Posted Aug. 9, 2022, 3:45 a.m. by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) (David Fergusson)
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He thought he would find out where those missing crew had gotten to. =/\= Helmsman NE Fandango and Communications Officer Lt(jg) Lovejoy, please report to the Bridge =/\=
Things on the bridge were quite quiet. Not much was happening over the past few hours on the ship or externally on sensors within the system. As another couple of hours ticked by NE Barns at one of the aft auxiliary consoles rubbed his eyes. Then has he had done for each half hour of his shift, leaned over to peer through the ship’s long range scanners to see if anything interesting was happening. Rotating the dials on the scope he did eventually a 360 degree view around the ship out to the max visual scanning range. “..Huh…well that wasn’t there an hour ago..” he muttered to himself.
Still peering into the visual scope he worked some dials to try to get a better focus on what he was seeing, as he did so he spoke up to whoever was the officer in charge right now on the bridge. “..Uh, so I’m picking up a possible ship about 8 light years out. Its currently moving at about warp 2.3 on a heading possibly towards this system if it doesn’t change course..” he said finally getting a clearer picture on scans. With it in focus and some surprise he flipped a switch to direct the result up onto the main view screen. The ship appeared to be like an elongated three leveled arrowhead. In between the top and bottom layers were angular conical shaped devices that seemed to be the ship’s warp or similar nacelle housings. Connecting all three pointed levels in the center was a large spherical hull. The hull’s coloring was a bright silver tone which had an odd glittering like effect visually in passing light sources. “..There’s no ID in the database, probably an unknown species from out in this region..” he said then turned back to the scanners.
”..Long as it doesn’t change course or accelerate its speed, it’ll be here in 3 or so days. Exact readings are hard to tell at this distance, but the craft is powered by some manner of matter/antimatter reaction for sure. Maybe about 40-70 or so life signs. No signatures of weapons, but visually I would bet those forward protruding ports at the front conceal some kind of torpedoes or something. And those green lit banks in patterns along the top and bottom I’d put good credits being some kind of energy weapon. Wish I could give you more but the distance is too great for anything better..” Barns said.
“Thanks Barns!” replied Kahuna. “I’d better let the Captain know.”
Hercules Kahuna moved quickly from from the Comms console to the auxiliary console. His fingers played across some other controls before he moved quickly back to the Captain’s chair. He then contacted Captain John T Glen, who was currently down on the Habitat in a meeting with the Dol.
=/\= Merrimack to Captain Glen, This is Lieutenant Kahuna on the Bridge. We have detected an unknown craft heading on a course for this system with about 50 crew. It’s doing 2.3 Warp, so should arrive in three days time. it looks to be an armed military craft to me but the distance is too far to be sure. Matches nothing in our databases and… =/\= Kahuna spoke in a quieter voice, even though he was broadcasting. =/\= I’ve checked that additional secret database that the Merrimack has, that you told me about. The one that came from the ahem! NX Memorial… Permission to open hailing frequencies and contact them, Sir? I was wondering if the Dol knew who they would be. I’m sending a picture to you for identification now. =/\=
The Picture showed an elongated three levelled arrowhead. In between the top and bottom layers were angular conical shaped devices. In the centre was a large spherical hull of a bright silver tone with a glittering like effect visually in passing light sources. There were forward protruding ports at the front and green lit banks in patterns along the top and bottom.
-Kahuna, Weapons
=/\= Standby Kahuna =/\= Glen told his Weapons officer.
There was a long pause while the Captain spoke to the Dol
-Glen, CO
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