Neptune Research Station
Geostationary Orbit

Station Voice Record Log: 2147-11-21 T 16:33:12:931 UTC

Source: Station Control Room

Log ID: {C9344FD9-E004-46BB-BE1A-A171A383AFBF}

Message Audio to Text Conversion:
T 16:33:13:031 UTC – (Station Commander – SC Wilson) Jonesy – Come and look at this.
T 16:33:19:345 UTC – (Chief Technical Officer – CTO Jones) On my way Trev be there in a minute.
T 16:34:22:871 UTC – (CTO Jones) Hey Trev. What’s up?
T 16:34:25:236 UTC – (SC Wilson) Relay 21 is reporting a strong magnetic disturbance. Out beyond Pluto’s orbit.
T 16:34:32:139 UTC – (CTO Jones) How close?
T 16:34:35:319 UTC – (SC Wilson) You tell me. Look at the readings. Its either very close to the relay or very very very big.
T 16:34:52:351 UTC – (CTO Jones) Well R21 is almost 2 billion kilometers away from here so to us it will look like the point of disturbance is right next door.
T 16:35:10:567 UTC – (SC Wilson) So?
T 16:35:12:562 UTC – (CTO Jones) well judging by those numbers to R21 it’s gonna feel like someone filled its pants with iron filings and tossed it into a particle accelerator.
T 16:35:19:198 UTC – (SC Wilson) That bad eh?
T 16:35:25:400 UTC – (CTO Jones) Yep. Let’s send some maneuver orders to R21 and get it to retire to a safer distance and let’s send a message back home and see what they want to do.
T 16:35:45:023 UTC – (SC Wilson) Sounds good to me. I’ll send the maneuver orders, you phone home.
T 16:35:51:823 UTC – (CTO Jones) No worries.
T 16:35:58:212 UTC – (SC Wilson) I think we have a few beers left from the last supply drop. You want one?
T 16:36:07:792 UTC – (CTO Jones) Cheers.

International Agency for Space Exploration

Project Coleman: A manned mission to explore the Heliopause and the boundary of interstellar space

Proposal presented at the emergency project meeting regarding the Pluto disturbance

Date: 24-Jan-2148

Premise: Adjustment of mission parameters to include the close investigation of the Pluto disturbance

Executive Summary:
This proposal adjusts the mission parameters of Project Coleman from solely investigating the Heliopause and the boundary between the Solar System and interstellar space to include the investigation of the magnetic disturbance identified and recorded by the Neptune Research Station. The location of the disturbance can be reached with a 0.02% course deviation for the Coleman Project vessel and can be included in the mission with no compromise of expected results from original mission parameters. Transition via the Neptune Lane and then on to the Outer Reaches Lane will result in the arrival of the Coleman vehicle at a mere 100,000 kilometers from the center of the disturbance. A 0.12% plane shift in trajectory will allow a close fly-by of the disturbance which will allow detailed analysis to be performed.

Coleman Heliopause Exploration Vehicle

Mission Data

Black Box Voice Record Log: 2148-08-11 T 06:12:12:984 UTC

Source: Mission Detail

Log ID: {34E38048-978D-4965-A5B6-B655EBEECC71}

Message Audio to Text Conversion:
T 06:12:13:041 UTC – (Mission Commander – MC Li) Status update please.
T 06:12:16:213 UTC – (Master Pilot – MP Lecras) Shielding at 97%, power at 75% demand, lane transition at 85%.
T 06:12:28:139 UTC – (MC Li) Thankyou Mr Lecras. Mr Johnson are we ready for the drop back out of blueshift?
T 06:12:48:962 UTC – (Mission Scientist - MS Johnson) Yes commander. The board reads green.
T 06:13:01:749 UTC – (MP Lecras) Lane transition exit estimate is 14 minutes.
T 06:13:15:915 UTC – (MC Li) Thankyou Mr Lecras. Please commence shutdown of lane boost synchronisation at exit minus 10 minutes.
T 06:14:11:413 UTC – (MP Lecras) Lane boost shutdown scheduled as requested. Blueshift doppler reduce to commence at 0617.
T 06:17:25:867 UTC – (MP Lecras) Blueshift doppler reduce commenced. Lane transition exit in 10 minutes.
T 06:18:05:213 UTC – (MS Johnson) Tracking slight lane instability. Directional error is 0.0002%. Computer predicts exit error of 23,000KM.
T 06:18:35:374 UTC – (MC Li) Where is that going to put us in relation to the position of the anomaly?
T 06:18:49:852 UTC – (MS Johnson) Closer. Closer than we would really want to be.
T 06:18:56:129 UTC – (MC Li) Overdrive the shields to 120% please Mr Lecras.
T 06:19:04:071 UTC – (MP Lecras) Done.
T 06:23:28:810 UTC – (MP Lecras) 4 minutes to lane transition exit.
T 06:23:39:282 UTC – (MC Li) Mr Johnson?
T 06:23:43:721 UTC – (MS Johnson) Error at 0.0004% and 31,000KM.
T 06:24:04:410 UTC – (MC Li) Prepare for exit. Go to condition red.
T 06:25:15:369 UTC – (MS Johnson) Error is climbing. Now at 0.0005%. Computer predicts close encounter with anomaly. Distance to estimated center less than 10,000KM.
T 06:26:01:911 UTC – (MC Li) Prepare for escape maneuvering Mr Johnson.
T 06:26:45:330 UTC – (MP Lecras) Vectoring thrusters on line. Lane transition exit in 28 seconds.
T 06:26:55:977 UTC – (MS Johnson) Lane collapse for exit in 15 seconds. Magnetic interference being reported by sensors.
T 06:27:15:393 UTC – (MP Lecras) Blueshift exit complete. Bringing up external view cameras.
T 06:27:38:241 UTC – (MP Lecras) Holy crap that is beautiful.
T 06:27:49:192 UTC – (MS Johnson) That is the anomaly. Magnetic interference is affecting our sensors. Gravitational well detected.
T 06:27:58:083 UTC – (MC Li) Get us clear Mr Lecras.
T 06:28:05:904 UTC – (MP Lecras) We are being dragged closer. Thrusters cannot compensate. Shields holding at 117%.
T 06:28:21:083 UTC – (MC li) Reroute all power from non essential systems and get us free.
T 06:29:32:772 UTC – (MS Johnson) Gravitational forces increasing.
T 06:29:58:138 UTC – (MP Lecras) Still being dragged closer. We are going to be pulled in.
T:06:30:18:257 UTC – (MC Li) Mr Johnson. Send automated distress signal. Dump voice log into burst transmission. Follow that with mission data log.
T 06:30:34:966 UTC – (MS Johnson) Distress signal sending and on repeat. Voice log transmission burst away in 5 4 3 2.

Press Release

International Agency for Space Exploration

03 September 2148

IASE with regret inform the world that the Project Coleman Exploration Vehicle sent a distress call that initiated at 6:40am on the 11th August from the vicinity of Pluto’s orbit. The distress call ceased to transmit fourteen seconds later and since that time there has been no response to any attempts to reestablish communication with the mission. The families of the three crew have been informed. Further investigations are underway and we will release more information as it comes to hand. No questions will be taken at this time. Thankyou for your attention.

Online Memorial Site

22 June 2149

www.colemanev.org

In Memorium

Mission Commander Li Ming
Master Pilot Napoleon Lecras
Mission Scientist Simon Johnson

“Of the stuff of stars are we made, and to the stuff of stars shall we return”

Excerpt from the Final Report from the enquiry into the loss of the Project Coleman Exploration Vehicle

For Public Distribution

01-July-2149

The lack of physical evidence and the difficulty in gathering additional data leads this panel to return an open finding. It is possible that the mission experienced a catastrophic failure caused by human error. However the exemplary career history and unblemished records of MC Li, MP Lecras and MS Johnson make that unlikely. The available evidence indicates that the mission was endangered by its unexpected exit from the Neptune Acceleration Lane in close proximity to the anomaly. Readings taken by remote probes indicate that very high levels of gravitational and magnetic forces were at play within close proximity to the anomaly. It is to this evidence that the panel has given greatest weight in its determination that in all probability the PCEV mission failure was caused by factors outside human control and that no responsibility can be attached to any individual. However, even with this determination the panel is unable to draw a firm conclusion and so the investigation is herewith closed on the date of this report and signed by all members as representing all the available evidence and inference that can reliably be drawn. And with our signatures so do we state.

Coleman Heliopause Exploration Vehicle

Mission Data

Black Box Voice Record Log: 2148-08-11 T 06:12:12:798 UTC

Source: Mission Detail
Log ID: {34E38048-978D-4965-A5B6-B655EBEECC71}

Message Audio to Text Conversion:
T 06:40:41:196 UTC – (Mission Scientist – MS Johnson) 1. Voice transmission away, data log queued.
T 06:40:58:321 UTC – (Master Pilot – MP Lecras) Shielding at 102%, power at 113% demand, hull stress warning.
T 06:41:11:319 UTC – (Mission Commander – MC Li) Shields are holding. No point fighting it. Lets go with the flow. Opinions?
T 06:41:21:196 UTC – (MP Lecras) Concur. Engines can’t fight the drag. Might pull us apart if we try.
T 06:41:31:906 UTC – (MS Johnson) Hull stress is at 90% of tolerance. We have to reduce it or we’ll pop. Lets go with the flow.
T 06:41:54:016 UTC – (MC Li) New heading. Take us into the anomaly.
T 06:42:03:287 UTC – (MP Lecras) Taking us in.
T 06:42:09:618 UTC – (MS Johnson) Data log transmission failure. Some fault with the signal generation routines. Hull stress reducing. Now at 65% of tolerance. Gravitational forces stabilising.
T 06:42:24:136 UTC – (MC Li) How long till we reach the projected centre?
T 06:42:33:116 UTC – (MS Johnson) At the current rate of acceleration we’ll hit the projected centre in less than one minute.
T 06:42:41:721 UTC - (MP Lecras) Getting fluctuations on the flight control instruments. Must be the magnetic field affecting the sensors.
T 06:42:58:005 UTC - (MS Johnson) Gravity well positioning indicators are converging. Estimate full convergence in 25 seconds.
T 06:43:09:722 UTC - (MC Li) Is that redshift I see? Look – At the external view monitor.
T 06:43:17:371 UTC - (MP Lecras) Looks like it.
T 06:43:22:856 UTC - (MS Scientist) These readings make no sense. We are in the centre and speed reads zero but the distance to star mass measure is growing exponentially.
T 07:13:22:856 UTC - (Automated Black Box Voice Log Insert) No sound recorded for 30 minutes
T 07:27:03:024 UTC - (MP Lecras) *unintelligible sounds*
T 07:34:13:234 UTC - (MS Johnson) Oww my head. Lecras? Li? You guys Ok?
T 07:34:22:812 UTC - (MS Johnson) Commander Li. Wake up. You good? Li. Wake up.
T 07:34:31:710 UTC - (MC li) What happened?
T 07:34:25:381 UTC - (MS Johnson) Not sure. Help me with Lecras. He’s still unconscious.
T 07:34:32:912 UTC - (MC Li) I ache all over. Sit him up in his seat.
T 07:34:41:645 UTC - (MS Johnson) Lecras. Lecras. Checking for a pulse.
T 07:34:48:732 UTC - (MC Li) Well?
T 07:34:53:297 UTC - (MS Johnson) Its there. I think he is OK. Get the respirator. Lets give him some oxygen.
T 07:35:12:710 UTC - (MC Li) Here we go. Just slip this over his head. Oxygen is on.
T 07:35:26:038 UTC - (MC Li) Lecras. Wake up. Lecras.
T 07:35:35:071 UTC - (MS Johnson) Polo. Come on wake up Polo.
T 07:35:41:590 UTC - (MS Johnson) Here he comes. You back with us now Polo?
T 07:35:48:288 UTC - (MP Lecras) Oh I ache. What happened?
T 07:35:56:387 UTC - (MC Li) We don't know yet Mr Lecras. We need you to help figure it out. Are you OK?
T 07:36:09:131 UTC - (MP Lecras) Yes I think so. Just give me a few seconds. I'll be fine.

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Mission Data

Black Box Voice Record Log: 2148-08-11 T 07:36:12:348 UTC

Source: Mission Detail
Log ID: {30DCAC98-D499-476A-A3C3-C497510B6CBA}

Message Audio to Text Conversion:
T 07:55:21:081 UTC – (Mission Scientist – MS Johnson) I am not getting any sense from the data we are seeing.
T 07:55:31:811 UTC – (Master Pilot – MP Lecras) Well I can tell you we now seem to be at the extreme edge of the anomaly’s gravitational and magnetic fields. But our location instrumentation is giving me nothing but merde.
T 07:56:12:250 UTC – (Mission Commander – MC Li) Ok use the visuals from our external monitors to at least get a fix on the Sun and then see if you can figure out where we are in relation to the Neptune Research Station.
T 07:56:29:372 UTC – (MS Johnson) Ok. Lecras can you give us a slight rotational spin so we can get a quicker coverage of the visual sphere?
T 07:56:53:072 UTC – (MS Lecras) Done. 1 point 2 degrees a second through the longitudinal axis, latitude stepping at 15 second intervals.
T 07:57:19:278 UTC – (MS Johnson) Nothing yet.
T 07:57:51:592 UTC – (MS Johnson) Still nothing. We should have seen the sun by now on one of the monitors.
T 07:58:21:258 UTC – (MS Johnson) All right. Going to run a bright star search with the images collected of the brightest clusters. This will take a few minutes.
T 07:58:49:298 UTC (MC Li) Thankyou Mr Johnson. Mr Lecras – Look through the data we have gathered and see what you can find. I’ll run some simulations to see if I can determine what happened when we entered the anomaly.

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Coleman Heliopause Exploration Vehicle

Mission Data

Black Box Voice Record Log: 2148-08-11 T 09:21:04:398 UTC

Source: Mission Detail

Log ID: {97B6910E-2887-4DF7-A2B3-D53BC2331C2A}

Message Audio to Text Conversion:
T 09:21:04:522 UTC – (Mission Commander – MC Li) So. Let us recap what we’ve found. Mr Lecras?
T 09:21:12:138 UTC – (Master Pilot – MP Lecras) The data as we entered the anomaly indicates we were captured by a gravitational force that increased logarithmically as we moved towards the center. This dropped off dramatically when we reached the center and then a few seconds later the measures go haywire and oscillate randomly with no mathematical patterns discernible until it all settles down just after the estimated time that we blacked out. We’ll need to push all the data we have through the super computer clusters back home before we can make any real sense of it all. All I can say right now is that we have experienced something that is outside any models of the way the universe works that I am familiar with. Sorry. Not much help eh?
T 09:22:13:439 UTC – (MC Li) That’s fine Mr Lecras. Mr Johnson?
T 09:22:24:807 UTC – (Mission Scientist – MS Johnson) This won’t make much sense but here it is. The star cluster analysis indicates we have are about 7 and half light years from the Solar System.
T 09:22:32:017 UTC – (MP Lecras) What? Impossible.
T 09:22:39:149 UTC – (MC Li) Thankyou Mr Lecras. Please continue Mr Johnson.
T 09:22:44:017 UTC – (MS Johnson) I know. I don’t really believe it myself but that is what the analysis indicates. I found the Sun but it is no longer the brightest object in our sky. That honour belongs to Wolf 359 with Barnards Star a close second. By triangulating our position with reference to our Sun, and the other local bright objects the computer is telling me we are 7 light years from home and we appear to be located within the planetary system surrounding Wolf 359.
T 09:23:36:530 UTC (MP Lecras) Well that explains the odd readings from our external sensors. If you compare the readings to those we saw before we entered the Neptune Acceleration Lane you find them quite different. They seem to support the fact that we are no longer in our own Solar System.
T 09:23:56:282 UTC – (MC Li) Thankyou. The simulations I have run aren’t giving me much information. But they agree with Mr Lecras analysis up to the point where we blacked out. I did review the command deck video feed and it shows us slumping in our seats and a second or so later a blue white light washes out the video for about half an hour before the vision returns to normal and a few minutes later Mr Johnson wakes up and revives us.
T 09:24:22:249 UTC (MP Lecras) This makes no sense. Assuming we just jumped 7 light years then we’ve broken all of the laws of relativity. And we should also see some pretty dramatic shifts in our time reference as well. Ships clock indicates a steady tick since we started out from the Earth. Johnson, can we get a time estimate from astrological reference?
T 09:24:39:199 UTC (MS Johnson) I thought about that, but as we don’t have a fixed measurement point any shifts in time reference will be meaningless. The only way we could work it out was if we had a relative time shift from a fixed origin point such as the Neptune Research Station or the Neptune Acceleration Lane embarkation Point and we don’t. Or to be exact we can’t because we are so far away.
T 09:25:15:487 UTC (MC Li) Alright. So we are 7 light years from home and we’ve possibly been subjected to a positive or negative time reference shift. So I think we need to make some decisions about our next move. Mr Lecras would you please double check Mr Johnson’s findings and also inventory our resources.
T 09:25:23:822 (MP Lecras) On it.
T 09:25:26:128 (MC Li) Mr Johnson would you please run some simulations reversing our transition through the anomaly and hypothesize what might happen if we were to go through it again?
T 09:25:38:081 (MS Johnson) Will do.
T 09:25:40:622 (MC Li) Thankyou both.

Neptune Research Station
Geostationary Orbit

Station Voice Record Log: 2169-12-08 T 23:30:123 UTC

Source: Station Control Room

Log ID: {F995BA33-EE9F-42F5-B060-BD0083593DF0}

Message Audio to Text Conversion:
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T 23:30:14:219 UTC – (Chief Technical Officer – CTO Smith) What’s it saying Sally?
T 23:30:20:733 UTC – (SC Tolan) Well the probe is reporting rapidly degrading magnetic readings.
T 23:30:31:529 UTC – (CTO Smith) Looks like it is collapsing. At this rate it will be gone in a few days.
T 23:30:38:529 UTC – (SC Tolan) I agree. They’ll be able to open the Neptune Acceleration Lane all the way out to Pluto again.
T 23:30:51:173 UTC – (SC Smith) More tourists. Great.

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Coleman Heliopause Exploration Vehicle

Mission Data

Black Box Voice Record Log: 2148-08-11 T 13:16:21:188 UTC

Source: Mission Detail

Log ID: {04B10506-1F48-41D0-AFBE-D7192C53714D}

Message Audio to Text Conversion:
T 13:16:21:285 UTC – (Mission Commander – MC Li) So I think we have all the data we need to make a decision. Mr Lecras would you summarise please?
T 13:16:31:387 UTC – (Master Pilot – MP Lecras) Oui. We have confirmed our location. We are over 7 light years from the Solar System and our Sun.
T 13:16:36:720 UTC – (Mission Scientist – MS Johnson) And we have no idea what our time reference is.
T 13:16:42:175 UTC – (MP Lecras) Yes. We have enough power for about another 12 months on normal usage before our fusions cell electrical generators will give out. Our chemical propellant is good for another 14 hours of constant maneuvering, give or take. Our magnetic lane synchronisation engines are off so they aren’t drawing power but they’ll be fine as long as we have enough electricity to trigger them when we need them. But we’ll run out of food at best in one month and our water and water recycling will last us about three months.
T:13:17:20:491 UTC – (MC Li) Thankyou Mr Lecras. Mr Johnson?
T 13:17:26:012 UTC – (MS Johnson) So I’ve figured out that it was a very high burst of electro-magnetic radiation that caused us to lose consciousness. It is nothing to worry about right now but we’ve probably all had some fairly significant neurological damage as a result. This may result in long term memory degradation and early onset of brain illness such as Alzheimer’s disease. There is treatment available back on Earth that will limit the damage we have already suffered so if we can get back there we should be OK.
T 13:17:54:833 UTC – (MP Lecras) Super.
T 13:17:57:744 UTC – (MS Johnson) I know. Anyway it appears that the anomaly is some sort of wormhole in time and space. The simulations indicate that the ship at least will survive a second transition if it is similar to the first with some room to spare. There is no significant hull damage from stress and we can power the shields for another transition without too much trouble.
T 13:18:15:371 UTC – (MC Li) And what about us? Will we survive another blast of that radiation?
T 13:18:24:911 UTC – (MS Johnson) I don’t know Commander. The simulations can only give me some certainty regarding the ship itself. It is likely that the radiation burst will the of the same magnitude and from what I now about electro-magnetic radiation the effects are cumulative. This means that any damage already done will be made worse by further exposure. Whether that would be enough to incapacitate us or kill us outright, or render us unable to operate the ship systems I don’t know.
T 13:19:02:338 UTC – (MC Li) Thankyou Mr Johnson. Well we don’t really have much of a choice do we? It’s either stay here and die of starvation or attempt a transit through the wormhole and hope it gets us home alive, and with enough brain function to recognise our families.
T 13:19:28:731 UTC – (MP Lecras) Merde.
T 13:19:31:377 UTC – (MC Li) Just do your job Mr Lecras. You too Mr Johnson. If we do our jobs we maximise our chances. Ok?
T 13:19:43:777 UTC – (MS Johnson) Ok.
T 13:19:56:833 UTC – (MC Li) Ok Mr Lecras?
T 13:20:02:633 UTC – (MC Li) Mr Lecras?
T 13:20:05:810 UTC – (MP Lecras) Ok. But I’m going to record a message for my family before we do anything else.
T 13:20:18:519 UTC – (MC Li) Good idea. I will as well. Mr Johnson?
T 13:20:27:387 UTC – (Mr Johnson) Yep. So will I.
T 13:20:35:822 UTC – (MC Li) Ok. Record your messages and then begin your preparation for the attempt to transit the wormhole again. We will plan to attempt the transit at 0300 hours. Do your jobs and we’ll be OK.