Lieutenant Commander Talia Ohnari ~ That Can't be good on the knees....Part 2

[Roxanna Dorion]

(((Deck 6, Main Sickbay, USS Khitomer)))

Morda:  =/\= Ensign Morda to Dr. Ohnari. =/\=

They had just mollified one angry old doctor with a jar of spores. Now, it seemed perhaps Ensign Morda had finished up helping in engineering; the timing couldn't be better since Talia stood right next to his boss. 

Ohnari: =/\= Go ahead Ensign, I've got Lieutenant Zerva with me as well.  =/\=

Morda: Lieutenant Michaels has discovered incredibly slender threads slicing through portions of the ship. They’ve sliced through gloves and tools with nary any resistance. Against flesh, it’d be a bloody mess. Lieutenant El’Heem’s scans say they’re concentrated near the nacelles.

Just once she would like to be called with good news. "Doctor Ohnari, it appears we've discovered a rainbow cloud that rains little candies!" No, instead she gets potentially lethal threads that promise to make cheese slices of the crew. 

Alright, perhaps she was just hungry. Either way, she swallowed a groan. 

Ohnari: =/\= Of course she did. What have you discovered about it so far? =/\=

Michaels: The threads we are seeing are cutting through several materials are taut and are nanometers thick. The material strength required to penetrate the hull to this depth is remarkable.

Leave it to the Vulcan engineer to sound fascinated by deadly face floss. 

Nicholotti: =/\= If that's not why we can't move, we're happy that we aren't able to after seeing this.=/\=

Michaels: I have insufficient data to prove this but I suspect that the Sheliak ship did not stop moving. The threads ripped away portions of their hull and, assuming they were anchored to structural members of the ship caused the overall failure we have observed.

Ohnari =/\= But....as far as you can see we're just tangled, not mangled? =/\=

Morda =/\= Response 

She made big eyes at Zerva. This did not sound pleasant. Nearly invisible threads of dubious destruction. oO Ooh! New band name. Later. Oo 

Nicholotti: That was new.

Morda: Responses?

Michaels: Talon. You are bleeding. :: Reaching out to touch Morda's forehead where the blood was seeping, Lera stopped and noted the thin, green line on the heel of her hand. A single drop of green blood had formed. :: Apparently, so am I.

Ohnari: =/\= Wait, who's bleeding?? What changed? =/\=

Michaels: There are threads here that are not anchored on the opposite side of the tube. They do not radiate because their temperature is the same as the ambient temperature. We have greater difficulty seeing them because they are so thin and they are not glowing. Since they are not taut, touching them is like gently touching a very sharp knife. The result is this. A scratch. :: beat :: The filaments are glowing because our energy is flowing through them. The ones that are not attached to our power cables do not have flowing through them. These threads are some type of superconductive power cables themselves. That is why we are losing power.

Zerva/Morda/Nicholotti: Response

Ohnari: =/\= What? I caught about a third of that, something about unanchored and glowing? If you can isolate a sample without a literal blood sacrifice, we can analyze it with El'Heem in Science to see what we get. Be careful! =/\=

Michaels: We should leave here immediately. We can simply go back down the Jeffries Tube though there is the possibility of additional threads. The alternative is to have the ship spend a portion of our remaining energy beaming us out of here. The Bridge. Sickbay. Engineering. Somewhere else. :: glancing back at Nicholotti.:: Admiral. I will defer the ultimate decision to you.

Zerva/Morda/Nicholotti: Response

Michaels: Admiral.

Opening her mouth to respond, a familiar chirp once again cut her off. 

C. Dewitt: =/\= Dewitt to Ohnari. Talia, I need you to free up a biobed and give us system access. We’re routing sensor data through for quick medical analysis. =/\=

Ohnari: ::to Zerva:: Stay on the commline with them, in case they need an emergency beam to Sickbay. ::tapping her badge:: Ohnari here. I've got Zerva with me, he's coordinating with Engineering. They've discovered some potentially lethal thread thing....

Stros: Response 

She was rerouting control of biobed one. Hoping this would be temporary, or at least that there would be no imminent need for every bed...

C. Dewitt: =/\= I’ll feed the data in, connect the outputs to sensory ports 32-Alpha through Gamma. =/\=

Ohnari: =/\= Ok access granted. Connecting the outputs to sensory ports 32 Alpha...::speaking the words as she made the connections:: throough Gamma. Go ahead, Sir. 

Stros: Response 

C. Dewitt: =/\= Let’s make it fast, we’re trying to collect data on what might be a hostile vessel =/\=

Ohnari: =/\= Connection confirmed, results readout should be similitanious. 

C. Dewitt/Stros: Response 

TAG/TBC

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Lieutenant Commander Talia Ohnari, MD
Chief Medical Officer
USS Khitomer
C239205ME0