Posted June 1, 2022, 1:30 a.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Reia Shandy (C Intelligence -Comm Officer) (Catt Bennett)
Posted by Lieutenant Tom Jarvis (Internal Security) in Planet Middle Continent
Posted by Lieutenant Commander Thomas McGregor (COS) in Planet Middle Continent
<snip>“Of course,” Thomas nodded. “It’s much the same on our homeworld, various areas have foods that they produce more easily than another, and they incorporate them into dishes that become a signature for that region. My ancestors turned moss into alcohol and found a way to use almost every last bit of one of our livestock animals for food,” he offered.
“Moss?” remarked Menn. “We aren’t able to find moss in adequate quantities to economically use as food. Of course, we are not sure what food there are in the other continents as the other two continents seem to prefer to keep to themselves.”
“Well, my homeland is farther north in latitude on my homeworld than your continent is on this world. It’s also very damp and rocky, conditions that moss rather likes. Do you have alcohol?” Thomas asked. “Not that I’m asking for a sample, mind you, I’m on duty,” he hastily added, holding up his hands. “I’m just interested in the process.”
“We do have alcohol,” replied Menn, “however, we do have regulations here when we can imbibe alcohol.”
GM
Interestingly enough Ben was curious about the alcohol process.
Park
“Sensible,” Thomas replied. “What’s it made of, if not moss?” he asked, trying to maintain an air of calm indifference, even as he was getting more nervous the longer it took to apparently arrange transportation to the launch site. Honestly, Menn had arrived in a convoy of vehicles, why couldn’t they just take those there?
OOC: Actually, the away team said that they would contact the Genesis before they moved. Menn was waiting for the Starfleet officers to be ready … :)
IC:
“We use milk or the starchy grains that we cultivate,” repaid Menn in reference to the alcohol.
Reia stood and glanced around for the exit.
“I’ll return shortly.” she said slipping out the door.
She was under no allusion that she wasn’t being watched and, if she wasn’t, she should have been. Sighing, she commed the Genesis and gave them a full status report ending with how they were now having snacks while waiting to be handed off to somebody further up the food chain. She also uploaded all the data they had acquired thus far.
=^=Now what happened with you? I tried to reach you earlier, but nothing.=^=
-Reia, CIO/Comms
=^=We were dealing with a difficult race called the Lescoo. They say the Messi belong to them and were trying to get us to leave.=^= Tom replied to Reia.
- Tom, IntSec
COS
Reia didn’t recognize the voice of the person she was talking to but the ship was large.
=^=And how did you deal with them?=^= she asked.
- Reia, CIO/Comms
COS
=^=We are going to enforce a .25 light year exclusion zone around the Messi system until we conclude things with them. We’ll figure out where this goes after that.=^= Tom replied.
- Tom, IntSec
Reia knew she would have to learn more once they returned.
=^=Acknowledged. Unless there are anymore orders for us I should probably return.=^=
- Reia, CIO/Comms
COS
=^=Don’t give away the homeworld.=^= Tom responded, =^=Genesis out.=^=
- Tom, IntSec
Reia shook her head and wrinkled up her nose.
What the hell was he thinking? she wondered.
Sighing, she stepped back into the room with Thomas and Ben.
- Reia, CIO/Comms
Menn saw the rest of the away team move back into the room and he stood up and said, “Are you able to set off to the launch site? If you can have some refreshment before we leave, it would be helpful as we do have quite a lot of ground to cover.”
GM
“Yes, we’ve updated our ship on our activities and can proceed,” Thomas told him.
Ben nodded at Menn “if you have water, that’ll be great.” Ben grabbed his pack in his left hand “Mr. Menn how long are we traveling to the site from our current location?”
Park“We will take 5 hours at least,” Menn replied. “Part of the journey will be over difficult terrain. Our transport vessels are hardy but over difficult terrain, we prefer to exercise caution.”
GM
“Any particular reason the trip will be done solely via ground transport? Do you have any short-range transport aircraft?” Thomas asked. Five hours in an alien car… well, there was always “99 bottles of romulan ale”…
COS
Tom’s voice came across the comms once again.
=^=Landing party, please advise on your situation.=^=
-Tom, IntSec
=^=Heading towards secondary site 5 hours from our present location. Will advise en route.” Reia said.
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