Mr. Hawkins' Artifact

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To: CAPT Varley, Lauren
CC: CMDR Mandra, Alina
From: LCDR H’ajah
Subj: Re: Mr. Hawkins’ Artifact



CAPTAIN, A PROTOTYPE CONTAINMENT SOLUTION IS BEING INSTALLED IN THE SCIENCE WING THIS MORNING. THIS SOLUTION IMPLEMENTS THE FOLLOWING COUNTERMEASURES:

  • A STASIS FIELD GENERATOR SURROUNDING THE INTERIOR COMPARTMENT WHICH WILL RENDER THE PHYSICAL ARTIFACT INERT WHILE ACTIVE.

  • AN ARRAY OF VARIABLE-DENSITY CHRONITON EMITTERS FORMING A BARRIER ENCLOSING THE STASIS HARDWARE, INITIALLY SET TO A LEVEL I ESTIMATE TO BE HIGHLY PAINFUL BUT NON-LETHAL TO BAJORAN WORMHOLE GODS. BE WARNED THAT THIS SETTING IS SPECULATIVE BASED ON VERY LIMITED DATA AND MAY PROVE UNEQUAL TO THE TASK OF CONTAINING SUCH A GOD. I WOULD PREFER TO SET IT TO A LEVEL KNOWN TO KILL THESE GODS, BUT I KNOW YOU WOULD FORBID IT. NEVERTHELESS, THE CAPABILITY IS BUILT INTO THE SYSTEM SHOULD YOU COME TO YOUR SENSES.

  • A PSIONIC RESONANCE TRANSMITTER TUNED TO DISRUPT THE PSIONIC FIELD AT A RANGE OF TWO METERS SURROUNDING THE ENCLOSURE. BE WARNED THAT PSIONICALLY SENSITIVE BEINGS, INCLUDING THE ENTITY RESIDING IN THE ARTIFACT, MAY FIND THE EFFECT OF THESE RESONANCE WAVES DISORIENTING OR UNCOMFORTABLE. THE STRENGTH OF THIS FIELD IS ADJUSTABLE AS WELL, AND CURRENTLY SET TO INHIBIT BETA-LEVEL PSIONIC TRANSMISSIONS. THE ENTITY HAS BEEN ESTIMATED AS AN ALPHA-PLUS LEVEL PSIONIC PRESENCE, SO THIS MAY BE INSUFFICIENT AS WELL.

  • A SENSOR PACKAGE CONFIGURED TO SCAN FOR NEUTRINOS AND VERTERONS, WHICH WILL DETECT THE EARLY STAGES OF WORMHOLE FORMATION.

  • A BATTERY OF PARTICLE EMITTERS CAPABLE OF PROJECTING PHASE-CONJUGATE GRAVITON BEAMS TARGETED AT THE SOURCE COORDINATES DETECTED BY THE SENSOR PACKAGE. THIS BATTERY CONSISTS OF SIX EMITTERS AND IS CAPABLE OF CLOSING AS MANY AS THREE PROTO-WORMHOLES WITHIN A FOUR SECOND PERIOD WHILE DEPENDENT ON THE ONBOARD POWER SOURCE. WHEN CONNECTED TO STATION POWER, THE RECYCLE TIME IS REDUCED TO 47 MILLISECONDS.

TOGETHER, THESE SYSTEMS FORM THE MOST COMPLETE CONTAINMENT SOLUTION WE ARE CAPABLE OF BUILDING WITH OUR CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENTITY WE SEEK TO CONTAIN. I AM NOT AT ALL CONFIDENT THAT IT IS SUFFICIENT TO CAGE A GOD. IF IT SHOULD FAIL, REMEMBER THAT IT WAS BY YOUR DECISION THAT OUR IGNORANCE WAS MAINTAINED. PERHAPS WE WILL LEARN MORE WHEN THE ENTITY ESCAPES, AND APPLY THAT KNOWLEDGE TO VERSION TWO.

//SIGNED//
tuq cargh qaStaHvIS ghIm h’ajah, shal puqbe’
Lt. Cmdr. H’ajah, daughter of Shal, of House Cargh in exile
Chief Engineer, Engineering Dept., Deep Space 13

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