Lt Jg Imril - Another Running Storyline - Er, Research Project
Chris Taylor
(( Hazardous Materials Lab, Deck 11 – USS Artemis-A ))
Bancroft: Computer, grant Lieutenant Imril access to the full code repository for W.H.I.M.P.E.R. as found in my personal files, including all revisions, patch notes, branches, et cetera.
Imril: This rebuild’s already looking to be more than a one-day activity/ But then, I don’t suppose it took just one day to make. How many manhours do you already have logged into making this?
Roy checked his chrono.
Bancroft: Way more than I’d ever planned ::sheepishly:: a bit like today ::continuing:: but far fewer than the prototype deserved. Which probably explains why we’re standing here instead of calling it ‘finished.’
Imril was no stranger to projects that moved along in sudden bursts between periods of glacial inaction. Such as the stop-and-go attempts to suss out the location of Lt. Gnai’s ancestral homeworld. It occurred to Imril that a method used in that very search might very well prove useful to this attempt at troubleshooting the source of WHIMPER’s malfunction. The energy usage ends, at least.
Imril: I’ve refined a computational simulation model in the holodeck for a side project of mine. If I -- we -- were to ‘rebuild’ the various iterations of the WHIMPER in there, we could let them each run and see how long it takes for them to break down and why. Swap out hardware and software and see what the computer says would happen. Pop in bits of psycotricorder tech to see what impact that has. It wouldn’t be too different from when you discovered that heat signature in the vehicular wreckage from Galaris IV.
Bancroft: This… is a lot more complicated than I thought it’d be. ::softer:: I didn’t mean to hijack your entire day. Your shift starts in, what – an hour? Mine too. ::apologetic smile:: Pick this back up later?
Imril: I’ve got the whole day off, actually. I could get started on a diagnostic of your firmware packets. Better to do that ahead of downloading them into anything more complicated than a padd. I’ve gone this long without getting myself locked in a malfunctioning holodeck. I’d like to maintain the streak.
Given the… quirky … behavior of the device as it presently was, it was best to avoid using the holoemmiter-equipped R&D alcoves in Main Engineering. Once the flaws and potential risk factors had been ironed out, then the project could be moved there, or the equally holo-capable Sickbay, to refine the beneficial aspects.
They worked in companionable quiet for a few minutes after that, setting things in order so the project could be resumed later on. Pieces of W.H.I.M.P.E.R. were set aside with care, labeled and ordered in a way they’d never been before.
A fact which Imril was sure to make the steward of the Hazardous Materials Lab aware of before the two of them departed.
Imril: … So the device should be safe for now. Safer, anyway. But if it starts to reassemble itself, please let one of us know.
End Scene for Imril
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Lieutenant JG Imril
Engineering Officer
USS Artemis-A
A240110I12