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Planet Middle Continent

Posted Oct. 30, 2021, 2:50 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Thomas McGregor (COS) (Brandon Irvine)

Posted by Gamemaster GM (Gamemaster) in Planet Middle Continent

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Reia Shandy (C Intelligence -Comm Officer) in Planet Middle Continent

Posted by Lieutenant Ben Park (BO Tactical) in Planet Middle Continent
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Sage spoke softly through the comm badge, =/\=Phasers on stun, three, two, one. GO!=/\= She’d pulled her own weapon from its sheath and nodded to Reia to do the same. When she said the work ‘go’, the women pushed through the doors quickly, their gazed on the target. “Move away from the control board in front of you. We don’t want to hurt you, we just want information.”

—Sage

Reia, her phaser set on stun, slipped up behind their target while Sage was speaking to him.

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

The person turned and yelled in terror and jumped away from the control board. Just then, the other guard, with a weapon in hand, burst in from the other room. He stared at the Starfleet officers and his face had an expression of abject terror.

GM

Hot on the second guard’s heels was Thomas, his own weapon in hand and quickly pressed up against the man’s neck.

“Easy mate, no need for this to get messy,” he said in a low voice.

COS

The second guard collapsed in a faint. The one in the control room asked, “What do you want?”

GM

“Just a look at that power system you’re guarding,” Thomas said. “Not to steal it or sabotage it, just survey it. You can come with if you want, sign of trust and all. The weapons are just to discourage you from blasting us first and asking questions later.”

COS

Reia knelt down, shifted her phaser from one hand to the other and lifted the second guard as she stood with him. Being half Orion afforded her a bit more strength than the average Human female of her size.

  • Reia, CIO

The second guard, who was with Reia, remained limp and unconscious. The other guard was clearly terrified and merely nodded his head.

GM

“Excellent!” Thomas said, cheerily. “Lieutenant,” he said to Reia, “set your new friend in that chair and secure him. We’ll let him loose on our way out, but we don’t need him waking up and causing a ruckus before then.”

‘Now,’ he thought to himself, as he consulted the tricorder in his spare hand, ‘where’s the warp core?’

COS

Reia nodded and moved the limp figure to a chair, set him down comfortably, and secured him with zip ties before rejoining McGregor.

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

Ben had his hand on his phaser in case there was an escape.

Park

Through a third door, which was next to the security station, lay the entrance to the main building. The warp core was situated in the basement. There was a vault-like room that was about half the size of a football field. The basement room had another exit to a relatively small hangar on the other side of the property. The tricorder showed a spaceship in the shape of a vertical rocket housed there.

GM

‘Very Cochrane-esque,’ Thomas thought to himself, before putting his hand on their “host’s” shoulder and steering him towards the third door.

“This way, guys,” he said to Park and Shandy. “It’s apparently in the basement, probably an attempt at containing the damage should they lose containment. Not that it would help much, they’d still lose this city at least,” he mused. Warp core explosions were measured in gigatons, after all…

COS

Reia was certain her sleeping friend was secure and followed Thomas.

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

What they were greeted to at the lab, which was unlocked with the aid of the tricorders, was a miniature of a warp core, or more accurately a matter-antimatter reaction chamber. From the experimental data found in the computer, which was easily hacked by the tricorders, the continent had already been able to remotely send a small relay (about the size of a car) into space and achieved faster than light travel using a warp bubble. The difficulty they had was to scale it up to a space craft. It would seem that the people here were already building the larger size core at the space launch area and would be making test runs within the next several weeks. Perhaps that was why the Lesscoo had made preparations to claim the system. They did not want to deal with a warp capable system …

GM

“Lieutenant what is this device?”

Park

Reia studied it for a few seconds and took several detailed readings with the tricorder. She wasn’t a science officer after all.

“This is a matter-antimatter reaction chamber. I believe it would be rudimentary by our standards.”

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

Further probing of the computer showed schematics of a space ship with three warp nacelles. They were placed protruding from the middle of a rocket shaped vessel at equal distance from one another.

OOC: Search online for “Thunderbird 3” and you will get a rough idea of what the ship will look like.

GM

“That’s an… interesting design,” Thomas chimed in. “Not that we haven’t operated ships with odd numbers of nacelles before, but I wonder what made them settle on three?”

He phrased it as a question, but wasn’t really expecting a response from a mere security guard.

“We really should have brought an engineer,” he mused aloud. He knew a little bit about engineering, but advanced warp theory and mechanics were well out of his conversant range. His siblings’ interest in the subject had tended more towards ground-based structures, not starships or their related systems, after all.

COS


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