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Posted Nov. 17, 2020, 4:35 p.m. by Ensign V'Lath (Counselor) (David Stiles)

Posted by Captain Calvin Marius (Captain) in Bridge Main Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Tom Jarvis (Internal Security) in Bridge Main Sim

Posted by Ensign V’Lath (Counselor) in Bridge Main Sim
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After about another 12 hours, the Genesis was 6.2 light years and about 10 minutes short of 36 hours from the anomaly. The creature who was about 0.7 light years behind the Genesis after its jump, had now trailed to about 2.8 light years from the Genesis. There was the usual build up of energy in the creature, the graviton build up outside the creature and the magneton pulse nanoseconds before the creature disappeared from sight and appeared one light year from its previous position about one minute later. The creature was now about 1.8 light years away from them.

GM

“Has the rate of the creatures jumps been consistent?” Marius did a little math in his head and found that that they were about 3 minutes ahead of the creature, that probably wouldn’t be enough time on station long enough to figure out what was going on.

“We have a maximum time of 12 hours at warp 9.2. We are going to need every second that we can buy to make an analysis.” He could wait to use it at the end of the trip, or now. If he used it now, he would have another 12 hours to regenerate his power reserves. =^=Engineering we need warp 9.2 for as long as you can hold it.=^=

Marius

Ben checked the readouts on the Tactical console and made the necessary inputs to raise their speed to warp 9.2, when Engineering gave the OK. He knew that speed was at or near max for the Genesis, but trusted the Captain’s experience and wisdom.

Ben SO

=^= We can do twelve, sir. And push it longer if we nurse it =^= Dagen replied. It was not like it was 9.5. That .3 made a lot of difference. They weren’t damaged so the stressors and factors were less. But, hopefully, not too many more hours.

V’Lath had been observing and evaluating, but so far had been quiet. “Captain, have you considered that the creature may be far more intelligent than we first thought, and is either playing a game with us, or testing our abilities ? This is merely a supposition, I have no factual data.”

V’Lath CNS

Marius pursed his lips… “Counselor, perhaps you just earned your pay for the week.”

“Open hailing frequency, standard communication protocols… Lets see if Baby answers any of our signals.”

Marius

Reia had been wondering for quite some time if the creature had been herding them somewhere but hadn’t gathered enough data herself to voice such a suggestion to the Captain. The Counselors statement had definitely caught her interest though.

  • Reia, CIO

OOC: Engineering reply to Chan …
IC:
=^= Hoy, that is quick, =^= Dagen responded. =^= And 10 meters? =^= How could they focus a graviton beam that close without damaging the ship. Would it be farther if it was a larger vessel like theirs? =^= Wow. What do you make of it? The forces on the creature must be incredible. =^=
Dagen

“It’s possible that it’s sentient and has some level of intelligence,” David said. He activated the comms and sent out the standard greeting in every known form of communication in the database. Maybe the creature would respond in some fashion?

-David Michaels, CSO

As V’Lath continued to observe the interplay of the various officers and departments he smiled at the thought of Dr. Brennan and the Captain being married, and how that would affect certain behavior. He had not missed the good Dr.’s whispered comment back to her husband about the chair/man. Vulcan hearing was very good. He thought back many years ago to a time when there was someone who would have made similar comments to him.

V’Lath CNS

From the sensor data, the computer came up with the following hypothesis: the creature had moved to a steady constant velocity before building up energy without affecting the velocity. It had then produced the graviton field that was ahead of itself. This means that the particles of gravitons was also travelling at the same velocity as the creature. When it released the magneton pulse, or more accurately the subspace magneton pulse, The effect was that it was able to create a wormhole small enough for it to go through. As the wormhole was created at a specific point in space, the creature, which was moving, went into it almost immediately and emerged a light year away from where it disappeared.

GM

Once again sitting in the XO’s chair, Sage formed a posit. “We know the creature is organic, but could it possibly also be a transport? I read a book once that took place on a planet other than Earth, where a very large worm creature, lined with gill-like slits, was used to travel around the planet. Will baby’s atomic nature allow a scan for other beings inside of it?”

—Sage

Marius shrugged and the looked over to the science station. “Anything else on the creature or the anomaly that we are heading towards?”

“Nothing on the hails either?”

Marius

As the ship was moving closer to the anomaly, the sensors were able to gather more information about it. Tetryon particles were found in significant quantities within 200 kilometres of the anomaly, indicating that it might be connected to subspace.

GM

“No response yet to any of the standard greetings,” David announced. “Sensors share picking up high levels of tetryon particles within a radius of about 200 kilometers of the anomaly. That could mean that the anomaly is connected to subspace.”
-David Michaels, CSO

As V’Lath continued to observe, he noted the Captain, now that he was on the bridge. The Captain had a faint blue aura surrounding him, which V’Lath had learned meant he showed very little emotion. He also noted that the Captain would give an order when necessary, but he preferred to have the crew give him information first and then would make a decision based on that information. He seemed an able and competent commander. V’lath heard LCdr Brennan’s comment about the book she had read, “Ah, Cdr. would that be the Dune series of books ? Quite an interesting postulation.”

V’Lath CNS

OOC: Pasting Dagen’s post.

IC:
As they were underway a thought niggled at him. They were travelling too fast, unless they wanted to get to the anomaly well ahead of the time. =^= Thor to Bridge. Question related to the creature and the anomaly. Are you looking to arrive much earlier there or about the same time as the creature? =^=
- Thor

=^=Ahead Mr. Thor, I want to be able to find out what’s going to happen before it too late to make a difference. Just in case its something I don’t want to happent.”

marius

After the jump, the creature slowed down to 0.8 times light speed, and maintained that speed.

GM

As V’Lath sat there listening to all that was going on, he remembered something he had heard back at the Academy. “Captain, I’m no scientist, but I remember something I heard at the Academy about using inverse tachyon pulses to scan subspace. Might that be a useful tool in this situation ?”

“That’s a science question.” Marius looked at Michaels who tended to take his time before answering any questions.

OOC: Cross post from engineering …
=^= Right. Okay. At it’s current pace it averages our warp 7.25, sir. Recommend then we push the engines to assessed speed at 9.2 and scale back to warp 9 and, barring any increase of pace on the creature we’ll be there well ahead of it. =^=

Dagen added after a pause =^= Anything engineering should be prepared for on arrival, sir? =^=
- Thor, CE

Marius

V’Lath was trying to remember exactly what it was he had heard about the use of inverse tachyon pulses and subspace. He seemed to remember a ship had used a burst of inverse tachyon pulses from their navigation emitter array to scan subspace. He moved to stand beside the CSO. “Mr. Michaels I believe another ship used the inverse tachyon pulses to scan subspace. I offer this as possibly a way track the creature should it enter subspace, I’m not sure how we would do it, but that is your as they say,…bailiwick.”

OOC: joining my post into this thread ....

IC:

As the Genesis moved closer to the anomaly, the sensors began to detect subspace signals of a specific frequency range coming from the anomaly.

OOC: Just some stats.
The distance between the anomaly and the nebula is about 10 light years.
The creature will take about 5 days at its current way of travel to cover the distance. It is 1 day since the creature started to move.
The Genesis takes 2.5 days at Warp 9 to cover the distance at Warp 9. At this point of time the Genesis has covered about 3.8 light years It would take another 36 hours at Warp 9 to reach the anomaly. It would be 22 hours between the runabout and the Genesis at Warp 9.
The runabout will take than a month (app. 36 days) to cover the 10 light years if it were to travel at its maximum sustainable warp (Warp 4) .

GM

David looked over at the new counselor dryly. He hadn’t had much interaction with the man, mostly due to the very nature of there being another counselor on board that wasn’t Riley. It remained a very painful subject for David. It didn’t take a telepath to detect the Chief Science Officer’s disdain.

“It is possible,” He said flatly. Turning his gaze towards the Captain, he continued, “I’m detecting a subspace frequency coming from the anomaly. I believe that I can modify our comms array to match this frequency and see if we can establish a communications with this signal.”

“Make it a narrow focused beam, for all we know this subspace signal is what the biologic is being drawn by and is part of the natural process. I don’t want to monkey around with it.” Worse case they do nothing and what happens happens.... and life goes on.

“I would not recommend using any kind of tachyon pulses, as we do not know what kinds of effects it will have on the creature sir,” He was still addressing the Captain, but gave the Counselor a sideways glance.

-David Michaels, CSO

V’Lath studied the CSO for a moment, and realized from inflection, body language, and facial expression that this man had a feeling of antipathy toward him. They had never met before, but V’Lath had read the crews’ medical charts and knew this man had recently lost someone dear to him, and this was the possible cause. “Mr. Michaels, as I previously stated, I’m no scientist but my job is to watch and observe and to put forth possible options for a specific instance. That is all I am doing here. I hope we can work together to explore this anomaly and the creature it spawned.” V’Lath moved back to stand near the Security console. He would liked to have suggested that the man come and see him in his office at a later date but felt that the suggestion would not be well received at this time, and the situation was wrong.

V’Lath CNS

Marius

Ben had been monitoring the Tactical console and inputting course and speed commands for the helm to follow, but couldn’t help but notice the rather tense exchange between LCdr Michaels and the new Counselor. As far as he knew they had never met before, but there seemed to be some sort of animosity from Mr. Michaels toward the Counselor. Nothing was said, but you could sense there was something there. Ben was glad when the tall Vulcan moved back to stand near the Security console, they all needed to work together here on the bridge.

Ben SO

Reia made a note to look into the counselor’s file. Information was her stock in trade after all and she never knew when she might need him for personal matters.

  • Reia, CIO

V’Lath continued to observe the crew and the situation and was somewhat loath to voice another thought, but it was his job to present possible scenarios, and others responsibility to act on them or not. He addressed not the Captain or LCdr Michaels but the bridge crew in general. “Perhaps what we have here is similar to the sea turtles on Earth. The females go ashore and lay their eggs in the sand and then return to the sea, when the eggs hatch the hatchlings natural instinct is to head for the sea. This may be what the creature is doing, returning to it’s native environment. We certainly don’t want to harm it in any way.”

V’Lath CNS

Reia looked at the counselor fully for the first time and gave an approving nod. Watching those turtles had been one of the best summer vacations she had taken as a young child.

“Disturbing such turtles can be very detrimental. They’re very sensitive. I hope baby is a little more forgiving counselor.”

  • Reia, CIO

OOC: There are subspace signals from the anomaly and the creature is travelling towards it …

GM

“That is a reasonable supposition.” Marius concurred with the counselor, hence why he didn’t want to reach out to the biological creature with the subspace wave, just the anomaly. “Are we ready to make an attempt.”

Marius

Sage found her first duty on the bridge to be mostly a silent one. She listened to the ideas and posits as they were verbalized and agreed with most of the decisions that were made. The truth was, they were dealing with an unknown and anything could happen. For the moment, it was best to let the engineers and scientists do what they did best.

—Sage

Marius looked at her, “this is a biological… you have any medical ideas?” When in doubt ask the smartest people in the room. In this arena it wasn’t him.

marius

She turned to him with her ‘thinking face’ on. “We haven’t had any interaction with the entity have we? I mean, the ship. We haven’t done anything that would make it aware of our presence?”

She didn’t want to ‘poke’ the baby, but it might be wise to give it a gentle nudge to see what kind of reaction it had. If it was something that could cause serious damage to the Genesis, then it would be wise to put a little more distance between them and it. If it didn’t react at all, perhaps it was moving instinctually and nothing would drive it from its path.

—Sage

“We did the basic signal pattern, but nothing original.” Marius offered. “We probably could play with some subspace frequencies, but I’d like to clear that through you and Michaels before doing something like that.”

David had attuned their comms array to the subspace frequency he was detecting from the anomaly and was ready to attempt to send a signal. “Sending the carrier beam now.” He announced before activating the system and sending the signal.

-David Michaels, CSO

Marius turned and gave a nod.

Marius

As soon as the signal was sent, the subspace signals from the same frequency became significantly amplified. The creature was affected by the signals from the anomaly and increased its speed to 0.95 light speed and there was a buildup of the energy within it. This was just 2 hours short of its next jump.

GM

V’Lath reached down and pulled the seat from under the Security console and sat down. He continued his observation of the bridge crew as well as the creature they had discovered and were following. They had no evidence of sentience and had failed to make any kind of communication with the creature, supposition was that the creature was acting on an instinctual level. V’Lath hoped that their “poking” of the creature didn’t trigger an instinctual defense response. He had the sudden urge for a cup of very strong Vulcan coffee.

V’Lath CNS

“Okaaaayy that’s not what we wanted to happen… Explaination?”

Marius

“I....” David said, looking over the data, trying to make sense of it all. “I don’t know.” For those of the crew that knew the CSO well, the tone of his voice, and the simple admission, meant that he was truly puzzled and had no reasonable explanation for what they were witnessing.

-David Michaels, CSO

As he was speaking, the creature disappeared from the sensors and did not appear for about 40 seconds. Then it appeared slightly less than 2 light years from its previous position, still on course to the anomaly. The creature was now about six light years to the anomaly and the Genesis 0.1 light years ahead of the creature. The creature emerged and travelled at 0.9 light speed. The sensors were able to have more readings from the creature.

The creature had a shell of compounds that were made up of mainly of silicon, carbon, oxygen, aluminium and iron. There were other elements but they were extremely small. The shell resembled clay and rock but seemed to be flexible but tough. The internal surface of the shell seemed to be magnetic in nature.

In the interior of the creature, the biggest organ was the size of a human adult. It was transmitting energy through a series of long filaments. The filaments were conducting energy very efficiently but their composition was not easy to determine due to the energy that was being transmitted. The filaments reached the shell as well as other organs.

One of the organs was close to the shell at the anterior part of the creature. That organ seemed to be storing energy expanding as it took in energy. At the moment, it was about a quarter of the size of the biggest organ.

Two organs, that were half the size of the biggest organ seemed to be absorbing the little energy from the surrounding space. It was transmitting more energy to the main organ than receiving energy from the main organ.

Other than that, the interior consisted mainly of helium and argon. The organs and filaments were kind of suspended where they were by the magnetic field generated by the internal surface of the shell.

GM

Reia had set her screen to show readings from the science screen but shook her head in complete confusion at what she was looking at.

  • Reia, CIO

As V’Lath continued to watch and observe, he wondered at his relevance on the bridge. Being a touch empath had it’s advantages, in that you weren’t being constantly bombarded by everyone’s thoughts, but not being able to read thoughts without actually making contact was a disadvantage at times, such as now.
All though he felt the creature was purely instinctual, due the lack of response to certain stimuli, there was no way to actually determine sentience or not. He would continue to offer such ideas and scenarios as his knowledge allowed, hopefully for the Captain and crew to consider in making their decisions. For now he watched and waited.

V’Lath CNS

Tom stepped onto the bridge and took up a position out of the way. There were times when he preferred to watch things in person rather than review internal sensor feeds.

  • Tom, IntSec

“If it was the signal, could we slow the thing down, by having the shuttle send out the same wavelengths from the rear....” Marius didn’t know if the creature was using the wavelengths as a homing signal or a power source… not that there was alot of energy in the signal but it could be like the deuterium the warp drive uses. Deuterium didn’t have any real energy value until you hit it with anti matter… then boom.”

Marius

V’Lath noticed the new officer on the bridge, but couldn’t recall ever having met him before. He also noted that this officer was an observer and watcher as was V’Lath, he nodded to the man and made a note on his PADD as well as mentally to find out who he was. V’Lath never forgot anyone he ever met and through his training and study of Vulcan memory techniques and his constant practice and meditation he had developed a powerful memory. While he was a touch empath only, he sensed there was something different and inherently interesting about this officer. V’Lath again nodded and turned to observe the forward viewscreen.

V”Lath CNS


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