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[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[Good afternoon, ducks. The first part of this message is comprised of an image, a simple blue background covered in a barely-legible scrawl, along with a few small scribbled drawings for emphasis here and there. The whole thing is covered in equation after equation, and - if you've a background in that sort of thing - appears to deal with the

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[daredtodo]

[Sorry, Scotty, Jim's just going to IRL troll you once he sees this go up on the network. There's the traditional clap on the back greeting, then Jim's attention's on the work Scotty's done so far.]

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[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[He's gone back to working out a particularly tricky bit of the equations (he's fairly certain that this is going to require a warp field, somehow, and he's not entirely sure just yet how to transport something back from another dimension) while he waits for a reply from the community. Engrossed in his work as he is, he doesn't notice Jim until Jim claps him on the back, which makes him jump a bit.]

Ah. Afternoon, Captain.

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[daredtodo]

Afternoon, Mister Scott. Didn't mean to sneak up on you there. [You don't mind if he leans over your shoulder to eyeball the work, do you? Because he's interested. Very interested, mostly because Scotty is good with seemingly impossible maths.]

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[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[In fact, he goes so far as to move his PADD over a bit so Jim can get a better look at what he's doing. Some people absolutely cannot work with someone hovering; Scotty is not one of those people. Mostly because he gets so into what he's doing that the rest of the world just sort of disappears for a bit.]

S'alright. [Pardon him while he chews on the end of his stylus for a moment.] This is just basics, o' course. It'll take months tae refine the equations.

[theuserabides]

[Turning people into information is relevant to Flynn's interests.]

Huh. Where do you store the data between deconstruction and reconstruction on the other end? Is it buffered locally?

and off to Memory Alpha the mun goes XD

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

The matter stream is kept in a pattern buffer in the transporter system, to give the Doppler compensators time to adjust for movement between the ship and the intended target.

Given Tron's level of attention to science (ie, "none"), I'm making it all up as I go >_>

[theuserabides]

Hitting a moving target is more of a complication than we ever put into it here.

Is the individual aware while they're in the buffer?

At least with Trek, the science is so borked that even if it doesn't make any sense, it's alright

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

Generally speaking, the ship'll be in orbit around a planet, and the planet of course is moving as well.

It's a near-instantaneous process, and there's never been any documentation of an individual being aware of the process.

[hok_ton]

Perhaps you should trust your instincts a bit more. I have yet to find myself in a layer of rock or the center of a sun, and I use far less precise tools than any mechanical device.

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[The last time he trusted his instincts he lost an Admiral's dog. :/]

I'm afraid this is one project I'd rather not leave to instinct. If I might ask, what tools do you use?

[hok_ton]

[Repressing his instincts has a tendency to get Karakael in trouble. So he may be quite different from Scotty.]

Only a few aging brains; my own and that of a long gone galactic starship. And even that is more than some need.

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

I'm afraid I don't quite follow. You've the brain of a starship?

[Because yes, that is what catches his attention first.]

[8fingerswhiskey]

With all of that, you couldn't have just asked 'how the hell do you people world hop'? You had to go through all of that - bullshit, whatever the hell that was?

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

That "bullshit" is the difference between me arriving somewhere and ending up encased in rock or in the ocean or fifty feet off the ground and me arriving somewhere safely.

In fact, that "bullshit" is extremely relevant to the question I've posed.

[8fingerswhiskey]

Why didn't you just ask how do you people world hop? It would save a shit load of time.

[lt_cmmdr_scott]

The purpose of this exercise isn't just to find a way to adjust my machines to be capable of transdimensional travel. I just want to see if I can do it. Without hints, for preference, although as I said, the target coordinates are giving me a bit of trouble.

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[4daladies]

[He can just e-mail you his blueprints, which he's holding up. Only it's folded to an impossibly small size.]

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[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[Ah, a video call from the extremely untalkative kid who reminds him of Keenser. He leans forward, as if that's going to give him any better view of the impossibly folded blueprints.]

What's that, then?

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[4daladies]

[He'll unfold the inch sized paper...to a good full sized blue print that completely obscures him. There's several equations and part names written carefully alongside the actual diagram of a large ring like structure. The title reads simply 'World Hop Portal'.

It's all written in white crayon.]

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[lt_cmmdr_scott]

[Something that big can't possibly have been folded down that small! That's kind of not all that important, though, next to the contents of the blueprint itself. He lets out a low whistle.]

You did all that yourself, did you?