===== Before the remaints of Astrometrics, USS Chimera ===== Shane stood in front of the 'room' that was the proud Astrometrics Lab just few hours before. The room looked like after a tornado and a flood together. Burned walls and few debrises of various shapes that were once scientific consoles was virtually anything that was left in that room. There was no trace od the large wall display or any other visualisation equipment, the lab was once full of. Shane havent had read the damage report yet and the damage in the Astrometrics took him by surprise. What he did read was the casuality report and even if there were several officers from Science, the ship's CSCiO was not listed there. {heavens be thank} Shane thought. With the whole battle beeing more the suspicious, Shane hoped that Oriana might have picked some data that might be of help there ... and having her injured or worse would prevent him from learning any new informations. And informations were what Shane was now most in need. Besides the warp energy or shields or weapons or ... +TAPS+ Commander Guzman to Lieutenant Oriana. Where are you Lieutenant? +TAPS+ Deck 2, physical laboratory, came the quickly answer. +TAPS+ All right, i'll be there in 5 Minutes. Shane turned to the sergeant Walsh assigned as his bodyguard and asked him: "Sergeant, is there a free way to deck 2?" The marine noded: "Yes sir, on that deck are no lifts working but we can get there by a jeffires tube with little problems. I've been roaming that very deck during the battle." "Fine. Lead the way then" Shane replied. The marine nodded and lead Shane through the corridor to an intersection where he did open the little hatch. "This way sir." He looked up at Shane and smiled a bit: "I go fist Commander with your permission". Shane grinned a bit: "And without it?". The sergenant noded pretending to be seriously: "The same sir". ===== Deck 2, physical laboratory ====== Shane finnaly crawled out of the jeffries tube into a large room. Oriana and Petrel were already waiting for him. Both looked like they could need a cap full of rest, but both tried to hide that. Shane straightened finnaly up and asked: "So Lieutenant, I hope you have some informations about the warbird for me and 'no' is not an anwer at the moment" Oriana and Petrel went to this laboraty the instant they could. Oriana was in her element again and Petrel was mulish enough to be abreast with her. OPS transported here several debrises from Romulan ship. Oriana and Petrel analyzed them and three other people of science department tried to get the datas from damaged sensors. Commander Guzman called 2.123 hour after they begun and came 14.852 minutes after the call with one question only. Oriana putted away the scanner and she looked at Commander: "Sir, we are in the middle of our analyzes. The astrometrics was close before the first scans, when it exploded. We were able to reconstruct only 23% of the datas till now, but we are continuing. When she saw his frowned face, she showed him to the debrises and continued quickly: This debrises are interesting. It is only 19,468 % of the usual romulan warbird noxeran class mass. The debrises are romulan, duranium/tritanium alloy. But this is all what we could find out. We cant specify the age of the ship or the place, where the metals were mined out. If you would ask me, it was no Romulans. This attack looked not like from Romulans. " One could not say that Shane was surprised to hear Oriana's words, but still ... having a suspicion that the romulans were not what they pretend to be and having the CSCiO saying that are two different things. "I have a similar feeling as well Lieutenant" Shane said, "but can you bring me a proove that the Romulan ship was not a romulan ship?" he ended with a question. Oriana didnt know, what to say. {I have a suspicion.} sounded not logical. "No, sir, I havent. I have only theories, which are possible but I cant them verify now. We have too little information till now, but we will continue in the searching." Shane noded : " I see" Yes, he knew that the chance for some prooved evidence was almost zero, but still he hoped to get some more info. "Can you maybe make me a report about the differences of the debrises we have here from that ship to standart romulan alloys? But please dont forget, most probably we are facing here the Tal shiar and they might use some new technologies ..." Oriana nodded: "Yes, sir, I thought about this possibily already. All is possible in this moment, even that, the Kzenti was the attackers. We have more theories, which we will check up." Shane noded again: "Very well then Lieutenant. I expect that report to be ready in 12 hours. This is a very important point, cause if that attackig ship was really a romulan war ... this can easily escalate to an intelstelar war." He looked at Oriana to stress the importance of his words. {12 hours? I like the work under pressure.} thought Oriana. "I know sir we will seek." She looked at Commander, who nodded content and turned to leave. ===== End of Log ===== Cmdr. Shane Guzman XO/ACO USS Chimera & ALtJg. Oriana CSCiO U.S.S. Chimera --------------------------------------------------------- http://www.morfeo.sk/ - Morfeo.sk - ©pecialista na vyhµadávanie na Slovensku!