Posted by Gamemaster GM (Gamemaster) in Bridge (2021 Sim)

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dagen Thor (CE) in Bridge (2021 Sim)

Posted by Ensign Kesh (Engineer) in Bridge (2021 Sim)
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A nervous wreck, she may be, but also very orderly and quick to get at least a basic dataset of what she was ordered to find.

->Kesh, Engineering

There was an alert. The long range sensors picked up two ships, each about half the size of the Genesis, moving towards the system.

GM

All of this looked delicious to Reia. When she was in the academy, she had dreams of becoming a doctor and quickly realized she had the wrong kind of bedside manner for such an endeavor. Languages were like a puzzle she enjoyed figuring out though so, she dove into this one barely registering everything else going on around her.

• Reia, CIO

“Go to yellow alert, maintain silent running.” Tom ordered upon seeing the two ships closing, “Withdraw the probes.”

Tom tapped his comm badge.

”=^=Bridge to Captain… We have inbound. I don’t think they’ve detected us yet. Maintaining silent running over magnetic pole of uninhabitable planet.=^=”

• Tom, IntSec

=^=Inbound?=^= There was a rustle, =^=To us? I’m on my way…=^= That wasn’t something he liked hearing.

The ships were travelling at Warp 3 and would be in the system in 40 minutes. Their technology on their ships seem to be more primitive than Starfleet’s in the mid 22nd century. They had engines that were similar to those of the Federation. They had beam weapons that were more disruptor like than phasers. Their projectile weapons made use of antimatter. They had primitive shields. Their sensor systems were more akin to mid 22nd Starfleet ships.

GM

Marius

Tom waited for Marius to arrive.

• Tom, IntSec

OOC: It would be important to point out that the Genesis is moving in uncharted territory.

IC:

With no evident initial hits on the power signature matching any known Klingon technology, Kesh began widening the search to other races that the Klingons had interacted with to any significant degree. Perhaps their power cores had been scavanged from a debris field and reverse engineered, or perhaps the Klingons traded it somewhere or… other such things.

It started to seem like a pointless exercise as the minutes dragged on, as it was not likely going to matter. Still, the ship’s engineering systems were still in perfect working order and Reia had taken over the task of searching for clues in the broadcast channels, so maybe something useful will come of it.

It certainly helps that it’s busy work and Kesh could let her two heart chambers calm down and stop giving her a backache.

-> Kesh, Engineering

The scans showed no apparent Klingon presence in the area.

Dagen cut in to Kesh’s relative quiet about 15 minutes after the sensor contact with the two ships. =^= How cool is this? =^= he started. =^= It’s like looking into a working museum. I wonder .. do you think we can correlate at all the different technologies developing on the world with the technology that they have there on those ships? A bit of a motley crew of tech but not that different. Old anti-matter torpedoes, older style engines. =^=
- Dagen, chiming in

If nothing else, today is showing Kesh that Dagen is the talkative and sentimental type. Two very appreciable and positive personality traits, as far as she’s concerned. Granted, when she’s stressed, the difficulty she has in talking straight makes trying to keep up with someone like that tends to make her more stressed, which is not helping matters with that nagging feeling she’s being scrutinized more heavily than most.

OOC: More talkative barring long weekends and general radio silence there .. ugh .. Gene :)
OOC: No worries! :3

Perhaps if Kesh were more confident in herself she might politely request Dagen to hold off until after her shift for conversation, but she isn’t. =^=I am seeing the potential of this being some sort of… ah… collection site of technologies abandoned by other civilizations in this and surrounding sectors. Rrrnth. I wonder if there are spatial phenomina that might explain this.. ah.. rmm… sort of ‘grease trap’.=^= A few other ideas floated up, like ‘Scavanger Cult’ or ‘Trash Collectors’, but they all felt like they had too many negative connotations. The spoken option didn’t sound too pleasant, either, but she could not think of any prior use of it that might come off as condesending.

=^= It will be interesting to note what these ships do. Their probe evidently noted ours. Are they feeling possessive I wonder? Abandoned? Or seeded? That’s an interesting idea about the spatial phenonema. What makes this system unique to these people coming in for a visit? =^=
- Dagen

=^= Hmmn. This being a seeded or repository world would explain some of what we are seeing, rrrnth. It has been quite some time since I dipped my toes into xenopology, so I dare not begin guessing. Mmnnnrm. Still, the potential of this planet developing so many different technologies all within a short time span would be very interesting to get a close look at. =^=

=^= Now let’s just hope that the probes there likely belonging to the visitors coming by don’t track our probe back to the ship to alert them on where we are. It’s one thing to hide, but another to call the dog in to run back to the front door. =^=
- Dagen

->Kesh, Engineering

After all, if discarded technology came raining down that was far more advanced than anything else known by a civilization, why wouldn’t it make full use of it all? Assuming Dagen’s and her own theories hold weight. Then again, maybe this civilization is just really good at inadvertently copying other species’ technology.

=^= I know at least a few other engineers that would visit such a museum, rrrrnth.=^=

->Kesh, Stressed

As the ships closed in, the sensors were able to pick up that the people manning those ships were genetically different from the people on the planet. Their outward appearances were also different.”

The people on the planet looked very like the Vulcans or Romulans except that they were bald. Also, they had a blood circulatory system very much like the mammals on earth with haemoglobin as the oxygen carrier. Physiologically, they were very similar to humans except that they had thinner limbs. However, they were about 50% stronger than the average human being.

The people in the ship showed a physiology much like the reptiles from earth. Their ship’s internal temperature was kept at about 45C or 113F. They had hairless skin and had put on external armour as their clothing. They had no sweat glands but there was a sort of a blowhole for expelling hot air on their backs, about the place where humans would call “between the shoulder blades”, although these people did not have shoulder blades properly speaking.

GM

=^=Captain. The ships are 25 minutes from contact. Crewed by reptilians and tech similar to early Klingon.=^=

• Tom, IntSec

Reia was paying attention to what Tom had just informed the captain of and looked at the bio scans of the two races trying to get an idea of the whole situation.

• Reia, CIO

The double doors of the turbolift opened. “Mr. Jarvis, I left you in charge of the approach to a first contact, non-warp race and now we are in close proximity to two reptilian warp ships armed with 23rd century Klingon weapons?” He looked about.

“Can we get a determination of these reptiles have ever been on the planet… check news and military reports?”

“How secure is our current posistion? Do we have any information on what they are using to scan… and how we can be sure they don’t detect us until we want to be.”

Marius

Just moments after the turbolift doors closed they opened again revealing the tall first officer, in uniform and a half smile on his face, he was reading the Bridge report on his PaDD. He joined the Captain and listened in on the answers.

XO

Bright golden eyes shift aside toward the turbolift, first to observe the captain, and then first officer stride onto the bridge. The relative mildness of these events in Kesh’s mind really sets her stress level into sharp relief. Here she had expected encountering the two highest ranking individuals on the ship would be the part of this shift that would be the most stressful. Instead, it’s kind of a relief, as it meant that focus would be on them, rather than her now.

Sure enough, the inquiries of the captain don’t pertain to the ship’s function, but rather the status of the encounter. As the computer database search had come up with nothing for matching power signatures, that trail had gone cold, leaving the only other thing she’d worked on now in Reia’s hands.

This is just fine! A chance to keep doing her part while letting that anxiety drain away.

So, for now, Kesh just lets the engineering status monitors take over her station screens while standing there in front of them, arms folded behind her back, with only her golden brown mane and round ears beside it to distinguish her from the other crew.

->Kesh, Engineering

“Approximately equivalent.” Tom replied, “Lieutenant Shandy is currently on the task of sifting through their communications. As for our position, we are suspended above the magnetic pole of the nearest uninhabitable planet at silent running status. Shields are at minimal and weapons are pre charged. We can be fully powered at a moment’s notice if necessary. Tactical display is functional and updating in real time whenever you wish to look at it. We should be covered from visual detection by the planetary horizon and from sensors by EM interference from the planet’s magnetic pole.”

Tom was once again standing in the rear of the bridge in the blind spot of the internal sensors.

• Tom, IntSec

The two ships’ course was not towards the Genesis but towards the probe that was nearest the more advanced satellite. It would seem that the presence of the probe was detected by that satellite moments before the four second subspace comms transmitted.

GM

OOC: Tom withdrew the probes when the inbound ships were detected.

OOC: Combining CIO (Catt’s) post.

IC: Reia’s eyes were on her station trying to gather the information requested of her but she had been listening tot he bridge exchange. When her name was mentioned she glanced up, nodded, and returned to her work. She was never as fast as she wished she was but that was a personal failing.

Reia. CIO

“It is almost statistically impossible for two warp races to discover a planet simultaneously. Likewise those ships are too slow to just appear so close to our arrival,” He looked at the first officers.

“Can someone use the time of our detection of the planet, with the current course and speed of the Lizard ships, and find out where these ship likely came from.”

marius

Sensors, judging from their trajectory, located a system about 28 billion kilometres away (about 0.003 light years). The temperature of the the second planet in the system had surface temperatures of about 50C on average and a closer scan revealed artificial structures on the surface. However, there did not seem to be any activity on the surface. It was possible that the Genesis’ computer calculated a greater possibility of life on the planet below than on that hotter planet.

GM

20 minutes passed and the probe that the Genesis had launched was being scanned by the approaching ships. The scans were rather primitive compared to what Starfleet were using.

GM

OOC: I thought Tom ordered to withdraw the probes?
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