Engineering Consult With Sciences

Posted on 21 Aug 2023 @ 4:24pm by Lieutenant Leland Hawksley & Lieutenant JG Thex sh'Zoarhi & Lieutenant JG Ted Silver
Edited on on 01 Sep 2023 @ 2:13pm

741 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: General Sim Postings
Location: Sciences Office
Timeline: Current

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- Science Lab -

Ted returned to the Lab after his stint on the Bridge. Rubbing his eyes he ordered a very large coffee and sat down. He ran over the data the sensors had collected. He hoped they would have time afterwards to stay here a while longer. Silver wanted to get some samples of the gases of the nebula. That was if the Romulans did not figure out inside it their weapons would be more powerful and destroy the Tomcat.

“ Come in.” He said as he heard the door chime.

Thex stepped through the door giving Ted a polite smile.

“ So how may I help you?” Ted asked

"Ted." Leland paused and shook Silver's hand. A very good friend and coworker. "You posited that the Romulans may have stronger weapons than the Tomcat. How does this process occur? I assume this is due to some sort of effect of the corridor?"

“ Well. If it did not pose a problem for the Tomcat. It would be quite incredible really. The gases from the nebula are in a quite unique mix. As you know the Romulan weapons are plasma-based. So unfortunately for us, they will boost the disruptor power by 70%.”Ted should them a list of the gases.

“ Ionised hydrogen and an unusual amount of Cosmic dust containing Amorphous organic solids. Also a couple of elements that I have never seen before. They’re not on any databases we have. Been checking through the Starfleet archives but as yet nothing has come up.” Ted said.

"Organic solids. That is truly unique." Leland listened to Ted. The first thought was how would these organic amorphous solids affect the Tomcat.

"The Tomcat's Bussard ramscoops will collect positive and negative interstellar hydrogen atoms. The ionizing beam emitter can be used to capture ionizing gasses."

“ The thing is these unknown elements are causing a concern to me. What safety measures are in place?” Ted asked

" We will be using extra shielding and armour around the ramscoops. " Thex added. " We will also be holding the ionizing gas in the backup storage chamber. If anything starts to go wrong we can dump the gas at a moment's notice."

The scientist started to prod at Ted's head.

“ Is there any way we can scan what the ramscoops collect? Only it would be a scientific shame if we don’t get any extra data on this area.” He inquired.

Thex nodded. " We can use the ship's forward scanner and deploy a probe to monitor it from other angles."

“ Great. It’s a unique mix you know it’s just a shame it boosts the Romulan weapons. If only our weapon systems were plasma-based. Course we use Dilithium Crystals for our power. Very different system from our devious friends.” Ted said

" Indeed it is," Thex replied as she looked to her boss. " Shall we get to work?"

"However, we can use the ram scoops with microdionium filaments to harmonize the sub-plasma superheated to redirect through the anti-matter streaming backup assembly and port through to the main phaser banks. We back up the power banks with supercharged muons, bang! We have supercharged phaser assemblies. We can use the same plasma gases. It's actually how long-range sensor probes power themselves from their environment." Hawksley displayed his engineering knowledge. He worked through the idea and presented it to Ted and Thex.

"What do you think?" He watched them both holding his ideas on the padd that he just tapped out. The theory was there, he just had to match the hardware on the Tomcat. "Few changes to the outer hull assemblies."

“ That’s quite a good idea what do you think Thex?” Ted asked

The blue girl nodded. " Should be easy enough to manage."


"Well, no time to waste then. Thank you, Lieutenant Silver. You always have crystal clear insight in these matters." Ted and Thex both offered critical points and issues raised heading into the L'Horzel Corridor.

“ Thanks for coming by,” Ted said

" See you around," Thex called over her shoulder as she and Hawksley headed for the door.


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