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many questions to ask....
many questions to ask....


The sun has met the sea,
The sun has met the sea,<br>
Commander Onta Maril,
Commander Onta Maril,<br>
First Officer, USS Feynman,
First Officer, USS Feynman,<br>
aka Max Felsher
aka Max Felsher<br>


NRPG:
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Tune in next time as Maril figures out just how
Tune in next time as Maril figures out just how
smart this computer is. <g>
smart this computer is. <g>
<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">USS FEYNMAN: Think And You Shall Find</h3>
<h4 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">by Melanie Pocknall 3-30-1997</h4>
NRPG: My apologies if people get this twice but my computer says that it
didn't send the first time.
SD: 90330.0342<br>
MD: 5.1300<br>
The room into which Lt(jg) Jazz Aidonis stepped was not the computer centre.
Although that what she had thought about, it appeared that the transporter
had taken them to a supply room of some kind, which may have been used to
make the computers. There were a few workbenches along the walls which gave
no hint as to what they had been used for. It appeared that the transporter
had not trusted them after all.
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MD: 6.0500<br>
Meleah's team had explored for hours, and now they were all catching up on
some needed sleep. Only Meleah was awake. Although deductive reasoning was
not her strength, nor was intuition, she was beginning to formulate a
hypothesis about what had been happening. The team had not been able to
access what they had considered the vital points of the base. This
indicated that either the Husnock had put locks on them or something was
controlling where they were going. And as someone once said, "Once you
eliminate the impossible, whatever is left, however unlikely, is possible."
No life signs had registered when they were scanning the base, and they had
not encountered anyone on their explorations. There was the possibility of
locks but why then did the other base not have them. This pointed to the
base being very important in Husnock terms. A third unlikely idea, which
did have some rare precedence, was that the base was controlling the
transporters by some method. But that would require the base to be almost
sentient. However, it *was* a possibility.
Two hours later, the rest of the team began to wake up. When everyone was
awake, they wound their way through the maze of rooms and intrabase
transport hubs. At about 0800 hours they were very much disillusioned with
what they were finding. One of the engineers commented that they were not
seeing much of the Husnock's reputed technology, to which the other retorted
back something not entirely complimentary. Fortunately they were both too
dedicated to their work to start bickering while on duty.
The first engineer decided to try for the command centre again. He had
tried it several times before but with no success, so he was as astonished
as everyone else when they all ended up in the command centre. Well, at
least they thought it was the command centre but they weren't quite sure
until they started projecting thoughts about what they thought they might
find there, and objects began appearing around the room. There were many
consoles with brightly coloured lights, and a large viewscreen that was
presently blank. The team spread out and examined absolutely everything,
leaving nothing untouched. It was interesting that no-one stopped to think
why they were suddenly allowed access to a vital centre of the base.
Meleah was the one who discovered how the viewscreen worked. One minute she
was fiddling with the nearest control panel, absently wondering if that was
the control to operate the viewscreen when a message appeared on a small
screen above the controls. It simply said "Yes." Anyone else would have
been startled but Meleah was only mildy surprised. The odds of the base
actually being alive, she had calculated a few hours before, had been
9374662-1. It now seemed that the odds were even less. How else would it
have known what she was thinking? Especially since in that brief second
that she had thought the thought, she was also thinking about close to one
hundred different things. As humans would say in a similar situation, 'It
was spooky.'
Using this newfound interactive technology, Meleah was able to quickly find
the correct controls and activate the viewscreen. It immediately filled
with the stars directly in front of the base. Appearing in the top
right-hand corner was the FEYNMAN.
Chief Pomeroy also worked out at that moment, that he could interact with
the computers. He let out an exclamation at this finding, causing everyone
else to turn around to see what was wrong.
In response to their inquiring looks, he said, "It talked to me!"
Immediately, the engineers were over at his computer examining it. "What
did it do precisely?"
"I sort of thought, don't you do anything but list the files? How come I
can't access them? And then, on the screen, it said 'because you haven't
been given clearance'."
"Husnock's had a completely different language to us. How does it know
Federation standard?" asked the youngest scientist, Chief Brianna Rowan.
Meleah's mind had already been analyzing that question. "Perhaps it has
been studying the way in which we speak. After all, it can understand where
we want to go using pictures, so perhaps it has learnt from us how to
communicate with us."
"But that would mean that the base was alive, wouldn't it," asked the
cynical engineer.
"Yes. It would," replied Meleah.
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NRPG:<br>
Roughly the same time that the base spoke to Maril, Meleah's team discovers
a new way to communicate with the base. The base wouldn't have known
Federation standard before the team arrived, would it?
Sincerely yours,<br>
Lt Meleah, CSciO, USS FEYNMAN, Silver Fleet.<br>
Melanie.<br>