Revalations

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Damn that Connor, the sight of him fills me with a rage...a rage that I cannot describe... it seems to have no basis in his actions, it just happened... It would be my dream to desa--- no, it would not... as much as I would like it to be so subconciously, I know that is not what I truly want...

 

By now, my report has reached Daryus... in it I have included a detailed report on how the technology works, which I will be including in my log... it took four years, only four years to uncover what was hidden...

 

I will declare officially in this log what is the truth...

 

I have given false information to starfleet.

 

I have kept secret... no, deliberately with held critical research...

 

I ... I... I was a critical part in the development , the primary scientist in charge of theoretical modeling and plasma mechanics (I influenced its design during every stage from its conception, to proto type construction), of... plasma shielding.

 

I will have to consider resigning my commision as a starfleet officer.

 

My resignation will be turned in seven days from now. Technical specifications have already been forwarded to my commanding officers...

 

If I am not clapped in irons... I will take the first transport to Omicron Draconis...

 

I suppose that I should set the record straight on the natue of the project, and what became of the members...

 

 

We were a small group of researchers, four, including myself that were gathered by a Dr. Roger Menkot who originally wished to copy the vulcan principles of shielding, but soon changed the focus of the plan to be instead a development of a human shielding system, based upon original ideas, human ideas. We went into space, Roger's paranoia did not allow him to be on the ground for very long for fear of sabotage. the first prototypes, Roger's design, were utter failures,unable to maintain power for more than four minutes at a stretch. after five such machines, and a month in space, I spoke up, I was frustrated with Roger and his ideas, and decided to come up with something myself, it was then that I proposed plasma shielding. I already had most of the formulas down, and they showed great promise and few limitations. I had only to find a suitable plasma intermix and devise a method for the containment of the shield...for two months we grappled with these twin problems, when suddenly one of our researchers, Alexander Tholtskev came up with a novel feul mixture that improved upon my original projections buy a marginof 365 % in power dissapation and thermal conductivity. when he was explaining the particulars of his plasma, I was struck with an Idea, I realized that something as simple as magnetic containment could be a viable and energy friendly way to give the fields definition and integrity. One month later, I had tested a smaller model of my magnetic containment field generators. it was perfect... a few days later, when we were convinced that the design would hold up, Micheal Tanquero, the project's construction specialist, began gathering the necesary materials, we even stoped at a few planets to find some impossible to synthesis backup plasma coils. At five months in, our prototype was complete and we were ready for preliminary testing. it showed remarkable resiliency in initial trials but the trouble began when conducting weapons trials. I was in the single Chocrane warp sled alone. It was mounted with a variety of small energy and projectile emmitters, to simulate weapons fire. It had a small screen and some supplies inside, the screen showed the interior of the engineering section in which the crew was gathered for the test, everyone was at a station checking readings and the computer was occupied recording everything. it was s - 3 minutes when everything went wrong. It was a valve, a single poorly maintained valve. As the power was shifted from engines to the sensors, a small overload burst the valves, flooding the engineering section with searing hot plasma. Alex and Mike died instantly, Roger lasted a few seconds longer, his eyes locked onto mine and he said dont tell them, before he went slack and was consumed by the swirling eddies and currents of plasma. The antimatter stores breached soon after that and I managed to escape with nothing but the warp sled, and my memories, it took an eternity to reach the nearest planet... but when I arrived I was not noticed at first, and I took the first transport to Earth after selling the sled.

 

 

 

For what may be the final time, this is Ensign Lazarus Montague... signing out.

 

 

 

 

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Overview:

 

According to the theoretical model that I have been producing for some time now, it would take a field density of about 2.34g/mL with a thickness of about 2 cm that is split into two parts by magnetic fields of oposing charges. the field itself will be 1.56 m from the hull of the craft at a minimum, allowing for the energy to have room to disperse. The goals of this field configuration is to save power and allow for proper densities of plasma to: a)completely reflect large percentages of energy from directed energy attacks B ) refract the energy that does get through so that it has a negligable impact on the craft.

 

The Magnetic Fields:

 

The design of the nested magnetic fields allows for one of them to be breached while still allowing for near total containment of the plasma. The outermost field is one of a positive charge, effectively repulsing the plasma and containg it within the area where it is most effective. The second magnetic field is of a negative charge and is located almost exactly at 1 cm from the positive one. This field attracts the plasma and pushes it away from the craft during the activation stages. disruption of both fields simultaneously is relatively impossible due to their opposing charges. This dual field system has another purpose aside from containing the plasma, sustenance. The interaction of these two fields across the medium of plasma allows for constant movement and maintenance of the plasma, not allowing it to revert to gas. Laboratory simulations have shown that it is better than most superconductors iwhen it comes to preventing the loss of energy, as there are no atoms to interfere with the transfers. In the event of a total power loss, the electromagnetic fields will lose polarity and the plasma will suddenly escape into the vacuum. In the future, as better materials become available, batteries of batteries will provide backup power to all of the magnetic elements allowing for prolonged use without loss of power, currently energy densities in most batteries is two low for more than a few seconds of backup power.

 

Plasma:

 

One of the most important elements of the shield is the plasma, a low temperature variant of the traditional hot plasma typically produced as part of a fusion reaction (eg. stars) when energy of a special calibration is passed through helium and other primary sequence gasses. Although the intense heat usually causes these plasmas to fuse, producing energy and stabalized molecules. This plasma can be produced with minimal power drain on a relatively low current compared to its hot variant, approxemately 1% of the energy is used in its formation.As opposed to the flammable hydrogen that many conventiona plasmas are created from, this new variant uses helium gas and trace amounts of xenion gas (as a reaction sustainer), a much milder combination. The lower operationg temperature of this plasma allows for many of the problems with plasma flow and transport to no longer be relevent. Lower temeperature plasma acts more like a fluid than its hot variant allowing for nearly limitless pressure to through the same tubes used by its predeccessor, that was limited by magnetic field strength. This plasma is positively charged, and is a bit unusual due to the fact that it cannot transfer energy as efficiently as other plasmas, thereby limiting its posible applications in the field of energy transport and weaponry. This plasma can however, reflect and refract energy not tuned to its specific energy signature (including, interestingly enough, EM emissions, rendering the craft or object somewhat transparent as the light is refracted and distorted around the field), which can be modulated by the precise shape of the magnetic fields for security purposes. It is important to note, however, that this plasma cannot stop incoming projectiles of any kind (unless their mass is less than 4 kg and their speed is less than 10m/s.

Edited July 26, 2005 by Montague