10-18-2024, 05:05 PM
Lt Thorn got lots of blank stares at her being open to suggestions, reminding her that SHE was the one that was sent over here to come up with answers and they had very little time to work with. With a small nod to herself of resolve, she continued, "Okay, well I wasn't sent over here to stand around. I guess that until somebody comes up with a better idea, I'm going to try and bypass this control unit and see what kind of crazy thing I can rig up manually. These kinds of systems tend to rely on a containment field for deploying whatever form of energy they are going to flink at people they don't like, so that's what I'm going to work on. Fortunately, fields are one of my favorite things, so let's see what I'm working with here. What kind of field is this designed to generate and can I make it work?"
She took a deep breath and began to closely examine the machine and what components appeared to be generating what types of energy. She talked as she worked, remembering that Kurasa had Engineering training as well.
"The old Romulan systems were crude but effective. Generating a large, build up of compressed plasma, then encompassed it in a field and launched it in a direction. The first ones had no guidance at all. The improved systems weren't much better, but at least they were safer and more predictable. Since this is in the torpedo launch area and not a bank of emitters, it seems safe to say we're working with something based on those weapons, but because it is Cardassian, it is going to be something a bit crazier, intended to be more destructive, and they either didn't think it all the way through, or thought they were being bold and ignored the warnings of those who designed it. I'm afraid to think too hard about what this thing is supposed to be used for. I'm going to guess some form of planetary bombardment, but those kind of weapons aren't my thing, so I'm just guessing."
She then mumbled a few things to herself about things being in illogical places and her general opinions of the idiots that built the contraption, but she was all over the machine. There was a small curse when she stuck a finger into an area and there was a small flash of a spark that left a scorch mark on the tip of her glove. She had found a loose connection and tightened it before continuing on.
== Tag to all ==
== GM Input please: Kalli is looking for some kind of manual way to initiate a containment field. She presumes that it is going to either require containment, or a means to shut down whatever the power generation process is. Does she discover either of these things, or maybe even stumble across some other sort of discovery that points her in a different direction? ==
She took a deep breath and began to closely examine the machine and what components appeared to be generating what types of energy. She talked as she worked, remembering that Kurasa had Engineering training as well.
"The old Romulan systems were crude but effective. Generating a large, build up of compressed plasma, then encompassed it in a field and launched it in a direction. The first ones had no guidance at all. The improved systems weren't much better, but at least they were safer and more predictable. Since this is in the torpedo launch area and not a bank of emitters, it seems safe to say we're working with something based on those weapons, but because it is Cardassian, it is going to be something a bit crazier, intended to be more destructive, and they either didn't think it all the way through, or thought they were being bold and ignored the warnings of those who designed it. I'm afraid to think too hard about what this thing is supposed to be used for. I'm going to guess some form of planetary bombardment, but those kind of weapons aren't my thing, so I'm just guessing."
She then mumbled a few things to herself about things being in illogical places and her general opinions of the idiots that built the contraption, but she was all over the machine. There was a small curse when she stuck a finger into an area and there was a small flash of a spark that left a scorch mark on the tip of her glove. She had found a loose connection and tightened it before continuing on.
== Tag to all ==
== GM Input please: Kalli is looking for some kind of manual way to initiate a containment field. She presumes that it is going to either require containment, or a means to shut down whatever the power generation process is. Does she discover either of these things, or maybe even stumble across some other sort of discovery that points her in a different direction? ==