The Gatekeeper system was news to Alyssa.  That hadn't been part of her briefing.  Apparently there were things about this mission she was meant to find out with the rest of the crew.  The annoyed her quite a bit.  Given the nature of what was apparently to be their mission, she wondered if they would be carrying some of Star Fleet's more powerful offenses and defenses.<br/><br/>Getting the Engineer's attention, "Lieutenant, Captain....Are we carrying Transphasic Torpedoes?  Has the McNair had external Ablative Generators installed?"<br/><br/>A lot of people didn't know about these technologies....but, in a move that had confused her at the time but now made sense, Alyssa had been authorized to both know about and discuss these items with the senior staff of the ship.  She was fairly certain that Captain Mitchell would have already known about both the torpedoes and the armor.