Posted by Commodore Drudoc Andone (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Briefing Room - Animal Attack Debrief
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Drudoc looked through the readings limited as they were. “..Well based on the scans we can for sure rule out obvious suspects like the Borg or similar cybernetic threats..” she said. “..The Ark Angel would be picking up any transmission bands into subspace for such a connection. There would also be a power curve residue in the area planet side of any such things once scanned, none of which have shown up..” she went on.

Turning to a 2 second scan Raith had gotten of the wolves when they first appeared and come out of their visual cloaking she spoke again, “..The scans of their stealth or cloaking means also fails to match any known targets. So we can rule out Orion pirates, Romulan or Remans or Klingons as well..” she pondered.

At Luna’s comment of the wet fur and quiet smaller animals Drudoc nodded, “..This implies they’re a known threat to the local wildlife either both before and after this augmentation. The wet fur implies too before their attack they came from somewhere wet that had enough time to dry a bit but not enough to cancel out smell..” she said.

”..Ok so Ensigns,” She said to Raith and Luna, “..give me your observations of the brief attack, what were you doing at the time just before and during it?” she asked.

Turning to Anders while waiting for Luna and Raith to reply to her query she said, “..Lieutenant, run a scan of the surrounding landscape from the direction of the wolves out to a range of say 10km. Any source of likely origin points the pack could be laired in?” she said.

GM CockRoach / Drudoc Andone CO

” There attack was coordinated though its nothing unusual for a wolf pack. Normal wolfs hunt in groups to being down large pray. But there was something off they were a bit more coordinated then I would expect for a cap of wild dogs.” Luna said.

Ensign luna

Drudoc nodded a bit at Luna’s report. “..Thank you Ensign..” She said.

“Precisely,” Raith conferred. There seemed to be an “alpha” coordinating the attack from the rear. I fired a phaser burst at the leader, but was unable to tell if the beam hit, let alone did any damage, before we were beamed out. As I told Lt. Anders, this seemed far more coordinated than a simple wolf-hunting pack. It felt more like an ambush than a hunt.”

It was a few moments later the door to the conference room opened and Kane walked in. He nods to those present in the room before taking one of the seats. “Apologies for being a bit late. Was checking on our guests.” He explained slightly tersely before looking over the data himself to help get quickly caught up.

Lt. Cmdr. Kane, XO

Luna stated at the XO studying him. She had not met this man yet and her gaze reflected her distrust.

Ensign Luna

Raith noted the Commander’s entrance but had yet to meet him. Raith was sure they’d have time for a more formal meeting later.

”..Its fine Commander, any problems with our guests?” She inquire about the colonists.

Anders called up a scan display on the computer terminal and showed a wide-arch beam scanning the 10 kilometer area, keeping a close eye for any blips that may indicate points of interest.

-Lieutenant Kyle Anders: Chief of Security-

Checking a geological survey just a few minutes old, Anders could see that there was only two nearby caves that could be home to the wolves in the direction they attacked from and that held water sources or puddles they could have passed through. One was about 4km off slightly to the west of the farm attack point, the other was 6km and was to the north east. Assuming the wolves had not looped around from say the further south these were the only two spots they could have came from.

Saatynn entered a couple moments later. “Apologies for the delay in my arrival, I fell in the mud and needed to get mostly cleaned up.” He said to the CO, taking his seat. After bringing himself up to speed, he frowned at everything so far, leaning back in his seat. “I know the wolves themselves are masked from scans, but technology that allows that in such a method is rare, and usually leaves some sort of signature.”

”..You are correct on that Lieutenant.” She said nodding to his arrival. Personally she had not cared if he had shown up dirty, but she understood why he had done so.

He leaned forward, drumming his fingers on the table briefly before speaking again. “After Lieutenant Anders’s scan is complete, permission to run a low-band scan for particles and radiation that might point us to a possible culprit, captain?”

Lt JG Saatynn

”..Do it. Also check for any planetary based subspace anomalies. The Ark Angel has twice now encountered such pheromones on different planets. One led to a micro-dimension which held several class-m planetoids, the other was much larger leading to a dimensional rift that even now we fully do not understand it..” She added.

Kane’s eyes darted to Luna for a moment noting her stare. His face was even and he just gave her a small once over the decided to have a word with her after the briefing. He then put his hand on his chin and thought. “The technology though very briefly scanned doesn’t match any of our known capabilities.. radiation and particle sweeps are not a bad idea, maybe with that we can also see about heat emission? Being as the creatures are lupine looking, I would assume they have a body heat. It may be worth a try on top of searching for the rouge radiation and particle emission.” He said thoughtfully. His thoughts going on other ways one may be able to track the wolves when cloaked.
Lt. Cmdr. Kane, XO

”..NE Stiflen did a thermal scan already, no sign of the wolf packs occurred return signatures. But it can’t hurt to look again..” She said.

After a few moments of walking, Kaden arrived at the briefing room. He knew there was already discussion going on but he wanted to go in and not interrupt anyone. He straightened his uniform and walked through the door. He was trying to be as quiet as possible and went and sat down at an open seat. He did not want to interrupt anyone. He waited a few minutes to make sure there was a null in the discussion and then he said, “Lt Buchanan reporting in. I was able to get the relay running well above the required percentage. I came to the briefing room as soon as I was able to get out of my suit and leave transporter room. Hopefully I have not missed too much.” He then waited to hear more about what was going on.

Lt jg Buchanan CE

”..Well at least there is so far one brighter side to our mission here. While all packagers of our little ‘mail delivery run’ were completed before this attack. It is good we have one less concern to worry over for the long range comms once we do deal with this unknown.” She said. “..I’ve already alerted Starfleet of this occurrence, they are in the process of relaying the USS Old Bay and USS Crescent Lake, two Chandley class cruisers to arrive here in the next three hours. Beyond civilian vessels they were the closest craft free..” She said. “..Ideally I would like us to have this solved before then, but if not their support will no doubt be valuable.” She added.

GM CockRoach

Raith listened to the rest of the staff as they went through the briefing, waiting for what Andone’s decisions would be. He was sure they would need to be sent to check out the possible lairs, and was looking forward to trying the wolves again, now that he was prepared for them.

Ensign Raith, Security
OOC: Sorry I’ve been away, didn’t realize how much time I had allowed to lapse.