LtCmdr Connor Dewitt - Open to Suggestions

[Tim]

(((Deck 6, Bridge, USS Khitomer)))

The filament-like crystalline structure that had appeared on the bridge was already breaching the hull and injuring crewman. And maybe even worse it was accompanied by thinner, barely invisibile strands reported by Ensign Morda. Those were capable of slicing through matter and that included organic matter.

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/Morda: Response

Connor gave a short nod and turned away, leaving Korras and Valeris to their analysis as he shifted his focus to Ensign Morda. The screen in front of the young officer already showed layered sensor data. Connor watched the readings of sensors inside a Jeffries tube.

Behind them, Commander Valeris and Lieutenant Korras were continuing their work, their voices fading into the background as Connor’s attention narrowed.

Valeris: The hull breaches on the Lattice ship roughly match the breach that this ball of yarn left when it entered the ship.

((OOC: I’ve loosely decoupled the scenes Morda/Dewitt and Valeris/Korras for now, since they are working other topics. Feel free to connect them again at any time!))

C. Dewitt: We need a way to see those thinner filaments without relying on tricorders. If they’re cutting through matter, they’re interacting with it, right? That interaction leaves a trace…

Morda: Response

Connor tapped lightly at the console, pulling up waveform overlays and environmental readings.

C. Dewitt: What if we force a reaction? An infrasonic harmonic, low frequency. If those filaments are under tension, we might be able to excite them just enough to reveal distortions. ::gesturing toward the air around the projected model in front of them:: We would not see the filament, but we’d be seeing what it does to the spac earound it.

Morda: Response

A beat. Connor nodded.

C. Dewitt: … and it might even make the more active… probably more deadly.

He sighed and looked at Ensign Morda.

C. Dewitt: I’m open to suggestions.

Morda: Response

TAG/TBC

LtCmdr Connor Dewitt
First Officer
USS Khitomer
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