4-116: Transit of Witnish
They are books he has not seen before. A quick investigation suggests they go back over 10 kiloCycles into the past.
I will take that as he will continue working on the program to open the blobs that didn’t open.
Erin is interested in what he’s doing and makes a few suggestions, particularly around how to manage the heat from the processor when it isn’t quite coming together and he has to dismantle and re-assemble it. You can give me a psychology roll, if you wish.
The Snark comes out of jump at Witnish on 211.341 RG07. The ship is well above the plane of the ecliptic and about 0.9AU from the star – out in the boonies…
Way Station Witnish is nearly 6 AU distant.
Dicard orders Halcyon to hold position.
Then he tells Oliver to send a priority transit code to the Way Station – he sends the code to Oliver’s terminal. The code authorises the ship to transit the system without going into the Way Station for a customs check.
At this distance it will take at least 7 tasks to get a response back from the Way Station. However, Erin says it will take a Cycle for her to re-tune the FTL drives for the next jump (she sleeps in Red shift, same as Oliver, and she seems to be factoring rack-time into her estimate.)
Once things settle down Oliver can go back to sleep. On waking he finds that their priority transit has been approved while he slept.
That Cycle he continues to work on his program. He is just in his bunk asleep when Dicard wakes him. Erin has completed the drive re-tuning sooner than expected and the ship is ready to depart.
He is called back to the Control Room for departure where he finds as comms/scan officer he doesn’t have much to do while the ship goes into jump and then he can go back to bed. It is 211.342 RR09 when the ship jumps.
The journey to Riddle takes a little under four Cycles, the ship running ahead of schedule again.
Mid way through the next Cycle (211.342 GG08) Oliver thinks he has all the bugs out of his computer program, or at least, he can open all the data blobs.
He’s still working on the glasses.
There are lots more digitised notebooks and several other files…
What would he like to focus on?
9 v 10 for Psychology
He’ll put the same amount of effort into the new files as he was with the data decryption. So he’ll start with the non-notebook files to see if there’s something interesting among them.
It is cool reading all this, what is probably mundane stuff for a Dominion citizen, described so detailed.