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Making a weapon

Posted on Wed Sep 19th, 2018 @ 9:38pm by Ensign Raymond McBain & Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi

Mission: Holographic Horrors
Location: Engineering
Timeline: after the briefing

McBain was in this way over his head and he was well aware of it. Arguing with a Vulcan was pointless. They were always logical so irrefutable in the long run. Still he was going in and he needed a weapon, as did others. He would see what Thex thought, she was easy on the eyes but more important he felt she was smart. He needed someone like her right now, someone smart enough to make his idea work. He stopped inside Engineering and asked a passerby where the Chief was. Armed with directions he went to find her. He had an escort as this was engineering and they wanted no one touching something that should not be touched.

McBain saw her and stopped at a polite distance awaiting her to notice him. She had been there, so he felt confident she knew why he was here anyway. He just hoped she had some ideas on how to make this tungsten/rhenium thing work. He knew a weapon made entirely of the material would be too heavy to wield. But maybe a cutting edge would suffice? He remained waiting with a degree of calmness he did not feel inside.

Thex notched the human entering her lair and after helping out her team by sorting out who was going to do what to the shields before waving him over. " Hello there McBain what can I help you with." She said as she headed out of the noisy engine room towards her office.

"I need some help with fabrication and advice of feasibility." He showed her his PaDD with the picture of a few bladed weapons, a gladius shaped short sword, a thick bladed German hunting saber, even an axe. Each had a channel where the cutting edge should be and a wire to be inserted along the edge. Another page was of arrowheads and bullets made of this same material. "I wanted to know if you could fabricate this tungsten/rhenium wire and if you had the means to modify these weapons and ammunition types. "This compound is as close as I could find to the denseness of that adamantine. I am hoping to create some weapons that could penetrate those troops used by Hera."

" Give me enough time and coffee and I can do anything. " The andorian said as she flicked through the padd. " You might be onto something with the bullets. Maybe we could covert a TR-116 to fire them. I doubt even a child of the gods could stand up to a bullet fired by that thing going through it."

"I was not sure about them since they replicate their own ammo. If the base material was that mix it should be possible I would think. A three shot burst with the heavier 18mm slugs might even dent those statues? I can' imagine the Minotaurs or harpies taking hits and keep standing. Not being sure how many there will be, or how close we might be when confronted though I would really like to have the melee weapons. There are ten people among the two away teams. So we should have at least ten modified TR116's. I think two axes, and maybe six of each sword type? I would like twenty arrowheads, and thirty bullets for my pistol, those are the 10mm slugs. Just my wish list." McBain was pleased the engineer was so receptive. "Thanks I will be back, if you need me for anything just holler for me."

 

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