05-06-2026, 01:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-06-2026, 01:57 AM by Morad Ameen.)
== GM-Broken Arrow ==
As A'kilees activated his engineering tricorder, the initial readings seemed to validate Pedro's confidence, mostly.
Cortez’s idea to use the room's emitters to create an adaptive electromagnetic barrier was brilliant from a theoretical science perspective. The tricorder confirmed that standard internal comms, Wi-Fi, and basic telemetry signals were successfully bouncing off the invisible wall Pedro had erected.
However, as Petty Officer sh'Sjöress had astutely pointed out, an engineer's eye revealed the flaws in a purely software-based shield. As the tricorder completed a deep-spectrum sweep, A'kilees would notice a persistent, low-band subspace carrier wave leaking through the barrier. Pedro's emitters were constantly adjusting, but they were leaving micro-second gaps in the coverage. Furthermore, if the alien puzzle box emitted a massive energy spike when opened, it could easily overload the emitters and punch a signal straight through the hull.
To create a true, impenetrable Faraday cage, A'kilees needed to implement physical, brute-force engineering solutions to back up Pedro's software. The tricorder highlighted three necessary steps:
A'kilees needs to access the lab's environmental controls and invert the localized Structural Integrity Field. Instead of holding the room together, the field will act as a dense, physical static-dampener, catching the subspace frequencies leaking through Pedro's net.
Currently, the Science Lab is still connected to the Zephyr's main optical data network (ODN). If the alien box is basically an advanced computer, it could bypass the radio-frequency shield entirely by hijacking the ship's hardwired network. A'kilees needs to manually pull the ODN isolation chips from the main wall junction, completely air-gapping the room's computers from the rest of the ship.
To prevent power fluctuations from dropping the shield, A'kilees must route the lab's power to an isolated, closed-loop plasma relay, severing it from the ship's main EPS grid.
Once the Saurian completes those three hardwire tasks, combined with Pedro's emitter network, the room will be completely electronically dead to the outside universe. Whatever happens when they sing the math back to the box, it will stay strictly within those four walls.
As A'kilees activated his engineering tricorder, the initial readings seemed to validate Pedro's confidence, mostly.
Cortez’s idea to use the room's emitters to create an adaptive electromagnetic barrier was brilliant from a theoretical science perspective. The tricorder confirmed that standard internal comms, Wi-Fi, and basic telemetry signals were successfully bouncing off the invisible wall Pedro had erected.
However, as Petty Officer sh'Sjöress had astutely pointed out, an engineer's eye revealed the flaws in a purely software-based shield. As the tricorder completed a deep-spectrum sweep, A'kilees would notice a persistent, low-band subspace carrier wave leaking through the barrier. Pedro's emitters were constantly adjusting, but they were leaving micro-second gaps in the coverage. Furthermore, if the alien puzzle box emitted a massive energy spike when opened, it could easily overload the emitters and punch a signal straight through the hull.
To create a true, impenetrable Faraday cage, A'kilees needed to implement physical, brute-force engineering solutions to back up Pedro's software. The tricorder highlighted three necessary steps:
A'kilees needs to access the lab's environmental controls and invert the localized Structural Integrity Field. Instead of holding the room together, the field will act as a dense, physical static-dampener, catching the subspace frequencies leaking through Pedro's net.
Currently, the Science Lab is still connected to the Zephyr's main optical data network (ODN). If the alien box is basically an advanced computer, it could bypass the radio-frequency shield entirely by hijacking the ship's hardwired network. A'kilees needs to manually pull the ODN isolation chips from the main wall junction, completely air-gapping the room's computers from the rest of the ship.
To prevent power fluctuations from dropping the shield, A'kilees must route the lab's power to an isolated, closed-loop plasma relay, severing it from the ship's main EPS grid.
Once the Saurian completes those three hardwire tasks, combined with Pedro's emitter network, the room will be completely electronically dead to the outside universe. Whatever happens when they sing the math back to the box, it will stay strictly within those four walls.