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Planet Middle Continent

Posted Nov. 16, 2021, 12:46 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Thomas McGregor (COS) (Brandon Irvine)

Posted by Captain Calvin Marius (Captain) in Planet Middle Continent

Posted by Gamemaster GM (Gamemaster) in Planet Middle Continent

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

bump

“Lieutenant,” he said to Shandy, “download a copy of those schematics and upload them to the ship. Perhaps Commander Thor might find them interesting.”

OOC: Honestly have no clue what we’re supposed to be doing now that we’ve found the warp ship. Report back to the Genny? Are they even still in comm range now that they’ve gone on their gunboat diplomacy expedition?

COS

OOC: Can you remember what the away mission was?

GM

IC:

Reia knew this was probably just the kind of thing Dagen would find interesting so, she downloaded it and prepared to upload to the Genny as instructed.

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

OOC: They were supposed to find out what the government knew of the potential invasion and if there was any way they reached the level of first contact so the Genesis could make a political contact and perhaps put them under protection.

OOC: … oops…

IC: “I’d say this would qualify as a warp-capable world, wouldn’t you?” Thomas asked both Reia and Ben.

COS


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