Posted Sept. 2, 2020, 1:33 a.m. by Lieutenant Hal "Hannibal" Brown (Chief Of Security) (Mike Monte)
Posted by Lieutenant Inola (Communications Officer) in Mission Brief Meeting - Conference Room-A
Posted by Lieutenant Hal “Hannibal” Brown (Chief Of Security) in Mission Brief Meeting - Conference Room-A
Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (Gamemaster) in Mission Brief Meeting - Conference Room-A
[snip]“Probable signal degradation due to the distance traveled but I suspect solid answers won’t reveal themselves until we get a closer look” William said finally looking up from the reading material “If they are a truly warp-capable society don’t the first contact protocols take precedence over monitoring?” He asked “General Order one means we monitor pre-warp societies but Warp capable?” It was a question based solely on curiosity, he himself had never been a part of a first contact mission before.
“That’s correct,” replied Glen. “However, based only upon this information, I don’t think we can be 100% certain they are Warp capable. The readings were low key Warp pulses that were only just above Warp 1 for a short period, and these radio communications are not sub-space, nearly ten years old, and give us little more insight. It would be appropriate to be absolutely certain first.”
Listening to the officers intently, a thought began to form it’s his mind. Leaving his post at the door Mooney approached the conference room viewer to examine the pattern of contacts. Beginning to apply basic search and rescue methodology to locating a week signal he began to form a basic search area. Deep in thought, he began applying some analytical techniques to trace the contacts. First a basic analysis of random vs directed dispersion, then projecting back to the most probable point or points of origin as well as the most likely future appearances. Setting the computer to mute, wile her asked it to run analytical software.
A smile tugging at his lips as he remembered flirting with his lab partner, wile the instructor introduced Bear-Helms geo analysis method of coordinate analysis as it applied to SAR operations.
As mentioned the pulses seemed to show a travel method of a few light years between traveling to another unexplored system further beyond. Whether this was the unknown race’s ‘home’ or not couldn’t be answered.
Emi’ko Had been sitting quietly just looking over what they had before them namely the Warp Signature analysis
Again as mentioned the warp signatures were low key and short jumps really barely breaking warp 1. There wasn’t anything obvious that it was from a known species.
“I think we can agree only that we need a much closer look?” Glen proposed.
Glen was probably right, they were likely at the end of their admittedly short rope to question or find out more answers without simply getting out there into space to track things down.
“Well, does anyone have anything else to add?” Glen asked, minded to bring this meeting to a close and get on and gather further intelligence on the race from observation. “Hal, you’ve been quiet. Do you have any security concerns about contact with them?”
-Glen, CO
Hal was thinking. “They did seem to broadcast a general transmission to make first contact, Sir,” he suggested. “And the warp pulses would be indicative of testing out a new warp drive.”
CoS
Tia had remained stoically silent and was making copious notes as to the signatures and the signals. To her, assuming they weren’t advanced was a bit of a leap. Perhaps they just hadn’t gone more than Warp one in the area. Or perhaps they were crippled in some way and couldn’t go faster. Making a warp one only ship seemed a bit curious, but till they knew more, she certainly wasn’t one to jump to conclusions or even overly speculate.
Tia CE
OOC: Just snipping things up....
GM CockRoach
Inola looked up from the communications. “They seem to be friendly. With some guesswork, we can assume they say their species name, their planet name, their greetings and their intent to make contact.” She shrugged. “It could be worse. In my professional opinion, they likely have some sort of religious view surrounding space and extraterrestrials. Chances are contact would be fairly straightforward and relatively safe. Excluding of course, the predilection to consume or sacrifice extraterrestrials.” She leaned back a bit, having said her piece. She realized something else and spoke again. “That also doesn’t account for changes in the years since it was sent.”
-Inola, Comms
“Radio signals would predate the jump to warp speed,” Hal said. “But it would be far longer then a decade. On Earth, it took about 150 years.”
“And what are their intentions with us? Do they want to exchange recipes for whatever their version of apple pie is?”
“Do they want to study us? Experiment with us? Fornicate with us? Or war with us?”
~CoS
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