Posted by Commander Garinder’Jen th’Jir (Executive Officer) in MAIN SIM - in the alien bunker

Posted by Captain Kelly Bordeaux (Commanding Officer) in MAIN SIM - in the alien bunker

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Jen nodded. That was a really good thought. It might not be as quick but it would be safe. They could soup up the computing power in it physically but all the same, that would take time too and that was a trade off. “I agree. That is the best barrier we can have in using a separate computer system. If I might suggest the Longevity Runabouts would have more computing power than the Armadillos. It would take longer than using the main computer, but safer.”

Which was relative in this area of space with the risk of Darkness showing up.
- Jen, XO

While there was a ton of computing power in the shuttles and runabouts, they were not a starship computer. An accurate analogy was running a city off a train engine opposed to the power plant. The time factor would be to a factor of 100. So ten minutes would be more like 1000… 16 plus hours.

OOC: so we are definitely going with using a runabout to break the computer system.

Kelly looked at the PaDD with some basic computations about possible lengths of time to get the information she needed. Sending a message to Nash and the engineering department, Kelly authorized as much power as needed or multiple shuttles to be used to try and decrease the suggested amount of time it would take to break the computer system. A small chuckle escaped her mouth as she thought about her history of the Khan incident where Spock spoke in code and turned days and weeks into hours and minutes. Unfortunately, it was a computer giving her the specifications about how long it would take and not a prim Vulcan.

Jen mused over the time that would be added to the mix here. How long would it take? Hours? A day? Maybe they’d get lucky and hit on something sooner than later. Either way it was a step ahead. In the meantime how might they mask themselves to not be in any line of scanning from the Darkness? “Captain, if we are going to be around longer we might want to get the Atlantis somewhere more out of view. Perhaps settle the ship at the pole where the geomagnetic effect may mask us while we work this through.”

“Agreed. Make it so,” she ordered the XO to issue the commands. Being an ex-Marine Kelly didn’t give a second thought about the rest of the logistics including extractions and the like. Jen would have processed all that before offering the suggestion.

=^= Jen to Bridge. Shift to a low orbit over the nearest pole from our position to mask your signature and profile. In short, keep out of sight. Launch a probe and have it sit and set it to passive scans to detect if anyone else is in the neighborhood. =^= That wouldn’t give them much but at least they’d not be caught unawares. They’d have some time to work out a solution.

Tapping her comm badge, Kelly ordered one of the Runabouts into position to create essentially a sandbox where they could access the Bunker’s computer but not use the Atlantis’ main frame. This hopefully would nulify any potential damage in the act. Once the Runabout was in position, Kelly ordered the download to start. Hopefully they would gain some answers about what happened to the Aliens and more importantly, find a way home in the process.

Kelly Bordeaux CO

While they waited, watching the others doing tests and setting up, Jen said, “So what do we have? A potential wormhole effect caused by the Genesis project failure all those years ago that caused the destruction of a ship and affected this world, apparently for the worse. They themselves were playing with what here? The same thing? Is this to suggest that we take their resources and attempt to duplicate that state, generate a wormhole to get home? All the while under the threat of these Darkness ships?” He shrugged. “A regular day by the sounds of it.” He knew he likely had some facts off. Jen was not a scientist in the least. But throwing out such thoughts did help him to try to understand what were the facts.
- Jen, XO

The math was probably very complicated, but since they were planning on cheating off the computers in the room there should be a high probability of success in a short period of time. What was going to be hard to do/figure out was how they were going to get the genesis wave. While it seemed everything they needed aside from that was on the other side of that wall.

As Jen watched the others he felt rather like when he read about Kirk battling the Gorn and having to work through the building blocks to find the thing to defeat it. Did they have all those blocks here? Or was this a science field trip that will be good for the logs but of no practical benefit? He shifted restlessly. How extensive was this lab? Perhaps he should send some people through it to make sure they weren’t missing anything important. His thoughts were interrupted by ..

“Well hopefully but less drastically impacting like it was here,” Kelly confessed. “Maybe we can even do some good here by figuring out a way to communicate with the Darkness so the people here can broker some treaty with it.” Kelly had no idea if this was possible or not. She hoped that it could be accomplished before they left.

“That would be a step ahead,” Jen said. His opinion was mixed. That was optimistic but did the bully on the block want to talk?

An interesting idea especially considering if the theory was correct. The Federation/Khan have some responsibility for the hyper evolution of the Darkness race and the death of billions of sentient individuals on this side of the galaxy.

“Well I can’t help but feel the weight of what the Federation might have done here if our theories have merit.” Kelly was not the cause of the potential death of billions but she was the representative of government it all happened under.

Jen was dubious that the Darkness actually were interested in a treaty. However, that said, Starfleet was ever the optimists in things like this. “Do we really think that the beings here were progenitors of the Darkness?” They packed a pretty big punch for bugs. How did they even develop anti-proton technology? “Still why do they act out of utter chaos theory rather than doing something with their power? They seem to not want to claim territory, issue demands or have any sense of economic or social structure. They just are and what does that even mean? They aren’t just a soldier gone rogue or a rebel pirate pillaging the space lanes but a society that simply destroys. That is not possible without a reason. Even an animal has reason for what they do.”

“Maybe it has something to do with sound or energy waves. Some animals are highly sensitive to low-frequency sound waves. On the Chesapeake you don’t go out if you don’t see osprey’s hanging out on bouys. It was an old wives tale saying that large storms would trigger the birds’ departure. Science later has shown that storms can produce sounds in a frequency range less than 20 hertz and cannot be discerned by the human ear. Maybe its the same with the Darkness. Maybe the residual energy waves we detected from the Genesis wave are picked up by the Darkness driving them into a reactionary frenzy instead of just fleeing it like Ospreys.”

Jen wasn’t buying that and it showed in his expression. “If this Genesis wave devastated their world and altered space around it perhaps the Darkness is in some way defending this space from all intrusion .. perhaps replication of what happened. Could it be that there is still something left on this world we haven’t detected that they are defending by keeping everyone else out and by random attacks on shipping keeping the others on their heels. Maybe a kind of .. breeding ground here or in space? That has as much merit as your idea. I don’t know how to go about testing either theory.” He had to find some humor in this with the captain leaning into her science past and his on combative history.

“Not saying you are wrong but,” Kelly tried to repulse a shiver, “if we are flipping coins I hope to hell you are wrong. I am not keen on adult insects so the idea of little critters makes me want to beam out now. Never mess with someone’s kid. Great way to get your ass kicked.”

There was no way to test her theory but the Atlantis could use their scanners to do some deeper ground penetrating scans. This type of scan was not typically done for away teams since there was more to worry about on an away mission coming at you at ground level instead of coming at you from 100 kilometers below the surface. =/\= Atlantis Bridge, do a deep ground penetrating scan of the surface around the bunker.=/\=. Kelly didn’t want Jenn to be right based on the idea of thousands of sleeping insects below her feet however even extinct volcanos had heat far below the surface. It would be a natural incubator is her XO’s theory was correct.

Bordeaux CO

OOC: Wow, if you knew what you just said, you’d lose your mind how close you were to the secret plot.
OOC: OMG what did I say as I rambled?! Re-reads …
OOC: sorry that is more than I should have said in the first place.

Looking at Tenzig and the rest of the team, she asked any of them, “so how are we coming with the hack of the bunker?”

Kelly Bordeaux CO
Jen, XO

The controls for the items on the other side of the wall were connected to the computer they were in the process of hacking.

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Jen, XO
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