Posted by Fleet Captain Drudoc Andone (CO) in Main Sim - Shanok’s Ship - Aft Engineering/Computer Area
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As sight returned to them they found themselves in the aft computer/enginerring room for Shanok’s Vulcan science ship. The ship normally had a crew of 10-12 so having only ran into Shanok was quite a mystery of why even a solo minded archaeologist like Shanok and the Vulcan Science Directorate only sent one scientist to dig up an entire ruins site. Even one person equipped with various tools and rigs to do the work himself.

The ship was in low power mode, like a sleeping beast awaiting the return of its master. The air was stale but breathable, only dim standby red lights allowing faint sight in the room. Said room was taking up the larger aft quarter of the ship a small TOS-era Class IV warp core arranged nearby vertically. Two control stations to port and starboard of it. The rest of the room was taken up by an old dutronics era computer core ranging a deck and a half in height along the front of the room in a square cluster. Like much of Shanok’s dig it seems the Science Directorate had given him a ship straight out of the early-mid 23rd century!

=/\= NE Al’ways Re’ady to away team you guys get in ok? Or need anything else beamed over? =/\= the NE asked. As the second round of transport brought the trio over the rest of their equipment like the bomb disposal kit and such.

GM CockRoach

=^=”Roger that NE We are fine for now keep a lock on us though the moment I or any of my team signal Beam us out”=^= she replied she began focusing on her heightened senses of smell hearing and eyesight to try and pick up any signs of danger

Miz’uki

=/\= Aye ma’am, lock is secured! =/\= Al’ways Re’ady replied.

Smells of the area picked up stale air, but nothing alarming off hand, hearing only picked up the breathing of the away team and the faint beeps of computers and systems on stand by and the creaking of the ship in spots but again nothing alarming, sight too was the same nothing stood out as threatening or off kilter to Miz’uki’s senses.

Ranlei started scanning as soon as she was aware of her surroundings, NOthing about this was right. Vulcans would never send one scientist alone on a job like this, They most certainly would not send a ship like this out under crewed. That was just asking for disaster, “Chief? Who told us Shannock was here exactly? Everything about this is wrong. Ships a antique almost a century old. Must be a very fussy lady needing extensive repair schedules. One person couldn’t run this ship alone. Certainly not Shannok. He couldn’t even repair that sonic drill. Half the connections were connected to the wrong inserts. “, and she bit her lip and continued scanning for boobytraps, and possible scan blocking technologies. It wasn’t hard to block scans or feed a wrong reading to a scanner but if you looked for the actual blocking equipment itself it was near impossible to mask.

Ensign Ranlei Greene. Engineering.

As Miz’uki recalled the Ark Angel had just been exploring the unexplored system as far as they knew when they ran into Shanok’s presence and no sooner had they contacted the somewhat surprised Vulcan of their arrival when the Gurdians had interrupted showing up. Scans for boobytraps showed nothing off hand not energy or mechanical based, same for scan blocking technologies.

GM CockRoach

“Looks clear so far.”, Ranlei said she moved over to a control mpanel and scanned it again before entering commands to bring lighting and life support up to standard levels.

She still didn’t trust things completely but comfort and seeking it were it seemed built into the Orion mentality. Built for pleasure was her usual thought on why she despite being raised by humans seemed to be as self indulgent and hedonistic as all accounts said her race was.

Ensign Ranlei Greene. Engineer.

Commands entered for bringing things up to normal status were easily done with a few flips of switches and dials. With a hum and whir, followed by some beeps the lighting came up and fresh air was soon heard and felt gusting from the air vents to more standard levels. A few more beeps later also showed the ships reactor and computer still on standby were ready for restart.

GM CockRoach

Ranlei hooked up her computer equipment to the console and went into action, with the ships computer in standby she could use her portable setup to check for anything in the computers boot that might trigger defencive subroutines , Intruder counter measures or Black Intruder Counter Measures. Her skill with computers and ability to bypass security had brought her to Star Fleet Intelligences attention. Star Fleet Intelligence had honed her skills from a misspent youth into a weapon. She was still bitter at having been blackmailed into serving them. Her plans on graduation had not included actually serving in starfleet back then. She had a promising carreer in holosim creation looming before her that SI had sabataged. She was going to get married, but they had sabataged that as well. Yeah I have a past. She thought bitterly. But she had also had a future. Now she had a bitter hatred for SI. But she was no idiot. So she concentrated on hacking into the ships computer while her thought dwelled on what she could do that wouldn’t get her killed and still get revenge. Meanwhile to anyone watching her work she presented the false confidence she always hid behind.

Ensign Ranlei Greene. Engineering.