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Message in a (Phased) Bottle

Message in a (Phased) Bottle

 

A joint log from Ian Syndrx and Turris Morran

 

 

 

Turris Morran stood behind Ian Syndrx at the cluster of scientific read-outs and consoles, his attention divided between Ian's work and the chaos occurring near the cockpit. The area around them was all but vacant as the rest of the crew we're about caring for the injured crewmen, and caring for the injured scout ship as well. Time was of the essence, Morran knew this. It was only a matter of time before the Romulans came looking for them and they ended up back in that cold cell in the undergrounds of Romulus. Scratching the back of his head he spoke up, "What if, we uhh..no that'll never work."

 

Ian was sitting with a PADD, going over the systems readouts from the scout ship, looking for ways to reduce power consumption to save fuel, partially because he wanted to make it home, but mostly because he felt the need to stay busy. He heard Turris speak up and turned to face him, glad for the distraction. "Do you have an idea, Ensign?"

 

Turris' attention was already gone when Ian spoke up, again looking wide-eyed towards the front of the ship. Someone was holding a man's hand, while someone else was apparently having a heated conversation. He was bad enough at remembering names without everyone being clad in these stupid uniforms. After a while Ian's voice broke through his diversion, "What? Oh, an idea. Yeah, I was thinking we could use some sort of umm..." Morran snapped his fingers, suffering from a bit of dysnomia, "Fa...fa..phase. Phase inducer!"

 

Ian gave Turris with a look of confusion, than stood up and walked back to the consoles to see what Turris had been working on. While reading over the information on the consoles Ian asked, "A phase inducer? I think you mean a phase inverter, but what would you be using one for?"

 

"Ahh, right. Umm..phase inverter." He trailed off, obviously losing his train of thought for a moment. "Oh! I was thinking, the Manticore is currently under phase cloak, right?" He leaned over to his console, pulling up the phasic information from the Manticore's cloak. "If we could somehow find a way to send a subspace message using the same phase variance as the Manticore's we could send them a message that only they will be able to receive."

 

Ian looked at the data than started typing out equations on a separate console. After a few minutes he spoke, "You might be on to something. Phase shifting a subspace transmission would be pretty tricky, and we certainly don't have the necessary equipment on this ship. However,” Ian conjectured, “we might be able to phase shift a modulated particle beam emitted from the navigational deflector array. But where are we going to find a molecular phase inverter?"

 

"There's got to be.." Morran mumbled, looking around the scout ship at the various equipment before his eyes finally came to rest on the small transporter pad located in the rear of the cabin. "We could use the transporter's phase indu.. inverter."

 

Ian thought for a moment, then a bright look came over his face. "Right! Transporter systems use phase inverters in the resonator array! We could modify one to function as a molecular phase inverter and use it to phase shift a particle beam to the same phase variance as the Manticore. The transporter wouldn't function anymore, but we could get a message through."

 

Turris explained, looking slightly pleased with himself, "We'll have to channel it through the deflector dish, we'll lose a lot of power in the phase. We'll probably blow out the inverter in the process, so I imagine we'll only get one shot at it. Umm..we'll have to get approval for this."

 

Ian finished his calculations on the console and nodded in agreement. "We'd only be able to send a short audio message, as well as our coordinates, and we'd have to be careful not to burn out any vital systems, but it could work, and it might be our only way out."

 

"You think the engineers will mind?"

 

"Well, unless they have a better idea, I don't see that they have any room to disagree."

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