Salvaging the Osprey

Posted on Sun Dec 26th, 2010 @ 11:35am by Lieutenant JG Jerreck O'Connor & Ensign Edward Simpson & Ensign Thomas Keller & Ensign Ewan "Calvin" Fraser & Lieutenant JG Ronnie Wolfe

1,074 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Peace, or Something Like It
Location: ShuttleBay
Timeline: Current

Keller stared at his tricorder in disbelief, as the readings on the display failed to match up to anything that he and Simpson knew as far spectrometry of energy based weapons.

~Keller to Fraser, can you give me an update on whether we are going to get the Science guy or not?~

Fraser walked through the doors of the Science department on his way through to Sick Call. He looked around and approached the nearest Lieutenant he saw. "Excuse me, LT. Can I get some assistance please?"

Jerry looked up from the project he'd been working on for what felt like a million years, and raised an eyebrow. "Don't know yet, you'll have to tell me what's wrong first. What's the problem, Ensign?"

"Captain wants a full workup done of the Osprey. We just recovered her and her pilot, both almost ready to fly apart. Many of the spectrographic results from the residue on the hull and nacelles is NOT matching up with what myself or the other pilots recognize from weapons we are familiar with. Think you could pull yourself away, because we really need a hand. The Captain wants the workup by end of our shift...."

Jerry nodded, looking over to Lancaster and Lizzie. "Keep the work on that implant going, gals. I'll be back as soon as I can. I know you'll just be heartbroken without me, but... duty calls." He grinned and grabbed a pair of tricorders and a PADD, nodding at Fraser. "Lead the way, Ensign."

"Yes, sir," Ronnie said, looking up from her console for a moment before returning to her work.

Lizzie just nodded.

"I won't be heading down there just yet, I am headed to Sickbay to check on our Wing Commander. Ensigns Keller and Simpson are in Shuttlebay 1, and have already started working on it. I should be back down there in short order though, sir."

Fraser left the Science office, and then headed for Sickbay. "Keller, we have the Science Chief on his way down now. Just fyi." With that he shut down the communication.

Jerry nodded and shrugged lightly, walking down towards the shuttlebay. When he got down there, he knocked on the bulkhead with a goofy smile. "Hey, I'm looking for a pair of Ensigns? I'm O'Connor - from Science?"

Keller looked up as he spoke and smiled in relief. "Thanks for coming down sir. As much as it irritates the both of us, the damage and energy residue don't match up with anything we have seen before." He looked back at the ship. "Its rather frustrating, especially considering how close we came to losing the Wing Commander."

He looked back at Jerry. "Any help you can give us would be most appreciated."

Jerry smiled and walked over, pulling out one of the tricorders and starting a scan, placing it on the floor before he walked around and set up the other one, pulling out the PADD and correllating scan data from the vessel. "Well, I can at least get a full scan done."

Keller just shook his head as he walked over to Jerry, and handed him his tricorder after the equipment was setup. "If you look her at how the energy patterns are overlapping, it almost looks like phaser fire. But when you run it to the other end of the spectrum," he tweaked the tricorder, "the residue from the blasts reads more as disruptor fire." He looked at Jerry.

"Is that even possible?"

Jerry shrugged and smiled lightly at Keller. "Well, the bad news is that I have one response to that question: anything's possible. It's just whether it's likely or not. Now, whether it's likely? I don't know. But, remember that Starfleet phasers do have a disruptor effect setting, which is called..." He scrolled down on the PADD, reading the name - it was obvious that weapons technology wasn't his thing, but he knew his way around it well enough. He tapped the diagram and nodded. "Disruptor-B setting. Usually that's a hand-phaser setting, but it's possible with a very high-powered phaser weapon. You'd need to remove the inhibitors, of course. Most of the people who do that are running illegal ships - like what probably attacked this vessel."

Simpson poked his head up out of the interior of the fighter. "That's as likely to damage the ship firing, as well as it is the ship being fired on. Reason being, that a hand phaser is designed to be modified like that, while a ship, their phasers are already a multitude more destructive." With that being said, he popped back into the fighter and returned to salvaging the fighter craft.

Tom shrugged at Jerry. "I am thinking we might be looking at a new type of weapon then." He walked over to Jerry, and brought up a second diagram, contrasting the two patterns. "The energy patterns are different at the high end." He looked back at Jerry. "What do you think?"

Jerry looked him and shrugged with a somewhat goofy smile. "Honestly, I think I'm a little out of my element. Weapons aren't my biggest thing, but have you run a sensor log to make sure that we're not dealing with some kind of a communication device on that higher wavelength? Where the phaser, here, is being used as a carrier for this, here? Because down in Science we've been working on this thing where we've been ending up stuck with looking for a high-level subspace signal. I don't know. But yeah, it does look like there's basically two different transmissions here; hell, are we even sure that there aren't two strike points? Are we sure they came from the same aperture?"

Tom looked at what he was pointing out, holding his chin in between his index finger and thumb. "I am betting that the answer lies somewhere in between your hypothesis and mine. I am calling it a day, and once we get the data compiled, will be able to get the report turned in."

He turned back to Jerry and held out his hand. "Thanks for coming down, we needed the additional perspective," he grinned, "even if you were a fish outta water."



Ensign Edward Simpson {McGraw}
Fighter Pilot
USS Calypso

Ensign Thomas Keller {McGraw}
Fighter Pilot
USS Calypso

Ensign Ewan Fraser {McGraw}
Squadron Leader
USS Calypso

Lieutenant JG Ronnie Lancaster{York}
Assistant Chief Medical Officer
USS Calypso

Lieutenant JG Jerreck O'Connor
Chief Science Officer
USS Calypso

 

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