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Posted Sept. 13, 2019, 2:50 a.m. by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) (David Fergusson)

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Kord heard the department Reports and waited to see if Glen would issue commands. At that moment, most of Kord’s attention was invested in the ship.

Glen was still mentally processing all of this new information. Given that any of them could become good leads, but at the moment none of them looked more promising than any other, he was happy to allow the departments to continue their research as they saw fit, and to allow William to direct his science officers on this.

William quickly read over the reports he was receiving from his various departments, categorizing them into relevant, non-relevant and useless information. After a moment he spoke up “I’m reading various wildlife, no signs of intelligent life. There seem to be large flora similar to Terran venus traps but very large, estimated over ten meters, shuttle sized. There are some sorts of quadrupeds that dance around them indicating some sort of biochemical relationship between flora and fauna.” He explained standing up.

“The planet itself is acting quite oddly, despite lacking any orbiting satellite the oceans have cyclical waves that would indicate a lunar orbit. The oceans also appear to be abnormally warm for no apparent reason.” He placed visual results on standby should the captain wish to see them “Internally I’m getting some odd reports from deck 2, section 3 that I’d like to send a team to investigate. There is also a .4% increase in methane in the general air supply, source unknown” He said all with a neutral even sour expression, he disliked not being able to report facts or solutions. All he had were unexplained phenomena and fart jokes.

Glen replied, “As you are well aware, I’m a pilot not a scientist, but doesn’t the wave motions and currents, and the shipboard gravity readings, all suggest that we are dealing with some kind of hidden mass? It could be dark matter? It could be some kind of hi-tech black hole energy system within the planet’s core? Or, it could be the Reality Stone itself? Anyhow, I think that is certainly something worth checking out. As for the Methane increase, I’ve no idea, but NE Froza may be correct, I’ve mentioned to Chef before about his bean curries!”

“William, I suggest further examination of these odd readings is needed. Send a team to deck 2, section 3 and launch some probes into the planet’s oceans.”

Tinga turned and waited patiently for the Captain to finish dealing with the rest of the report. She wondered if he knew exactly what she had in mind. Did they indeed have a shuttle that was capable of physically going down into the trench like she wanted to do, and who would he assign to go with her?

“Aye aye” Will sat back down and got to work. With his left hand, he programmed the probes and with his right, he sent orders to the Quantum Mechanics department to send a team to investigate the disturbance.

With soft thumps the probes went out to go do their investigation. While the quantum mechanics department signaled they would do their assigned task, though perhaps it wouldn’t hurt to have the CSO check things out with them!

Kord was looking intently at a tactical overlay.

Tactical just showed the Avenger checking out the comet for now no other threats were present.

When the probe’s programming was finished William stood up “Sir, With your permission I’d like to go lead the Search team on deck 2, The probes will need time to gather sensory data and frankly I’d like to get my own eyes over as much of the internal information as I can” He asked the Captain.

Glen seemed distracted.

Glen had discovered a funny cat video on FNN and was busy reposting it.

“Do it.” Kord replied to William, “And watch yourself. Report anything unusual immediately.”

William gave the Commander a curt nod and left the Bridge.

Tinga had always been bold but since coming aboard the Merrimack, and being surrounded by so many Humans, she had been caught up in trying to learn the social dynamics of the crew. Every crew was subtly different.

“Permission to take a shuttle to the planet and investigate the hum?”

“Take someone from Science and Engineering with you.” Kord replied to Tinga.

Kord watched and waited.

Tinga turned back to her console to make preparations.

=^=I need a replacement at the comms station. Ensign Erickson and NE Smith please report to the shuttle bay.=^= she said before stepping away.

Glen looked up again, realising that he had missed the last five minutes of conversation entirely. “Er… yes, no problem! Carry on!”

“Status report?” Glen asked Kord

Kord looked to glen and the ship swayed almost imperceptibly.

“William is going to deck 2, section 3, to investigate personally. Tinga is taking an engineer and science officer to investigate the trench on the planet if they can manage to get the shuttle that deep. The probes are investigating the oceans as well. Meanwhile I suggest we get sensors on the orbital range of the planet to see if we can find out what’s causing the tidal effects.”

“I concur,” replied Glen. “NE Science, can we get sensors on the orbital range of the planet to see if we can find out what’s causing the tidal effects?”

NE Clarence looked back, a nervous-looking young man “I I’ll focus sensors Captain. The Geophysics Department did note that nothing obvious was influencing it” He said as nervously as he looked.

Glen quietly made an observation to Kord, “The science department personnel seem to be getting younger every day?”

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