11-11-2025, 08:45 PM
== Posted with guidance from the GM... ==
The door to the lab swished open and Lt Thorn strode in, looking around anxiously, "What in the bloody..." Her nearly shouted words stopped dead as her eyes fell upon the FO, her tone dropping instantly, "Oh, sorry. No offense, sir, but I get a bit out of sorts when I register unexpected explosions on the ship."
Her attention returned to looking around and quickly focused on the containment field. Having grabbed a tool belt that was set up for damage control, it was draped over her shoulder and she put it on, then removed the scanner from it to point at what was inside the field. "Hmmm...interesting...well, that explains quite a bit."
Thorn was speaking to Khasim, but then finally noticed the tall visitor in the lab and did a double-take before glancing to the FO, but not saying anything about it. Finally she spoke once more, "I'm presuming this came from the surface. That contained material matches a substance I noticed in our detailed scans. Lieutenant Khasim, you appear to have succeeded in removing the impurities, but it was only a partial success. It reformed the sample without the impurities, leaving gaps in the structure where the impurities have been removed. It's entirely understandable, as it literally did what you told it to do."
She lowered the scanner and gave a sigh as she stared at the now pure but flawed sample. After only a few seconds of concentration, she turned to Khasim and said, "What we need to do is to scan in a sample that is already refined and configured for use. When you run the new process, it will still need to place the components in the buffer as before, but then it will need to superimpose the restructuring process with the prescanned matrix. In this way, it will turn the one sample into the other, leaving the remainder as secondary structures to be contained. The forming of new crystalline structure is going to need something though, as dilithium is hard to make it form or reform propper crystals for use in anti-matter reactions. You should flood the containment area with ionized radiation, like that from nuclear fission. That should help. Use a four times oversampling to ensure that there are no flaws in the assembly process as well. I think your duridium did the trick, but you just didn't have quite enough in the process and it allowed for a tiny amount of this unstable contaminant to be reformed in a free state. Be sure to have more of it than you need, so you end up with excess when you're done. You'll also want to be sure you have more dilithium than it will take for the end product. You can write it into the program that it will not execute the formation sequence until the minimum quantities and ratios are met in the processing, but that should be simple enough."
Kalli then gave a mock stern look at Samira that was punctuated with a hint of a grin, "Next time you plan to play with things that have a potential of blowing up part of the ship, Engineering would appreciate it greatly if you would be so kind as to inform us in advance. I'm glad to see that nobody was injured in this, as it appears that you had the foresight to use a containment field that was more than adequate to the task."
Finally glancing back to the FO, Kalli commented, "By the way, nice outfit..."
== Tags to all...this was condensed down into one post to help move things forward by request of the GM. ==
The door to the lab swished open and Lt Thorn strode in, looking around anxiously, "What in the bloody..." Her nearly shouted words stopped dead as her eyes fell upon the FO, her tone dropping instantly, "Oh, sorry. No offense, sir, but I get a bit out of sorts when I register unexpected explosions on the ship."
Her attention returned to looking around and quickly focused on the containment field. Having grabbed a tool belt that was set up for damage control, it was draped over her shoulder and she put it on, then removed the scanner from it to point at what was inside the field. "Hmmm...interesting...well, that explains quite a bit."
Thorn was speaking to Khasim, but then finally noticed the tall visitor in the lab and did a double-take before glancing to the FO, but not saying anything about it. Finally she spoke once more, "I'm presuming this came from the surface. That contained material matches a substance I noticed in our detailed scans. Lieutenant Khasim, you appear to have succeeded in removing the impurities, but it was only a partial success. It reformed the sample without the impurities, leaving gaps in the structure where the impurities have been removed. It's entirely understandable, as it literally did what you told it to do."
She lowered the scanner and gave a sigh as she stared at the now pure but flawed sample. After only a few seconds of concentration, she turned to Khasim and said, "What we need to do is to scan in a sample that is already refined and configured for use. When you run the new process, it will still need to place the components in the buffer as before, but then it will need to superimpose the restructuring process with the prescanned matrix. In this way, it will turn the one sample into the other, leaving the remainder as secondary structures to be contained. The forming of new crystalline structure is going to need something though, as dilithium is hard to make it form or reform propper crystals for use in anti-matter reactions. You should flood the containment area with ionized radiation, like that from nuclear fission. That should help. Use a four times oversampling to ensure that there are no flaws in the assembly process as well. I think your duridium did the trick, but you just didn't have quite enough in the process and it allowed for a tiny amount of this unstable contaminant to be reformed in a free state. Be sure to have more of it than you need, so you end up with excess when you're done. You'll also want to be sure you have more dilithium than it will take for the end product. You can write it into the program that it will not execute the formation sequence until the minimum quantities and ratios are met in the processing, but that should be simple enough."
Kalli then gave a mock stern look at Samira that was punctuated with a hint of a grin, "Next time you plan to play with things that have a potential of blowing up part of the ship, Engineering would appreciate it greatly if you would be so kind as to inform us in advance. I'm glad to see that nobody was injured in this, as it appears that you had the foresight to use a containment field that was more than adequate to the task."
Finally glancing back to the FO, Kalli commented, "By the way, nice outfit..."
== Tags to all...this was condensed down into one post to help move things forward by request of the GM. ==