As a warning for any future scientist: Do not hook up a warp-drive engine to a gravity-generator. you will create a gravity cannon that will obliterate 1/3 of a class zegalbond warship, but also lose 1/3 of you blood without any wounds. -- Anon Guest
They called it 'warp drive' in flagrant violation of copyright at the time of the wreck's discovery. What it did was create a temporary 'soft spot' between real space and the parallel dimensional brane known as 'hyperspace' in a slightly less dodgy violation of copyright. The experiments were successful in all but one detail - the 'warp' drive was inexorably tied to the gravity generators.
Gravity drives and hyperspace do not agree. The artificial gravity forces translate into 'deep time' pockets once inside. It's basic safety to turn off the gravity drives before entering such a 'soft spot'. We know this now, but sometime between the modern era and three millennia hence, that vital information becomes lost.
Of the survivors, there was one in desperate need of urgent medical care. That survivor, the chief engineer of the experiment, was missing one third of their entire blood mass with no signs of injury. The crew of the Misty Hope were not much better, and very disturbed to learn that they had been thrown three thousand years into the past and some thousands of light years from their point of origin.
All of the technology they had within the ship was inoperable, requiring systems of communication that were beyond the technology of their rescuers. Many survivors were missing significant portions of their blood. Some were missing organs, all neatly excised, all without any further trauma to the body, all survivable losses.
The organs, and some of the blood, were found embedded into the wall where the warp drive had also been neatly excised from the Misty Hope. There was a message, written in GalSimple, so that all present could understand.
You Not Doing Again.
No other such wreck has been discovered, so we can only assume that the message, if not the warning of the first wreck, has been since heeded.
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