Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Achilleas Petrakos (Chief Science Officer) in SB 157: XO’s Temp Office- Petrakos Visit

Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in SB 157: XO’s Temp Office- Petrakos Visit

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Dira laughed widely. “I think you’ll find therapists just as focused. It’s just the people change with a regular frequency during our days. But I know I had many days where an issue consumed much of my day and I forgot to eat or something,” she said with a grin. “Happens to a lot of people I’ve noticed. But in any case, I’m working with everyone to find out what’s happening with the ship. We should hopefully have an update soon.”

“But about you specifically? What’s your area of expertise?” the XO asked.

Commander Myqian, XO

“Astrophysics, more specifically dark energy. My research project is to determine the interaction of dark energy in the process of stars going prematurely nova.” Achilleas eyes began to shine as he dove into his passion project, “You see, as we can only infer the existence of things such as dark matter or dark energy from the clues presented by the lack of certain explanatory interactions in the universe, my theory is that absent things we can explain for premature novae, such as chroniton phenomena, polaron shifts, etc, then dark energy is a likely culprit.”

CSO Petrakos

She grinned at him. “I’m glad to see you passionate about something. Everyone should have something like that. I can say with full honesty that I look forward to seeing the efforts of your research,” Dira said.

“I know your department has been in flux, but what can you tell me about them so far?” Myqian asked.

Commander Myqian, XO