Lieutenant Commander Kimonzi Lahl - Polarity Reversing
Nick Wilcox
(( USS Ardent, Main Sickbay ))
Kimonzi and crew had found out what had taken the crew and ship of the Ardent and aged them, but they did not have a plan, and Kimonzi’s one idea was potentially worse.
Lahl: Well, hm… that’s unfortunate.
Chief Nurse: The crewmen working the exterior hull sensors and the ones running the high-voltage diagnostic consoles aged almost instantly. The ones sitting in the mess hall or asleep in their quarters barely aged ten years.
That was good information to know, as that meant the ship probably did do some protection of the crew. Not that it helped them find a solution as of yet.
Boran: Marine Captain, Commander Lahl, check the overhead conduit.
Lahl: What are you seeing Ensign?
Boran: The high-voltage consoles run directly off the primary Electro-Plasma System. If the chronotrons are using the ship's own plasma grid as a carrier wave then…
Lahl scanned for herself to see what what Ensign Boran was talking about, and yeah, the Ensign was right. This was not a good sign. Especially since they were in Sickbay, which used a lot of power.
Boran: Marine Captain, Commander...I think we have a radioactive problem. Look at the bio-bed heaters.
Lahl: What am I looking at?
She scanned with the rest of the team, and came to the same realization that JoNz came up with right after she did.
JoNz: The rads are way elevated…this is what caused the crew to age and the ship to start dying.
Lahl: Oh boy. We need to figure out a way to get this reversed…and hopefully the EVA suits are protecting us.
Kimonzi double checked the radiation seals on her suit to make sure nothing was happening to her.
Boran: Response
JoNz: The ship may be a lost cause, but I’m not giving up on the crew. How can we negate the radiation that they’ve absorbed? What are our options?
Lahl reflexively went to scratch at her spots, but caught herself before she got too far since she was wearing a helmet.
Lahl: We could study the phenomenon to see if reversing through it would undo the effects. We could evacuate the crew to our ship and try to reverse the aging there, or…hm…
Boran: Response
Lahl: That’s a good idea. How do we go about implementing it though?
This was going to be quite the conundrum to figure out.
Boran: Response
Lahl: Well, that sounds like a good start to a plan, what do you think Captain JoNz?
Boran/JoNz: Response
She nodded as the others talked through the problem as well.
Lahl: Ok, so we need to reverse the chronitons…has anyone here done that before?
Boran/JoNz: Response
Lahl: Guess there is a first time for everything.
Boran/JoNz: Response
Tags/TBC
Chief Engineer