05-10-2026, 12:21 AM
== NRC Ensign Raven Singer, Engineering Officer ==
Raven nodded to him and then smiled, "Ah, then we agree on something after all! The Chief of Security did NOT think it was a warhead or similar device. I don't think so either. However, if YOU think it might have been a self destruct device of some kind, then we can't attempt to open it on this ship. Our efforts here are to attempt to nullify any and al external communications and relatively non-lethal effects. We can over design and compensate to a high degree, however a weapon is not one of those things we can adequately compensate for."
SHe began a slow pacing as she thought and spoke out loud on the matter, "Given the location in the system, it doesn't make much sense as a dangerous device, You are still going to need to trigger it from inside a cage and this entire room is unable to be turned into a cage. I grant that it doesn't hurt to shield kep components out here, but that doesn't change the need to shield the rest of the ship. If you can't secure it in a cage in this lab, then you're going to have to do it from inside a modified shuttle to achieve the same results. That way, if you blow yourselves to bits, you don't take the ship with you. The problem is that takes time and we don't know how much time we have. That's not a call any of us can make."
She turned to Cortez and Ra'an, "So...it's either triggered from inside a cage in here, or inside a modified shuttle out there, but to do anything else, you're going to need the blessing of the CEO and the Captain, because you're now on record of thinking there is a chance that it could blow up the ship. This is Star Fleet and not a democracy. Your one vote for going boom means that somebody higher has to overrule you. When it comes to us all dying a fiery death and scattered bits, that's the Captain. Mean while you still need to figure out if someone's getting inside with it, or trying to trigger it remotely. I have to say, I'm really excited to hear how you think you can do it remotely and cover your bases. Right now I'm really wishing I had taken the bet on us not opening this thing in time. I was convinced we could do it, but now I'm not so sure. I always have such terrible luck when someone starts one of these pools. I should stick to dice and cards."
Raven then seemed like she had forgotten something, "Oh, and your Inverse Cube tends to apply more to objects in motion relative to gravity and pressure variables, where the number of particles, even subatomic ones, and how they impact at distances from the detonation tend to follow the Inverse Square formula, especially if it is a warhead, because the detonating material would act on things before the pressure or debris would. Fortunately, these people didn't have that kind of technology or they would have used something other than chemical rockets to get them into space in the first place, but we have to plan for all contingencies and even old fashioned fission based atomics would make for a really bad day in the lab...soooo...yeah..."
== Tag Cortez ==
Raven nodded to him and then smiled, "Ah, then we agree on something after all! The Chief of Security did NOT think it was a warhead or similar device. I don't think so either. However, if YOU think it might have been a self destruct device of some kind, then we can't attempt to open it on this ship. Our efforts here are to attempt to nullify any and al external communications and relatively non-lethal effects. We can over design and compensate to a high degree, however a weapon is not one of those things we can adequately compensate for."
SHe began a slow pacing as she thought and spoke out loud on the matter, "Given the location in the system, it doesn't make much sense as a dangerous device, You are still going to need to trigger it from inside a cage and this entire room is unable to be turned into a cage. I grant that it doesn't hurt to shield kep components out here, but that doesn't change the need to shield the rest of the ship. If you can't secure it in a cage in this lab, then you're going to have to do it from inside a modified shuttle to achieve the same results. That way, if you blow yourselves to bits, you don't take the ship with you. The problem is that takes time and we don't know how much time we have. That's not a call any of us can make."
She turned to Cortez and Ra'an, "So...it's either triggered from inside a cage in here, or inside a modified shuttle out there, but to do anything else, you're going to need the blessing of the CEO and the Captain, because you're now on record of thinking there is a chance that it could blow up the ship. This is Star Fleet and not a democracy. Your one vote for going boom means that somebody higher has to overrule you. When it comes to us all dying a fiery death and scattered bits, that's the Captain. Mean while you still need to figure out if someone's getting inside with it, or trying to trigger it remotely. I have to say, I'm really excited to hear how you think you can do it remotely and cover your bases. Right now I'm really wishing I had taken the bet on us not opening this thing in time. I was convinced we could do it, but now I'm not so sure. I always have such terrible luck when someone starts one of these pools. I should stick to dice and cards."
Raven then seemed like she had forgotten something, "Oh, and your Inverse Cube tends to apply more to objects in motion relative to gravity and pressure variables, where the number of particles, even subatomic ones, and how they impact at distances from the detonation tend to follow the Inverse Square formula, especially if it is a warhead, because the detonating material would act on things before the pressure or debris would. Fortunately, these people didn't have that kind of technology or they would have used something other than chemical rockets to get them into space in the first place, but we have to plan for all contingencies and even old fashioned fission based atomics would make for a really bad day in the lab...soooo...yeah..."
== Tag Cortez ==