02-23-2026, 05:00 AM
“My Security training favors environmental threat modeling. Structural instability precedes cascading failures.”
Qi followed the Vulcan’s gaze to his collection of PADDs. He nudged Romulan cryptography into a sturdier position underneath Navajo code talkers, preventing a small cascading failure of his own. He guessed that his system horrified her though, to her credit, she didn’t show it on her face.
“I would begin by isolating sensor discrepancies requiring manual override confirmation,” T’Varen continued. “Automated filtering systems frequently suppress statistical outliers that later prove operationally significant.”
His hand went automatically to the flag he’d just planted in spatial anomalies, then followed the trail down to sensor diagnostics. He handed the stack to T’Varen, along with a history of local star charts, for good measure.
“See how far you get with this. I’ll check in on your progress at the start of tomorrow’s shift,” Qi instructed. “Though I’ll caution you against reading too deeply into sensor discrepancies. Keep in mind that the ship is literally mashed together from spare parts. It works somehow, but it’s a miracle that both sides go to warp at the same time.”
He let the thought breathe for a moment, confident that he’d made his point. Any officer serving on the Yeager would need to be comfortable with some amount of mess.
“Can I ask, by the way,” He said, putting both elbows on the desk between them, “why the department change? Not just for my own curiosity, but so that I know what kind of work you’re interested in.”
== Tag! ==
Qi followed the Vulcan’s gaze to his collection of PADDs. He nudged Romulan cryptography into a sturdier position underneath Navajo code talkers, preventing a small cascading failure of his own. He guessed that his system horrified her though, to her credit, she didn’t show it on her face.
“I would begin by isolating sensor discrepancies requiring manual override confirmation,” T’Varen continued. “Automated filtering systems frequently suppress statistical outliers that later prove operationally significant.”
His hand went automatically to the flag he’d just planted in spatial anomalies, then followed the trail down to sensor diagnostics. He handed the stack to T’Varen, along with a history of local star charts, for good measure.
“See how far you get with this. I’ll check in on your progress at the start of tomorrow’s shift,” Qi instructed. “Though I’ll caution you against reading too deeply into sensor discrepancies. Keep in mind that the ship is literally mashed together from spare parts. It works somehow, but it’s a miracle that both sides go to warp at the same time.”
He let the thought breathe for a moment, confident that he’d made his point. Any officer serving on the Yeager would need to be comfortable with some amount of mess.
“Can I ask, by the way,” He said, putting both elbows on the desk between them, “why the department change? Not just for my own curiosity, but so that I know what kind of work you’re interested in.”
== Tag! ==