[sb118-eagle]Lieutenant Drex - Intersections
Drex Drex
((SOS Lab, Deck 10))
The SOS lab had begun to crowd. First Ensign Lim arrived, then Ensign Letek, joining Drex in his ongoing analysis. Collaboration was their only hope of unraveling whatever had affected the ship and crew, and Drex needed answers more than anyone. He had to understand what had driven him to attack and kill.
The fear of losing control again hung over him like a shadow. Every hour aboard the ship felt like he was walking a tightrope, afraid of snapping and becoming a danger to those he cared about.
He had just finished explaining his plan of action when Letek reached into his pocket and pulled out a purple isolinear chip.
Letek: ::holding up the chip:: I have something else here that might help us as well.
Lim: ::playful:: I knew you were holding out on me.
Drex: What’s that?
Letek: I spent the morning transferring the memory banks from all the spacesuits. Everyone who was on the Ifir contributed to collecting data, even if they weren't thinking about it at the time.
Drex noticed Noemi flinch slightly. Clearly, some bad memories had not faded for her, just as they had not for him.
Lim: Heads up if you’re looking at video data from my group, it’s going to be rather gruesome.
Drex: The spacesuits? Their sensors are short-range… but we traveled the Ifir thoroughly. That’s a brilliant idea.
Letek: I know. It's more the medical data that can help us. The environmental sensors have only collected very limited information. But with any luck, we can use the data from the suit to find out how the nebula has affected us.
Noemi nodded in agreement.
Lim: Any bit helps given how little we have to work with.
Drex: Hopefully it fills in a few of the gaps.
Letek inserted the chip into the console and transferred the data to the system. The computer processed it quickly, converting raw logs into charts and tables.
Letek: Then let's see what we've found...
Noemi moved to another console so she would not have to read over Drex’s shoulder the whole time.
Lim: Huh, the suits were picking up increased infrasound while on the Ifir. Might explain some of the irritation and anger issues?
Drex: Alora reported the ships were into an intersection of multiple quantum fields :: He typed fast on his consolle :: Can that actually be the cause of the increasing infrasound frequencies?
The Denobulan kept working on the data, isolating some information.
Letek: Response
Lim: When Commander Adea had his event of explosive anger, he later stated it was like something had taken over him and his event of extreme
Her tone was flat and mechanical in its recitation, as to keep the emotions out of her voice. Definitely the mission had exacted a toll from her, too.
Drex: He went easy on him… maybe because he is Betazoid… :: He did not look at her as he said it. :: Others… were pushed to kill.
Letek: Response
Lim: We’d also experienced a shadowy figure rush and yell at us in an attempt at attacking before disappearing like it had never been. ::She shivered slightly at that memory:: Shared hallucinations or contagion behavior are a thing but neither of them work like that. Nor could Betazoid abilities create that kind of effect.
Drex tapped the side of his console, jaw tight.
Drex: Shadow figures were likely your brain’s response to the stress. My hallucination was… my sister. She's always been my way of coping. But this time, she changed. Turned into an evil counselor. My mind couldn’t resist her push to kill. Then she was gone, a more demoniac voice taking her place.
Letek: Response
Drex: I was lucky Williams was there. I was ready to hunt all of you down if he hadn’t stopped me. :: He looked at Lim :: I… I know I haven’t exactly been kind to you from the start, but please believe me, whatever I said or done to you on the Ifir, I didn’t mean it.
He turned back to the monitor, reading the highlighted segments from the analysis.
Drex: So what we’re saying is… infrasound affects different species’ brains in different ways.
Lim / Letek : Response
Drex: When Engineering powered up the shields, the infrasound effect was cut off both on the ship and the people… On the Ifir I wasn’t wearing my helmet, though…:: He paused briefly :: Do you have the readings from my suit? On the Ifir, and when our shuttle landed back on the Eagle? Someone had stunned me. :: He raised an eyebrow at Lim. :: I don’t remember if I felt any different afterward.
Lim / Letek : Response
Drex: My guess is the quantum field intersections acted as natural amplifiers for subharmonic infrasound. Shift our path three hundred meters and we might not have noticed anything. We need to share this data with Kettick and his people.
Lim / Letek : Response
Anyone:Response
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