Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Nerira Akanar (Chief Science Officer) in Side sim - Holodeck one: Experimental Warp field testing - all welcome
“Computer, begin a new simulation and activate the programmer interface” Nerira said before entering the Holodeck, which was empty except for the programmer interface podium.
approaching the podium Nerira said, “Computer, give me a full scientific interface and engineering diagnostic tools.”
The small podium vanished and was replaced by a much larger console with everything Nerira would need for her design.

“Flag this program as a research and development project in the ships database.”

The computer chimed indicating it had flagged the program as research.
“Please specify research parameters”

“Main research objective: increase efficiency and duration of high warp factor flight through by nesting variable geometry warp fields”

chiming again in acknowledgement the computer then asked “Please specify name of program”

“High speed FTL travel”

the computer chimed again, “Program saved. Recording log of session zero-zero-one.”

Nerira rolled her eyes, the computer was required to make a log of any work done on an engineering or science project to protect the intellectual property of the researchers. But she didn’t care about recognition, Nerira just wanted to make the ship better, this was for her and her shipmates, not to get recognized.

-Lt. Akanar CSO

“Show me the Asimov and display current warp field geometry for say warp factor 9.2” In the middle of the room the brazen class starship appeared surrounded by a 3d wireframe graph of the warp field. Picking up her PADD Nerira continued, “Now transfer the warp field parameters for the field being displayed to my PADD and plug the numbers into program Akanar 1.”
grabbing the PADD off the top of the console Nerira made her way over to the model floating in the middle of the Holodeck.

“Draw a subspace field around the ship that encompasses the ship and redraw the warp feild to show how it extends into subspace.” The wireframe model changed to display the subspace field and the new warp field which was now very, very large.

“Thats the idea” Nerira murmured to herself excited that the theoretical calculations she had been working on for the last month seemed to be showing promise

“begin a new simulation of standard flight at warp factor 9.2”
The computer chimed in response and the simulation reverted back to normal “Simulation in progress” the computer informed her

“Activate the subspace field” In front of her the tiny model suddenly exploded

“Rewind to time index 198 and play one hundredth speed” The model suddenly reappeared and Nerira watched as the Asimov warp field fluctuated in and out of subspace before inverting and destroying the ship.

She had spent months developing this theory and it was sound, once the ship was in the subspace field, but she hadn’t yet thought about how get there only what happens when the ship is already there.

“Analyze the results and extrapolate the cause of the explosion” Nerira instructed the computer.

“Analysis complete, structural integrity field failure, probability 96%, antimatter containment breach in drive assembly, Probability 4%.

And so it begins… she thought to herself, frustrated that the simulation did not go well after so many months of planning.
Refocusing she got back to work.

-Lt. Akanar