<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/ZDCxScf.png)</div><strong>Lt Cmdr Nissillia Nelan (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=329997.msg15759948#msg15759948)</strong><br/><strong>Bridge &amp; Science Departments</strong><br/><strong>Scanning Kang Xiu 1 </strong><br/><strong>Tag | Mention:</strong>Open<br/><hr/><br/>The past two days, Nissillia and her department has been going non-stop, gathering information about the new race below.  Ensign T'leth and her team has been gathering, collating every broadcast and other public media they could easily and safely get ahold of without contacting them directly.  T'leth also worked with the Universal Translator to improve translations of the species oral and written language.  T'leth was also working on figuring out what kind of political system the race was using.<br/><br/>Nissillia had Ensign Jenny and her team working with the medical department on figuring out the biology of the new species, based on the atmosphere inside the domes, pictures of the race captured through high definition cameras on the USS Victoria.  As well as food that the race ate, gathered from trash dumps through scans and maybe even teleporting some trash up for direct examination. Observations of patterns of activity, how long their working day was, how much rest was taken, etc.<br/><br/>Ensign Bozgus was working on interfacing the race's computer system and figuring out how they programmed their computers and how allow communication between computers.  Many people thought that computers could automatically communicate between each other, but that wasn't the case, different thought structures created many ways to do the same thing.  Computer programs were still languages and different computer languages didn't work together without some translation going on.<br/><br/>She had Ensign Laura working on gathering information and doing long range scanning of the system the drone flew to while her team was helping out the teams directly studying the planet below.   Ensign Xaman and Ensign Colleen were gathering up info on the planet below, what minerals it had and its weather system while their technicians were helping with studies on the new race.<br/><br/>When Nissillia wasn't helping her department leads, answering questions, giving suggestions, she was working on the sensor ghosts problems.  Something that she hadn't encountered before and she wasn't satisfied with her first solution, it didn't really answer the question of what was causing the ghosts.  And that was what she was doing when the red alert went off.  Sighing as she indicated to her team to continue running the data analysis as she rushed back to the bridge to take over the science station from Bozgus.<br/><br/>Nissillia was just sliding into her chair and familiarize herself with the current situation when the fleet of ships warped directly to them and the sensor ghosts resolved themselves into laser and missile platforms.  Cursing at not figuring out sooner what the sensor ghosts were, the betazoid turned to the Captain, "I apologize Captain, I should have figured out what those sensor ghosts were sooner."  She turned back to her station as she was mainly gathering info for the Captain with passive scans, active scans might be detected and taken as a threat.  This race had recently went through a battle, they might still be defensive and on edge.  "Captain I am passively scanning the ships right now, do you wish me to actively scan them?  I haven't actively scanned them yet as they might pick up the active scans and misinterpret them as preparation for hostilities."<br/><br/>She started to look through the data on the damaged ships in orbit to determine of the ships were all of the same tech level and designed by the same race, or if some of the ships had a different design philosophy.<br/><br/>Anybody observing Nissillia, she was showing signs of fatigue and lack of sleep from going ful speed for the last couple of days as she worked to gather as much information as fast as possible for the Captain.   The strain of blocking out all the stress emotions coming from all the crew around her was showing as well.