NationStates Jolt Archive

The Nakori was one of the first Blade Runner battleships the Siesatian navy. It was not old, or outdated by any standard, but the military had taken her out of active duty, to patrol the outer edges of Siesatian space. It was on a routine patrol through sector 328-126.
“Is there anything to report?” Captain Frakes asked,
”No sir, nothing but rock.” The science officer said,
“Very good, move onto…” he was interrupted,
“Sir, I’ve got a very large object out there.”
“What is very large?”
“It appears to be about 15 Kilometers long.”
”A ship, what kind? Whose?”
”No idea, I’m not getting a good scan of it from all the radiation from the asteroids.”
”Hail them.” He said, and the Communications Officer opened a channel. “This is the Siesatian Battleship Nakori; please state your planet of origin, and destination.”
There was no response as the Nakori moved closer to the unknown ship.
“Sir, we are close enough to run a full scan.”
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”It seems to be an Indra Prime vessel, maybe a Phaeralon Class Command Ship.” Frakes said,
“It’s heavily damaged what should we do sir?”
”I need to make a call, this is to be classified, and kept from the rest of the crew, it is of the uttermost importance.” He announced to his bridge crew.
”Yes sir.” They said in unison.

Captains Quarters…

”That’s right, a Phaeralon Class Command Ship, I don’t know what its doing out here, but it seems to be heavily damaged, the port and starboard fins are completely gone.”
”And you told nobody about this?” The chief of naval operations asked.
”I told nobody except you.”
”Good, I will personally make sure you get commodore for this, send your exact coordinates and continue your patrol, meet up with the Remora in sector 479-346, and head back home. Do you happen to know this vessel’s name?”
“It’s the Aurora sir.”
“The Aurora, very good, dismissed.” And the channel closed.

"The Aurora, how could it be the Aurora, it was the only one of its class to ever be lost in battle. This is big, bigger than big, I can't allow the president, or anybody else to find out about this, we might be able to complete our work on some of our, projects, faster with this." The CONA said to himself.

It had been over a year since the Nakori had discovered the ship. And it had taken this long for sufficient funds to be acquired, behind the president, and most of congress's back.
So it was, that on March 18th, the small scientific fleet of 100 Scientists, and 2 Construction Vessels reached the Aurora. And the Siesatian Temporal Research Station was in the process of being constructed.
Resources were mined from local asteroids, and the frame for the base was refined and completed by late May. By this time, the funds had diminished, and the scientists and engineers had been unable to do much aboard the Aurora.
Several Billion dollars had already been spent, much of it keeping the general public from finding out about this. But it would take much more than a few billion dollars.
The chief of naval operations sat in thinking. When his advisor came into his office.
"What is it?" He asked,
"Our budget for 'The Project'"
"Really? How much?"
"Our estimated amount is over 700 Billion for phase two."
"Any way to get that much within a year’s time?"
"Umm... Yes."
"How?"
"The Siesatian Temporal Research Division. The Director is already in on this, we could get money from them, and finish construction.
"Do it, tell him to label this as top priority."

The Temporal Research Division leader was speaking to the budget office.
”700 Billion?!?! We can’t spare that MUCH money.”
”You get that much every 4 months, this is Top Priority.”
“By whose orders?”
”Chief of Naval Operations Officer Grandengs.”
”Fine and I take it I can’t know the full extent of what you found?”
”It deals with temporal technology.”
”It had better be good, or this goes straight to Crescent’s office.”

The station was completed three years later. It surrounded the entire ship in a thin shell, and open travel was permitted in the area again, to a limit.