Posted by Captain Arialla Bovar (Captain) in MAIN SIM pt 1: Intriguing Nebula - Bridge

Posted by Commander Wulf Baumann (Intel Officer) in MAIN SIM pt 1: Intriguing Nebula - Bridge

Posted by Captain Arialla Bovar (Captain) in MAIN SIM pt 1: Intriguing Nebula - Bridge
Posted by… suppressed (3) by the Post Ghost! 👻

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At that moment the computer chirped. Baumann looked at the translation and showed it to Prescott, a look of concern on his face. He then transcribed the message 9nto a PaDD and walked over to the center chair and handed the device to Bovar.

The message read: “Earth ship Macalister. Distress. Distress. Please… save the children.”

Baumann, Intel

After checking in with sickbay and engineering, Jonathan made his way back to the bridge. They had everything under control, and should probably have everything ready by the time he made it back to the bridge anyways.

Stepping out of the lift, he stood to the side, trying to figure out what he had missed while he was gone.

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

((chances are this will be short, don’t see need for separate thread))

Ari frowned as Baumann showed her the PaDD. Nodding once, she glanced up seeing McKnight walk in. “Commanders…” She stood up and nodded to them both to follow her to the ready room. “Helm, all stop. You have the bridge. Keep us here and keep the scans tight to the ship.”

Once in the Ready room and the other two present, she nodded to McKnight. “Show him the message,” she said to Baumann and leaned back on the edge of the table, not bothering to sit down. “I think we need to take this seriously, but we need to make sure it’s not a ruse either. Either of you familiar with the ship?” She turned the nearest console around beside her, preparing to look it up if neither of them knew the ship. The last thing she wanted was to blast in and end up flanked and out gunned.

Oddly enough, and Baumann would see it, caution was slamming her brakes this time, rather the threat of children in danger making her plunge head on.

Ari
CO

Prescott had seen the console as it beeped it had gotten the translation. Ehen she glanced over, Baumann shouted her the message then cleared the screen. Her brow furrowed at her supervisor moved to show the Captain. Obviously it was dire enough to not blurt across the bridge. The question was, what was it? Was that one of the ships they weren’t supposed to run across?

As the Command Staff moved behind closed doors, she leaned back in her chair and swiveled to look at the others glancing at the odd exchange and departure. “Well, that was interesting. Wonder what happened?” She shrugged as if she had no idea.

Turning back to her console, she tried to see if anything else was coming across the communication bands. Maybe she could get more information for him.

Prescott
Sec/Intel
((fixed misread… Prescott saw the message and I missed it))

Baumann showed the message to the XO, and then proceeded to catch him up on the nebula briefing packet he had received. Moving to the desk, he did a search for the name. “Here… Earth colony vessel McAlister. Last known coordinates are… one-hundred-twenty-three lights years from here. The ship is listed as Missing and presumed lost with all hands… including 187 children.”

Baumann, Intel

Fleet immediately brought the ship to a stop, letting the Bonnie float stationary. He glanced around, then focused on running a short diagnostic of his console that would take him less than a minute to finish.

Fleet, Helm

Having followed the Captain and Baumann into the Ready Room, Jonathan looked over the message. “I can’t say that I’m familiar with the McAlister. Though I’m familiar with the designs of most of the commonly used colony ships. So it would depend on how much the colonists modified the ship…” he trailed off looking over the Captain’s shoulder to look at the information on the console.

“How long as the ship been missing? Because it would have taken them,” he stopped to do some quick math in his head, “over 12 years to get that far from their last coordinates, at warp 2.”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

Ari frowned and shook her head. “It’s not part of the current fleet nor part of anything still considered in commission that I can find. So missing or not, it happened so long ago, she’s not listed anymore.” She glanced up at Baumann. “You think it’s one of theirs? And if it is, I’m open to suggestions. We are supposed to steer wide and clear of them. But if there are children in danger… can we honestly turn our back?” She wasn’t one to hide her emotions well with him. And if he looked, he would see the pain and helplessness in her eyes and the desire to run ‘into the fire’ to save them, so to speak. She steeled the expression quick enough, but either man would have caught it if looking.

Ari
CO

Baumann punched in a few more commands. “Its been missing for…” and his voice trailed off slightly, “… almost two hundred years.” and he looked up at the CO and XO. “That would put it in the same era as the Eugenic vessels… but still a vessel we know of. Unfortunately, we can’t know if the Eugenics ships were launched before or after the McAlister. So we don’t know if they know of it or not.”

Baumann, Intel

Ari shook her head and paced to the window. After taking a deep breath, she shook her head once more and turned to the men. “I don’t like this. Especially since we don’t even know if the other ships are viable and out here. But as a ship from Earth, we can’t merely abandon it to the darkness any longer. I think we need to see if those children are still alive, perhaps in stasis of some kind. But I can’t just walk away from this. Can you?” She glanced at them both, perhaps Baumann a bit longer than her XO. While it didn’t show on her face, perhaps her subconscious was asking him to forgive her for not asking permission.

Ari
CO

“Well it is hard to just walk away without doing anything Captain. But we do need to be cautious. We don’t know how long that distress call has been going out for. For all we know it has been going out for 200 years, and everyone is long dead. Those colony ships were designed for long duration missions, but that is a lot of time to be out here, even for one of them.”

Jonathan was definitely cautious. As much as he wanted to run in and help, he kept getting a weird feeling about it.

Cmdr. McKnight - XO