Transporters and Communications

Posted on Tue Dec 2nd, 2014 @ 3:58pm by Ensign Maria Delgado & Lieutenant Austin Brown & Commander Hans Munich

873 words; about a 4 minute read

ON

Brown hadn't slept in what seemed like days, or maybe it was just the many hours peering at a computer terminal looking at miles and miles of code. she was about to give up and give into her stomach when the terminal chirped at her. "What's this?" She asked her self opening file that was marked for deletion. A second transporter trace? She asked herself. How had it gone un noticed the first time, and why was it buried so deep in the system?

"Hans, I think i found evidence of a second transporter signal. This time buried deep within the diagnostic logs. How are you coming with your search?"

"There is a masking effect." Munich said calmly. "They person could have used the registry of a One Way Transporter transponder." He tried to get the system to determine the source of the signal. "The computer would register the Transporter Booster and log that into the system and could make a false signal."

"it's possible. check the comm logs. for a time stamp. there should have been a record even if it was deleted, when our guest remotely beamed aboard. which ever time code matches the time of death closest is our real transporter beam.

Munich began to scan the data from the internal sensors for the time of death. "There is a signal accepted by the system, that is why the alarms did not sound." Munich informed.

"Checking against internal scans," Maria said. "Whoever transported over also put a bug in the computer that kept it from recording anything about the event."

"All i get is appears to be normal... no scratch that. look here. The internal scans are identical to those of the day before. that just isn't possible, unless someone intentionally placed a duplicate log in the system to make it appear that every thing was normal. If there was anything recorded before this, it will be near impossible to re construct" Brown replied.

Maria thought for a moment, then turned to Austin and Hans. "I'm going to the computer core to see if there's anything in the backup files. It's a long shot, but worth checking, just in case."

"Alright. We'll keep working here, see what we can dig up." Brown replied.

Maria nodded and headed for the turbolift.

"Ok, lets hear all you have to say." Brown said somewhat to herself and somewhat to the LCARS station.

"How about we send out an active signal kind of like a 'Sonar Ping and see if the badge; or whatever was used to replicate that signal responds?" Munich suggested. "It might not give us a lock but if it is hiding we might get a general direction of something?"

"It's worth a try." brown nodded.

Munich began to set up the communications 'Ping' and ran a intircate check of the scans so to fine tune the Ping for maximum effect, breaking down the indidual harmonics of the signal.... it did not come out right. "There is a signal diviation, it is a slight distortion of the harmonics of the signal." Munich adjusted the filters. "I tink we hav' a signal piggybacking the transponder signal, it vould be hard to detect unles put through the strictest harmonics filter." He turned to Brown. "We have a second signal embedded in the transmission, cannot get a read on it but it is there."

Samantha walked onto the bridge and looked from Hans to Austin. "Any progress?" she asked.

"Ma'am, we have detected a piggyback transmission in that transporter log." Munich report as he turned his chair to face her. "I cannot read it as it is embedded but it appears to be a transporter lock modification, probably the initial lock and The Late Commander's Transmission mant to just be louder to hide the real signal?"

That was exactly what Sam hoped to find -- another signal. "Isolate it. Get Admiral Hunter to help you if you need him."

Yes ma'am." Munich said. "I can tell by the wavelength is similar to a locator of a transporter Lock, but isolating it will take a bit to see if there is a type of transmission we an identify." He explained

"From what we can gather so far, It would not have any long range capability. maybe 150,000 to 200,000 Km max.

Maria came back several minutes later. "Found it. Not much, but I have one blip of someone transporting aboard, then it's gone. All I know is the figure is Caitian," Maria said, pulling up the image on the science console.

Sam hurried over. "Caitian? Are you sure?"

"Yes. Internal sensors have just enough for that. I think it's a she, but I can't tell how old or from where. That part was deleted."

"Good enough," Sam said, a good deal of the tension she'd been feeling melting away. "Send it to Hunter. He'll want to see it, too."

She turned to Brown and Munich. "Find that ship. I want to know what it is and where it went." With that, she turned and went back into her Ready Room to contact Hunter.

OFF

Lieutenant Austin Brown
Chief Operations Officer

Lieutenant Hans Munich
Chief Communications Officer

Ensign Maria Delgado
Science Officer

Commodore Samantha York
Commanding Officer

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