Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Bridge - Another Day Another Survey
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Reaching over, Jonathan tapped opened a ship wide comm.

[O]This is the bridge. All stations report readiness. [O]

Isaac walked out the turbo lift and onto the Bridge he had a mug in hand of some hot Andorian green tea with a lemon and lime juice. It was the best cure for an hangover in his books the Armory team thot they can go shot to shot with this crazy Irish man but they didn’t win. “Good morning everyone” he said as he got to his Station.

Lt. Isaac Black (AC)

As the information was still being absorbed by the bridge crew of a FOURTH planet literally having appeared out of nowhere as mentioned before. And now being stranded in the middle of nowhere in this system. Information requested by the Captain came up. Sadly there wasn’t much to report. The system really hadn’t been surveyed by anyone up to this point, so no information was on hand to compare to their current situation. Looking back on what they themselves had performed the ‘gravity hole’ as the Captain was calling it hadn’t been there originally till about 3 days ago and certainly wasn’t as bad as it was now.

As this was all being reported, more scans came in, they were picking up low level artificial satellites now in the new fourth planet’s orbit. They were currently exchanging missile and of all things low key but destructive laser and plasma based beam attacks. Clearly this culture had some level of former space based ability before they had gotten into the throes of blowing themselves to kingdom come.

Into this maelstrom was also the fact they were picking up low key radio transmissions from the planet. Interestingly the transmissions were in two languages. One clearly the universal translator or linguist on duty couldn’t identify though was likely the local dialect, the other.......was English! The repeated accented English dialect came out in some form as cries for help or aide all likely to their local governments, though some were cries to a higher deity or power it seemed.

CockRoach

Roger had still been reviewing all the data. “Captain this planet was not here before!” He exclaimed, looking over in her direction with a look of wonder and awe. “From all the data the sensors have recorded....” He paused, searching for the right words to say. “It’s like the planet just appeared out of nowhere!”

After the ship came to a sudden halt Rachel began by checking on her staff and the single patient inside the small sickbay. She then sent up a message to the bridge informing them that Sickbay was ready and reported no injuries then began preparing for potential injuries.

Dr. Grey CMO

“Sickbay is reporting back Captain that they are ready, and they have no reported injuries yet,” Jonathan said as he watched the reports pop up on the little screen at his chair.

“That was quite the kick we got from the anomaly. Should we be preparing for a rough ride here?”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

“Other than that kick I’m not picking up too much gravitational interference. I think that was mostly just from our initial entrance into the area,” Fleet piped up from the helm. Although it was New Years, Kenny wasn’t much for parties, and had decided to abandon the celebrations and keep to his happy place - on the bridge.

“Of course, I could be wrong,” he added, more softly.

Fleet, Helm

Ari growled. She wanted to desperately stop the chaos below, but knew better. “All right. So we are stuck here till we figure this out. Helm, see how fast we are capable of moving. Start with directional impulse. Get us facing the planet. Be careful to maintain distance. If it has a stronger pull than anticipated, we could get stuck in orbit. Or worse, be brought to the ground. Science, see if you can tap into those artificial satellites. If they are speaking English, maybe we can see what is going on and if they are aware of what happened to them.”

Science’s efforts if they tried to tap into the satellites was surprisingly easy. Oddly some of the access points shared common comm accesses that were on par with the Bonaventure herself! The question once they had access was how would they query for information?

Naomi was the science officer assigned to the bridge that day. When things poured in, she wasted no time to relay the information and analyze it. When the orders for the satellites to be tapped into came, she found the task rather easy.

Naturally she found herself a bit shocked at the bizarre similarities.

“What the bloody…” She stopped herself mid sentence to relay the information she gained.

–ENS Naomi D. Locke, Sci

Frowning, she didn’t like the next command. “Engineering, I want you to work out if it’s possible to use transporters to get to the surface and back if we want or needed.”

Over by engineering, they could tell proceeding with transporters was perhaps possible but risky, if they were to make a landing party it probably would be wiser to use a shuttlepod, though it’d be a bumpy ride down it was likely safer then having their atoms due to unexpected anomalies scrambled.

She shook her head. Glancing at Johnathan, she frowned. “If they are speaking English, we need to see if they belong in this region of space. If they don’t, then we have a larger problem on our hands. And if they do belong here, we need to see if our approach triggered them becoming ‘visible’ or ‘arriving’ in this space. I hate to say this, but this is a Captain’s nightmare. I think I should also admit, to at least you, that this is a bit more fascinating to me than it probably should be.” She bit her lip and tried not to laugh, her voice remaining low and just between the two of them. Deep down she knew the safety of the ship came first. And she also knew she had to keep that nearer to the surface for all their sakes. She was keenly aware, as this problem grew more and more interesting, she was going to get more and more wrapped up in it.

Ari CO

Isaac started his tactical scans to see if there are any man-made objects in the area. He was also checking the gravitational data to see if them being Stock was some type of weapon.

Lt. Isaac Black (AC)

Isaac’s scans from a tactical view point showed it was to his knowledge unlikely this gravitic field was a weapon. The patterns just didn’t seem to fit, what he could confirm though was the power to drive such a device....assuming it was artificial mind things would need to be massive. The only obvious point of power source was the planet’s core itself. If it was natural then further information would need to be gleaned by science.

Coming now into orbit high above the nuclear blasted world, low orbit ballistic missiles streaked in a final passing below them harmlessly. Though the impact sites on the cities and tactical points of interest left devastation in their wake. More calls on the comms were picked up now from civilian and military arms either requesting aide, or in the military arm making reports of damage and calling in further military maneuvers.

GM CockRoach

Fleet tested the impulse engines by flying them in an ellipse, keeping parallel to the orbit of the double planets but off the plane of rotation. Once his testing was completed, he very slowly pulled the Bonnie closer to the anomalous planet, keeping a very close eye on gravitational and other assorted forces, ready to pull her back at the first sign of trouble. Before the first sign of trouble.

Fleet, Helm

Coming into orbit was easy enough, no downward sucking came up due to the gravity well of the planet seeming to cancel out the gravitic anomalies now present in the region. So in short they could enter orbit freely enough and not worry about problems long as they had their impulse engines working a little bit.

The bridge intercom activated with the soft Scottish accent of the ships Chief Medical Officer [O]Sickbay to Bridge, I’ve got two patients here with radiation sickness, not a grand problem now but I think we’ve a hole that needs pluggin’. They was in the laundry room[O]

Dr. Grey - CMO

Ari frowned. “I want a ship wide scan. Find out where that radiation is coming from.” She tapped the console by her chair [O]Bridge copies, Medical....We’ll get it taken care of.[C] She tapped another command at her fingertips [O]Engineering, we have a radiation leak somewhere. Reportedly at least one spot is the laundry area. Let’s get that plugged, please. We’re scanning from up here as well [C]

El replied from Engineering. [O] On it Captain. It’s not the ship, though. Everything is good here. [C]

She didn’t like this one bit. Rising to pace slightly, she frowned while staring at the view screen. “We shouldn’t be getting radiation leaking in from what’s happening below. That means it’s something up here.” She took a deep breath. “Helm, take us a bit further back. Circular orbit at distance of widest point in elipse. Let’s try that distance first. We’ll move back further if it doesn’t work.” She paused in the middle of the room, crossed her arms and lifted one hand to her lips to worry on the edge of her finger as she tried not to bite her nails.

Ari CO

Isaac did a radiation scan on The inside and outside of the vessel. 1 to see if there’s any more holes that you plugging and 2 to see where the radiation was coming from and to find out what orbit will be safest.

“ captain can you ask sick bay what type of radiation it is that will help me narrow down the scans for radiation pockets”

Lt. Isaac Black (AC)

Ari glanced back over her shoulder. “Ensign Locke… you have that information?” She had risen up to pace once more and wasn’t looking at her own console at the moment.

Ari CO

Roger looked over at Naomi and gave a wink. “You take the radiation, I’ll monitor all these comms signals.” He looked back at the data coming in. “Captain, I’m picking up a lot of comms chatter, requests for aid and military reports and orders.”

-Roger Ferguson, CSO

Scans of the inside and outside of the ship showed the planet’s recent exchange in near orbit was affecting the local area of space. With now being in a standard orbit pattern they were as it turned out near a thick patch of radioactive waste which had it seems become attached to the ship’s hull near the ship’s laundry room.

Comm traffic continued in fits and spurts, the public access radio traffic was a mess naturally and chaotic to fully make sense of, in short they were in some form just calls for help or mercy from one side or another. Interestingly some references to Earth based culture were also picked up here and there, a lot of it surrounding the area of land where Hollywood at once dwelled.

Military traffic was also chaotic, but more organized, filtered through a series of low orbit satellites which in turn were being attempted to target by both sides it seems to sow chaos in the ranks. The low level missile, laser, and plasma bolt fire in the orbital planes below them was a sight to see for sure, but long as they remained undetected they shouldn’t have any problems there at least.

GM CockRoach

El replied back after a few. [O] Bridge, this is Engineering. We seem to have some radioactive space debris or waste on our hull in that area. Science might be able to confirm, but polarizing the hull might repel it. I’m sending out a team to the laundry area to scan for radiation levels, secure affected areas and begin a decontamination procedure. [C]
El Eng

Isaac got the system ready to polarize the hull Plating. He was also rotating the shield frequency to try and keep themselves from being seen by the satellites and becoming a target themselves.

“Captain if we get any closer the satellites may be able to see us. I am rotating Shield frequencies to mask our approach and I am ready to Polarized the hull plating on your command”

OOC: Note no shields exist on starfleet ships in this era thats not till post rommie-earth war in 2160 at the earliest

OOC: Right it all hull plating right now.

GM CockRoach