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driftfleet2015-06-27 11:04 am
unbearablynaive) wrote in driftfleet2015-06-27 11:04 am
video broadcast
Who: The Vision
Broadcast: Fleetwide, open
Action: The abandoned bug ship
When: 6/27 late in the day
[The video opens up to show what sure is a red-skinned guy in a skin-tight blue suit with a bright yellow jewel on his forehead. Someone isn't going for subtlety with his look. When he speaks, it's with a cultured voice and a light British accent.]
Good evening. For those of you I have not yet met, my name is the Vision and yes, this is my normal appearance. I am an engineer aboard the SS Windrose. Like many of you I have been exploring the derelict ship and I believe it is possible to cleanse it of the fungal infection using a process known as vacuum sterilization. Essentially this means moving the air to one half the ship and opening airlocks on the other half, allowing anything not securely bolted to be swept into space - including infectious spores. We would then close the doors, filter the air, move it to the disinfected side and repeat the process. Once it is clean, we may investigate further without fear of infection to ourselves and determine if the ship is capable of being used by us, either for our own purposes or to return to its original owners.
[His expression softens to one of sorrow.] However, in order to be fully confident this cleansing would be effective, it would be necessary to release the infected bodies of the fallen life-forms into space as well. They were once fully sapient individuals, before the infection took hold, and such an action should not be undertaken lightly. Is this a course of action the Fleet would support? If there are any of you who are conversant in such things, would you consider holding a funeral or memorial ceremony for those who have been our enemies?
I welcome your input. Thank you for listening.
Broadcast: Fleetwide, open
Action: The abandoned bug ship
When: 6/27 late in the day
[The video opens up to show what sure is a red-skinned guy in a skin-tight blue suit with a bright yellow jewel on his forehead. Someone isn't going for subtlety with his look. When he speaks, it's with a cultured voice and a light British accent.]
Good evening. For those of you I have not yet met, my name is the Vision and yes, this is my normal appearance. I am an engineer aboard the SS Windrose. Like many of you I have been exploring the derelict ship and I believe it is possible to cleanse it of the fungal infection using a process known as vacuum sterilization. Essentially this means moving the air to one half the ship and opening airlocks on the other half, allowing anything not securely bolted to be swept into space - including infectious spores. We would then close the doors, filter the air, move it to the disinfected side and repeat the process. Once it is clean, we may investigate further without fear of infection to ourselves and determine if the ship is capable of being used by us, either for our own purposes or to return to its original owners.
[His expression softens to one of sorrow.] However, in order to be fully confident this cleansing would be effective, it would be necessary to release the infected bodies of the fallen life-forms into space as well. They were once fully sapient individuals, before the infection took hold, and such an action should not be undertaken lightly. Is this a course of action the Fleet would support? If there are any of you who are conversant in such things, would you consider holding a funeral or memorial ceremony for those who have been our enemies?
I welcome your input. Thank you for listening.
Video
This is Dr. Crusher, on the Blue Fish. I see my colleague Dr. Bashir as well as several of my crewmates have already spoken to you, so I am sure you are already aware of the fungicide we're developing. You are more than welcome to stop by the lab if you'd like to discuss that further, or see any of the data I have collected so far regarding the insectoids.
[A beat.]
I understand our options are limited here, since we are currently unable to contact the crew's home planet or any of their ships, but I hesitate to support a plan involving us taking the ship. Even if we have every intention of returning it to the rightful owners - which I am not convinced everyone in the fleet has that intention - we have no idea how this will be percieved by these people. We know next to nothing about their culture or values or what relation, if any, they have to our captors. They might see our possession of the ship as an insult or sacriligious or even as an act of aggression. Not to mention, if we are unsuccessful in fully decontaminating the ship, we could be delivering a plague to their doorstep. I do not want to be responsible for that.
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[He inclines his head to show he acknowledges her words.] I understand your hesitation, but one could use the same argument to say that it might be a deadly insult to leave it here given its mostly functional condition. While I personally would advocate taking it, if the majority opinion is opposed we can at least take its coordinates down in case they should wish to recover it on their own.
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