Decision

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"If it was a normal orbiter we could easily isolate it. But the main problem here is that it's not a normal orbiter. We don't know anything about that unknown energy. So it is hard for us to isolate it completely."

"But not entirely impossible, right?" Shiro looked at Minerva knowing that she already has some solutions for the problem.

"Yes it is possible, if we use some unconventional methods." Minerva confirmed Shiro's guess.

"Such as?"

"As I said earlier that device is using the sensors of the orbiter to collect data, and it does not have any sensors or scanners built in it to collect data."

"Yes. I remember, basically it is sending the data collected by the craft to somewhere. So if I'm not wrong in guessing, what you are trying to say is that, this thing is completely reliant on the orbiter to collect it's data and without the orbiter it's completely useless?"

"Well we are not sure about that but we are guessing the probability of it being that is quite high." Minerva agreed with Shiro'

"Hmm, so it is quite possible to isolate it by destroying all of the orbiter's sensors." Shiro started to think after understanding Minerva's intentions. But then he thought of a problem "But here is the problem, if we destroy it's components then during the process we will surely be detected, then that info will be sent to the unknown entity. So tell me how are you going to deal with that."

"It is possible to avoid that. We simply have to use a EMP or electromagnetic pulse blast and we will be able to disable the craft."

"But the problem with that is that the other orbiters will be able to detect it and report it to Earth." Shiro pointed out the problem of this method. Cause when a blast will happen the other nearby orbiters will be able to detect the blast and report the anomaly to Earth as a singular event.

"Shiro why don't we disable all three orbiters, that way it might not look like a isolated problem." Arturia proposed to deal with all three of the orbiters at the same time.

"That's actually a good idea. Minerva what do you think?"

"I was thinking more of disabling the craft temporarily and take the unknown device and replacing any damaged equipment and reenabling it." Minerva proposed an alternative to Arturia's suggestion. As Aurora had an onboard manufacturing plant. It could easily replace or replicate some old technology and make it appear as though nothing was wrong with it.

"That is also a great idea." Shiro agreed with Minerva that it was indeed a good alternative. "But it will seriously restrict our movement in the future. Sooner or later we will have to remove those, if we intend to make Mars our base." But he also thought that it was necessary to remove those if they want to monopolize Mars and develop it in the future.

"We can also send them forged data by taking over those orbiters. We already have all the data from Mars missions from our universe so technically we are not sending them any false information just some data from a parallel universe's Mars."

"That's actually not a bad idea also. But you do realize that's not a long term solution. Earth will keep sending orbiters and landers to Mars. To prevent that we have to make them believe that it's outrageously cost ineffective to send those to Mars and a trip to Mars is very unreliable."

"Those were all possible solutions. And one more thing by doing this we will be announcing to the world of something existing here." Minerva pointed out the most important issue, which Shiro was trying to avoid at all cost for the time being. "From your past behavior I was of the impression that you were trying to avoid that."

"It's true that I'm trying to avoid exposing ourselves for the time being. But it's not necessarily true that they will think of something being here. If we do this right Earth will take it as a natural phenomenon."

"You do know that you will seriously mess up the timeline of this universe by doing that." Minerva brought up the issue of the timeline.

"Minerva that's where you are wrong, we have already started to mess with this universe's timeline from the moment we warped in."