Marine Captain Kansz JoNz - Let's Do The Thing!
Kansz JoNz
(( USS Ardent, Main Sickbay ))
The team had discovered that chronotons had irradiated the Ardent crew, utilizing the ship as a conduit. The ship was a lost cause with the amount of total damage caused by accelerated time, but the crew still had a chance to possibly be de-aged.
Leadership was a tricky two step; you danced from issue to issue, relying on your own instincts as well as that of your colleagues. But as leader, you still had that final say on that last dance.
And the moment had come that required a definite decision from JoNz.
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: 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: Agreed, Commander. But considering how fast this stuff spreads through power conduits, taking anything back to our ship might just contaminate the Butler. I think we need to isolate the frequency right here.
Captain JoNz felt her neck bunch up with stress as she followed along with what the junior and senior engineers were explaining.
Boran: If we can isolate the subatomic signature of the chronotrons, we could modify Sickbay's life-support filters to scrub the temporal radiation out of the room, creating a safe zone before we try to treat the biological damage. We gotta fight physics with more physics, I'm afraid.
Lahl: That’s a good idea. How do we go about implementing it though?
Boran: The way I see it, Commander, we could modify the bio-beds directly or rewire the whole room's power grid to act as a giant radiation dampener. Either way, we have to emit an inverse frequency to reverse the chronitrons polarity and neutralize them.
Lahl: Well, that sounds like a good start to a plan, what do you think Captain JoNz?
Whoops, there it is; Kansz just pulled a muscle from concentrating too hard following the techno-geek speak. The Caitian tried rolling her neck inside the EVA suit to relieve some of the tension.
Boran: Captain, just keep it in mind that option one despite being the fastest and easiest, is less guaranteed of success, and option two is more complicated but more likely to work.
JoNz: Let's pull in one or two of the engineering teams on board to assist as needed.
Lahl: Ok, so we need to reverse the chronitons…has anyone here done that before?
Boran: Nuh huh. Nope. I did have a dream one time...
JoNz: I may have learned about the process during my core curriculum engineering course. ::waves a paw slightly:: Dammit, Lahl, I'm a crayon eater, not an engineer.
Lahl: Guess there is a first time for everything.
Boran: We've got this.
The gray furred Caitian looked from Boran to Lahl.
Boran: That said, Captain, Commander... where do we start? Option one with the beds, or option two with the grid?
With paws on hips, Kansz made her final decision and spoke to her team.
JoNz: Let's go for the power grid, reverse it all as a whole.
Lahl: Response
Soon, the three officers set about the work at hand, with Captain JoNz assisting her two engineering colleagues as best she could.
Lahl/Boran: Response
The radiation readings showing on the tricorders began to fluctuate and fell in increments as they made progress on the damping field.
Lahl/Boran: Response
Kansz put the final calculations as instructed to a console access node and yet another section of the intended field grid showed as ready.
JoNz: Steady and ready over here.
Lahl/Boran: Response
(Tags/TBC!)
Marine Captain Kansz "Goblin" JoNz
Acting Commander, MARDET
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