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”..I ran a search, still waiting on comparison results..” Franks said, thumbing to where a query was running on one of the screens.

Rick started at the crunch, imagining that was how the crunch of the rat’s bones may have sounded, then chastised himself for his imagination. And here he thought that Ensign Gagarin had an overactive imagination. Or was the Ensign rubbing off on him? That would be an easy thing to get away with but Rick had always been apprehensive on things that might nibble on him in the dark. Sounds in the night had always been an anxiety to him when he was a kid. Camping was a horror for him with all the insect and other sounds outside their tent. Here on a ship it had been so much easier. Only tings and hisses and mechanical things that were familiar to him. He had to grow used to the sounds of Nessa and her nails on the decking. It was funny how quickly his mind zoned that out with hearing it. Still the anxiety of the unknown sounds were there and this .. unknown critter was not helping.

• Rick, PO Eng

Just as Rick had finish his internal monologuing a beep came up from the nearby screen. Heading over Frank tapped the result, “..Hmm…no matches found, but then again we only got a small portion of their full database they share with Starfleet right now. We could send a long range comm packet back to Earth, but it would still take about 3-4 days to get a reply back, probably longer for Earth to put through a request of information to the Vulcans and for them to approve anything..” He said.

Just then Nessa nearby stood up from her position she had been sitting at by the door. Her nose tilted up and sniffed then her eyes looked near to one of the ceiling vents. She gave a low growl and bark to get everyone’s attention before growling again. At first no one would hear anything, then a slight skitter sound was heard moving away from the vent duct and away from the medical bay. Given the fading pattern of the sound after a second it sounded like it was rising to go further aft down B deck, or perhaps up to A deck.

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Rachel turned her attention to the dog and then looked in the direction of the sound “Interesting” She produced a scanner from her pocket and did a wide scan hoping to catch something of the fading creature “Have you tried using any of the internal sensors?” She asked the other two officers.

Dr. Grey - CMO

“Nope. Though I didn’t really quite know what to expect when I was told they had found something in the ducts.”

Eric looked over at Franks, “Were you able to get any genetic material out of the bite that we could use to scan the ship with?”

Lt Eric - Sci

Shaking his head, “..Not enough genetic material that isn’t the rats left, what little I do got is barely enough for a rough search database query, not enough to refine for the internal scanners to filter out everything else on the ship. Our scanners just aren’t up to that fine a resolution. We would need a bigger sample size of the creature in question. Only thing I could suggest is taking some hand scanners and huffing it out on foot, since it seems the doggo there can smell it maybe try that? Seem what happens..” he said.

OOC: Bumping since I don’t got anything to reply too here yet till someone decides to follow up on the above.

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