05-14-2026, 07:21 PM
"Four years at the Academy with all of its diversity still didn't prepare me for this. I am sure it's a common reaction, Commander, but I offer my heartfelt apology."
Jadaris nodded back, "No apology necessary. Its hard for a lot of people to get past the fact that my species is known for their past atrocities against Federation citizens. If you'd like, we can discuss the reasons why a Gorn is in Star Fleet over a cup of hot tea in the mess hall when our respective off-duty shifts align."
“I think we would be better off piggybacking the class 3 probes onto something that will catch their attention without telegraphing our intentions. I think we should try to make the Class 8 look like something that’s been floating in space for a long time, rather than something that we launched today. We can spoof some of the data and bang it up a bit to help sell the idea that it’s been running autonomously for years.”
Jadaris turned back to the projection. "The problem is the class threes are short range probes, meaning we'd have to get the class 8 in close to the Cardassians. However, a three stage booster isn't out of the question. A class 8 to boost them into the system with the wear and tear of a long range probe launched by the starbase, that we program its home base and point of launch to be the starbase, and we attach a class 5, which is a probe designed to collect planetary samples and has a higher sublight thrust rating to avoid subspace sensors, but is loaded with partial planetary samples we can replicate as being from one of the planets in the system, and then a pair of ancillary class threes that act as the scanners we need, and can get into position. We'd have to use the warp engine on the class 5 to generate an alteration in the warp harmonics so that we can expand the warp bubble around the two class threes, but its possible to do. And making the probes 'dirty' would lend credibility to them having been launched as part of a long term mission in case they're discovered. We could also load smaller planetary samples into the class threes in case they're discovered and captured by the Cardassians."
He pulled up a class 8 design on the holographic viewer and made some exterior modifications. "If we use breakaway mounts on the class 8, we can replicate asteroid collision damage, which would give the probe some credibility that it was on its way back and suffered asteroid damage that prevented it from attaining high warp speeds to return home with."
"But this still doesn't solve the issue of disguising ourselves, and I'm still wary of the Captain's order of us using the Quantum Slipstream Drive to get there, because I have a sneaky feeling that the Cardassians want us to use the drive, to test some countermeasures of their own against it. Gravity waves are one of the few ways to disrupt a QSD tunnel, and the last time that happened, we almost lost the drive."
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Jadaris nodded back, "No apology necessary. Its hard for a lot of people to get past the fact that my species is known for their past atrocities against Federation citizens. If you'd like, we can discuss the reasons why a Gorn is in Star Fleet over a cup of hot tea in the mess hall when our respective off-duty shifts align."
“I think we would be better off piggybacking the class 3 probes onto something that will catch their attention without telegraphing our intentions. I think we should try to make the Class 8 look like something that’s been floating in space for a long time, rather than something that we launched today. We can spoof some of the data and bang it up a bit to help sell the idea that it’s been running autonomously for years.”
Jadaris turned back to the projection. "The problem is the class threes are short range probes, meaning we'd have to get the class 8 in close to the Cardassians. However, a three stage booster isn't out of the question. A class 8 to boost them into the system with the wear and tear of a long range probe launched by the starbase, that we program its home base and point of launch to be the starbase, and we attach a class 5, which is a probe designed to collect planetary samples and has a higher sublight thrust rating to avoid subspace sensors, but is loaded with partial planetary samples we can replicate as being from one of the planets in the system, and then a pair of ancillary class threes that act as the scanners we need, and can get into position. We'd have to use the warp engine on the class 5 to generate an alteration in the warp harmonics so that we can expand the warp bubble around the two class threes, but its possible to do. And making the probes 'dirty' would lend credibility to them having been launched as part of a long term mission in case they're discovered. We could also load smaller planetary samples into the class threes in case they're discovered and captured by the Cardassians."
He pulled up a class 8 design on the holographic viewer and made some exterior modifications. "If we use breakaway mounts on the class 8, we can replicate asteroid collision damage, which would give the probe some credibility that it was on its way back and suffered asteroid damage that prevented it from attaining high warp speeds to return home with."
"But this still doesn't solve the issue of disguising ourselves, and I'm still wary of the Captain's order of us using the Quantum Slipstream Drive to get there, because I have a sneaky feeling that the Cardassians want us to use the drive, to test some countermeasures of their own against it. Gravity waves are one of the few ways to disrupt a QSD tunnel, and the last time that happened, we almost lost the drive."
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