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Posted April 27, 2021, 11:58 a.m. by Lieutenant Commander Maxwell Watley (Acting Captain) (Samuel Stroud)

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

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Peter Sigmundsson (Chief Intelligence Officer) in Sim Start

Posted by Lieutenant Markus Woods (Chief Science Officer) in Sim Start
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“I want to see if we can establish some sort of communication with them before sending anyone over there,” Michelle said. “They certainly don’t appear threatening. So let’s see what we can find out.” She looked around at her team. “Keep trying to determine how to communicate with them. Keep shields and weapons powered down but on standby. We don’t want to appear threatening.”

-Captain Michelle Allen

Watley nodded, but internally, he disagreed with the captain’s decision to keep shields and weapons powered down. The ship needed to be on a higher alert than standby.

Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Watley- XO

In the absence of any particular action from the Viking, the ship would continue on an intercept course until she was within a few hundred thousand kilometers. That would take about two hours so there was plenty of time for investigatory actions… if you so choose or we can fast forward to transporter range?

GM

Kalika listened to everyone and when a pause filled the bridge, she glanced at the Captain. “I recommend we, perhaps, just ask ‘who are you?’ and see what response we get. Welcome aboard seems a greeting. So respond with who we are and ask who they are?” To her it seemed obvious. But she hadn’t been an active part of a first contact situation before so she wasn’t exactly sure how ridiculous or far fetched her suggestion was.

Kalika
Security

Avarak nodded at Kalika. “I agree with the officer, we have no clue how their culture handles greetings and such. To us, a friendly hello might come off as an insult.”

Lt. Avarak (CNS)

((is this sim still going?))

Watley nodded at the suggestion. “That sounds like a plan, request identification.”

Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Watley- XO

OOC: I am waiting for a command or action that the me to execute. As far as I can tell I haven’t gotten on. Some one can initiate an action without the captain and xo clearing it.

Luke

“We did get a very large data dump from them. Computer, cross reference their downloaded database for cultural self-identifiers. See if these people have a name,” Marcus inquired. There would be time for the CNS to chew through such information later on, but for now they needed rapid answers. At the same time he went for another scan primarily looking at their propulsion and warp signature and comparing it to Federation standards. Did they use the same principles, or did they get about by other means.

Lt Woods, CSO

Watley waited for the computer results to return to the bridge. In the mean time he watched the object on the screen tensely. “Let me know what you find Woods.” He replied.

Lt. Cmdr. Maxwell Watley- XO

The data indicated that the race came from a planet name Esta Haven and they refer to themselves as the Havensent. Their home world location was not a planet the Federation has a map of and they were traveling for over 800 Earth years covering 520,000 light years.

The ship was warp based and seemed to use they same general propulsion and power systems as most of the Alpha Quadrant.

GM

Kalika glanced over the shoulder of the engineer beside her and shook her head. “Wow… that’s a long time to travel. Wonder if they leapfrogged in hypersleep or cryo of some kind or if they are a generational ship and just live and travel?” She had trouble comprehending such a thing. She wasn’t aware of any Fleet ship that was generational on that grand a scale. Even ships with family units on board didn’t head out in a single direction and not come back to Earth.

Kalika
Security

Marcus blinked. The Milky Way galaxy was approximately 52,000 light years across. They were from ten times that distance away. Or they’d been circling the galaxy along time. “Sir… they call themselves the Havensent, at least that’s what they roughly translate to. They’ve been traveling for approximately eight hundred years and covered ten times the span of our galaxy.” He frowned for a moment. “Their tech might not be equal to our own, but that’s a pretty strong dedication to exploring. They certainly seem friendly enough.”

Lt Woods, CSO

Peter raised a surprised eyebrow at the Science Chiefs declaration. Eight hundred years and all those light-years, The information they could get from that ship would be.

OOC: Look at the science officer thinking about science.
Luke

Watley studied the viewscreen for a moment. “Can we get any readings on the interior of the ship?” He asked, the amount of knowledge stored in a craft of that nature was enticing, even to the old man. Although he was still suspicious about the origins, he was more open to exploring the vessel.

Lt. Cmdr Maxwell Watley- XO


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