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Bridge Main Sim

Posted Jan. 26, 2021, 12:52 p.m. by Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) (James Sinclair)

Posted by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) in Bridge Main Sim

Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Senior Gamemaster) in Bridge Main Sim

Posted by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) in Bridge Main Sim
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Vari smiled widely. “That is a given!” Her laugh was genuine as was it’s sudden cut off and puzzled look. “Hello,” she said. “Where did you come from little one?”

The night shift helm stood up at the same time. “I swear she was not there a second ago. I was looking right at the spot.”

What Pretha would see would be a young Gravenian girl, in earth years perhaps about 10, slim and gangly with deep purple hair straight past her shoulders and bangs tickling at her eyebrows, eyes wide with light violet irises. She would appear to be entirely benign if not for the crackling lightning about her fingers ..
- wookiee

One moment they were laughing about chocolate, the next there was an intruder on board. “Hey, there.” Pretha’s voice was kind as she smiled and moved herself between the Commanding Officer and the child. “What’s your name?” She glanced over her shoulder to the officer, “Silent alarm, intruder alert, and I think it’s time the Captain was wakened if not already coming.”

The girl did focus on Pretha ..

Glancing back at the girl, she moved to slightly crouch and put herself on level with the beautiful eyes. “What are you searching for?” She knew better than to reach out. But she was going to try her damnedest to see to it the little one stayed focused on her.

Pretha
Sec/CRIT

“I am called Dia. I have a message,” the girl said. “Where is the One with the Sight? We speak with that one.”

Behind, Vari could be heard to act and speak quietly. =^= Bridge to Captain. Intruder alert. We have a young Gravenian girl who has just appeared. =^=
- Vari

The Captains voice came though immediately. =/\= Bridge, Cochrane. Where is she, and are you able to communicate with her? =/\=

Cochrane, CO

Vari replied quietly =^= Lt Pretha is here and said hello. The girl said her name is Dia and would speak with the one with the Sight. Whatever that is. =^=
Vari

Pretha smiled at the others then back at the little girl. “Do you hear that? They have called for my Captain. He will help you find this one with The Sight as you say. Can I ask if there is something I can help with till they get here? I want to make sure no one is in danger,” she smiled and winked treating the girl like a normal child which she knew to be as far from the truth as a Q being a man. “Can you help me do that?” It didn’t occur to her it was a bad idea as a hand absently rose to touch the girl’s hand like she would any other child. She knew it was a risk, but not necessarily a bad thing.

Pretha
Sec/CRIT Ldr

There was an insubstantial nature to the touch, as though the girl was there but yet wasn’t. The touch made Pretha’s fingers tingle. “I wait,” was all she said.

The turbolift doors opened and the assembled crew and guests from the Mess stepped onto the bridge. The Captain’s voice cut through the tense atmosphere. “Lieutenant, step away from… our new guest.” He moved towards Dia and stopped some distance away. “I am Captain Alexander Cochrane. Welcome, Dia. You have asked to speak with the one with the ‘sight’… I am guessing that you meant our ship’s Counselor, Lieutenant Commander Rollo. There may be some others you wish to speak to, as well. If you would like, we can talk in the Conference room.” and he gestured t o the door.

Cochrane, CO

When Pretha moved her hand away there were, for a few moments, trickles of electrical energy that swirled about her own fingers before disappearing. After that her fingers felt as though they had ‘gone asleep’ and were waking up with pins and needles and a vague numbness. It would disappear fully after a couple of minutes.

Hone had arrived before them by a matter of a minute. He only looked curiously at the girl who didn’t appear to really care that he was there. Maree let out another gasp and her fingers shot up to her mouth in what seemed to be a universal show of shock. “My daughter ..” she whispered behind her fingers. “It can’t be. She’s dead.”

The Captain’s words didn’t really register to the girl who simply looked around Pretha at the newcomers. If she recognized Maree she didn’t show it, but did look at the Counselor. “You,” the girl said to Rollo. “You see. You know.”
- Wookiee

OOC: I don’t know if Dia went to the conference room or not, so I’m assuming we are all still on the bridge.
OOC: She didn’t move so you’re right on that score .. and while Dia is focused on Rollo, it doesn’t mean the rest of you can’t speak and such.

Zef took a few steps forward so she was closer to the girl. “I am Zef—and yes, I can see you, the people from the planet, and the night entities. We are trying to understand the situation with the deaths and those that are referred to as ‘blanks’, but there isn’t enough time. We know there is a celestial event about to happen here that is very rare. The three moons will produce an eclipse and something paramount will take place because of it.” She maintained direct eye contact with Dia and focused solely on the girl. “Can we help in some way?”

—Rollo, CNS

Dia did focus on Rollo to the exclusion of nearly everyone else. And did so for some time without speaking. Now and again her glance moved to one or the other on the Bridge. In the end, however, she focused fully on Rollo and spoke. “You are a danger. And are in danger. The Reckoning cannot be stopped. The seeds were planted long ago. The harvest has come.”

“Am ‘I’ a danger or it is the entire ship and crew?”

“There have been no deaths,” she said, then looked toward Maree. “Mother, nobody dies. Nobody ever dies.” Maree only looked pale and shocked.

Zef tried frantically to process what the girl said. ‘…no deaths…’ But there had been, hadn’t there? The disfigured bodies the Gravenians had showed them? The blanks. “Please…I don’t understand.”

—Rollo, CNS

The girl looked sad. “You see. But you do not see.” She looked at the others behind .. Hone, Maree .. “They don’t want to see.”

While the others dealt with the ship, Zef concentrated on Dia. “I want to understand…to see, but I need your help to do that.” The feeling of time running out was getting stronger and stronger.

—Zef

Helm spoke up after the ship shuddered ever so slightly. “Increased power to engines, Captain. It’s like we’re being drawn into the atmosphere.”
- Wookiee

Cochrane moved immediately to the center chair. “Yellow alert. Helm, full reverse, break orbit. Science, find out what is pulling us.” He looked up at Dia and said “Do you know what is happening?”

Cochrane, CO

The full reverse was successful and with a gentle lurch the ship pulled visibly away from the planet. However, helm spoke up, “I still feel some pull, Captain, but it’s less.”

=/\=Calloway to Manhattan.=/\=

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist (cross-posted from Cropland thread)

Cochrane jabbed a finger at the comms. =/\= Lieutenant, we are a bit busy right now. What’s on your mind? =/\= he responded, his voice terse over the background of alert sirens.

Cochrane, CO

=/\=We’re at the croplands and trying to get better readings of the metal pieces like the one we brought up to the ship. There is a massive one that if it’s a ship, could tell us a lot. But with the radiation we can’t get enough info. We need about twenty or so pattern-enhancers sent down that are calibrated for scientific scan coordination.=/\=

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

Cochrane’s voice was sharp, but not angry. Whatever was going on had him more than concerned. =/\= Lieutenant, we are currently being pulled out of orbit towards the atmosphere. See if you can get any energy readings from down there to help us figure this out and stop it. =/\=

Cochrane, CO

=^= I’m on it Lieutenant. =^= Walker said as he stepped behind the ops station, relieving the crewman on duty. “Transfer power from the reserves to main engines,” he said as the crewman stepped over to the auxiliary station.

With the time critical, he didn’t he would get in to much trouble from pulling the equipment from the supplies that he had set aside for Crit. They definitely had a bit of everything in there. Setting the transporter he transported the requested pattern-enhancers to Faye’s coordinates. Hopefully whatever she had found would help them figure out what was going on.

=^=Pattern-enhancers are on their way. =^=

WO Darach - COO

A sudden thought occurred to Cochrane and he looked at the helm station. “Helm, bring up the planet and mark the away team’s location. If we were to follow the pull to the planet surface, where would be be in relation to them?”

Cochrane, CO

“Aye, Captain.” He tapped at the console. A white light appeared on the surface. “There is the away team’s location.” Some more work at the panel. “A gravitic constant .. I am plotting the pull and it would have had us in that vicinity sir.” He glanced back looking quite impressed at the deduction.

Maree spoke up quietly. “When Tov was young and before he studied engineering he liked history. He’d show me maps when we visited of very ancient sites. That looks familiar, but I don’t remember what.”
- Wookiee

Cochrane looked at Dia and said with more than a hint of irritation in his voice “Dia… what is that place?” and he pointed at the site.

Unfortunately, to add to his irritation .. Dia did not appear to hear Cochrane, or in any event, take note of himi.

=/\=Got them! We’re going to test a hypothesis right now, shaky though it might be. Stand by!=/\=

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

=/\= Acknowledged, Lieutenant. Be aware that whatever tried to pull us is approximate to your location. =/\= Cochrane looked back at Pretha. “Get a Security Detail to the Away Team immediately.”

Cochrane, CO

=/\= That checks out!=/\= Calloway replied.

A very short while later, her voice came through again. =/\=Darach, once we have three of these enhancers set up, you should be able to get a stronger sensor reading. If you want a specific calibration, let us know now=/\=

~Faye Calloway

Walker looked over at the science station. “You got any requests? Otherwise I would recommend we go as wide on the spectrum as possible.”

WO Darach - COO

Feed from the enhancers were similar to those on the ground - the skeleton of a ship became evident. Some areas were ‘fuzzy’ as they were on the edges of the enhancer’s range, though it became evident that a ship had crashed there. One might have thought a landing, though scans by security or others would indicate that there were far too many ‘pieces’ to have a ship landed even if it had sat there for a very long time. Depth readings on it showed the main structure started at least 20 meters deep.

Energy readings spiked as the sensors were able to enhance what it detected, but the energy was simply read as that. Computers had no similar readings apart from a side by side comparison showing a relation to that of the ‘Metrons’, though the ship database was slim on even what they had as a cross section of that reading.
- Wookiee

“I’m getting a single from the enhancers, putting the scan data up on the screen Captain,” Walker said. Putting words into actions, he put the scan data up on the main viewscreen.

=^= Lieutenant, whatever you are doing, stop. We are getting scan data from the planet. =^=

WO Darach - COO

“Science get me an answer as to the nature of that energy signature. Counselor, you need to get our guest talking in something other than cryptic threats or we are going to have problems. Minister, I am formally requesting any and all information, historical and otherwise, concerning that specific location.” Cochrane said flatly. He looked at the scan feed for a moment. “Mr. Darach, scan the planet and then the surrounding system for anything like that same signature.”

Cochrane, CO


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