MdJG Jovenan – Why is your laboratory in a litter box?
Jovenan
((OOC: This is “part 2” to my post from yesterday.))
((Tactical Science Lab, Deck 4, CIC Desdemona))
While most the ship had been in abysmal state, Jovenan had high expectations of the science facilities aboard the ship. All science officers she knew, herself included, were very protective of their equipment. Jovenan’s lab on Rubicun had recently acquired a new subspace differential spectrometer, and she had been very adamant that nobody in her team were to use it without her approval. The scientific instruments were not only extremely important for research and ultimately the survival of their peoples, but also very difficult to replace if damaged. She wasn’t exactly sure which one of her Interstellar Fleet companions was responsible of the lab, but she was certain they had kept the lab in the condition it deserved.
As the doors swooshed open, Jovenan had her first peek into the laboratory she had so long waited to see.
Lux: ::to Jovenan:: Probably a little more worn than you're used too?
Her disappointment could be sensed without Betazoid empathetic abilities. The instruments there were ancient, battered and haphazardly installed to the small space she didn’t believe would have been a laboratory from the beginning. This was what they had work with!?
Jovenan: Are… Are you sure these things even work?
Adea/Kuva: Response
Luana: Can’t complain— it has character. Could do with some more close-up lights though.
As she looked around her, Jovenan saw the weird-looking junior officer wander across the dump of a laboratory and knock a doorframe there. Immediately, a creature poked around the corner.
oO There’s a furball living in this lab!? Oo
Thevn: Just checkin’.
Rasa: Oh, hi Doc. M’bel’s not here right now.
oO There was a family of furballs living in this lab!? Oo
Thevn: ::smirk:: Oh, I’d hope not.
Lux: Where should we start?
Yellir: I might be a little paranoid, but the personal shielding is my concern. Besides its better to reverse engineer rather reinvent the wheel.
Rather than focusing on the discussion as she should have, Jovenan was inspecting the state of the laboratory with an appalled expression on her face. If this was what the Commonwealth relied on for their salvation, they must have been very desperate. On the other hand, it also explained the current state of the Commonwealth science; they had more space dedicated to weapons and shields than research that could figure out how to make the former to actually do anything against the reality weapons.
Thevn: In general, I’d agree, but unless we find a way to approach the Shint vessel in the first place, personal shielding is neither here nor there.
Jovenan: Hmm? Oh, yes, I agree! The personal shields that can hold against the reality weapons – if we can even make these in here – aren’t very useful if the ship vanishes around the user.
Adea/Kuva/Lux: Response
Yellir: For one, prismic shielding even on a small scale isn’t fool proof. Romulan cloaking devices had to account for far more than not being seen, but EM signatures, power output, all those funny little things.
Adea/Kuva/Lux: Responses
Yellir: Not too sure who wants to go under the knife, but there’s plenty of places to hide a device like that. Might help mask its EM signature if we kept it closer to the brain. It’d be easy to piggyback onto existing cyberware, really.
A flash of nauseated dread made it to Jovenan’s face. There was no way they were going to let this grease monkey to perform her quacksalvery on them! The weird junior officer let out a laughter that terrified her almost as much as the witch doctor had.
Thevn: Not that I don’t appreciate your interest in seeing the inside of our skulls, Captain, but are we sure we have enough materials for shield generators to waste one on someone we aren’t sure will even be part of the infiltration team? ::looks to Adea:: We don’t even know how much wiggleroom we even have with the damn things yet. You still got those schematics, Colonel?
Jovenan was pleased that, despite her unusual appearance and generally surly demeanour common to the Commonwealth officers, the junior officer had a degree of common sense.
Jovenan: Reviewing them would indeed be preferrable to ::worried side-eyes to Yellir:: blind experimentation.
Adea/Kuva/Lux/Yellir: Responses
Jovenan joined the others to see the information relayed to them by the Human Major and whoever the dead Trill had been. The schematics ran through the holographic display, explaining the functioning of the preliminary prototype of a shielding mechanism as devised by an unknown Commonwealth scientist. Jovenan didn’t know if she should trust the design by individuals who didn’t seem to have used it to protect themselves, but the data did seem convincing to her.
Having ran through the new data they had, Jovenan assumed the duty of explaining the theory behind it her less-educated companions.
Jovenan: So, this new prismic shield design creates a multidimensional space-subspace gravitational bubble around the subject. It will bend and scatter gravitational waves across four dimensions, which will render the prismic scanners unable to register anything against the galactic background noise. The shield doesn’t make the subject invulnerable to the reality weapons per se, but without quantum level scanning, those can’t be fired effectively… in theory.
Adea/Kuva/Lux/Yellir: Responses
Thevn: It wouldn’t take a lot of adjustment to make these shields capable of just ::taps the air twice with a white knuckle:: bounce standard Shint weapon fire off. And once we’re *on board* the warcruiser, we might be safe from the reality weapons, you know? Don’t really seem like pinpoint-targeting on those things.
Jovenan: Until you want to get back from the warship with the prismagon…
Adea/Kuva/Lux/Yellir: Responses
The planning was running again in various different directions, but Jovenan remained focused on the basic shield design and the theory surrounding it. Scattering gravitational waves in many space-time dimensions would make the subject invisible for the scanners, but she also considered improving the design by incorporating multi-universe phasing deflection that could, in theory, provide better protection if the Shint started firing prismagon energy at random. That being said, she was very hesitant to share that technology with these people. Their plan was ludicrous and doomed to fail regardless, and she feared that anything she gave to the Desdemona crew would eventually fall into the hands of the Shint. No, better not trust them with divinely forthbrought knowledge.
Jovenan: Well, I see some problems and improvements to the shield technology you have, but… ::to Adea:: I see that our project can be divided into separate problems: the shield core design, fitting the shielding to the shuttle, and fitting it to ::side-eyes to Yellir:: individuals. With your permission, I’d recommend we broke up to tackle these problems individually in smaller groups according to our ::side-eyes to Yellir, again:: areas of expertice.
Adea/Kuva/Lux/Yellir/Thevn: Responses
TAG/TBC
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Mediator JG Jovenan
Science officer (secondment)
CIC Desdemona
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