ILLUMINARRPG: (9-1335) ACEO Ensign Bohb & SPC Luma¹lenai

[Al Muir]

Mission: Death in the Shadows

Day: 9

Stardate 2446.02.09


(USS Illuminar - Deck 11 - Main Engineering - ACEO Ensign Bohb & SPC Luma’lenai  – 1336)


Luma was indeed unhappy that the Captain had been taken and more unhappy that someone had decided to destabilize the ship by taking the Captain, the Lenai’s temporary bondmate and the First Officer’s mate.


=^= The Bohb! =^= Luma cried through the speakers, =^= They took our Sekal and Our Sienna’s T’Mur and Luma is alone without a stabilizing telepath. =^=  Luma was frantic and scared. =^= And the bad small ones are going to attack us and hurt Luma again! =^=


Bohb moved to his station and spoke to try and calm Luma. “Take it easy Luma. What do you mean they took Sekal and T’Mur. Who took them?  Where did they take them?”


He listened as Luma filled him in on the details of what had transpired over the past few minutes. He had been monitoring the power output of the shields and had an idea that something was going on. Now with the details, from Luma’s point of view he was able to put together their status.


He started monitoring the energy distribution throughout the ship. The Dark Matter phasers had been brought on line and shields were at full power, and monitoring the sensors he could see the three ships approaching.


“Luma,” Bohb asked, “do you remember all of the changes we made to your shields?  And the magnetic polarity of your skin?  We’re going to have to use that now.”


=^= Our Sekal ordered us to do this before the bad small ones took Luma’s Sekal! Luma is afraid! The bad small ones on the bad ships will hurt Luma’s skin again! =^=


“I know you’re afraid Luma,” Bohb tried to soothe her but did not want to lie. “And it is likely that those bad small ones will try to hurt you again. But we have made you more resilient. It might hurt a little, but not as much as last time.”  He wanted to add the phrase “I hope” but thought again and decided that she didn’t need to hear his uncertainty. “I am going to work on getting Sekal and T’Mur back now. What can you tell me about them being taken?”


=^= Luma does not believe that the Bohb can make it hurt less when the skin is damaged.=^= She sounded quite untrusting. =^= The three full blooded vulcans were taken through the shield after the skin was scanned. Our Sienna’s T’Mur was attempting to help shield Luma since Our Sekal wanted the computer systems locked down.  Was it Luma’s fault her valuable small ones were taken? =^= An emotional sob was in her voice.


Bohb had a hard time fighting his smile. “No dear, it is not your fault. And sometimes bad things happen. All we can do is make things better than before and be more prepared. And we are more prepared.”


He needed to distract Luma slightly, “Hey Luma I might have a gift for you pretty soon. You need a little more patience. I know you will like it.”


She seemed perturbed still, =^= How did they take Luma’s small ones through the shielding? Is it because of the polarization? How do we prevent them from taking the others, the Bohb? What if they take Our Sienna or Our Alaya? =^=


Clearly Bohb was not going to be able to change the subject. “Alright, if you are that worried then let’s do something about it. Let’s look at the readings T’Mur was looking at before she was taken. If we know how they did it we can prevent it again, and just maybe help get them back.”


=^= Good. =^= Luma spewed the data onto the screen in front of Bohb, =^= Make the fixes so that they will not take Luma’s Father from the Hades too! =^= Luma was not pleased with the nature of things currently. =^= Want all of Luma’s small ones back, including the Surkal. =^= A pause as she continued to flood  his screen with the readings.


=^= The Bohb, why did they take only our full blooded Vulcans? =^=


“That is a very good question,” Bohb replied. “Whoever did this must have an attraction to Vulcans for some reason. An experience in the past?  Perhaps they want them for the same reason you need them. It might explain why only the full blooded Vulcans as well.  The strength and control of their telepathy and their ability to use logic and reason.  Help me Luma. Help me figure this out.”


=^= Luma is scared and does not think well when scared.  Luma desires to loop back and prevent them from being taken and Luma is not allowed to change the time after it has occurred.=^= The Lenai was grumbly.


That was a conversation for another time, Bohb decided. She already said she was not allowed.  He sighed.


“I don’t need you to think, Luma, I need you to show me the scans.”


=^= Luma put all the data on your screen. All of it, not just the basic scans right before Luma’s small ones were taken! =^= The ship accelerated and it could be felt through the deck plates. =^= Luma needs a telepath to anchor her to the here and now! =^=  “Helpfully'' she quickly reversed the information to the moment when T’Mur and Sekal were plucked off the bridge, then a few seconds later, the next scan showed when Surkal was vulcan-napped.


Bohb looked at the scans and made some adjustments. “Interesting,” Bohb said as the data compiled in his head. “So the beam that took them was not “transporter” beam. It seems to be a particle carrier wave. Instead of pulling your molecules apart and putting them back together it simply shifts your entire mass through space instantaneously. It requires a massive amount of energy, but it moves you much faster through null space.”


He shook his head, “I wouldn’t want to do it too often.”  He played with the data some more, until he found something equally interesting.


“I think we can negate the null space effect of their transport beam,” Bohb said. “It won’t help us retrieve the Captain and T’Mur, but we can stop them from getting Commander Verin or anyone else.”


=^= Excellent!  Put the information into  a file and Luma will send it to the other two ships. Do not want the bad ones to take the Vice Admiral Father! =^=  Luma was emphatic. =^= Teach Luma how to prevent the thieving ones from taking her small ones. Luma’s small ones! =^=


Bohb put all the information in one file on his monitor and  encoded it for Luma to transmit. There was a beep that signaled the information transmitted.


“The easiest way to explain it is that if we send a gravimetric impulse along the path of the beam it will destabilize making it incapable of creating the null space pathway. The impulse has to be inversely proportional to the wavelength of the beam. Does that make sense?”


=^= It does. The Bohb is very intelligent and helpful. If the Bohb were a telepath, the Bohb would be perfect. =^=  Luma had sent the information out as directed.  Then that sense of her was gone as the ship did one of those spinning turns that inertial gravity could not compensate for quite enough.


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(posted by Al Muir and Mel G)

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