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As the Jaradi responds, Gibs reacts by keying in a scan for shuttlecraft in the area and then scans those craft for their trajectories, velocties, acceleration, and for lifesigns aboard. If he could spot the correct shuttle harboring the criminal, he could scan to see if there were accomplices or hostages on board and what their status might be.

"Captain, there appear to be two shuttles moving away from the Jaradi vessel. Both are moving away from the Jaradi ship, one in our direction and one away from us both. It's too soon to tell, but I reckon the terrorist who sabotaged their ship is onboard one of them. Multiple lifesigns registered aboard both craft, I'm fine tuning the scan now."

"Also, I would like to request permission to board the Jaradi vessel and offer any assistance I may to their medical staff in treating any wounded as soon as is feasible. I'm sure they are much more familiar with their own biology than I, but in a crisis sometimes every extra hand counts. It would also be a good opportunity to learn about them while helping. Alternatively, we can make our medical bay available to any of their injured crew."

Studying his monitor's outputs intently, Gibs listened to Kol's introduction as he kept an eye out for anything out of the ordinary. He turned slightly and his eyes widened as he saw the Jaradi on the viewscreen. What a magnificently terrifying presence she has, he thought.

Returning his attention to his console, he opened a new subroutine and keyed in a request for the computer to pull up information on other monocular species then cross reference it for any mentions of behavioral, cultural, or diplomatic tendencies shared between them.

While traveling to the rendezvous point, Gibs busies himself by studying over the ship's readings from the graviton ellipse, if the Jaradi showed an interest he should at least be able to give them some up to date readings from it. Given the readings coming in from the probes it looked like there would likely be a gravimetric discharge in the near future. Gibs mumbled to himself and smiled as he thought of giving the five day forecast to the Jaradi delegation.

Cloudy tomorrow, with a slight chance of hull crushing gravity waves. Don't forget to pack your magnetic field inverters!

[/b]Perhaps the Jaradi will find information about the location of this graviton ellipse to be useful and we can frame our report of it as our first diplomatic act of exchanging information about the area, even if they already know about it. I agree with Lt. Cmdr. Kol that an hour's delay is well worth it to avoid limping into our meeting with a damaged ship and possibly being even more delayed.[/b]

Gibs sat down at a terminal to monitor the data feed coming back from the probes as they began to sweep out away from the ship. He began making notes while numbers streamed in across the screen in several columns.

"I believe we can locate the source of these inversion fields based on patterns seen in the probe's data. Creating an inversion field is often done by harnessing energy from a radioactive source, and then redirecting it to disrupt local sensor arrays. Rather than depend on sensor readings, it might be a simpler and more effective method to look for the signature left by the radioactive power source. We can do that by measuring the level of gamma rays hitting our probes. If we look at the radiation readings coming in from the probes, we should be able to pinpoint the source of the inversion waves by triangulating the source of the gamma ray radiation. Once we know where they are coming from we can better assess whether to approach and disable or maintain our course using the probes as our navigational flashlights."

Anytime you are talking about first contact with new species, it opens up the door to a number of risks to our crew, most of them unknowns. My primary concern is preventing cross contamination so that we don't unknowingly contract a disease while shaking hands with our new friends. The last thing we need is to ruin our fragile new peace with a chance case of Auroral Plague. We'll want to play it by the book when it comes to standard medical scanning procedures for all away teams, both prior to leaving and upon return to the ship. Now, I know that no matter how careful we are, we're going to come across something we've never dealt with before. That's just the nature of exploration. We have a right smart crew on board, and I trust we can fly by the seat of our pants when needed.

"Gibs" slowly uncrossed his feet and pulled them down from off the table in front of him. So far his attempts to remove the strange residue from the coin Verelon had given him had proved surprisingly ineffective.

This is ridiculous, I'd rather be stuck scrubbing the floors after a case of Grazerite Flu than spend any more time on this.

Putting the phase coil resonator in his pocket, Ernest stood up and walked out of his quarters, only to bump right into Kol as she stepped briskly down the corridor.

Why pardon me, ma'am. I was not expecting to encounter such a force of nature right outside my door and got pulled right in. Please, lead the way.

Oh and Verelon, do you happen to have a phase modulator I could borrow? This resonator didn't do much more than cause this resin or whatever goop this is to smear around a bit and make a bigger mess.

Gibs flipped the coin into the air for emphasis, then handed it back to Verelon and turned to follow Kol.

Ernest Gibson, here. Equally likely to be caught jawing at a cute nurse or nursing a sore jaw after a good night out.