Posted by Lieutenant Eshrallias zh’Vheris (Chief Science Officer) in Science Dept - Main Sim

Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Gamemaster) in Science Dept - Main Sim
The screen lit up in Eshrallias’ office. A bald, blue Bolian woman of advanced age squinted into the screen. She knocked on the display. =^= Hello, did I get through? These newfangled gadgets. =^= By her appearance and wrinkles she looked not unlike a withered grape that was not helped by the crisp white lab coat that she wore that bore a Commander’s pips almost as an afterthought. =^= Lota here. Fleet Science. Now that is not Lota as in ‘lowtah’ but ‘lotta’. But have I got a mission spec for you! =^= She peered into the screen again. =^=If there is someone there. =^=
- Cmdr Lota, Fleet Science Division

=/\=I am here, Commander.=/\= Eshrallias had watched as the Commander struggled with the technology before her. It did not so much as elicit a smile from the Lieutenant, who seemed somewhat sympathetic to the case. Studying the Bolian woman, who made great emphasis on the nature of her name’s pronunciation, she leaned forwards, as to make certain Lota could see her. =/\=I am listening, Commander Lota.=/\= She pronounced the name as closely as her slight accent would allow, but managed something more along the lines of ‘law-teh.’

Lt. Eshrallias
CSO

Lota leaned in too and squinted. Satisfied that Eshrallias was there she gave a grandmotherly grin. =^= Oh Lt I envy you in this mission. Science on steroids. The place, Craxus III is like the Galapagos. So much good stuff there. The SeaHawk is a science ship. Sure it does exploration and it does experiments and such. All that hush hush stuff. Oh you didn’t hear that from me. =^= She waved a think blue hand dismissively. =^= Fleet has two digs going on archaeologically. The sea life there is amazing. The system itself is a jigsaw puzzle just waiting to be figured out. But I diverge. Yes, it’s a Bolian thing. So out of all that I have something challenging for you, and, alternatively something rather more mundane provided that you have time and people. The latter is to assist in a kind of persistent barnacle issue that the SeaHawk gets. The former is much more interesting. There are creatures there - whales but big. They travel only in large pods and they emanate a kind of ‘interference’ signal that gets in the way of transmissions and transports and even interfere with power. A kind of bubble as it were. What we’d like you to do is to figure out how to, and implement, a way to tag at least one of them - that way the SeaHawk can plot where they are and either navigate around or schedule around them. How’s that for catching the big fish, Lt? =^=
- Lota