Posted by Chief Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Acting Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Main Engineering

Posted by Gamemaster Mr Centauri (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Main Engineering

Posted by Cadet Boris Levitsky (Engineer) in Main Sim - Main Engineering
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(OOC: Mr. GM, I’d be looking to see if there’s any actual hull contact between Challenger and the alien ship, and if so, is it at certain areas like external hatches or is it almost like a suction cup on the saucer, please and thanks!)

OOC: The Alien ship it’s self is massive, not including the 1500 meters wide and 750 meters high dome. The ship is 3000 meters long and 75 decks. recap below for additional details. It is hard docked to the Challenger Saucer using something like a maglock and nanite mesh that has enveloped the saucer.

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“Quiet!” Walker called out to everyone in Engineering.

After a minute of quiet Walker started walking around Engineering. “Anyone got ears on that knocking?”

CWO Darach - Acting CE

Boris wasn’t aware of what was going on, and hearing anything was difficult due to the ringing in his ears. Perhaps he’d had gotten hit in the head, he thought. However, he kept banging, though to ensure people wouldn’t just think he was a system out of whack, he chose a rhythm to his banging to show that there was at least some intelligence, that it wasn’t some random banging caused by damage.

Memories flooded back of helping his brother study radio techniques of the 20th century, and while he himself never had a particular interest, he ended up learning Morse Code as a result. Perhaps it would be a stretch to assume anyone would understand it, but he figured it certainly wouldn’t hurt to try. Using knocks of his firsts to spell out dots and a strong kick to spell dashes, he began attempting to bang out a simple cry for help, being the standard ‘SOS’ used on antiquated travel methods of years gone by.

He considered attempting fiddling with his commbadge, but as damaged as it was, it gave out garbage signals that weren’t much but garbage noise. At least it was vaguely enough to track, if intermittent. His rhythmic banging should hopefully be enough to get the attention of anyone nearby. His voice was hoarse from the previous shouting he did, as he never was used to raising his voice. His cries for help were meek, but dammit he was going to try. “H-hello? Is anyone there? I-I need help! I-I don’t know where I a-am, but I c-can’t get out!” He stuttered as he tried to raise his voice as much as possible.

Cadet Boris Levetski, engineer.

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“Chief! Over here!” A petty officer called from around the backside of the warp core. There was a group of them digging through the wreckage, pulling away pieces to get to a storage door that was blocked. When they finally got the door cleared, a couple of pry bars were shoved in to break the door open.

“Whose in there?” Walker said as he climbed over the rumble and peered into the opened supply closet.

CWO Darach - Acting CE

Keeping quiet as the Chief sought out the source of the banging, J.C. extended the sensors out to get a better idea of what they were dealing with.

And it was a literally bigger issue than he even imagined.

7 times longer than Challenger… At least 7 times the height… The ship had locked onto Challenger’s saucer section via several maglock-like mechanisms, which looked to be enhanced with some sort of… Mechanical mesh layer. Maybe some sort of nanotechnology?

Brute-forcing their way out didn’t seem like an option; the way the mesh field encompassed the saucer would likely cause catastrophic damage before they got too far… And that’s not even accounting for the maglock-esque connections that’d likely take their own chunks out of the hull.

There were a few possibilities forming in his mind… Hull polarization could possibly shake the maglock connections loose… Maybe a low-level shield bubble, near the hull then expanded, could push the mesh away from the saucer enough to try and maneuver…

But these things were simpler… Had they already been tried already? It seemed silly to suggest them, a waste of time…

J.C. glanced over at the sudden bustle of activity. Had they found whatever, or whoever, was causing that knocking? He watched as crew started going at the door with prybars. It’d have taken a cavalcade of failures to get down to opening that door in such a way…

‘Wait…’ He thought to himself as he watched a second longer, then glanced back at his sensor readings.

They were powerless from the inside, just like whoever might be behind that door…

The external controls were unusable by us, just like that door…

But what if… Like they were doing with the door… They could pry the trap open from the outside?

J.C swiftly reviewed the sensor readings, hoping the shuttle bay wasn’t locked down…

Cadet J.C. Swishman, Engineer