08-20-2024, 11:15 PM
==T'Lari==
The library did not contain much about the Lord Franklin itself, that information had mostly been lost to history. There were some well-documented and, in some case wild, theories about what had happened. Some included Human dissidents unhappy with Earth joining the interstellar community, others a secret Augment tribe seeking freedom among the stars, while some of the wilder theories had the Franklin used in a Starfleet Intelligence "black flag" operation to prompt the start of the Earth-Romulan War. The only solid data was that it had put in for refit in mid-2155, and had been stolen from the shipyard before work could begin.
Given the Franklin was "only" one hundred forty light-years from Earth, the ship wouldn't have needed a wormhole or spatial anomaly to make it this far out with the technology of the time (and there were none detected in the vicinity), it could have made it under its own power. 140 Light Years in 249 years meant the ship would have averaged .56c across its entire journey, somehow missing every gravity well along the way, or it had travelled somewhat faster and then spent a more significant amount of time in its now-decaying orbit.
Given the state of the ship, either option was possible.
==Black==
The computer was unable to connect with the Franklin. Whether her communications array was damaged, or her computers were just so old that the Yeager's computer couldn't identify any commonalities.
==Sorry for the delay, I had to Pythagoras the distance between your location and Earth and, well, there's a reason I didn't do Math in college!==
The library did not contain much about the Lord Franklin itself, that information had mostly been lost to history. There were some well-documented and, in some case wild, theories about what had happened. Some included Human dissidents unhappy with Earth joining the interstellar community, others a secret Augment tribe seeking freedom among the stars, while some of the wilder theories had the Franklin used in a Starfleet Intelligence "black flag" operation to prompt the start of the Earth-Romulan War. The only solid data was that it had put in for refit in mid-2155, and had been stolen from the shipyard before work could begin.
Given the Franklin was "only" one hundred forty light-years from Earth, the ship wouldn't have needed a wormhole or spatial anomaly to make it this far out with the technology of the time (and there were none detected in the vicinity), it could have made it under its own power. 140 Light Years in 249 years meant the ship would have averaged .56c across its entire journey, somehow missing every gravity well along the way, or it had travelled somewhat faster and then spent a more significant amount of time in its now-decaying orbit.
Given the state of the ship, either option was possible.
==Black==
The computer was unable to connect with the Franklin. Whether her communications array was damaged, or her computers were just so old that the Yeager's computer couldn't identify any commonalities.
==Sorry for the delay, I had to Pythagoras the distance between your location and Earth and, well, there's a reason I didn't do Math in college!==