“Ensign Das’To, reporting plasma conversion rates, Lord-Captain.”ĭas’To offered the tablet with his other hand. He approached the captain’s raised dais and knelt placing the three fingers of his right-hand flat across his forehead. Where the raging light had been a few seconds ago, now only inky black of vacuum was left.
The polarization was just fading from the force screen as the ensign stepped out of the lift onto the bridge of the Das’Tari. He stared at the screen in shock, trying to comprehend. It should be billions of years before there was any chance of one going nova. He picked up his notebook and flipped to the section on galaxy AE 4217, and just as he had thought all of its suns were younger than the Milkyway’s. His first thought was that it went supernova but quickly realized that was absurd. The sun that had been there moments ago was gone. He turned back to the viewing screen and expanded the view out from the system he had been examining. Felton turned away from the screen and shielded his eyes. He often thought of himself as an astronomical detective, using each small clue to piece together the whole picture.Īfter several hours of careful scrutiny, he had started on the fifth Galaxy and hadn’t been viewing the system for ten minutes when there was a blinding flash from its center. The conditions for an advanced society to evolve. Each had the right conditions out of the hundreds of thousands he had examined. He had been sifting data for years and knew his calculations were right. The swirling perfection of the spirals always tantalized him. He took his seat at the telescope and focused the lenses to bring the first galaxy in clear. There was a lot to cover and only until eight o’clock in the morning to finish. The coffee was just the way he liked it strong and black.
After using the observatory for years, he barely noticed the tons of metal circling slowly overhead. As he crossed the room the huge telescope and the roof above rotated ninety degrees to lock onto the first galaxy in the sequence. Then pressed the enter key and walked over to refill his cup. Doctor Felton was entering the last quadrants into the sequence when the coffee machine beeped that it was finished, he said, The night was cold and the sky was clear.
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