Editing Void Trekkers (section)

====Where No Man Has Gone Before====

In the depth of deep space, with 2 heavily damaged ships, things seemed very bleak indeed. The body of the navigator that was on the bridge at the beginning of this incident was found and to everyone's surprise was still alive, technically. The navigator was unresponsive but was breathing, probably in a coma. The freighter was heavily damaged and was not much more then a failing life support system. The Tau ship was far more in tact but the tales of the Gue'vessa painted a bleak picture of its use. Apparently the ship contained an experimental engine design that unintentionally tore a hole in space launching them in the hellish nightmare where the two ships collided. The tech priest was at a loss on how to repair either of the ships and the suggestions Petarca kept suggesting seemed like pure techno-babble. The adapts and the Gue'vessa on the other hand mulled over the ideas Petarca kept bringing up from the historical documents until a working plan was devloped. They would use the Tau ship, but with heavy modifications to appease the tormented machine spirits inside of it. The tech priest eventually relented and agreed to help with this effort, leading the prayers and rituals needed. Many rituals needed to be agumented and adjusted to accommodate these poor machine spirits but in the end they were appeased. Valuable cargo was moved over as well as the functional Geller field generator. The problem of how to properly navigate still came about. None of the xenos technology could replace a navigator's role and the only living navigator was not capable of carrying out his duties, or so it seemed. Petarca recalled a historical document that described the events from 190,000 years before. In that time void faring craft used a navigator that had been assimilated into the ship itself, uttering seeming non-sense but carrying out all shipboard functions. He described the navigators of that time functioning similarly to a gyroscope to maintain course and headings. This was the first time the tech priest had any inclination of what Petarca was talking about, what he specialized with, servitors. The tech adapts were all too happy to assist with the procedures and slowly the navigator was intergrated into a stasis tube that connected him in a variety of ways. This tube kept the navigator alive in his coma state but accessed the neural network to utilize the navigator's ability to sense the tides of the warp reflexively. The end product was the galaxy's first navigator servitor.

When all the preparations were made this new crew separated the damaged freighter and attempted to travel into the warp to the nearest star system that was two light years away, a binary star system with several habitable planets. Upon entering the warp the ship rocked and rolled through the currents. The navigator servitor did indeed perform its function but without any finesse or consideration of human comfort. The distance involved, galactically speaking, was rather small but it took longer than anticipated. Upon translation into real space the crew thought something horribly had gone wrong. While they had intended to go a binary star system, this system had only one star. However the star in front of them was nearly the same mass as the smaller of the two stars of the binary system. There was also an expanding shock-wave that had already passed the area Petarca's ship was located. This led the tech priest to one conclusion, super nova.

Things seemed to only get worse when they tired to activate the warp drive and found that it needed repairs and that they did not have enough materials to repair it. A stroke of luck occurred when the ships sensors detected a single planet within the habitable zone of the remaining star. What prevented it from being obliterated with the rest of the system's planets during the supernova was that it was experiencing a binary star eclipse at the time of the explosion, shielding it from the plasma ejection but not the gamma rays. If life did exist there it was surely extinct now.