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Just then a familiar face to many, walked into the medical bay. Toveka had been gone nearly a year and her arrival back had been without fanfare. So she wasn’t actually expecting an kind of warm welcome when she walked into the sickbay and looked around to see who was there. The half Romulan features open and pleasant as much as she could make them. There was something comforting about coming home.

Lt JG Toveka Brine
Science

Paige looked up at the newcomer to Sickbay “Lt Brine. Welcome back.” She said warmly “How are you doing? How did your project go?” She asked gesturing to one of the bed “And we have a puzzle of our own here…one that may interest you as well.” She said “I assume you’re here for your physical?”

CMO

Toveka smiled slightly at the woman. “Yes, I am here for my physical. The project went well, thank you for inquiring.” She moved to sit on the nearest biobed. “For the first time, we were lucky enough to see if turn to a black hole instead of a neutron. The readings we got will help the Fleet understand where black holes come from and hopefully be able to predict, in time, if a collapsed star will neutron or black hole ‘before’ it happens.”

She listed to Paige’s mention of a puzzle and raised her eyebrows in curiosity. “A puzzle, hm? How intriguing. Anything you can impart to me?” Her check up would show a broken right wrist had occurred during her absence. It was mended well and healing in good order. There was still some muscle trauma, but nothing a little therapy and occasional icing wouldn’t help.

Toveka
Science

Paige looked at the scans “Well, you’re wrist is healing nicely. Keep icing it and do some stretches that I will give you.” She said “Otherwise you’re fit for duty.” Paige added and then moved onto the puzzle, motioning for Toveka to join her at the console “Here we have a Klingon male. He was experiencing some sort of crisis, our scans found this handy dandy little gem embedded in his brain.” She said showing her the device that had been removed “Within an hour of us removing it, it turned to this.” She then showed a picture of the lump of coal like substance. “So that is our current problem. What is that thing and why did it turn to that after we removed it.”

CMO

The scientist nodded at the instructions about her wrist. Then slid from the biobed and looked at the console.

Her fingers danced lightly over the console to get better angles of the gem and the coal like leftover. “My first reaction would be that whatever neural connections it had gave it form like the crystal. A lighting up and fractalling of the surface. The loss of that neural stimulus and the covering returns to protect what’s inside.” She shook her head and stepped back. “Without actually studying it and trying to recreate it’s crystalline fed environment to be certain.” She was fascinated, to be sure and it showed on her face.

Toveka
CSO
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“Check in with Baldur, he’s the one working with it right now.” Paige said “If you learn of anything, let me know.” She said “Once the klingon is awake, I’ll talk to him and see if I can learn anything further from him.”

CMO