05-04-2026, 08:50 AM
“I think our best option is just to hurtle something through the system in passive mode and hope that they don’t notice. Unless you have a way to collect more data?”
Jadaris sat down in thought, manipulating probe locations, and then Qi's new midshipman reported in. By the time the midshipman was in the science labs, Jadaris was still running computations.
"Well, sir, do our probes have the capability to mask or change their IFF signal? Make it look like a friendly, or at least a neutral? Barring that, what about making one probe really loud, figuratively speaking, to draw their attention in one direction and send in a couple others much quieter from the opposite direction."
Jadaris looked over at Ris and said,
"A good insight. The Cardassians will be suspicious if they detect a spoofed IFF probe however, since they keep track of what's transmitting and where. They'll probably send a ship to investigate the probe's signal if its detected, so stealth probes are our best option in that case. I believe I can get a sensor cloak working however, since we do have a smaller sensor signature, and I can make the necessary modifications to baffle any sensors. Masking our energy signature, running in passive mode, but then there's getting any probes we have into the system. If we use a class eight probe as a....what do the humans call it....piggy back carrier, then we could load several class threes onto a single eight, have it warp in to the edge of the system, detach the threes and have them relay any sensor data to the eight, and then bounce that probe's data stream to us, either by a tight channel, or by different means such as a compressed data pulse."
He looked at the Andorian that had spoken up and added,
"Commander Jadaris, Doctor of geophysics from the Vulcan Science Academy, QSD specialist and Chief Engineer. I don't bite or spit, and I'm in charge of keeping this ship from falling apart at the seams. I'm just worried about the Cardassians having a trick up their sleeve to interrupt our Quantum Slipstream Drive that'll let us get into the system. A sufficiently large graviton pulse could knock us out of QSD with severe damage, which was what happened to the Callisto when we were assigned as part of the Pathfinder expedition to the Delta Quadrant in pursuit of the Borg."
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Jadaris sat down in thought, manipulating probe locations, and then Qi's new midshipman reported in. By the time the midshipman was in the science labs, Jadaris was still running computations.
"Well, sir, do our probes have the capability to mask or change their IFF signal? Make it look like a friendly, or at least a neutral? Barring that, what about making one probe really loud, figuratively speaking, to draw their attention in one direction and send in a couple others much quieter from the opposite direction."
Jadaris looked over at Ris and said,
"A good insight. The Cardassians will be suspicious if they detect a spoofed IFF probe however, since they keep track of what's transmitting and where. They'll probably send a ship to investigate the probe's signal if its detected, so stealth probes are our best option in that case. I believe I can get a sensor cloak working however, since we do have a smaller sensor signature, and I can make the necessary modifications to baffle any sensors. Masking our energy signature, running in passive mode, but then there's getting any probes we have into the system. If we use a class eight probe as a....what do the humans call it....piggy back carrier, then we could load several class threes onto a single eight, have it warp in to the edge of the system, detach the threes and have them relay any sensor data to the eight, and then bounce that probe's data stream to us, either by a tight channel, or by different means such as a compressed data pulse."
He looked at the Andorian that had spoken up and added,
"Commander Jadaris, Doctor of geophysics from the Vulcan Science Academy, QSD specialist and Chief Engineer. I don't bite or spit, and I'm in charge of keeping this ship from falling apart at the seams. I'm just worried about the Cardassians having a trick up their sleeve to interrupt our Quantum Slipstream Drive that'll let us get into the system. A sufficiently large graviton pulse could knock us out of QSD with severe damage, which was what happened to the Callisto when we were assigned as part of the Pathfinder expedition to the Delta Quadrant in pursuit of the Borg."
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