Posted by Lieutenant Tom Jarvis (Internal Security) in Engineering - Transport Investigation

Posted by Lieutenant Dagen Thor (CE) in Engineering - Transport Investigation

Posted by Lieutenant Dagen Thor (CE) in Engineering - Transport Investigation
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When Dagen entered Engineering again he called his ‘team’ over and they each huddled around the situation table. It was a large, oval tabletop that held the vital information and map of the Genesis on it in profile. It could be changed about and focused in and anything else to narrow down to the issue at hand. He brought up the CMO’s quarters.

He looked around at the group .. Julia Ingles, a tall, dark eyed brunette who had earlier shown the CMO to Dagen. Next to her was Bat, a portly Bolian who could never seem to get a uniform that fit but always seemed too tight. Dagen had nicknamed him ‘Batman’ as the Bolian’s ears shot up like antennae. Deeg, who had been in and out of Dagen’s life since the Draco, was still the paranoid conspiracy theorist that he knew from years back. Next to him was Sebastian, a shorter man who was ever equipped with a pair of data-glasses or DG’s. Seraph rounded out the team - a Vulcan who Dagen had termed ‘Angel’ after a while.

He explained the situation quickly. “About a half hour ago someone tried beaming the CMO off the ship by way of what was likely a kind of pattern enhancer or locator disguised as a gift of jewelry that had appeared in her quarters. As a side note the XO is not a happy camper. Right now the CMO is in the brig as that is the best defense against transports. We have to work out several things.”

“Julia, you work with Deeg to try to figure what transporter was used on board, if at all. The main 6 transporter rooms should be manned at all times. Verify that and question the operators.”
“Batman, I want you to look at an outside component. The quarters had to have been accessed by someone inside that hour. Check the access logs on the door and look at ship logs to see if any sensors had picked up transports from outside. And if so why didn’t it alert the bridge?”
“Sebastian and Angel, you have the fun part. Just like at the brig I want pattern inhibitors designed to be put in her quarters so that she will not be beamed out. Angel, you’re best at that. Sebastian, you get to work on a portable inhibitor so she can move about the ship.”
“I’ll confer with the security chief about this device and work a multiphasic diagnostic on the shielding to discourage outside transports. Any questions?”

Deeg’s eyes shifted about. “Shuttles have transporters too.”
“Good point. Add them to your rounds too.” That was a good point.
Batman commented next. “Computers are voice activated and always pick up sound whether they are called on or not. If it was transported in we would have that sound log as all our transporters have a sound component of expelling energy from the fields.”
“Good one. I’ll bring that up with security if we need that log opened. We should be able to do it but just in case I’ll check.”
“Logically there should be a motive,” Angel commented.
“Which we don’t know yet,” Dagen replied with a shrug. There wasn’t any other questions coming so he clapped his hands and said, “Let’s do this.”

Dagen, CE

OOC: Maybe at some point Dagen and Tom with cross paths on this investigation. ;)

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OOC: You all are doing a wonderful job!!!! Thanks for playing!!!

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Dagen initiated a shield diagnostic on the multiphasic shields to alternate random frequencies and test field integrity status right after sending a complimentary note to the bridge engineering console that they were doing a diagnostic spread on the shields and, barring any emergency, would be unavailable for several hours.

Then, turning to the devices in question, he pondered what to do. =^= Thor to Lt Jarvis. A device was passed to you or the security chief by the XO. =^= He hoped it was the XO and not the CMO alone who did that. =^= I’m trying to find any information relating to this. It was a piece of jewelry that was likely used as a comm badge or transporter lock device. =^=
- Dagen, CE

=^=Jarvis here. Yes, I have the piece. I’ve traced the signal to the auxiliary bridge and have had an intensive bio scan run. I’ll be heading to science soon for the results if you’re interested in attending.=^=

-Tom, IntSec

=^= So it was an internal transport then and not from an external source? =^= He sought to clarify that as that would reflect a significant alteration in his thinking. =^= Where did the transport originate from then? Do you know anything about the device? Let me know when you are going to science and I’ll join you. =^= His thoughts whirled. Internal. He had supposed external because why kidnap someone on a small ship as this to another location in the ship? That made no sense. Well, not to him.

Traced the signal. Was the device still active and transmitting? The auxiliary bridge was a good place for an operation, but crazy otherwise. He didn’t much care about the bio scan but about the engineering metrics of the device and to thwart it so the CMO could continue her normal life again. And soon.
- Dagen, Eng

=^=I’m heading there as soon as we’re done on this comm.=^= Tom replied, =^=And I don’t think it was an internal site to site transport. I think the Auxiliary Bridge was merely going to be a relay location. The device was a short range signaler and transporter, so that would have to be on board to be shunted into a transport system to be sent off ship to a maximum range of approximately forty thousand kilometers.=^=

OOC: Arrive in the zoology thread any time you like.

• Tom, IntSec

Tricksy, Dagen thought. This got his intrigue going. It was feeling more like OP42 than a starship in the intrigue going on there. He missed that, he found, and with it he had a pang of missing Lisa who had been with him there. Memory associations. They could be good and bad. 40k. Normal transporter range so they weren’t dealing with anything too alien or too far off the mark of ‘special’ people. The Trill had heard that heard over the years of the secretive groups who had better tech and where they had developed transporters that had a higher range with more pinpoint powers.

he scratched the back of his neck and thought about this. =^= I’ll head off to Science to join you there =^= he said. That seemed to be a good place to start.
-Dagen, CE

OOC: I’ll assume that the reminder hit en route.

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  A little later Dagen was back and had checked on the team.
  Julia shook her head. Deeg shrugged. “Nothing on the transporters.”
  Dagen replied, “Intel said they had checked as well and think it may have been cleverly erased unless it was an outside source. Julia, check the ship’s power draws around the time of the incident. They can erase logs but you can’t knock out things like power utilization.”
  “Right chief,” she replied, referring to the time logs.
  “Deeg, something for your skills. Here’s the bracelet that was used and the scans. Have a look at that and what frequency the transmitter was used. Then head to the CMO’s quarters and run a scan to make sure there is nothing more and other devices.”

  “Sebastian? Angel?” He asked as he went into the workshop. Components were scattered about all over the tabletop.
  Angel started, “ I have constructed basic inhibitors based on known parameters for a broad band pattern. I have nearly completed constructing them. Sebastian has assisted me.”
  The shorter man with thinning hair blinked past his glasses. “I added a holo-cover to it so that it will be invisible in the room. The holo matrix will duplicate what is around it like the wall and render it invisible.”
  “Clever,” Dagen said. “How about the portable inhibitor?”
  “Batman is doing that,” Sebastian added. “He came up with nothing on the doors. Still working on that one, chief.”

  “Right, install them when ready. Have Batman test the device too. I’ll unlock a transporter when he is ready to test it.”

  Dagen, CE

OOC: I’m waiting for an email. This isn’t my story line so I don’t want to go off in an unintended direction.

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