Posted by Lieutenant Ush’ast Rah-Triton (Security Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Commander Daniel “DaVinci” Colter (Chief Intelligence Officer/ 2nd Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Lieutenant Ush’ast Rah-Triton (Security Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge
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All was quiet, the sounds of LCARS responses scoring the day. The Saracen was on a fairly routine mission, carrying some diplomats to a conference. On the bridge, looking through the viewscreen, gradually space grew darker. And darker. And darker. Computer consoles flashed, alternating the symbols of the Federation, and the Terran Empire, until they all failed. The ship was submerged in darkness, save for emergency lights.

-GM Fate

The door to the Captain’s ready room came out and he looked around the Bridge, he had first thought something was odd when the stars outside his viewing window faded away, and then half a second later the power dropped and the systems went crazy.

“Report!” He said coming onto the main Command Floor and looking at the view screen of nothingness. “What the hell is going on?”

Captain Knight, CO

Teller looked at him and bit back his original response was that he had no Fn idea. “Sensors are reporting a significant decrease in… space itself…” He slapped at his console

“Now they are losing effectiveness… It might be what is typical at the heart of the big bang… but I wasn’t around then.” He said without the least bit of humor. It was simply as statement letting the captain know he was at a loss of data.

Graham

Threwn entered the bridge a moment later. “The view out of my quarters got really dark really quick.” He said quickly, moving over to tactical. “What the hell happened?”

-XO

Moving to his chair, Dante shook his head slightly. “No Idea, are we in some kind of anomaly? Did our sensors register anything at all before this happened?” He asked the CSO before sitting in the chair. “Mr Threwn get me a damage report, we are moving to yellow alert. Helm full stop.”

“Aye Captain, full stop.” The Helm officer replied, and began the process of halting the Saracen’s momentum.

Captain Knight, CO

Threwn moved to the damage control station and checked the ships status. He activated the ships damage control teams and awaited for their reports.

-XO

Sinclair, the former Counselor now Security Cheif, stepped on to the bridge and relieved the Ensign on duty. “Any idea what the hell that was?” the bid Scotsman said to no one in particular. He then sent orders for all security teams to secure sensitive areas and close down non-essential spaces.

Sinclair, CoS

“We are trying to figure it out.” Threwn stated as he left the damage control station and returned to his chair.

Teller was angrily looking at is station. “I still have nothing Captain, XO, but before everything went black the LCARS was freaking out.... the computer stations flashed, alternating the symbols of the Federation, and the Terran Empire, then nothing.”

Teller

As far as any scans would show, they were no longer in space. They were submerged in nothing.

-GM Fate

“Hmm” Teller sub-vocialized as he looked at his sensors. This made so little sense that he feared to even report it. He changed his scan frequency to the chronoton spectrum. A temporal anomaly was possible.

“Damage control teams are responding.” He told the captain as he took his seat. “Should we consider launching a class 1 probe to light our way?” He suggested.

-XO

Ship damage was minimal. Only that of being pulled out of warp.

-GM Fate

Her check out with Medical had gone fine… then her check in with her new DH, her former Councilor, Sinclair had been interesting. Sha had gone to her quarters to get herself together before seeking out the CO and doing the final step of her check in.

It was there she was when the lights had gone out. Swiping her phaser off the table, she ran for the door and for Security as she called out “Computer, locate Lieutenant Commander Sinclair.” The computer responded he was on the bridge so she shifted her gait at the next corridor and headed there.

A moment later, she was on the bridge and glanced around before heading for the CoS’s side. She smiled and nodded to the CO as she did. “Forgive me, Captain… respectfully request to postpone check in with you? Medical and Security cleared for duty.” Without the final mark on her record, technically she wasn’t fully checked in. She only hoped this time ‘formality’ wouldn’t keep her from being useful.

Lt Ush’ast “Sha” Rah-Triton
Security

“Welcome back” Threwn said to Triton, glancing up with a friendly smile before returning to his console.

-XO

A rare smile tugged at Sha’s lips as she moved to the XO. “Thank you, sir. Good to be home.” The words were short but sincere. She just hoped she’d settled back in as easily this time as she had the first time.

Sha
Security

“Reading are not making sense, we appear to be submerged in non-space unrelated to subspace that is consistent to warp drive.” Teller offered unhelpfully.

Graham CSO

“Where in the name of anything are we?” Dante muttered to himself feeling slightly frustrated. “Launch a probe, dead ahead. Let’s see what it it can see. Lieutenant, welcome back to the Saracen.” He added, glancing at Triton.

Captain Knight, CO

Sha nodded at the Captain and took it as a sign to worry about work first, check in later. She nodded to Sinclair and took up another security station. She was scanning the ship to see if the difference outside was affecting the ship’s hull or the pressure or atmosphere inside. It wouldn’t make sense if it was, but then… what was happening ‘outside’ didn’t make sense either.

“Scanning the hull and ship or anomolies and breaches.” She called out as she started the scan. Let others figure out where they were and how they got their. She had the security of the ship and crew in mind. And while Sinclair was Security Chief, it left her free to do the checking she would have had to possibly assign to someone else had she been CoS still. It actually felt good to be useful. It kept her mind off of her life and past and on the here and now.

Lt Sha
Security

Graham tilted his head. Too inexperienced to hide his confusion and irritation about that nonsensical sensor readings and totally at a loss as to what was going to happen when they launched a probe. He couldn’t give his captain a useful report… “Probe reads green.” He paused to give an opportunity for the Captain to countermand his orders.

“Launching probe dead ahead, 500 kph.” He bent over his scanners to read the reports as they came in. He flicked a key to be certain that the data was being recorded real time, just in case.

Graham CSO

The bribe detected nothing. The only matter of any kind within scanning range was the Saracen.

The hull and ship structure were completely intact. The hull had been slightly scraped upon entering whatever or wherever they were, but it would hold without issue.

-GM Fate

Sha frowned slightly. “Ship’s internal and external integrity at 100%. Showing minor hull damage that I can’t account for. But it’s cosmetic. Nothing that threatens the structure.” She glanced over her shoulder at the CO and at Sinclair. It made no sense. How can moving from ‘something’ to ‘nothing’ cause damage to the ship?

Sha
Security

“See if we can get a visual on that damage, Lieutenant.” Sinclair said, and then began checking off as teams reported areas secure and others evacuated.

Sinclair, CoS

“Yes, Sir,” Sha replied without hesitation and turned to the console to tap out the external camera commands. A moment later, she glanced back over her shoulder. “I have those images, sir.” She waited to see if Sinclair would come see them at her console or the Captain would want them on the main viewer. She glanced at the viewer with that thought. It was an eerie black that made you realize it wasn’t off… but it didn’t seem to be on, either.

Sha Triton
Security

DaVinci had been in an isolation chamber, meditating when things went all wonky. The brief loss of power had been enough for him to sense something was wrong. After changing back into his uniform, he made his way to the bridge. He arrived and looked at the viewscreen. It was completely. . . black.

“Somebody tell me there’s something wrong with the screen and we haven’t simply gone to . . .black?”

Colter (CIO)

“We have simply gone to black, Commander.” Dante replied as he stood in front of his chair, thoroughly confused. “Put those images on screen Lieutenant Triton, Lieutenant Graham, initiate a subspace scan for any anomalies, in particular temporal ones. Bring the probe to a halt and hold position, turn it’s scanners back on us and see if we can detect, anything, really.”

Captain Knight, CO

“Yes, Sir,” Sha said and smiled with a nod to Colter as he arrived. If he remembered her, he would realize she was back after being oddly, unexplainably, absent for nearly three months.

The security officer looked at the viewscreen as the images of the hull came up. As it did so, she silently and swiftly tapped out a request to engineering to run a confirmation diagnostic on the external sensors. Her console said all was right. But she wanted a second opinion just to be sure the bridge wasn’t being isolated in the affect.

Sha
Security

What might have struck the eyes of an Intelligence Officer as odd was the occasional appearance of the symbol of the Terran Empire on what should be Starfleet LCARS systems.

-GM Fate

DaVinci moved to where Sha was seated and began to look over her shoulder at the monitor. “Good to see you again, Lt. Triton,” he added.

“Ummm…” Sha flickered her console thru a couple different programs before coming back to her original screen. Seeing it again confirmed she wasn’t seeing thing. Her voice was different… something had raised her hackles and she was upset. “Sinclair… you may wanna see this…” She waited for him to come over.

Colter’s jaw drew tight as he saw the symbol. “Terran Emp—,” was all he managed to get out before the COS came over.

When he was beside her, she held her hand as if to say ‘wait for it’. When it flickered again, “There! What is it?” She knew it looked familiar, but because of the context, she wasn’t recognizing it.

Sha
Security

Sinclair saw the image and cursed… not exactly softly.

Threwn looked up from his review of the hull damage when Sha asked for the COS. He looked back at his console and saw the brief flash of the symbol. He frowned and waited for it to appear again. “What was that?”

-XO

Graham stared blankly for a moment as he tried to come up with a plausible reason for his readings. “There is no explanation of us having structural damage, unless we somehow went into something. Perhaps we are in a sensor absorbing container.” He spun in his seat. “Perhaps a low energy phaser shot will establish the boundaries of this ‘containment.’

Graham CSO

“Captain, we may have a larger issue than simply being nowhere. We are getting Terran Empire symbols on the LCARS, sir.”

Sinclair, CoS

Sha hadn’t wanted to believe it, but there it flashed again. Hearing the XO had seen it made her feel better. Last thing she needed was to be seeing things on a mission.

At the recommendation of a phaser shot, she shook her head. “I recommend against using weapons in here till we know for sure where ‘here’ is. I can make the probe head out in a direct line and see how long it can go. If it hits a barrier, then we can assess using weapons.” She glanced at Sinclair suddenly, realizing she had spoken up. “I’m sorry, Sir…” she said, meaning to include both the CO and Sinclair.

She immediately turned back to her console with a thought. Her fingers swiftly tapped out the programming to the probe to get it to analyze the ‘atmosphere’ around it. Sure, it made say it ‘saw’ nothing… but was there really ‘nothing’ out there?

Sha
Security

“Sir, a possible explanation, if I may. A mirror universe much like ours, has been confirmed. Only in the universe, the federation has been replaced by the Terran Empire. The Empire is the main power here, except unlike the Federation, they are the aggressors. Their sole purpose is conquest and to crush anyone that goes against them under the heel. Ruthless, brutal, promotion through the Empire is done by assassinating your direct superior . . . .and there are doubles of us that act in that way. If we are in their universe, their Saracen is in ours, unless. . . . “

His eyes went back to the main viewscreen. “Unless, we’re somehow stuck between the two realities. All Intel reports I have seen state the switch between realities was almost instataneous, not like. . .this.

Colter (CIO)

Sha couldn’t help but smile a sly grin and glance at her new superior, Sinclair. Her voice was low and had an obvious teasing edge to it, “So that’s all it takes to get promoted…huh? How .... Klingon…” She didn’t say it loud enough for it to travel past Sinclair at her back. But she didn’t realize that Colter hadn’t walked away and would hear it as well.

The idea of a mirror universe frightened her to the core. With duplicates wandering around on ships, people had betrayed one another, their crewmates and even killed the ones from their ‘own’ universe by accident or device of those who had boarded. All reports of Mirror Universe ships made her realize that there were hazards that couldn’t be escaped.

Sha had an idea and touched Sinclair’s hand lightly. Whispering to him, “We need a way to identify ourselves from our duplicates in case this is is of crossed crews as well as crossed ships. I just don’t know how to use that idea on the whole crew.” It was one thing for her and her companion to have an identity word, or even short phrase, but how to inform the whole crew of such a thing and make sure everyone was protected was giving her a bit of trouble.

Sha
Security

“Is there anyway to check to see if we got caught in the transfer between universes?” Threwn asked, “Outside of firing our phasers.”

-XO