Posted by Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (Weaver of Webs) in Main Sim - Transporter Room One: An Early Evening Rendezvous.

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Benjamin Grey (Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim - Transporter Room One: An Early Evening Rendezvous.

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Benjamin Grey (Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim - Transporter Room One: An Early Evening Rendezvous.
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Not wasting time, Liam began to shut off the non-essential systems draining the power. Starting with the most draining ones first. Then he pushed the spare energy into the emitters just to keep them going. Once more, he looked back over the oddities with the matter, namely the times it happened, location, and anything to help clue him into solutions.

–CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

There seemed to be a curious pattern to the energy that was trying to penetrate their modified transporter inhibiting shields. A 3D rendering of the ship from the scan information would probably reveal more.

Kurok mused as he looked at Rovan, “I was wondering sir, we’re safe from this “matter swapping” energy for the moment, but if we get attacked by a ship we’re a sitting duck”.

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Liam softly shook his head. He brought up a 3D representation of the ship on the console. His hand clicked across the panel as he tried to locate the foreign energy source. He flipped and rotated the image about, scanning the data. Meanwhile, he interrupted the other two’s conversation.

The energy was clearly hitting the modified shields in ripples such as you would get on a pond if you threw a pebble into it. The pattern perhaps could be traced to its source.

“I’m not a superstitious man, but considering the Athena’s mission record… I rather not take the risk of making things worse by talking about such possibilities.”

–CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

Kurok shivered involuntarily, “Not having shields to protect us from whatever is out there makes me feel strangely… naked”.

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It didn’t take long for a pattern to appear to Liam. After he traced the energy back to its impact point, he worked on finding the origins. He tried to recall if he had seen or read about the pattern before.

Spotting Kurok shivering, he commented using the same metaphor. “Then lets solve this puzzle quickly and put our clothes back on.”

–CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

The energy waves assaulting the ship were coming directly from Risa, the beginning of their journey.

Kurok furrowed his brow, “We’ll we could run some subroutine macros that would quickly reconfigure the shields back to their normal use in case of a firefight… however then the energy waves are going to penetrate the hull again. we’d need to figure out safe places for all the crew for if we lowered the anti transport shields and put them back into normal use… we’d also have to brief the crew on how long they’d have to get to safety if we swopped them over…”

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“Transport inhibitors block the effects. We could use the holodecks to create a temporarily safe haven. The sickbay also still has one unless Dr. Grey has disposed of it.”

Liam attempted to get more information on the exact location on Risa. If anyone sent to investigate could shut the energy down, then it would lessen the strain on the ship. It was a faint hope, but he figured it was worth a try. His attention returned to Kurok.

“How much time do you think is reasonable for people to get to safety?”

–CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

Kurok plugged the ship’s schematic into the computer and ran a simulation. His face screwed up a little, “Looks like 2 minutes, not bad, but in a firefight with another vessel…hmm, a long time”.

Liam frowned. He didn’t like the sound of the last part as he debated on an alternative plan. His fingers tapped the panel beside the buttons.

“That’s not too bad, if we have forewarning. If we don’t, that puts us at high risk.”

Suddenly an alarm sounded on the panel, Kurok’s eyes shot up “Holy Hannah, someone’s about to pump toxic gas into sickbay one!”

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His conversation was cut off when the alarm made him jump. Liam turned to his fellow officer only to receive terrible news. His mind went blank for a micro second. The man’s knuckles whitened then loosen, but his palm grew reddish. Red from the heat building up. He exhaled then reined in his emotions. No time to panic or get upset.

“I’m not sure who’s bright idea that was, but I doubt it was Dr. Grey’s. Can we shut down the power or reverse the pumps from here?”

While he waited for an answer, he tried to calculate the exact time they had before the gas entered the sickbay. He felt the two minutes it took to evacuate the crew into the holodecks were too long. As a precaution, he contacted sickbay.

=^=Madison to sickbay one, computer shows gas being sent into the room. What is going on? =^=

–CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

Almost immediately the raised voice of the chief medical officer answered =^=Computers trying to gas us, EMH tried to kill T’pon, We’re trying to beam out=^= He then started calling out to the people in the background something about grouping together.

Dr. Grey - CMO

Kurok froze and looked at Madison, “They have five seconds.”

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Suddenly he clapped, “Bridge managed to transport them to sickbay three, whew!”

Then six seconds later the red warning lights went off as the computer intoned =/\=60 seconds until warp core breach =/\=

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