Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Toveka Brine (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Science gets down to brass tacks (Baldur)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Toveka Brine (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Science gets down to brass tacks (Baldur)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Baldur Bragason (Strategic Operations Officer) in Main Sim - Science gets down to brass tacks (Baldur)
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Toveka moved out of Medical and headed for the Science labs on deck 14. She knew she should check in with the CO, but medical had cleared her. The ship came first.

As she came around the corner, she called out to the folks in the hall. One was just outside her office, the other two were a bit away and disappearing down the hall. “BALDUR!” she called out to see who would turn and answer. Her hair was in a braid and her uniform looked clean and well fitted, though it definitely wasn’t her best. She looked like she hadn’t slept in a bit and was a bit run down.

Lt JG Toveka Brine
CSO

Just around the corner, a large man in a red uniform turned around. He was taller than the scientist and much wider, filling an impressive figure of both muscle and fat. His face was covered in a dark beard split into two intricate braids, his hair short and carefully combed. He smiled at the woman, his teeth giving quite the contrast to his dark beard “That would be me” His voice deep and booming, he was at least ten or fifteen years the Romulan’s senior. He studied her face, a Romulan with slightly human features and striking blue eyes, it didn’t take him long to realize who this was “Lieutenant Brine I assume, I’m Commander Baldur Bragason, Baldur is fine” He put a large hand out.

Baldur - SOO

There was a small smile on her face, but it was quickly covered. She shielded herself harder with her professional persona and nodded. “Baldur. Yes, please call me Toveka.” She put her hand out and shook his before releasing it a bit too quickly.

Baldur looked down at his hand for a moment, slightly surprised by her quick handshake. He moved on with no comment.

She quickly turned to the door across from the science lab and palmed open her office door. She hadn’t been in there in a while, but it was just as she left it. There were various nicknacks around under small domes of glass. But if you looked closely, they were small artifacts pieces and shards from things like vases and pottery. The largest piece was a rock twice the size of a man’s head on the coffee table in the center of the room. It was flanked by two large couches, a smaller chair on opposing sides of the awkward looking square of furniture. “Come on in,” she said and motioned to the seating cluster. “Can I offer you a drink?”

“I wouldn’t say no to some English breakfast tea” He said with a smile.

She moved to the replicator and got herself some tea. While waiting for his answer, she plowed on. “Doc said you had an artifact. Something that couldn’t be figured out. Start from the beginning.” She turned and looked at him, her eyes walking up and down watching him as he moved.

Toveka
CSO

“Well, the science team discovered a tablet earlier today that shared the same characteristics to the rock Doctor Stone excised from her patient. According to their records, it had disappeared but something similar was scanned in the commercial district. That plus the strange lady that appeared in Ops and some hostile Romulans, it’s been quite the day” His tone was only partially cheerful “My thought was to investigate the two other occurrences and try to find out any connections, hopefully discover something that the other two teams missed or couldn’t find out due to lack of corroborating evidence.

SOO - Baldur

She walked over and handed him the cup of tea on a saucer. “You said tablet. Do we have scans of it still? Before my … I left… we had been investigating a similar artifact. It was a tablet section. It disappeared as well. We never found it. Assumed the collectors that had acquired it had taken it.” She had started pacing with annoyance. Whether it was at the disappearance or something else, it was hard to tell.

Baldur accepted the cup with a nod.

“Tell me about the rest.” She moved to sit on the couch, realizing she was pacing. She set the tea down but picked up and absently fiddled with a small stone that had been hidden in the shadow at the base of the large stone on the table. Leaning back on the couch, she frowned.

Toveka
CSO

“When I arrived to Ops a strange woman appeared out of thin air, she seemed to possess some sort of teleportation or transporter ability, she gave off chronometric readings. Similar readings came from the Klingon patient. A trill patient had disappeared and this strange woman would appear to have been that person, she then disappeared. I then headed down to sickbay to see this object Doctor Stone briefed you on.” He paused to take a sip from his tea, apparently pleased with it he continued “She alluded to pieces of a puzzle so I think investigating these three objects may lead us to whatever it is we’re being pointed to.”

SOO - Baldur

She nodded. “Ok so we have the Klingon patient, a tablet and a missing woman? But the tablet disappeared, so we have to use scans, the woman is gone as well. And the chip turned to a shard upon removal from the patient.” She was getting annoyed again but this time it didn’t seem to be aimed at him.

She rose and started to pace along the line of the window. After a couple breaths, she stopped at looked at Baldur. “Have we tried to ‘reinsert’ the chip? I mean, not into an actual being, but neuro active tissue? Maybe we can get the conditions just right to make it turn back into whatever it was before it turned to stone.” If he had any ability to read people, he would see the gears working behind her eyes. She was curious about this to her very core.

Her next words were almost absently spoken, like she hadn’t meant to say them out loud. “Maybe it’s from the same tablets....”

Toveka

Baldur quickly finished his tea, he’d been watching the woman closely as he did with most people “To be frank the idea hadn’t occurred to me” he said with a slightly embarrassed smile “That’s not exactly my field of expertise.” He paused for a moment “I do think we’re dealing with some sort of time travel, A Romulan ship appeared and an Irrate Captain accused us of firing at them, he mentioned a Secret federation mission to Romulus, the ship design was old, maybe twenty years or so.” He spoke in a rather casual manner as if the thought of time travel didn’t bother him.

SOO - Baldur

Mission to Romulus?

“But…” she bit her lip. And turned to look out the window. She wasn’t gazing far off thinking of possibilities. She was steeling her features. Romulus was gone, exploded, scattered now like some meteor belt scattered by a super nova. Why would someone think they were on a mission from a dead world?

She took a deep breath and when she turned back, she was back to her stoic self. “I don’t know anything about time travel. But I do know that items can’t change from one medium to another without a stimulus. So either it was stimulated into a shard, or the lack of stimulus from the neuro electrical field changed it back to a stone. We need to find out which. And we need to see if this tablet, or rather its scans, are any relation to the artifacts the collectors had here before I left.” She nodded to his tea. “Would you like a refill to take to the lab?” She nodded to the door indicating across the hall.

Toveka
CSO

Baldur took a mental note at her reaction to Romulus, he had expected something like that, the few friends he had in the Romulan Military had been the same after the disaster, it was partially why he wanted to transfer here, to be closer to Romulan space. He shook his head at her request “No thank you” he said simply, placing his sauce and cup back in the replicator.

SOO - Baldur

She left her cup and saucer on the table, tucked the small stone she had been fiddling with back under the large stone on the table and moved for the door. “Then let’s get started.”

**
Across the halls, she moved to one of the stations set up for bio testing. “Once we are sure we can replicate the bio electric field of the Klingon, we will see if the shard reacts to it. If it does, we may want to see if it affects anything else. I think we may have an artifact or two left from the Collectors that we can use as well.” She started to program the computer to create the readings she pulled from the Klingon’s medical records. “Where is the shard?” She glanced over her shoulder at him.”

Toveka
CSO

“In the medbay, I left it to go investigate the other stones. He tapped his combadge =^=Bragason to Doctor Stone, could you transport the artifact you excised from the Klingon to the Science lab, Lieutenant Toveka wants to simulate a neuro-electric field to see if we can return it to its previous state=^=

SOO - Baldur

While they waited, Toveka worked on programming the biologic sample she pulled up to mimic a neuro network. If she could get the shard to think it was back in living tissue, back in a brain, maybe she could figure out what it was made for.

Toveka
CSO
((just assuming it arrives))

Toveka took up the small container with the fragment in it. “You said this wasn’t in this form in the Klingon’s brain?” She set the container down beside a medium sized petri dish that contained what looked like discolored jelly that was thinning on the edges into liquid. Slipping on gloves and goggles and picking up a pair of small clamps, Toveka looked at him and gave a wry smile. “Are you ready for this?” She looked at him and nodded to the glasses on the rack over the console. There were six pairs there as well as another box of disposable gloves. She wanted something closer to skin thickness to keep her dexterity from being compromised. So she had opted not to use the haz gloves which were bulkier and less maneuverable.

Toveka
CSO

Baldur took a position behind the scientist, he wanted to observe whatever would happen if anything. “Yes, we should have some scan data regarding it on the computer” He stated in his calm deep voice. He grabbed the goggles and put on the protective gloves then went back to his original position “As ready as I’ll ever be” He said wit a faint smile on his lips.

SOO - Baldur