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Planet Middle Continent

Posted July 2, 2022, 8:17 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Thomas McGregor (COS) (Brandon Irvine)

Posted by Lieutenant Ben Park (BO Tactical) in Planet Middle Continent

Posted by Gamemaster GM (Gamemaster) in Planet Middle Continent

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Thomas McGregor (COS) in Planet Middle Continent
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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.

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

OOC: I am assuming no intervention during the transport.

IC:

The transport was bumpy but not terribly uncomfortable. The vehicle entered into a tunnel at the side of a mountain. Then when it finally stopped, the team emerged into a very large hangar. It was not very sophisticated but it was adequate for the large rocket that they could immediately recognise as the space vehicle. Their tricorders were able to detect a very primitive Matter/antimatter warp engine. From what the team could see, the rocket would be able to reach warp one.

GM

Thomas could appreciate the desire for secrecy and containment that sticking a facility like this inside a mountain would offer, but also knew intellectually that if the M/AM reactor lost containment, being inside a mountain wouldn’t really matter much, as the explosion would wipe out not just the facility, or the single mountain, but the better part of the entire range.

“Impressive facility,” was all he said out loud.

COS

Reia stood next to Thomas taking copious notes. She was using other less obvious surveillance techniques as well but that was just the nature of the position.

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

“Thank you,” said a rather small woman in a yellow overcoat. She was walking ahead a man and a woman. “We did have to make a few alterations when we realised the risks if we did not get the matter-antimatter mixture right.”

“This is Director Beth,” introduced Menn. Turning to the Director, he said, “These are the visitors that have arrived on our planet.”

“Welcome to Comm,” she announced rather solemnly. “That is what we call our planet. Our continent is Mezzo.”

GM

“Nice to meet you, Director. I’m Lieutenant Commander Thomas McGregor of the United Federation of Planets, currently posted aboard the Starship Genesis. With me are Lieutenant Reia Shandy, our communications specialist, and Lieutenant Ben Park, a security officer,” Thomas said. “We’re on a mission of exploration in this area of space, and noticed the after-effects of some of your tests. Mr. Menn was kind enough to allow us to observe your next one personally.”

COS

Ben nodded at the introduction. That five hour trek reminded Ben of how Appalachia is like with terrain. “Mezzo seems to be very big with terrain. How big is it?”

Park

According to the sensors of the Genesis and the information from the planet, it was the size of Australia.

Reia looked up from her notes and smiled pleasantly. She also shifted positions slightly, being seated for five hours in a ground transport vehicle had her lower back complaining a bit but, a half hour in the hands of a capable husband would probably fix that. That thought got her wondering if her Orion pheromones were having any effect on the males of this new species.

  • Reia, CIO/Comms

The director was cordial. “Actually, we are all very excited. We have always theorised that there were other beings from beyond our solar system but we have never actually met one until now. We have had reports of possible alien visitations but the evidence had always been rather sketchy. I would love to sit down and talk about your worlds, however, the launch will be happening in less than an hour and we have to check and double check everything. Could you please excuse us?”

GM

“Of course,” Thomas demurred. “I’m sure Mr. Menn will keep us out of the way while you go about your final checks,” he said.

‘I’d love to see that evidence,’ Thomas thought to himself. ‘And cross-check it with what the Genny was able to get of these would-be conquerors next door.’

COS

The minutes passed relatively slowly but soon it was the one minute countdown.

The away team was sent to the control room. There were monitors showing the exterior where the launch pad was. There were also cameras in the cockpit showing the three pilots and the instrument panels. The plan was to launch the ship to escape velocity and once reaching the margins of the atmosphere, the ship will fire up its warp engines to test the speed that it would reach.

The countdown began at the 30 second mark. At the 15 second mark, the launch engines were started and at the zero mark, the order lift-off was given and the ship moved slowly off the ground.

It took just under 9 minutes for the ship to reach the atmosphere. There were checks conducted on the warp engines and after about two minutes, the okay was given to power up the warp engines. It took about 40 seconds for the warp engine to create a warp field and the ship was propelled forward. The instrumentation showed the increase of speed. It took about 30 seconds to reach the speed of light.

The ground crew roared with cheers of their successful launch of the first ship reaching light speed without the effects of time dilation!

GM

Ben pulled his PaDD out discretely to send a coded message to Thomas “Commander, we need to find out if they are developing weapons in here as well.”

Park

Thomas smiled grimly at the message. “In time,” he quickly sent back.

He looked back to Reia. “Was the Genny monitoring their flight as well?” he asked.

COS


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