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Lorin Renaud sitting up at night pondering the
future of his long and distinguished career in Starfleet...
{Pete, want to insert some nifty thoughts
here?}
Decided since it was making a turn for the
technical. It had been a long time since he had set foot in an
engineering department in a technical role. Other than the routine
rotation as a cadet on training cruises and the like....
{again any thoughts here?}
'Perhaps it is time to review some of the technical
texts to review so I am not too stale...' he thought to him self, sitting a
dimly lit room thinking. 'But where to start.... Well, let's
start with a review of curent porjects and decide from there....'
He signed on to the Starfleet Central Net with his
SF Command id, and brought up a current listing of projects at R&D.
He found a varried listing of ongoing projects
including:
Weapons Research: next generation of photon,
quantum, and tri-cobalt torpedos. Projects Hummingbird, Drexel, and Lapis
respectively. Project Shadow Killer was an ongoing anti-cloaking device
project that had been in existance for over 80 years. All of these
projects had not been really making headway lately, despite the large amounts of
funding they had been given, and promises of great revealations made over the
past few years.
Halographic Initiatives: There were several
projects underway, all related and sharing staff and researchers, on how to
better use halographic crew. Since Dr. Zimmerman's first on Voyager, the
development of new and more advanced emergency replacement crew had been a
priority. However, great debate (creating halographic beings) had
also come to the projects upon Voyager's return with a sentient halo
doctor. This unit had been under funded since the great debate over the
morality of the project. Some clarity of mission was needed, or the
nastiness controversy would engulf Starfleet R&D.
Medical research: Medical research was a hot topic
in the Federation as of late. Many believed that the military had no place
in medical research. However, Starfleet was both a military and a research
institution. Some calm came to the debate when much of the medical
research that Starfleet was transfered from R&D to SF Medical. Over
the last several years more projects have been begun in R&D, adding fuel to
this debate. Lorin could tell that this was one flash point that would get
ugly if not dealt with properly, and quickly.
Starship Design: there zero projects into ship
design. A surprising number considering that the main vehicle of Starfleet
was ships. Could SF be losing their technical edge or equivilancy to the
Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians, and others???
Propulsion...: There were three projects, and all
of them were heavily funded. Project Thumb was for alternative propulsion
modes to warp. Project Star Hugger was into making warp and impulse
propulsion safer to atmospheres and to space in general. Last was Project
Thunder Clap. Strangely very little information was in the records about
this project, except that it was maked classified Level 9e (special
technical and select members of SF Command).
{thoughts}
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