"Beyond the lattice"

[Zack Yuuko-Chen 0]

Lt. Zack Chen

Chief Science Officer

Log Entry

 

 

Click. Whirl. Slide. Click. Beep. Blink. Click.

 

If someone had told Zack that being a science officer involved a lot of doubling of engineering duties before he joined Excalibur, he would have agreed.

 

If someone had told Zack that being a science officer involved a lot of hard work before he was assigned, he probably would have agreed to that too.

 

But if someone had told Zack that being a science officer meant a lot of pain to the head that didn’t originate from a mathematical equation, Zack would have told that person that they need to test that claim in the labs. It appeared that he had lost this debate.

 

Nevertheless, the headaches have stoped and his vision returned to what it used to be. The life support matrix was now under his care and with every new component replaced, the crew will live through this ordeal.

 

Click. Whirl. Beep. Blink. Click. Close.

 

That was the last one. All the isolinear chips replaced, micro command circuit pathways reconnected, power lines set. The rest was up to the crew to find dilithium.

 

Despite his enthusiasm for some industrial engineering physical chemistry behind the recystalization of dilithium, the solution was shortcoming. But he had thought that the solution he and Defarge came up with was a nice supplement.

 

Dilithium, a mysteriously powerful that has been fuelling many super powers and many unknown alien races, their ships, their technology and their weaponry, was rare and delicate. Morningstar’s dilithium crystal has begun to destabilize. Zack has no clue why, but his solution may save the trouble of finding new dilithium, provided it works.

 

The debated with the engineers haven’t remotely begun yet. Zack planed the next meeting with the Chief engineer and hoped he wasn’t going to run off to take a shower again.