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Posted Feb. 8, 2021, 10:53 p.m. by Lieutenant Markus Woods (Chief Science Officer) (Sam Haynes)

Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (GM) in Sim Start

Posted by Lieutenant Avarak (Counselor) in Sim Start

Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (GM) in Sim Start
Space was a large, empty, lonely… hence the very name, space. So vast the very fact one object was even, on any semblance, of an intercept course with another object was considered so uncommon as to be proof of intelligent intent. The Viking was several weeks out from its last port of call, days since they had last scanned another star-ship, and the randomness of the Universe was coming into play or so it seemed.

At a range that was startling close for an object to suddenly appear, under a light year, was a metallic husk, moving at a fraction of light speed at what was for all intents and purposes a collision course, in about 8 hours.

GM

Being on the bridge to keep an eye on some of the crew memberss, Avarak glanced over at the alert that had popped up before turning to the Captain’s chair. “Captain, it appears as though something has appeared, although what exactly is not quite my expertise.”

Avarak (CNS)

The object continued at sub-light speed, for all intents and purposes oblivious to the Viking.

GM

Markus frowned. Their long range scanners should have picked the object out at least a dozen if not a dozen and a half light years out. That was concerning. Even their high resolution sensors and scanners half a six lightyear range. Bringing up the lateral sensor array, Markus brought up the full spectrum scanner and began working across the range. He searched through the electromagnetic spectrum for any energy emissions while running a gravimetric scan to get an idea of it’s mass, size, and combined with both would tell him things like propulsion systems. Anything that might indicate how hot or cold the object was, how advanced the technology was. Anything the sensor systems could tell him.

In the Academy he’d done a couple years of Tactical training along side his science courses, and over the years had ended up in some tight spots and under fire. While he wasn’t quite as specialized, he could at least gather basic tactical data, which he also sought out.

At the same time, he took a moment to gather data on it’s speed and course and shoot a reverse azimuth, trying to backtrack it’s point of origin, and comparing against the astrometric data they had for the region. Where there any possible nearby stars it had come from?

“Scanning now,” Mark reported aloud. He hadn’t been told to, but scanning anomalies was fairly standard procedure. And like any good crew, he sought to anticipate the needs and orders of his superiors. It saved time, and he was no mindless drone. Though for the moment he kept it to mostly passive data-gathering. If the object in question did have intelligence driving it, he didn’t want to spook it, or have the Viking’s actions be seen as a potentially aggressive or hostile act. This might be a First Contact situation. Better to play it cool. “Passive scans only for the moment. Looking for transmissions and subspace transmissions too,” he added, as he went to looking through the known subspace bands in case they were communicating in any meaningful way they could detect. Either with the ship or somewhere else.

Lt Woods, CSO


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