Lt Korras - Anti-sound
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((OOC: Appologies for the delay. Somewhere, one sim got lost, and then life started lifing)
((Bridge, Deck One, USS Khitomer))
Korras had been working on figuring out what to do with the crystalline entity that now made the bridge it’s home, and was running scans on it, while simultaneously trying to figure out what systems exactly were affected by it. It looked strangely beautiful, like a large crystal cluster you would normally find in a museum, but they knew it was obviously dangerously. With a whoosh from the turbolift doors, an officer he had not interacted before stepped onto the bridge.
Valeris: So, uh…::gesturing towards the ball:: What’s that?
Stros: A question we are currently attempting to answer.
C. Dewitt: So far? It has integrated itself into the bridge structure without triggering any further hull breach alarms. ::beat:: Which means it either bypassed our systems or it’s using them… Or it does not spread further.
The newcomer slowly nodded, his eyes moving between the central mass and the filaments attached to the walls.
Korras: it is interfaced with several non-vital subsystems, but not doing anything with that. Right now, it just.. is there.
Valeris: ::Shrugging:: Alright. Where do you need me?
Stros: We need to make sure that this…anomaly isn’t attempting to cause further damage to the vessel or our systems.
C. Dewitt: Secure essential systems first. Propulsion, life support and sensors are priority one. Then defensive tactical systems.
The commander moved closer to the entity.
Korras: ::To Valeris:: Be careful. It did already injure one crewmember.
C. Dewitt: ::nodding:: If this thing is interfacing with the ship, we cut off anything critical before it can exploit it.
Valeris: Almost looks Lattice to me. ::Ducking under it to the other side:: What does it do when you touch it?
Korras: while I agree that it might be a distant cousin to the Tholians, I really do not think touching it is a good idea.
C. Dewitt: Don’t…
The command touched it anyway. It sounded like a musical instrument, but Korras was prepared for it to be accompanied by violence. Fortunately, that didn’t happen.
Valeris: If anything, we might be able to use it to make some music.
Morda: Commander -- that thick one has some awfully thinner cousins that’ll slice right through the atomic bonds of your person. I advice caution the closer you are to that thing.I
C. Dewitt: You heard the man, no more touching.
Korras: We also do not know if touching it would have any effects on the parts of the ship it is connected to.
C. Dewitt: Can you detect those thinner filaments? Any way to make them visible?
Morda: Response
C. Dewitt: If you have any ideas for a local or ship-wide solution, please start working on it.
Morda: Response
C. Dewitt: I’ll assist you shortly! ::pause:: These thicker strands… Are they structural or functional? ::stepping a little closer:: Data conduits? Antennae? Some kind of interface?
Valeris: I’m reading energy transfer through the filaments. ::Beat:: There appears to be several avenues of travel through each strand. Power coming out of the central structure and possibly data flowing in.
Morda: Response
The Klingon was looking at the same data.
Korras: It is definitely data. It is structured in such a way that would indicate a compression format being used by it.
C. Dewitt: We need to understand their purpose. And we need to know how we can remove them. Or will beaming them out make it worse? ::looking to Vealeris:: When you secured our systems, start working on that, Commander. Lieutenant Korras will assist. Maybe earlier scans from the Lattice Alliance ship can help. They might have suffered from the end stadium of what we are looking at.
Valeris: You got it, boss. ::Turning to Korras:: Can you get me the scans from the Lattice vessel? I want to do some direct comparisons.
Korras: That is possible. I am routing them to your screen, both the current sensor data, and what we recorded previously.
Morda: Response
Valeris: The hull breaches on the Lattice ship roughly match the breach that this ball of yarn left when it entered the ship.
Korras: I doubt they would knowingly do that to themselves.
Which would rule out it being a Tholian device.
C. Dewitt/Morda: Response
Valeris: I’ve locked down propulsion and life support. Fairly easily too. Whatever this thing is doing, it doesn’t seem that interested in primary systems. I am reading some comm interference coming from the center of the bridge. Maybe jamming? Electromagnetic feedback?
Korras frowned, and aimed a tricorder at the center of it, trying to figure out the cause of the interference.
Korras: Scanning.. Give me a moment, please.
C. Dewitt/Morda: Response
Valeris: It also appears to be curious about what ingredients are in a Talaxian Souffle. Something is accessing the replicator repository.
While they talked, Korras simultaneously scanned the center with the tricorder, and entered notes on his console.
Korras: Got it. I have the frequency on which it is broadcasting, which is also causing interference on the comms. The bad news, I can not find where they are broadcasting to.
C. Dewitt/Valeris/Morda: Response
Korras: The good news, it might be possible to counteract. It is broadcasting by vibrating the crystals, like the commander did earlier, but on a far more precise scale. Like sound, it might be cancelled out by broadcasting on a mirrored frequency.
C. Dewitt/Valeris/Morda: Response
Korras: It might anger the entity, and we have no way of knowing if it will retaliate if we do so.
C. Dewitt/Valeris/Morda: Response
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Lieutenant Korras
Helm Officer
USS Khitomer
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