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USS Tian An Men- 'Missing' Side-Sim

Posted April 24, 2019, 8:45 p.m. by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) (Joe P)

Posted by Lieutenant Steven Leon Marsh (Chief Science Officer) in USS Tian An Men- ‘Missing’ Side-Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Steven Leon Marsh (Chief Science Officer) in USS Tian An Men- ‘Missing’ Side-Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Cassidy Abrams (Chief of Security) in USS Tian An Men- ‘Missing’ Side-Sim
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After a moment of coaxing, the video logs began to play starting from the earlier log made thirteen days ago. Cassidy couldn’t help but creep closer and closer, her gaze unwavering.

A middle aged woman in a command uniform and four pips appeared. Her dark brown hair was pulled back in a loose knot at the nape of her neck and she carried a relaxed expression in her light brown eyes.

Ship’s Log, Stardate 19032.2, Captain Maxine Massey reporting. We’ve been continuing on our course after stopping briefly to allow stellar cartography to do some updates before we head out into true deep space. They brought the new systems online just in time to discover a large plasma storm that is likely to cross our path. It’s rather massive and even catching the edge of it would lead to significant damage, so we’re adjusting our course to give it a wide berth even though it’s going to take us well off of our original course. It should only take an extra two days to get back on track.

The log ended and the next played immediately with the captain reappearing.

Ship’s Log, Stardate 19032.4, Captain Maxine Massey reporting. After getting around the worst of the plasma storm, we were still experiencing some interference with the external comms and sensors. Unfortunately, it meant we were apparently a great target for some vultures wanting to seize on an opportunity. A ship came out of seeming no where and attacked. If communications were working, they aren’t now. For a ship the size it was, it was grossly overpowered with a mixed set of weapons and they landed some solid hits to our shield generators, creating some well placed holes. It’s like they had studied up and knew where to hit us to cause just the right amount of damage (She sounded greatly frustrated at this point) The port nacelle took some damage and warp is down for a few hours at least. As are comms. Engineering says we’re going to need dockside work to be fully functional, but we should be able to patch things well enough to get the hell out of here. Hopefully that will happen before our friends return, since they took off after we landed our own shots. Strange, but worrisome.

The next log played, but there was a new face appearing. The lights were dim and the background flared in and out with the red alert. Her blond hair had slipped a probably once tidy updo and there was a pretty obviously gash on the side of her face along with scrapes and possibly small burns.

Ship’s Log, Stardate 19032.4 Supplemental. Commander Norene Abrams reporting. The mercenary ship came back just before we had finished repairs and struck hard. Impulse and warp engines are down, life support is barely hanging on we have no shields. We don’t know what they want, but they’ve started boarding the ship. It’s 2 to 1 in our favour, but we’ve already had reports of casualties from unexpectedly strong firepower. Captain Massey is critically injured but conscious. With no backup within several days’ travel, the Captain reluctantly has ordered us to abandon ship. We’ve got no choice but to leave…

A voice behind her called out urgently. Come on, Commander, we’ve got to go! We’re almost out of time!

Norene looked strangely calm and resolute. We’re heading for a nearby planet, about two hours at impulse. Habitable, but barely. It’ll have to do. We’ve set the self-destruct, so if you’re reading this on the log buoy, then that’s where we’ll be. With any luck.

The screen went blank.

Cassidy murmured something to herself that the suit’s comm’s wasn’t able to clearly convey. It could have been a curse or a prayer. Or both.

“Well, this isn’t a log buoy, so we can assume the self-destruct was interrupted somehow,” Abrams reasoned, her voice sounding slightly shaky. They at least knew the crew was indeed mostly alive and where to look to find them. There couldn’t be too many habitable planets in close enough for escape pods to be able to navigate and travel too under potential enemy fire. The shuttles and runabouts could have provide cover, but if the enemy ship wanted to make quick work of them it seemed like they had had that option. There was no debris detected though, so that was a positive.

OOC: Cross-posting the audio to the bridge thread.

Abrams, Security

“We would have detected that many destroyed escape pods.” He looked at the blank screen. “A pirate ship capable of overwhelming the Tian An Men. Not too damn likely, they knew exactly where to hit them… sounds like an inside job. Who attacks a Federation ship as a target of opportunity. We carry no cargo, no wealth, just 400 trained officers and a Sh*t-ton of firepower.”

“Or, if not an inside job, then one hell of a recon project. Makes you wonder who would bother putting in the effort out here,” Cassidy said idly.

=^=Captain I recommend an immediate sensor sweep and resetting of our security functions.=^=

=/\=Agreed,=/\= came the crisp reply from Europa.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

+^=Computer, who deactivated the automatic self destruct system?>=6+
Marsh

“Unknown,” was the very unhelpful reply. But then again, most of the computer systems were still inoperable.

“Hmm,” Marsh couldn’t help but be disappointed. However that was still information. It indicated that the self-destruct was terminated by a means that was not typical.

Cassidy looked over her shoulder. “I’m going to step off of the bridge and check out the situation in the adjacent corridors. I won’t go far, but Europa, track my movements. I’ve got a tricorder, but let me know if you pick up anything unusual.”

=/\= Acknowledged, =/\= came the Captain’s voice over her communicator.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

“You coming with or did you want to try to get more data out of the computer?” she asked Marsh.

Abrams, COS

“I’ll set up an uplink to the Europa. Then we can study the information at our leisure.” He looked at her. They were here for a while already and hadn’t been attacked so it was unlikely that there was anything on the ship that continued to be intentionally dangerous. However the unintended dangers still existed. He knew of a crewmember that had a tiger as a pet… that would be a really unintended danger.

“Give me a sec and I’ll join you.” Marsh was done a few moments after that. “Lets go.”

Marsh

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