Heheheh... Actually, ironically enough, it would probably be Wyn and Castor who have the most misgivings about Sojourner being turned into a giant robot. They're the most serious ones. Carter would just be annoyed they didn't tell him first, but hey, if it kicks ass he is not complaining.
More goodies!
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal GP-220 Type II Gauss pistol: While the right to bear arms is guaranteed to every citizen of the United Federation of Planets, in an age where a few men armed with phasers could kill hundreds of people with ease, the weapons available are understandably carefully controlled and monitored. Anyone wishing to obtain a weapon has to undergo a background check, undergo instruction and pass certification for a specific class of weapon.
Phasers are just one of many different types of personal weapons available, but are perhaps the most strictly controlled. Civilian and police phasers have only two real settings: Stun and slightly heavier stun. It is for this reason that a surprisingly large amount of projectile weapons are in use throughout the Federation.
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, one of the oldest weapons manufacturing firms in the Federation, made the transition to the replicator economy seamlessly, and are the leaders in electromagnetically-fired projectile weapons. Their current best "seller" is the GP-220. Until recently it was utilized primarily by law enforcement and civilians, but with the Klingon/Federation War and Dominion War, their usage has expanded into the military.
The reason is simple: Thanks to nanite technology, bullets can be guided to a target, where phasers are strictly line of sight weapons. These "smart" bullets are given a target, usually through the use of an optic targeting sight worn by the shooter. Once fired, the bullet shifts it's shape and center of mass to guide itself to the target. Some smart bullets feature internal tranquilizer capsules, allowing for non-lethal take-downs of targets. Total magazine numbers fourteen rounds.
Angosia's weapons during the Tarsian War were exclusively projectile-based. Lieutenant Jeria Wyn of the Sojourner, a former Angosian super soldier, has several gauss weapons, her preferred sidearm being the GP-220.
Starfleet Multi-Environment Survival Suit HEVAS-08: Before personal forcefield technology became widely available, Starfleet troops and away teams have relied on special body armors and protective suits for protection against enemy fire and hazardous environments. But in the mind of Starfleet Marines and scientists, personal forcefields do not mean the end of protective clothing. The most common survival suit fielded today is the HEVAS-08, used by both scientists and soldiers.
The suit's first section is a nanite-woven series of layers, each made of different materials and designed to "open" and "close" for specific situations. In warm environments such as a desert, the layers will open in specific patterns to keep the wearer cool. In toxic environments, the suit will "close" but keep a few inner layers open to circulate air within the suit itself. Any of these settings can be set to trigger automatically thanks to the suit's link into a sensor system, or triggered manually by the wearer. This first layer also adjusts to fit the wearer perfectly.
The second section and outer layer consists of poly-ceramic armor plating, protecting the chest, back, vulnerable joints, feet and groin. These plates conform to the wearer's body shape perfectly, and are light-weight enough to not impede movement. The armor plating protects against blunt force trauma and direct or indirect weapon's fire, the chestplate being rated to take a full charge disruptor blast and not break. Wearers often comment that they feel like they're wearing nothing at all.
Finally, the suit's internal power and computer system has a few external ports, into which personal forcefield generators, tricorders, optical data sights and other devices can be plugged into. Often, helmets are not used unless the atmosphere of the mission area is poisonous-Personal forcefields do not impede a person's situational awareness as much as a helmet would.
Sojourner carries several HEVAS-08 suits, many heavily customized by the crew for various specific mission profiles or just due to wearer preference. Jeria Wyn is somewhat infamous for wearing her HEVAS-08 suit nearly all the time, and as it counts as an official uniform she is allowed. Due to how... Tight fitting it is, it is little wonder she's attracted a bit of a following. Mitena Haro especially likes seeing "her Wynnie" in the suit, a fact that weirds the hell out of the rather sexually repressed Wyn.
MonoSword: Thanks to the large number of jamming systems and bizarre radiations unleashed from subspace technologies, energy weapons are not always guaranteed to work in every environment, especially if they rely on exotic particles (such as polarons or, in the case of phasers, nadions). Indeed, several species relish the idea of fighting their enemies the "old way", such as the Klingons. The Dominion often relied on weapons jamming technology to allow their far more numerous and stronger Jem'Hadar to slash through defenders. And personal forcefields, while offering protection from energy blasts, are not always totally effective against kinetic energy directed at weak points in the field.
In short, even in the modern age, melee weapons have not completely died out. Mindful of this, the Federation has provided Starfleet with training in several different types of weaponry, from staves to daggers. Tritanium knives are the standard melee weapons in use aboard Federation starships.
But, one inventive half-Vulcan, half-Romulan science officer aboard the USS Sojourner had a different idea. T'Kal of Wisconsin's (born on an offworld colony, but orphaned by Klingon attack and adopted by parents on Earth) primary area of expertise had been subspace physics, and one of her papers had been on utilizing subspace fields to make certain materials more rigid. The premise was that artificially increasing the curvature of spacetime with a subspace field around a long, thin object, such as a monofilament, would render the filament thousands of times stronger than outside the field. Originally she had proposed the idea as a new building technique, but during the Dominion War she realized that, were the filament thin enough and the field strong enough, it could not be impeded.
The resulting creation resembled a very technologically advanced fishing pole handle and reel, with what appeared to be a small red ball floating in mid-air in front of it. T'Kal demonstrated the operation of the device by lengthening the perfectly straight filament out to a length of four meters, and then waving it through a table.
The table fell apart in two neat pieces. Needless to say, Captain Carter was impressed.
What T'Kal had invented came to be known by many names. The Variable Sword for it's ability to lengthen out at will, the end of the blade marked by a little red ball. The Filament Blade. Some even suggested calling it The T'Kal. But it's most common name has been the MonoSword. It makes even the most fearsome bat'leths look utterly impotent by comparison with it's ability to cut through almost anything.
However, the idea has not caught on as much as one might think. There are not many situations where a Starfleet officer would need such a weapon. Even so, it has become available, quietly, and T'Kal is seldom without her own MonoSword.
More goodies!
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal GP-220 Type II Gauss pistol: While the right to bear arms is guaranteed to every citizen of the United Federation of Planets, in an age where a few men armed with phasers could kill hundreds of people with ease, the weapons available are understandably carefully controlled and monitored. Anyone wishing to obtain a weapon has to undergo a background check, undergo instruction and pass certification for a specific class of weapon.
Phasers are just one of many different types of personal weapons available, but are perhaps the most strictly controlled. Civilian and police phasers have only two real settings: Stun and slightly heavier stun. It is for this reason that a surprisingly large amount of projectile weapons are in use throughout the Federation.
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, one of the oldest weapons manufacturing firms in the Federation, made the transition to the replicator economy seamlessly, and are the leaders in electromagnetically-fired projectile weapons. Their current best "seller" is the GP-220. Until recently it was utilized primarily by law enforcement and civilians, but with the Klingon/Federation War and Dominion War, their usage has expanded into the military.
The reason is simple: Thanks to nanite technology, bullets can be guided to a target, where phasers are strictly line of sight weapons. These "smart" bullets are given a target, usually through the use of an optic targeting sight worn by the shooter. Once fired, the bullet shifts it's shape and center of mass to guide itself to the target. Some smart bullets feature internal tranquilizer capsules, allowing for non-lethal take-downs of targets. Total magazine numbers fourteen rounds.
Angosia's weapons during the Tarsian War were exclusively projectile-based. Lieutenant Jeria Wyn of the Sojourner, a former Angosian super soldier, has several gauss weapons, her preferred sidearm being the GP-220.
Starfleet Multi-Environment Survival Suit HEVAS-08: Before personal forcefield technology became widely available, Starfleet troops and away teams have relied on special body armors and protective suits for protection against enemy fire and hazardous environments. But in the mind of Starfleet Marines and scientists, personal forcefields do not mean the end of protective clothing. The most common survival suit fielded today is the HEVAS-08, used by both scientists and soldiers.
The suit's first section is a nanite-woven series of layers, each made of different materials and designed to "open" and "close" for specific situations. In warm environments such as a desert, the layers will open in specific patterns to keep the wearer cool. In toxic environments, the suit will "close" but keep a few inner layers open to circulate air within the suit itself. Any of these settings can be set to trigger automatically thanks to the suit's link into a sensor system, or triggered manually by the wearer. This first layer also adjusts to fit the wearer perfectly.
The second section and outer layer consists of poly-ceramic armor plating, protecting the chest, back, vulnerable joints, feet and groin. These plates conform to the wearer's body shape perfectly, and are light-weight enough to not impede movement. The armor plating protects against blunt force trauma and direct or indirect weapon's fire, the chestplate being rated to take a full charge disruptor blast and not break. Wearers often comment that they feel like they're wearing nothing at all.
Finally, the suit's internal power and computer system has a few external ports, into which personal forcefield generators, tricorders, optical data sights and other devices can be plugged into. Often, helmets are not used unless the atmosphere of the mission area is poisonous-Personal forcefields do not impede a person's situational awareness as much as a helmet would.
Sojourner carries several HEVAS-08 suits, many heavily customized by the crew for various specific mission profiles or just due to wearer preference. Jeria Wyn is somewhat infamous for wearing her HEVAS-08 suit nearly all the time, and as it counts as an official uniform she is allowed. Due to how... Tight fitting it is, it is little wonder she's attracted a bit of a following. Mitena Haro especially likes seeing "her Wynnie" in the suit, a fact that weirds the hell out of the rather sexually repressed Wyn.
MonoSword: Thanks to the large number of jamming systems and bizarre radiations unleashed from subspace technologies, energy weapons are not always guaranteed to work in every environment, especially if they rely on exotic particles (such as polarons or, in the case of phasers, nadions). Indeed, several species relish the idea of fighting their enemies the "old way", such as the Klingons. The Dominion often relied on weapons jamming technology to allow their far more numerous and stronger Jem'Hadar to slash through defenders. And personal forcefields, while offering protection from energy blasts, are not always totally effective against kinetic energy directed at weak points in the field.
In short, even in the modern age, melee weapons have not completely died out. Mindful of this, the Federation has provided Starfleet with training in several different types of weaponry, from staves to daggers. Tritanium knives are the standard melee weapons in use aboard Federation starships.
But, one inventive half-Vulcan, half-Romulan science officer aboard the USS Sojourner had a different idea. T'Kal of Wisconsin's (born on an offworld colony, but orphaned by Klingon attack and adopted by parents on Earth) primary area of expertise had been subspace physics, and one of her papers had been on utilizing subspace fields to make certain materials more rigid. The premise was that artificially increasing the curvature of spacetime with a subspace field around a long, thin object, such as a monofilament, would render the filament thousands of times stronger than outside the field. Originally she had proposed the idea as a new building technique, but during the Dominion War she realized that, were the filament thin enough and the field strong enough, it could not be impeded.
The resulting creation resembled a very technologically advanced fishing pole handle and reel, with what appeared to be a small red ball floating in mid-air in front of it. T'Kal demonstrated the operation of the device by lengthening the perfectly straight filament out to a length of four meters, and then waving it through a table.
The table fell apart in two neat pieces. Needless to say, Captain Carter was impressed.
What T'Kal had invented came to be known by many names. The Variable Sword for it's ability to lengthen out at will, the end of the blade marked by a little red ball. The Filament Blade. Some even suggested calling it The T'Kal. But it's most common name has been the MonoSword. It makes even the most fearsome bat'leths look utterly impotent by comparison with it's ability to cut through almost anything.
However, the idea has not caught on as much as one might think. There are not many situations where a Starfleet officer would need such a weapon. Even so, it has become available, quietly, and T'Kal is seldom without her own MonoSword.
ues Ex Machina. See BG for explanation
