Posted by Gamemaster Alias Smith N. Jones, Esq. (GMT) in Main Sim - Bridge - The Arrival

Posted by Warrant Officer Hsull (Chief Tactical Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge - The Arrival

Posted by Gamemaster Alias Smith N. Jones, Esq. (GMT) in Main Sim - Bridge - The Arrival
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Priscilla took a mental deep breath then smiled at Drillek. She wanted their old report back and was willing to be the first to make the move that direction. “We got a probe to make a sweep. Look…” she tapped the console to replay the footage. He would see the mug, hanging in mid fall, a small delivery drone in frozen limbo between labs… and the group of officers and aliens covering their heads and ducking away from a bright star looking spot in the middle of a table that was the center of the temporal field.

She gave him a moment to digest what he was seeing before she continued. “The XO wants to know if a directed EMP may disrupt the field. I am worried it will cripple both us and the alien ship as well. And if we can get us far enough to not get caught in a backlash, or positioned in just the right way to keep it directionally away from us, I still worry the alien ship will be caught in it either way.” She kept playing the various scenarios over in her head. In everything she was thinking, the station, at least, and the alien ship would be completely shut down from the EMP. Then the question of life support, gravity and other necessary systems came into play. Could they get everyone out in time if it did work?

Priscilla
CSO

Drillek looked at the footage and then zoomed in on the ‘star’ and made a hmmm-ing noise to himself.

“See there?” and he pointed at the group of aliens and scientists. “They are all together in a group. Looking the same place at the same time, not at each other… and their reactions are the same: ducking and trying to get away. They are cooperating. Whatever that -” and he pointed at the glowing object, “- is, then that is what we have to deal with. And until we know more about that, I wouldn’t risk anything. And I doubt an EMP would do anything anyway. This is a temporal issue. An EMP would most likely just end up frozen in the same loop and then continue once the loop was ended… at which point we wouldn’t need the EMP anyway. No… I think what we may need is anti-chronitons. But until we know more about what we are dealing with? I wouldn’t recommend any ‘guesses’.”

GMT

Anti-chronitons

The words stuck like something she should remember. “Is there a way we can localize anti-chronitons into a small direct beam? Maybe we can take small layers off the outside the sphere and slowly decrease its size. Whatever we do, we have to be sure once we are close enough, we can localize a containment field around that,” she pointed to the small light. “Whatever is making them shirk from it, we need to stop it from spreading again. I don’t think we can risk a large field breakdown all at once. It would have to be timed too precisely to capture the object.” She glanced at Drillek. “What do you think?”

Priscilla
CSO

Drillek tapped his lips with a finger and said “We should be able to generate anti-chronitons in a beam, yes… but I think trying to shrink the field may be problematic on many levels.” and he walked to the auxiliary Science station. He tapped on it for several moments and then said “Here.” and he pointed at the display. It showed a kind of hole in the field going from the outside edge to the glowing object. “What we could do is create a kind of ‘tunnel’ into the field. Not large, but enough that perhaps we could get a tractor beam lock and draw it away from the station. At least then, we could get the station and the vessel clear of it’s effects. What do you think, Lieutenant?”

GMT

BUMP

Hsull had been carefully listening to the conversation between Drillek and the CSO, he tapped his console and made a few calculations. “Excuse me, but we can narrow a tractor beam down to about ten microns without affecting the power, anything smaller and the power goes down exponentially. Your tunnel would work I think if we can focus your anti-chroniton beam tight enough. Whatever that object is, do you think that once we get it away from the ship and station we should try and destroy it ?”

Hsull - TO

Drillek shrugged. “Without knowing the nature of what it is, that could be more dangerous than it is now. All we know it has a stable localized field. If we can move it… or better still direst the ant-chronitons directly at it… we may be able to cancel it out… shut it down without actually turning it off or destroying it. We neutralize it, keep the anti-chronitons directed at it while the station personnel and Dresden crew move it off site to empty space… then we can figure out what to do with it.”

GMT

Priscilla nodded. “I agree. Attempting to destroy it could have repercussions no one can foresee. I would recommend tractor beaming it to one of the asteroids nearby and studying it from there. The field could remain without hindering the station or local traffic. And I don’t think the beam to the object needs to be that fine of a beam. We can play with a bit of a margin as most of the folks around it are ducked or turned away. So the tunnel for the tractor beam can remain within safe operating limits. I would hate to see the effects of us accidentally dropping it as we remove it from the vicinity of the station.”

She had already turned back to her console and begun the calculations to basically bore a hole through the sphere of influence, straight at the artifact. She had to be sure the direction wouldn’t go through other people. And she had to be sure there was enough room beyond the object as well so the artifact could be grasped without incident. It took about five minutes but she finally nodded to herself and bit her lip before turning to Drillek. “I’m sure this will work. Both quick sims showed a successful move of the object and the bubble around it. We can back it up to a safe distance without interfering with any more of the alien ship’s space, either.” She showed him the sim of the hole being bored through the field, the tractor beam following on its heels to grasp the ball of light, and then the ball being dragged by the Dresden a safe distance away from the ship and station. When the sim ended, she looked to see his reaction.

Priscilla
CSO