09-05-2026, 05:20 PM
"Then Keti's probes give us the second layer. We don't just send them toward the Cardassians. We scatter them across different vectors, with different apparent velocities and deliberately imperfect Bajoran signatures. If their sensors notice one, they'll have to decide whether it's a ship, debris, or some ancient Bajoran trick they thought they understood."
He looked toward Keti.
"And if they're still using occupation-era threat profiles, they're going to spend more time investigating something that looks familiar than something they don't recognize."
Keti knew that he was right the only thing he needed to do right now was remember that training, it was all part of their history now coming in handy. When they were sending communications in hidden places, shorthand communications were established. The smaller the communication the better, the longer the communication the higher the risk. The code was always the same, changed slightly over the years now it had to change a little more based off of past practice.
As Keti was working every code had to be perfect for this to work, they were using their language describing their aircraft as birds. It really threw them off for a while then it hit him, Keti realized that Ra'an basically described what he was doing perfectly. As he continued it was getting easier for him, then he heard something that Keti just couldn't unhear. It brought up the term foot in his mouth, why the phrase was coined Keti didn't understand. He still really didn't understand jokes either, but one day he might. Wait that is perfect, communications were often rushed to get out. Mistakes were made, if I add a mistake every now and again it could help. Keti thought to himself then he heard the amusement in her voice, she didn't exactly hate the remark it appeared to be more amusement. Keti was now distracted enough, shifting his focus to the task at hand.
In the end of it all the communications were going between all of the probes originating at a random probe, the communication wouldn't go to all the ships at once. Short coded messages sent to two destinations would be hard to spot, Keti programed three so it wouldn't look so obvious. He was going to require some time, doing these communications there couldn't just be a couple. There had to be quite a few so Keti was working on an adaptive communication, one that would change much like the flow of an actual conversation. "Cortez we also have to make sure these are not clustered too close together, we always made sure to travel in smaller groups. It made everything harder to detect, it also made communication lines shorter." In this case the smaller wouldn't be the better, they had to make it appear they got a little sloppy over the years. They didn't exactly have enough probes to make large groups anyways, so it really didn't matter.
Eventually Keti was going to have to place this into the probes themselves, the downloads could take a little time. As Keti waited for the work he completed was being finalized, there was still a couple more steps to complete. He really thought of what Cortez just said, it was impressive like at one time they could have been in class together. The first thing Keti wanted to do before going much further was let it finish, then phase two could start. "Captain how many probes should I have this ready for?" The only thing that Keti really didn't know was number of probes needed.
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He looked toward Keti.
"And if they're still using occupation-era threat profiles, they're going to spend more time investigating something that looks familiar than something they don't recognize."
Keti knew that he was right the only thing he needed to do right now was remember that training, it was all part of their history now coming in handy. When they were sending communications in hidden places, shorthand communications were established. The smaller the communication the better, the longer the communication the higher the risk. The code was always the same, changed slightly over the years now it had to change a little more based off of past practice.
As Keti was working every code had to be perfect for this to work, they were using their language describing their aircraft as birds. It really threw them off for a while then it hit him, Keti realized that Ra'an basically described what he was doing perfectly. As he continued it was getting easier for him, then he heard something that Keti just couldn't unhear. It brought up the term foot in his mouth, why the phrase was coined Keti didn't understand. He still really didn't understand jokes either, but one day he might. Wait that is perfect, communications were often rushed to get out. Mistakes were made, if I add a mistake every now and again it could help. Keti thought to himself then he heard the amusement in her voice, she didn't exactly hate the remark it appeared to be more amusement. Keti was now distracted enough, shifting his focus to the task at hand.
In the end of it all the communications were going between all of the probes originating at a random probe, the communication wouldn't go to all the ships at once. Short coded messages sent to two destinations would be hard to spot, Keti programed three so it wouldn't look so obvious. He was going to require some time, doing these communications there couldn't just be a couple. There had to be quite a few so Keti was working on an adaptive communication, one that would change much like the flow of an actual conversation. "Cortez we also have to make sure these are not clustered too close together, we always made sure to travel in smaller groups. It made everything harder to detect, it also made communication lines shorter." In this case the smaller wouldn't be the better, they had to make it appear they got a little sloppy over the years. They didn't exactly have enough probes to make large groups anyways, so it really didn't matter.
Eventually Keti was going to have to place this into the probes themselves, the downloads could take a little time. As Keti waited for the work he completed was being finalized, there was still a couple more steps to complete. He really thought of what Cortez just said, it was impressive like at one time they could have been in class together. The first thing Keti wanted to do before going much further was let it finish, then phase two could start. "Captain how many probes should I have this ready for?" The only thing that Keti really didn't know was number of probes needed.
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