Posted by Captain Emmeline Davis (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Commander Maxwell Harkness (Executive Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

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From the tape, it was clear that Ressis had been the one who sent the initial distress signal, but when the message made its way back from the station, it was Charl who spoke. “Greetings,” she responded with a weak attempt at a smile through the static of the poor signal. “I am … someone was .... attention.”

GM Wombat

Even though it was simply a voice link (OOC: I think?), Emmy turned quickly and centered herself in front of the view screen out of habit. She had never been good at concentrating on voices to begin with and the static-filled message was posing a particular challenge. Her eyes closed as she concentrated and then spoke slowly in response, “this is Captain Davis of the USS Challenger. We received a distress signal from your station. What is your status?”

Davis, CO

Max made his way over towards Cadet Taurean as the Captain talked with the mining station. Even after all of these years, mining operations still had great amount of risk. More of the work was automated, but there was still a lot of variables that just couldn’t be accounted for.

Stepping up besides the Cadets station, Max lowered his voice as the Captain continued trying to talk to the station. “See what you can do to try and clear up the signal. Can you tell if the signal is being broadcast like that, or does it just not have enough power?”

Cmdr. Harkness - XO

“I believe the signal just doesn’t have enough power to escape unadulterated through the EM storms in the moon’s atmosphere, Commander. Nor do I think would we be able to penetrate those storms with our comms,” Cadet Taurean responded. “I can try to clear the interference but there’s no guarantee the message hasn’t been broken down into static during transmission.”

Working at his terminal, Anders took several seconds in attempt to clear up the signal by redistributing the electromagnetic interference througout the rest of the message; in that case, the signal static would be evened out to a low growl in the background of the message, with the speaker’s voice more noticeably audible. At least, he hoped so. The image was less likely to come back clean, but there was always a chance for luck to come into play, the cadet figured.

“We’ll know if this works in twenty-two seconds,” he said aloud to the bridge as a whole.

(Cadet Anders Taurean, Science Division)

“Good thinking Cadet. Once we get this cleaned up, also start thinking about how we can boost the signal once we are in orbit. We are going to need reliable communications, and potentially transport, through that same interference.”

Cmdr. Harkness - XO

As she waited to see if the communications link cleared up, Emmy tapped her comm badge and relayed the information they had so far to the senior staff. Even though they were two days out, it didn’t seem necessary to call a staff meeting to discuss what was going on. It was plenty of time to get everyone situated and ready to hit the ground, er, station running when they got there.

Davis, CO

“Hopefully we can an updated blueprint of the facility, with where the incident happened. So we have an idea of what we are getting into,” Max said stepping towards the middle of the bridge.

Cmdr. Harkness - XO