We discovered the habitat with the recreating of Starfleet HQ. While my first instinct was 'hot antimatter death' it wouldn't solve anything.
Chakotay and Tuvok infiltrated the habitat and once we found out they where species 8472, Janeway made sure I had zero to do with the situation.
Which, while annoying, is understandable considering my last reaction to one of them. Most of my time during the encounter was spend either in engineering or in the shuttlebay, installing a replicator in Serenity.
Either way, things flowed more or less like in OT. Janeway actually got a agreement with them, convincing them that the Federation wasn't hostile and they left.
Yeah, I wasn't convinced either, especially what I know from the later ST timeline...but at least we are not vaporized yet.
A few weeks later I'm in the meeting room togeather with Seven, B'Elanna, Janeway and Chakotay.
Janeway frown slightly "And you think you can make this work?"
B'Elanna nod "I think it can, Captain. The readings and scans we gathered from Arturis ship revealed a advanced drive system we have named 'Quantum Slipstream'. We think we can recreate the drive."
I nod "At the same time we can upgrade the ships power generation from AM to Anni plants. We need to redo most of engineering anyway so we might as well do it right while we are at it. Anni plants are safer than AM warpcores as they cant blow up. If they break they simply stop working."
Chakotay looks thoughtful "Don't Annihilation plants require power to start up again? What if we loose power for some reason?"
B'Elanna nod "We have planned for that. The powerplant on Serenity is less than one tenth as powerful as Voyagers, but less than one tenth of the size of the warpcore. The idea is to install 15 of them on top of each other. Out fusion backup power generators are plenty to start one up and the rest can be started with the power from the first one."
Janeway nod "What about this 'Quantum Slipstream drive'? How confident are you that you can get it working and how much faster would it be?"
I glance at Seven who speak up "If our readings are correct its similar to Borg transwarp. I have calculated the traveltime to Earth from our present position to be proximately a minute."
Janeway and Chakotay glance at each other before she look back at us "Get working on it, but keep things quiet until you have run more simulations. This crew don't need more false hope. We need more data first. You got unlimited access to holodeck 1 until the end of the simulations."
AN// Short update, i know, but its the setup for 'Timeless'.