EXETERRPG: (2 - 1207) 2O/CEO - Lt. Cmdr. Keira Merek

[Todd Holladay]

Mission: Murder on the Exeter Express
Day: 2
Stardate: 2445.12.02

(USS Exeter –Observation Lounge – 2O/CEO – Lt. Cmdr. Keira Merek – 1207)

The Captain looked at his assembled officers and sighed, "Sorry for cutting into your lunch times. Normally I'd have food service for this, but I didn't think it was appropriate given the subject matter to be discussed. I don't want anyone to...." Trip paused, "Lose their lunch so to speak."

" Who has time to eat." Ravok quipped. Keira let out a chuckle all she had since waking up was half of a latte.

Trip then activated his display that attempted to show a timeline of events. "Now then, we have a dead officer on our hands and a lot more questions than answers at the moment. So, let's put our pieces of the puzzle and see what we can figure out. So who wants to go first?"

Ravok wasted no time laying out the information he had compiled and analyzed, ending with. “That's all I have so far."

Keira looked around and decided what she had would fit in well next.

“I scanned the whole room with a hand tricorder. I sent a copy of the information to medical and labelled it as part of the case, as such it carried all the encryptions associated with it. I’m not a forensic analyst so I’ll leave that portion up for interpretation. I began with the obvious entry way, the door. No signs of entry or tampering to the mechanical aspects of the door. Meaning people who used it did so through the standard means and used no mechanical or energy based lock defeat. I poured over my scans and revealed no forced entry through other means, they didn’t cut in from the decks above or below or adjoining walls. I went through the biometric logs of who entered and exited. Here’s where I saw the first evidence of tampering. They didn’t delete the file, that would have shown right away. They replaced the contents character for character with random characters, essentially unformatted gibberish, but only on the parts that happened during the biometric footage loop. I attempted to run every recovery program we have on file. Had they just deleted it we would have salvaged something. Because who ever altered the databank no only removed but overwrote the section of code with gibberish the chances of us recovering the data uncorrupted are slim. I sent my findings back to the main file with a copy of the log to the main case file for future reference, and perhaps a more extensively trained computer expert could take a look.” Keira explained her first part.

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“Comparing the affected part with known unaffected parts, everyone’s entry to Tiko’s quarters after the discovery of his remains, I found the gibberish portions have enough bulk data for two entries and exits and one either exit only or one entrance only. So either our killer used some other method to get in, or some other method to get out. Given the time of death time line outlined by Lieutenant Ravok, that rules out conventional transporter use, because there would have still been a transporter trace. In the interest of being thorough Transporter Rooms, main, emergency, site to site and cargo on board the Exeter were not used during the time period. Logs were found untampered. Transporters from outside would have left a similar signal, even if they found someway to do so from a cloaked ship..” Keira explained.

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“I have a theory.” Keira said with a grin.

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“I ran out of conventional ways to make it happen so I moved to unconventional.” Keira started. “ Looking though the various databanks and historical records now available to me as a Lieutenant Commander searches for a transport system that leaves little or no trace comes up with a type of transport rejected by the Federation and many of the Alpha quadrant powers. It’s called colloquially “shifting” but is a method of folded space transportation based on the Elway Theorem. With it and enough power one could be transported any distance to a known location nearly instantaneously. It could even get into and out of a shielded room, or through any barrier.”

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“Well it has a few really big flaws. It takes quite a bit of power to use, substantially more than conventional transporters. The device also causes subspace pressure modulations on both sides. Finally the last flaw, and according to my file, the part that caused Alpha quadrant major powers to drop research, repeated use causes cumulative damage to subject’s genetic material that eventually prove fatal.”

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“If you wanted someone dead bad enough? Some people are that crazy. Good news I think we can track it’s use. Now that we know what we are looking for.” Keira answered.

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(Posted by Todd)




“The only way to defeat fear is to tell it 'No'." No - we will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness. No - we will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts. No - we will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority.” - Michael Burnham, Star Trek: Discovery

“No, I’m from Iowa, I only work in outer space.” – Adm. James T. Kirk, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”

Todd Holladay
SGT, IA ARNG (Retired)

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