Posted by Fleet Captain Ghubari Koraia (Captain) in Main Sim - Transporter Room One: An Early Evening Rendezvous.

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Kaylee Baxter (Chief Diplomatic Officer) in Main Sim - Transporter Room One: An Early Evening Rendezvous.

Posted by Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist (Weaver of Webs) in Main Sim - Transporter Room One: An Early Evening Rendezvous.
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Izzy took up a position near the door and waited patiently for their guest to arrive.

Delaney, Sec

“Yes” Stark remarked drily, “It’s like the universe has this perverse way of searching our inner psyche and dredging up our worst nightmare, next it’ll be a giant child who wants to dress “kitty” in baby clothes… no wait, that’s my nightmare, not yours”.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

Ghubari couldn’t help but smirk and gave a grateful look to her chosen-brother for lightening some fo the tension.

Just then, Kaylee walked in, giving a nod to the small assembled group.

When Kaylee arrived, Koraia steeled herself slightly to address her Chief Diplomatic Officer. “So, we find ourselves in the Mirror Universe. I’m not sure how much background you have on it, but suffice to say we’re about to meet a Commander Eddington from the Terran Alliance ship New Hope. They are aware of the Federation and requested to come aboard to meet with me. They seem rather… hospitable so far, but this is not home, and they have the advantage here as well as cloaking technology. What I can also tell you is that prior to entering, I…” Ghubari could feel the warmth in her cheeks that she knew would not be visible on her dark skin. “I had an interaction with the wormhole aliens the Bajorans call The Prophets and then their emissary, Captain Sisko himself, appeared. He told me that the Prophets need us to prevent the merger of this universe with ours. And so here we are.” She held up a hand to both him and Stark defensively. “And yes I took us here without having answers to the many, many questions I’m sure this all brings up, but I’m the Captain and I trust the reasoning, if not the circumstances.” She had not revealed this much on the bridge and it made her uncomfortable to do so. Then again, it was hard to explain how much the experience touched her spiritual side and it was harder to explain the concept of blind faith when she really didn’t believe in it most days.

“We all stand by your decision, Captain,” Kaylee said, no doubt speaking for her comrades. “Let us proceed with caution and an open mind.”

“And so now we’re going to meet Eddington and up to two members of his crew, or whatever,” Koraia said, turning to face the transporter. “Beam them over,” she instructed the operator.

OOC: James is on LOA but should be back soon. I wanted to brief Kaylee before Eddington came over, so forgive me for just skipping through.

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

Three people arrived at the transporter pad. The foremost was an ageing man with a balding head and a ready smile. Behind and to his right was a grey skinned Cardassian woman. Behind and to his left was a very familiar “Vulcan” face who looked extremely relaxed in a hawaiian themed ukulele shirt with matching shorts and sandals. All three stopped dead as they looked at the Captain obviously recognising but not recognising her.

*Well that makes things interesting,” Ghubari mused to herself.

Everyone looked so relaxed from the mirror universe. It wasn’t what she was expecting based on the many reports that she had read during her course in the Academy. She wondered what her mirror self would be like. She was only mildly curious though. Having recently joined with another version of herself, she wasn’t in a hurry to meet her other self. Granted, one did not always have the ability to control such scenarios.

“Ah” Eddington said breaking the silence, “Captain Ghubari Koraia, I should really have pieced this part of the jigsaw together, it seems the stories of the similarities between our universities are not over exaggerated”.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

Kaylee studied the three new faces she now saw before her. She gave a glance over towards Ghubari, since Eddington had addressed her. She felt a slight unease about being in the mirror universe, and the prospect of yet again being face to face with another Kaylee Baxter that was her, but not really her.

-Kaylee Baxter

The R’han lookalike to the left of Eddington was staring openly at Kaylee and then looked at a small PaDD device and back at her again, he seemed to tense up a little.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

Stark sent a private message to R’han on the bridge. It read “Check the camera footage from Transporter One”.

Stark Nightstalker CIO

“I think we can all agree that any interactions between yourselves and my crew and I are going to be… awkward, at best,” Koraia said. “And I think you can also understand that given the circumstances, I’m not keen on parading you about my ship. You wanted to come aboard and discuss our appearance here, so, let’s discuss it.”

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

Eddington’s face flickered with annoyance at the Cardassian woman brushed in front of him before he could speak. “My name is Iliana Ghemor, Captain and the Prophets of Bajor forewarned me of your coming. On the planet below we have members of many races joined together to form a new alliance to drive the former rulers of the Cardassian/Klingon alliance back into the far reaches of the galaxy but the Prophets have shared that there is a danger in the shadows that you and your crew have been brought here to stop”.

She was going to continue but Rhan interjected. “Your appearance has created quite a stir and I believe will continue to do so, especially as you Captain have a doppelganger on the planet below who is the daughter of a most annoying Napean diplomat and this woman here” he pointed at Kaylee “has a striking resemblance to an assassin who has disappeared along with her equally “assasinesque” mother at the same time as my Weather Engineer Orvos”.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

Kaylee’s mouth opened slightly in shock, and she quickly forced herself to regain her composure. Inside her gut was twisting and wrenching. Not only was her mirror counterpart a ruthless killer, her mirror mother was as well. What kind of universe was this where the very life’s work she had undertaken had been completely twisted and turned inside out? She had always felt a darkness somewhere inside of her, as everyone had whether they chose to acknowledge it or not. Could this version of herself be the true epitome of that darkness? The thought made her shudder.

The comms activated, and a voice spoke that would be familiar to those of the visitors who had met Ghubari’s bodyguard. =^=Captain, the planet is experiencing some instability. Lt. Orvos believes that he may be able to treat this instability if he were allowed access to the control systems. Would you ask your guests if we can send a small team down to the surface to try to fix this?=^=

Luka, XO

*R’han’s ears pricked up, literally, “You have an Orvos? The weather systems need constant adjustment to keep Risa from going back to the soupy jungle it used to be. If your Orvos can help, I would be happy to host some people planetside to stabilize the situation”.

Junior Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

“I wonder if having our people interacting with their doppelgangers, is a wise course of action,” Kaylee said, looking first toward this other R’han and then over at Ghubari. “As in my case, we don’t know what our mirror selves are like. I’d suggest confining interactions between us and them to as minimal as possible, Captain.”

-Kaylee Baxter

Ghubari weighed their options in her mind but she knew that no matter what they did here, nothing about any of this would be ideal. They were effectively outnumbered and lacking all the key knowledge about what made this universe tick, including the current situation. They were also stuck here until their accomplished their goal and they wouldn’t achieve that by hiding out on the ship. “Normally I would agree with you wholeheartedly, Kaylee, but I suspect that it won’t matter either way. ” She tapped her commbadge. =/\=Acknowledged, Bridge. As it turns out, the instability is apparently caused by a malfunctioning weather system. Our Chief Engineer’s help is welcome on the surface, should he wish to. And if that is the case, then Commander Stark will accompany him, along with Lieutenant Vander.=/\= At least all three could hold their own and with Konral down there, they would have a means of communication should something happen at either location. She also had left the whole thing open to Orvos. She knew he would understand the risk of being in the Mirror Universe and act accordingly.

Fl. Captain Koraia, CO

She sent a message to Konral suggesting everyone going to the surface be injected with a slow acting, innocuous isotope to identify crew members if necessary.

Delaney, Sec