Lieutenant Morro Caras - interstellar comedy club

[Morro Caras]

((Main engineering, Deck 18, USS Thor))

Lieutenant Morro Caras had a team assembled in front of him that was responsible for finding out how to neutralize the subspace weapons. He had assembled the team at the large console table in main engineering where the master systems display was typically accessed.The ship had managed to survive one encounter with the subspace weapons they were analyzing. Morro was attempting to construct possibilities in his mind; playing off what had apparently saved the ship during the attack. Ral had saturated the Thor’s shields with Tachyons. It wasn’t fool proof, but it had saved them from the worst of it, but it had done nothing for the surrounding area of subspace. Morro was going over all the possibilities in his head when a simplistic retort from Ral slapped him upside the face.

Ral: I don’t suppose the captain would contemplate us doing a sweep and beaming out any weapons we found? ::raising his eyebrows::

 

Caras: Lieutenant that…

It caught Morro off guard for a second only because he was attempting to take this seriously, but it made him realize, perhaps he was taking things a little too seriously. I mean technically if they could find them all, it might work. At least for a little while. But it kind of felt like taking a toy from a child.

 

Ral: Only joking, Chief.  ::smiling::

 

Morro Caras didn’t have to force a smile, that was a good one. He let himself relax a little. It reminded him that being loose was just more natural, that the best ideas came when there was an air of jovialness about. They weren’t looking extinction in the face… yet. They just had a difficult task at hand.

 

Ral: What if we could move any incoming weapon slightly out of phase?  Just enough to push it far enough out of the local spacetime.

No one got hurt that way, and it would be easy to lock on to a weapon like that before it fires, Chief Caras had some concerns about it though.

 

Caras: We’d need to make some kind of satellite or probe that would be able to enforce that system, not to mention a miniature molecular phase inverter. I’m also not sure if moving it out of phase would fully subversive its effect on subspace if it still went off.

Morro was an engineer. Not a Physicist. He actually had no idea what would happen.

Veylek(optional): Response

Morro stood up and rolled both of his shoulders. He didn’t tend to like to sit and think. He honestly did most of his best thinking in a jefferies tube, but he wasn’t about to move this entire brainstorming session into one of those, though it all might bring them closer together in more ways than one. Maybe they were overlooking an element of this. The human element. Humanity was known for its ability to adapt. Morro had appreciated the extracurricular’s he had taken for earth history, but he felt like looking back on most human history that humans were kind of gluttons for punishment, and they adapted well to those punishments so they had to keep inventing new punishments.

Lieutenant Caras steepled his fingers as he sat back down at the large engineering table.

Caras: I can’t help but think that the best solution is educating both sides on how dangerous a subspace rift can be. It’s not something you want to launch in your own back yard.

They were kind of in a jokey period of the meeting, but Morro wasn’t fully joking. If they could somehow get the space forces to learn how actively harmful their weapons were, he thought it might do some good.

Ral: Response

It looked like the air of jovialness was thriving.

Caras: If only we could somehow get them to sit down for a week for a technical symposium. Catch them up on all the technology that they’ve kind of skipped. The only reason we know is because our society has made so many mistakes. Ral, think you can give a tight two hour talk about the Elway Theorem?

Morro smiled at that but it was a little bittersweet. Unfortunately it reminded him about how most lessons tended to be learned by societies. Death. If these forces were playing with subspace weapons here in their own Solace System, they could open up a subspace tear, and that would be it for them. They wouldn’t have much to learn after that.

Ral: Response

That was a good question, and almost right on cue, someone in gold from security was approaching them. The only reason Morro guessed that they were from security was because he knew most of his own crew already, and this one would have stood out to him. They were Orion.

Caras: Funny you bring that up, I have asked Security for information on the facilities that they use in order to manufacture these weapons. Thor was able to find a handful of small sites. Ensign, you’re just in time to join us. What information do you have on the planetside shipyard used to build Nova Terra’s star ships?

Caras glanced at the other Orion. He didn’t want it to be weird, but it was rare, at least for him. While in the Academy, Caras only managed to really connect with one other Orion and that Orion did not really care for Morro, and he let it be known. Since his first posting however he had met others, Shevon Sherlock, Nesre Salo, and Shyvo. Those had been better experiences, but they were always few and far between. Morro didn’t stare but gave a curt nod.

Vharo: Response

Caras: That could be something. Perhaps there is a reason they chose that location to build and assemble these weapons onto the ships. That might indicate either a limited or volatile resource.

Morro couldn’t remember much about that area from the archives. He would have to find a way to look up their history and that region's political history. He knew the planet was united, but he also knew that the United New Earth government of Nova Terra had a stranglehold of the information that it shared with its populace.

Vharo: Response

Now there was an idea. Leave it to security to come up with that one. 

Caras: Right, and if we can cut them off from their resources, or find a weakness in it, we can at least stop the manufacture of these weapons, maybe even find an exploit in them in order to neutralize them.

Without prompting Morro looked at the assembled team on how to do that. He didn’t want to say “options”. He wasn’t a captain. Plus he enjoyed a more conversational tone to his meetings. He was sure they’d come up with something if the pressure didn’t seem like it was too high. Then again, pressure did make diamonds. Morro decided to save amping up the pressure later. They all didn’t need to be reminded what dangerous these subspace weapons could be.

Ral/Vharo: Response.

((OOC: Welcome to Vharo! We’re really throwing her in into the deep end here, right in act III luckily right at the beginning.))

((OOC2: Holding putting tags for Veylek for now, once she catches up we can tag her again.))

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Lieutenant Morro Caras

Chief of Engineering

USS Thor

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