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Red Sqd: Antioch - Village Surveillance

Posted March 25, 2019, 4:52 p.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Robert Banner (Pilot, Red Squad) (Timothy Frogue)

Posted by Gamemaster Kenson Koh (Gamemaster) in Red Sqd: Antioch - Village Surveillance

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Srothell Ch’zaolrirh (Chief Security Officer) in Red Sqd: Antioch - Village Surveillance

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Balfor Kolar (Chief Science Officer) in Red Sqd: Antioch - Village Surveillance
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OOC: MY apologies. RL just made time move so fast!

IC: The entrance was unguarded, although the tricorders would show some form of sensor arrays at regular intervals in the rather long and cavernous passage that laid before them, going down into the ground at an angle of about 15 degrees incline. The tricorder readings show a height of about 28 metres and width of 12 metres. On the sides of the passage were large cables that were interrupted with panels that either contained the sensor arrays, or what seemed like forcefield emitters. Each panel was about 2 metres square. The passage seemed to go about 1.5 kilometres straight into the ground before it came to a bend. The tricorders could read rather high energy outputs just past that bend.

GM

The COS acknowledged Apex as he and Callahan entered the passage, =^= Roger that Mr. Khev. =^=

Looking around the cables were an obvious citing. Pointing at them, the COS gave instructions to Callahan, “Mr. Callahan, those cables are going to lead us to the center of this thing,” or so the Andorian assumed. Carefully making their way down the passage Ch’zaolrirh held his phaser in one hand and his tricorder in the other. A he scanned, he started making a voice log. It was the easiest way for the ship to get his report, should things get out of hand.

=^= COS Log. Stardate XXXX. Myself and Mr. Callahan have entered into a passage way on Antioch. We believe it will lead us to the origination point for the drones spotted on the surface. Initial scans show some kind of sensor array - perhaps a guidance system for the drones. It aligns the entirety of the passage wall…”

Pausing, he picked up the larger energy signal ahead. dropping his tricorder, he quickly tapped his badge to contact Apex, =^= High energy up ahead! Be careful. =^= With that, he and Callahan paused. There was no sense in everyone turning the corner at once, especially since Apex would have no choice once he dropped into the passage.

COS Ch’zaolrirh

A few moment’s later, a thick Russian accent came over the comm. =^=Banner, this Papa Bear. I am having your replacement now. Go. Do what needs to be done. I have the gate covered.=^=

Back in CIC, Ricochet leaned back and continued to listen to the chatter. At the moment, he felt Apex had things under control and wanted to give the Romulan pilot a chance to lead, to see if he still had what it takes to be a squad leader.

Ricochet (CAG)

Tricorder readings suggested that there were drones past the bend. Whether they were defensive drones or the maintenance drones was not clear. What was clear was that the drones had laser capability.

GM

In his Cutlass, Apex called =/\=I’m an old war dog. I’ve got the drones. You do you need to do.=/\= he switched to fighter channel.=/\=If someone’s coming for backup, now’s the time. Bogeys dead ahead. I think I’ve got them, but more guns, better chances.=/\= Off comms he whispered “Elements protect me.” in Romulan.

-Lt (j.g.) Ael Khev, Apex

=^=Da, Apex. Papa Bear is comink in on your six. Guns are hot and being ready to start fireworks.=^=

Papa Bear (Green 3)

Having made his way back to the mother ship Banner radio,

“USS Oliniski, I request permission for turnover landing. I need the flight crew to get me ready to fly again as soon as possible.”

Banner

OOC: Remember your talking to the CoC and not the Bridge so the answer here comes from the CAG.

Sidney

OOC: Sorry, I thought in landing you would be talking to the bridge; I am sorry.

Banner

=^=Permission granted, Red 3. You are cleared to land and a crew is standing bay for rearming,=^= cam the reply from CIC.

"Roger that sir" came the reply as the bird was flown into the tunnel. The one thing that Banner had going for him was he was not the oldest member of the crew and not the youngest...thus he thought that he was the middle of the run 'hot shot' so he landed the bird just in the nick of time.

Banner

In the control center, Ric looked over at the NE manning comms and said. “We really need to get the new boot a call sign. When this is all done, maybe I’ll put in a call to flight school and see what I can dig up on him.”

Ricochet (CAG)

The tunnel was a tight fit but assessable. The sensors on the fighter showed the presence of drones. If they were maintenance drones, their destruction might cause a system wide alert. If they were defensive drones, they would not miss should they fire.

GM

OOC: Sorry, I do not know why the post came out in a white box like that…interesting…

Banner waited for his bird to be ready to fly again…looking at the deck officer he said, “How much longer?”

Banner

The hub of activity continued around Banner’s bird. The last of the mini tors were being loaded as the crew chief looked up to the cockpit. “15 seconds, Red 3. Standby.”

A moment later the chief slapped the birds fuselage a few times and said, “Loaded and ready to rock n’ roll. ” The maintenance team quickly dispersed as the chief looked up a CIC and gave a thumbs up.

=^=Red Three, you are green lit for launch. Good hunting, red Three.=^=

CIC/Maintenance Chief/Ricochet (CAG)

=/\=Get in here Banner, no telling when the fun will arrive. It’s close quarters, no fancy flying, just stay safe.=/\=

-Lt(j.g.) Ael Khev, Apex

Banner finished his final prep and climbed back into the cockpit. Hitting a few buttons he said. “Red three lunching in three, two, one.....

The bird flew back into space like sparrow (think Battle of the planets if you know what that is) and Banner headed off to assume position in the air squad.

Banner

On the ground the two security officers continued to wait for the pilots to clear the tunnel ahead. While they did Ch’zaolrirh stepped up to one of the panels on the tunnel wall. He called over to his partner, “Cover me for a second Callahan.”

Once at the panel he scanned it for a charge. It appeared safe to the touch, so let his tricorder fall to his side he began feeling around the panel to see if there was a way inside. Perhaps he could gain access to whatever was controlling the drones from within the junction.

COS Ch’zaolrirh

OOC: Repeating my post above. Just to set the situation.

IC: The tunnel was a tight fit but assessable. The sensors on the fighter showed the presence of drones. If they were maintenance drones, their destruction might cause a system wide alert. If they were defensive drones, they would not miss should they fire.

GM

=^=Da, Red Three,=^=came the thick Russian accent of Papa Bear, =^=tunnel is tighter than a Siberian virgin (SQWARRRK). . .=^=. The rest of Papa Bear’s cpmment was cut off by a burst of static. . . .

Papa Bear (pilot)

OOC: Kenson, any info you can provide on the wall panel (see above post).

OOC: Sorry for the delay. I’m back from my LOA.

IC:

Apex chimed in =/\=Ok Papa… Everyone, let’s keep the channel clear.=/\= In his own way, Papa Bear was right though, it was close quarters.

-Lt(j.g.) Ael Khev, Apex

There was the telltale twinkling whine of a transporter in operation as one form appeared behind the security officers. “Ah, Gentlemen.” Kolar began as he looked at the assorted persons. He nodded, at least they didn’t get themselves dead, which demonstrated this plan to cut the teams into two different parties wasn’t completely foolish.

Both security officers turned at the sound of the transporter. Callahan lowered his phaser once he realized it was the CSO. Ch’zaolrirh still with a finger poking the inside of the panel, raised his antennae. Realizing how foolish he must have looked, all he managed to blurt out was, “Lieutenant Commander.”

Kolar tilted his head at the security officer poking at a panel. “I’m not certain that is the best way to go about resetting a system.” Kolar pulled out his tricorder and began to scan the system.

Balfor Kolar cSO

As Kolar got to work Ch’zaolrirh took a step back. A bit more collected he gave the CSO a quick briefing, “You arrived just in time. Two of our fighters just moved down the tunnel ahead. We believe there are active drones down there, but we don’t know if they are hostile. We are waiting on an all clear before heading down ourselves.”

Ch’zaolrirh (COS)

The tricorder showed that the drones ahead were maintenance drones that had moved back before the repairs to the microwave systems had been fully restored. There was a pair of security drones on the way to where the fighters were.

The programming was not difficult to understand. However, there were many layers of subroutines, and to get to the core of the system was going to take time. Switching off the maintenance drones was just a touch away. The security drones were also quite easy to disable. However, there were a few subroutines that would be activated when the drones were switched off. It would take some time to find out what wold be activated …

GM

Banner remained in flight formation waiting further orders; he watched as his panels read all go and waited for “something to blow up.” To Banner, it was a better day when he was able to blow things up and, of course, it was fun.

Lt. Banner


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