Posted by Lieutenant Commander Jessica Vaughn (XO) in Covus III Base - Main Sim Epello gave a stiff nod of her head, unclasping her pasty hands from behind her back. “If I can help, sir, that would be wise. After all, any direction is better than no direction at all.” She could not offer much assistance beyond what she knew of science with their information on the species, but she had no doubt she could help with the technological and perhaps mathematical (engineering) aspects of it. She thought about the fact that the ship had seemingly been the source of the communications. Going off of that, she tried coming up with some ideas for locating the planet. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Mathias nodded to Epello. “Agreed. Perhaps the place for you to start is figuring out a way to counter how they are hiding everything from us. They can’t be scanned and they mask their warp signature. We need to figure out who we’re dealing with, which will be very difficult without getting past their xenophobic technology.” : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : “We walk a fine line with this, sir.” Epello remarked, pausing for a second. She directed her question to the other man, “How exactly did they mask their signature? Did they obscure it by using the force of an object with a greater gravitational force? Did they use the scattering method by using an anomaly of some type to cover up their signature, by replacing it with something stronger? Or.. do you not know?” : : : : : : : : : : : : : : OOC: Need a GM response here.

OOC: Splitting this thread to get some movement on this part. GM, please respond here as well as at the end. ~Adam

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: : : : : : : : : : : : After asking, she glanced back at the Captain. “If we knew how they masked their warp signature, there might be some way of determining where that covering may have come from, which could offer a general idea of direction.” Another brief pause, “We could also try looking into the possible mechanisms that could be used to prevent our scans; organic and artificial. That could give some insight of a way to either break through the field or recalibrate scanners to go past it.” She found that such almost sounded like espionage, but she brushed that away.
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: : : : : : : : “By all means, find out what you can, Lieutenant. Work with Commander Linwood’s team and see if we can get anywhere,” Mathias ordered.
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: : : : : : : “Aye, sir.” Epello have a stiff nod of her head, turning away slightly. “Commander, is there a place where your team and I can get started on this?”