06-06-2026, 12:46 PM
Amila listened to the report of Ensign Singer, a more than competent engineer - her words might as well have been from the Chief Engineer hirself. She was right, a shuttle would be too small, but they were about to rendezvous with a heavy cruiser and a science vessel. Both would be equipped with larger support vessels. Not that Starfleet would want to part with one.
"Does the database give any reference to how old their civilization was?" Gath had asked.
Amila hadn't considered Gath's question as something separate to consider from what they had learned from their scans from when the planet had died out.
She nodded thoughtfully. "We can work on that."
"Lieutenant Jukish, Ensign Singer, see if you two can pull from this data how long it would even take for a ship to get to their destination at say, Warp 4," Amila ordered.
"A'kilees, I know you aren't a linguist, but you do have me thinking about how your language works and what we're dealing with here. You and Cortez see if there is anything that can be extrapolated from the data we have to see about answering the Lieutenant's question about their society," Amila said looking to the two midshipmen. "We may be coming close to the end, but this Pandora's Box does seem to be the gift that keeps on giving."
==Tags: A'kilees, Cortez, Singer, Keti==
Amila took in a nervous breath and gestured for Evie and Gath to follow her to her office while the crew worked on getting more information. Once the door was shut, she mentioned quietly to them, "Singer and A'kilees think we can recreate the inside of the ship fairly easily on the holodeck."
"What if..." Amila started. "What if... we also used the holodeck to make us look and sound like them, to attempt First Contact?"
The idea was both exciting and scary, given what they knew about the race. Gath's assessment - and Dr. O'Fee's meant they could be hard to contain if it didn't go well.
"We will see what they can come up with, but getting them to their planet while they are still in stasis is seeming more and more unlikely," she added. "What do we think?"
==Tags Gath and Evie==
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==GM input please, for the middies and NPCs working above and if they are going to be able to get any more information==
==Reminder Tag to the CO - you've been comm'd the Science Lab also ==
"Does the database give any reference to how old their civilization was?" Gath had asked.
Amila hadn't considered Gath's question as something separate to consider from what they had learned from their scans from when the planet had died out.
She nodded thoughtfully. "We can work on that."
"Lieutenant Jukish, Ensign Singer, see if you two can pull from this data how long it would even take for a ship to get to their destination at say, Warp 4," Amila ordered.
"A'kilees, I know you aren't a linguist, but you do have me thinking about how your language works and what we're dealing with here. You and Cortez see if there is anything that can be extrapolated from the data we have to see about answering the Lieutenant's question about their society," Amila said looking to the two midshipmen. "We may be coming close to the end, but this Pandora's Box does seem to be the gift that keeps on giving."
==Tags: A'kilees, Cortez, Singer, Keti==
Amila took in a nervous breath and gestured for Evie and Gath to follow her to her office while the crew worked on getting more information. Once the door was shut, she mentioned quietly to them, "Singer and A'kilees think we can recreate the inside of the ship fairly easily on the holodeck."
"What if..." Amila started. "What if... we also used the holodeck to make us look and sound like them, to attempt First Contact?"
The idea was both exciting and scary, given what they knew about the race. Gath's assessment - and Dr. O'Fee's meant they could be hard to contain if it didn't go well.
"We will see what they can come up with, but getting them to their planet while they are still in stasis is seeming more and more unlikely," she added. "What do we think?"
==Tags Gath and Evie==
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==GM input please, for the middies and NPCs working above and if they are going to be able to get any more information==
==Reminder Tag to the CO - you've been comm'd the Science Lab also ==