Cracking the god code.

Posted on Sun Dec 16th, 2018 @ 3:42am by Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi & Captain Enalia Telvan

Mission: Escaped Pantheons
Location: Engineering

The busy sound of engineering caused the chief engineer's antenna to vibrate slightly as she leaned back in her chair. Another round of testing and the artifacts recovered from Hera and the nanobots had done nothing. That was the fifth round and nothing had happened. She had a book of the greek myths open on her desk trying to find any ideas of how she could get these to work.

Picking up the book she began flicking through the pages. Something in here must give her a clue. Putting her finger on the first sentence. " And Zeus spoke."

Wait she thought to herself. Could it really be that simple? Say a word and get them to work?

She leaned back in her chair one of her eyes her blue eyes glancing at the levels of the elements in the jars. A thought crept into her head as she looked at the Xubliyrium and Koslayntine levels. Surely it couldn't be as simple as that.

Her hand flew across the desktop as she brought up the earliest form of the Greek language and the periodic table. A smile crept across her face as the words matched up. The periodic table letters Xubliyrium, Koslayntine formed half of the word open in Mycenaean Greek. The particle they created may have had the other half.

It gave the meaning of the terms the gods spoke a rather new term the chief engineer thought to herself

If she was correct she just had to work out the word to switch on the nanites. It couldn't be as simple as the word on could it?

Her hands were flying as she got the computer to replicate and began pumping in the required elements. Here goes nothing she thought as she pressed the button. A smile spread over her face as the nanobots began to move as the environment adjusted though they didn't seem to work faster.

Still, it was a lead and that was progress. Now she just has to think of what a Greek god would have as the password for their nanotech. A job harder than most would think.

Still she began to record the results in her computer logs and sent a message to the captain. She was onto something.

" Captain Telvan this is commander Thex. I think i have a lead on thinking the artifacts we recovered from Hera." She said cheerily as she got to work she needed to do some calculations and a little working out.

Enalia had been on a bit of a tour of the ship, checking over some of the systems and crew when she got the call. Stopping off in one of the crew lounges in the lower decks, she tapped her comm badge to reply. =/\="Captain Telvan here, go ahead."=/\=

=/\=" Well, captain I'm working on a theory that the nanites can be activated with a combination of elements based around a word. If I'm correct they'll activate when exposed to the...."=/\= Thex began as she added a new combination into the jar. A faint light appeared to emanate from the jar as the readings went haywire before settling down. Looking at the screen Thex saw that the nanites had started to work as the broken armor was beginning to mend. Glancing at the word a smile spread over her face. The combination of elements read the word protect.

=/\=" Sorry about that captain I have some results it looks like the armor is repairing itself."=/\= She said with a smile on her face.

=/\="Excellent! Keep up the good work. If you need any more resources, let me know."=/\= Enalia smiled brightly. She knew Thex would get it.

=/\= Will do captain. =/\= Replied the andorian as she kept her eyes on the computer and the results appearing on the screen. The armor appeared to be made out of a black substance denser than a neutron star that the scanners were struggling to get through. A gold like substance appeared as a trim sending images of monsters from the depths of the sea across the breastplate, greeves, vambrace giving it a haunting yet beautiful appearance. A single glowing blue gem formed in the center of the breastplate as it changed as the nanites brought in back from oblivion.

What appeared to be a corinthian helmet emerged from the pile of scrap even though it had an under breastplate and what appeared to be glowing blue eyes.

Last was a pair of gold bracelets with blue glowing gems were assembled before the reading from the jar went blank. The jar itself than began to crumble to dust before the andorians eyes.

" Well, that didn't take long." Thex said to herself and the few other engineers who had been observing the nanites work. According to the readings, they had now vanished and the ones in the other jars had lowered in their activity.

She turned the scans to the armor, but given the material, it was made from the scanners could barely get through it's outer layer yet alone if something was inside.

" Repairs complete bonding with new user." boomed an electronic voice as the pieces of the armor began to glow and hover in the air. " Oh no...." Thex began to say before with a flash of light the armor vanished from behind their shielded environment.

In an instant Thex world turned black as pain shot through her head as antenna were crushed against her head. She let out a scream as she felt the metal contract around her as a noise echoed in her ears and into her very soul.

As suddenly as the darkness and pain had come it had vanished as with a blue flash a screen light up in front of her. The familiar sight of her engineering appeared before her now accompanied with what appeared to be a display showing her life signs on the right-hand side. Her team was standing over her obviously completely stumped about what to do.

Her body felt like it was now returned to her as she sat up startling some of her men. " It's okay guys. It's still me." She said though the robotic tone of her voice startled her. Looking at one of the consols the andorian couldn't help but laugh at her appearance. Parts of the armor had morphed and grown giving her a full body armor that made her resemble some sought of a mixture between a Greek hoplite and the earth comic hero iron man.

" Well, this will be something to tell the captain." She said wondering how she could get this thing off. Her mind snapped back to the Greek myths book and the legend of Achilles. Giving the back of her left foot a tap she was rewarded as with an alien buzz the armor contracted back into it's normal pieces other than the two bracelets which staid firmly attached to her wrists.

" Well, at least that was easy. " Thex said as she looked at her team. " Okay everyone i want all data stored and logged and someone get a dangerous material container prepared for the armor. I don't want anyone touching it without my say so."

Her team nodded and got to work as Thex sat down in her chair. The bracelets came off with a simple clip which she placed on the desk. This was going to be something to put in the report.

 

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