Posted by Lieutenant Sural (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Lieutenant Sural (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Gamemaster Matrix (GMT) in Main Sim - Bridge
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The Federation had set up a kind of tachyon net that would note any physical disturbances if it was crossed along the neutral zone. Which, unfortunately, was not complete. He tapped at the side of his nose in thought. Perhaps the tachyons could be emitted as a burst. Certainly they would spread but, maybe, if the cloaked vessel was there it would not be ‘rerouted’ around it by illusion but reveal the ship. He would need help from Science on that one. He checked to see the status of the science department …
NE Reno ..
OOC: Ishtar seems away so will still ponder this ..

OOC: Thank you for your patience! I had to clear up a little confusion first. :D

IC:
“You seem to be pondering something, Ensign.” Ishtar approached Reno in the midst of his contemplation. “Penny for your thoughts?” She didn’t wish to disrupt him in the instance he was onto something, so she held back to see what had his features twisted with deep regard.

Lt. Nhamashal, CSO

The more he thought about it the more Reno thought it was beyond even this vessel. It would be like a needle in a haystack to find, and even more if it was a moving needle. In the ‘old’ days of submersibles they sent down depth charges, but did they have enough to even do that? Could they configure them to emanate in a sufficient area of space? Even ‘dusting’ the areas with residual tachyons to be like a cloud a ship would need to pass through would be hard. If they could ‘paint’ the cloaking field that would be even better. Again, they’d need to know the ‘what’ to even be able to think it.

Reno tapped at the screen in front of him. “Cloaked ship out there in the wide area of space. But where? How do we light her up? I was thinking tachyon bursts but on a moving target it would be like finding a needle in a haystack.” He glanced up. “Thoughts?”
- Reno, NE
OOC: Bump .. Gene

“A tachyon burst isn’t such a bad idea.” Ishtar plundered her mind for data on cloaking devices. A few seconds passed until something came to mind. “Generally speaking, when Romulan ships are cloaked and moving, they give off slight Tetryon emissions, especially when at warp. Although, considering the circumstances, I doubt this vessel has gone to warp. Still, there is a slight change there may be Tetryon signatures.” She explained, assuming the cloaking device was Romulan. “On normal scans, Tetryon radiation won’t show up. However, since Tetryons only appear in subspace, we could try a low frequency subspace scan. If anything, it could give us an idea of where this ship might be and we could angle the tachyon bursts to that general area. It won’t be perfect, but it’s a thought.”

Lt. Nhamashal, CSO

Reno scratched at his forehead. “Uh, right,” he drawled, indicative of his thinking, though it had made others think he was not very bright. “Tetryons. Well, I can configure this here system to go low band subspace. Could y’all help me with the configuration on what we are lookin fer? Y’all take that station here and I’ll work at this here one. I’ll work a varied range of low frequencies rather than a specific one.” It was a thought. He was fine with the equipment but when it came to some bits the Texan was out of his league. Like trying to tease the ivories to make music - which he felt was only adequate at at best - he could work the systems. Plugging in parameters like this was best suited for his friends in science. Glancing to Ishtar, he thought, and some rather sweet lookin ones at that.
- Reno, Eng

OOC: Bump

Reno finished inputting in the parameters. And then considered his next idea and accessed the database to present simulations from each class of Romulan ship that they knew of in their history. He figured that over the years of building better mouse traps that the older ships with their less advanced cloaks would be easier to detect while the more recent would not. “I’m ready to run a simulation exercise on subspace tetryon detection.” Knowing this might take a bit, he hit the enter key. If Ishtar wanted to add other parameters she was able to in real time. For now he would see what came up. His right leg bounced as he watched the small screen.
- Reno, Eng

Occasionally, sensors would detect a blip. It was the shape of a Valdore type warbird, but too small. It didn’t really fit any known Romulan ship description. It seemed to be circling the Olympic like a predator would its prey, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

-Matrix

Reno wasn’t about to claim any kind of victory on detection. In fact he would have likely failed testing in any kind of Academy testing. But it looked right and well, the question was - what did he do that ‘was right’ on detection. Reno tried to fine tune his calibrations better to at least narrow down the subspace frequencies that did pick it up, as well as plot out the ‘range’ of this orbiting ship from theirs. Was it static orbit or did it vary? Was it on one plane or was it on a 360 degree field? Was there a pattern based on the blips? Once he had those parameters going in the system, Reno turned to the XO.

“Sir, I have a possible hit. Small ship. Valdore like but smaller build. I have plots on the sensor hits. Trying to fine tune things and plot out a pattern.” Really he didn’t think he would get a pattern. Rommies were pretty adept at the art of ‘sneak’.
NE Reno

Moving the tetryon beam around would reveal a pattern that this ship was rapidly circling in something of a sphere. Possibly an attempt to trap the Olympic in place.

-Matrix

Reno tipped his cowboy hat back some to rest higher on his forehead as he looked at the developing pattern. And didn’t much like it. They were circling them. That was hardly a big deal but looked to be more than simply a tactical move to stay in motion. This seemed to be more and when the Rommies did it definitely more. “Uh Sir, we may have a problem.”

Now what should he say? There was zero evidence of malice but for the fact that the Romulans were doing it. “What do you think of this pattern, Commander? Are they laying mines? Have their own Tholian web?” Cloaked mines were not unheard of. And they were king of the cloaks.
- Reno

OOC: Bump .. Gene

OOC: Unless I’m mistaken, at the moment, Reno has the conn in the absence of PCs.

IC:
Continuing to scan would show no evidence of cloaked mines. While it was not out of the question, it seemed more trouble than it was worth. If anything, this was for intelligence gathering and waiting to strike like a predator in the jungle.

-Matrix