Literary Challenge #53: The Gateway
D'Tan plans to reactivate the Iconian Gateway that was
found on New Romulus, and you've been invited to be a representative that will
be present for the event. Write a Log entry sharing your preparation plans and
your personal thoughts on the situation.
Post #29
Notes: Vice Admiral Daaral Zentron.
Preparation for the event was
standard. Special regard was taken for tactical, astrophysics, and the quantum
mechanics team. I had also reviewed stolen Romulan military programming
information regarding their engineering procedures, most of which had to do
with conversion techniques and ratios regarding foreign technology.
The tragedy on New Romulus
regarding the tectonic breakdown and the miraculous discovery of the Iconian
ship has already been well documented. My science team is still in review
regarding tectonic plate retroversion gravitron pulsewaves; however the
frequency dampeners may have been somehow compromised. Essentially you have two
pulse forces making waves, the actual vibrations of the machine at work and
that of the retroversion gravitron compensation activity, which is to be
compensated by frequency dampeners. Our lack of understanding of Iconian
technology is likely the failure. With two complex vibration frequencies at
work…it is quite complicated. Nature being almost impossible to predict, cannot
at times be compensated, this is our best data at the moment unfortunately. The
retroversion gravitron pulsewaves should have acted like a shield to ‘float’
the gateway mechanism within the cavernous and active geothermal ductways,
however the compensators were somehow too rigid and at some moment gave way, or
perhaps even contributed to seismic activity. This is a shame, and again, there
could have been sabotage. The Tal’Shiar is somewhat omnipresent in this sector,
despite our best efforts at security. Now is the time to wait for further
results.
The Iconian Gateway itself is a
genius piece of machinery. Dimensional transgenesis migration is a very
complicated technological feat, yet my engineers have evidence of
trans-dimensional transgenesis migration, which is even more astounding. For
one thing we now know where all of the Iconian gateways in the galaxy are, we
are learning how to open them, and each one has specific coding. We had teams
and teams of engineers, Starfleet, Klingon and the Old Romulan Republic members
within an orbital periphery of Iconia, prepared to take scans, make readings,
and essentially be there with a trans-dimensional ‘catchers mit,’ in case of
emergency. That was not necessary, we had actually prepared for that, and until
recently this was somewhat more classified data, at best it is known by members
of the scientific community; however the general populace of the local stellar
neighborhood will not be made aware of it for some time. It will eventually be
known, there are decloaked Iconian gateways in almost every star system now,
hard to keep such secrets. What we did not know is that many of these gateways
are not visible from their planet’s surfaces. It is obvious that the Iconians
had a prime directive of their own. Reports also indicate that the invisibility
of the gateway is not possible beyond a certain altitude. There is some kind of
temporal refraction emanating from these gateways, and even though we now know
for certain where many of these gateways are, we can assume that not all are
decloaking anytime soon. There are reports of this as well; it may prove to be
some time before all of these gateways are completely controlled.
There is evidence that suggests
that the Iconians planted DNA sequences and attempted to harbor life forms on
worlds which were essentially primordial, this is well documented in the 24th
century. We did not realize, although it had been a theory, that Iconians had
been so prosperous in the exo-biological terraforming process to this regard. M
class planets with the most abundant life have the most abundant examples of
cross breeding. Many new discoveries about Iconian assimilation and
colonization have led to equally new and exciting theories. One such discovery,
which my scientists believe to be very late placement of Armadillidiidae
on the Terran planet by the Iconians, had led to many other discoveries of late
introduction of species onto the planet as superfluous exo-biological
attainment. This is empirical study based on older data in order to find
similar trends on planets that we are not as familiar with. The Earth is a
prime example because of its documentation history, and it’s still relatively
unadulterated eco-synthesis. Another discovery leads to the conclusion that
Neanderthal simian humanoids were also introduced by the Iconians. This however
could not be the case due to the chronology, the Icnonians were struggling to
survive divisive political unrest at the time that the Neanderthal simian
humanoids were introduced to the planet earth, and so another theory was
devised, based on other existing data sources. It is possible that Borg placed
Neanderthal simian humanoids on Earth in order to produce a more sturdy
humanoid.
At that
time in the galaxy the Iconians were likely on the defensive. However our data
suggests that the Iconians devised the Borg in an earlier time of general
political uncertainty in their then galaxy wide empire. As Iconian political
power waned, and certain expanses could no longer be defended by outer galactic
invasion or inner turmoil, the Borg took placement as a self-inducing
regimented attempt at the preservation of what the Iconians regarded vainly as
their own organic heritage. Sentient life itself would be cataloged and kept
like a secret seed vault, also self-perpetuating, and able to construct further
defensive mechanisms. It was a harsh and greedy political blunder for the
Iconians, who prided themselves on integrity, intelligence, and technological
advancement. Eventually the enemies of the Iconians made it impossible for the
Iconians to defend themselves and control the Borg. There was apparently also a
resources dilemma, this would explain why so many sectors of the Delta Quadrant
as explored by Admiral Janeway are so sparse of star systems, as many have been
consumed by either the Borg or the Iconians. The Iconian political structure had
scrambled to create devices that would ensure the safety of sentience that
would eventually grow to such a degree as to be able to confront the Borg. It
was thought that these groups would unite to control the Icnonia that they once
knew. In a sense the gerrymandering of sentient life in the galaxy by the
Iconians lead to their somewhat ‘Freudian’ god-complex slip of creating the
Borg in the first place. On the other hand, and we are able to ascertain in
this local stellar neighborhood, and other remote pockets of life in the
galaxy, there is a viable source of resistance to the Borg. Based on our own
technological evaluations the galaxy should recover from Borg encompassment in
less than five hundred years.
One reason
for the length of the dissipation is likely due to recent figures captured from
Borg transcriptions; at this time, the Borg control at least sixty percent of
the galaxy. This new information suggests a new visitation to the diplomatic
process surrounding the Borg Initiative policies will be necessary if life in
this galaxy should remain non-Borg-assimilated.
One
important configuration that was necessary for security reasons was to
ascertain whether or not the new gateways could be detected by the Borg, they
can, only if they come and discover the gateways themselves, and if they could,
there is not real evidence to suggest that they could defeat us in order to
utilize this gateway system. It is plausible that the Iconians thought to
restrict certain technological signatures from interacting with the gateway
system, the Iconians are quite intelligent, and we can only hope that they had
created such a system for themselves. Risk assessment is still being evaluated.
It would seem that the Iconians comprehending their faux pas de technologique had found a way to build an ‘underground
railroad’ for the last of their planted genome successors. It would be
difficult if the Borg should choose to utilize these gateways for their
assimilation processes, however we do not yet know for certain that it would
really be possible for them to do so. Keeping all of this in mind, my
scientists and engineers are also developing new defensive strategies, and
deborgification processes. Saving life will be the new struggle for the galaxy
in this regard.
One theory that came from my
team was that the gateways could be trans-dimensional. If this is the case we
would need to know more about the ‘mirror-universe,’ as it were. From a
gathered database of hundreds of interviews of refugees, and prisoners from the
‘mirror-universe,’ we have shocking information, and we must keep in mind that this
is highly privileged information. For some reason, relative to the
‘mirror-universe,’ our local stellar neighborhood had been spared by a vast
Iconian empire. Certain species are allowed to live in order that they gain
strength and virility enough to help defend the Iconian Empire. In the
‘mirror-universe,’ militancy is the only order and orders are given by the
Iconians, all factions are divided and must quell against one another.
Strangely enough, in the ‘mirror-universe,’ the Borg do not exist, replaced by
them are a successful and extremely militant Iconian Galactic force, which
rages and controls everything in the galaxy. Borg have been known to travel
from our dimension to the ‘mirror-universe,’ however the immediacy of their
displacement often leaves the Borg with a tactical disadvantage in the opposite
realm. Citizens of that universe have been known to deassimilate the Borg,
however beyond that a common form of acclimation of the deborgified is
seemingly not yet known to them. The Mirror Iconian Empire relishes Borg
technology and considers Borg capsulation the ultimate prize, Captains under
their wing are rewarded greatly for such finds.
Our hope is that we will soon
discover how trans-dimensional and dimensional transgenesis migration is possible
with the Iconian gateways, and we are developing special probes to help relay
to us information to that regard. If there are Borg sleeper agents in our midst
then we will find out soon enough how defendable our new prospect is.
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