Stardate: 80101:0240
Title: New Toys for the Armourer
Author: Lt. (JG) Robert Browning
Time: Current
Scene: Bridge


As Lt. Heyward left the bridge to work on his brainwave, Robbie took out a PADD and handed it to Captain Winters.

"You may want to read this, Ma'am; it's my preliminary analysis of the ship's systems during and after that last attack."

Captain Winters skimmed the PADD before looking up. "Do you want to give me the abridged version, Lieutenant?"

"According to the readings from the warp core, the lack of a warp field momentarily was due to localised spatial anomalies... more specifically interference from an opposing jump drive."

Surprised looks were passed between the senior staff at this revelation, Maxine was the first to break the silence, which wasn't helped by the dark on the bridge.

"How can another jump drive affect our warp drive?"

"Much of this is supposition and educated guessing but what I would say is that it's not really a dimensional jump drive, more of a dimensional shift. We have records of species back home that have the ability to shift their technology into a parallel dimension, mainly for security... and to cause us no end of problems. Those ships have 'jumped' partially out of this spatial dimension, allowing them to avoid our sensors and weapons but fire back at us."

"This would explain the effectiveness of the tricobalt warheads... the effect on subspace would have stunned them enough to back off and counter the interference from their technology."

The senior staff looked from the Engineer to the CSO as they theorised about their worsening situation, sidelined as they threw vast theories between one another over this new tactical advantage.

"Ma'am, it gets worse..." Robbie turned back to the Captain with a more stern look upon his face. "I've compared the field geometries of our drive to those of the ships and to the background radiation fields, from what I can discern with Relly's help is how these Observer's seem to have their omnipotent presence around here and affect our systems... they are aboard the ship. The frequencies are too similar to be unalike, I believe they are here, just outside of our dimensional spectrum."

Commander Jessop finally found his speech again. "Captain, if this is true it leaves us at a significant tactical disadvantage."

Several minutes passed as Captain Winters processed all this information. Robbie watched on, happy that he had managed to pass on his findings with little arguments against it.

"Find them..."


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Lieutenant (JG) Robert Browning
Acting Chief Engineer
USS Relentless
NCC-11966
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