03-04-2025, 10:26 PM
Jadaris stood silent, listening to the admonishments of Lieutenant Commander, and Jensen's own rebuttal. He was happy to see the situation being handled with something more than Zaldan diplomacy. Then Captain Braggins arrived, and the real information began to flow.
The Midshipmen being assigned to the race wasn't that much of a surprise. Star Fleet loved its sink or swim situations, and quite often midshipmen were dropped into the thick of things with the tools they needed, just to see how innovative they could be. It also brought to the fore who would be a capable leader in the future, and reflected on their Chiefs. When he was a midshipman, he had been assigned to bridge duty right out of the gate, and had to use all his education and experience to scan for a secret underwater base.
“How much do we know about these wild spatial anomalies? How can we make sure that we don’t need to pick up our crew in another quadrant, or another decade?"
Jadaris had his own questions as well, but he knew the scientific data from those types of probes was limited at best, and the Yeager would be responsible for gathering more data.
"We're due to arrive in two weeks at Warp Eight. If we increase to Warp Nine, we cut that down to ten days. If we push the engines and increase to Warp Nine-point-Nine, we can be there in as little as four days. Commander Jadaris, if we increase to maximum cruise, will your teams have enough time to make any modifications to the Glennis?"
Jadaris's brow, or what passed for it among Gorn, furrowed as he did the math. His idea of refitting the Glennis consisted of the installation of spatial sensors to detect chroniton eddies in real-time, as well as gravimetric and subspace sensors that could map out the interior of the anomaly. Jadaris, already having some experience with flying a shuttle through a temporal anomaly, knew what science might be looking for, but also what not to bring due to the risk of anomaly destabilization. He then replied,
"The difference of a few days will mean whether or not its jury-rigged, or properly refitted. I can probably refit the Glennis alongside my staff with sensor pallet modifications within a day, and if science can run the calibrations of said sensors, we can retune the engines, and given its a race, outfit her with more efficient energy relays. Those last few might take about two to three days, but I'd give it four to five days to have everything properly refitted and tested. I can do it in three, but we'll be pulling longer shifts."
"As for answering Commander Qi's question partially, there are special laws of quantum stabilization stating that older and stable anomalies generally contain less energetic chroniton eddies that can toss a ship out of its normal timestream. With the sensor modifications I have in mind, the Glennis should be able to detect those energetic quantum disturbances more precisely, but the inevitable proton buildup on the sensor arrays will likely be more severe the faster the shuttle goes at sublight speeds. We'll have to recalibrate our sensors to scan the anomaly, though we might be able to use the chroniton integrator on the ship to match our sensors to the resonant frequency of the anomaly's tensor fields and get more accurate readings. I would not recommend using the quantum slipstream drive anywhere around the system though, until we get a better understanding of subspace around the anomaly."
Having been a scientist and an engineer, Jadaris was capable of using both disciplines to achieve some interesting results, though he had to remind himself that he wasn't a first officer anymore. Stepping on toes was always possible being cross-trained, but at least it was more avoidable than trying to dance as a Gorn.
==tag Captain and Qi==
The Midshipmen being assigned to the race wasn't that much of a surprise. Star Fleet loved its sink or swim situations, and quite often midshipmen were dropped into the thick of things with the tools they needed, just to see how innovative they could be. It also brought to the fore who would be a capable leader in the future, and reflected on their Chiefs. When he was a midshipman, he had been assigned to bridge duty right out of the gate, and had to use all his education and experience to scan for a secret underwater base.
“How much do we know about these wild spatial anomalies? How can we make sure that we don’t need to pick up our crew in another quadrant, or another decade?"
Jadaris had his own questions as well, but he knew the scientific data from those types of probes was limited at best, and the Yeager would be responsible for gathering more data.
"We're due to arrive in two weeks at Warp Eight. If we increase to Warp Nine, we cut that down to ten days. If we push the engines and increase to Warp Nine-point-Nine, we can be there in as little as four days. Commander Jadaris, if we increase to maximum cruise, will your teams have enough time to make any modifications to the Glennis?"
Jadaris's brow, or what passed for it among Gorn, furrowed as he did the math. His idea of refitting the Glennis consisted of the installation of spatial sensors to detect chroniton eddies in real-time, as well as gravimetric and subspace sensors that could map out the interior of the anomaly. Jadaris, already having some experience with flying a shuttle through a temporal anomaly, knew what science might be looking for, but also what not to bring due to the risk of anomaly destabilization. He then replied,
"The difference of a few days will mean whether or not its jury-rigged, or properly refitted. I can probably refit the Glennis alongside my staff with sensor pallet modifications within a day, and if science can run the calibrations of said sensors, we can retune the engines, and given its a race, outfit her with more efficient energy relays. Those last few might take about two to three days, but I'd give it four to five days to have everything properly refitted and tested. I can do it in three, but we'll be pulling longer shifts."
"As for answering Commander Qi's question partially, there are special laws of quantum stabilization stating that older and stable anomalies generally contain less energetic chroniton eddies that can toss a ship out of its normal timestream. With the sensor modifications I have in mind, the Glennis should be able to detect those energetic quantum disturbances more precisely, but the inevitable proton buildup on the sensor arrays will likely be more severe the faster the shuttle goes at sublight speeds. We'll have to recalibrate our sensors to scan the anomaly, though we might be able to use the chroniton integrator on the ship to match our sensors to the resonant frequency of the anomaly's tensor fields and get more accurate readings. I would not recommend using the quantum slipstream drive anywhere around the system though, until we get a better understanding of subspace around the anomaly."
Having been a scientist and an engineer, Jadaris was capable of using both disciplines to achieve some interesting results, though he had to remind himself that he wasn't a first officer anymore. Stepping on toes was always possible being cross-trained, but at least it was more avoidable than trying to dance as a Gorn.
==tag Captain and Qi==