Lt. Dohna T'Alia - Realm of the Prophets
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Don K
Jun 24, 2026, 10:46:57 AM (5 days ago) Jun 24
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((Maintenance Bay, Narhelion))
T'Alia could hardly believe what she was seeing, some kind of internal drydock. Within it there was a long tube with many smaller parts growing off it. About two thirds of the way down the long tube there was an orb that glowed brightly. Several conduits extended from it and linked up to the long metallic tube. The light of the orb swirled. It seemed to grow and dip in brightness at a constant rate and when it did light went out of the smaller conduits into the main tube. At the far end of the tub extended two smaller elongated tubes, red at the front and blue on the sides.
Dohna: Is it building another ship?
Marsek: ...Using...wow, it's using everything it's learned…
Velis: ::murmurs:: It’s so beautiful.
T'Alia turned to the voice that was not Xira or Xilva. They had, at some point, linked up with another group and T'Alia grimaced to see that the doctor was now physically present. She had a reputation and T'Alia had already botched her name twice.
De La Croix: Basic bi-radial symmetry...structural elements look complete...there are defined features and protrusions in several places. If this was a humanoid pregnancy I'd say it was well into the first trimester. Maybe early into the second.
T'Alia looked up at the assembly once more.
De La Croix: Nary dear, I'm very happy for you but it's a bit unladylike to meet a...ship...you like and immediately decide to have a child. Sigh...no appreciation for romance in this day and age.
Wren/Akani: Response
T'Alia could barely believe what she was seeing, but there it was. In this chamber it appeared that a new cosmozoan was being built. It was partially inorganic and at the same time organic. The glowing orb could only be its heart, though according to her scans, it could just as easily be described as a warp core.
Dohna: ::pointing to the red and blue tubes:: Are those nacelles?
Marsek: ::checks the tubes and does a quick reference on her PADD:: ...Nacelles from what appears to be--wait, is this early Bolian? ::ponders:: Might actually be Trill, I'll have to cross-reference. Sorry, I know it's not important right now, but those are definitely nacelles.
Velis: ::shakes her head:: That doesn’t appear to be a Trill design at all.
De La Croix: This is the most incredible example of self-sustaining bioengineering anyone has ever seen and you're debating the finer points of nacelle design?!
Akani: Responses
She glanced at her tricorder.
Dohna: I'm guessing it's early in the process, but the core is online and the keel has been laid. If those are engines they need to grow quite a bit.
De La Croix: We only have our Federation biotemplates to compare it to but usually a child is somewhere between four to ten percent of the parents mass when born. Considering Narhelions size...::she looked around the massive bay and realized it wouldn't be long until the space was entirely full::...we'll have to monitor the growth rate carefully.
Akani/Wren: Response
Dohna: I mean, I'm no doctor, but it seems like its healthy.
Marsek: ::does her best to disguise her hobble over to a monitor and checks:: It's reading stable.
Whatever stable meant in this context Thess was glad to hear it but she couldn't notice the young woman all but limped her way towards them. She pulled the bioscanner off her tricorder and walked over to examine her by reflex.
De La Croix: Stay still, you've torn several ligaments in your leg and hip...what have you been doing? Wait, forget I asked...weren't you dragging an unconscious Commander around? Where has he gotten off to?
Akani/Wren: Response
Marsek: Look, it's building inside-out - I think those are the warp coils! I guess it built warp first, impulse second.
Velis: ::grins:: This is marvelous! My colleagues will be green with envy that I got to witness something like this first hand.
De La Croix: Ah yes, our colleagues. Fascinating as this is...should we not be...escaping by now? I seem to remember some plan including runabouts...and a bath...
T'Alia hurried over to where Narhelion's "gurney" had stopped with Kel.
Dohna: The commander is over here. If I'm reading this right, his vitals are stable. He might even be smiling.
The commander certainly seemed to have some kind of pleasant expression on his face. Perhaps he was having a nice dream or maybe his body was just thankful for a rest. She wondered if Narhelion's gurney would follow them to wherever their evacuation point would end up being.
Akani/Wren: Response
Marsek: How long do you think this will take? I'm guessing it'll grow more once it's...erm...-birthed-, so to speak. Does Narhelion provide the basics and then protect it until it's old enough, I wonder...
De La Croix: It's grown nearly two percent in just the last minutes...at this rate it'll be the size of this entire room within a few hours. Beyond that...I have no clue how Narhelions reproductive cycle is supposed to function. I'm a surgeon not an obstetrician.
Dohna: ::looking up at the growing ship or rather lifeform:: May your journey be free of incident.
Words from her mother's culture somehow seemed appropriate for a creature that would one day journey through the stars.
Akani/Wren: Response
Marsek: =/\= Marsek to Commander Raga. Sir, we've discovered Narhelion's maintenance bay and the source of the power drain. She's--she's diverting power to create a new cosmozoan. =/\=
De La Croix: Oh don't forget to mention Commander Kel. I assume he's around here somewhere....and...oh...
There was a chirp from someone's tricorder and T'Alia turned to see what might be happening.
De La Croix: Did you happen to lose anyone else? There seems to be humanoid lifesigns over there.
T'Alia looked around with concern.
Dohna: My team was scattered earlier, perhaps it's one of them.
Raga/Akani/Wren: Responses
Velis: It's a nursery.
Everyone was still trying to take in everything that was happening in the chamber. She herself could not look away from the pulsating orb that was the heart of the new vessel. Given what Xilva had said she could only speculate what the final creature would look like, but it would likely be very different from Narhelion herself. The doctor's voice made her look away.
De La Croix: Oh look, I seem to have found Beckie.
She kicked the side of his eva suit with a toe and ilicited a small groan.
De La Croix: And he isn't even dead. Will miracles never cease.
Dohna: Not as long as the Prophets watch over us doctor.
Raga/Akani/Wren: Responses
Velis: That's...actually kind of incredible. ::grins:: Terrifying. Complicated. Possibly a nightmare from an engineering perspective. ::glances at Dohna:: But incredible.
Dohna: ::looking at Velis:: We should take as much data as possible. I feel Commander Kel would be sorry he missed this.
De La Croix: Much as I'd like to take this opportunity to remove that vile mustache, we should probably focus on Commander Kel.
Raga/Akani/Marsek/Wren: Responses
Velis: ::sighs:: =/\= All right, Commander. Now what? =/\=
Raga: Response
The group exchanged nervous glances.
De La Croix: Did he say we're diving towards the fissure? I seem to remember it being a point earlier that the fissure would most certainly kill us all...most thoroughly.
Akani/Marsek/Wren: Responses
Dohna: Perhaps not Doctor De La Croix. You never know what the Prophets have in store.
She sat down and closed her eyes. To her delight she felt uplifted. She was not worried or afraid, in fact she was elated. Something good had or was or was going to happen. In her mind's eye she was in a space she's only dreamt of. She was in the realm of the prophets. Little did T'Alia realize that this was no mere vision and a look out a viewport would soon change her life.
[End scene/Act 3/Mission for Dohna and Kel]
--
T'Alia could hardly believe what she was seeing, some kind of internal drydock. Within it there was a long tube with many smaller parts growing off it. About two thirds of the way down the long tube there was an orb that glowed brightly. Several conduits extended from it and linked up to the long metallic tube. The light of the orb swirled. It seemed to grow and dip in brightness at a constant rate and when it did light went out of the smaller conduits into the main tube. At the far end of the tub extended two smaller elongated tubes, red at the front and blue on the sides.
Dohna: Is it building another ship?
Marsek: ...Using...wow, it's using everything it's learned…
Velis: ::murmurs:: It’s so beautiful.
T'Alia turned to the voice that was not Xira or Xilva. They had, at some point, linked up with another group and T'Alia grimaced to see that the doctor was now physically present. She had a reputation and T'Alia had already botched her name twice.
De La Croix: Basic bi-radial symmetry...structural elements look complete...there are defined features and protrusions in several places. If this was a humanoid pregnancy I'd say it was well into the first trimester. Maybe early into the second.
T'Alia looked up at the assembly once more.
De La Croix: Nary dear, I'm very happy for you but it's a bit unladylike to meet a...ship...you like and immediately decide to have a child. Sigh...no appreciation for romance in this day and age.
Wren/Akani: Response
T'Alia could barely believe what she was seeing, but there it was. In this chamber it appeared that a new cosmozoan was being built. It was partially inorganic and at the same time organic. The glowing orb could only be its heart, though according to her scans, it could just as easily be described as a warp core.
Dohna: ::pointing to the red and blue tubes:: Are those nacelles?
Marsek: ::checks the tubes and does a quick reference on her PADD:: ...Nacelles from what appears to be--wait, is this early Bolian? ::ponders:: Might actually be Trill, I'll have to cross-reference. Sorry, I know it's not important right now, but those are definitely nacelles.
Velis: ::shakes her head:: That doesn’t appear to be a Trill design at all.
De La Croix: This is the most incredible example of self-sustaining bioengineering anyone has ever seen and you're debating the finer points of nacelle design?!
Akani: Responses
She glanced at her tricorder.
Dohna: I'm guessing it's early in the process, but the core is online and the keel has been laid. If those are engines they need to grow quite a bit.
De La Croix: We only have our Federation biotemplates to compare it to but usually a child is somewhere between four to ten percent of the parents mass when born. Considering Narhelions size...::she looked around the massive bay and realized it wouldn't be long until the space was entirely full::...we'll have to monitor the growth rate carefully.
Akani/Wren: Response
Dohna: I mean, I'm no doctor, but it seems like its healthy.
Marsek: ::does her best to disguise her hobble over to a monitor and checks:: It's reading stable.
Whatever stable meant in this context Thess was glad to hear it but she couldn't notice the young woman all but limped her way towards them. She pulled the bioscanner off her tricorder and walked over to examine her by reflex.
De La Croix: Stay still, you've torn several ligaments in your leg and hip...what have you been doing? Wait, forget I asked...weren't you dragging an unconscious Commander around? Where has he gotten off to?
Akani/Wren: Response
Marsek: Look, it's building inside-out - I think those are the warp coils! I guess it built warp first, impulse second.
Velis: ::grins:: This is marvelous! My colleagues will be green with envy that I got to witness something like this first hand.
De La Croix: Ah yes, our colleagues. Fascinating as this is...should we not be...escaping by now? I seem to remember some plan including runabouts...and a bath...
T'Alia hurried over to where Narhelion's "gurney" had stopped with Kel.
Dohna: The commander is over here. If I'm reading this right, his vitals are stable. He might even be smiling.
The commander certainly seemed to have some kind of pleasant expression on his face. Perhaps he was having a nice dream or maybe his body was just thankful for a rest. She wondered if Narhelion's gurney would follow them to wherever their evacuation point would end up being.
Akani/Wren: Response
Marsek: How long do you think this will take? I'm guessing it'll grow more once it's...erm...-birthed-, so to speak. Does Narhelion provide the basics and then protect it until it's old enough, I wonder...
De La Croix: It's grown nearly two percent in just the last minutes...at this rate it'll be the size of this entire room within a few hours. Beyond that...I have no clue how Narhelions reproductive cycle is supposed to function. I'm a surgeon not an obstetrician.
Dohna: ::looking up at the growing ship or rather lifeform:: May your journey be free of incident.
Words from her mother's culture somehow seemed appropriate for a creature that would one day journey through the stars.
Akani/Wren: Response
Marsek: =/\= Marsek to Commander Raga. Sir, we've discovered Narhelion's maintenance bay and the source of the power drain. She's--she's diverting power to create a new cosmozoan. =/\=
De La Croix: Oh don't forget to mention Commander Kel. I assume he's around here somewhere....and...oh...
There was a chirp from someone's tricorder and T'Alia turned to see what might be happening.
De La Croix: Did you happen to lose anyone else? There seems to be humanoid lifesigns over there.
T'Alia looked around with concern.
Dohna: My team was scattered earlier, perhaps it's one of them.
Raga/Akani/Wren: Responses
Velis: It's a nursery.
Everyone was still trying to take in everything that was happening in the chamber. She herself could not look away from the pulsating orb that was the heart of the new vessel. Given what Xilva had said she could only speculate what the final creature would look like, but it would likely be very different from Narhelion herself. The doctor's voice made her look away.
De La Croix: Oh look, I seem to have found Beckie.
She kicked the side of his eva suit with a toe and ilicited a small groan.
De La Croix: And he isn't even dead. Will miracles never cease.
Dohna: Not as long as the Prophets watch over us doctor.
Raga/Akani/Wren: Responses
Velis: That's...actually kind of incredible. ::grins:: Terrifying. Complicated. Possibly a nightmare from an engineering perspective. ::glances at Dohna:: But incredible.
Dohna: ::looking at Velis:: We should take as much data as possible. I feel Commander Kel would be sorry he missed this.
De La Croix: Much as I'd like to take this opportunity to remove that vile mustache, we should probably focus on Commander Kel.
Raga/Akani/Marsek/Wren: Responses
Velis: ::sighs:: =/\= All right, Commander. Now what? =/\=
Raga: Response
The group exchanged nervous glances.
De La Croix: Did he say we're diving towards the fissure? I seem to remember it being a point earlier that the fissure would most certainly kill us all...most thoroughly.
Akani/Marsek/Wren: Responses
Dohna: Perhaps not Doctor De La Croix. You never know what the Prophets have in store.
She sat down and closed her eyes. To her delight she felt uplifted. She was not worried or afraid, in fact she was elated. Something good had or was or was going to happen. In her mind's eye she was in a space she's only dreamt of. She was in the realm of the prophets. Little did T'Alia realize that this was no mere vision and a look out a viewport would soon change her life.
[End scene/Act 3/Mission for Dohna and Kel]
Lieutenant Dohna T'Alia
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USS Ronin NCC-34523
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