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FROM CMDR. Zarath, Tellara SUBJ Project Teleraptor: High Level Review ORIG DATE Document Originally Compiled SD:95207.9 (March 17, 2418) POST DATE Document Uploaded SD:95227.1 (March 24, 2418) |
Project Teleraptor
Overview
Project Teleraptor is Starfleet’s defense against Azedi hostility, and works by collapsing artificial micro-wormholes with a phase-conjugate graviton beam. Due to graviton interactions with verteron particles, the closure of the wormhole occurs by pulling the wormhole aperture shut in a forceful manner.
The original creators and theorizers of Project Teleraptor were Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth L. Kermit and Lieutenant Junior Grade Agnieszka A. Kaczmarek. Refinements are being carried out under the combined efforts of Deep Space Thirteen’s Science and Engineering teams.
Goals
- Prevent the arrival, or subsequent retreat of an Azedi vessel: the main function of Teleraptor is to prevent the arrival of an Azedi ship in the first place, this is done by collapsing the wormhole aperture before a vessel has transitioned through.
- (Secondary) Teleraptor can also be used as an offensive weapon: by targeting Teleraptor at the internal wormhole of an Azedi vessel, this renders the vessel powerless and causes serious compromise of structural integrity.
Specifications
While the effect of Project Teleraptor has no noticeable effect upon subspace or the underlying tensor matrix, the closure of a wormhole aperture has great effect to normal space at larger scales as space-time folds back into itself. This does have the unfortunate side effect of creating an intense graviton field, which damages atomic bonds in a converging area towards the point of verteron collapse.
The intention of Project Teleraptor is to prevent the transit through a wormhole in the first instance, rather than as an offensive weapon targeted at Azedi ships, or more specifically, the wormhole acting as the power source of the vessel, however it can and has been used as such in the field.
Azedi vessels are large, and as such, so too are the Azedi terminus apertures, by nature, these apertures will be of a larger size than the vessel that will emerge, and the use of Teleraptor on these apertures will also create fields slightly larger and slightly more intense than those seen before. The exact size of these fields will need to be tested, to ensure a safe exclusion zone can be established around the terminus points, however given the size of the internal wormhole, it is not expected that these zones will be excessive.
If Teleraptor is used as an offensive weapon, the fields do not extend beyond the vessel’s outer reaches. As no biological remains have been found on Azedi vessels to date, there is no evidence to suggest that the fields affect internal biologicals. However the reason for the lack of remains is a subject of speculation at this time.
Due to the natural nature of these particle interactions, there is the possibility that Azedi ships are built with safeguards to ensure these interactions do not cause harm to lifeforms within the vessel.
Milestones
- Improve existing methods of artificial wormhole generation: Current methods only allow a small micro-wormhole to be generated, for full testing, we will require a wormhole at least the size of an Azedi vessel.
- Begin investigations to potential countermeasures to Teleraptor: We know the Azedi are reportedly working on countermeasures to Teleraptor. As these are particle interactions, we should be able to either create our own countermeasures to test, or at the very least simulations thereof, working out the path forward from there.
//SIGNED//
Commander Tellara sh'Zarath
Chief Science Officer, Deep Space Thirteen