Posted by Gamemaster WHITE TIGER (Gamemaster Trainee) in Main Sim: Listening Post 47

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dr. Charlotte Mackenzie Kelley (Executive Officer/Number One) in Main Sim: Listening Post 47

Posted by Gamemaster WHITE TIGER (Gamemaster Trainee) in Main Sim: Listening Post 47
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Gibbs, at the joined Science stations on Outpost 47, continued to monitor Pathfinder’s detrimental news. Listening in to the messages between Captain T’Nara and Admiral ‘poking his nose in.’ He suspected he would be in hot water with his Department Head over his error, but there seems to be no time for that. Keeping to the chain of Command he addressed his question to his next senor officer.

“Commander Kelley, Permission to access a shuttle from Outpost 47 to assist evacuation of Pathfinder. I’m not the best shuttle pilot but I can get from point A to point B.”

Ensign Gibbs, Sci JO
USS Ark Angel

” They have enough Shuttles ensign but monitor them from your position .” Charlotte replied

CMD. CHARLOTTE KELLEY, M.D.
EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Initially crestfallen he saw the wisdom in Commander Kelly’s orders. “Aye. Ma’am.”

“Currently, Pathfinder has launched her first waves of shuttles toward Ark Angel. As an Intrepid class ship Pathfinder has three shuttles, that can be used to evacuate 22 crew. At that rate, each of the shuttles would need to make seven rotations each to fully evacuate the ship. The computer reports Pathfinder could be evacuated fully in the hour given, “

Ensign Gibbs
Sci JO, USS Ark Angel

T’Nara had heard the timing. “7 rotation? Can we do it in 7 rotation. Wait. Hang on. Ms. Kelley. How many shuttle craft do we have between here and the Ark Angel? If we can get all the shuttles going to the Pathfinder and retrieve everyone from the Pathfinder, I believe we can do it in less that time.” She said.

Captain T’Nara
Commanding Officer
USS Ark Angel

” If we use the shuttles from the AA the Listening post and the Pathfinder ma’am we can do in 3 rotations Captain if my math adds us correctly.” Charlotte replied

CMD. CHARLOTTE KELLEY, M.D.
EXECUTIVE OFFICER

USS ARK ANGEL
NCC-98729

COMMAND DIVISION
MEDICAL OFFICER CORPS
STARFLEET

She pondered a little bit. “3 hours huh? Let’s do it. Lets makr it happen. Once we get everyone from the pathfinder over to the Ark Angel the better. I don’t want starfleet breathing down my throat about it.” She said. “Vance. Get me the admiral on the other vessel.” She added.

Captain T’Nara
Commanding Officer
USS Ark Angel

Vice Admiral Vance stepped toward the communications console as Captain T’Nara’s request reached him. His eyes remained on the Pathfinder telemetry for another second before he keyed in the secure command frequency for the USS Thunder Valley.

“Open priority command channel. USS Thunder Valley. Commodore James.”

The console chirped as the connection established.

“Commodore James, Vice Admiral Vance aboard Listening Post 47.”

There was a brief pause before James answered, his voice coming across the channel from the Thunder Valley’s bridge. “Admiral Vance. James here. What have you got?”

Vance looked toward the Pathfinder display. “Captain T’Nara is accelerating the evacuation. Pathfinder has three shuttles cycling personnel toward the Ark Angel, but that isn’t enough for the timeline we’re working with. She’s combining shuttle assets from the Pathfinder, this station, and the Ark Angel to increase the evacuation capacity. She wants to know what the Thunder Valley can contribute.”

James glanced toward his own tactical display, then toward the personnel around him on the bridge. “I’ve got our primary shuttle bay operational. How many craft are you asking for?”

“As many as you can safely commit,” Vance answered immediately. “I don’t need ships sitting in a bay waiting for perfect conditions. I need shuttlecraft in the rotation.”

James considered that for a moment before responding. “Thunder Valley can put four shuttles into the operation. Two are already fueled and ready. The other two can be turned around shortly.”

“Good. Put all four into the evacuation rotation.”

“Aye, Admiral.”

Vance’s tone remained firm. “And Commodore, I want your crews coordinating with the Pathfinder and Listening Post 47 rather than operating independently. We don’t need three separate evacuation plans competing with each other.”

“You’ll have it. I’ll have my flight control officer establish the rotation and coordinate directly with the station.”

“Make sure they understand the priority. Pathfinder personnel first. No cargo. No equipment recovery. No sightseeing tour.”

A short silence came across the channel.

“Understood,” James replied. “We’ll get the people off that ship.”

Vance nodded once. “That’s what I wanted to hear.”

James then added, “Admiral, once the evacuation is underway, do you want the Thunder Valley standing by for the Pathfinder itself?”

Vance’s expression hardened slightly as he looked back toward the damaged Intrepid-class vessel. “Not yet. Captain T’Nara will make that determination once her people are aboard the Ark Angel. Until then, your job is simple. Get those four shuttles moving and keep them moving.”

“Understood. Four shuttles committed to the evacuation. I’ll have them launched.”

“Good. Keep Captain T’Nara informed through the station. Vance out.”

The channel closed. Vance immediately turned back toward the operations console, his attention returning to the Pathfinder as the evacuation continued.

WHITE TIGER
GM • USS ARKANGEL
NCC-98729
“Where Legends Begin”

Commander Kelley remained at the operations console, watching the shuttle telemetry populate across the display as Vance’s conversation with the Thunder Valley concluded. Four additional shuttles from the Commodore’s vessel would substantially change the evacuation tempo, but Kelley wasn’t interested in simply putting more craft into space and hoping the numbers worked. She pulled up the flight-control data and began assigning the available craft into staggered rotations, ensuring that Pathfinder’s own shuttles could continue cycling personnel while the Listening Post and Thunder Valley craft joined the operation without creating traffic conflicts. “All right,” she said, more to the operations personnel than anyone else, “let’s make this clean. Pathfinder shuttles remain on their current rotation. Listening Post and Thunder Valley craft will alternate arrivals so we’re not stacking six or seven shuttles around the Ark Angel at once.”

She looked toward the communications station. “Get flight control on both vessels tied into the same traffic schedule. Every shuttle coming off Pathfinder gets a designated receiving bay before it launches. I don’t want crews sitting in orbit waiting for somewhere to put their passengers.” Kelley then checked the projected personnel count and compared it against the shuttle capacities. “Once the Thunder Valley’s four craft are in the rotation, we should be able to cut the evacuation considerably. Keep the crews focused on personnel. No cargo, no equipment, no attempts to recover anything that isn’t alive and breathing. If Pathfinder has injured aboard, they come straight to Ark Angel medical intake and Spenn gets the numbers before the next rotation comes in.”

Kelley finally turned toward Captain T’Nara, her expression serious but composed. “Captain, Vance has the Thunder Valley coordinating with us. Four additional shuttles are being committed, with two ready immediately and two following shortly. I’ll have the flight-control schedule synchronized between all three locations.” She glanced once more at the Pathfinder telemetry before continuing. “We can make this work, Captain. But once we start this rotation, we keep it moving until that ship is empty.”

CMD. CHARLOTTE KELLEY, M.D.
EXECUTIVE OFFICER

USS ARK ANGEL
NCC-98729

COMMAND DIVISION
MEDICAL OFFICER CORPS
STARFLEET

Listening Post 47 had settled into the peculiar rhythm that came with a Starfleet emergency: controlled, methodical, and only barely ahead of events that refused to remain predictable. Across the operations center, the main tactical display tracked the evacuation of the Pathfinder while flight-control personnel coordinated the steady stream of shuttlecraft moving between the station and the ships holding position outside the temporal distortion. Pathfinder’s own shuttles continued their rotations while additional craft from Listening Post 47 and the Thunder Valley maintained their assigned traffic pattern, each approach carefully sequenced to prevent interference. Every transporter transfer, docking confirmation, shuttle departure, and personnel count was being fed into the station’s operations log. Alongside those feeds, the science consoles continuously monitored the temporal phenomenon surrounding Pathfinder, measuring its spatial boundaries, energy fluctuations, and displacement effects. The two situations had become inseparable; the faster the evacuation progressed, the less time Pathfinder had to remain exposed to whatever was happening inside the field.

The science department’s latest readings were becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile with one another. The temporal distortion had begun behaving differently from its earlier pattern, its boundary expanding and contracting in irregular pulses rather than following a predictable cycle. Sensor echoes continued to appear around Pathfinder, some only milliseconds out of synchronization with the vessel’s actual position. Then, without warning, the station’s long-range sensors registered two identical Intrepid-class signatures. For approximately 1.8 seconds, Pathfinder appeared at both its actual coordinates and a second position roughly twelve kilometers away. Both contacts transmitted the same registry, the same hull configuration, and the same life-sign count before the second contact disappeared from the sensor grid. No warp signature, impulse trail, transporter activity, or other conventional explanation accompanied its disappearance. The station’s computer classified the second contact as an unresolved temporal phenomenon while the science systems began comparing the two datasets. Before that analysis could be completed, another distortion moved through the field, causing several sensor arrays to report conflicting timestamps for the same shuttlecraft. One tactical display briefly indicated that an evacuation shuttle had already docked with its receiving vessel while the actual flight-control telemetry showed the shuttle still approaching. The discrepancy corrected itself before the flight-control system could issue an automated collision warning.

Then the Pathfinder telemetry changed again.

CONTAINMENT INTEGRITY: 48%

The value remained steady for several seconds before another line appeared beneath it.

TEMPORAL FIELD VARIANCE: INCREASING

The station’s science computers continued their analysis, comparing the latest readings against the original telemetry recorded when Pathfinder first emerged from the anomaly. A third warning appeared across several consoles.

CAUSALITY DISTORTION DETECTED

No immediate tactical threat was identified, and the evacuation remained underway, but the operations center was now dealing with a phenomenon that could no longer be treated as simple sensor interference. Pathfinder was still where the station expected it to be, the evacuation was still progressing, and the temporal field had not yet breached the station’s perimeter. Nevertheless, something within the distortion was causing Starfleet sensors to disagree with the sequence of events they were observing. The station continued to record everything it could, maintaining communications with the evacuation vessels and feeding the latest telemetry toward the Ark Angel while the science teams worked to determine exactly what had changed. Outside the windows, shuttlecraft continued their carefully controlled approaches through the darkness of the Theta Persei Fringe. Inside Listening Post 47, every console continued counting forward.

For the moment, the evacuation continued.

The temporal field continued to fluctuate.

And Pathfinder remained trapped between the two.

WHITE TIGER
GM • USS ARKANGEL
NCC-98729
“Where Legends Begin”

Gibbs watched helplessly as Pathfinder struggled with her chrono containment field. In looking over the data Gibbs interpreted that the chrono field was causing almost two Pathfinder’s in the same space and time…but what if it was something else?

Using the stations sensors, Gibbs started a query. Could the chrono anomaly be caused by a parallel dimension? He asked the computer to search for markers noted in previous encounters with the fluidic space, the Terran Empire, and other established parallel dimensions. If those markers were present, it would help to partial explan what was happening to Pathfinder.

Ensign Gibbs, Sci JO
USS Ark Angel