"Right, thank you, Captain."<br/><br/>It was harder to speak in assembly than any other time for Dun, though it was self imposed.  He always tried his best to speak without an accent.  Yet, his excitement always induced a fit of Gaelic that only true islanders could understand.  There were angles and designs aboard the McNair that were hard enough to understand with out a language barrier on top of it all.<br/><br/>Dun quickly stepped away from Captain Mitchel and found the wall computer and punched and tapped away.  From the center of the table came a holographic display of a standard Nova class retrofit based on schematics of the Rhodes Island and the McNair beside it, both revolving slowly.  With a wave of a little pencil like object, most of both schematics disappeared leaving what resembled objects floating in an invisible Tholian Phase Spider's web.<br/><br/>"This schematic represents the systems that are still identical between our McNair and the standard Nova Class.  As you can see, most of everything has changed."<br/><br/>Dun let this sink in as he admired the holograms, there really wasn't much more in the multiverse that excited him as was evident by the slowly building grin upon his face.<br/><br/>"These additions in light blue indicate changes that have only been made due to an increase in power available, thus increasing the efficiency of the systems involved."<br/><br/>Half of the McNair reappeared with recognizable tracings of power conduit much larger than normal leading to familiar areas of the ship some of which simply used the extra power coming in, Replication, Transporting, half of the Science Labs along with Services across the ship.<br/><br/>"This darker blue represents the integrity field.  Considering the stress we plan on putting upon the ship, we installed a variant of the Defiant's modified for size.  A singularity is about the only thing that could cause catastrophic hull collapse.  Adding to the field emitters we have the the purple indicating the multi phasic shielding grid backed up by the Gatekeeper Array."<br/><br/>Dun paused for a moment and looked about him.  There was a small measure of empathy upon his features as he considered that some of the personnel might consider what he had detailed thus far and were on the border of panic.<em>Why would a science vessel need such heavy defenses...</em>Dun had thought the same thing before they had finally installed the last great piece of the puzzle, the Gatekeeper Array itself was the driving technological achievement of the millennium.  With the knowledge of their mission, the crew would understand.<br/><br/>"Lt Tir, if you have not already discovered," a wave of the 'pencil' revealed the sickbay in white with a much larger than standard auxiliary space surrounding it, "that there is more available to you than meets your eye on initial investigation.  There was not any room for isolation chambers, but we have been able to provide multi phasic isolation which was much more space efficient.  This isolation can also be extended around the entire medical facility.  And, as with all Novas, you have EMH 3.0 at your disposable should you have need."<br/><br/>Dun realized everyone was trying to keep up with him and he could tell a few gazes were glazed over.  He tried to communicate in brief at this point that everything aboard the ship was tied into the larger than normal array called the Gatekeeper from sensors to teleporters, the Mcnair could operate on any plane or phase or temporal flux in the known multiverse.<br/><br/>"Lt Lugus, I presume," Dun nodded in the Vulcan's direction, "it is with great pleasure that I will make you first aware of the situation room of your very own and very exclusive Science Department.  The situational room can be virtually made up for any application that we have yet to think of.  Period.  Also, the first of its kind, is the verse creation room where we can create, with the appropriate id, a pocket universe of any temporal or quantum anomaly already in existence so as to transport or communicate or work with species from other timelines or other realities."<br/><br/>Dun gathered in his breath and let it out noisily.  Here it was.  The reason for this mission and this ship and its crew.<br/><br/>"And the Gatekeeper gets us there.  Thats right, with the array we can open any spatial distortion in any temporal or phasic reality, as I understand it, allowing the McNair to travel said anomaly.  Lt Lugus here will have to give you the specifics of exactly how that works, I simply power it.  The rest, as you would say it, is all nuts and bolts, and I wont bore you with that discussion!"<br/><br/>Dun laughed and sat down, "Over to you, Captain, if there isnt any questions."