Chapter 55 - Transport Protocol Five (Patreon)

Transport protocol five was a program in every Starfleet vessel’s transporter systems whose purpose was to remove weapons during the transport process. Outside of wartime or in combat, deactivation was favored first, then removal, unless the parties beaming aboard were enemies who were likely to actually use those weapons immediately. As the technology was well known to me, it had not been terribly difficult to design countermeasures that prevented the program from working on my weapons or those of my crew. An alien technology, one that may work on different principles, well, that would be a tossup. I had had to disable my anti-transport field to even allow myself to be transported aboard.