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Posted April 22, 2020, 11:18 p.m. by Commander Daniel "DaVinci" Colter (Chief Intelligence Officer/ 2nd Officer) (Terry Sullivan)

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

Posted by Commander Adam Threwn (Executive Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

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

Sha frowned and tilted her head. “Maybe two probes, one fore, one aft. See which one hits .... something… first?” It wasn’t the greatest idea, “It is the safest way I can think. If we are in space type area, it will read the changes on the fringe. But if,” her mind shuddered at the thought, “we are ‘in’ something, if will hopefully agitate it less than firing weapons.” After speaking out of turn, she glanced up at Sinclair. Learning to step back was a bit harder than she anticipated.

She quickly turned back to her console with a self chiding mantra echoing in her head.

Sha
Security

Colter began going though Intel files to see if there was anything new regarding the Mirror Universe. A recent article caught his eye.

“Captain, Intel reports from the USS Olympic state they recently had a run-in with the mirror ‘verse. Command staff was slowly being replaced with their Mirror’verse counterparts. They weren’t switching places. The real crew was being . . . killed by their replacements. There was some kind of device hidden in the bowels of the ship allowing the mirror people to come through. They were planning an invasion with the Olympic as their flagship and base of ops.”

OOC: This prolly has nothing to do with this sim, but I play on the Olympic as well, and that did recently happen. Just thought I would add some recent Intel info.

Colter (CIO)


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