Posted by Captain Arialla Bovar (Captain) in Main Sim - Bridge - Another Day Another Survey

Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Bridge - Another Day Another Survey
It was January 1st, 2152, the morning after the Earth celebration of the new year. With that new year came new surveys. It was with this in mind that the crew of the Bonaventure found themselves around a system roughly 12 light years from the Sol system. Designated UES-11 (for unexplored system 11) they were coming up on approach to the system which had drawn their interest. Long range scans the night before had picked up strange gravity anomalies not common to a system like this and finding their source would no doubt be of interest for the science and engineering crews. For the rest of the crew it was a day to so far relax and enjoy the holiday spirit.

A beep for the helm station would indicate they were nearing their destination.

GM CockRoach

Ari and Baumann had spent the night before in a private celebration of the turn over of another year. It was a nice night of dinner, and companionship they had been lacking in the last month because of missions. But just before they had settled to dinner, the night watch had informed her of the off readings. With nothing else currently on their schedule, Ari had changed course to check it out. A new year, a new section of space. It seemed fitting.

Since it wasn’t anything imperative, she hadn’t bothered to rouse any of the other Department Heads. She was going to let them sleep off the reverie of the various parties that had scattered the ship and filled the halls with ruckus laughter and partying well into the night. She was grateful to the designers of the ship that the Command Rooms were set apart from the main crew bunks. The noise and carousing hadn’t spilled over into her relatively quiet evening.

So it was, a rare, real cup of coffee in her hands, that the Captain came onto the bridge at the beginning of first shift. The Lieutenant Commander rose from her chair with a start. “Ma’am… I didn’t realize you would be here. Is everything all right?” Daniel had volunteered to take the morning shift for her to allow her to sleep in. But her curiosity had gotten the best of her and she’d slid from their bed with silence and left Baumann sleeping. Or at least, she hoped he was still sleeping. He deserved a break.

“It’s all right, Michealson. At ease. Go ahead and have a seat, I’m just observing this morning. Those gravitational anomalies had be curious, was all.” To give credence to her words, she took up the XO’s spot and tapped on his chair console to see what the readings were. For gravity to be this readable at such a distance, surely something was here. “Do we have a black hole in the vicinity we need to be aware of or anything?” She glanced back at the science officer on deck and hoped they had been as inquisitive and already a step ahead in finding possibilities for the readings.

The Lt Cmdr sat back down and smiled. “Something told me you wouldn’t stay in bed with this on your mind, Ma’am.” He laughed lightly and enhanced the coming section of space on the view screen to see if the telltale signs of the dark black hole were visible.

Captain Arialla Bovar
CO

Jonathan chuckled as he made his ways through the hallways, doing his morning rounds. There were definitely a few crewmen moving slower this morning then normal, definite signs of their long nights partying. Back in his day he could have partied with the best of them, and been at his duty post the next morning. Probably with a strong cup of coffee. He still had the coffee, which he carried in his right hand, but he wasn’t able to stay up all night anymore.

So between that, and being new to the ship, he had volunteered to take the early shift that morning. Let some of the young officers sleep in instead.

He figured he’d check in with the bridge before heading down to sickbay and engineering on his rounds. “Commander Michaelson, how goes…” he trailed off as he turned the corner and saw the Captain sitting there.

“Captain, good morning. I didn’t expect to see you up here this early. I thought you had the morning off.”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO