Cmdr. V'Lenn / More investigation / tags: none

[Steve Bruin]

*** USS Odyssey / Astrometric Lab ***

:: V'Lenn had ordered the shuttle bay crew to remove a particular section of the outer hull, one where she had discovered something unusual.  The section how sat upon a large table in front of her where she could use more specialized equipment to conduct very intense scans. ::

V'Lenn: Computer, begin low level tachyon scan of object on lab bench one.

:: The scanning beam slowly went across the large hull section while Commander V'Lenn monitored its data on a nearby screen.  The metal of this part of the ship seemed to have been somewhat extra charged by some sort of energy, but she could not identify it no matter how much effort she made. ::

V'Lenn: Computer compare energy signatures in this metal to everything in Starfleet databanks.

Computer: =/\= Working. Energy matches nothing in current Federation records. =/\=

V'Lenn: Scan for anything similar, even just slightly similar.

Computer: =/\= Working. Slight similarity signatures in Breen Dissipation Weapon.  =/\=

V'Lenn: The Breen Energy Dissipation Weapon?

:: The Breen weapon had been used in the Dominion war a few years earlier.  The sudden addition of the Breen to the Dominion forces had shifted the balance of the war against the Federation for quite some time.  Only a slight imbalance aboard a Klingon ship had given Starfleet a way to modify their ships in order to protect against the Breen weapon.  While the Klingon ships were most easily modified, it took longer for Federation and Romulan ships to be modified, thus giving the Dominion a temporary advantage. ::

:: What she failed to understand was how a Breen device could have any relation to what had happened to the shuttle. Abandoning technology for the moment, V'Lenn resorted to an old-fashioned magnifying glass in order to get a better look at a particular area on the hull.  What she saw looked like a minute section of the hull where something had burned through. ::

V'Lenn:  Concentrate scanning beams of the section I am pointing at. 

:: The computer very closely (in fact microscopically) scanned the area and relayed the findings. ::

Computer: =/\= Molecular cohesion has been disturbed in this one area, cylindrically.  It was then restored by unknown means. =/\=

:: To V'lenn it seemed that something had literally entered the shuttle from the outside, then sealed the hole.  It was very odd and she saw no way conceivable that it could have been done, yet it looked as if it had been.

Cmdr. V'Lenn

Chief Engineer

USS Odyssey

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