Steve, do you know anything about a secret project Jean is working on? I told her to do something and she said she couldn't because she was busy with a secret project she couldn't tell me about. If you don't know, I guess I'll just go try to think about other things and hope for the best.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, July 06, 2019 - 02:10 pm: Edit

Kudos to Steve Petrick for killing over 3000 posts in questions about ships!

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 04:08 pm: Edit

Somewhere there is a reference that a mauler ship cannot be fitted with a stasis field generator because the shock of firing the mauler system will break the stasis field generator itself. Anyone know where this is?

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 04:28 pm: Edit

Captain's Log #4, Page #40 of (S7.0) Ship Modifications (revised (S3.3), line item #25: "SFGs and Maulers cannot be on the same ship. The shock of the mauler would destroy the crystals on the SFG."

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, September 23, 2019 - 05:55 pm: Edit

Nick Samaras:

E-Mail to you has started kicking back as undeliverable, please advise.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 09:45 am: Edit

Steve,

Please know that mjwest83 at gmail dot com is also a good email address from me.

By Randy O. Green (Hollywood750) on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 - 07:08 pm: Edit

Maybe you should use the SFG, first, before you use the mauler.. ;)

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 02:10 pm: Edit

Somewhere there is a reference to a wrecked ship, obviously from some future time, being found on an asteroid. I am pretty sure this ship was on an asteroid in Romulan space, and it had obviously been derelict on the asteroid for a hundred years or more. I think it may have been a Klingon ship. Does anyone know what I am talking about and where this reference can be found?

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 02:21 pm: Edit

Maybe in some text talking about wormholes or some such related to Kraknora (spelling) being transported to the Omega octant? Something like that? Very vague memory.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 02:56 pm: Edit

Richard B. Eitzen:

The vague memory is all I have. If I had a firm idea, I would at least know where to look to confirm it. The problem is that it is clearly "time travel" involved (the derelict ship on the asteroid is definitely mentioned as being "contemporary" (not in that exact word) but the wreck is a "century old" (again not the exact words).

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 05:22 pm: Edit

Petrick, it in the issue of Nexus that had the Fed CA Kongo time travel and fight the sublight Gorns. The scenario mentions variations involving other ships and makes the Klingon reference.

By Douglas Saldana (Dsal) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 05:44 pm: Edit

Nexus #1 to be specific. In my imagination this ship was the F5X Vandal which had somehow gotten shot back in time as a result of the devastating volley directed at it at the end of "A Warrior's Death" in Nexus #12. But perhaps Petrick has a better idea.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 06:08 pm: Edit

Nick Samaras, Douglas Saldana:

That was the reference I remembered, thanks.

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 08:43 pm: Edit

Douglas, that is a terrific idea. The crew of the Vandal being tossed around time again and again.

By Michael Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 09:47 pm: Edit

IIRC Vandal was destroyed when it came back...

By Douglas Saldana (Dsal) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 10:43 pm: Edit

The ship name index says the Vandal was destroyed but this is never explicitly stated in the story which ends with the Vandal attempting to maneuver away from the cruiser squadron sent to destroy it. What Kron recalls of the Vandal's fate (from seeing the scene from the perspective of his younger self) is never stated, we only know that it's bad enough that he orders the ship to flee.

It's possible that if the ship disappeared into a time warp under a catastrophic volley of fire it might have been mistaken for being destroyed. Even if anyone had noticed some sort of temporal disturbance (in a post-battle analysis) I doubt they would have shared that information with Kron who was only an ensign at the time.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 11:00 pm: Edit

The timeline notes that a Federation spy ship or some such was destroyed, this is the Vandal.

Also, the captain of the Vandal recalls the event, but too late.

By Douglas Saldana (Dsal) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 11:40 pm: Edit

I'm not seeing any reference to such an incident on the timeline available on ADB's website (though it sounds familiar). Is it on an older/newer version of the timeline?

And again (I have the text of the story in front of me) we are never told exactly what Kron recalled seeing after the cruiser squadron was sent to destroy the "Federation spies" (though we can infer from his reaction that it was nothing good).

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Monday, November 18, 2019 - 11:57 pm: Edit

The current timeline doesn't seem to have the reference I spoke of.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 11:38 am: Edit

Most of the references to single ships in the timeline were removed due to space constraints as the timeline grew.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 05:40 pm: Edit

For what it's worth, there was an episode of the tv show enterprise that had a constitution class star ship discovered in an asteroid field in what eventually became Tholian space.

It did come from about 100 years in the future.

There was also an episode from tng that had a Federation cruiser trying to perfect a cloaking device that used a different scientific method to achieve invisibility. It was found Inside an asteroid, but the ship itself was lost for a number of years... 12? 18? I forget how many.

Point is, the premise seems very close to what you asked about... and there is the fact that no one on the bbs can cite a SFU event that matches exactly. (Perhaps I should add 'yet'?)

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 09:02 pm: Edit

Jeff Wile:

The Ship in the Enterprise episode was the ship from the star trek episode "The Tholian Web" except that it was also in the evil universe.

By Michael Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 03:54 pm: Edit

Easy to do without inventing new Canon or "science."

In my story about the Doomward, the Science officer talks about there being two kinds of Vortexes. Temporal and Spatial. Doomward gets caught up in a Spatial Vortex.

But a temporal Vortex could be even nastier. IIRC the F5X Vandal kills a GW era Fed CL fairly easily...

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 07:44 pm: Edit

But he is talking about a future type ship (X1? X2?) being sent back 100 years before being discovered in a asteroid field...

If (just to plug in a number for comparisons sake) we chose a ship with a year 202 YIS date, that means it would be transferred back to year 102 and left there until its discovered some time between year 102 and year 202.

And even then, we still have no idea what the object of the scenario is. (It might not even be about the X ship itself, just a part of the background?)

By Douglas Saldana (Dsal) on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 08:56 pm: Edit

I believe the scenario text in Nexus #1 stated that the wreck of the Klingon frigate (on an asteroid in Romulan space) was "at least" a century old when it was found in Y162. It's not clear if that's the chronological age of the frigate (since it was constructed) or just the amount of time that had passed since it crashed on the asteroid.

If it's the later (which I think was the intent) that dates the wreck to Y62 at the latest.

If it's the former, it's difficult to speculate when the wreck took place without knowing how old the frigate was before it went back in time. The only thing we know for sure is that there was something anachronistic about the frigate in relation to the date of the wreck.