Posted by Gamemaster Mr. Snuggles (Gamemaster) 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)

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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.”

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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

Toveka lifted the chip a bit higher a moment, then slowly placed it in the dish of replicated ‘brain matter’ and inhaled a sharp breath as she waited for a reaction.

Toveka
CSO

Baldur leaned a little to the side to get a better view of whatever was happening.

SOO - Baldur

Suddenly, the brain matter started to sizzle, before it began to multiply at an alarming rate. However, this wasn’t the end, as the multiplication suddenly stopped, and instead began to reverse itself. It kept on fluctuating back and forth, and every time the scan results were the same at every stage that the matter had the same mass as earlier.

Mr Snuggles (GM)

Toveka frowned. “That can’t actually be right,” she murmured and ran the diagnostic to be sure the equipment was functioning properly. “How can it grow and shrink at such an alarming, and obvious rate, yet still retain the same mass?” She was thinking out loud as she shifted the probes to get a reading on just the crystal as the brain mass shifted around it.

Toveka
Science