Posted by Captain Johann Dvorak (CO) in Bridge- ‘Missing’ Side Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Cassidy Abrams (Chief of Security) in Bridge- ‘Missing’ Side Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Vora Zorell (Scientist) in Bridge- ‘Missing’ Side Sim
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“Helm, plot that course,” the Captain ordered.

“Aye sir…” the nameless ensign at the helm acknowledged.

“It matches with the planet we have on sensors that seemed most likely,” Vora said. “The Fermi and the Brahe are rendezvousing with us en route.” Her gaze drifted to Cassidy, who was unusually, if understandably, quiet. Her gaze held an unspoken, are you okay?

Lt. (j.g) Zorell, Sciences

Abrams gave a slight half-shrug though she kept her expression neutral. “We should have someone else in the search group do recovery. And we should let them know they’ll need EVA gear for most places. Life support was spotty.”

Abrams, COS

“We’ll pass that along,” the Captain said, the only indication that he considered Abram’s wish not to go back there. “But we’re going to fly formation until we’ve determined where their attackers went. Did you get any additional indication of who they were or why they didn’t finish the ship off?”

Meanwhile, on the view screen, a fancy looking three dimensional map of nearby space appeared. The Europa’s path through it to the planet Marsh had indicated was rendered with a simple animation that ended with a contented “beep.”

“Course plotted,” the helmsman said.

Marsh looked at the projected planet, “Seems likely. I don’t think we should wait for support.”

Marsh

“Engage warp engines,” the Captain ordered.

Even though the screen was not tuned to visual, everyone could tell that the ship had jumped to warp speed as ordered.

— Johann Dvorak, CO

“We’ll have answers soon enough.” Marsh said to the bridge, but it really was directed to Abrams. “I have a general scan going, the impulse trails of dozens of life pods should be easy enough to detect.” And evidence that they were right, and while that was important to him, he really was scanning for another warp capable pirate ship. He wasn’t going to let the Europa fall into the same trap that befell the Tien An Mein.

“Unfortunately, there are no trails,” Vora said. “Been too long and whatever ones there were have dissipated. But on the plus side, there are no recent signals to indicate other ships are in the area.”

“We should already be in hailing range.”

Marsh.

“We are,” Zorell confirmed. “But with the radiation present, it’s quite possible that any outgoing or incoming signals will be disrupted.”

Lt. (j.g) Zorell, Sciences

Marsh nodded “Zorell is right, the radiation is in the higher and lower EM bands.”

“Let’s start broadcasting anyway,” the Captain ordered. “We might get lucky and get some sort of signal back.”

A few minutes later, the Fermi and the Brahe joined them and assumed a defensive formation. There were about twenty minutes out from the planet and Cass was watching the data they did have. while they figured out their plan. “Assuming we can’t get clear scans, which the radiation will make difficult under the best of circumstances, we’re going to have to narrow down where they would have landed. Knowing the variables, they would have sought additional shelter, since the pods aren’t going to be so great after landing and the few shuttles they have aren’t going to be enough for everyone.”

Abrams, COS

“Any nice caves?” Johann asked. “I’d assume they’d go for the first set they could have found… which would be whichever they could expect to land on as soon as they came close enough to descend. If we knew the time they arrived here that would narrow the area down considerably.”

— Johann Dvorak, CO

Marsh looked at the data from his scanners. “They are lucky to have found a class M planet, but it’s really class M in name only. It’s pretty harsh, higher than normal radiation exposure, marginal water supply and thus marginal food supply and that could lead to very hostile native life forms fighting for minimal resources.”

“The radiation is also making scanning difficult, I see only a few major bodies of water and even fewer are drinkable. I don’t see any caves in proximity to a body of water… I think there is a cluster of pods around a lake. Northern Hemisphere. 34.33 by 145.71.”

Marsh