Posted by Lieutenant Kenneth Fleet (Helm) in Main Sim - Plant Surface Team 2 - Back In The Woods

Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Plant Surface Team 2 - Back In The Woods
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=/\= Sir just to let you know Bauuman requested an emergency transport to the ship a few minutes ago, he’s safely back aboard. =/\= The NE said.

[O] Understood. [O]

Jonathan wasn’t sure if he should let out a sigh of relief that Baumann had not been captured, or a curse that he had to call for an emergency transport in the first place. But there was no time to worry about that for now.

Melissa’s training helped with making sure that they were able to keep some cover. Search and rescue had been part of her basic training. She looked at Emerson. They arrived at the building that Bauuman had last been seen in, she and Emerson looked for a window to see if they could see anything within the building before going in.

MACO

Melissa’s looking found the building that Bauuman had been in was completely empty....

GM CockRoach

Tapping his comm unit, Jonathan sent a triple click through on the Colonel’s channel, one of the prearranged signals that meant for her team to return back to the rendezvous point.

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

“So what about the energy source under the abandoned building? We never discovered what it was or why it’s even being hidden. In fact, I don’t even think we tried very hard.” Naomi piped up, not caring anymore what the XO might think of her behavior.

Every time she thought about the unknown energy reading, it gnawed at her and she felt it was important. In what way, she wasn’t sure. She thought leaving it a mystery might, later on, cause them to regret it. Unfortunately, it appeared stealth wasn’t this group’s great strength making her wonder if the mystery was worth risking their lives to solve. Most of what they did was fiddle with a black box that as yet yielded very little answers to anything save something they already knew. Something was off with the advancements here.

–ENS Naomi D. Locke, Sci

Checking out the base could be a wise idea, they still didn’t know what the energy source was knowing this could help them figure out how to undo the massive gravity anomalies that were stranding them here in this system.

GM CockRoach

“You are right Naomi. But we also don’t know where to start looking. That was one thing Baumann was supposed to be helping to find. Maybe Nissek was able to find something in her scouting around the perimeter,” Johnathan said turning to look at Nissek. Hopefully she had something for them to go on.

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

Nissek took a look at the readings she had gathered from the perimeter. “The local wildlife shows evidence of mutations of several different varieties. These are the sort of mutations one would expect from radiation, extra limbs, increases and decreases in intelligence, increasing ferocity, however they appear to be happening far faster than would be expected of radiation toxicity or anything similar,” She reported, looking to the Commander. “No information on what this energy source may be.”

~ Nissek

We also got distracted by the pilot and our image around him. That didn’t turn out too well, now did it? Naomi resisted the retort. She knew when Baumann called for retrieval, the odds for further investigation dropped. Something had happened, but she couldn’t understand what. The grounds were seemingly abandoned and now her imagination threatened to run wild. Naomi took a deep breath to calm herself.

Upon hearing Nissek’s report, she pressed her finger to her lips. “I don’t like that sounds of that. If the source is underground, there’s likely a way to get to it. I doubt it’s natural. I feel it would’ve had a bigger influence on their evolution if that was the case.”

She immediately pulled her own scanner out. Its power source had been replaced back in since the black box proved useless. Her hand held it close to Nissek’s, information downloaded into the other device. It showed everything Naomi had collected upon first finding the oddity.

“This is everything I found out on the thing when I scanned for it about twice I think.”

–ENS Naomi D. Locke, Sci

OOC: Dealing with car troubles please bare with me a day or so!

GM CockRoach

Kenny picked up a stone and tossed it from hand to hand, thinking about the situation. It was a bit of a mess, and it didn’t help that no one seemed to have the whole picture. Naomi seemed to be doing well trying to figure everything out, but the pilot didn’t have much to contribute other than standing around and listening to all the discussion. “Think the pilot and his crew have moved on?” he asked, glancing around. Maybe he could continue that scouring of the base. Maybe that power source they were looking for might be accessible from somewhere in the compound?

Fleet, Helm

They did still have some time before the Captain was expecting their next check in, they might as well see what they could still find. Hopefully with the pilot gone, there would be no more surprises. Though it would have been nice to find out what they knew about this installation.

“Okay, let’s hook up with the MACO’s and then get back to our original mission. Naomi, Nissek, look over the scans you have and see what your best approximation of where the energy signature is coming from. We’ll head for the opening in the fence, and see if we can find a building close to the energy source, and see if we can find ourselves a hidden entrance. Sound good everyone?”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO