Lieutenant JG Renaie Shortrith - Probes or Shuttles?
Renaie Shortrith
((Bridge, Deck 3, USS Ronin))
Shortrith: ::to themself:: How… ::to Kessler:: Any chance you could elaborate?
O'Connor: Is there something peculiar about that location?
Kel: Please do. Not sure if I see it.
Kessler: That is where the Kurosawa entered our space. See the void in the sensors? ::beat, putting up a side-by-side view of the probes last known position:: This is were the probe disappeared. See the void in the senros? It's much smaller because of the size diferential betweent he probe and the Kurosawa but they are the same.
Shortrith: So it followed through… What are the chances it would go to when the Kurosawa came from?
O'Connor: Ok,ok. That could be huge
Kel: So we have a hole in time that is drawing thins into it?
Kessler: Correct, the probe was sucked into the temporal event and left a displacement as it entered just as the Kurosawa left a displacement when it emerged. Based on what I am seeing here, this should not be happening. The computer does not seem to have any record of an event like this.
oO Reminds me of Silenya. Oo
Shortrith: Sounds like we need to make an educated guess with the knowledge we have, right?
O'Connor: Well, I certainly leave that to ya’ll science brains.
Renaie chuckled.
Kel: Now then Mr. O'Connor a broad team with varied expertise is always helpful. You're not getting out of this that easily.
Renaie glanced at the viewscreen before turning back to the others as an idea crossed their mind.
Shortrith: What risk would there be if we sent out another probe and watched what happens?
O'Connor: I’d say minimal to us at this point.. I’ve got several routes plugged in. We can still fall back easily if something starts, well, for lack of a better term again, “getting weird”
Kel: I think we're well past "getting weird". But I agree the risk to sending another probe is minimal. We just need to make sure we don't lose of it completely this time.
Kessler: If we recovered the probes shielding to try and compensate for the temporal effects we might be able to get some more insight but I must point out that these readings indicate its very unlikely of getting too much more data from a probe.
Shortrith: That way we'd be able to see what happens when it goes through the temporal anomaly.
O'Connor: Agreed whole heartedly. What if we also rig a second probe as a temporal anchor. There was something I remember about using gravity wells to trap things in time as well as space. If we can keep the probes linked it should give us a channel to the “whenever.” Downside is that the gravity well will create severe radiation damage to the “our time” probe. It won’t last long.
oO I'm actually making sense? Oo
Kel: If we used a Class IV probe we might have a better shot. It's meant for stellar phenomena so they are pretty robust. We can also program the subprobes to release at intervals. We may lose the big probe, but maybe we can recover the small ones.
Kessler: I like it, gives us better odds at getting more detailed scans from inside this thing.
Shortrith: I'd say it's worth a shot, but ::turning to Kel:: the choice is yours, sir.
Kel: Do it. Jack get the probe prepped let me know when it's ready to launch.
Kessler: On it Commander. We will daisy chain the subprobes back to us so we get a longer feed and data stream.
O’Connor: Sir, I’d like permission to prep a shuttle, too. I’m not saying we should go in there…yet. Not without way more data. But I’d like to start adding some modifications in case we want to explore that option after we get more info.
Kel: Get started. I hope we don't need it, but it's better to be prepared.
O’Connor: I’m gonna need help for the science team…and Gods help me…I’d like to use Poagie. He pulled a scheme a while back that used chronitons to age some kind of Ferengi barley beetle whiskey. Anyway, he actually has some experience working with chronitons.
Kel: Check in with Wren, see how those other probes came back. Maybe we can learn something.
Shortrith: Go well, sir.
Kel: Let's pause for a moment. We know the region around where the Kurosawa was is strange, but we've made an assumption there.
Kessler: ::turning to Kel:: What are you thinking Commander?
Renaie glanced between the two, not knowing what to say.
Kel: We assumed that the rest of the Ross-580 system was normal. We hadn't even started our survey when the Kurosawa appeared.
Kessler: You're thinking there might be a clue to this in the star system itself?
Shortrith: It's quite possible.
Kel: We don't think there's anyone else out there, but let's see what is there. How many planets? Asteroid belts? Gas clouds?
Kessler: ::staring at his scans:: With long range sensors offline, the distortion field from the anomaly is affecting the short range sensors with us being this close. We will need to reposition the Ronin sir for a more detailed scan of the system.
Shortrith: Wouldn't that also change the risk? I can analyse it if needed.
Kel/Vomek: Response
Kessler: Well, we have two other courses of action we could use. A series of probes launched deeper into the star system or we send out a shuttle to get the detailed scans we need, that would keep the Ronin on station for the other teams.
Shortrith: Each have downsides of their own.
Kel/Vomek: Response
Kessler: Probes can't give you the human factor and reaction time that a shuttle can but a shuttle puts crew in harms way, which at this point is a risk I am willing to take and I think anyone else here is too.
Shortrith: If needed, I can accompany whoever is on the shuttle to be there if any medical emergency arises. I'm willing to put myself at risk if it means to help someone.
oO It's the least I can do. Oo
Kel/Vomek/Kessler: Response
Shortrith: I could also observe its affect on people, whether it be good or bad.
Kel/Vomek/Kessler: Response
Shortrith: That's a good point. Both have pros and cons.
Kel/Vomek/Kessler: Response
[Tags/TBC]Lieutenant JG Renaie Shortrith, MD
Acting Chief Medical Officer
USS Ronin
They/Them (Player and character)
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