2nd. Lt. Jacen Xaivis “W Is For Winters…Among Other Things”
Jacen Xaivis
“W Is For Winters…Among Other Things”
((Gator Deck, Deck 12, USS Octavia E. Butler))
((OOC: Thanks for the nudge, completely missed your last))
Winters: So this is more of a backup when everything goes sideways?
Xaivis: This is designed to fill that gap…and especially aid in search and rescue operations. The sensor package that can mount in that housing is slightly more powerful than a heavy tricorder.
Winters: (turning to Xaivis) So what keeps this flying if all of our other tech has been disabled?
It was a valid question.
Xaivis: It’s got an insulated power cell, nothing too major, but it’ll give an operator enough warning to pull it back form any dampening field. It’s also got a ‘dormant’ function so if it is disabled it’ll effect a controlled landing. Its main boost is to operate where transporters can’t or give a view of the situation before we get boots on the ground.
Winters took the unit and began to inspect it. She seemed to approve and he wondered if his own face was similar when he’d given it the once over…he expected that is had been. It was an elegant design but robust – designed to have a low weight and scanner profile.
In a world of heavy weapons, it was an object of finesse, and form there it gained it’s power.
Winters: (placing the unit back in the case and standing) I love it, but before I approve it for use, I want to see it on the range and in action.
Xaivis: ::Smiling:: I thought you’d never ask.
Winters: Meet me on the range in 5 minutes. I want to grab something first. (smiling) Nice work Lieutenant, I like the initiative and forethought here.
Xaivis: Forewarned is forearmed, Captain. I’ll see you in five.
((Gator Deck, Training Range, Deck 12, USS Octavia E. Butler))
Jaen was setting the ASP up when Winters entered the room – she had a smile on her face and the reason become apparent when she tossed a small training drone into the air and, from her wrist mounted control sent it into hover at the far end of the marine training range.
Winters: Let’s see what this ASP of yours can do Lieutenant.
Xaivis: Okay…although it seems you already have one…I’d have offered a home cooked meal by way of welcome if I’d known.
He activated the control system, itself more like a tricorder but opening sideway like a book, a small view screen flipped up to give a live feed from the inbuilt system.
Xaivis: Okay, first we have a zoom, five times optical with an additional digital thirty times magnification – but you start to lose resolution about around twenty. Low-light and night options as well as thermal.
Winters: Response
He moved the drone to match to unit that Winters was controlling.
Xaivis: Pretty standard axis controls…you can independently alter the propulsion so if you…
The drone slid horizontally and span to the side to bring the front about to the pair of marines.
Xaivis: That does take a little practice.
Winters: Response
Xaivis: I did wonder how long it would be before you asked…that scanner module is an interchangeable hardpoint…and it can be equipped with a heavy phaser. They refer to that as a W-ASP or Weaponized Ariel Support Platform.
Winters: Response
Xaivis: Don’t get too excited…the range and power are terrible and the weight doesn’t help. They’re examining other option but for now it’s more of a command-and-control tool
Winters: Response
TBC
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2nd Lt. Jacen V. Xaivis
SFMC Officer