05-10-2026, 10:10 PM
Sebastian sat there. Something Singer said caught his attention: "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 kept 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 it takes time, and we don't know how much time we have. That's not a call any of us can make."
Sebastian recalled his mother telling him that in Ancient civilizations, they often used booby traps in their tombs to protect the tombs from grave robbers. What if this alien device were some booby trap/ anti-personnel device?
“Hold on, hold on, unless that’s what the system designers wanted, you know, place a dangerous device in an obviously innocent place, lulling people into a false sense of security. Think about it, whatever this was connected to may have acted as a safety preventing this device from triggering, activating, or whatever,” Suggested Cortez.
“Ensign, is there any way that we could access this device remotely? Like if we placed it in a cargo container in space and accessed it with a drone?” Inquired Sebastian? "That way, the only one in danger would be a remote drone, and the drone could report back to us." Added Sebastian as an afterthought.
== Tag Singer.==
Sebastian recalled his mother telling him that in Ancient civilizations, they often used booby traps in their tombs to protect the tombs from grave robbers. What if this alien device were some booby trap/ anti-personnel device?
“Hold on, hold on, unless that’s what the system designers wanted, you know, place a dangerous device in an obviously innocent place, lulling people into a false sense of security. Think about it, whatever this was connected to may have acted as a safety preventing this device from triggering, activating, or whatever,” Suggested Cortez.
“Ensign, is there any way that we could access this device remotely? Like if we placed it in a cargo container in space and accessed it with a drone?” Inquired Sebastian? "That way, the only one in danger would be a remote drone, and the drone could report back to us." Added Sebastian as an afterthought.
== Tag Singer.==