Posted by Commodore Drudoc Andone (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Away Team - Engineering Team Investigations
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=^=”How very interesting!”=^= she purred as she began to work her tricorder into scanning for this organic anomaly specifically =^=”We need to contain it and get it out of the Synth’s system because that should not be there after all”=^= she added

Miz’uki

As the two Ark Angel engineers were discussing their findings the Synthesis’s chief engineer came back over. “..Forgive me but I couldn’t help but overhear, you said you found some kind of organic ‘anomaly’ in our computer core?” he said incredulously as id disbelieving this. “..I hope you won’t mind if I come along to you checking this out? Obviously something like that should not be there!” he stated.

GM CockRoach

Katie furrowed her forehead as she compared her tricorder readings from the hydraulic systems in Engineering to the other readings from the computer core. This anomalies were essentially identical.

“What do computer core and cooling system have in common? Nothing. Nothing at all other than they are on the same ship,” Katie muttered softly. After a moment of silence, she looked up at the chief engineer of the Synthesis. Why hadn’t he detected the anomaly? The Synthesis engineers seemed perfectly competent. Presumably her scientists were as well. The anomalies in both systems had been detected by tricorders from Ark Angel. Was there something about the Synthesis tricorders that made them blind to the anomaly? There was a simple way to test that theory. “Sir. May I borrow one of your engineering tricorders?”

The chief engineer looked puzzled at the request. “Of course.”

=/\= Ensign Katherine (Katie) Hobbes, engineer

Once Hobbes used the late 22nd century scanner, she found naturally its range and abilities to detect things were far more simpler and limited then her late 24th century tricorder. As a result scans for the anomaly were not picked up. So it was probably a case that the Synthesis’s crew just didn’t have the means to detect the problem on hand scanners or internal scans for that matter.

GM CockRoach

As Katie stared at the two tricorders, a thought popped into her head and she was appalled at the fact she had completely missed it. The Synthesis tricorder was an antique. If everything else was as old as this tricorder…

“Miz’uiki, may I have a word with you,” Katie said with a quick glance at the Synthesis Chief Engineer, “in private?”

The Synthesis Chief Engineer excused himself and stepped away. Katie handed the Synthesis Tricorder to Miz’Uki.

“Tricorders of this class haven’t been used in Starfleet in over a hundred years. There shouldn’t be any of these outside of museums much less on active Starships,” Katie said. She took a deep breath and looked over in the direction of the Synthesis Chief Engineer. “I don’t know how this ship got here but if it somehow gets back to its own time with knowledge of what will be their future… I mean we shouldn’t even be letting them see our equipment or us for that matter… I mean were the Caitans part of the Federation then? Okay. Okay. None of my business. Back on target. This anomaly I detected is definitely organic but I can’t tell if it is alive or not. It simply appeared and disappeared as though it were phasing into and out of our time frame.”

=/\= Ensign Katherine (Katie) Hobbes, engineer