========== Chief Science Officer's Log ==========
The week on board the Qashqai brought us some very interesting results.
The resource hunt, commodor sent us to paid out. At first everything
looked bleak. The crew was a bit nervous as not all of them were
acustomed to the ship and i was a bit nervous myself as this was my
first real command assignment. I have prearranged a meeting in the polar
cap mining colony on Aeran III. Diplomatic team was dispatched on our
way to the mineral survey of the outer moons and asteroid belts. We are
about to pick them up in three hours from now. They are supposed to
negotiate for the regular supply or at least a fair trading agreement.
Surely enough, they are gonna have a difficult job as the reports state
that Aeran miners have special contract with nearby systems.
For the past five days, we've been conducting a geological an
mineralogical survey of the Aeran V Sigma and Aeran V Kappa, the two
moons orbiting the gas giant Aeran V. Several large deposits of
meitnerium and potasium triglyceride has been found on Sigma and
currently the results from the ico-spectrogram analysis are being
reviewed by the Unity's geology expert lieutenant commander Sean Itori.
--- Personal note ---
Lieutenant commander has proven to be a difficult person. He often acts
disrespectfuly and he prioritizes his scientific carreer over his
starfleet duties. I have been forced to urge him in filling in status
reports and accept the regular shift schedule.
Despite that he is a valuable member of the crew. His extensive
knowledge of the geology and mineralogy may prove extremely usefull on
this mission and he certainly can 'think out of the box'. He claims to
have improved the ico-spectrogram accuracy by eighteen percent and
reduced time necessary for the scan completition by one hour.
Hopefuly, he will also be able to work as a part of the team. So far I
have tolerated his outbursts for it seemed beneficial, but shoud this
continue, I will make appropriate disciplinary actions.
--- End note ---
The Kappa moon's tectonic analysis shows a great posibility of a
dilithium deposites so I'm putting a lot of hope in the ico-spectrogram
analysis. Meanwhile, we've been able to conduct a standard mineral scans
on the two asteroid belts and they have shown only a little of possible
harvestibles. Several larger asteroids are composed of tritanium ore and
previously noticed gamma zirconium trioxide.
Smaller clusters of another transonic elements have been discovered on
the outer edge of the second asteroid belt. Namely Pillerium,
Estonianium and Babaloo, however, the scans indicate that the clusters
aren't too big and as it could prove to be difficult to reach those
asteroids for mining, the benefits of such action needs to be considered.
========== / END OF LOG \ ==========
Commander Terek Weranis
CSCiO
SB Unity