06-09-2024, 01:07 PM
New ships are a wonderful way to try out new technologies. And to try the patience of the crew along the way also.
Given that the primary mission of the Yeager was to map the boarder systems along the Cardassian /Talarian DMZ, Black was all too ready to lynch whichever of the Antares shipyard team had not only failed to update over forty tera-quads of off the shelf navigation charts prior to launch, but had managed to install both the secondary AND tertiary quantum-astrolabes upside down.
That had taken over half a day to discover and repair when they'd found something was up by chance, when someone looking out the window noticed a planet on the wrong side of the ship.
Five weeks into the mission, may as well have been five months.
The shifts had swapped over about half an hour ago. Chertstone had been been on helm duty. He'd reported that there had been an anomalous reading from the lateral sensor sweeps during the last mapping pass, but the computer had classified it as a sensor ghost as it hadn't reoccurred.
Black accepted this as this region was quite heavy in gaseous interstellar matter, and had caused several other false positives.
However this time, when the computer flagged it again. It red flagged it as it was miniscule, but identical to the previous one.
Coincidences are never a coincidence. And if there's any doubt, there is no doubt. She turned back to address T'Lari who was seated at the aft tactical station.
“Contact bearing...” She gave a heading and inclination. “Identical to previous ghost contact half an hour ago. Can you confirm contact and heading?”
== Tag T'Lari and anyone else wanting to sound like they know what they're doing? ==
Given that the primary mission of the Yeager was to map the boarder systems along the Cardassian /Talarian DMZ, Black was all too ready to lynch whichever of the Antares shipyard team had not only failed to update over forty tera-quads of off the shelf navigation charts prior to launch, but had managed to install both the secondary AND tertiary quantum-astrolabes upside down.
That had taken over half a day to discover and repair when they'd found something was up by chance, when someone looking out the window noticed a planet on the wrong side of the ship.
Five weeks into the mission, may as well have been five months.
The shifts had swapped over about half an hour ago. Chertstone had been been on helm duty. He'd reported that there had been an anomalous reading from the lateral sensor sweeps during the last mapping pass, but the computer had classified it as a sensor ghost as it hadn't reoccurred.
Black accepted this as this region was quite heavy in gaseous interstellar matter, and had caused several other false positives.
However this time, when the computer flagged it again. It red flagged it as it was miniscule, but identical to the previous one.
Coincidences are never a coincidence. And if there's any doubt, there is no doubt. She turned back to address T'Lari who was seated at the aft tactical station.
“Contact bearing...” She gave a heading and inclination. “Identical to previous ghost contact half an hour ago. Can you confirm contact and heading?”
== Tag T'Lari and anyone else wanting to sound like they know what they're doing? ==