Post by Lt. Commander Liz Sur'Shess on Feb 22, 2014 5:49:40 GMT -8
"Good, then let's the tractor beam a try," he said, turning towards the Y'angdar woman once again. "We're ready to try to pull your ship out of the anomaly,"
"So, it was our engines that were fighting against it?" She tried to find a real world equivalent. "Like fingers through tangled hair?"
As Cobus turned to address the Yang'dar and the Therys, Liz glanced at the young woman, unable to help a tiny smile. She looked so wide-eyed and curious, a newcomer to a brilliant world she was trying very hard to understand, not yet jaded by all the things that could befall people in space. "Something like that," she said in a quiet voice. "See, there's an excess flow of graviton particles here," she explained, "so that this portion of space acts sort of like a planet would, or a black hole. Your ship isn't able to move because the pull of the gravity is stronger than the pull of your engines. Thankfully," she said, glancing up as the Mistress gave her stern approval of the tractor beam, "outside influence on your vessel should be able to pop us out again."
She glanced back at the readings. She thought she was getting the hang of it, and maybe even of this language, whatever it was. There was nothing like readings she'd already partly seen to clarify confusion when it came to foreign systems.
The woman was right behind them. She realized this a moment after she pulled up a new set of readings, these ones slightly more nuanced--gold and red danced across the screen, highlighting places where gravitic activity was a tiny bit higher, exerting more pull...there was almost a pattern, a gentle ring that outlined the thing. They might have to do a bit of extra pushing, to get the Yang'dar ship over the event horizon of the anomaly....
Liz glanced to the side, looking at the woman from the corner of her eye for just a moment. Yeah, she still didn't trust her, and the way the woman kept glancing over at Cobus was rather worrisome. It seemed it wasn't just the Yang'dar who wanted to lay claim to him.
The Yang'dar Captain's voice piped up for a moment, calling the Talon and letting them know they were ready. Liz's fingers tapped against the edge of the console, a not-quite-nervous habit that told how ready she was to get this over with and go back home.
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"So, it was our engines that were fighting against it?" She tried to find a real world equivalent. "Like fingers through tangled hair?"
As Cobus turned to address the Yang'dar and the Therys, Liz glanced at the young woman, unable to help a tiny smile. She looked so wide-eyed and curious, a newcomer to a brilliant world she was trying very hard to understand, not yet jaded by all the things that could befall people in space. "Something like that," she said in a quiet voice. "See, there's an excess flow of graviton particles here," she explained, "so that this portion of space acts sort of like a planet would, or a black hole. Your ship isn't able to move because the pull of the gravity is stronger than the pull of your engines. Thankfully," she said, glancing up as the Mistress gave her stern approval of the tractor beam, "outside influence on your vessel should be able to pop us out again."
She glanced back at the readings. She thought she was getting the hang of it, and maybe even of this language, whatever it was. There was nothing like readings she'd already partly seen to clarify confusion when it came to foreign systems.
The woman was right behind them. She realized this a moment after she pulled up a new set of readings, these ones slightly more nuanced--gold and red danced across the screen, highlighting places where gravitic activity was a tiny bit higher, exerting more pull...there was almost a pattern, a gentle ring that outlined the thing. They might have to do a bit of extra pushing, to get the Yang'dar ship over the event horizon of the anomaly....
Liz glanced to the side, looking at the woman from the corner of her eye for just a moment. Yeah, she still didn't trust her, and the way the woman kept glancing over at Cobus was rather worrisome. It seemed it wasn't just the Yang'dar who wanted to lay claim to him.
The Yang'dar Captain's voice piped up for a moment, calling the Talon and letting them know they were ready. Liz's fingers tapped against the edge of the console, a not-quite-nervous habit that told how ready she was to get this over with and go back home.
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