"Ship's Log supplemental, what a couple of week's it's been. a couple of weeks without the Captain and Starfleet Command have reported a ship of Gibraltar's Specs which has recently been destroyed. We've been ordered to investigate. Who knows what we'll find. End log entry."
Braveheart advised Debby that he wanted an immediate Yellow Alert once the ship had reached the debris field, as he didn't want to be caught short by the Borg or anyone.
When the ship arrived Sophie scanned the field and discovered that the debris is spread out over a few thousand kilometers so scans of the area would take longer than expected.
Once Sophie had scanned 30% of the field, she confirmed it matched over 400 vessels in the Starfleet database, and was later confirmed as having an 84% match to standard Intrepid Class designs in Starfleet.
Sophie recommended beaming a fragment of the hull to Cargobay 2, to run a sub-molecular scan. However when Richardjrn had managed to beam the piece aboard he advised it was off on the transport spot by 0.1m, advising the targetting scanners were off.
After the error was corrected, Braveheart sent Debby to Cargobay 2 with Sophie to ensure safety to the ship whilst Sophie performed the scans.
Whilst the Ensigns were gone, Braveheart had a communique sent to Starfleet Command advising of the current situation.
When Sophie and Debby returned to the bridge, they brought with them some startling news. According to all of the scans they ran. The ship debris we were investigating was a 100% match... to USS Gibraltar! Sophie went on to add to her report that there was residue of a Tricobalt device on the fragment. The ship was destroyed!
As the situation had got worse. Braveheart asked for Richard to open a secure channel to Admiral Janeway and patch it through to the Conference Room.
Upon his return to the bridge. Braveheart and Sophie had a theorising 'cross-examination' moment until Braveheart quoted something he learnt at the Starfleet Science "the more you have to think as a scientist, the easier the answers get...the only question that remains is...why?" After which he then put a 'hypothesis' to the bridge crew "Suppose the ship was filled with clones?" To which Richardjrn replied by asking "When were we all cloned?" The Big Question!
Chronic then put another hypothesis to the bridge. "Suppose that ship out there was from another dimension?" At which point Braveheart asked Sophie to confirm if scans revealed any indications of parallel worlds. She advised it was of this universe, and built 6 months ago.
Further scans went on to reveal that the warp core had a mixture of matter/antimatter AND a tricobalt device. However the tricobalt device was impure in strength, hence why there was debris in the first place.
Braveheart asked if there was any confirmation as to where the ship was made, but there was nothing as yet.
Sophie and Richard started to work through the possibility of trying to find an emergency transponder, however the location of this was limited to senior engineers and command officers due to sensitivity.
When Braveheart tried to find it, Sophie was unprepared to allow Braveheart to conduct the scans for it himself as she was sure he was going to get the ship into danger, and even told Braveheart that if during his scans he puts the ship in danger, she will come down hard, advising him to transfer the co-ordinates to the helm before she does it. However Braveheart advised that he was transferring the co-ordinates to Ops as he wanted further scans being conducted.
Whilst all this was going on, Sophie and Richard were privately conversing without Braveheart's knowledge. At which point, Braveheart turned to Richard advising that if there is a transponder found...to have it beamed aboard to the Science Lab behind a forcefield whilst asking Debby to continue on Tactical scans.
Richard goes on to tell Braveheart that if they can calculate the axis of the explosion, they can then calculate the corresponding force and radius... THEN calculate the transponder location, which he's actually already done, and transfers the co-ordinates to the helm.
Braveheart asks for a course to be set at full impulse.
Once they found the transponder, Braveheart ordered it beamed aboard and had Sophie follow him to the Lab so that she could see he was only interested in the security of the Federation. Not liking what he found. He returned to the bridge with Sophie in hot pursuit. Instructing Sophie to run a full scan for any functioning sources in the debris, finding beta-emissions and a possible Z-Neutrino core. Technology used by both The Cardassians and...according to information gathered by USS Voyager... The Hirogen. Which in turn...could mean...The Borg!
Braveheart asked Sophie the best way to completely destroy this debris. Sophie advised of 1 photon torpedo with a boost of reserve power to the torpedo tube. Braveheart asked if 3 torpedoes without the boost would do it. Sophie thought it might if detonated at the right place. Braveheart ordered 4 torpedoes to be armed at Sophie's best guess. Whilst having the ship prepared for maximum warp so that as soon as the 4th torpedo detonated, they would be able to go.
Sophie went on to advise that the torpedo explosion has created a level 2 shockwave. Braveheart advised he would personally inform Starfleet and take any blame.
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