Posted by Ensign Gavin Stacey (Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim - Blob Science - Biology Lab

Posted by Commodore Drudoc Andone (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Blob Science - Biology Lab
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OOC: Just to note moving this thread to the biology lab so thread title updated!

“Demil, I have a sample!” Gavin called out as he waltzed into the temporal lab with his medkit. Doctor Stacey stopped at the nearby work station to upload the scans that he and Ashley took to the ship’s computer, then placed the med kit onto the desk’s ledge. “It’s fascinating, this thing is…, organic yet invisible, and it may even be some sort of cloaking device!” Gavin said, from what he gathered from Ensign Logan’s scans. The doctor paused for a moment and looked around. “Your Chief still on the Synth?” Gavin asked, “Then it looks like you, me, and Ashley.., when she arrives will need to solve this one.”

Dr. Stacey Medical

“Interesting,” Demil said, rolling his chair over to the workstation. “Computer, analyze any available genetic information.” While it was compiling, he looked over to the doctor and said “Genetics was one of my major areas of study at the academy,” by way of explanation.

Ens. Lis Science

“Biology was my major, with a touch of xenobiology.” Doctor Stacey replied, hoping Ashley would show up sooner rather than later. “Whatever this is uses some sort of cloaking mechanism.” Gavin stated. “Though whether it’s some sort of technology or natural trait would depend on further scans.” Ensign Stacey wasn’t sure where to start with a hypothesis, but given the organic scans earlier along with the gel like substance, he was aiming at it being a living creature.

Ensign Stacey Medical

Once the team arrived at the nearby biology lab, the computer beeped at the request by Lis to begin its work. Soon enough results got posted on a nearby holo-screen, from this they could obtain the following bits of information!

1) The sample did indeed have organic components to it! In fact they were quite complex organic components going off the sample it was a lifeform that probably could exist as easily in atmosphere as it could live and thrive in the vacuum of space and for that matter elsewhere even!

2) The sample did give off emissions similar to many known cloaking devices! However, in this case it was not a technological achievement but some kind of complex biological chameleon effect. From what little they could tell there was evidence that it used complex bio-electrical fields to phase in and out of the visual spectrum, as well as emit a very low resonance frequency that would interact with other biological organisms making them unable to perceive the object at their will. Conversely these two same properties also meant that scanning devices like the tricorder would have a difficult if not near impossible time getting readings. But with this now known they could easily adapt tricorders and internal scanners to better track and scan for these things!

3) Also feeding off this information was evidence that they were not necessarily dealing with two or more organisms but probably only ONE as a whole. There was enough living cellular activity in the sample to show that each cell operated as a single individual but this meant nothing without further interactions with other cells, in effect making up the single overall organism.

4) Next, there was evidence that this organism whatever it was operated outside the known properties of space and time. It somehow literally had the ability to phase all of itself or parts of itself to any point along the temporal stream, enter or leave presumably then other temporal realities or spacial points, etc. This last bit of information could explain how the Synthesis was here and how they in turn were here interacting with them.

5) Conversely to the above point the organism it seems had some strange ability to absorb the electrical energy of a living organism’s bodily energies and in turn brain activity into its own self, probably this was how it could learn or see or something.

6) Lastly, there was evidence that this organism or least parts of it would or could feed on living and technological signatures.

Putting this all together Lis could on this 4th point make the theory that perhaps must to any known scientist’s achievement the massive area of space they were now in known as The Abyss was in fact this massive multi-light year spanning organism! In effect multitudes of its body were in many different points of time, space, and realities at once! Again explaining how they had encountered the Synthesis, how the distress call that had brought them here had been from the Synthesis’s future but they had arrived before said call went out, and most likely it explained how so many different ships and raises had vanished over the long years of The Abyss being known. These ships had likely been phased from some other time/spacial position/reality!

For the others the 6th point of information was also of interest, they likely could theorize that in the Synthesis’s future one or more parts of this space borne organism had fed on the ship’s computer core, causing the loss of the ship’s control and them sending out the distress call that had brought them here!

GM CockRoach

“Well isn’t this something?” Ensign Stacey asked rhetorically. Gavin’s eyes nearly bulged a bit after reading that this being could possibly be devouring the living. Still not fully understanding the meaning, the doctor turned to Demil. “Does this mean that those blobs could be feeding off the ship, or us?” He asked. There was a concerned undertone to his voice. They couldn’t be 100 percent sure of that at the moment, and maybe it wouldn’t be wise for them to find out.

Dr. Stacey
Medical

“It looks like. What I find more interesting and concerning is that we might be inside one giant organism, and that organism is phasing between different times,” he said. =/\= “Lis to Belmont,” he said, tapping his combadge. “I have something interesting.” =/\=

Ens. Lis, Science

OOC: would I crosspost the comm over to V’alura’s thread?