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Runabout Fenrir - "Scattered Memories"

Posted Oct. 26, 2018, 9:24 p.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Toveka Brine (Science Officer) (Melissa Aragon)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Toveka Brine (Science Officer) in Runabout Fenrir - “Scattered Memories”

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Using the thrusters to come to a stop, Duncan looked along the length of the vessel and turned from side to side, using the suits scanner to look for irregularities. “These readings are coming from inside, but the ship itself has no power” he confirmed. “There’s some kind of damage further along, it might be a way in. Without power we’re not going to be able to open the hatches unless we cut into it, and we haven’t got the tools for that here. Lets check out the damage.”

Gently boosting along the side of the huge Romulan Warbird, they kept a look out for incoming rocks from the field around them. Caught in the gravity well, however, most of the area was held in place fairly stable. With plenty of oxygen left, time wasn’t an issue but Duncan was concerned about the anomalous readings he had picked up, it was like something was out there watching them, and the thought that on this system alone, among these very rocks, an entire planet with billions of people had died made Duncans mind flick to the old time ghost stories and shudder slightly.

Soon, a huge torn opening appeared in the side of the ship, the interior lit only by the light of the systems star and the lights coming from the two Scientists suits, otherwise, the interior was dark and dead. Perfect for ghosts. Raising his arm to stop himself at the edge of the opening, Duncan ran a scan. “This wasn’t energy weapons fire” he confirmed, “it is damage from an asteroid strike. I’m picking up similar strikes in other places, it looks like the damage caused the ship to lose power and life support, in the chaos of the evacuation and supernovae energy, nobody was coming back for them. Lets see what we have.” Pulling himself forward, Duncan floated in past the damage which was large enough to have ripped off the outer hull and expose a number of decks to space, just from this one strike alone. Rock could still be seen in the interior.

Hovering over the deck, he activated his magnetic boots and felt himself drop to the floor, where his feet stuck securely. Turning on all the lights on his suit, he took a brief look around from his position. The door that lead in from this room, obviously once a quarters, was open. Whatever had happened after the strike, had happened extremely fast as damage control appeared to have not worked. “If the computers aren’t too damaged” he said to Brine through the comm, “we can power up a console with our suits and download as much as we can. The Bridge is that way, but the power reading is that way, in the opposite direction.” Duncan adjusted the Phaser at his side, it would be no good against Ghosts, but the readings he had from the Shuttle made him think it wasn’t just ghosts haunting this boneyard.

Lt Rhodes, CSO

Toveka followed behind him and locked herself to the deck plates a step behind him, closer to the opening. She glanced around and used her own tricorder to confirm the readings. “Well, if the power is coming from someplace other than the bridge, we should see what it is.” Her voice was steady, but Rhodes would recognize the hint of second guessing herself in the timber of her words.

Unlike a moment ago, she took the lead and followed the power signature they were both getting. Rhodes was her Chief. There was no reason for him to be first thru the door if something were to go awry. “What do you think could give off this kind of power? If I know my schematics, we are above and passing the engineering bay. So it’s not the core of the ship we are reading. Is it?” She glanced over her shoulder at her boss then looked forward before seeing his reaction.

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