Kee’ren: ++moving at the velocity of 100 kph, tangtengitally to the rings. Meaning it might be trapped in the graviton well of the gas giant already."
Nalys: “Can we have confirmation that there will be no firing of torpedos? The station needs help. I believe the anarhai can assist, but I need to be sure of the safety of our people.”
Grover Swerdlow: The captain of the Frunze sighed quietly, shaking his head at the misunderstanding of his proposition. =C= “Understood, Tarsus. Preparing probe now. Liberty, we await your confirmation.”
Awai: = Tarsus to all rescue ships recommend shuttles on RCS only. They shouldn’t attract to much attention that way. =c=
Passio: Following this announcement, there’s a slight commotion on the bridge of the Dhae’Rhian. Passio, having not thought to close comms during this, can be heard clearly. “ABSOLUTELY NOT.”->
Kee’ren: =C= “Frunze, we are sending you extrapolated trajectory of the phenomenon with 95% certainty margin.”
Passio: -> “I won’t let you! I will order you to sit your ass down, Ruby, I swear it!”
Nalys: With the Dhae’Rhian safely through, the Anarhai begins a slow, cautious approach of the s tation. Alert for any sign of subspace damage, the vessel, under its modifications, attempts to approach the-
Nalys: - damaged station “Please transmit that trajectory to helm as well, that we may manouver around it”
Grover Swerdlow: =C= “Acknowledged, Liberty. Modifying projected probe path according to phenomenon trajectory and transmitting path to Anarhai. Probe launch in 15 seconds.”
Awai: Tarsus sets up its primary scan system to track the movement of probe
Nalys: After studying the anomaly, the Anarhai’s scientists seem to devise a method. The vessel’s engines roar to life, briefly, before all power is cut aboard the vessel. Inertia carries the ship towards -
Nalys: - the station, effectively on zero power thanks to the laws of motion. Thankfully, the engineers seem skilled, and the engines flare to life one time only to draw to a stop just outside the station..
Passio: =C= “Heh. Nice trick Anarhai.”
Kyhid Zohl: | The probe is launched and curves a path to the belt, taking account of detected wave pulses. The journey is very rough, but the probe is sufficiently low power not to be destroyed. It begins
Nalys: “All credit goes to the chief engineer on this one.”
Kyhid Zohl: | to transmit data back
Awai: =c= Tarsus to Liberty. Be advised we’re on the move up to the polar point of Andoria.
Nalys: The Anarhai immidiately begins a rescue operation aboard the station. Its hangar bay doors open, and from it, Romulan shuttles begin to fly towards the battered station. Engineers, doctors, and -
Kee’ren: =C= “Understood, Tarsus. Do you need us repositioning?”
Awai: =c= Aye cam you come up and out about 15 degrees both directions?=c=
Nalys: - rescue crews attempt to land, with and without equipment, and begin evacuating the wounded and civillians. The massive ship seems well suited to these operations, but there was a problem..
Grover Swerdlow: The captain is already standing behind the bridge science officer, watching the data coming in. He orders for the data to be shared with all ships.
Nalys: =C= Anarhai here. Rescue operations are now underway, but with only shuttles, it’s going to take forever to evacuate the station. Can any science ships come up with a way for us to safely use -
Nalys: - transporters? There are thousands of people on this station."
Grover Swerdlow: =C= “Be advised. Probe data suggests graviton waves come from within the gas giant.”
Ezreli: =C= Aegis to Anarhai, we’ll take a look at it. Moving to your location, one half thrusters.
Awai: *aboard the tarsus one of her many Astrometric officers.. "Oh, thats not good, No. Not at all….. *
Kee’ren: =C= “We are in position now, Tarsus. Anarhai, Tykera… our DC teams and support engineers are ready in their shuttles should you require additional assistance.”
Passio: =C= “Wait, like…in it, in it? Like, beneath the atmosphere?”
Grover Swerdlow: =C= “Indeed. Working on hypotheses now.”
Ezreli: =C= Have we tried transporters in the effects of the anomaly so far? Is there any data to share?
Nalys: =C= Shuttles will not cut it, fleet. We need a way to beam survivors off the station. I am directing my engineers to cut all power aboard the station save life support and gravity."
Awai: =C= Tarsus to fleet, Do NOT scan the rings, I repeat do not scan the rings =C=
Kee’ren: “What about using shuttles and runabouts as an analogues to pattern enhancers for en masse beaming off?”
Grover Swerdlow: its really cool actually
Grover Swerdlow: ((void))
Grover Swerdlow: =C= "Science points out that this phenomenon could be explained by the presence of two massive bodies in close orbit around each other. It is, however, a faulty hypothesis, since the decay in orbit >
Awai: is continuing to scan and track data as it can
Nalys: The Anarhai and the station have now bcome a hub of activity., Brief engine flares pulse back and forth as shuttles nimbly coasts between the station and the ship, carrying survivors one way, -
Ezreli: If this anomaly reacts to energy, a transporter confinement beam would be a significant power usage. We’d be best to work on a way to isolate the signal.
Grover Swerdlow: > would be accelerated due to the presence of an atmosphere."
Nalys: - support the other. It was NOT a clean operation - And the Fleet could tell shuttles sometimes slam into their landing pads as bursts are miscalculated. Every departure risked destruction to the -
Kyhid Zohl: gives the affirmative as requests are being passed to him from both his own teams and updates from across the fleet
Nalys: - anomaly. In addition, the Anarhai was revealing a capability Starfleet files would not be aware of: That the vessel had at least some carrier capability.
Ezreli: What about a hardline?
Kee’ren: =C= “An actual pulling rope of a sort?”
Ezreli: No no, redirecting the transporter signal along a direct line instead of using the signal emitters.
Nalys: Aboard the station, Romulan engineering crews would shut down the station’s main power generator, working in tandem with their Andorian counterparts to keep life support functioning. But that would -
Nalys: - be about it
Ezreli: Planetary transporters are configured in a way, we might be able to adapt our own.
Passio: There’s a bit more commotion aboard the Dhae’Rhian. After a moment, there’s the clear sign of Passio relelnting to something. “We…might have a solution for analog craft, actually…”
Ezreli: It would prevent the signals interacting with the anomaly, but it would still be a large increase in power usage.
Awai: =Tarsus to fleet= I think if you postion several ships between the rescue vessels and the station in low power they will sheild the rings from the energy=
Kee’ren: =C= “Lower energy consumption and thus attraction, but it would be packed in a tighter volume. Thus energy density would be increased. But it is worth trying. Tarsus, what is your estimation?”
Kyhid Zohl: ’s Science officer reports in. They’ve been carefully studying the data flows received from the Anarhai, the Tarsus and indeed many of the nearby ships. They wish to address the fleet. Zohl nods.
Kyhid Zohl: ‘s Chief Science Officer speaks to the fleet. "Having assessed multiple data vectors, and confirming the Tarsus’ findings that the belt’s ice is in fact amplifying the wave patterns, we suggest +
Awai: =C= Thats close to our thoughts, Using the extra ships as “heat sinks” if you will.
Kyhid Zohl: .. a targetted disruption approach is employed across the belt itself. If we can disrupt the amplification, the waves will settle… at least in theory. "
Nalys: =C= The only alternative is that your ships form around us and use your shield harmonics to shield us while we’re beaming. Since beaming neccecitates the lowering of the shields..
Ezreli: Captain Swerdlow, could you separate the Frunze? If two of the sections could cover both sides, that might be a suitable shielding cover.
Kee’ren: =C= “Tarsus, according to your simulations, what would happen if a ship shot a burst of anti-tetryon particles at this subspace phenomemnon?”
Awai: =unknown but probably NOT good. we’re getting serious scan scatter from the rings right now. I’m afraid of how that would react =c=
Kee’ren: =C= “Very well. We will not commence our own calculations then.”
Grover Swerdlow: =C= "Aegis, I believe our science team have figured out a breakthrough in shielding from the gravitonic effects of this phenomenon. Frunze shall move to shield both sides, as requested.
Ezreli: Acknowledged, moving in to hardline with the station.
Grover Swerdlow: *As the ship’s sections separate and place themselves at the appropriate locations, Swerdlow continues to explain the hypothesis. "Since we are dealing with gravitons, Frunze’s science team >
Grover Swerdlow: > postulates that creating an alternating warp-bubble of opposing chirality to the graviton waves emitted will shield us from harm."
Grover Swerdlow: “The tidal forces shall be counteracted in this case.”
Nalys: “Just signal whenever you are ready, then any willing cna assist in beaming out the survivors. I imagine the fleet can deal with the disturbance itself.”
Kee’ren: =C= “Frunze, what you describe is almost like a Caitian splashing in bathtub.”
Passio: Passio perks up upon hearing the explanation. “WAIT. We might be able to do that! Tick! TIIIICCCKKK!!!” She slams the ship comms button as hard as she can as she shouts the name. ->
Kee’ren: =C= "However, our Astronomy department agrees with you assessment. As to alternating warp bubble, we think we would need at least two warp cores working in sync to get this oppossing chirality effect.
Ezreli: That’s brilliant, that should shield the most intense effects at a given chirality. What if a symetrical wave hits?
Kyhid Zohl: can’t help but smile as he overhears on open comms the theories and potential actions being proposed from across the fleet. He continues to be preoccupied with Andoria Planetary & SF Commands
Nalys: “Evacuation approximately five percent complete, several hundred families have been evacuated..Several thousand left to go. In other words, any way to speed this up would be appreciated.”
Awai: =C= Tarsus to Frunze Captain that should allow for some use of transporters, we believe, but let us move the ship between you and the rings first =c=
Grover Swerdlow: =C= “Perhaps. With proper preparation, even the caitian may splash in the water.” The captain responds completely seriously. "As for the symmetrical wave issue, I believe Liberty’s astronomy >
Passio: -> She shouts again. “No, we don’t! That’s kinda…sorta…ish, how our High-Impact Particle Cannons work!” She listens to something coming through her ship’s local comms. “Tick says he wants to try!”
Ezreli: Aegis is docking now. Anarhai, I’m having my engineer forward on some schematics that might allow your transporters to be configured in the same way. I propose you dock to our starboard…
Ezreli: …collar and use your transporters. The Aegis will act essentially as a giant transporter buffer, that should hopefully dissipate some of the energy output as well.
Grover Swerdlow: > department has the right idea. Two warp-cores working in tandem could, in theory, cancel out the effects of a symmetrical wave, should one erupt."
Ezreli: Excellent!
Nalys: “Not that I disagree, but why is docking required for the specifications? Surely you do not intend to transmit them via carrier pidgeon?”
Kee’ren: =C= “Liberty does have two warp cores, one in stardrive and one in saucer section. If we make a separation of the vessel, we might be able to compensate.”
Ezreli: We’re using a hardline transporter to minimise the emission effects.
Ezreli: We’re linking pad directly to pad
Awai: Tarsus moves into a spot to monitor the rings at close range.
Grover Swerdlow: =C= “Acknowledged, Liberty. Science suggests to entangle the core controls directly to prevent latency issues between the two warp-cores.”
Kee’ren: Liberty moves above the pole of Andoria.
Nalys: =C= Do we have a plan and is everyone quite ready, then? I should like to cease losing shuttles to these pulsing deliveries"
Awai: =C= Tarsus to fleet, Can I get someone, to move up and out from the fleet, If we gotta go in a hurry we’re going to loose the scanning arrray, I’ll need some eyes to guide us, =c=
Ezreli: =C= We have the plan, can you make the transporter modifications?
Kee’ren: =C= “Dhae’Rhian, you could assist us and Tarsus being the middle man.”
Passio: “We should be able to manage that, yes.”
Grover Swerdlow: =C= “Dhae’Rhian.” Grover responds, though with a pause to make sure he pronounced it correctly. "I am unfamiliar with Romulan singularity cores. Do they have the capability of generating >
Kyhid Zohl: =C= Tarsus, this is Tykera. We will take over secondary scanning per your protocols =C=
Grover Swerdlow: > gravitational and anti-gravitational bubbles?"
Kee’ren: =C= “By proceeding to our previous position. With our position above the planetary pole, we are partially blocked from the rest of the task group.”
Awai: =c= Tarsus copies, Be advised for the moment the rings are stable, angry, but stable =c=
Nalys: =C= “Please let me know, clearly, when you are ready.”
Passio: “Kinda, yeah. Tick could explain better than me, but our cannons use graviton fields to fling stuff at warp speed. Or near enough, anyway.” ->
Ezreli: =C= Commander of the Anarhai, We are going to be ready once you have confirmed your vessel has reconfigured its transporters for a hardline connection.
Passio: -> “Tick’s pretty sure he could get them to shift the fields in a way to create the shielding you’re suggesting.”
Awai: =C= I would suggest you focus soley on evacuation at the moment, we are monitoring things.
Nalys: *Assuming all of the calculations were complete, the Anarhai eventually drifts forth. Docking with the Aegis proves a bit clumsy, as Romulan vessels dont use the same docking ports, but a bit of -
Nalys: - clever engineering makes it work. Once done, the vessel’s shields lower, and it begins to beam survivors to it’s massive bulk, as well as the Aegis’s. Progress is-…Still slow, in truth. But faster
Ezreli: We’ve expanded the pattern buffers as far as we can, we’re failing them over in turn, but the maintenance cycles are taking time.
Kyhid Zohl: | The ships nearest the belt and station move into action. Warp cores flare in sequence, each ship linking its field into the next, a chain of stabilisation bubbles forms across the rings.
Kyhid Zohl: | The graviton waves slam against the warp fields, but are forced to refract outward, bleeding their strength harmlessly into open space and back to the gas giant.
Kyhid Zohl: | Within the calmer pocket, the transporter chain locks on. Hardlines and shuttle repeaters hum, signal weaving from ship to ship. +
Kyhid Zohl: | Hundreds of lifesigns now flicker through buffers, then resolve aboard the waiting vessels. The first cheers rise across the comms. The rescue is working +
Kyhid Zohl: | The station still groans under stress but stabilises as the effect of the waves dissapate and silence….
Nalys: *The Anarhai’'s crew is visibly busy on sensors. Engineer and medical teams filter into the station, rendering aid and working to keep the station from collapsing while the Federation fleet is on its-
Kyhid Zohl: | What had been violent surges settle into faint ripples across the icy belts… like a pond finally calming after stones have been thrown. +
Kyhid Zohl: | Sensor scans pierce the quiet at last. Beneath the cloud tops of the gas giant, a gravitic anomaly pulses.. an unstable subspace bubble lodged within the atmosphere. An object!
Kyhid Zohl: | The object’s profile is unfamiliar to Starfleet and others’ archives, but it winks out of existence as if teleported elsewhere once observed.
Awai: begins scanning the subspace bubble as fast as it can
Kyhid Zohl: | A new tide, this time of warp flashes, streak into the system. Dozens and dozens of Starfleet ships emerge, the 14th Fleet fanning into orderly formation above Andoria.
Kee’ren: =C= “Liberty to Task Group. Was anyone able to get a scan on that object?”
Nalys: - way. Meanwhile, shuttle traffic decreases as survivors are beamed aboard the warbird , and any other vessels willing to help (Aegis?).*
Ezreli: The strain on the Aegis’ systems begin to show as the nacelles begin to dim, followed by her impulse engines.
Awai: =c= "Aye we’re on it, and processing it at the moment, Its entirely new to our catalog!
Kee’ren: =C= "We only got a glimpse of it. Perhaps we can get a partial reconstruction by joining scans together… though I must say, considering how the object acted and reacted, it leaves an impression of++
Kee’ren: ++a silent weapon."
Awai: =c= sends the date to the liberty first =C= Captain that had a rather rapid exit velocity, we’re tracking it now, stand by =c=c
Kyhid Zohl: =C= Yes, I couldn’t concur with you more Liberty, this does feel like a.. " Zohl is cut off by a fleet-wide hail. It is Admiral Holleth of the 14th Fleet.
Kyhid Zohl: | =C= This is Admiral Holleth of the 14th Fleet to all vessels in system. Your actions have held the line until we could arrive. You prevented.. more disaster today. +
Kyhid Zohl: | =C= We are assuming primary rescue and stabilisation duties. All civilian evacuations will be coordinated through my flagship. +
Awai: =C= Tarsus to fleet =c=
Kyhid Zohl: | =C= Remain on station until relieved. Your ships and crews will be commended for their service here. Without you, Andor would be mourning far more. =C=
Nalys: =C= Excellent. We can begin transfer of the civillians to 14′th vessels as soon as they are within transporter range."
Kee’ren: =C= “Tarsus, thank you for the information. I suggest our Stellar Cartography experts meet with the Admiral’s task group.”
Awai: *starts sending the information out to all ships
Awai: ** Data dump info, Its potentially biological, Fast moving and heading at a good rate toward the arucanis arm88
Ezreli: Aegis restores power after the transports cease “Aegis to Fleet, looks like we won’t be using our transporters for a while, good job everybody.”
Kyhid Zohl: | On the quieter fleet channels, fragments of data now circulate: an unknown construct, possibly biological, last seen racing toward the Arucanis Arm. +
Kyhid Zohl: | The system breathes easier, but the captains who answered first know the storm has only been delayed. Somewhere beyond the gas giant, the mystery endures… for another time.
