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Briefing Room- Main Sim - Still too early for this crap...

Posted Dec. 30, 2020, 9:51 p.m. by Commander Ivo Černý (Executive Officer / Chief Science Officer) (Joe P)

Posted by Rear Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Briefing Room- Main Sim - Still too early for this crap…
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Ford shrugged and stood. “Dismissed, Yeoman. Thanks.” The young man turned and left, quickly. Ford inserted the data tape and then pressed the button beside it with a thunk, and the three displays in the table center lit up with the image of a planet. He looked down at the clipboard.

“Sigma 9, Federation mining colony,” he said. “We’re being dispatched to…” he furrowed his brows and flipped up the first page. “… to investigate a series of murders.” He read some more. “And disappearances.” He set the board down, brow still knit in confusion, then shrugged. “Let’s see what if the presentation on the data tape has more,” he finally said, and pressed another button to access the next portion on the data tape.

COS Ford

The Captain poured himself a cup of steaming hot coffee and looked over his command staff, his expression serious. “That’s right. We’ll be heading up an independent investigation which the Sigma 9 Security Team has been unable to straighten out. They’ve had personnel disappear, as well as found evidence of more than one homicide. Since we have better equipment and more experience with… Strange disappearances… Starfleet Command has given the investigation to us. We’ll have full access to the Sigma Colony Computer system, as well as any evidence they’ve collected.” Here the Captain paused and looked around. “Mr. Ford, I’d like you to lead the investigation. Please let me know who and what you’ll be needing to get that done, and I’ll make sure you have it. I’ll have Doctor Hudson standing by for medical examiner duties. The rest of us will do what we can to provide support for the Sigma Miners and their command staff, but I don’t want to lose any of you on this mission. Let’s do this by the book.”

-Zarath, CO

Amber, having never been asked to leave, spoke up. “Sir, if the colony can give me access to comms and such, I can see if this possibly came from an outside source. Track incoming and outgoing vessels and see if any transmissions, personal or official, gave rise to an alarm before anything was officially noticed.” Perhaps there was someone doing this who had bragged it out in a personal transmission or data file of some kind. She could use the filters to look for key words that may help them find someone with more than a passing fancy, and knowledge, of what was occurring.

Amber Comms

Ford nodded as the captain entered and took over. He moved down a few seats to listen, pursing his lips before he responded. “NE Smith and Ensign Bolurson would be good for this,” he finally answered, writing in the margin of the duty roster. “I’d like a science officer for testing any evidence we might find, and a medical officer for looking at the bodies.” He stopped writing and sat back, tapping the pencil twice on the table. “And you or Commander Černý to run interference from the locals, if you don’t mind. In my experience, despite asking us here, they often get in the way.”

COS Ford

Looking at the info packets on hand they had the usual info they could pull up on the data tapes.

-Sigma III Mining Consortium History and Service
-Sigma III Senior Personnel Records and Service
-Sigma III Survey Scans
-Known Stellar Traffic and Shipping Information (Past 3 months)
-Current Known Information On Sigma III Disappearances and Supposed Murders

GM CockRoach

Robert Banner listed to the information and did not offer any opinion. After all, a Petty Officer’s opinion might not be welcomed. He would have to sit back and been seen and not heard, unless, of course, someone asked him a question.

P.O. Banner

Ford flipped through the papers he’d been handed. “Computer, please display the information on the disappearances and suspected murders from the data tape. It felt like the best place to start, as the reason for their voyage after all. The rest was background that could be reviewed afterward.

COS Ford

=/\= Processing! =/\= The computer intoned.

Amber smiled as the packages of information. This was exactly what she needed. Tapping her fingers over her PaDD, she got the scanning started to find something unusual in the comms with regards to alarms and key words she had put together to see if anyone knew something was wrong before it happened.

Amber Comms

With a whir and a chug and clunk sound the computer finally pulled up the requested information. =/\= Sigma III mining colony, disappearances and possible murders suspected. Stardate 224502.03 Colonial Constable Barrack reporting. It’s been almost 3 weeks now, and I can now confirm we have lost at least 2 miners and 6 deputies of my security team, possibly more to come after investigations are complete. Disappearances began a day after when we opened shaft 13 section 13’s tunnel, we struck rich deposits of dilithium crystals as well as deep veins of gold and other precious metals. Sent a security team lead by Deputy Brans to investigate the loss and odd sounds coming from the tunnel the night before. All six never reported back in a day later. The miners in that section continue to avoid it since, reporting strange sounds and movement of shadows where there shouldnt be sources for such. Depositions by mining team 6 whole lost two of their number report that they believe it is the ghosts of some ancient race that once dwelled here. Superstitious nonsense if you ask me. Further investigation found that mining team 6’s members who vanished both had records of being drunk and/or high on duty. As well as many members of the team having issue with how wages were being split among them for the discoveries by the Consortium. My initial feeling is the 2 missing miners fell into some shaft and died, or were pushed or disposed of by their fellow miners as being loose weight. No evidence yet has surfaced though to confirm or deny this though, so no charges are being put out. Will continue a further report in a days time once I personally investigate the shaft network with my remaining deputies. Despite their superstitions on the source of this I am confident a reasonable explanation exists. End log =/\= the first part of the tape spat out.

=/\= Continue with log 2? =/\= The computer queried.

GM CockRoach

“Wait… eight people are missing, possibly dead, and he writes it off as no big deal?” Ivo commented after having been silent at the table for the entire briefing. “Good Lord… that guy right there on the tape probably did it.”

– Ivo Černý, XO/CSO


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