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Scans by Fayth on the ‘reality spheres’ as some were calling them, showed several of various sizes evident around them. Some as small as a fingernail, others as larger or larger than then the runabout itself.

GM CockRoach

“Asam can you guys make sure that the unit is safely and sufficiently hooked up to the Fulcrum’s power systems? We don’t want it failing once we’ve got one of those things.” Fayth turned back to her sensor readings and pulled up the results of the ‘reality spheres’ and their location and turned to the pilot. “Alright I want to park right here.” She pointed to a location on the screen where they were in the clear of any of the spheres. “Maneuvering thrusters only, don’t let those things actually pass through the shuttle. Once we have on on board we’ll raise the shields again and be protected from them.” She turned to the engineers. “So for those who weren’t in the shuttle bay, these things appear to respond to our thoughts. If you are in contact with one and you think it, it creates it. The energy signatures are similar to a replicator or transporter. But I need to know right now that we can all stay focused. We don’t want to do what I did: worry about blowing a sensor relay and then it actually happened.” Sharah had messed up there. Granted she hadn’t known about the spheres at the time, but it was still on her. “So if anyone needs a minute to order their thoughts, take it.”

Sharah studied the information they had and kept coming back to what she had tried earlier. She reached over and dropped the shields. She used the transporter to lock onto it and ‘beam’ it into the buffer, then told the computer to use that information to ‘beam out’ what the pattern actually was to the containment unit that was hooked up to the power system. She entered the shuttle to see what, if anything they had to work with. The entire time she worked she watched the screen to make sure she didn’t come into physical contact with one of the ‘bubbles’ and to made sure her mind was exceptionally clear.

Lt jg Fayth, CSO

Caelian made a sour face at his displays, but not in regard to the data. While he could apply his mind to a task when the pressure was on, he knew the tendency for his mind to wander when he wasn’t deeply engaged. Monitoring the runabout’s engines and systems wasn’t exactly engaging. When Sharah mentioned how the energy pockets reacted like transporters, his mind flashed back to the experiment he had hoped to conduct with L’Nel—something that would have to wait until he had an actual sample to work with. Now’s not the time, Cael, he grumbled to himself, staring harder at the readings before him. If this stuff’s that potent, I need to focus. Maybe I should just think about the injection cycle, how it’s supposed to work…

He watched the data very carefully, did the math in his head over and over. Volumes, pressures, mixtures, all of it. He stared at the screen so hard he could almost see the hydrogen-boridium reaction in his mind’s eye. Nice and regular, he repeated to himself. Like clockwork. Nice and regular…

Beaming aboard one of the reality bubbles was surprisingly easy.....maybe TOO easy? Who could tell!

In either case once the bubble was in containment and the shields raised again they thankfully had not had any other bubbles intrude on their runabout thanks to the excellent piloting of NE Vorn at the helm!

Inside the containment unit the bubble they had netted was about the size of a coffee cup or so. It glowed with a barely visible energy pulse almost colored in a silver-blue-white shifting tone. The energy output seemed stable and contained it floated about like a speck of dust in the containment unit occasionally brushing against it before bouncing off and hitting another barrier. No signs of problems were materializing......so far.

GM CockRoach

“Computer scan the contained object. Analyze chemical and atomic construction. Analyze energy patterns.” She wanted to make sure that their previous readings were the same. Never assume. “Asam? Why can we see this one. The ones onboard Ark Angel were invisible except on scans. So what would make us be able to see this one now?”

=/\= Scanning…=/\= The computer chirped

Sharah pulled out a medical tricorder and set up some on board medical telemetry. “Alright Asam, I think out of all of us here, you are the most clear headed. I’ll monitor your vitals. Weir, Allendor, I know one of you needs to keep an eye on the boridium engine but I need one of you to monitor the containment unit and the power output of that sphere.” She turned back to Tabris, “Alright let’s start with something easy. Just make sure the idea is very clear and precise.”

Lt jg Fayth, CSO

OOC: Pasting in the split!

Mazi didn’t like the sound of something that could read your mind and make it come true. Between her past, her feelings for certain members of the crew and the innate fear that came with exploration like they were doing, there was plenty that could go wrong if such thoughts crossed her mind. But she focused on the task at hand. If she could imagine the experiment going exactly as planned, then, with luck, if something did read her mind, it would be success that won out, not nightmares.

As Cael kept watch on the readings, she watched the containment field. Her own antennae tipping back in curiosity as she wondered what they would do if everything was a success. Why would anyone want to capture something as potentially hostile as an entity that read your mind and made it come true. She didn’t like the ideas that flitted through her mind just before she once more focused on the end result of obtaining what they wanted to achieve.

Mazi Engineer

As Fayth watched the reality bubble continued to lightly bounce off the containment field. But a problem soon popped up when they tried influencing it with thoughts, that being the containment sphere interfering. The bubble in this case remained just that a highly self contained energy bubble.

Meanwhile the computer beeped again showing its results. =/\= Analysis complete, object is made up of preanimate matter, protomatter and biltihium based crystal energy structures. =/\= It said. The result of biltihium would be quite surprising to Fayth perhaps and the engineers, such a crystal structure was known only by word of mouth to be a one of ‘many’ make ups of energy based life forms. The fact it had pre-animate matter which didn’t ‘quite cut it’ as being truly life, as well as protomatter which as the group would recall was a key component in the Genesis device from the late 2280s of an era before. Made this a highly influential discovery! Based on what they had experienced so far this was both very dangerous but also an amazing find. In essence they could be looking at some form of primitive energy based life form!

GM CockRoach