Posted by Ensign Elemirre Serinde (Engineering Officer) in Main Sim - Wolf 359 Planet 2 - Cave Scouting

Posted by Mar. Captain Wulf Baumann (MACO CO) in Main Sim - Wolf 359 Planet 2 - Cave Scouting

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Isaac Black (Chief Armory Officer) in Main Sim - Wolf 359 Planet 2 - Cave Scouting
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Isaac smiled “low tech GPS” he said “ the glow sticks can still be used as a light source and for us to know we’re each other are without using bright light that can mess with her eyesight”

Lt. Isaac Black (AC)

[O] Grace here. I can still here you back at our basecamp. Have you been able to find anything worth potentially mining yet? [C}

Cmdr. Grace

The sound from the comms echoed off the cave walls, making the commander’s voice a hollow ghost that faded, disappearing like a sandbag dropped to the floor. El was waiting on the scanner to bring back tangible results, whatever they might be. She was sure that there would be something found. She wasn’t sure if it was large enough to be worth digging up. Inwardly she was of mixed emotions. Part of her was pleased to see humanity expanding and setting foot on a new world that they were able to claim for their own. That appealed to an inner El, though it jostled beside another El, who was concerned for the beasts living here and if they could be relocated else they would simply be swept aside, probably by erstwhile ‘hunters’ like she was around.

With her knuckle she tapped at the scanner, seeking mineral and ore indicators. [o] We’ve moved into the cave system and are proceeding slowly [c] she began. The larger debate was on the mode of lighting about them, be it a glow stick or her lamp. [o] The scanner is tabulating results. Standby. [c] She could have likely just said ‘no’, but felt that there needed a bit more explanation. Part of her was a bit rankled inside. An armory Lt and two MACO’s .. and her. While the cats were a concern, she felt safe enough - her emotions flirted with being flattered and annoyed while trying to find a balance within of neutrality on the ‘emotional level’ that she had battled for through much of her life.
- El, Eng

[O] Understood Ensign. [C]

With a final beep beep sound the hand scanner returned some intiatl information. Near to where they were at this level samples showed not much worth mining. But there was quite a wealth of biological things which could be used for natural medicinal purposes. Or in other cases help aide in further exploration. The moss nearby in spots actually reacted to light making them glow a bit brighter at times depending on wave length. Other biological stuff like spores, molds, mushrooms, etc that one would find in caves could probably be used for food, medical and scientific stuff.

The immediate scans peaked El’s interest. Her earlier years before the academy and schooling had been rife with natural remedies. Her teachers were far from modern, supplementing barely with technology if they needed to but preferring ‘home’ remedies and wisdom of the ancients where they were able to. El remembered her early, fumbling attempts at tending gardens of herbs, often at first mistaking the real herbs for weeds, and then the hours of patiently grinding this root or that bark down to be blended into this poultice or that syrupy rub or drink. It strained her small girl impatience to the breaking point; only her pride in not wanting to fail won over her desire to toss pestle and mortar into the nearest wall. As she ruminated now as her eyes scanned the results, it was two character flaws that she battled to see which would win. An unruly truce won out on the side of patience and mortar and pestle remained intact, but she didn’t like it. She had grown, but inside she still wrestled with conflicting emotions. Like now. Excitement about this possible medicinal find alongside it being utterly irrelevant to her engineer and personal place now. Then the readings changed

Finally another beep came up, the result was a bit deeper into the cave and lower under the surface, but there was the possibility of some kind of dilthium deposits.

GM CockRoach

She shifted her scanner as though directing it in the direction of the possible deposit would give her a better reading. Again she was conflicted. Dilithium. That is something that would ensure the region being mined. The prospect had so many possibilities, yet it saddened El thinking of the cats. She let out an impatient huff at her own mixed feelings. She needed her meditation time again to sort a lot of this out. She was far from a Luddite; her joy soared when she heard the Cochranes pulsing and recalled old videos of Zeffie and his first voyages, but she cared for the world - even this one so far away from Earth. The moss was a curiosity. El shifted her light to it and then off of it and noted the phosphoresce of it. That would help them if they needed a bit more. Idly she wondered how long that might last, and if it could be used as a kind of emergency lighting in a kind of ‘bio-ship’.

Isaac looked at El “ok we got our scans can we go now. An animal like the cats will not stay gone for long” he said with a serious tone. The fact why he doesn’t want to stay down there was because of the cave spiders.

Lt. Isaac Black (AC)

She flipped back to the proximity alert with the cats to see where they were. “I think we’re still good, sir,” El said. “I have a trace reading on dilithium below us. We should go farther to get a better reading to take back. It wouldn’t be long.” She’d mention the other medicinal things later to the commander and Vulcan. She didn’t think that any of the MACO’s or Lt Black would have any interest of them.

Baumann looked at the readings and nodded in appreciation. “If you are wanting samples, I can assist.” He looked at the Staff Sergeant and nodded once and the diminutive man simply nodded back and watched and listened.

Baumann, MACO CO

El was surprised to hear this from a MACO. It was an inner rebuke that she shouldn’t judge as quickly. At the same time she was ill equipped. “I have no sample bottles,” she admitted. She was an engineer sent out on a survey mission for geological hits. Any thought to taking these things was likely in the minds of the science people, but not El. She did however, tap at her scanner. “I have marked this geopositionally so we can find our way back to it, or the science people can.” Perhaps her too. It would be fun to see them closer and perhaps what they could do but that may be more of a back on the ship study. And it would be admitting that she had a past that was not as well known in her biography and perhaps best kept there.
- El, Eng

[O] Grace to Serinde and Black. I’ve finished up what I need to do here at basecamp, so I’m heading your way now. Can you sent me your current location so I can meet up with you when I arrive? [C]

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO