Lieutenant JG Leran Perax - The Crystal, The Rock, and Kameryans
Peregrine Falcon
The turbolift door hissed open as he stepped on to the main engineering deck. He lugged the somewhat heavy portable energy device oO Why did we stop calling them batteries? Portable Energy Device has so many more syllables. Oo down the hall and around the corner. He overheard snippets of conversation from a pair of voices who he recognized as S’Jenes and Shimisi as he rounded the corner.
S'Jenes: It is preliminary, but it should provide a functional starting point for construction if you would like to take the reins from here, so to speak, Lieutenant.
Shimisi: I'll get the interface done, I need you to help me with the biological part of it.
Leran walked up and set the portable energy device on the floor next to the console Shimisi were working together at.
Shimisi: We could stablish a correlation between signal receptors and our input system. I guess the energy required should be of low intensity.
S'Jenes: Repsonse
Shimisi: Based on the scans of the lattices, a high energy input could break them. So this should be a system to operate into a bigger one, so the signals should be manageable for a device this size.
S'Jenes: Response
Shimisi: All right... I'm finishing the specific firewall. It should be a first line to block anything transferring out of here.
Perax: The portable power supply is up and running.
The news of engineering setting up additional blocks to the main servers was good news for them to work safely.
Shimisi: Thanks! Good job. I believe we're safe to try it.
The conversation sounded interesting, so Leran looked over to see what the two were working on. To his surprise he recognized the object. Well, not quite it was similar though the design was not exact.
Perax: Is that a Tholian data crystal?
S'Jenes: Response
The Kamyrians used data crystals. Leran supposed that tracked, a quasi-natural way of storing information.
Shimisi: response
Perax: Well, I don’t know about Kamyrian crystal, but Tholian crystal data devices usually take lower energy levels and have a large storage capacity. We had to set up a special data port on our PADDs when we ran trade routes into Tholian space.
S’Jenes/Shimisi: response
Perax: So, the crystal responds to the environment? That seems less versatile than the Tholian kind unless there is a way of determining what environment each crystal responds to.
S’Jenes/Shimisi: response
Leran turned to the station. He set up an algorithm to read the crystal storage device based on his understanding of the Tholian crystals he had seen years back, but he allowed the computer to compensate for differences in encoding methods.
Perax: I have decoding algorithms set up. It might take a couple passes before it has something intelligible.
S’Jenes/Shimisi: response
He waited a few minutes as the computer worked. When something sensible appeared on the screen he gave it a curious look.
Perax: It’s about a glowing rock?! I expected something, I don’t know, more serious. There’s a history file, a list of planets, and a log entry.
S’Jenes/Shimisi: response
Perax: The list of planets according to the log are planets already searched. Apparently the rock has some sort of cultural significance.
S’Jenes/Shimisi: response