Posted by Fleet Captain Alexander Cochrane (Commanding Officer) in SIM Intro - The Lost Latinum Mine of Terra Nova

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Sovrk (Chief Science Officer) in SIM Intro - The Lost Latinum Mine of Terra Nova

Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Senior Gamemaster) in SIM Intro - The Lost Latinum Mine of Terra Nova
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The small ship drifted in space, tumbling end over end in a lazy, eternal nod to momentum’s laws. As ships go this one was old. A Beretta Rim-Runner, a ship used by small time mercantile operators, prospectors and those operating not precisely above the law - or all three - or other uses. She was a general purpose small, sturdy ship. Not so fast without being enhanced, and not so large to carry cargos of significance, this was a specialized ship class that had seen most action of its class a century and a half ago. It’s decline came in with upgraded, well, everything that made the Rim-Runner’s obsolete and used only by those tenaciously hanging on to the past, those unable to afford the upgrade, or small corporations that needed a sturdy small ship to run goods between worlds or flit about taking samples in an asteroid belt.

This tumbling Rim-Runner sported no power emissions. A blackened area of her aft hull near to her port storage bay was open to space, an ugly scar along her rust colored hull that didn’t entirely cover up the name emblazoned on the side - identified by optical scans - as the Red Dwarf. Some 44 meters long and half that in diameter, sporting many rounded ‘bulbs’ a meter or so wide about it’s upper hull. The underside, flatter than the top held landing gear and, curiously, the rack that denoted an external torpedo launcher. It was empty. The ship boasted no portholes apart from a single thin strip on either side of a raised half deck that spanned 10 meters wide and a half meter high. The only other external ports were at the pilot’s forward area at the fore end of this raised half deck. One of said two forward ports was cracked.

This curious vessel was detected by accident by stellar cartography which had been mapping a region of space and had initially flagged the Red Dwarf as a rogue asteroid, at least until a secondary analysis noted it as having refined metals in its makeup. This find was routed to the science station of the bridge of the Manhattan …
- Wookiee

Sovrk sat at his station on the bridge keeping an eye on the long range sensors and monitoring quietly when the datapacket came in. He frowned as he reviewed the data. He quietly tapped on the console and started to work on getting a location of the ship. Making sure he knew the distance and bearing before he spoke up.

Once he had the data he needed he looked up from the console turning towards the captains chair. “Captian. We have a small problem.”
Lt. J.G. Sovrk, CSO

At this point the ship was 1.35 light years away, pretty much a hop skip and jump away on a galactic scale.
- Wookiee

“Only a small one, Lieutenant?” Cochrane quipped from the center seat. “Maybe our luck is changing for the better. What have you got, Mister Sovrk?”

Cochrane, CO

Sovrk looked to the Captain. “A stellar cartrographer was mapping out a section of the quadrant when their sensors caught an oddity. At first they thought it was just a rouge asteroid… however more intensive scans revealed that the metals in that were refined.... an even closer look revealed that the asteroid was no asteroid at all. Instead it seems to be a small ship, a Beretta Rim-Runner, designated the Red Dwarf.... and well… something blew a hole into it.”
Lt.J.G. Sovrk, CSO

After a brief pause Sovrk added “It is 1.35 lightyears away at bearing 241 mark 112.”

Cochrane’s attitude shifted slightly to the more serious. “Helm, set a course. Warp seven. Stop us just inside sensor range. Operations, run down anything we have on the ship. Mr. Sovrk, scan for life signs and the surrounding area for anything out of the norm upon our arrival. Engineering, ready a probe.” He tapped the comms and said =/\= XO and Security Chief to the bridge. Sickbay on standby. =/\=

Cochrane, CO

Sovrk nodded and added. “The sensors from the cartographer read no power outputs, no life support; that’s why when they first found it they thought it was a rouge asteroid. Depending on how long it’s been there we may not find anything alive Captain.” He said as a matter of a fact before he set to adjusting the sensors for maximum range when they dropped out of warp.
Lt. (J.G.) Sovrk, CSO