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Posted May 20, 2021, 4:39 p.m. by Lieutenant Steven Leon Marsh (Chief Science Officer) (Luke Hung)

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The bridge was bustling with typical activity, with the junior officers likely a bit more alert than usual. The slightest movement was apparent on the viewscreen, as the impulse engines moved the ship slowly towards the alien homeworld and the space station orbiting it.

Over the comm system speakers, a familar voice could be heard.

=/\= Dvorak to Avik. I’ve been cleared for light duty, and I’ve gotten a brief summary of the situation from Lieutenant Zorell. I’m heading up to you now. You can brief me when I get there, but I think we need to expedite the return of the alien spacecraft, without performing any destructive testing. What’s our current ETA? =/\=

As the comms conversation carried on, NE Keynes at the helm leaned over towards NE Hayek. “So, who won the pool?” he whispered.
“It doesn’t count until he’s actually up here,” the equally quiet reply came from the officer at the Ops station.

– Johann Dvorak, CO

Avik’s brown eyes turned to the Junior officers who had commented on a betting pool. Even when she didn’t say a word, an ice aura shot through both of them. It was clear the casual reaction to a critical situation drew her disapproval. She released her stiff posture to reply to the returning CO, ignoring the two officers for the moment.

=^= Avik to Dvorak, understood. If my calculations are correct, it will take us a day to arrive at the latest.=^= Deep down, Avik hoped Dvorak might understand her intentions for a slower pace. A disorganized and chaotic ship put them all into danger when making contact with unknown variables.

-Avik, XO

There was a moment of silence before the comms system came back with an answer:

=/\= Understood, plot a new intercept at full impulse power, and engage impulse engines at that speed. Have the rest of the crew prepare to return the alien ship and any remains before we arrive. =/\=

– Johann Dvorak, CO

Avik understood the orders. A small relief washed over her to realize the ship was no longer under her command as she relayed the orders to the CSO, CoS, and other crew assisting in examining the ship.

=^= Avik to Marsh, Captain Dvorak has ordered us to increase impulse power to full. The crew working on the ship has an hour until it’s due to be returned.=^= She waited a moment for any reply then ordered the impulse speed to increase.

-Avik, XO

The helmsman acknowledged the course and speed correction and laid it in.

GM Dread

=^=Aye,=^= Marsh responded. A short warp jump would do more that hours at full impulse, but it made it look like the Europa was trying hard.

Marsh

OOC: Through the magic of time not being linear, I’m going to jump us through time to the arrival at the space station. Everything else can continue in their own time.

After a handful of hours at full impulse the Europa sidled up to the space station. The two non-warp craft had returned from their search during the transit of the Europa and flanked the station. Sensors showed that there wasn’t anything identifiable as weapons on them or the station. Their arrival was accompanied by a hail using an infrared signalling technology… outdated but usable for video conferencing. The computer had already decrypted the protocols used during the listening in phase.

GM Dread

Marsh started surreptitiously listening to the communications. If they were going to talk in a way he could hear, he wasn’t going to ignore it. =^=Captain we have arrived. There natives seem non-hostile.=^=

Marsh


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