Lt Vylaa zh'Tisav: Loose Lips Sink Ships
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Andrew B
Mar 12, 2026, 7:38:25 PM (14 hours ago) Mar 12
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((Engineering Annex, Gibaria Outpost))
Ensign Fenn had handed a PADD to Vylaa. It contained information, notes and schematics on the projects being worked on in the annex. Of most interest were the work the facilities staff had done with subspace fields.
zh’Tisav: This looks familiar. It looks like they were building on an experiment conducted on the Enterprise D thirty six years ago. I read a case study of it, on how not to do an experiment.
Marshall: That explains a few things about why this place looks the way it does. What went wrong with it?
Fenn: Everything if this place is anything to go by.
Kovar: Response
zh’Tisav: The experiment created a subspace bubble containing a pocket dimension. This seems like they were using that to create a mobile pocket of safety, minus the dimension.
zh’Tisav: The experiment created a subspace bubble containing a pocket dimension. This seems like they were using that to create a mobile pocket of safety, minus the dimension.
Marshall: So more like a shelter. They were trying to protect the people they might've sent through. ::The Gibaria engineers had been adapting the principle in reverse. She exhaled slowly, some of the tension leaving her shoulders.:: Which means if we can finish what they started, the away team could go through the gate with a portable bubble of normal space around them. Unknown atmosphere and local physics wouldn't touch them unless they stepped outside of it.
Short answer, yes. If it worked, they could just bring a piece of home with them. Long answer, maybe. The fauna from across the gate had already proven it could survive in this universe, so they could still cross the boundary. The resonance device would need to function to lock the doors, so to speak.
Fenn: ::looking up from the latest PADD:: I can certainly see how that would be useful.
Kovar: Response
Marshall: We're fighting a war on multiple fronts, then. We've got, ::she listed them out raising her fingers,:: tungsten-polymer radiation-resistant EVA suits, a subspace resonance device to repel the vine fauna, and potentially a portable subspace field generator as a mobile safe zone.
Fenn: And all made with what we have here, I’d call that progress.
zh’Tisav: Well, potentially made with what we have...
Kovar: Response
The vine-thing stretched out, looking very much like it understood what they were planning to do. The zhen cast it a disparaging look, wondering it fire would take care of it. She could build a flamethrower blind.
Marshall: Vylaa, the field generator. What's your honest assessment? Is it possible to recreate it, leaning towards not doing what the previous experiement did?
Vylaa could feel everyone’s eyes on her; she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end and her antennae lashed about.
zh’Tisav: It has a fair chance. We know what they did right, and what they did wrong. We’re not setting a teenager loose in Engineering, for starters. But can I say it’s guaranteed to work? Not really.
Kovar: Response
Marshall: Then we go hard on the rest. Kovar, the suits are yours. The replicator should be able to handle the polymer composite work. Radiation-resistant EVA configurations, tungsten-polymer layered into the outer shell. You've got the probe records for the shielding tolerances. Fenn, I need you thinking about what happens when the resonance device and the field generator are running in proximity. We need failure modes. I'll help with the resonance device.
Fenn: Aye Commander.
Kovar: Response
Vylaa simply nodded. It was no different from what she had been doing, just with a more structured set of tasks. Her antennae twitched; they had sensed the subtle change in air pressure and currents that warned of the close proximity of another, along with the faint mixture f scents she was coming to associate with Fenn.
Fenn: Lieutenant, I need to know what sort of energy output this thing will have. Any idea yet?
zh’Tisav: Not quite. It won’t be high; still, we may only get a handful of shots before the power cell drains.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Fenn: I see. ::turning to Commander Marshall:: Commander, I’ll need to take some tricorder scans to provide you with more information. That means I need to do a field test with the equipment when it’s up and running. Is that ok?
Kovar / Marshall: Response
zh’Tisav: Can I suggest we be careful what we say around that vine? Nothing that could be used against us.
Fenn / Kovar / Marshall: Response
zh’Tisav: I don’t have anything solid, just a sense that there’s more than just a plant there. Of course it doesn’t matter what we say if the things telepathic, but one thing at a time.
Fenn / Kovar / Marshall: Response
Ensign Fenn had handed a PADD to Vylaa. It contained information, notes and schematics on the projects being worked on in the annex. Of most interest were the work the facilities staff had done with subspace fields.
zh’Tisav: This looks familiar. It looks like they were building on an experiment conducted on the Enterprise D thirty six years ago. I read a case study of it, on how not to do an experiment.
Marshall: That explains a few things about why this place looks the way it does. What went wrong with it?
Fenn: Everything if this place is anything to go by.
Kovar: Response
zh’Tisav: The experiment created a subspace bubble containing a pocket dimension. This seems like they were using that to create a mobile pocket of safety, minus the dimension.
zh’Tisav: The experiment created a subspace bubble containing a pocket dimension. This seems like they were using that to create a mobile pocket of safety, minus the dimension.
Marshall: So more like a shelter. They were trying to protect the people they might've sent through. ::The Gibaria engineers had been adapting the principle in reverse. She exhaled slowly, some of the tension leaving her shoulders.:: Which means if we can finish what they started, the away team could go through the gate with a portable bubble of normal space around them. Unknown atmosphere and local physics wouldn't touch them unless they stepped outside of it.
Short answer, yes. If it worked, they could just bring a piece of home with them. Long answer, maybe. The fauna from across the gate had already proven it could survive in this universe, so they could still cross the boundary. The resonance device would need to function to lock the doors, so to speak.
Fenn: ::looking up from the latest PADD:: I can certainly see how that would be useful.
Kovar: Response
Marshall: We're fighting a war on multiple fronts, then. We've got, ::she listed them out raising her fingers,:: tungsten-polymer radiation-resistant EVA suits, a subspace resonance device to repel the vine fauna, and potentially a portable subspace field generator as a mobile safe zone.
Fenn: And all made with what we have here, I’d call that progress.
zh’Tisav: Well, potentially made with what we have...
Kovar: Response
The vine-thing stretched out, looking very much like it understood what they were planning to do. The zhen cast it a disparaging look, wondering it fire would take care of it. She could build a flamethrower blind.
Marshall: Vylaa, the field generator. What's your honest assessment? Is it possible to recreate it, leaning towards not doing what the previous experiement did?
Vylaa could feel everyone’s eyes on her; she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end and her antennae lashed about.
zh’Tisav: It has a fair chance. We know what they did right, and what they did wrong. We’re not setting a teenager loose in Engineering, for starters. But can I say it’s guaranteed to work? Not really.
Kovar: Response
Marshall: Then we go hard on the rest. Kovar, the suits are yours. The replicator should be able to handle the polymer composite work. Radiation-resistant EVA configurations, tungsten-polymer layered into the outer shell. You've got the probe records for the shielding tolerances. Fenn, I need you thinking about what happens when the resonance device and the field generator are running in proximity. We need failure modes. I'll help with the resonance device.
Fenn: Aye Commander.
Kovar: Response
Vylaa simply nodded. It was no different from what she had been doing, just with a more structured set of tasks. Her antennae twitched; they had sensed the subtle change in air pressure and currents that warned of the close proximity of another, along with the faint mixture f scents she was coming to associate with Fenn.
Fenn: Lieutenant, I need to know what sort of energy output this thing will have. Any idea yet?
zh’Tisav: Not quite. It won’t be high; still, we may only get a handful of shots before the power cell drains.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Fenn: I see. ::turning to Commander Marshall:: Commander, I’ll need to take some tricorder scans to provide you with more information. That means I need to do a field test with the equipment when it’s up and running. Is that ok?
Kovar / Marshall: Response
zh’Tisav: Can I suggest we be careful what we say around that vine? Nothing that could be used against us.
Fenn / Kovar / Marshall: Response
zh’Tisav: I don’t have anything solid, just a sense that there’s more than just a plant there. Of course it doesn’t matter what we say if the things telepathic, but one thing at a time.
Fenn / Kovar / Marshall: Response
Lt Vylaa zh'Tisav
Engineering Specialist
USS Gorkon
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