrived in the system, Peter felt himself getting slightly nervous, though he pushed that feeling down as best he could.
For all intents and purposes, he was going to be the lead on a first contact mission.
No pressure.
As the results of the scan came in, he frowned slightly at the bit about the white hole. He wasn't a physicist by any stretch of the word, so he wouldn't even pretend to try to be able to wrap his mind around that concept.
But the word "temporal"? He understood that very well. That way, madness and temporal prime directive violations lay. With the subsequent visits from the Inquisition, as he liked to refer the Department of Temporal Investigations as.
He bowed his head slightly as the "competitor" met their demise.
A potent reminder to be careful, he thought
"A potent reminder to be careful", he echoed, referring to the same vanished dot, then looked at Qi.
"Can you tell us anything else about that giant stream of trouble there", he gestured towards the "white hole". "I, for one, have no desire to get subsequent visits from the DTI once we're done here", he pointed out, only half-jokingly.
While he waited for a reply, he looked at Braggins, waiting for her to initiate contact with the planet. The first hall of a first contact mission was always an important moment. While this wouldn't be the first encounter these people had with "aliens", it would certainly be one of the first. And if the one who answered this particular hail was less level-headed and more easily impacted by the uncanny valley-effect the Yeager crew was sure to have on the Wairarans, things could get complicated.
For all intents and purposes, he was going to be the lead on a first contact mission.
No pressure.
As the results of the scan came in, he frowned slightly at the bit about the white hole. He wasn't a physicist by any stretch of the word, so he wouldn't even pretend to try to be able to wrap his mind around that concept.
But the word "temporal"? He understood that very well. That way, madness and temporal prime directive violations lay. With the subsequent visits from the Inquisition, as he liked to refer the Department of Temporal Investigations as.
He bowed his head slightly as the "competitor" met their demise.
A potent reminder to be careful, he thought
"A potent reminder to be careful", he echoed, referring to the same vanished dot, then looked at Qi.
"Can you tell us anything else about that giant stream of trouble there", he gestured towards the "white hole". "I, for one, have no desire to get subsequent visits from the DTI once we're done here", he pointed out, only half-jokingly.
While he waited for a reply, he looked at Braggins, waiting for her to initiate contact with the planet. The first hall of a first contact mission was always an important moment. While this wouldn't be the first encounter these people had with "aliens", it would certainly be one of the first. And if the one who answered this particular hail was less level-headed and more easily impacted by the uncanny valley-effect the Yeager crew was sure to have on the Wairarans, things could get complicated.