ISCA-FC · Bridge Autolog
ISV Endurance — Bridge Log
The raw bridge autolog of the ISV Endurance (EX-01), Meridian-class, covering the fold attempt that should have been routine. Entries are machine-stamped to ship-time and were not edited after the event. The log records, in order, what the bridge crew said and what the instruments returned. It does not record what they understood.
ISV ENDURANCE · EX-01 · MERIDIAN-CLASS · ISCA-FC
BRIDGE AUTOLOG · STREAM BRG-01 · FOLD CYCLE 0001 · HARMONIC ARRAY 1420.40575 MHz
STARDATEDAY 1 · OUTBOUND
MODEFOLD TRANSIT
STATUSLOG SEALED
06:12:04SYSPRE-FOLD CHECKLIST INITIATED. COMMAND: CAPT. A. VANCE.
06:12:09HELMBRANDT: Helm answering. Heading locked to fold solution.
06:12:31SYSSTRUCTURAL COLLARS — ALL SECTIONS: SEATED · GREEN.
06:12:44ENGFERRIS: Harmonic array spun up. 1420.40575 MHz. Holding on target.
06:13:02SYSFOLD DRIVE: CHARGE 100% · FIELD GEOMETRY NOMINAL.
06:13:102-OSLOANE: All boards green. Aft sections report ready.
06:13:18CMDVANCE: Logged. Take us across. Helm, on my mark.
06:13:22HELMBRANDT: On your mark, Captain.
FOLD COMMIT
06:13:30.000CMDVANCE: Mark. Commit the fold.
06:13:30.041SYSFOLD COMMITTED. FIELD ENVELOPE CLOSING.
06:13:30.118SYSTRANSIT BEGUN. ARRAY LOCKED. FIELD STABLE.
06:13:30.204ENGFERRIS: Wait — drive's reading a feed off-profile. That's not in the solution.
06:13:30.219SYSDRIVE ANOMALY · INJECTION SEQUENCE OUT OF TOLERANCE · SOURCE: UNRESOLVED.
06:13:30.226ENGFERRIS: This is fed in. Somebody fed this in. Captain, I can't pull it —
06:13:30.231SYSFIELD HARMONIC COLLAPSING · TEMPERATURE FALLING · COLD FOLD.
06:13:30.238CMDVANCE: Abort. ABORT THE —
06:13:30.244SYSCOLD FOLD COLLAPSE. STRUCTURAL SHEAR AT AFT COLLARS.
06:13:30.244SYSSECTIONS LOST: SUPPLY MODULES · BERTHING · HYDROPONICS. AFT THIRD SEVERED.
06:13:30.247SYSCONSOLE OVERLOAD · BRIDGE STATION 1 (COMMAND). FIRE SUPPRESSION ENGAGED.
06:13:30.249MED[AUTO] CO VITALS — NO SIGNAL. CAPT. A. VANCE: NO SIGNAL.
EMERGENCE
06:13:31.002SYSFOLD TERMINATED — UNCOMMANDED. EMERGENCE TO NORMAL SPACE.
06:13:31.118NAVPOSITION FIX: FAILED. NO MATCH TO CHARTED NETWORK.
06:13:31.200COMMRELAY: NO CARRIER. RELAY: NO CARRIER. RELAY: NO CARRIER.
06:13:31.244NAVCHART DATABASE: NO LANE · NO BEACON · NO REFERENCE IN RANGE.
06:13:33.010PHYSLOCAL FREE-ENERGY FLOOR: 1.41× EXPECTED · TREND: RISING. [LOGGED · UNEXPLAINED]
BRIDGE — TAKING STOCK
06:14:072-OSLOANE: Captain's gone. Console took him. Holt — Holt, talk to me.
06:14:11MED[AUTO] XO D. HOLT — HEAD TRAUMA · CONSCIOUSNESS LOST · CRITICAL.
06:14:14XOHOLT: [no entry — channel silent]
06:14:40HELMBRANDT: I have no stars I know. Nothing in the catalogue answers. Nothing.
06:15:02ENGFERRIS: Aft third's gone at the collars. Supplies, berths, the gardens — gone. It was sabotage. The drive was fed.
06:16:18SYSCOMMAND SUCCESSION — CO LOST · XO INCAPACITATED. EMERGENCY AUTHORITY INVOKED.
06:16:21CMDMERCER: Undersecretary J. Mercer assuming command by emergency authority. Sloane, you're my second. Brandt, hold the helm.
06:16:342-OSLOANE: Acknowledged. Helm and engineering to me.
06:18:09NAVNAV MODE: DEAD RECKONING. NO RELAY · NO CHARTED LANE · NO LINE HOME.
The log runs four hundred milliseconds from the order to the silence. Everything after it — the dead reckoning, the long count back toward a chart that is no longer there — the bridge would have to write by hand.