AQ/D01 - Bridge

[Alexander Talion]

Talion continued to stare at the raw feeds of data from the probes as they gathered their samples and sent back readings from the ruins of the ship, the asteroid and the surrounding space filled with an expanding cloud of debris. His eyes widened as he began to see a pattern in the data.

"Captain, I finally have something from the probes. Although they're still only part way into their mission, the sensor data from them seems to indicate that the asteroid did not impact the ship. I have no explanation why the ship was so close to the asteroid, but it appears that in some kind of act of desperation, they fired a torpedo of some kind to keep the asteroid from hitting them head on. The asteroid only shows damage from a shock wave, not a material impact. Perhaps they lost propulsion or had a critical power loss of some kind. I would speculate that point blank damage from a single torpedo detonation would only cause such extensive damage if they had lost their shields, though the asteroid might have caused it to form the doubling effect of a shaped charge."

He then finished his report with, "I'll continue to monitor the data and let you know if anything more conclusive comes in, sir."

== Tag CO ==