OOC: Muma: I hope this is what you wanted :) All: This belongs after Mumas log... He said he'll send it soon :) ===== Astrometrics ===== After the new information about current situation came form XO. Oriana ordered the team to work on the ways how to destroy the eggs and she indulged herself again in the sensor problems and problems of the temporal mechanics, because she said, that she'll try to find out how they can get back to their time frame after the eggs will be destroyed. So Terek sat on one of the larger pieces of debris with padd in his hands and started thinking along with others about possibilities. {Sooo, what do we have? Sensors out, torpedo launchers inopperative, but we still have quite enough of quantum torpedoes. Engines offline so how to get this wreckage to that Prophet's forgotten planet?... } He stared at the padd without any good idea for almost three quaters of hour and then Alex and came to him. Oriana called Petrel to help her with the calculations so it was on two of them to come out with some suggestions. "Any ideas?" she asked him "Not even the dumbiest one..." sighted Terek when he imagined face of his supperior officer when he tell her that with the ship in this state, there is a bigger probability that on that planet will occur some natural disaster destroying an entire biosphere or that it will colide with its sun. "Oh, come on, we just have to put the heads together and I'm sure we'll find something..." "I wish I had your confidence, but all right, so what do we have in our disposal?" "Well, there are some quantum and photon torpedoes I think..." "But torpedo launchers are offline not mentioning that you have to get those torpedoes to the planet before you can launch them..." "So our first duty is to find out how we can get to that planet, right?" "Right, but when the engines are offline and Gott still swarming with the buggs how can we do that? I was thinking about taking a shuttle there and take one egg after another with the antimatter charges, but it would take too long and there is a probability that we wouldn't have any shuttle at our disposal." "Shuttle, hmmm, shuttle.... you're genius..." said Alex to Terek "Am I? I mean, sure, I am...." replied Terek surprisingly and looking at Alex, thinking about what did he said now that made her so excited... "Why?" "Well if we won't get the engines back online, we can focus on repairing the torpedo launchers and meanwhile we can try to tow the whole ship to that planet. It isn't so far and two shuttles would probably do that job...." Terek gave it a thought..."Well that should work. All right, put it on a list. But what if we won't be able to do this?" Alex sat next to him and began to do some calculations on her padd. Terek was thinking himself about what they can do. He put on that list for sure also that away mission, just in case. But when he was thinking about destroying those eggs swiftly and with 100 percent of assurance that it will be destroyed, his mind came to the antimatter. {Thoes mines could do that... but we would probably need them to be modified to carry more of the antimatter... Great another wasted time... if only we would have something that would do greater damage.... like... like...like....} and in that moment it came to him, he rushed to one of the consoles to count something murmuring to himself: "It could work, it could work...." After about half an hour he winked a satisfied smile and he put something on the padd. Alex saw him... "Weranis, I don't like that smile of yours, what is it? What have you done?" "Alex, my dear, you can't imagine how is this hurting me, you don't trust me?" "Oh I trust you, but I don't trust to that smile of yours... Last time I saw it, I've found a holographic spider in my sonic shower...." "Aaaah, that was good one..." said Terek smiling wide... "Yeah, a good one... Doctor summers almost had to have me sedated...." "All right, but I appologized to you didn't I? And I have never done anything like this again, right?" he said with guilty look... "Yes, you haven't, but now, that smile is here again and I want to see what you have done now?" and with that she grabbed padd form his hands and began to read. If anyone would watch her, he would see, her eyes widening, her skin going even paler than usually and on a few last rows she had to sit down. After she finnished reading she looked on her lover again, than on the padd, than on him again.... "You... you can't be serious..." she only got from herself... Terek looked at her seriously "Why not... I, ... I mean, think about it, what do we have? Nothing! Engines out, torpedomets, out, phaser banks useless, sensors destroyed, life support holding upon a good word, It is lucky we haven't broken appart long time ago. " "Yes, but you are suggesting destruction of the whole ship, are you crazy? " "No, let me explain, all we have to do is get Chimera close to the planet, then overload a warp core and arm all torpedoes aboard. Before that we will evacuate the remaining crew on the Gott and then we'll set Chimera on a collision course... I've counted it. If we targed certain point on the planet, the blast will take more than half of it with itself including all of the eggs and moreover it seems that if we are about to get to our time again, it won;t be aboard the Chimera...." he finnished his explanation, but Alex still seemed unconvinced... "Do as you wish... you gave me some reasonable arguments, but I stil lthink it's crazy.... but if you want to present this idea, then help yourself.... I just don't want to be there when Bretam finds out what you intend to do with his ship... or even Guzman. They'll both kill you." "Thank for support honney..." said Terek sarcasticly "Support... I'm just realistic... I can see it even now. Sir, we've got some ideas how to destroy the eggs. Right, let me see.... Ensign, what is that third option? I think my eyes just went out of order. No sir, you see it right. You are madman ensign, how could you even think about it, now get out of here and report to sickbay and say doctor Summers that you are mentaly sick and that she'll take you on survey, dissmissed!!" She perfectly imitated general Bretam.... "Ha ha, veeery funny... althought you wouldn;t so bad entertainer, you know?" said Terek and took the padd back and gave it to Oriana for report. "Madam, here are those suggestions for the commander." "Thank you ensign." Said Oriana and scaned it through and even when she was a Vulcan, he could saw a little change in her face... almost like great ammount of unbelief. "I'll send it right away and you take some rest now...." added Oriana and turned to console to send the messages. ===== End Log ===== Ensign Terek Weranis ASCiO & NPC Ensign Alex Quinn ASCiO [by Terek]