Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Senior Gamemaster) in Main Sim - City

Posted by Commander Shedda Mal’athar (Executive Officer) in Main Sim - City

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Max Wynter (Chief Engineer / 2nd Officer) in Main Sim - City
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Snipping down ..

“Captain, I am going to check in with the Manhattan.” Shedda agreed, checking on the sun was necessary, but that would mean taking the Manhattan out of the protection of the city, even for just a short time to launch a probe. She didn’t like the prospect of doing so without the away team back on board. She stepped just outside the building and tapped her combadge. =/\=Mal’athar to Manhattan. Status report.=/\=

Mal’athar, XO

=^= Lt Longbottom here, Commander. Ship is holding steady on station. We’re monitoring fuel utilization. We totally lost you once you went into the building. No signal or sensor reading on any of you. The building you are at is the stump of a vast power network extending under you. Most of the energy is staying there. Only a fraction is feeding the city itself. =^=
NL Tanner Longbottom

=/\=Aknowleged. We will make sure to check in regularly. Can you tell where the power source is coming from?=/\= Shedda looked back through the entrance way, careful not to enter the building and caught Cochrane’s gaze and waved him over. =/\=Longbottom let me know when you can read the Captain’s signal.=/\=

Mal’athar, XO

Cochrane caught the gesture and moved to follow the XO.

=^= All under you. We are reading strangeness that we are still trying to figure out. It’s like the source is there and big but that there is more. Basically though you are sitting on a kind of geothermal plume where these tendrils or roots tap into it like a tree to water. =^=

After a short wait .. Longbottom came back on. =^= There I have him. =^=

Mal’athar would be able to tell that it was just before or just at the point of the Captain stepping out from the threshold of the temple.
NL Longbottom

=/\=Alright, Standby Longbottom=/\=

Cochrane looked at Mal’athar and said “What have you got, XO?”

Cochrane, CO

Shedda faced him but was studying the building they had exited. “First, the Manhattan can’t read us inside the temple at all. They knew we went in, Nd then nothing. Second, apparently, this temple is above a huge geothermal energy source that feeds the whole city. Everythung branches off from here. The city is only using a small fraction of the energy though. Longbottom scalled it a ‘strangeness.’ They can tell it is there and there is more of it but they can’t pinpoint it.”

Mal’athar, XO

“Any better definition of strangeness,” Celina asked. Unseen power sources didn’t sit well with Celina. If they could not get steady reads on it, one had no idea if they were powering up or down until it was often too late.

Celina Creed CTO

“Alright. Once Mr. Wynter can get his eyes on the device, we’ll have a better understanding of just what we are dealing with. Until then, no one leaves the shielded area. Last thing we need is people scattered across time.” Cochrane said.

Cochrane, CO

It seemed to take some time for the Manhattan to come up with some kind of definition for ‘strangeness’. At last he came back on. =^= The power source is several times greater than it seems like it should be. In exo-science at the Academy they brought up an example from the Enterprise D where they ran across a extradimensional vessel that was like a god to the people below. This seems similar. The scans see it then lose it again and something else is there, or not, but pieced together it is like several power sources merged into this one taproot. =^= A pause. =^= Like I said, only a fraction of the power is being used to disperse to the city but all of it is being used, going into the building you are in and it doesn’t come out but for a small amount. =^=
- Longbottom

Shedda looked at Cochrane, “This is probably how their various cities are connected. It could be one is overloading their part of the powersource and that is what is causing the waves. Hopefully Wynter will be able to tell more. He should be with Thera’s expert by now.”

Mal’athar, XO

“I will go look for him,” Celina said glancing at the people in the room and then at the CO and XO. With the security chief off securing and sweeping the perimeter, it left her to hold things down for now with the group they were with. “You all stay together here on this little field trip,” she made a swirling motion with her finger. “I am going to round out our lost engineering chief.” The CE was not really lost but spending time with Thera’s expert. As Celina moved from the space, she tapped her comm badge knowing there was one way to get Max’s attention and out of whatever console had him scrutinizing. =/\=Hey Max have you seen Jasmine?=/\= Waving her hand at the CMO next to her she shook her head as if to hush her off. The gesture got an eye roll from Jasmine but the play made sense. The last time Jasmine wandered off, Max had to take down an illegal organ trade to get her back. That adventure was still fresh enough to perk up Max.

Celina Creed CTO

=/\= Hey Celina. Have you tried the local shopping mall on Nimbus V? I hear they had a sale going, she’s probably taken leave to go get 10% off her next IFEA doctors set. How can I help Cel, my guess is Jasmine is rolling her eyes at you right now standing beside you and you’re just making sure you have my attention. =/\=

Wynter, CE

=/\=You do know your wife=/\= she teased back.

Celina Creed

Stepping over, Mal’athar interjected, =/\=We have some information from the Manhattan you might find useful Cmdr if you would join the Cpt and I just outside the temple.=/\=

Mal’athar, XO

The XO would notice first, a change. In her view - for all roads led to Rome in this sense, down a broad crystalline avenue, the distance beyond the city went from a grey, barren landscape, to something green and lush.
- Wookiee