Another Step Closer

[Tachyon 0]

“Another Step Closer”

January 6, 2156

Lieutenant Dave Grey

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They were another step closer toward figuring out this alien weapon. It was, Grey believed, a major breakthrough. It turned out that the button labelled “Projection” caused the holographic projection to appear (and did not, in fact, fire the weapon and cause irreparable damage to something in orbit).

 

As a second stroke of luck it also turned out that Ensign Xiang could understand, at least in a limited form, the alien language being spoken. The universal translator could not make heads or tails of it, but the dialect was apparently similar to something Xiang could speak. Xiang took up a dialogue with the interactive projection in search for answers.

 

So here they were. Grey, Giovanni, Connor, and Xiang . . . in the control room of a massive alien weapon, with an interactive holographic projection that apparently could not control the weapon itself.

 

They were at least one step closer to solving this problem.