 September 11, 2012 - 12:14am | Day One (Part One): |
October 24, 2012 - 8:10pm | OOC: @AZ_GAMER - Were either of the locations where the sabotage took place the same as where I saw Stone? If so I'm going to call security immediately. If I don't have slam dunk evidence, I'm going to keep looking as I make repairs. OOC: Kyrell finds the damage inside a maintenance panel in the corridor near the engineering control room. No signs of sabotage were found in the area where you found Lt. Stone. However, the equipment roon where the Plasma torches are stored is the same one you saw Stone in which is located in the FTL Drive Module near the engineering module. |
 October 24, 2012 - 8:28pm | Mike will do a few different things. In the time spent matching courses, he'll call down orders to the rest of the astrogation team to begin work on locating their position more precisely and to start studying the nebula per the captain's earlier orders. Personally, he'll apply the ship's sensors to try to glean as much information about the ship as he can: deck/bulkhead layouts, exact positions of electrical/infrared emission sources, etc and attempt to determine if any of the infrared emmission sources could be biological. He'll also try to analyze the derelict's course and project it backwards to see if there is any indication of where it came from, and, possibly more importantly, if there is anything else back that direction they need to worry about. Shaking off his initial astonishment (roll: 05) at Ensign Shadak's simple matter-of-fact assessment of the signal that Lt. Finsletter has been working on for a couple of hours, Mike manages to catch her before she leaves the bridge. "Ensign, I think you may have just gotten yourself a new temporary duty assignment. How is it you know so much about subspace communications?" Speaking a bit louder once he stopped the Edon from leaving, he continues, "Captain, I'd recommend we assign Ensign Shadak here to assist Lt. Finsletter in isolating and decoding that signal she so quickly identitied. She seems to have a particular aptitude in that area that could be beneficial." Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
 October 25, 2012 - 8:55am | OOC: @AZ_GAMER - Were either of the locations where the sabotage took place the same as where I saw Stone? If so I'm going to call security immediately. If I don't have slam dunk evidence, I'm going to keep looking as I make repairs. OOC: Kyrell finds the damage inside a maintenance panel in the corridor near the engineering control room. No signs of sabotage were found in the area where you found Lt. Stone. However, the equipment roon where the Plasma torches are stored is the same one you saw Stone in which is located in the FTL Drive Module near the engineering module. OOC: @AZ_GAMER - has security responded to my call? I'm trying to accumulate facts to either implicate or exonorate Stone. I'm especially interested if there's security cameras involved. IC: Kyrell gets on the com and calls security. "Security, this is Kyrell. I need the chief down here immediately. Kyrell out." He then calls the Captain, "Captain, I need to see you down here as soon as possible. Need to show you something. It's important. Kyrell out." He then turns to his team and calls out, "Ok, we need to divert all engineering resources not currently working on critical sections to the Cap shield repairs." |
October 31, 2012 - 9:55pm | DAY THREE (PART TWO): |
October 31, 2012 - 10:04pm | Mike will do a few different things. Shaking off his initial astonishment (roll: 05) at Ensign Shadak's simple matter-of-fact assessment of the signal that Lt. Finsletter has been working on for a couple of hours, Mike manages to catch her before she leaves the bridge. "Ensign, I think you may have just gotten yourself a new temporary duty assignment. How is it you know so much about subspace communications?" Speaking a bit louder once he stopped the Edon from leaving, he continues, "Captain, I'd recommend we assign Ensign Shadak here to assist Lt. Finsletter in isolating and decoding that signal she so quickly identitied. She seems to have a particular aptitude in that area that could be beneficial." Ensing Shadak looks at "Stars" with a curiously irritated look on her face, "Lieutenant Commander, I am an Edon. We we're mapping subspace while your people were still trying to figure out how to reverse engineer a Xin jump drive. Anyway, subspace carrier waves make my skin crawl I could pick that out while standing on my head. Can I go now, this place is... crowded" The Captain catches Lt. Bell's recommendation as he prepares to board the lift for Engineering, "Good idea "Stars" but you better let Shadak work from her quarters. I don't know if you been around an Edon in a mixed crew. They can be, well, challenging I think is the word that comes to mind." |
November 1, 2012 - 12:56pm | A few minutes later, the Captain and Security Chief Rojan arrive via lift in the engineering control room to meet with Commander Kyrell. The Captain briskly steps through the Engineering control room doors, "So what have you got here Commander, your page said you found signs of sabotage?"
Kyrell looks around to see who's listening and quickly calls out a few assignments to the team to keep everyone busy. He leads the Captain and Chief Rojan out of the main area to the place where the conduit was severed. "Take a break guys, go help out the other team" he says to his engineers to get them out of his hair. "Actually, I didn't say sabotage because I wanted to discuss this in private. But great guess captain. The cap shields were taken out on purpose by someone on board. I'm still putting it together, but that's where I need some help," he added, looking at Rojan. "I don't want the word to get out too quickly, because I'm hoping whoever did this will not realize we're on to them." He points to the damage. "This was done with a plasma cutter. Sloppy work, actually. Whoever did this was not an expert. There's another one just like it. Now, I'm not sure enough to grab him and push him out an airlock yet, but I saw stone just outside where the plasma cutters are stored. I tried to tail him, but he gave me the slip and with the ship falling apart I had to get back to work. He was not in his assigned area, and should not have been here when he was. I didn't see him do anything, but it's something to investigate." He gestured to Rojan. "I need you to check and see if any security cameras happened to catch him doing anything unusual. If we can catch him in this area, or anything suspicious, we should have enough evidence to at least lock him down and interrogate him." He looks back to the captain, "Sir, the good news is that the plasma cutter actually made the replacement a little easier, so 6 man hours to complete the job, give or take. I have this one first priority and have two crews working on it. I recommend a security detail or two to guard critical systems in the maentime." |
November 4, 2012 - 8:18pm | "Very well, Ensign." Mike says, "since you obviously have knowledge to share, and right now, we need all the knowledge we can get to find our way home, please patch in from your quarters and assist Lt. Finsletter. Thanks," he adds as she leaves the bridge. "Looks like we may have something else out there," Mike says upon hearing the computers report on the backtrace of the derlict's path. He quickly puts the computer to work running down the second trail to see if it can determine the exit path of the second ship and whether or not it is still out there. "Aye, aye, Skipper, I have the conn," he acknowledges as the captain leaves. "Okay folks," he says after he's gone, "they way I see it we have two priorities here right now. First, let's see if we can get that signal Lt. Finsletter found isolated, analyzed, and deciphered. Second, we need to find out anything we can about the surroundings including whether or not there's another ship out there. Let's hold our course at two kilomenters from the derlict until the Captain gives other orders or something comes up and tackle those two items. Let's get to work." Mike will continue working on analyzing the emission trails from the derelict and the unknown ship to see if he can locate it if it is still around and also to determine anything else about the derlict as he monitors work on the bridge. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
November 4, 2012 - 11:05pm | DAY THREE (PART THREE): |
November 5, 2012 - 9:18am | "Well done, Ensign Shaddak." Mike replies to her response with the signal extraction, hoping to cut off her open mic. "We'll see what we can do with it." "Well," Mike thinks to himself, "let's see what the computer can do with this." He feeds the signal output into the computer's security, cryptogaphy, and language programs to see what it comes up with. Once that is done he begins looking at the schematic of the ship the computer generated. After several minutes, the computer comes back with a response. "That was quick," Mike thinks. "Partial possible translation," the computer responds. Looking at the display, Mike reads off the translation: "Mayday mayday! This is the exploration scout <unknown> we are under attack by an <unknown> starship! any <unknown> forces please respond". "Well," Mike thought, "looks like they lost. Looks like we have us a rescue operation now. I hope these are good guys." Activating a com to the captain, Mike reports in. "Skipper, we've got a partial translation on that signal. Looks like a distress beacon. They got jumped by someone but ended up with the short end of the stick. I think we have a drive emission trail from the agressor but the computer can't generate a track on it. We also now have a partial reconstruction of the ship's interior from the scans." OOC: Actual letter for letter translation was: "Matday mayday! Thhis is the exploration scout a?oratha we are under attack by an sathar starship! any UPF forces please respond" The question mark in the ship name is either a g, j, q, v, or z but there was no real way to tell. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
November 5, 2012 - 4:12pm | OCC: Darn subspace relay hunk of crap must have repeated some letters in there when transcribing voice to letter. the ? letter was a "g" Agoratha |
November 5, 2012 - 4:33pm | OOC: A 'g' was my guess based on the letters left but since there was no real way to know since the word was a name I left it undefined in my decoding. That was fun by the way. I suspected the first two words were mayday but the transcription error in the first one made me wonder for a while especially since I wasn't sure that the circle at the end was punctuation. Interestingly, the word that cracked it open for me and made me sure I had the correct initial letter substitutions was the word attack in the middle. At first I actually looked on-line to see if I could find the font you used as that would have made it really quick  . I was doing that before I came in to my conference this morning. That didn't work so when I got to my conference I transcribed the text onto a notepad and just played it like a crypogram puzzle looking at letter frequency and patterns. It took me about a half to one hour to solve it while listening to the talks.Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
November 5, 2012 - 8:21pm | OOC: It's good to be a real rocket scientist, LOL |
November 7, 2012 - 5:23pm | looking at his com-link data screen Lieutenant Rojan advises Commander Kyrell, "I just ran a report on Lieutenant Stone's link activity. His has not reported for duty in the last twenty four hours and his com-link has not left his quarters since the Jump. He must be using someone else's com-link or have a forged unit. If he has possession of a forged link unit we may have bigger problems here. A forged or unregistered unit would be near impossible to trace but would require someone to program it with the 'Logan's security access codes to unlock security doors like the ones in Engineering. We will have to run a full report on all activity in these areas. With all the damage control teams moving through here it will be like haystack full of needles."
Kyrell looks to the captain. "Your call boss. I think he needs to be locked up and interrogated while security sifts through the security vids and access logs. Cap shields will be back online soon." |
 November 8, 2012 - 4:59am | Lt. Finsletter just chuckles and keeps doing what she was doing. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
November 11, 2012 - 7:08pm | Lt. Rojan finishes making some final notes on his data pad, "Not to worry Commander, we will find Lt. Stone there are only so many places he can hide on a starship. When we find him we will place him into custody until we can determine what his role is in all of this." The steely skinned cyborg keys in a few short commands into his com-link sending orders to his security teams. Within a few moments two colonial marines appear at the hatch entering the engineering control room. "Gentlemen," Lt. Rojan begins, "Maintain a secure perimeter into engineering control room and surrounding compartments. One man on patrol and one at the door at all times. As soon as I can send additional personnel down here I want you patrolling in pairs. No one enters that is not on the duty list or upon the Commanders authorization." "Aye, Sir" the young marines bark crisply as they snap to attention. Obviously, even though the Lt. Rojan is new, an alien, and not of senior rank he commands the respect and admiration of his men normally reserved for officers much higher in position. "Commander Kyrell, these fine men are at your disposal. Please let us know if you see anything out of the ordinary that needs our further attention", Rojan advises as completes the new assignments for his staff on his data pad. |
November 11, 2012 - 8:36pm | DAY THREE (PART FOUR): Captain Crane receives Lt. Bell's Com-Link transmission, "Good Job getting that message deciphered 'Stars'. If there are any survivors over there we certainly could use some their assistance determining where we are. We need to put together a team to go over there, check for survivors, offer assistance and get any information we can that can help point us in the direction towards home." The Captain pauses a moment, "We should proceed with caution as we know nothing about these people or what initiated this conflict. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst would be a prudent course. I really can't spare anyone for the mission as everyone is essential at this point. However, acquiring any useful intelligence about where we are is a worthy gamble. Do we have any volunteers?" |
November 12, 2012 - 5:35am | DAY THREE (PART FOUR): Captain Crane receives Lt. Bell's Com-Link transmission, "Good Job getting that message deciphered 'Stars'. If there are any survivors over there we certainly could use some their assistance determining where we are. We need to put together a team to go over there, check for survivors, offer assistance and get any information we can that can help point us in the direction towards home." The Captain pauses a moment, "We should proceed with caution as we know nothing about these people or what initiated this conflict. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst would be a prudent course. I really can't spare anyone for the mission as everyone is essential at this point. However, acquiring any useful intelligence about where we are is a worthy gamble. Do we have any volunteers?" "I'll go Captain.", Kyrell says, perhaps a little too enthusiastically. "If you run into trouble over there, I can probably be of use, plus I'd love to get a glimpse of alien technology. I have two teams working on the Cap sheilds, which are almost done, and other high proprity repair items are underway. I won't be *terribly* missed for a couple of hours." |
