Lt JG Tess Evinrude - ...and Light the Fires

[Tess Evinrude]

((Runabout Shinano, Flight Deck, USS Ronin))

Evinrude: =/\= I'm showing green across the board, upgraded sensor pod is fully interfaced with the Shinano's systems. =/\=

Singh:  =/\= Confirmed, I'm getting good sensor returns out to several hundred thousand kilometers and the link is stable.  Beyond the Ronin and the Rose, there's no contacts in the immediate area.  Recommend you come to course two three one mark one one four and close up formation for a least time intercept.  Confirm?  =/\=

Ian banked smoothly away from Ronin.

O'Connor: =/\= Affirmative, Major. I’m looping around behind you now.=/\=

Tess watched as the readout shifted to illuminate a different arc of space, and replied on the open channel with Major Singh.

Evinrude: =/\= Woah, sensor fidelity is impressive, even at range. =/\=

Tucker/Varek: Response

Ian pulled up some notes with what appeared to be an alternate course projection, then frowned.

O’Connor: =/\= Major, sending you an alternate route suggestion. We’d have to shave the rings of a gas giant but it cut off a few minutes putting us only 3 minutes behind Gra’vel’s intercept.=/\=

Evinrude directed the Shinano's sensor array towards the gas giant in question. While it ran a full sweep, he pulled up the original system survey data plus enhancements from the Ronin's probes on one half of his terminal.

Tucker/Varek/Singh:  Response

O’Connor: =/\= Your call Major. You're the one with a lot less shielding. =/\=

Results were starting to populate.

oO Woah, look at that readout! I can practically see individual dust particles! Oo

It seemed their improved sensors were calibrated correctly; the sweep accurately confirmed everything they already knew about the area, plus new information.

Tucker/Varek/Singh:  Response

The sensor sweep results made him smile, but Major Singh's response turned that into a grin. Of course a hotshot pilot would be up for the challenge.

Evinrude: =/\= I'll pipe our improved sensor data on the gas giant into your Valkyrie's nav feed, sir. =/\=

O'Connor/Tucker/Varek/Singh:  Response

As the flight skirted the gas giant, deftly avoiding hazards in the interest of shaving off precious minutes from the search for their contagious quarry, Evinrude kept an eye on the picture painted by the enhanced sensors. Data streamed in. The other side of the gas giant, two of its barren moons, an asteroid shoal trapped in a lagrange point that was either a feature leftover from the system's primordial formation or the byproduct of botched terraforming...

Evinrude: ::Very quietly, to himself.:: Is that?

The ops officer leaned closer to his console in anticipation.

oO Come on, sing again... Oo

Something had registered a faint energy signature near the largest asteroid in the clustered mass of rock. But it had winked out of existence.

Evinrude: =/\= There! I've got something. Energy signature near a large asteroid, bearing two-eight-nine, mark fourteen. The gas giant's L4 lagrange point. Wait...now it's gone again... =/\=

O'Connor/Tucker/Singh/Varek:  Response

Evinrude: =/\= It could be latched onto a rotating planetoid? If mineral deposits are interfering with our scans, the energy signature would disappear when it rotates away from us. =/\=

O'Connor/Tucker/Singh/Varek:  Response

[Tags/TBC]

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Lieutenant J.G. Tess Evinrude

[he/him]

Operations Officer

USS Ronin

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