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Bridge Main SIM First contact - all BO's to the bridge!

Posted Aug. 29, 2018, 1:15 p.m. by Lieutenant Sage Brennan (CMO) (D Grisham)

Posted by Lieutenant Dagen Thor (CE) in Bridge Main SIM First contact - all BO’s to the bridge!

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=^= We are using a computer algorithm that aids us in language translation. Since we have peaceful relationships with many different species, the algorithm is rather well developed right now and can pick up a new language fairly fast. Thank you for your warm welcome Admiral. We would be delighted to meet you and get to know each other. =^=

  • Julien King, CO

=/\=That is convenient isn’t it?=/\= The tone of the rear admiral had become more friendly. =/\=May I invite you to our ship, the Merry? I hope to show that we do not have any ill feelings for the first people we meet outside our system.=/\=
- GM

David had remained unusually silent through the entire exchange. Riley would definitely be able to sense a feeling of anxiousness from his lover, as well as the sense that David knew more than he was letting on, a particular feeling that only Riley would know how to detect.

David cast a glance over towards the Captain, awaiting his decision.

-David Michaels, CSO

Ben was eager about this momentous occasion of first contact. He recalled a time from his village that a couple of lost hikers who wandered into the boundary. He shaked off that memory to listen carefully on the first contact.

Lt (j.g.) Park

Marishka weighed the odds of her going on this first contact mission. She could make the argument that showing diverse races, able to work together, might put these people at ease. She knew that there were other people on the bridge who could do that just as well but, ‘Could they keep them as safe as she could?’ she wondered as she made a mental weapons check. This was an inventory of everything she had on her person at that moment.

Marishka, CIO

Thomas felt he shared the same anxiety as the other Bridge crew members towards the idea of traveling to the just-encountered ships. The Admiral sounded a bit too friendly. He would at least like to see the GPSC crew on viewer before any agreements were made. It was a lot easier to discern intent from a being’s face than through their voice.

COS

Sage maintained her place behind the command chairs, but she was feeling a flush of excitement. First contact!!! It was the number one reason she’d joined Star Fleet instead of starting a private practice on Earth. Medicine was her life, but the chance to meet new species was a powerful desire for her. Whatever away team was chosen to go to the Merry, Sage hoped she was on it.

—Sage

Dagen thought ‘they are a trusting lot’ given that he was an Admiral. Military types were usually overly cautious about unknown ships barreling into their system right after a loss of one of their ships - sure, due to an accident on their part. His brow furrowed. Dagen’s past hosts - two of them anyway - had met ‘new’ races from their time in Starfleet. This was not ‘new’ to Dagen, and in his lifetime and career had met many a ‘new’ race - even if it wasn’t ‘new new’, but new to him. OP42 was good for that. He rubbed his chin and felt the everpresent stubble. Maybe he was just being overly cautious. They couldn’t exactly surprise them. Much. But then other races with a much lower tech level had messed with other ships before - the Enterprise D for one. But, all one could do was stay on their toes and keep attentive.

With that, he scanned for other ships, platforms around the worlds or other things that could mess up. If this was their world, would they not be visiting their ‘world’ and the government rather than on a ship? Hmmm. Well, perhaps the Admiral was only doing what he was ordered or knew to do until he received other orders.
Dagen, CE

There were four other ships but they were about a third of the size of the Admiral’s ship, more like large runabouts. Their weapons systems revealed them to be more combat like fighters although the firepower could not match the Admiral’s ship, the Merry. That these ships lacked for in firepower, they had in manoeuvrability. There seemed to be a orbital platform that was probably used for the Merry’s servicing. Whilst large, it could also for the smaller ships as well. The platform also had two weapons systems. All weapons of the Pallas system were not a threat to the Genesis. The shields would be able to withstand their nuclear weapons. The Genesis’s phasers would probably render all their nuclear powered weapons useless.
- GM

“Statistically speaking first contact tends to be relatively safe… although we should use the shuttles if we visit. Lets keep the transporters secret for now… just in case we have to make a run for it.”

Marius

“Other ships in the area show four large runabout sized ships. They are armed and engineering analysis show them to likely be quite maneuverable. Overall threat level is nominal to the Genesis, sirs, unless they pull a rabbit out of their hat.” A shuttle would likely be a good idea. The Liberty would hold as many as the captain wanted on the mission, was defensive and between the micro torpedoes and phasers would defend itself well against their conventional weapons if needed. It was also not as obviously ‘military’ in appearance as the Armadillo’s.
- Dagen, CE

Riley’s eyes leveled on David for several moments. He could sense little to nothing from the alien species due to the distance and audio only communication, but he knew the Chief Scientist well enough to know he knew something. David wasn’t given to unnecessary anxiety. He’d been through too much for that, so what Riley sensed from him now had to be significant. Riley could assume David knew something of this race, something more nefarious than the simple, friendly welcome they’d received so far, but it would be only that, an assumption, and he couldn’t ask. He couldn’t ask David to betray the rules to which he was bound as a time traveler.

“Captain,” he pitched his voice, as had others, low enough to not transmit over the comm, “I think Commander Marius’s recommendation is prudent. I’d recommend caution in our approach, despite their rudimentary technology.”

Dekker, CNS

Marishka merely nodded in agreement while she kept her eyes on the console waiting for them to come withing visual range.

Marishka, CIO

Thomas surreptitiously pulled out a PaDD, sending an alert message down to Security to ready an honor guard for Away Team duties. He also began in his head trying to figure out just who among the Senior Staff the Captain was likely to want to send, and the craft he was likely to pick, to figure out how big a team he was likely to get away with sending for protection.

COS

“So which of us is going to be sitting on the bridge watching the show?” Marius said as he looked at Julien. He was pretty sure he would be on the bench, unless Julien was thinking that both of them would go…

Marius

Dagen was curious to hear the answers to that question too. However, he wasn’t wanting to get caught thinking one thing and another happening. He sent a note down to engineering for a team to go to both bays and prep both the Liberty and an Armadillo for launch. For all he knew the Captain might see a need for an impression and take both style ships - one with the people and the other as escort. That being done, he considered the next thing. The situation. These aliens had just witnessed a failure of their tech and implemented a dramatic, if textbook, rescue of the crew of the other ship. The Genesis had come up in about this time and the military commander there were overtly welcoming. The Trill frowned. Normally military people were on the paranoid side. He glanced about the bridge to the crew there. Look at themselves. First contact potential with a people who were many times lower on the technological grade as they and they were paranoid about running into trouble. What were ‘they’ thinking? Were they considering that the Genesis had perhaps been the source of their sister ships’ failure? Good military paranoia would have at least someone suggest that there.

He was about to suggest that the Genesis should come within a 30,000km range of where the meeting was to take place. That was still a pretty good distance away from projectile missiles, and they would be within transporter range to extract the away team should things go south. But then that said, who was being paranoid here?
- Dagen, CE

As they were discussing, the long range sensors showed that the four ships had begun to move. They were moving at sub-light speeds, not fast enough to be even half impulse, more like one seventh impulse. From their trajectory, they were moving to a defensive stance. This was not surprising, since the Pallas space corps had just encountered an alien ship that was scientifically more advanced than they. They were still not absolutely sure that the Starfleet ship was friendly and was not out to conquer their system.


GM

“The ships are moving at .14 impulse. Looks like they are taking precautions,” Dagen reported. The tactical group could verify what they were doing but his interest was in the literal nuts and bolts there.
-Thor, CE

Marishka watched the view screen and her lips curled into a savage little smile. What an interesting situation. she thought.

Marishka, CIO
OOC: Sorry for the wait. I’m not less excited about this, just was on a quick weekend trip with very little time to go online.
IC:

Julien had stood up upon the Admiral’s answer, clasping both hands behind his back, but Riley could feel his excitement and at the same time also some doubt.

He nodded to all their comments, all very valid considerations and took the time to think on it for a few seconds.

=^= Thank you Admiral, we’re happy to accept your invitation. We’ll just need some time to get our shuttle ready and then we’ll fly over. =^= he said, then made the ‘cut-the-line’ sign to Marishka and she could see a flash of boyish excitment in his eye.

Sensors showed that there was movement in the Merry. At the same time, the sensors also indicated the most possible place for the runabout to enter the Admiral’s ship. There was a large space at the bottom of the ship and there were equipment to remove air and reintroduce an atmosphere into the space. There was a door in the front of the ship.
GM

“All right, we’ll do this to the book ladies and gentleman. Lieutenants Dekker, Brennan, Michaels and Marishka, you’re with me. Cmdr. Marius, you have the bridge. We’ll take the runabout and if anything should go awry, Lt. McGregor, you’ll take the Normandy out with Ensign Aevin for additional firepower from a different trajectory. They won’t know we have another ship here with superior firepower.”

He walked over to Marius and locked eyes with him. “This is a peaceful first contact mission until we have a definite proof of it being anything else, is that clear Commander?” he asked in a kind voice.
Leaving the ex-COS and the COS in charge made Julien feel a tad bit apprehensive, he knew Calvin too well. This would be the first situation where his XO had to be peaceful and diplomatic. He looked pointedly over at Dagen, who was the most level-headed senior officer left behind. “I rely on you to keep us safe and make this one for the history books of peaceful first contact.” he said.

  • Julien King, CO

“We’ll keep an eye out, Captain,” Dagen said. It wasn’t exactly a ‘mission’ for an engineer but he still felt a little left out. It would have been amazing to be in a ship as technologically low as theirs and to get a peek at their drives. How did they have their set up? Still, it was a first contact, not an engineering field trip and anything like that could come at another time and another encounter. In the meantime he would work with the security group to get a comprehensive make on their ships and abilities and to anticipate potential issues.
- Dagen, CE

Riley felt the thrill of excitement move up his spine. He’d expected to be part of the away team. It was standard procedure to have the ship’s counselor, especially if he was an empath, on such a mission, but nothing was certain with Julien. The Captain liked to think outside the box and it was never a given how he would approach a situation.

He looked toward David, trying to search out the man’s reaction. He’d felt an apprehensiveness from him earlier and now Julien was pulling him more deeply into contact with this mysterious race. He wanted to know if it piqued the man’s anxiety.

Dekker, CNS

Sage smiled at hearing her name for the away team, then looked over at Calvin. He’d behave himself, she knew that, so why all the concern from Julien? She had every faith in her husband—besides, he wouldn’t blow up the Merry with her on it. Right? Right. She stepped closer and lay a hand on his shoulder, gave it silent squeeze and headed for the turbolift.

—Sage


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