Posted by Commander Shinichi Yoshida (Executive Officer/Number One) in Main Sim - 5 Days Later - Sal III Colony Arrival

Posted by Captain Alex Becket (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - 5 Days Later - Sal III Colony Arrival

Posted by Gamemaster GM CockRoach (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - 5 Days Later - Sal III Colony Arrival
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It was five days later roughly 0830 in the morning when the Ark Angel had arrived at the Sal system and soon was in orbit of the third planet and colony. The system as described was well established small mining rigs setup on asteroids, a few on the scatterings of moons, various gas collector/processor’s etc, across the system. inter-system shuttles, transport craft, and such were also picked up here and there. There was also five flights of patrolling fighter groups picked up in or just outside the system’s area. Each patrol group was made up of one Hawk class heavy fighter with four Cutlass class medium fighters.

OOC: Link To Cutlass Fighter Specification
OOC: Link To Hawk Fighter Specification

As the Ark Angel finally settled into Sal III’s orbit essential docking/orbital clearances were soon performed for local traffic control. Once done it was not long until the local colonial administration was hailing the ship.

GM CockRoach

Yoshida was manning the bridge and as they approached orbit, hailed the captain to the bridge. He was walking the bridge, looking over the various stations, PaDD in hand, as he reviewed the mission parameters and the teams he had set up to accomplish the various objectives. He had several security teams paired up with science and engineering details that could be dispatched after coordinating with the administrators of the colony to see where they would like the Ark Angel’s assistance post unloading of the cargo.

Commander Yoshida Executive Officer

Becket came out of his. “Status Report.” He replied and said with a smile.

Captain Alex Becket Commanding Officer U.S.S. Ark Angel

Ollie stood at the tactical console looking over the passive sensor information from the system as they entered. Nothing seemed too out of the ordinary from that information, though he would prefer to get a more active sensor picture before they got too comfortable. He tapped a few buttons to monitor his security teams as they were getting prepared, per the XOs instructions. It would be nice for them to get some fresh air down on the surface.

Lieutenant Commander Ezeami - COS

Yoshida met the captain as he came out. “Sir,” he said as he delivered his report, “We are entering orbit of the colony and teams are ready to beam down.” He walked and talked with the Captain back to the center seat, “I have several support teams on standby, the first away team I would say should consist of you and myself and the various departments heads, primarily Lt. Cmdrs. Ezeami, Spenn, and O’Nell as well as Lts. T’Varan and Locke. This way, they can be with us to assess the needs of the colony and can relay more precise mission parameters to their perspective departments.”

Commander Yoshida Executive Officer

He sat down and thought about what his CO had suggested. “Where is Lieutenant Locke at right now? May I ask.” The captain has she his XO. “Personally Commander, I’d recommend that you lead the first away team. Take whoever you need. I’m thinking that I should be here helping our junior officers, and also Commander be picky on who you’ll take.” He added. “We have so many other officers than just senior officers to go on the away mission. Why don’t you take a couple of Junior officers with you?” He gave an opinion and asked.

Captain Alex Becket U.S.S. Ark Angel

Lt Waryn was on the bridge, at the small auxiliary console right next to Operations station. He was shadowing the on-shift Ops… learning the ins and outs of the position.

The Operations role often fell to Engineers, so Izak made it a point to spend some of his off shift time learning from Piper and her team. At this point in his career he still preferred being in Main Engineering, but the bridge did have its perks.

Such as the arrival in system.

In Engineering the event would be marked by the ship dropping out of warp, and then the team conducting a slew of routine systems checks. On the bridge, the Ops Manager saw everything that was the viewscreen, recieved a flood of status reports from various departments, and heard all the conversations.

So far, everything seemed to be shaping up just as the mission brief said it would. The fighters were a bit of a surprise though… but he supposed their presense made perfect sense given the reports of piracy in the sector.

He was curious to see what would happen when the ship answered the colony’s hails…

Lt J.G. Izak Waryn - Engineering Officer - U.S.S. Ark Angel

While everyone debated things back and forth the NE over at the communications station spoke, as the hail beep once more indicated the colony administration had yet to be answered. “..Uh Captain? Do we want to answer the colony’s hail? Could be they have specific plans on how they want to receive the supplies and what not?” they asked

GM CockRoach

After hearing the beep again, he looked at the comms officer. “Yes, please. On screen.” He said nodding. At the first time, he felt good about himself.

Captain Alex Becket Commanding Officer U.S.S. Ark Angel

Yoshida had just started to look over his PaDD to adjust the teams when they were reminded of the Colony’s hail. He moved around to take his seat beside the Captain to receive the transmission.

Commander Yoshida Executive Officer

”..Aye sir, putting them through now..” the NE said.

The viewscreen dimmed then came alight again, showing in the background a common oval shaped colonial admin office, the background had a large bubble window looking out to a distant mountain side with the faintest tips of snow and cloud cover with lower areas sliding down to ground level out of sight hinting at lush forests. The main focus though was a mid-40 year old man in his mid to late 40s. He had a mix of slightly grey-brown hair tied back into a short stubby ponytail. His brown eyes were usual for a human, but a deep scar from his left lower eye down to just above his neck was evident. Given the depth it was probably from some dangerous predator, whether on this planet or another and how long ago it was couldn’t be told. Then man wore a simple forest green-brown tunic and long shirt with what seemed a similar color toned pair of jeans. The left shoulder chest area held a symbol of colonial office affairs with the civilian rank equivalent to a Starfleet Commodore, though they normally held no formal authority over Starfleet officers it was commonly least afforded them basic curiosity given their services and time in colony affairs. =/\= Greetings, Captain Becket, and the rest of the Ark Angel! =/\= the man said by introduction, his voice was a smooth deep quality to it that commanded attention or notice from hearing it. =/\= I am colony Governor of Sal III, James Jones.=/\= He said. =/\= I hope your trip out to our neck of space was without troubles. While we’re not out on the furthest of frontiers we are getting there, and given this we’ve had a few less lawful elements spring up over time, though nothing too recently. In either case our cargo facilities are ready to beam down our supplies upon your linking our systems, should speed things up nicely. =/\= He said.

The NE at comms then spoke up, “..Captain the colony transport network has an open invitation for us to link so they can more quickly beam the largest and bulk crates down when we’re ready..” he said.

After the pause the Governor continued, =/\= If you feel up to it I’d like to offer you and your crew an invitation planet side to our humble abode, they are welcome to partake of any of our entertainment facilities, events, and if they like welcome meal of their choice. We got some of the best barbeque for light years around if I do say so myself! We also recently collected our quarterly harvest so all the food and drinks will be fresh made nothing replicated! =/\= He said with a bright smile. =/\= You and any of your senior staff are further welcome to join me this evening at the main banquet at the table head as guests of honor. What do you say? =/\= he asked.

GM CockRoach

He smiled at the Governor. =/\=The trip wasn’t out of the way. It was a worth while. =/\= he said. =/\= We will be honored to have dinner with you guys. Say 20:00 hours?=/\= He asked the Governor.

Captain Alex Becket
Commanding Officer
U.S.S. Ark Angel

As the Captain spoke with the Governor, Yoshida gave a nod to the ensign to give him the okay to begin beaming down the supplies. From the sounds of it, it seemed that, once the cargo was off loaded, the rest of this mission should be more akin to shore leave. While Shinichi had been prepared for further duties for the crew while they were at Sal III, he didn’t mind getting to tell them to take some R&R instead.

Commander Yoshida
Executive Officer

Izak mentally added malware scans to his ‘to do list’ for when the mission was over. After linking our systems with theirs, Commander O’Nell is definitely going to have us scrub our sysstems. It was unlikely that the colony had security standards anywhere near those of Starfleet, let alone the Chief Engineer’s.

Lt Waryn listened in on the Ops Manager as they got estimates for how long it would take to offload all the cargo. Ops seemed a hectic job at times… and not unlike balancing the power requirements of the ship’s systems. The best possible answer was a moving target.... one that changed depending on what the ship was doing the time.

He wasnt sure what most of the crew thought about the option of attending the party, but Izak had no desire to go to the surface. _Not tonight at least._He would be going to sleep in the afternoon to wake up for Gamma shift later that night.

But if we stay here long enough… I’m definitely going to get some of thst barbecue.

Lt J.G. Izak Waryn - Engineering Officer - U.S.S. Ark Angel