Smooth...

Posted on Wed Apr 30th, 2025 @ 11:12am by Lieutenant Betaras K'ner
Edited on on Wed Apr 30th, 2025 @ 11:43am

318 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Starbase 364
Location: Starbase 12
Timeline: just before current

[ SB12 ]

K'ner slipped into the corner of the cargo bay, looking at another angle to the mysterious pod. Kotsoo had carefully scraped away everything he could, down to the dull metal underneath; not like he and Deena had much to do while they were in quarantine.

The pod seemed to be a continuous mould but they all knew it had to have a seam along there somewhere. At least it wasn't completely perfectly round, so they could guess where the horizontal plane lay, but just not whether it was downside-up, or upside-down. 8^)

K'ner's light voice sounded in Kotsoo's headset. "How does it feel?"

"Metal chief. Smooth, but not frictionless."

"No... I mean... how does it feel?"

Kotsoo reached out, puzzled. "Ummmm... soft. OH! I understand... there's a slight vibration, but that's not on the scan. I..." He moved his hand around. "I... it's not like a static charge, but I do feel... something... What the hell is that all about?"

K'ner considered, sitting on a crate outside the containment field.

"Use your spacial clarifier."

"But it's solid chief? It'll just be... here..." But Kotsoo did it anyway, calling up the device they usually use to detect movement around them. Deena looked on from the side.

"Whoa..."

K'ner waited. "You care to expound on your dissertation?"

"Huh? Oh! Yeah... There's nothing there." He walked around. "I see the stuff from the debris field that came in with us. Deena is here. You are over there. I can even make out the thin line of the containment field since I'm this close... but there's only the slightest distortion on the screen. I wouldn't have noticed it at all if I wasn't looking specifically for something in that space... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot chief?"

K'ner looked around the cargo bay as she considered her next moves...




OFF:

Lt Betaras K'ner
Hazard Team Combat Medic TL-B / CMO
USS Chuck Norris


:o)

 

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