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Eyeing over the massive cavernous room was a chore. While probably about 70% of it was taken up by the huge spherical ‘core’ of the energy source, and another 20% was various levels upon sublevels of steel holed flooring and ladders, there was still quite a lot of equipment to slog through, scan, catalog, and translate its purpose.

As a result of this the search dragged on for at least five hours, during which time they were not disturbed by anyone else thankfully. Radiation levels also remained constant and did not rise up. Finally though as they slid down the last level of grating to the floor which was made out of thick iron mineral rock overlaid by more steel grating plates they found a massive display screen which held a large winding control panel with levers, dials, and switches. The odd and funny part of this was much of its make up was almost to the exact dial the main control system’s board that one would find in main engineering in front of the ship’s warp core for the Bonaventure! Labels were rewritten from english to the alien script, but otherwise there was an exact working match! To confound this mystery further checking serial number plates on the side and the like found they were a match for the SS Greyhound still under construction around Earth! Except carbon dating on them put them at least 100-200 years old!

Looking things over the control panel was tied into the main massive reactor above them, tied in by a hodgepodge of alien machinery, Earth based know how, and some kind of mish mash of both sciences by unknown hands. In short they had found the main control panel and switching for the device above! They could easily study it further, turn it off, ramp up power, or more from here. Though fiddling with it beyond an ‘off’ choice who knew what it might do!

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Naomi’s stress only increased with the time gradually passing during their search. Every time she made a sound or moved something, her eyes snapped back to the doorway. Thankfully, their task didn’t draw any unwanted attention. Upon reaching what appeared to be a control room, her paranoia had finally subsided. She didn’t expect it to last long as she eyed up the strange machine then glanced at the other two.

“So… anyone know where the off switch is for this?” She hadn’t noticed how familiar the layout was when she asked her question. Though given some time, she might realize it.

-ENS Naomi D. Locke, Sci

OOC: Sends out the search part for her party. (bump)

-Janice B

OOC: Do we need a search party for the search party? :P

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