Posted Nov. 11, 2018, 8:55 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Jacen Drayke (Chief Engineer/2O) (Steven Sigle)
Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jacen Drayke (Chief Engineer/2O) in Shuttlebay
Posted by Lieutenant Tyler Michael Wells (Chief Science Officer) in Shuttlebay
Posted by Captain Kelly Shultz (Commanding Officer) in Shuttlebay
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Rinker would wait in the observation room for the shuttlebay until the probe was brought aboard. The force field along with the transparent aluminium window should keep him safe from a lot of different negative events.Rinker
Indeed the force field technology, and transparent aluminum should protect the man on the otherside of them. Didn’t the Momentum have such things? Had that technology upgraded that much in the intervening centuries? But everything should be fine. This was Starfleet what could go awry?
Novus Ordo Mundi - GM
“Mr. Drayke how long until the probe is on the ship,” Kelly asked walking up next to Rinker. “You both drew me. Ryley, got the XO,” Kelly informed her counselor waiting for Jacen to update them.
“Should be any moment, one to two minutes tops.” Jacen said as he went back to focusing on the task at hand.
Captain Kelly Shultz
Having not gotten any call to participate in any of the goings on, Tyler took it upon himself to go where he felt he could be useful. Bringing an alien probe on board sounded something like what a Chief Science Officer would be involved in, so he made his way to the shuttle bay, arriving shortly after the Captain.
“I, uh…” He said, appearing behing the Captain. He nervously cleared his throat. “I thought I could be of assistance?” He asked.
-Tyler Michael Wells, CSO
As if answering the Captain’s Summons the Probe shimmered into appearance inside of the rated force field that had been requested. In the lights of the shuttle bay, from with the flight control office. The blue energy of the force field shimmered of the golden surface of the probe. There were symbols covering nearly every inch of the surface, making it hard to recognize the antique probe from a bygone era as Starfleet Technology, though before it sat, and the one place it was not covered with Symbols still read, NX-05 USS Momentum. Now the hard work began, Answering the questions that the symbols provided, and figuring the out the questions they did not even know yet to ask.
Novus Ordo Mundi, GM
=^=Computer, Activate the translation matrix.=^= He glanced at the symbols.
He looked at the science officer. “Mr. Wells are you certain that the probe is safe?” He activated the bio scanners. He doubted over the time that the probe was in space there were any organisms on or within the probe that was dangerous, but he guessed that was the reason why they did all the scanning in the first place.
Rinker CNS
“Let’s see what the bio scanners say,” Tyler said, moving over to the terminal and assessing the data coming in. (OOC: GM I didn’t see the results of such scan)
“Well it isn’t ticking,” Kelly said moving as close to it as she could get to inspect the writing. The idea of ticking gave her another idea. “Ensign,” she asked one of the crew under Jacen’s command that had accompanied him to the hanger. “Is the probe still transmitting the distress signal,” she asked biting her lip in thought. The probe seemed very silent at the moment which meant it was harmless of just playing opossum.
Captain Kelly Shultz
=^=Captain, we haven’t secured the probe… it could be contagious or explosive.=^= Rinker would have suggested that she return to the safety of the observation room. But if it was a bio-contaminant she was already exposed.
“We can cut off the signals, and scans can check for organisms but that is all for naught if it just blows up on us” Jacen said as he worked the console as he did a deeper scan. “If I have to get close to this thing, I am going to make certain everything is not going to blow us to hell for even breathing on it.”
Drayke, CE
At the request of the counselor the computer did as requested, beginning to catalogue and separate the myriads of symbols. As each was in theory marked and separated it was placed in a smaller display square on the view screen. It appeared there were hundreds if not thousands of individual symbols, some were combinations of others it would appear and was the making of some sort of language.
The Ensign nodded that it was indeed broadcasting the signal.
Novus Ordo Mundi, GM
=^=Computer correlate the distress signal emanating from the probe with the symbols on it…=^= Perhaps they were the same language and the two elements should make the translation move faster.
Rinker
“I’ve never seen a language like this before,” Tyler mused, looking over at the data the computer was processing.
-Tyler Michael Wells, CSO
“I hope the computer can do a quick translation for us… or I’ll have to break out the decoder ring from that box of ceral I had this morning.”
Rinker
“Did you get the one with the little green center or blue one?” Jacen said as he kept an eye on the device. He was watching it for any signs of dangers as the computer continued.
Drayke, CE
“Green center, yellow letters… it looked cool on my pinkie… My ring fingers too large…” That’s what she said. He thought to himself.
Tyler shot them both strange looks, first to the CNS then to his friend Jacen. What on earth were they talking about? He felt like was in a looney bin momentarily.
“Is there any chance it responds to organic material,” Kelly asked staring at the device. “My Her background is in security and intelligence not engineering but a lot of our equipment was genetically sensitive to specific people such as your DNA to weapons or the lock on a drop box. Could this thing require something like that,” she stared at the probe.
Captain Kelly Shultz
Tyler glanced at the probe and then looked over to the Captain. There was still no info back from the computer one way or the other. He gave a shrug.
“I’m not getting any negative readings. I suppose it would be safe to touch it,” he said.
-Tyler Michael Wells, CSO
“Don’t touch it.” Rinker called out. “That’s like the first thing they teach you is alien technology school. Don’t press a button, don’t touch the asteroid, don’t walk backwards down a hallway, even if you think it’s dead… take one more shot just to be sure.”
Rinker
“Sound advice but we just can’t sit here and stare at it all day waiting for it to do tricks”. Tapping her comm badge Kelly contacted sickbay.
=/\=Mr Ryley. Commander, any news on our patient? Is he awake? =/\=. Kelly hopes maybe the man they rescued could give them some insight as to the mystery before them
Ryley voice replied. =^= Not yet. He seems to be in good shape despite what his clothing would indicate. There’s an issue. Detailed scans of his head have revealed a sort of tumour. I’m trying to work out if we can remove it before we attempt to bring him around you’ll need to wait skipper. =^=
=/\=Understood. Keep me posted=/\= Kelly said activating the comm on her shirt.
“Well you at least have to give the computer a chance to work through the translation matrix and the scanner to report if there are microbes on the casing.” Rinker commented over the intercom,
“By the way, since I’m a commander, does that mean I become first officer if something untoward happens to someone who out ranks me?”
Rinker
“Not how chain of commander works there, technically I am still Second Officer, and even still Ryley is ranked a Captain… so if the CO and XO get wiped out, you could always declare me insane for agreeing to be 2O and Ryley… well it can’t be hard to frame him for some insanity clause right? > Then you can take over. No one is dying today though, as long as we don’t touch buttons… maybe not even look at it. On the flip side, Murphy’s Law said whatever can go wrong will… so maybe it’s our destiny to touch it…” Jacen said his eyes wide as even going over a complex concept in his head before shaking it off like a bad dream.
Drayke, CE
Ryley
M.D.“Or Maybelle is really a child genius from an alien race and has clearance to take over the ship before the lot you do....so is touching a yeah or nay,” Kelly ran the two sentences together as if the thoughts were connected as one.
Captain Kelly Shultz
“I thought that was the purpose of our little discussion about the sudden increase of authority were the Captain to get herself killed by touching things she would be best not to touch.”
Rinker
“Well I for one vote no killing unless absolutely needed… and even then maybe when I am not the killing. I mean I am the only one here with a wife and kids, yeah I am playing that card.” he said, with comic timing but there was a nervous look in his eye. They still had little knowledge what this even was.
Drayke, CE
Kelly looked at both men and then the probe again. Part of her wanted to touch much like a moth to a flame. The other part wanted to take it apart to see how it worked. She had done the latter a lot of times in the past yet never quite put things back together again. Frowning Kelly put her hands on her hips. “Well, obviously we have to do something other than look at the thing. Jacen,” Kelly looked at her CE. “The only true form of genius is math and music. If you are smart enough to create something like this then you should be smart enough to create a universal language of sorts or at least one someone can easily crack. Can you apply a mathematics algorithm to the hieroglyphs to see if we can decipher them?”
Captain Kelly Shultz
Tyler was still there, but was feeling quite invisible. “The computer is still working it out,” He said, pointing to the monitor where the decoding program was already running, cycling through all the hieroglyphs and trying to find a match for them in the database. It was unusual for the process to take this much time, but as there were many glyphs to scan and decode, they would just have to wait.
-Tyler Michael Wells, CSO
OOC: From permission of CO gonna move this a bit the way Ox wanted.
IC: “I think I got something, this program uses a logarithm as well as a multisyllabic pattern… I think this might…” before Jacen could finish his words the program chimed as the probe seemed to crack open, lights emitted and glowed out from it as a sound came from it. The music eerie in some ways, but quite beautiful too.
OOC: This is what we hear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYCDy1eZ84
Drayke, CE
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