Singularity's Zenith, Part III

Posted on Fri Nov 4th, 2016 @ 4:58pm by Commander Isabella dei`Silvisi & Captain Alistar McKeon & Lieutenant Jera'turak Ros & Lieutenant Commander Akira-Ri Sato & Lieutenant JG Fe'cia Niatra & Lieutenant T'lon & Lieutenant Élan Val

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Mission: Singularity

-= Previously =-


"We wouldn't have been able to withdraw to our current distance if it was a black hole, at least not as easily as we did," Élan said. "Black holes have an increasingly powerful gravimetric pull the closer you get to it. Plus, they don't send waves out and away from it. They only absorb and pull matter towards their cores."


"That is a solid fact, in fact it's the one law about black holes that separate singularities from wormhole openings," Isabella said. "The question now is what do we do? If this is a singularity or a wormhole trying to form, what do we do?"


-= Continuation =-


"I can't tell what will happen soon if this thing continues on like it is," Fe'cia said. "This entire sector will be destroyed."


"Captain, I have to agree with Fe'cia," Élan said. "One reason this thing seems to be having such extreme effects is because the pressure build up in sub space is so great that the anomaly is releasing energy that it's absorbed and the normal matter it's absorbed into subspace isn't being released back into normal space. It may be true to for matter absorbed from subspace being released into normal space. In the simplest terms I can put it, there is no way for this thing to vent the matter and energy it's built up and absorbed. It’s like a bubble that's taken in too much and is ready to burst. So when it bursts, it very easily could forcibly rip a hole between normal space and subspace."


"I take it that's not a good thing," Alistar said, trying to keep his eyes from glazing over.


"If the matter and energy that this thing has absorbed so far doesn't vent away, then no. We could be looking at a catastrophic event. The effects would easily affect solar systems as far away as twenty to fifty light years," Élan said.


"Captain, There are Federation colonies barely ten light years from our current position," Isabella said.


"I'm aware of that. Anyone have any ideas how we can help this thing bleed off some of its excess matter?" Alistar asked.


"Detonate a couple of quantum torpedoes near the edge of the anomaly bubble?" Akira asked.


"What good would that do?" Fe'cia asked.


"It may be our best option, Lieutenant Niatra," T'lon said.


"How?" The Caitian science officer asked.


"The explosive reaction principle behind the detonation of a quantum torpedo is based on the quantum breakdown of an atom that is being ripped apart by a black hole reaction. In essence, a quantum torpedo explosion is essentially the same reaction style as that of a singularity explosion," T'lon replied.


"You mean to tell me that a quantum torpedo explodes with the same break down reaction principle as that of a black hole or supernova?" Fe'cia asked, surprised.


"That is correct," the Vulcan answered flatly.


"And we carry how many of these torpedoes around?" Fe'cia asked.


"Our standard compliment of quantum torpedoes is sixty, but we can carry a maximum of one hundred twenty, if we go by the fleet wide standards," Akira said.


"Naturally, they aren't armed and the magazines and storage facilities are shielded and completely secured," Alistar said. "If you're worried about that, then I won't tell you what we did during the War when we had to get creative. But getting back to this torpedo idea. Detonating quantum torpedoes on the immediate vicinity of a Multi dimensional anomaly isn't that high on my list of experimental ideas that I want to consider without at least an idea of what could happen. How long would you need to run a full scenario simulation?"


"One to four hours," Élan replied.


"Very well. Commander Silvisi, Lieutenant T'lon, since both of you seem to have some knowledge in this matter, I'd like for both of you to help Lieutenants Val and Niatra in running the simulations. The more brains we have picking on this problem the better our solution may be. I'll give you four hours, after that I'm going to need some options," Alistar said. "With that being said, if there's nothing else, we'd better get to it."


Isabella nodded before she stood. "Lieutenants, we'll meet on holo-deck one in ten minutes. I'm sure we all need to go look up as much information as possible before we get started," she said.


"Indeed," T'lon said as he stood and started towards the door.


Élan stood and with only a sharp formal nod she gathered her notes and started towards the door. Four hours might seem to be a lot of time, but unfortunately scientific experiments weren't always so cut and dry. Hopefully, they would have some form of an answer by then, if not then they would be no closer than they already were.


As everyone else filed out of the room, Alistar stood and sighed before he caught his XO's attention. "I'm hoping you can find some form of answer to this situation. If not, we may be on a front row seat to something catastrophic."


"We'll find a solution, Captain," Isabella said, trying to muster as much confidence as possible into her voice as she spoke. In truth, she was afraid that her commanding officer was correct. There were just too many unknowns, and the situation wasn't looking to get any better the longer they continued to fumble around in the dark. The larger problem at the moment was the fact that Captain McKeon had only given them four hours to try and find a solution. In her experience, scientific related matters often had no time limit on just how long it would take to find an answer, much less a solution, to a problem that had never before been encountered. In the case that was before them now, there wasn’t much, if anything, that they could go on other than mostly theoretical information that hadn’t changed much over the past several centuries. The end result could very well not be very good for the star ship Endeavour or her crew. "It'll just take some time."

 

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