Lt. Cmdr. Ian O'Connor- Hey, What Isn't That?

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((Bridge, Deck 3, USS Ronin))

O'Connor: Nice, I don’t think we’ll have any resolution drop off when pulling back now. Orders, Cap?

His hands held above the console. He turned his head and wondered if V’Len had come up with his  “phrase” yet?  

V'Len looked at the space before them and wandered around to the command chair.  

Kel: Lex n’thas hlashren. ::beat:: The ice won't get any thinner.  O.k.  Mr. O'Connor, roll out.  Everyone keep an eye on things.  Lt. Shortrith please keep an eye on the radiation levels.  Let us know if we're in any danger.  

Kessler: Response

Shortrith: Yes, Sir.

Ian smiled, turning back to his console.

O’Connor: Aye, sir.

Ian inched the Ronin forward and looked around to see V’Len and everyone else carefully watching the readings.  The area was awash with chronitons, but as they'd already noted, something was holding them together.  The nature of that force was not readily apparent. And if anything changed he was ready to pull the ship back instantly. 

Kel:  I'm not reading any unique particles outside of chronitons and the standard planetary system mix of subatomic particles. Whatever's keeping these in place must be a purely energetic feature.  

Kessler: Response

Shortrith had returned to observing the earlier transmission from the Kurosawa and now spoke up.  

Shortrith: Commander, I'm noticing some discrepancies in the finer details of the injuries, compared to my initial analysis.

Kel:  V'Len turned his attention toward them.  Do tell.

Kessler: Response

Shortrith: So, you know how it looked like a plasma conduit had exploded on Commander Raga's face?

Kel: ::flinching:: Yes.  

Kessler: Response

Ian continued to keep his focus on the readings, staying hyper-vigilant to any minute fluctuations.

Shortrith: I'll be blunt, it seems to have left a deeper injury than a third-degree burn, which isn't surprising, but it's concerning.

Kel:  You think they had more in their conduits than standard plasma?

Kessler: Response

As they moved around the rest of the wreckage everything continued to stay steady which almost concerned Ian more. He frowned and did a focused recording playing a hunch. He frowned again.

O’Connor: These readings near where the probe disappeared. It’s as almost if the there is a loop there. Slightly off but almost a repeated pattern.

V'Len turned back to the readings on his chair and rubbed his chin.  

Kel:  If they truly traveled through time, perhaps they flooded the Kurosawa's system with chronitons.  

O’Connor: Certainly possible and those systems couldn’t handle that for long so may have caused the explosion. 

Shortith/Kessler:: Response

Ian turned back around and continued the focused several different types of scans on the small area where the probe disappeared

Kel: ::grabbing his antennae::  Ugh.  Does anyone else feel that. 

Ian shook his head in the negative but knew not to dismiss the Trilldorians intuition, so he braced himself.

Shortith/Kessler: Response

Kel:  Something must be getting through to the shop.  All stop, full forward shields.  

Ian hit the breaks.

O’Connor: Aye, Full stop.

He looked but didn’t see anything out of the ordinary, for their current status, anyway.

Shortith/Kessler:  Response

V'Len tried to give Renaie a reassuring look.  

Kel:  That's why you're here doctor, to pull me out if I lose my mind.  

Then there it was. A total blank in the sensor grid the exact shape of the intact Kurosawa.

O’Connor: Do you guys see,...welll…not see that?

Shortith/Kessler/Kel:  Response

Just then the comm chimed 

Tucker:  =/\= Tucker to Kel, are ya’ll have issue with the sensors? I’m having issues with the internal sensors, not to mention tricorders..=/\=

Kel: =/\= Response =/\=

Tucker: =/\= Well, that’s not good…Okay, we’ll get back to it and give you some answers when we get some. Tucker, out. =/\=

Ian smiled at that but then frowned quickly as the negative space Kurosawa disappeared back into the same readings that occurred before.

O’Connor: Well, that was weird.

Shortith/Kessler/Kel:  Response

TBC/Tags

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Lieutenant Commander Ian O’Connor

HCO

USS Ronin NCC-34523

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