[Fin]Up At Bat

[Sharpay Harper]

After her mad dash from the target range to her quarters to change into uniform Sharpay now entered the doors to engineering. People were going about their business, and nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary, at the moment anyway.

Sharpay went to the main console in engineering and looked over the work that had gotten done in her absence. Until they had a chief engineer or assistant chief engineer on board she was in charge; captains orders. Not that she minded of course.

So far so good... Sharpay thought. Hmm... Shar walked over to the second station by the warp core. Just a slight misalignment...nothing too serious. She tapped a few buttons to correct the error. "That's that...so far."

Tag: Anyone.

[Mishtak]

"Ensign Harper, I require your assistance."

the comm came through as her terminal began recieving the sensor scans from Tactical on the bridge with a message attached that read 'I require your assistance in determining what this unknown variable was or is'


TAG: Shar

[Sharpay Harper]

Sharpay received the comm message from Mishtak at the same time the terminal let off a beeping sound. With a swift motion to her badge she simply said; "Acknowledged." Sharpay quickly made her way to the terminal in time to see the scans and the message that came along with it. After reading she tapped away at the console. She boosted the sensors to maximum, and ran the information through the data banks searching for a similarity in vessels on record.

Nothing so far... "Wait a minute." Sharpay turned to the back console and pulled up records of different EM signatures. "Looks some like a dark matter..." Shar sent her findings to the tactical station. Hopefully it would be some help, at least it was a place to start.

Tag: Mishtak/Anyone.

[Mishtak]

//"I'm sorry Ensign, but I do not fully understand the significance of dark matter, please explain."//

[Sharpay Harper]

Sharpay pulled up all the information they had on dark matter. It was quite a good sized file. She narrowed the files down by the EM signature. That helped some. Apparently quite a few ships had come across things that had dark matter, quite interesting. If a vessel had found a way to harness the dark matter and convert it into some type of power, well that would be an accomplishment not to mention it would make a cloaked vessel just about impossible to detect. In order to detect dark matter sensors had to be modified in the first place.

"Well, dark matter forms the basis of several types of spacial anomalies. It's undetectable using conventional sensors," Sharpay smirked as she tapped away reading over the information. "Bet you're glad about the improvements I made to the sensors, anyway, they can consist of energy beings, we can detect dark matter easier using metreon particles. Lights it up like a firefly." Shar paused for a moment. "If it's an asteroid however, we won't be lighting anything up. A dark matter asteroid emits electromagnetic radiation. That's what we'd scan for to find out if it was simply a hunk of rock."

Tag: Anyone.

[Sharpay Harper]

Shar decided to cross the signature to different cloaking signatures. It was just a little hunch she had, besides if she ended up being wrong well she might find a way to improve their technology that Starfleet gave them for this mission.
While the computer was cross referencing the signatures Sharpay went about her regular engineering business. When her shift was over she was hoping that she and Lt. Mishtak could spend some time on the holodeck.

"Ensign Darby!" Sharpay said rather sharply as she walked up to the ensign who was standing at one of the upper consoles. Shar dashed to the lift and rode it to the upper level. "Care to explain this?" She questioned as she handed him a PADD that he had fill out a report on. Sharpay folded her arms across her chest as she waited for an answer.

Not only did it look like it was written by a first year cadet, but something was off and it made no sense at all.

Tag: Anyone.

[Mishtak]

//"Ensign Harper, report to bridge engineering station at once."//

[Sharpay Harper]

Ensign Darby began stuttering and stammering while trying to get an explanation for Ensign Harper about the report he had written up. Sharpay was beginning to get irritated. She had never been one to have a lot of patience, and was definitely very opinionated. Thank goodness for Ensign Darby Sharpay Harper's combadge chirped with orders to report to the bridge.

"I'm on my way." Ensign Harper replied after a quick tap to her badge. She had did her best to hide the tension in her voice, but was uncertain how successful she'd been at it. She looked dead at Ensign Darby. "We'll get back to this later." Those last words Sharpay swiftly exited the doors of engineering, making her way to the nearest lift to get to the bridge.

End Sharpay-Move to Bridge.

[Sharpay Harper]

Shar entered engineering. Yes, her shift had ended, however that didn't mean she was going to stop working. Why, even in her quarters she enjoyed reading through the technical manuals. She'd just relax in here is all. Of course she first went to make a few adjustment to a few systems and made certain their sensors would pick up on their little friend and record data every time it appeared. In the meantime She'd just relax at one of the upper stations.

Tag: Anyone.

[Commander Christian Hughes]

// Ensign Harper, this is Hughes from the Bridge. Since you seem to know more about our dark matter friend then us, do you have any recommendations as to what to do on its reappearance? //

[Sharpay Harper]

"Well," Sharpay paused in thought for a minute as she called the readouts up. Something was not right with this. Before she thought they could be dealing with a ship, but that just seemed a bit far fetched. So far the sensors hadn't picked up any other dark matter.

"We could..." Interesting... "This is unusual, there's a pattern. I don't think we're dealing with a fully natural phenomena. The dark matter is natural, but..." Hmm... "You might want the science department for this. I think it might be a ship, but if it is I don't think metreon particles will work. Porleran burst might help. That's the best I can give you at the moment."

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[Commander Christian Hughes]

// Thank you Ensign, I'll ask Lieutenant Huygens about it (OOC: that is, Lisa will come over once I've finished her profile). For now, we're on Yellow Alert and with the information you've given me, I think I won't stand down from Yellow Alert until I know what's causing our friend to stalk us. Have a nice off-duty period, and thanks again. Hughes out. //

[jamesco2009]

//"McNight to Ensign Harper, Lt. Rei, Doctor Dean, please meet me in transporter room 2 for an away mission." //

[Sharpay Harper]

Upon getting the message from Commander McNight Sharpay put someone in charge, then made her way to the lower level an tapped her badge. "On my way Commander." Sharpay stepped off the lift as soon as it reached the ground. "Don't forget to keep an eye on the readout for this dark matter thing, and anything else that seems out of the ordinary." Then she left to transporter room two as instructed, after of course getting a phaser and tricorder.

End Sharpay.