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Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Aaron Williams (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim - Cadet Erik Jethro Avant (Scientist): Shuttle Bay heading for CSO Meeting

Posted by Cadet Erik Jethro Avant (Scientist) in Side Sim - Cadet Erik Jethro Avant (Scientist): Shuttle Bay heading for CSO Meeting
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Jethro crossed his arms in a relaxed manner as he listened the Lieutenant talked excitedly.

“I would very much like to discuss it sometime.”

Taking a seat in the chair in front of the office desk, his eyes flicked to the PADD on the Lieutenant’s desk that display his personal file. Jethro know what it said.

But what it must be like to read it from a third party point of view.

He couldn’t help smile as a memory of one the infractions came to mind. How he a Klingon cadet decided to reenact a battle Kahless to help another friend study for a xenoliterature exam. Well…both participants got swept up in the passion of the reenactment. Both cadets, him and the Klingon spent a nice night in detainment. But their friend passed the test.

“Of course, Lieutenant. Do have any questions for me? Im happy and excited to discuss my assignment aboard this ship.”

(OOC: Thanks for the formatting advise, I like it! Hoped you enjoyed reading Jethro’s bio!)

-Cadet Erik Jethro Avant (Scientist)

Sitting back in his chair, Aaron took his glasses and put them on the desk. He didn’t need them to read the PaDD, and could clearly see the cadet without corrections.

“Not for now, but we will in a moment.”, said the Lieutenant, smiling at the enthusiasm of Jethro. Who isn’t excited to serve aboard a starship ?, he thought with a smile. But I think he was worried about my PaDD. Oh, well.

“Just give me a minute”, Aaron tells Jethro, and he starts to skim the cadet’s file. Earthling… Lovelace… Violent first contact… And so young! He continues to read the file before something caught his attention. ‘Approached by Starfleet about a stellar phenomenon in Alpha Quadrant’. He really has a strong link with Starfleet! And this stellar phenomenon… I’ll ask him.

He finished reading the document and put his PaDD on the desk. “Sorry for the delay !”, he says. Putting his arms on his desk, he began :

When Jethro saw that the Lieutenant was finished reading his record, he sat up straighter in his chair and fixed his uniform, giving his department head his full attention. Now how will this go?

“So, I saw you’ve had some fight with aliens species, before entering Starfleet. And even at Starfleet, if I count the Klingon incident… Do you see yourself as a fighter ?”

Lieutenant JG Aaron Williams - CSO

A small surpassed laugh escaped him at the Lieutenant’s questions.

“No sir. The incident with the Klingon, Cadet Udrosho…I believe was his name, was…was a matter of cultural study. A common friend of ours need help understanding one of stories of Kahless. We decided to recreated…like a play,…and we both got passionate about it. Nothing more then a few scratches and broken flower pot came out of it.

Aaron smiled, listening to Jethro’s story : “This is… quite unusual, I must say. And what about the others you had ?”

There may have been some blood-wine somewhere in there.

“As for the other fights, Lieutenant, only when necessary to help people. And those other fights did help people…sir.”

Fingers tapped lightly on Jethro’s right leg, a fidgeting and thinking habit that he had since he was young. Even though there was no malice or attitude corrections with Lieutenant Williams, this scene of a review was all to familiar. It reminded him of the talks and reprimands he would get as a child from whatever commanding officer was in charge for some misadventure he embarked on. Like when on an shore-leave excursion when he was six how he stumbled into an ancient cave system on a small wayward planet the Lovelace came across. Jethro decided he was going to chart it like he was some Starfleet geologist. He even wore a replica commbadge. Only problem he didn’t tell anyone what he was doing. It took the his mother and an away-team four hours to find him. A fraction of a smile lifted on his face as recalled the memory.

-Cadet Erik Jethro Avant (Scientist)

Aaron nodded: “I can totally understand.” He took a pause, drinking a bit of his coffee. “You know…”, he began. “My position implies me to reprimand you about your fights and to warn you, but… I think some people already told you. And I’m not here for that right now.”

Jethro raised his eyebrow a bit as the Lieutenant pushed aside his reprimands on his record. From his experience most of his commanding officers focused entirely on it. This was a nice a change.

Trying to change the subject, he said: “In fact, I’ve seen you were already linked with Starfleet before you even applied at the Academy, aboard the Lovelace first, and then with this, I quote: ‘stellar phenomenon on the edge of Federation space in the Alpha quadrant.’ and you have lived aboard an out-post and a starbase. Could you tell me more about it ?”

Lieutenant JG Aaron Williams - CSO

When the Lieutenant moved on with his questions, he paid attention very closely to make sure he was able to answer them to the best of his ability. Jethro nodded and smiled at the mention of his life and its proximity to Starfleet and about his father’s latest and continuing research project.

“You could say,” Jethro shrugged his hands, “that Starfleet was has been my life long before I even joined it.” He waved his hands in explanation. Jethro talked very much with his hands as he did his mouth. “My mother was the XO of the Lovelace and I was born on it, as I’m sure you’ve read.” He nodded his head to the PADD. “A Federation starship was my first home, I still fill more at home aboard starships then planet-side. I got very familiar with Starfleet protocol and duties from a young age. When my mother died, my father and I moved to Earth, San Francisco to be precise. My father is a scientist as well, his specialty is the quantum mechanics of various stellar phenomena. While my mother was doing her Command duties, my father was able to help out the Lovelace’s science team during it’s mission and was able to work on his own research. Because of this, he established his own relationship with Starfleet as a consultant. My father father was even chosen to be act as a Federation representative at a few Stellar Conferences. I even got to go to a few of those conferences, as I tended to be his research assistant.

Jethro smiled blissfully as he stared off, recalling a memory.

Bring his attention back to the Lieutenant, he continued. “For the four years we lived on earth, my father worked in a private institute continuing his research. Then a Starfleet science vessel, the U.S.S Plank, encountered a very unique stellar phenomena in a sector a little pass Starbase 51 and Starbase 9. A magnetar seemed to be caught between the rotation of two black holes who were destined to collide. The gravitational waves of the black holes, the intense magnetic field of the star that already effects matter at the quantum level and the syphoning of its stellar matter by the black holes combine to disrupted space and subspace for about an area seven star systems.”

With a scoot further in his chair, he got closer to Lieutenant’s desk, now excited to tell this story and the science. He leaned forward to better address the Lieutenant.

“All warp travel in the sector was sketchy and impossible the closer you to the area of effect. The Plank calculated the magnetar’s age to be between 1,000 - 2,000 years old.” Jethro shook his hand in roughly motion. “Magnetars only live around 10, 000 years because of the decay of their magnetic field, this one probably has less time because of the continual loss of its stellar matter. Know my father’s specialty in quantum mechanics and not wanting to waist the opportunity to study this phenomena, Starfleet approached my father with an offer the head a research team on it. He accepted and a moth later we left for Starbase 51 hitching rides on a few Federation starships to get there. Because of the area effect and the inability to get close to the phenomena, my father and his team decided the best way to study it would be scanning and probing from various distances starting far away and getting as close as possible. We spent the first two years at Starbase 51 as the team set up the experiment and gathering preliminary data. Once that was done, we moved onto Starbase 9 to reach different angle for scans. After a bout a year and a half there a small ship with a tiny grew of Starfleet officers were assigned to assist the teams travels we spent the next four and a half planet hoping, setting up temporary outposts in order better gather data as we traveled as close as we could. The team were made up other families of different ages, so I was not wanting for peer companionship and plus I was just happy to be back in space.”

He paused taking brief second to adjust his uniform.

“On Starbase 9, we had thought that what we were seeing was the effects of the magnetar’s extreme high electromagnetic radiation bursts on a cluster of dark matter, that hadn’t been mapped. But, that would have kept the subspace disturbances to a confined area and not so widespread. As we got closer, we discovered that it was actually dark energy that was playing with space. Even in the 24th centaury, we still don’t know that much about dark energy. We know that dark matter and dark energy are made up the same subatomic particles but are total opposites. Dark matter contracts space and dark energy expands space. Normally we can only observe dark energy through intergalactic space with the movement of galaxies. Turns out, that interaction between magnetar and the black holes was causing dark energy to be expressed on a interstellar scale thus, causing the disturbances.”

He took a breath, hoping to slow himself down. Giving the Lieutenant the time to catch up, Jethro had a habit of talking fast when excited.

“This is why a lot of my current personal research is focused on the effects of dark energy on subspace and warp fields. I’m trying to see is there a way to counteract the phenomena’s effect and see if we can find a way to adapt Warp Theory for warp travel through that area. In hopes of getting ships out there to study it even closer.”

-Cadet Erik Jethro Avant (Scientist)

Aaron nodded at Jethro, trying to fully comprehend his story. “That’s a lot of information! But it’s really interesting. And I guess those events lead you to maybe specialize yourself in dark matter and quantum physic?”

(OCC: Sorry if I’m doing little posts, I’m a bit busy at the moment, and of course it’s your thread !)
Lieutenant JG Aaron Williams - CSO