[USS Charon, Deck 8 - Science Labs]
All effort was being made to track down the ship. A vessel capable of creating and manipulating wormholes. The data Savant had involved him with was still making his mind boggle. As much as the Ensign wanted to look deeper into the theory behind the propulsion that craft. However for Thomas to even consider tackling that confusion he required a break from such intense study on things that he barely touched on thoery classes let alone any sort of practice.
The sensors had been put into overdrive; No overdrive was what they had already been doing exploring the nebula, the power dedication to the arrays now was phenomenal. Data that the sensors had been picking up had been filtered for signs of the vessel, upon finding nothing it was moved to the wayside. The data had painted a picture around the ship, a picture simply waiting to be viewed and interpreted.
For the ensign it was the perfect escape, a chance to charter an otherwise unexplored section of space and here was an opportunity to do it. Sitting at his science station he wanted to take advantage of at least some of that gathered information.
The Nebula that surrounded the ship and could currently be through the window to his right shone all the brighter when exposed to scans that went beyond the limits of the human eye. Patches that held a slighter deeper hue were showing signs of sections of the nebula further losing its hydrostatic equilibrium, in the coming centuries and millennia this nebula would further be reduced in its density. In its place even more protostars would exist in this nursery. As they formed the reduced density of the nebula would allow these new stars to finally become visible to those outside the nebula. Well in another 50 to 60 million years anyway.
The closest light emitting object to them at this moment was a extreamly young T Tauri Star. The Nebula still obscured it from direct view however the current glow they were experiencing was defiantly due in a large part of the proximity of this object. Clearing out much of the foreground and background noise he was able to display a much clearer image; the infant star would still likely be surrounded by an accretion disk. The star would be feeding on the gaseous disk and continue to form until one day the disk would be gone possibly leaving gas giants, asteroid belts and rocky planetoids.
In addition to the visible light, intense X-Ray and general radio emissions were being emitted in abundance, while the Charons Sensor sweep had been cable of cutting through it and even separating it from emissions by other objects a less equipped ship would struggle to trace anything around such an object.
As a final flight of fancy Thomas observed the intensity of the stellar winds present around the star, while at his comfortable distance behind a science console and in the form of a holographic simulation it made for pleasant viewing. However he knew it was the stellar equivalent of watching a great storm from the orbit of a planet. The distance made a thing of immense destructive potential look like a whimsical object of beauty, A line of thought that captivated him as he moved onto the next object of interest...
[End Log]
Ensign Thomas Clipper
Assistant Science Officer
USS Charon
