"Well, that's what I was thinking, but there may be another explanation." Nikama said. "The navicomputer was intact after the crash, so I examined it for any useful information before I broke it down for parts. According to residual data, the pilot plotted the course correctly, but some sort of ion storm interfered and sent us off course. If the computer is to be believed, we skipped off of the Endor system's gravity well and somehow ended up here.
Normally, that would cause us to disintegrate or at least come out of hyperspace. Y'see, a hyperdrive doesn't really make a ship go fast fast, as some children put it. It shifts the ship into subspace, more commonly known as hyperspace because of the drive's name. Time moves slower in subspace, so a journey that would take eons with our sublight drives takes a day or two. Not lightspeed at all, just going on ion engines in a sort of time crunch dimension. Celestial bodies such as stars produce a distortion in subspace that we call a singularity or gravity well, which is why hyperspace travel ends at or near the borders of most systems, and going on ions in normal time from there.
Now, my theory is that considering the temporal effects of subspace, a living being should shrivel up in an instant. If there weren't a sort of time shifting field surrounding the ship, everything would start to decay. Y'know, the whole entropy thing. Thermodynamics and all that fancy stuff.
This may be a wild guess but...maybe when we skipped off the gravity well and ended up in whatever system this planet is in, the hyperdrive quickly ceased to function and then the time protection field...thing...went inside out, so now...umm. I suppose you could sat that this thing is in a stasis field of sorts." Nikama finally took a deep breath after speaking for so long. "Anyways, that's just my theory." He stared at the hyperdrive, and shot it a few more times for effect.
ooc - no prob. a case of the sickies is perfectly understandable
