Posted by Gamemaster Mr. Snuggles (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Science Department

Posted by Gamemaster Mr. Snuggles (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Science Department

Posted by Gamemaster Mr. Snuggles (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Science Department
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The woman picked up a carving that had been taken out of the box, “I find the one to be one of the more interesting ones. On it, it displays a large bird like creature of some sorts along with a smaller more humanist figure doing battle. Interestingly enough, the bird creature seems to be shown as magnificent, while the other is made to look below them in a more negative manner.”

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

The manifest made her curious what exactly the shrine had been for. “It’s probably a reference to a sect of the religion and its leader. Many religions consider their members as their ‘flock’. So a larger, more magnificent creature over them wouldn’t be out of line, would it?” She was running thru her mind to think of the reason those icons would be used. Something in the back of her mind said it seemed familiar, but she couldn’t be certain.

Toveka
Scientist

“Or it is some guy getting attacked by a pterodactyl,” Jessica raised an eyebrow as if she was seriously contemplating her answer. “The ancient Hindu of Earth revered the cow? Why couldn’t someone worship a flying reptile,” she stated still scrutinizing the carving. “Did you have dinosaurs on Romulus,” Jessica looked at Toveka. Current Romulan geo-political issues she was on top of. Ancient Romulan reptile creatures she was not. Feeling frustrated, Jessica tapped her comm badge again. It was odd the science chief had not shown up but what was weirder was that he wasn’t even acknowledging her call. =/\=Lt. Rhodes do you copy=/\=Jessica asked not caring if Duncan could hear the annoyance in her tone.

Lt. Commander Jessica Teller XO

Toveka looked at the woman. “We did not have any pterodactyl in our history, Ma’am. But I understand your reference. And I find it highly unlikely.” She continued the unpacking, each item being placed on the counter in the order it was listed on the manifest. She wanted to make sure all the pieces were accounted for.

Toveka
Scientist

“I’m sorry,” Jessica said looking at Toveka. “As I said I have zero artistic ability. It makes Aedan and Duncan nuts but sure made them stop the whole what do you see when you look at that,” Jessica said picking up another piece of art. “I mean art is supposed to have no wrong answer but boy I sure do,” she half snickered.

Lt. Commander Jessica Teller XO

The doors to the lab opened and Duncan made his way in, nodding to everyone as he did so. Notably, he wasn’t wearing his Starfleet badge which was likely why he hadn’t heard the call that the XO had put out to him. He was also carrying a large cup of coffee from Evies and was stifling a yawn as he came in. He had left the cargo bay earlier only moments after arriving and now, it was apparent that he seemed tired. Perhaps he had little sleep the previous night, as his hair also appeared slightly rushed and not in it’s normal, ‘in control’ state.

Jessica looked at the entrance to the lab and did a double take vigorous enough to cause whiplash. “Are you…sick…Lt,” she said carefully measuring out her words. The only times Jessica had seen Duncan this disheveled was the time he took her for a field trip as he called it to the surface of Gamma Tiltium to look for some critter in the swampy marshes. To be fair they hadn’t expected Galacticus Gatorus Majoris to be hiding among the reeds there. Either way hopping from tree limb to tree limb for two days as it followed like a yappy dog begging for a treat had made the pair quite a sight entering the base almost three days later. Even with that adventure under their belt, Duncan still looked more put together than he did now. The problem was the chief science officer was well within standards for Starfleet uniform and appearance. He was just not well within presentable limits for Lord Duncan Rhodes of England.

“What the heck happened to you,” Jessica asked eyeing Duncan. “Evie’s opening last night was the coffee bar, not the bar bar. That is next month,” she said trying to put the pieces together. “I thought you left like an hour into it. Evie said people stayed until almost 0400 hours but…did you,” she asked clearly confused.

Coming to the group Duncan sipped his coffee and looked at the tablet, blinking once or twice. “I never heard of ancient Romulans doing battle with Giant Chickens, Brine.” He said curiously, “Although that might explain why the Star Empire called its warships ‘Warbirds’. He looked at the two Starfleet Officers and the archaeologists, “Possible correlation? Something the ancient Romulans feared or worshiped enough to name Starships after them centuries later?”

Lt Duncan Rhodes, CSO

The woman nodded, “It seemed that the imagery of the bird character has been pronounced at other sites as well. However, it seems as though this figure is much less common, only appearing in large quantities at the site from which these pieces came from.” She paused for a moment to bring up a picture on her padd. “Some pictures also from this site also depict more of this assumed ‘battle’.” Displayed on the padd was a more detailed image of what seemed to be a female shaped figure holding her arms above her head. More interestingly, above her was a familiar shape facing the bird.

OOC Note: After messing with formatting for the kagillionth time, I’m just going to describe what I was trying to do. I was trying to make an ascii Connie class, and that is what they see. Search up ‘star trek ascii’ and go to images to see what I was trying to do.

Mr. Snuggles (GM)

OCC I think it was amazing in what you were trying to do Cog. :) Way smarter than me but we knew that since the first day we met at the academy ~ (smiles Kate)

Jessica cocked her head to the side as she looked at the image. So far she had batted and struck out two for two with this art identification experiment but this time, they could not say she was wrong on her guess. Well, they could but she would need a lot of convincing that what she was looking at wasn’t a Constitution-class starship from the 2260’s. “Okay so call me crazy but is that,” she pointed a finger at the image above the woman. “Is that…the…Enterprise,” Jessica asked. The design of the ship had changed a lot in the almost one and half centuries from when Kirk and his crew set out in Starfleet to explore strange new worlds yet there was no mistaking the shape of one of the Federation’s most famous ships.

“And if it is why is an image of it on an ancient Romulan artifact that probably was created when we were just learning that the Earth was flat,” Jessica asked.

Lt. Commander Jessica Teller