Lieutenant JG Ollie Bergmen - Grasps at the last straw of doubts you holds
CPT Arianus
(( Tertiary Conference Room - Operations Center, Deck 5, USS Artemis-A ))
Bergmen: Class P, Glaciated. A frozen world. As you can see, it’s in a binary star system, and its orbit is unstable between the stars. Given the data, for now, we are 89% sure that’s the place to where the messages were sent. The specific location on the planet remains unknown due to that unstable orbit. (beat) But as we get closer, we will be able to analyze the actual conditions and orbit and, from that, calculate the location.
The report wasn't the shortest, but Ollie would rather say it all now than forget something important when the topic came back up, and he was asked for more details. He nearly lost his breath before finishing, yet managed to conclude precisely when he needed to inhale.
Imril: Adding to the list of things that might be on the ship, a power modulator to help the ship’s weapons burn through the ice. This could all be about digging something up out of the glaciers.
Jaran: For a culture that's barely mastered warp travel, they seem to have churned out one of the most advanced ships this sector has ever seen, based on everything we've imagined they might have!
K’Wara: ::shakes head:: Thankfully there’s only room for one of the things, Doctor.
The commander looked concerned with what they heard. Ollie glanced in their direction, and signed.
oO Not my worry yet, boss. I don't envy you… Oo
Imril: One of the few things we know for sure is that whatever’s on the Afalqi, it needs that to make it operable on a Da’al ship. I suggest we start running simulations, here on the tactical computer or in a holodeck. See for ourselves what kind of power load it can handle. What sort of inputs it was intended to deal with. Projected outputs. Once we have a better handle on what it’s supposed to be adapting, and how well it can actually do its job, we can start looking for any potential flaws that we can exploit.
Bergmen: Maybe they just need to reset the fuses if the overvoltage blows them. Something we would need sometimes.. ::blinks eye on Imril::
Imril added to the proposals one thing to the list, before Commander K’Wara could say their decision on next steps.
Imril: With your permission, Commander, I’d also like to build a physical copy of the device. If and when that’s feasible. Might just come in handy when we intercept the Afalqi.
K’Wara: I think that’s a good idea, but I need you focused on the task at hand, Lieutenant. ::smiles:: Time for you to start delegating a bit, Assistant Chief. Forward the schematics to the Engineering Department and have some of the junior officers work on it. We’ll do what we can with the scans that Doctor Jaran took in the meanwhile.
Jaran: I hope the scans are detailed enough. It had been my hope that they would be used for this, however.
Tamio moved over to Doctor Jaran’s side, looking at the computer where they were working on the transporter signal.
Jaran: I suppose it's worth mentioning that, if the person who had this component when we found it was not who she claimed to be, she could have been recovering it to send to the Afalqi.
K'Wara: That’s a possibility.
Ollie was looking at the small holographic image of the device, which returned back on the table, thinking.
Imril: Response
Bergmen: Doctor… ::fell silent for a second:: What if this is something else than she told us?
Jaran: There is a silver lining, I suppose. If she had been lying, and they were taking a risk to get this part, that means it's valuable to them. Something they would face a challenge without.
K’Wara: Well, I for one would like to know how much of a challenge. The Da’al government wants the Afalqi back in one piece, and if its going to blow up from going past its stress threshold, then we need to catch up to it quick. ::to Imril and Ollie:: You two, run what simulations you need to to try and figure out what this thing is and what it's used for.
Imril: Response
Ollie nodded.
Bergmen: Aye, sir. ::looks from Imril to Tamio::
Jaran: Listen, you've gotten too far into the engineering weeds for me there. I'm no help with that. But if you want to help me... phrenologise this transporter pattern, I'd take the help.
K'Wara: Don’t know how useful I’ll be on the phrenologizing, but I can definitely rule out targs... I think.
Ollie enhanced the part on hologram and checked against the details on the screen of his station, before he glanced up back to the hologram and pointed to one of its extensions.
Bergmen: Look, here. Could it be a converter connector?
Imril: Response
Jaran: Response
K’Wara: Let’s try and minimize the scope of the transporter pattern. ::color-codes the data:: These areas are too garbled to make sense of, so let’s ignore those for now and focus on the bits that seem more likely to clear up well enough.
Jaran: Response
Ollie ran the comparing analysis against known system parts trying to find the match. He hoped the result would be helpful. One or two matches would be inspiring, but when the system identified a fifth possible match and still was running, his hopes were dashed.
Bergmen: Anything found so far that could be helpful?
Imril: Response
K’Wara: I agree, that’s what I’m seeing too. ::considers:: The scrambling methodology isn’t random. Someone - on either side of the transporter - used a deliberate system to ruin the pattern, likely to prevent anyone from doing what we’re trying to do. Let's try and cycle through some reparative algorithms we have on file, see if one matches.
Jaran: Response
Ollie frowned at the results. They didn't make sense to him. He'd assumed that whatever was powering it would require a greater amount of energy than would be typical for Da'al ship systems, but the data didn't quite match that. Yes, there was a lot of energy flowing through it; that was true, but rather than balancing the energy differences, the output seemed to produce a yield-energy profile, though more continuous. More precisely, continuous still.
Bergmen: Are those data confirmed? Because they do not make sense until they would weaponize that input, right?
Imril: Response
Ollie glanced at the commander, thinking to share, but then he returned back to his screen to make the calculation once more, to be sure.
Bergmen: No, the numbers check. That input calculation is correct. Comparison analysis too.
Imril: Response
Jaran/K’Wara: Response
He wasn't ready or sure he should give his conclusion on the energy signatures and output particle trails data he was interpreting. They couldn't be plasma accelerators. Just couldn't.
He glanced at K'Wara once more and grasped at the last straw of doubts he held.
Bergmen: Sir? …Commander? Do we… Do we know the weaponry standard and typology Da’al possesses?
K’Wara: Response
Imril/Jaran: Response
TAG/TBC
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Lieutenant JG Ollie Bergmen
Operations Officer
U.S.S. Artemis-A
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