Yesterday, 01:27 PM
Keti was the first to arrive of the science officers and he immediately had ideas to share before he took his station.
"Lieutenant Ra'an." Keti soon realized there was an unintended amount of anger in his voice, that quickly went away after he started to speak again. Though the tone was barely clocked by Ra'an, who was too focused on work to be bothered by anything other than inefficiency, though she realized he must have thought he had done something by his apology.
"I apologies for the tone it got away from me temporarily." Keti wanted to compose himself better. "Permission to modify a couple of our stealth probes for communication purposes, at very least we can get a clear picture of what is going on."
Amila nodded to him. "We are under orders not to send anything out - no signals, no probes, until we are certain we have cover," Ra'an stated. "But, let's get something prepared for when we do."
Cortez walked in shortly after and took his spot to Amila's immediate right as she indicated. She still considered him impulsive and wanted to keep an eye on him. After she had given him orders to help him scan the known data he began to speak, thinking out loud she assumed as he began by suggested that they do precisely what she had just ordered him to do. She kept an eye on him somewhat anxiously, eager to get back to work, but well aware that she needed to listen to him carefully lest he slip something in that she agree to that wasn't correct.
“We should also examine their known sensor and communications frequencies. If we understand what they're looking for, we may be able to minimize the specific signatures they're most likely to detect. The same principle might work for our communications—hide our transmissions inside naturally occurring interference rather than broadcasting through it," he added.
"Known frequencies," she emphasized. "None of our sensors into the region under we have cover," she reminded him.
“And if we can make them spend their time investigating something that isn't us, I would consider that a successful use of the available science," Cortez added as returned his attention to the display. “I'll start by identifying the most promising anomalies and cross-reference them with the Cardassian sensor data. Once we find a suitable location, we can determine whether our systems can reproduce the conditions closely enough to conceal our arrival," he continued, his voice showing signs of excitement.
"Good idea, you focus on that, and I'll focus on how to hide us," she said, her mood softening as she also became enthusiastic about his input. "Nice work. No sensors into the regions under the Captain's orders, though" she reminded Cortez a third time. "Studying only for now."
"Lieutenant Keti," Ra'an said, now piggybacking off of Crotez's idea. "Did you hear that? Cortez may be on to something. If we do end up using one of our probes to get a comm into the region, it may be nice to have a double back-up. Not only use cover from natural phenomena, but assuming the Cardassians do read it, maybe make it look like something else to the Cardassians that isn't Federation that might seem innocuous to them, but that our people might get. Old Bajoran, Occupation era, or maybe even an ancient Earth radio signal, Navajo or something?"
==Tags to Keti and Cortez==
==Tag also to the GM-CD now that we have had additional input from the Science team. Do any of us have any luck with our focused projects on determining if there are anomalies in the region that will work to our advantage, and does Cortez come up with any useful limitations to Cardassian technology? - Thanks!==
"Lieutenant Ra'an." Keti soon realized there was an unintended amount of anger in his voice, that quickly went away after he started to speak again. Though the tone was barely clocked by Ra'an, who was too focused on work to be bothered by anything other than inefficiency, though she realized he must have thought he had done something by his apology.
"I apologies for the tone it got away from me temporarily." Keti wanted to compose himself better. "Permission to modify a couple of our stealth probes for communication purposes, at very least we can get a clear picture of what is going on."
Amila nodded to him. "We are under orders not to send anything out - no signals, no probes, until we are certain we have cover," Ra'an stated. "But, let's get something prepared for when we do."
Cortez walked in shortly after and took his spot to Amila's immediate right as she indicated. She still considered him impulsive and wanted to keep an eye on him. After she had given him orders to help him scan the known data he began to speak, thinking out loud she assumed as he began by suggested that they do precisely what she had just ordered him to do. She kept an eye on him somewhat anxiously, eager to get back to work, but well aware that she needed to listen to him carefully lest he slip something in that she agree to that wasn't correct.
“We should also examine their known sensor and communications frequencies. If we understand what they're looking for, we may be able to minimize the specific signatures they're most likely to detect. The same principle might work for our communications—hide our transmissions inside naturally occurring interference rather than broadcasting through it," he added.
"Known frequencies," she emphasized. "None of our sensors into the region under we have cover," she reminded him.
“And if we can make them spend their time investigating something that isn't us, I would consider that a successful use of the available science," Cortez added as returned his attention to the display. “I'll start by identifying the most promising anomalies and cross-reference them with the Cardassian sensor data. Once we find a suitable location, we can determine whether our systems can reproduce the conditions closely enough to conceal our arrival," he continued, his voice showing signs of excitement.
"Good idea, you focus on that, and I'll focus on how to hide us," she said, her mood softening as she also became enthusiastic about his input. "Nice work. No sensors into the regions under the Captain's orders, though" she reminded Cortez a third time. "Studying only for now."
"Lieutenant Keti," Ra'an said, now piggybacking off of Crotez's idea. "Did you hear that? Cortez may be on to something. If we do end up using one of our probes to get a comm into the region, it may be nice to have a double back-up. Not only use cover from natural phenomena, but assuming the Cardassians do read it, maybe make it look like something else to the Cardassians that isn't Federation that might seem innocuous to them, but that our people might get. Old Bajoran, Occupation era, or maybe even an ancient Earth radio signal, Navajo or something?"
==Tags to Keti and Cortez==
==Tag also to the GM-CD now that we have had additional input from the Science team. Do any of us have any luck with our focused projects on determining if there are anomalies in the region that will work to our advantage, and does Cortez come up with any useful limitations to Cardassian technology? - Thanks!==