Lieutenant Christopher Caldwell: Red vs Blue
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Nov 8, 2024, 9:18:11 AM11/8/24
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((Bridge, Deck 1, USS Astraeus))
Caldwell: What about running a long range multiphasic scan? Might help penetrate ::once more waving his hand:: whatever all that is?
oO Where are all the blue shirts when you actually need them? I should not be having to use words like these. Oo
Kiax: Sounds like something our resident friends in Blue wouldn’t complain about getting stuck into…
Caldwell noticed a slight pause before she finished her thought definitively.
Kiax: Let's make that a priority.
Matthews: Response
Caldwell: Well, the sooner we have an idea of what we're dealing with, the sooner we can develop some proper options.
Kiax: Right, yes…
Christopher couldn't help but think how much the Captain's chair suited Esa Kiax as he watched her tap the comm control from the chair's armrest. Whilst she was probably far from comfortable, it suited her.
oO She would definitely look good in red. Oo
Kiax: =/\= Bridge to Stellar Cartography? =/\=
Alentonis: =/\= Dr. A here. Go ahead, Commander. =/\=
Kiax: =/\= Got a question to mull over. Anyone else down there with you? =/\=
Ral / Tam: =/\= Responses =/\=
Kiax: =/\= How fortunate that the three of you are in the same place… ::Beat:: Data packet twelve from the Borealis shows some tactical scan data of a series of electrical anomalies that surround the PE-629A system. We need you, Commander, to perform a long range multiphasic scan of the system to confirm if these anomalies really exist or not. If they do, then – with the assistance of the Lieutenants – we’re going to need to come up with some way of protecting our energy sources and distribution grid from any ill effects, lest we end up adrift… =/\=
Alentonis: =/\= Acknowledged. I’ll take a closer look at the data and get that scan started. If you have any additional insight to offer, that would be helpful. =/\=
Kiax: =/\= Lieutenant Matthews has already completed some analysis on the data, which I’m sure he can elaborate on, and furnish you with to give you a head start. =/\=
Matthews / Ral / Tam: =/\= Responses =/\=
Alentonis: =/\= Acknowledged, Lt. Matthews. Once the sweep is complete and we’ve had a chance to look over the data I’ll get back to you. =/\=
Matthews / Ral / Tam: =/\= Response =/\=
((OOC Room for comm discussion to continue if needed))
Kiax: In the meantime, why don’t you and I work on extrapolating that trajectory data? See if we can pinpoint a more localised origin than just “the Gamma quadrant”.
He couldn't help but smile, Esa was his direct superior, getting to work with superiors was never a bad thing when one wanted to be upwardly mobile in terms of their career and he was always happy to have an excuse to spend time with Esa.
Caldwell: ::Coyly:: You want me?
His words were chosen carefully.
Kiax: I don’t know anyone on the ship more qualified to plot a course… Even if it is one that has already been travelled.
He appreciated the compliment even if some of the shine was taken off by the end of the sentence.
Caldwell: This ::Nodding his head as he considered the size of the task:: could take a while.
Kiax / Matthews: Response
Caldwell: Even at the speed of light, to get from the closest boundary of the Gamma quadrant to here would take over a hundred thousand years and there's no way a rogue planet is going to be traveling anywhere near that fast. We're going to be talking an order of magnitude or two slower.
Kiax: Response
He was pleased that she was aware of some of the difficulties. He didn't like making excuses but this was no small assignment.
Caldwell: Exactly. There are so many variables here. We don't know it's point of origin, it's initial velocity, then there's all the gravitational pulls it would have experienced on its way, starts, pulsars, black holes, none of those things are going to be stationary either, I mean the whole galaxy is both rotating and moving through space anyway.
Just trying to think of the number of variables was making his head hurt.
Kiax: Response
Caldwell: If it did come from the Gamma quadrant then we're talking potentially, what? Billions of years of travel, in that time it's going to have been influenced by anywhere between... ::shrugging:: a hundred and two hundred billion objects with enough gravitational pull to potentially influence its trajectory and speed?
He was by no means an astrophysicist but he did have some basic grasp of the geography of the Milky Way, something that he thought no-one could ever truly comprehend.
Kiax: Response
He was worried that he was coming across as negative and it wasn't his intention, just that he wanted to make sure he was being clear at just how mammoth the task was, even working for weeks this would not be straight forward.
Caldwell: I'm just saying, we're really going to need the main computer for this one, where did we get the idea that this thing came from the Gamma quadrant anyway?
Whilst there was always work for him to do, a lot of that work tended to be routine during the normal operation of the vessel. Warp travel was a straight line, in system travel was much more taxing but he assumed the ship would spend a lot of its time in standard orbit of the mysterious nomad planet. Whilst he was curious to learn more about it, he was sure that the journey was just as much, if not more important, than the traveller itself.
oO Maybe I'll get to go take a look at how it got from there to hear. Oo
Kiax / Matthews: Response
Caldwell: What about running a long range multiphasic scan? Might help penetrate ::once more waving his hand:: whatever all that is?
oO Where are all the blue shirts when you actually need them? I should not be having to use words like these. Oo
Kiax: Sounds like something our resident friends in Blue wouldn’t complain about getting stuck into…
Matthews: ::nodding:: It’s a good suggestion. It might work, Commander. It might be worth liaising with Science to double check its viability.
Kiax: Sold. ::To Chris:: Seeing as it was your idea, Lieutenant, would you be averse to joining them, or would you rather leave them to it?
He shot her a look that just screamed "Really?". He was not, nor would he ever be, a member of team blue, it just wasn't him, too much of what he saw as book learning, a focus on facts and equations. He knew he was doing his colleagues a disservice, whilst there was a difference between knowledge and wisdom, medical and science officers weren't just encyclopedias that relied on facts to perform their roles but they did need to have that level of knowledge and a great deal of that knowledge had to come from taking in and retaining information. He learned by doing.
Caldwell: Oh I'm sure they can handle a sensor scan without me. I'd just get in the way.
oO Don't send me down there, don't send me down there, don't send me down there. Oo
Kiax: Sold. ::To Chris:: Seeing as it was your idea, Lieutenant, would you be averse to joining them, or would you rather leave them to it?
He shot her a look that just screamed "Really?". He was not, nor would he ever be, a member of team blue, it just wasn't him, too much of what he saw as book learning, a focus on facts and equations. He knew he was doing his colleagues a disservice, whilst there was a difference between knowledge and wisdom, medical and science officers weren't just encyclopedias that relied on facts to perform their roles but they did need to have that level of knowledge and a great deal of that knowledge had to come from taking in and retaining information. He learned by doing.
Caldwell: Oh I'm sure they can handle a sensor scan without me. I'd just get in the way.
oO Don't send me down there, don't send me down there, don't send me down there. Oo
Matthews: I can still liaise with Chief Ral if you think it’s necessary, Commander. We need to make sure we can maintain power and defend ourselves on arrival to the system.
Kiax: If the anomalies are real, and there isn’t a way around them, then we’re going to need some way of keeping ourselves from becoming a helpless bit of floating debris…
Caldwell noticed a slight pause before she finished her thought definitively.
Kiax: Let's make that a priority.
Matthews: Response
Caldwell: Well, the sooner we have an idea of what we're dealing with, the sooner we can develop some proper options.
Kiax: Right, yes…
Christopher couldn't help but think how much the Captain's chair suited Esa Kiax as he watched her tap the comm control from the chair's armrest. Whilst she was probably far from comfortable, it suited her.
oO She would definitely look good in red. Oo
Kiax: =/\= Bridge to Stellar Cartography? =/\=
Alentonis: =/\= Dr. A here. Go ahead, Commander. =/\=
Kiax: =/\= Got a question to mull over. Anyone else down there with you? =/\=
Ral / Tam: =/\= Responses =/\=
Kiax: =/\= How fortunate that the three of you are in the same place… ::Beat:: Data packet twelve from the Borealis shows some tactical scan data of a series of electrical anomalies that surround the PE-629A system. We need you, Commander, to perform a long range multiphasic scan of the system to confirm if these anomalies really exist or not. If they do, then – with the assistance of the Lieutenants – we’re going to need to come up with some way of protecting our energy sources and distribution grid from any ill effects, lest we end up adrift… =/\=
Alentonis: =/\= Acknowledged. I’ll take a closer look at the data and get that scan started. If you have any additional insight to offer, that would be helpful. =/\=
Kiax: =/\= Lieutenant Matthews has already completed some analysis on the data, which I’m sure he can elaborate on, and furnish you with to give you a head start. =/\=
Matthews / Ral / Tam: =/\= Responses =/\=
Alentonis: =/\= Acknowledged, Lt. Matthews. Once the sweep is complete and we’ve had a chance to look over the data I’ll get back to you. =/\=
Matthews / Ral / Tam: =/\= Response =/\=
((OOC Room for comm discussion to continue if needed))
Kiax: In the meantime, why don’t you and I work on extrapolating that trajectory data? See if we can pinpoint a more localised origin than just “the Gamma quadrant”.
He couldn't help but smile, Esa was his direct superior, getting to work with superiors was never a bad thing when one wanted to be upwardly mobile in terms of their career and he was always happy to have an excuse to spend time with Esa.
Caldwell: ::Coyly:: You want me?
His words were chosen carefully.
Kiax: I don’t know anyone on the ship more qualified to plot a course… Even if it is one that has already been travelled.
He appreciated the compliment even if some of the shine was taken off by the end of the sentence.
Caldwell: This ::Nodding his head as he considered the size of the task:: could take a while.
Kiax / Matthews: Response
Caldwell: Even at the speed of light, to get from the closest boundary of the Gamma quadrant to here would take over a hundred thousand years and there's no way a rogue planet is going to be traveling anywhere near that fast. We're going to be talking an order of magnitude or two slower.
Kiax: Response
He was pleased that she was aware of some of the difficulties. He didn't like making excuses but this was no small assignment.
Caldwell: Exactly. There are so many variables here. We don't know it's point of origin, it's initial velocity, then there's all the gravitational pulls it would have experienced on its way, starts, pulsars, black holes, none of those things are going to be stationary either, I mean the whole galaxy is both rotating and moving through space anyway.
Just trying to think of the number of variables was making his head hurt.
Kiax: Response
Caldwell: If it did come from the Gamma quadrant then we're talking potentially, what? Billions of years of travel, in that time it's going to have been influenced by anywhere between... ::shrugging:: a hundred and two hundred billion objects with enough gravitational pull to potentially influence its trajectory and speed?
He was by no means an astrophysicist but he did have some basic grasp of the geography of the Milky Way, something that he thought no-one could ever truly comprehend.
Kiax: Response
He was worried that he was coming across as negative and it wasn't his intention, just that he wanted to make sure he was being clear at just how mammoth the task was, even working for weeks this would not be straight forward.
Caldwell: I'm just saying, we're really going to need the main computer for this one, where did we get the idea that this thing came from the Gamma quadrant anyway?
Whilst there was always work for him to do, a lot of that work tended to be routine during the normal operation of the vessel. Warp travel was a straight line, in system travel was much more taxing but he assumed the ship would spend a lot of its time in standard orbit of the mysterious nomad planet. Whilst he was curious to learn more about it, he was sure that the journey was just as much, if not more important, than the traveller itself.
oO Maybe I'll get to go take a look at how it got from there to hear. Oo
Kiax / Matthews: Response
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