Lt JG Tess Evinrude - ...and which one is Dumpty?

[Tess Evinrude]

((Deck 09, Flight Deck Aft, USS Ronin))

((OOC: Continued from "Which one is Humpty..."))

Once Nemes had helped fine-tune Evinrude's tricorder settings, the officers began their initial analysis. A task like this was, at first, overwhelming to comprehend. There were so many pieces, all of them were broken, and many of them were still missing.

Not to mention the fact that two men whom he'd come to respect immensely were gone.

All the while, Tess was wondering if they would come across evidence of their command team's demise...or worse, the command team themselves. He shook the macabre idea away.

oO I assume transporter techs would beam organic matter to sickbay... Oo

Before anyone could make real progress, Major Sigh spoke up.

Singh: The runabouts reported sensor interference outside the ship but that shouldn't be affecting us in here. Are your tricorders working normally?

Evinrude's preliminary scans seemed to return normal results, but he had yet to focus on a single piece of debris. His strategy was, so far, to look at the wreck as a whole, trying to discern if there were any patterns of large-scale structural stress.

Nemes: Well, I … erm, no. Those readings are ::furrowing her brow:: not making sense really. ::beat:: Maybe my tricorder has some malfunction. Or maybe there is an issue with the connection to the sensor arrays?

While Sybil checked the link between their devices and the sensor arrays, Tess tuned his tricorder to focus on a single piece of debris - in this case, a section of pressure manifold.

Evinrude: I've been cataloguing big sections of debris, I'll try to focus in on finer details. ::He tapped at his tricorder, consumed by its readout.::

None of the officers made any sounds or indications of good news. Immediately, Tess noticed a reading come through. Seemingly normal, there were indications that the pressure manifold had been exposed to extreme external heat and pressure - characteristic of an explosion.

Evinrude: Seems like--wait. ::He narrowed his eyes in confusion.:: What?

Tucker: Response

The previous readings were still captured on his device, but now the tricorder was showing an unscanned target - as if the same exact piece of debris was new to the forensic array, fresh. He ran another scan, and the mystery deepened.

Singh: To me this looks like part of one of the starboard RCS assemblies...but the tricorder can't make sense of it. A warp core breach wouldn't do...this. Not by itself.

Nemes: No, the core breach of a shuttle or yacht could not affect our tricorders or the material in such a way. ::beat:: And the link to the arrays is also working perfectly.

Evinrude: Take a look at this. ::He paced over towards the group, closing their scattered formation into a semicircle.:: I've got a logged scan of that piece of manifold over there, here's the data. ::He pushed the scan to the tricorders of the other officers, and it appeared on their screen identical to his.:: Normal readings, for debris exposed to an external explosion, right? Now look at this... ::He pushed the second scan to their devices.::

Tucker: Response

Nemes: A natural ion or plasma storm can interfere with the sensors, but it does not alter the physical properties or composition of materials, so our tricorders or sensors would still be able to make sense of the data. At least, I am not aware of any such phenomenon. Unless... unless the yacht was exposed to some other phenomenon that we do not yet know. But that is pure speculation. ::looking up, realising she was talking too much: Sorry, I'm just thinking out loud.

Tucker/Singh: Response

Evinrude: We need to find that data recorder, this "black box". If it can confirm multiple sets of readings, like our scanners here...I think chronitons is a solid guess. ::He sighed, and raised a hand to rub at his beard.::

oO Raga and Niac, gone. Debris showing three, maybe more states of existence. Chronitons are going to make this infinitely more complex... Oo

Nemes: Shouldn't a black box send out a location signal in such a case, so that it is easier to find?

Tucker/Singh: Response

Tess turned to the air wing commander, bracing himself to ask the notoriously practical Major a very hypothetical question.

Evinrude: Could they have removed the data recorder...perhaps to hide information from adversaries...or from us? Would the Kurosawa have continued to function without it?

Nemes/Singh/Tucker: Response

He certainly didn't want to direct their efforts towards a misguided conclusion, but it was strange that the data recorder hadn't been found. They were hardened against impact and explosion, designed to provide answers to just such a mystery.

Still, with the anomaly affecting sensors, their search was akin to feeling around in the dark for a dropped bolt on the floor of a disorganized workshop.

Evinrude: Understood. I'd like to keep putting together a complete picture of the wreck...or, multiple pictures, as it were. We'll have to sort through which pieces of the puzzle belong to the different sets of readings we're getting.

It would be like trying to assemble three different jigsaw puzzles simultaneously...from pieces that had intermixed.

Nemes/Singh/Tucker: Response

[Tags/TBC]

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Lieutenant J.G. Tess Evinrude

[he/him]

Operations Officer

USS Ronin

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