Lt Vylaa zh'Tisav: Feed Me, Seymour!
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Andrew B
Mar 7, 2026, 4:16:42 PM (6 days ago) Mar 7
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((Engineering Annex, Gibaria Outpost))
Vylaa’s search through the shelves had turned up some sort of subspace field device. Really, it was just a shuttles subspace coil bolted some sort of control frame, but it seemed promising.
zh’Tisav: It looks like they were doing something with portable subspace fields. It looks like they put a lot of time into it already, could be useful.
Fenn: ::watching zh’Tisav place a sub-space coil on the workbench:: Sub-space...
The Vulcan’s own search seemed to have turned up something. No doubt it had been a logical and thorough search.
Kovar: Here we are. One of the adjoining storage bays contains a probe that was used in dimensional tests 42 and 67. I will see what relevant information I can glean from these entries.
Marshall: Response
zh’Tisav: It’ll take a bit to get it working, but it might be worthwhile to see what it does to ::She pointed her left antenna at the vine:: those things.
The Bolian rushed over to the workbench, coming to a stop across from Vylaa and staring at her in a way that instantly put the Andorian on alert, her antennae flicking back momentarily.
It might have have been more dramatic, if it weren’t for the extreme height difference...
Fenn: ::speaking rapidly:: Ok working theory – let's assume I’m right and that organism is radiotrophic and uses this strange sort of radiation as a food source. An equivalent organism in this dimension would use melanin to capture ionising radiation in the environment for use in radiosynthesis. The melanin in those equivalent organisms has a sub-space signature, a frequency, that exists in the lower bands. If that device ::gesturing to the subspace coil:: is meant to be used as part of a tool that emits a sub-space resonance field on the exact frequency of the melanin, or whatever the organism uses, then it could stop it from feeding on the radiation altogether.
Kovar: Your enthusiasm is noted. A more concise summary would be perhaps ::he paused slightly:: more efficient.
Marshall: Response
Fenn: ::speaking slower:: Sorry. What it means is that if I’m right that coil could be part of a device that repels it or kills it which I think an away team might find extremely useful.
zh’Tisav: I know what it means... oOGods, was I that enthusiastic?! And when did I get old?Oo
She wasn’t so sure she knew what it meant, but the very existence of the device meant the researchers probably thought it was worth building, which was somewhere to start.
Marshall: Response
Fenn: While you try and fix the coil Lieutenant I’m going to have a look at some of these PADDs. Maybe they reference some test they did with this coil.
Kovar: It appears that the probes were constructed with heavy metals similar to the ones the Lieutenant found, especially tungsten. It seems that gamma radiation was of particular concern to the researchers here.
zh’Tisav: Well, of course. They’re some of the best natural radiation shields.
Marshall / Fenn: Response
Kovar: Obviously these materials work well for the purposes of machinery, but not for Starfleet personnel who require mobility. To protect our away team, it would be logical to adopt a similar protective principle. Radiation resistant polyethylene and polymer composites layered between fabric material could be a solution that is sufficiently lightweight while not sacrificing radiation resistance.
zh’Tisav: Consider powdering the metals and mixing them into a polymer. They could coat anything in that form.
Marshall / Fenn: Response
Kovar: Now, the question is whether we have any functioning replicators here that could produce sufficient protective equipment.
Vylaa didn’t look up, her hands carefully checking each component attached to the frame. Her voice had the distant quality of an engineer deep in thought.
zh’Tisav: Behind the shelves in the northwest corner. It’s a Class 4 industrial model, so it’ll handle most small to medium components. Whether it works or not is up to you.
Marshall / Fenn: Response
zh;Tisav: Hmm, It looks like they never got around to adding power. Anyone see any power cells?
Marshall / Fenn / Kovar: Response
Vylaa found the spot and retrieved a cell before slinging a coiled power cable over her shoulder. The cell was of the larger variety, nearly half as big as Fenn, but subspace field generators needed a lot of juice. It clunke on the bench when she set it down. Attaching the power was mindless work, and her eyes wandered, settling on the vine, which seemed to be slowly be following her movements.
zh’Tisav: Is it just me, or is that thing watching me?
Marshall / Fenn / Kovar: Response
Vylaa’s search through the shelves had turned up some sort of subspace field device. Really, it was just a shuttles subspace coil bolted some sort of control frame, but it seemed promising.
zh’Tisav: It looks like they were doing something with portable subspace fields. It looks like they put a lot of time into it already, could be useful.
Fenn: ::watching zh’Tisav place a sub-space coil on the workbench:: Sub-space...
The Vulcan’s own search seemed to have turned up something. No doubt it had been a logical and thorough search.
Kovar: Here we are. One of the adjoining storage bays contains a probe that was used in dimensional tests 42 and 67. I will see what relevant information I can glean from these entries.
Marshall: Response
zh’Tisav: It’ll take a bit to get it working, but it might be worthwhile to see what it does to ::She pointed her left antenna at the vine:: those things.
The Bolian rushed over to the workbench, coming to a stop across from Vylaa and staring at her in a way that instantly put the Andorian on alert, her antennae flicking back momentarily.
It might have have been more dramatic, if it weren’t for the extreme height difference...
Fenn: ::speaking rapidly:: Ok working theory – let's assume I’m right and that organism is radiotrophic and uses this strange sort of radiation as a food source. An equivalent organism in this dimension would use melanin to capture ionising radiation in the environment for use in radiosynthesis. The melanin in those equivalent organisms has a sub-space signature, a frequency, that exists in the lower bands. If that device ::gesturing to the subspace coil:: is meant to be used as part of a tool that emits a sub-space resonance field on the exact frequency of the melanin, or whatever the organism uses, then it could stop it from feeding on the radiation altogether.
Kovar: Your enthusiasm is noted. A more concise summary would be perhaps ::he paused slightly:: more efficient.
Marshall: Response
Fenn: ::speaking slower:: Sorry. What it means is that if I’m right that coil could be part of a device that repels it or kills it which I think an away team might find extremely useful.
zh’Tisav: I know what it means... oOGods, was I that enthusiastic?! And when did I get old?Oo
She wasn’t so sure she knew what it meant, but the very existence of the device meant the researchers probably thought it was worth building, which was somewhere to start.
Marshall: Response
Fenn: While you try and fix the coil Lieutenant I’m going to have a look at some of these PADDs. Maybe they reference some test they did with this coil.
Kovar: It appears that the probes were constructed with heavy metals similar to the ones the Lieutenant found, especially tungsten. It seems that gamma radiation was of particular concern to the researchers here.
zh’Tisav: Well, of course. They’re some of the best natural radiation shields.
Marshall / Fenn: Response
Kovar: Obviously these materials work well for the purposes of machinery, but not for Starfleet personnel who require mobility. To protect our away team, it would be logical to adopt a similar protective principle. Radiation resistant polyethylene and polymer composites layered between fabric material could be a solution that is sufficiently lightweight while not sacrificing radiation resistance.
zh’Tisav: Consider powdering the metals and mixing them into a polymer. They could coat anything in that form.
Marshall / Fenn: Response
Kovar: Now, the question is whether we have any functioning replicators here that could produce sufficient protective equipment.
Vylaa didn’t look up, her hands carefully checking each component attached to the frame. Her voice had the distant quality of an engineer deep in thought.
zh’Tisav: Behind the shelves in the northwest corner. It’s a Class 4 industrial model, so it’ll handle most small to medium components. Whether it works or not is up to you.
Marshall / Fenn: Response
zh;Tisav: Hmm, It looks like they never got around to adding power. Anyone see any power cells?
Marshall / Fenn / Kovar: Response
Vylaa found the spot and retrieved a cell before slinging a coiled power cable over her shoulder. The cell was of the larger variety, nearly half as big as Fenn, but subspace field generators needed a lot of juice. It clunke on the bench when she set it down. Attaching the power was mindless work, and her eyes wandered, settling on the vine, which seemed to be slowly be following her movements.
zh’Tisav: Is it just me, or is that thing watching me?
Marshall / Fenn / Kovar: Response
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