Lieutenant JG Ghee'looth Xiron-The Drawing Board.
Colgin
(( Office of the Chief Science Officer, Deck 8 ))
Seleya: So these emitters have been set up by someone. They were here before us, I would be curious if Stillwater is aware of them. Perhaps some people, but I would be curious with their reactions if our findings were to become publicly known to them.
Xiron: Whoever set them up did a good job of disguising them during the listening post set up. The anomaly too gave them cover. Any strange readings in that area of space and we just write it off as another property of this little studied hole in space.
Rasmussen: Clever…
Ada: Clever indeed. And sophisticated. I'm still baffled by the decaying neutron stream. It's an ingenious way to suppress ships and people.
Xiron: The question is who and for what purpose were they set up. But we will need to find out quickly. Our drive will not like these unwelcomed particles raining on our deflector.
Rasmussen: I would say we could rule out Charn…while there does seem to be oppressed masses I’m not sure they would be capable of this. They don’t have replicator or transporter technology in Stillwater so cloaks seem a bit of a stretch…plus he might nearly have been killed by these things
Seleya: Technology capabilities are not so neat even like that. They are based on many different factors, including necessity. If they didn’t conceive of such technology or did not value it, for even cultural reasons they may not have developed it over focusing on their own speciality. Furthermore, we don’t know if this is Stillwater or another species we have yet to encounter. Lastly, on the concern about our drive with these particles, there must be a local solution, this is a high traffic area with many ships going in and out, damages to people’s warp drives would harm their trade. If this is another species that has a presence out here they must also account for their own engines for the particle bombardment.
Ada: Those are good points. Technological advancement is not linear.
Xiron nodded at that statement. There were examples of worlds being centuries ahead in one tech to only be centuries behind in another.
Rasmussen: I’m not sure the who matters at this point…the why and the how are probably more vital.
Seleya: I would disagree, I think who matters in that potentially who set up these emitters could lead us to the answers for the other two questions. Perhaps a bit of diplomacy and an offer to disable them could be a valuable avenue. If our offer is accepted we get a chance to examine the emitters with the permission of the people who claim sovereignty of this system, and if they don’t, well that tells us they may be something more at play.
Ada: But that's supposing that the local powers don't want the emitters. We don't know if that's the case.
Xiron: We have a lot of opportunity and capability but very little by way of motive.
Rasmussen: Well – I haven’t been privy to everything…I’m a crewman third class…a new one. Maybe my ignorance can add a new perspective?
Seleya: Your input is valued nonetheless.
Ada: Outside perspectives are often the most useful, frankly. You don't know what questions you "shouldn't bother" asking.
Xiron: At this point we have more questions than answers.
Rasmussen: Responses?
Seleya: My research so far has not returned with anything similar to our data. So we are in unknown territory at the moment. Potentially dealing with technology the Federation hasn’t encountered yet.
Ada: Let's focus on what we know, and what we can reasonably deduce from it.
Xiron: We know that the particles the emitters are hitting us with will be an issue if allowed to degrade our systems.
Rasmussen: Responses?
Seleya: So we need to find out more about these emitters, besides speculating here, we will need to get close and hands on. But at the moment our deflectors are struggling with whatever they are emitting. So we should probably be figuring out how to adjust our deflectors to account for this.
Ada: Problem there is that it's going to take Labs time to work up a full report of the particle streams, and we can't effectively shield the ship until then. But...
Xiron: If there was just someway to deflect or obfuscate the particle beams.
Rasmussen/Seleya: Responses?
Ada: Well... I don't know, it's an odd idea. But that Sheng emitter I mentioned, my emitter. We know it's safe--otherwise I wouldn't be allowed on the ship or near other people--what if we basically made a Sheng emitter that encompassed the ship, but tune it to my universe-of-origin's quantum resonance. If I'm not effected because I'm from another quantum universe, then in principle the same should e true for the ship... or at least the crew.
Xiron: Trust a Starfleet officer to offer a violation of the laws of physics as a casual solution.
Rasmussen/Seleya: Responses?
Ada: The schematics and design are all readily available. Here. ::She tapped at her console and produced the details of the Sheng emitter on the large LCARS panel behind her.:: I don't think it's too exotic of a tech. My emitter draws very little power, but then again it doesn't need to cover a whole ship. But inverse square law be damned, we can scale it up without requiring an obscene amount of power.
Ghee’looth looked at the design that Ada had called up. Her antennae flexed at the complexity of the design and the forces it would manipulate.
Xiron: The phased array of the quantum slipstream drive could produce what this is calling for.
Ada/Rasmussen/Seleya: Responses?
Xiron: I suggest we hurry. The longer we take the more we are exposed to the emitters.
Ada/Rasmussen/Seleya: Responses?
(TAG/TBC)
Lieutenant JG Ghee’looth Xiron
Acting Chief Engineer
USS Valkyrie
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