05-14-2026, 04:43 AM
== NRC Ensign Raven Singer, Engineering Officer ==
Raven's eyes began to widen with excitement, "Oh, Lieutenant, I love a woman who knows what she wants. Right, we're staying at warp then, no approval needed there..." She tapped away on her PADD and two crates were beamed into the room. She began unpacking the large one as she said, "Cortez, you work on your two bots. One for outside the cage and one for inside the cage. I'll go inside with the bot and a drone of mine for redundancy. I'll suit up and we'll tie into the structural integrity for augmentation of the ground state for the cage. We can press the button as soon as you finish with your bots. Hey, A'kilees, come help me put this thing together and weld her tight."
Within seconds, she was snapping a portable cargo container together in the lab and welding it so there were no open seams. Within a few more minutes, the container was floating above the floor with a small anti-grav sled under it and a door on one side. She tapped on her PADD and the empty containers vanished and she began putting on her Damage Control suit. Glancing around she said, "No time for games, front and center..."
A drone the size of a soccer ball dropped its holographic camouflage and beeped twice. Raven nodded to it and said, "Good, now stand by to go in there when I do." It beeped twice again and floated around, examining the container.
Raven said to Ra'an, "For the record, I don't think it will go boom either, but in case something goes wrong, I'll be in there to try and make it right. If it does what you think it will, it will be able to start downloading into his bot. If that doesn't work, my drone might be able to do the job. If those two plans fail, I'll try to access it directly. We're counting on Cortez to program the bot inside with me to trigger your box and talk to it. We wing it from there. If we're wrong...well...it was nice knowing you."
Raven looked around and made sure Cortez wasn't around to hear before she whispered to Amila, "Don't tell him, but I just wanted him to think it through. I'm small and do this kind of thing all the time. I felt a little left out when they all nearly got blown to bits out there and I was stuck inside the ship. I love it when the adrenaline kicks in. It's been over a week since I had a good adrenaline rush. It's SO much better than coffee."
She took a portable power cell out and tested it, then set it inside the cargo container. "His field will help buffer any residual field that might form on the outside of the cage, but try to stay back, if you remain in the lab for this. Between you and me, this thing would have to be full of antimatter to bust a hole in the ship, but if it was something tricky, it could certainly rearrange the furniture in here a bit. Cross your fingers and when we're done I you guys have a database to play with. I'm just here to help you unwrap it."
While waiting for Cortez and his bots, Raven checked all of her tools and where they were placed on her suit for easy access. The drone approached her and turned into someone in an Engineering uniform with no rank and asked, "You're not going to blow me up again, are you? That was very annoying."
Raven chuckled and replied, "Not if I can help it. You good?"
"All systems are standing by." The drone then turned back into looking like a metal soccer ball and floated near the container once more.
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Raven's eyes began to widen with excitement, "Oh, Lieutenant, I love a woman who knows what she wants. Right, we're staying at warp then, no approval needed there..." She tapped away on her PADD and two crates were beamed into the room. She began unpacking the large one as she said, "Cortez, you work on your two bots. One for outside the cage and one for inside the cage. I'll go inside with the bot and a drone of mine for redundancy. I'll suit up and we'll tie into the structural integrity for augmentation of the ground state for the cage. We can press the button as soon as you finish with your bots. Hey, A'kilees, come help me put this thing together and weld her tight."
Within seconds, she was snapping a portable cargo container together in the lab and welding it so there were no open seams. Within a few more minutes, the container was floating above the floor with a small anti-grav sled under it and a door on one side. She tapped on her PADD and the empty containers vanished and she began putting on her Damage Control suit. Glancing around she said, "No time for games, front and center..."
A drone the size of a soccer ball dropped its holographic camouflage and beeped twice. Raven nodded to it and said, "Good, now stand by to go in there when I do." It beeped twice again and floated around, examining the container.
Raven said to Ra'an, "For the record, I don't think it will go boom either, but in case something goes wrong, I'll be in there to try and make it right. If it does what you think it will, it will be able to start downloading into his bot. If that doesn't work, my drone might be able to do the job. If those two plans fail, I'll try to access it directly. We're counting on Cortez to program the bot inside with me to trigger your box and talk to it. We wing it from there. If we're wrong...well...it was nice knowing you."
Raven looked around and made sure Cortez wasn't around to hear before she whispered to Amila, "Don't tell him, but I just wanted him to think it through. I'm small and do this kind of thing all the time. I felt a little left out when they all nearly got blown to bits out there and I was stuck inside the ship. I love it when the adrenaline kicks in. It's been over a week since I had a good adrenaline rush. It's SO much better than coffee."
She took a portable power cell out and tested it, then set it inside the cargo container. "His field will help buffer any residual field that might form on the outside of the cage, but try to stay back, if you remain in the lab for this. Between you and me, this thing would have to be full of antimatter to bust a hole in the ship, but if it was something tricky, it could certainly rearrange the furniture in here a bit. Cross your fingers and when we're done I you guys have a database to play with. I'm just here to help you unwrap it."
While waiting for Cortez and his bots, Raven checked all of her tools and where they were placed on her suit for easy access. The drone approached her and turned into someone in an Engineering uniform with no rank and asked, "You're not going to blow me up again, are you? That was very annoying."
Raven chuckled and replied, "Not if I can help it. You good?"
"All systems are standing by." The drone then turned back into looking like a metal soccer ball and floated near the container once more.
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