//omada voted too late :v
You are Satoru Hisho, an Astrophysicist of the Yamato Empire.The fellow scientists of the Imperial Astronautics Academy have equipped The Globe with a new Gravitometric Scanner. It will allow for detection of instabilities through the Wormholes, so you will be able to determine whether the other side of the Wormhole is a solar system or event horizon of a black hole.
In theory, at least. The Gravitometric Scanner can also be used as substitute if you need a detailed scan of wormholes, black hole emissions and gravitational pull of stellar bodies.T-0002 Hours
The Globe leaves the safety of the space station and slowly thrusters toward the point of most dense gravitational instability; the entry point of the wormhole.T-0001 Hours
The GAD is powering up, and all readings and emissions cease to exist; the massive flux of gravitons interfere with other forces.Point T
The extreme pressures would kill you if not the heavy metal shielding of your control room. The time and space go and skewer themselves as you see afterimages of your equipment, your flailing hands, or even photons slowing down to such speeds that you can see the beams of light as a thick cloud of particle matter-Everything speeds up. The GAD becomes silent and inoperative.
0001.0001:0460 Mission Time
The main computer beeps up and goes into active mode. While it performs scans stellar neighbourhood to determine where you just found yourself in, you pull up status check of The Globe.
Astronaut: Satoru Hisho (OK)
The Globe: Computer (OK), GAD (OK), RTG Units (OK), Other Equipment (OK)
Inventory:
Capitalium-241: 94.9%
Rations: 200
Rocket Fuel: 100
Spare Parts: 20
Supplies: 50
The drop within RTGs is alright; the scientists determined that each Wormhole transition should drain about 5% of Capitalium-241 reserves. This means you have about ~10 'jumps' before you should consider returning to this area and performing a jump back to Sol System.
The computer beeps and starts listing the approximate location of your ship.
Apparently you're 20 light years away from home - you're in
Delta Pavonis star system! This is both a blessing and a curse.
Blessing, because it proves the Tokamak-Sindra Theory, that wormholes are formed within gravitational influence of stellar bodies.
Curse, because Delta Pavonis has been long ago proven to be rather uninteresting place. It has a main sequence star, slightly larger than Sol, but no planets of any kind, nor even a gas giant, with only a disk of dust surrounding this Sol-like star. You start the rocket thrusters and decide to...
A) Activate long-range scanners and gather data on Delta Pavonis star.
B) Activate long-range scanners and gather data on debris disk.
C) Take it easy and let the computer do a wide-system passive scan.
D) Search for other potential Wormholes within Delta Pavonis.
E) Go into hibernation pod and wait till The Globe approaches inner system.
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