Ensign Maezel Fenn – A Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Maezel Fenn
(( Central Chamber, Mysterious Structure, Gateside Dimension ))
With some gentle encouragement Maezel had managed to remember some of the commands she’d seen in the entity’s memories for the holographic display. She’d entered one of them not knowing what it would do. Thankfully, it showed the officers a map of the structure which included lifesign detection. It showed the Kobliads two levels above them though disturbingly there was no sign of the entity on those same sensors.
Fenn: The real question is, where is the entity and why doesn’t it show on here?
Kovar: That is curious. I would hypothesize that this sensor array, though in a different dimension, is still calibrated for three spatial dimensions. And the entity appears to extend through additional dimensions, rendering it invisible to conventional sensors.
Marshall: Response
Kovar: That is still only a hypothesis, which I admit may be faulty based upon the data at hand. The more pressing matter at hand is determining the manner of containment that this facility’s operators achieved. Any insight into that might aid us the inevitable conflict ahead.
Maezel nodded in acknowledgement that this was a good point. The team could race off right now and try to confront the entity but it wouldn’t mean much if they couldn’t then contain or eliminate it. Spending even a couple of minutes understanding their surroundings to increase their chances of success was what any Vulcan would describe as logical. The only aspect that didn’t sit well in the pit of Maezel’s stomach was that the time they took now was being borrowed against the lives of the Kobliads two levels above.
Marshall: Response
Fenn: It was imprisoned here. Perhaps its cell might offer some answers?
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Fenn: Well it was kept locked up there for oceans knows how long and yet it managed to disappear through walls when let out. The answer to containing it must be in there.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Maezel reached for her tricorder and stepped into the cell. Her heart hammered the inside of her chest as she was reminded of the all too recent attempt to steal her body. Taking a breath and relaxing the fresh tension in her shoulders, she took a moment to glance about the room.
In the flashback she had experienced, the cell had been new, sleek and modern. Now, it was damp, dark and in serious need of maintenance. The mirror had long been smashed, the piping rattled and the lighting looked like it had given up years ago. The thought going through Maezel’s mind as she scanned the walls was that if the entity had ever been rational, then surely after centuries of incarceration it was now completely insane. The shiver that ran down her spine confirmed the answer to that particular question.
Her train of thought was interrupted by the chirping of her tricorder indicating it had finished its scan. She looked at the results and found the walls contained a strange energy signature that hadn’t existed, or at least wasn’t active, outside the cell. Maezel theorised that it could be a containment device of some sort. She wasn’t sure but she knew that the other two were much more tech savvy. With the glass from the mirror crunching underfoot, she withdrew from the cell and made her way back to the others.
Fenn: ::showing Kovar and Marshall the tricorder data:: There seems to be an energy signature behind the walls of the cell. What do you both think? Can we use it somehow? If this system runs through the entire structure then perhaps we can keep this thing locked up in the structure while we make our escape with the Kobliads?