Ensign Maezel Fenn – Solutions, Solutions
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(( Engineering Annex, Gibaria Outpost ))
The team – Commander Marshall, Ensign Kovar, Lieutenant zh’Tisav and Maezel – had identified a few technologies that would assist the future away team. They were now working on getting these technologies functioning. The task was somewhat limited by what they had immediately accessible but progress was being made.
Fenn: ::looking at Lieutenant zh’Tisav:: What do you think Lieutenant? Can you recreate it?
Kovar: Under normal circumstances, I would not consider this course of action to be advisable. Given the state of this installation, it would be logical to say that the engineering crew here were not engaged in work consonant with either the ethical or technical standards of Starfleet. However, I cannot think of any way we can proceed in procuring the materials we need for our mission.
zh’Tisav: I think I can use this. And I think I can solve some of their problems. That needs to be a notch filter, that needs a bigger heatsink…
After studying the PADD Maezel handed the lieutenant, the Andorian engineer set about fixing and improving the device. Maezel didn’t understand all the technical jargon but the Lieutenant looked like they knew what they were doing so she left them to it.
Marshall: How're you getting on? Made progress?
Kovar: It appears that we can now complete the replicator's programmed task. According to what information I was able to glean from its settings, I am unsure of what it contained within its fabrication matrix, other than it is of unknown composition and function. We may need to be prepared for anything.
Marshall: Well, we know it can't replicate anything living, so we can tick that off the long list. Weapons are unlikely, given the stability coding programmed into it. ::Her lips thinned as she exhaled.:: Watch it be a stem bolt.
Maezel remained silent as Kovar brought the replicator back to life, resuming her task of reading through the PADDs to see if she could find any other useful data. She expected more unrelated information before coming across another gem but thought that anything, no matter how insignificant it seemed now may be useful at some point. She made an effort to not skim too fast over information in case she missed something that would help her team or perhaps one of the others.
Kovar: Indeed, I either anticipate success, or a highly educational failure.
Marshall: Ready when you are, Ensign.
Fenn: ::looking up from her PADD briefly:: Good luck!
zh’Tisav: Here’s hoping for the former. ::Pause.:: 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.
oO This whole place is already a case study of how not to conduct an experiment Oo
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.
Maezel certainly didn’t condone how the outpost had gone about things here but she could appreciate what they were trying to achieve. The love of exploration was something all Starfleet officers shared but right now the outpost was serving as a reminder of what could happen when something seemingly as innocent as the desire to explore went too far. It sounded like the outpost’s engineers were trying to create something that helped them facilitate that but she also knew it was a safe bet that the oversight for this facility could be measured on a scale of little to none. After all, you didn’t get vines that stared you down growing out of the walls because things went right.
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.
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.
Kovar / zh’Tisav: Response
The team – Commander Marshall, Ensign Kovar, Lieutenant zh’Tisav and Maezel – had identified a few technologies that would assist the future away team. They were now working on getting these technologies functioning. The task was somewhat limited by what they had immediately accessible but progress was being made.
Fenn: ::looking at Lieutenant zh’Tisav:: What do you think Lieutenant? Can you recreate it?
Kovar: Under normal circumstances, I would not consider this course of action to be advisable. Given the state of this installation, it would be logical to say that the engineering crew here were not engaged in work consonant with either the ethical or technical standards of Starfleet. However, I cannot think of any way we can proceed in procuring the materials we need for our mission.
zh’Tisav: I think I can use this. And I think I can solve some of their problems. That needs to be a notch filter, that needs a bigger heatsink…
After studying the PADD Maezel handed the lieutenant, the Andorian engineer set about fixing and improving the device. Maezel didn’t understand all the technical jargon but the Lieutenant looked like they knew what they were doing so she left them to it.
Marshall: How're you getting on? Made progress?
Kovar: It appears that we can now complete the replicator's programmed task. According to what information I was able to glean from its settings, I am unsure of what it contained within its fabrication matrix, other than it is of unknown composition and function. We may need to be prepared for anything.
Marshall: Well, we know it can't replicate anything living, so we can tick that off the long list. Weapons are unlikely, given the stability coding programmed into it. ::Her lips thinned as she exhaled.:: Watch it be a stem bolt.
Maezel remained silent as Kovar brought the replicator back to life, resuming her task of reading through the PADDs to see if she could find any other useful data. She expected more unrelated information before coming across another gem but thought that anything, no matter how insignificant it seemed now may be useful at some point. She made an effort to not skim too fast over information in case she missed something that would help her team or perhaps one of the others.
Kovar: Indeed, I either anticipate success, or a highly educational failure.
Marshall: Ready when you are, Ensign.
Fenn: ::looking up from her PADD briefly:: Good luck!
zh’Tisav: Here’s hoping for the former. ::Pause.:: 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.
oO This whole place is already a case study of how not to conduct an experiment Oo
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.
Maezel certainly didn’t condone how the outpost had gone about things here but she could appreciate what they were trying to achieve. The love of exploration was something all Starfleet officers shared but right now the outpost was serving as a reminder of what could happen when something seemingly as innocent as the desire to explore went too far. It sounded like the outpost’s engineers were trying to create something that helped them facilitate that but she also knew it was a safe bet that the oversight for this facility could be measured on a scale of little to none. After all, you didn’t get vines that stared you down growing out of the walls because things went right.
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.
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.
Kovar / zh’Tisav: Response
Noticing Commander Marshall looking around the room, Maezel shifted her focus to the Commander. It was clear a fresh set of tasks were about to come their way.
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?
Maezel look to the Lieutenant and listened to the response. It was fair to say that a large part of the mission rested on these engineers doing what the outpost staff couldn’t - to get these projects working.
Kovar / zh’Tisav: 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 / zh’Tisav: Response
Maezel set down her PADD and walked over to Lieutenant zh’Tisav at the workbench. The vine in the cannister seemed to track her movements as she made her way to the Andorian’s position but she did her best to ignore it.
Fenn: Lieutenant, I need to know what sort of energy output this thing will have. Any idea yet?
Kovar / Marshall / zh’Tisav: 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 / zh’Tisav: Response
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?
Maezel look to the Lieutenant and listened to the response. It was fair to say that a large part of the mission rested on these engineers doing what the outpost staff couldn’t - to get these projects working.
Kovar / zh’Tisav: 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 / zh’Tisav: Response
Maezel set down her PADD and walked over to Lieutenant zh’Tisav at the workbench. The vine in the cannister seemed to track her movements as she made her way to the Andorian’s position but she did her best to ignore it.
Fenn: Lieutenant, I need to know what sort of energy output this thing will have. Any idea yet?
Kovar / Marshall / zh’Tisav: 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 / zh’Tisav: Response
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