The Tale of the Tyche

[Leo]

Nothing prepared Julianne for what she saw as soon as the ship came out of subspace. For when she saw it, she was as confused as anyone else. For when they came out the other end, they were still in Omicron-74...but something was very very wrong. There were no station orbiting the planet, no minefield around the nebulae...the system was barren of life, minus the Jumphole that stood silent and resolute in space in front of them.

"Gabby, report." Julia said.

"Reporting no contacts, ma'am...nothing's on sensors, no life, no movement...nothing at all..." Gabby replied.

"Check the star-charts, ensure that we didn't jump into a system much like Omicron-74 by mistake and we're just going a bit crazy..."

"Star-charts line up ma'am...this is Omicron-74...or rather, was."

"Say again?"

"If the star-charts are correct, Commander, the stars and planets have shifted in such a way that the computer system is saying that we are in the year...1563 B.C."

"Impossible. Check the computer again, run a diagnostic on everything..."

"I did ma'am, twice. It's still saying we're in 1563 B.C."

Julianne sat in the chair, staring off into space...had they literally jumped back in time using a subspace drive? She had read up on the possibility of time-travel, but it had never occurred to her that it might actually be possible. If they had indeed jumped back in time, while in Sirius space, this gave them a chance to see what the space looked like before colonization...before mankind had ever laid a hand on any planet.

"Movement, 15 kilometers off the starboard bow."

"Put it on the screen."

The screen on board the bridge lit up, showing a rather large vessel shimmering in and out of phase, as if trying to cloak. It was moving slowly towards the Tyche, but didn't appear hostile.

"Sensors?" Julia asked.

"They can't register anything of any value, only it's size and shape. It isn't detecting any weapons, no shields, nothing. However, it's clear it's moving towards us, and it's using--"

The Tyche rocked violently as the ship fired one round of weapons at the shields. Julia gripped the command chair, the ship didn't open fire anymore.

"It's testing us...testing the water."

"How to we reply?" Gabby replied.

"We don't. Take us to the Jumphole nice and slow. We make it to Theta and decide what to do from there. Shut off the subspace drive and begin scans on it. See what we can find out about maybe getting back to our own time...IF we are really in the past."

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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