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The weapon Isaac had looked like and old Cold War style Russian assault rifle. He looked it over and popped the mag out “good were using .223 this will be good” he said as he mad a Quick sling for his rifle. “Ok weapons 101 have you done basic weapon training” he asked El

Looking closer at the rifle Isaac could see it looked quite close to the following (OOC: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/05/Fo1_assault_rifle.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/144?cb=20110207042909 ) except it had a drug magazine vs a box magazine. The caliber was also in a heavy .50 caliber cartridge. The rifle also had a red blinking light on the side for some reason he couldn’t yet fathom.

OOC: Alas, unable to open the link Rob :( Or is it just me? .. gene
Also, do I see the red light on the one that El picked up?

OOC: Link seems to work for me just fine? Try this link? https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Assault_rifle_(Fallout) and yes the red light is on the other weapons too

Lt. Isaac Black (AC)

“If you find any communication devices, I would like to see them, they may help us figure out the alien language a little better. and El, you can help me figure out how they work.” Lt. Sanks asked as he continued to work on the library for the captain.

Lt. Sanks, Linguist.

Leaving the MACO’s to what they do best, El slung the rifle over her shoulder. It must have looked a bit comical on her smaller frame but she bore it easily enough. She hadn’t seen anything obvious on the one she was searching, but she knew one had a comms unit as they heard him call on it. “This one over here has one,” she said to Roger. Moving over towards the duo she did a search on his person. Military radios were never small and never hidden. It was like they needed to be seen and manipulated, at least on Earth. El hoped this was similar and not a small comms unit, easily dropped and crushed.

• El, Eng

Interestingly the hand unit she found was integrated into the helmet. This alone wouldn’t be odd but what was odd was the design setup was almost an exact match for what the MACOs used in combat situations! Something was seriously strange going on here.

GM CockRoach

El had, in her limited venue with the British military college where she did her education and training, an even more limited training with the troops. It was mostly a ‘showing everyone what everyone else did to have an appreciation of their skills’. She didn’t mind the MACO like training but her calling was engineering and that week was to her a bit of a speedbump to get her closer to her engines. But one thing it did do was allow her to be familiar with what others did and what they used. And the comms equipment was something she was more familiar with - that was as close to engineering as she got, shy of building a bridge and engineering a shelter. What she picked up was, at first, not odd at all. Comms that she was familiar with. Then she realized she was on an alien world.

“Isaac, Rende,” she said, calling them over. “If this had a Earth sticker on it I’d say it was one of ours.” She tossed the helmet to the first of them who came close. Her mind ran amok. They’d never been here. This was not a world they had on their charts. In fact it just appeared. It was split between two races - human and something else. It didn’t look like Earth, but it seemed to be very close. She was itching to take one apart and see what it looked like under the hood. Where had the humans come from? How long had they been here? “What’s going on here?” she mused to herself. The woman won’t be good for answering anything in her condition, not that El would want to prod her to. And likely they’d only get lies from the soldiers who think they were from the ‘North’.

Did everyone have a comms unit in their helmet? It was one thing to see the packaging and note that it looked the same. But what was underneath for the components? She looked at another helmet to see ..

• El, Eng

It did appear all the soldiers had comm units like this one from what El could see.

El sat cross legged and worked on peeling back a layer of the helmet to see the electronic guts of it. Around her she could hear and catch glimpses of the others doing things in the background. There were a lot of questions sprouting up like bamboo shoots and this was one of them. This was her swim lane and she was intent on burrowing down in it to figure some of this out, or discover more.

Rende walked over sweeping the surrounding area visually and keeping an ear out for anything out of the ordinary. She caught the helmet and looked at it. Rende had seen almost the exact same configuration on Earth centuries before. She couldn’t say that though. She placed a hand over what should be the microphone. “I’d have to agree. It’s very close to what we still use in the MACOs. Helps keep our hands free and communicate at the same time. Usually voice activated by default. Might be best if we turn it off, or I can slip it on and see what I can find out.”

2nd Lt Asam, MACO

El would leave it to her and the Captain for that assessment. That was above her rank grade to suggest trying it out, though it wasn’t like she didn’t mess with things with hacking the transmission. She took up another helmet from one of the others and took a closer look at how it was put together and where she could work a quick disassemble. “I wonder .. just how close.”

Isaac thought for a few moments “well have you ever thought about the possibility because this planet just appeared here so it might be possible that this planet is for me alternate universe” he then Smiled and wink at them “Come on crazy is part of the job description for Starfleet” he joked

Lt. Isaac Black (AC)

“That’s just science fiction,” El said. “From where? We’re nowhere near Earth. This planet slipped into place like it belonged there. I don’t see it.” That being said, her tone was not exactly convincing, and she frowned in her work, eyes glancing toward where others were working on helping the injured woman.

• El, Eng

Rende didn’t say a word nor did her facial features give her away. If only they knew how NOT science fiction that theory was. Eldorian could speculate better if that was what was happening here or not. Technical stuff wasn’t her area of expertise.

As the group was standing around the younger woman whose life they had saved was starting to come around with a groan.

GM CockRoach

El glanced over at the sound. At least she was alive. The doctor was attending her. That was her space. This was El’s. She reached into the helmet and worked at it further.

Rachel looked at the woman, She had given her some painkillers so she shouldn’t be in too much pain “Be careful there Pet, you were seriously injured” She said with a slight smile. “What’s your name?” She asked

Dr. Grey - CMO

Ari had been looking around and listening. The death of the older woman pained her, but she managed to brush it aside and take a deep breath. “Welcome to the party, Asam.” She remembered the woman from her late night bridge rotations. Asam had often been on the bridge in the security position at those times. They weren’t well known to one another. But Ari hoped she had at least spoke the woman’s name correct.

Rende nodded, “Captain.” Her greeting was brief but respectful. Her eyes never seemed to stop moving. Focusing close in and far away and never at the same spot longer than a few seconds at a time. Searching and quartering the area visually.

“Ok, so first things first. We need to make sure all communication devices and weapons are gone from these soldiers,” she waved to those unconscious around them. She glanced at the helmets and thought a moment. “Make sure those helmets, minus one we will take to hopefully use in listening in, are placed over there.” She pointed to the vehicles, “They will be found if searched for, but not be easily obtained when they wake. Then I want the soldiers carefully placed behind this barricade. I want them out of the way before they wake up. They’ll be found eventually, I’m sure. But I don’t want them to be able to describe us beyond what they’ve glimpsed in the firefight.”

At least two of the five were off, and it wouldn’t take much to gather the others. El would leave the heavy lifting to the MACO’s, though if need be she would lend a hand.

Rende slung her rifle to her back knelt down and searched the first solider, collecting anything of use. Then she pulled the soldier to sitting, she drew one of his arms behind her neck, positioned her shoulder low and heaved and then pushed to standing, carrying him fireman style to the barricade, behind it, and set him down as gently as her slighter frame would allow. Then she repeated the process with the others. “Captain,” she pointed to the pile of items she’d found, “I did leave them with water.” If they weren’t going to kill them or leave them on someone’s door step that was the least they could do. They might be near a city but there was no telling what their resources were like, or if these soldiers even belonged to this city.

She turned and moved into the space between the barricades and the vehicles they had taken cover behind. “If the woman can travel, I fear we should be going soon. And while it pains me to say it, the older woman should be placed in a location not easily seen by anyone passing by. We need to get moving.” She glanced around. “Gather anything of use from the soldiers and let’s get going before they are missed and searched for. We never saw them.”

Rende picked up the older woman’s body and looking for a quiet shaded place carried her over. She found a scrap of sheet or similar and draped it over her gently whispering a soft prayer for the woman and returned. As she worked she took in what they knew, both from the initial information gathered before they came down and now as the events unfolded. Something was nagging at her, and over the centuries (wouldn’t the rest of the ship have a heart attack if they knew) she had learned to trust her gut. Dropping her voice to a just barely audible whisper (as this activated her person to person comm unit) Eldorin, isn’t this a little reminiscent of say, Belfast 1974? One piece of hold-over El-Aurian technology that she and Eldorin still used. After all these years it just didn’t feel right to not be a voice inside each others’ ears.

Never saw them but just happen to have their rifles and radio? That would be a trick of sleight of hand for sure.

She hated leaving like this, but it couldn’t be helped. They hadn’t been on the surface even a few hours and already this? What was the rest of the day going to be like.

She only hoped the XO and Baumann were fairing better. “I need to get us out of here,” she murmured under her breath as she helped to moved the soldiers and search them for more useful items.

Ari CO

“There should be some kind of shelter around that we can find,” El replied. But not too close to this scene. She chewed her lip. If they were pegged as soldiers from the North that would enlist a rather sizeable search party.

• El, Eng

Shelter was plenty they were after all on the edge of a large city, there were buildings of all sizes around them ahead.

GM CockRoach

Rende returned and walked up to the captain, still scanning the surrounding area her rifle back at ready in her hands. “Captain would you like me to take point or rear scout?”
2nd Lt Asam, MACO