Posted Jan. 29, 2021, 6:51 a.m. by Lieutenant Auleraine Brison (Engineering Officer) (Melissa Aragon)
Posted by Commander Garinder’Jen th’Jir (Executive Officer) in Bridge Main Sim
Posted by Lieutenant Revna Edman (Counselor) in Bridge Main Sim
Posted by Commander Garinder’Jen th’Jir (Executive Officer) in Bridge Main Sim
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Revna shook her head, “It was clear that Alfo wants to get rid of us, but the chance at getting, like a Ferengi, profit out of this encounter was too appealing. He asked for a tour of the ship and our technology, even though he knew he wouldn’t get it. He didn’t press, but Atlantis would be a huge boon to his riches. They are waiting, for reinforcements or waiting us out, I can’t say, I wouldn’t be surprised it it is both. He, and if his conformational nod from Shade is truthful, are eager to not get in a fire fight with us again. They took damage, but were not as concerned as I would expect over the severity of it. That could be that they are good at playing poker, or they know they can get help easily.” Revna paused, silent, thinking over it. “Mayans. They worked like the old Mayan kings of ancient Earth. They had two kings, one for peace time and one for war. The other becoming the main advisor of the other. Alfo and Shade worked together like that. I’m sorry commander, they were hard to read, and I’m no telepath. The only thing I am sure of, is they are dangerous, not just in numbers, but in tactics. I got the feeling this meeting was nothing more than information gathering for them.”“For them and for us. We are the wild card in the deck that has just been dealt into this sector. The longer we are here the more they,” Jen began, pointing to the pirates and intimating beyond, “will want to look under the hood and put this card in their hand. I suspect that more than just them are thinking the same thing and how to do it.” By showing off their superiority they had a big target on their backs. “Their operations base is likely in this field so they’re not too worried so long as they can get back or get a tow. I wonder if engineering can mock up a trace of some kind to pop on their hull. Is there anyone from Science or engineering who can tell us whether we have a tech that they aren’t detecting - subspace transceiver maybe? - that we can attach?”
The long forgotten probe reported back to the bridge. It located a 29 ton asteroid with a course and speed that was inconsistent with the asteroids in their proximity. It was almost as if a ship had pushed it with a tractor beam… a technology they had not seen in this quadrant as of yet.
GM
OOC: 29 tons or 29 million? A 30 ton hunk of rock is only about 5 cubic yards so 15 feet to a side.
OOC: Yup 29 tons. Also please remember the probe was being followed by 2 fighters.
OOC: Whoops .. had forgotten that fact, er, had had it stored somewhere in the cerebral archives … Gene“Well, look what we have here,” Jen said. -=^= Computer magnify image and scans from the probe. =^=
=^= Engineering to the bridge. =^= he said.
- Jen, XO=^=
Lt Edman, Counselor=^= Bridge to Lt Loughty. Please attend us up here. I have a mystery for your particular skillset. =^=
- Jen, XOThe asteroid wasn’t particularly remarkable its materials were consistent with the other hunks of rock that populated this area of space. The rock was flat on one side and curved on the other. If anything it looked like a very craggly muffin top.
GM
While Jen waited for both engineering and science to respond, his eyes narrowed and antennae focused. “Note the course of that asteroid long enough to get a straight line trajectory. Then redirect the probe back the way the asteroid came from.” He looked at the counselor. “My guess is that the occupants of their base gave that a push so that it wouldn’t damage them. Have continuous sensor reports from the probe directed to us. If, and I say If I am right on this the fighter pilots might guess that too and take out the probe. I want as much information as I can off of it.”
But he still wanted input from Engineering and Science too on this. He could think of many things; they could confirm it or tell them he was full of it.
- Jen, XORevna nodded, and pulled on that long forgotten command training that she’d never really used. “Do we know how strong their communications are? Is it possible those fighters warned the base of our probe? The they sent out other ships to push that asteroid to divert us?” Misdirection was always a good tactic, especially when dealing with unknowns.
Lt. Edman, CounselorJen shook his head and added a Terran ‘shrug’ to accompany it. “I don’t know. That is possible,” he said in a tone that strongly suggested he was mulling that. Yes they knew that the Atlantis was looking for something and were dancing about on the edge of making nice as they knew in that moment anyway that they had the advantage. Destroying their probe that wasn’t going anywhere special could have annoyed, well, him. Right now ‘Jen’ was unknown to them and that was a good thing. “We’ll find out, and we have more probes.” He looked at Edman with a half smile. “That asteroid likely is on a straight line course, but science could better inform me of that. That means something is on the ‘push’ side of it, be it another ship or something bigger. A tractor beam would be a new tech we’ve not seen yet from them. Perhaps it is something that is only available on large structures or that carrier would have played dodge ball with us. We’re flying blind in this asteroid field but one thing we now know - something pushed that rock. What and where is that something?”
- Jen, XO
Lera came onto the bridge then and relieved the NE at the engineering station. The man had a knack with one of the troublesome conduit junctions and the Chief wanted him in engineering right now. She’d come up to relieve him and was listening to the conversation as it wound down.
Lera
Engineering
((finding a way to sneak in lol))
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