Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Plant Surface Team 2 - Back At The Base
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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!

GM CockRoach

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: Moving this along some with the use of a MACO NE and what not!

Nearby hopping down from one of the upper catwalks, MACO NE Charles joined Naomi and the others after their patrol on the upper catwalks finished. He returned with a report in hand from a hand scanner which he offered to the science NE Samuel. Turning Samuel addressed Naomi who was by default it seems referred to as the senior most officer in charge. “..Ma’am, seems that this is for sure the source of the energy emissions we picked up in orbit. Still not sure what its generating but its powerful beyond known sciences. From what we can piece together the main reactor is a four tiered system building upon the other to ramp up the projections of energy output for the final fourth tier generator before us.” he said gesturing to the massive cavern sized sphere above them.

”..The first tier of power comes from these fusion reactors here, they seem to be nothing more then standard Starfleet issue fusion generators salvaged off an impulse motor. No different then what we use on the Bonaventure in fact. These are then tied into a secondary system which their power is fed through a strange mix of Starfleet and some kind of alien reactor using something similar to a matter/antimatter reaction chamber the output here is almost equal to our own Warp 5 engine on the ship.” He explained pointing to a rack of nearby fusion generation plants which in turn fed plasma and fluids into a matter/antimatter reaction chamber.

Continuing with his explanation he nodded to a nearby series of massive pipes and conduits, “..In turn this output is then combined with siphoned geothermal energy turbines deeper below us in the bedrock, tying almost literally into the planet’s core. These are then combined together into another reaction chamber there..” he said pointing to a spinning pair of reaction systems along the wall. “..These produce together some kind of unknown energy particle reaction which is sent to the final power tier into the massive reaction chamber above us..” he said indicating the final chamber around the cavern. “..This particle is beyond our understanding as is how it’s harnessed exactly, but from what we can piece together it seems to be encasing not just this planet but as we’ve seen almost 10 light years in radius a gravitic anomaly. I would hazard it is akin to a warp bubble around our starships. Somehow it folds space along similar properties transporting this planet to its destination, effectively transferring the planet across space. The problem is that there is I think an unintended side effect from subspace we’re seeing, it’s possible this device not only can transplant the planet through space but also through time. How is certainly beyond me…” he said.

”..That said, it seems control of this power reaction is setup by that control panel before you, something lifted right out of our own engine room in fact I’d think, furthering the stories we’ve heard of outside influences possibly by Earth people. So I’d think if we look closer we could certainly devise how to turn this off or on or even adjust it for further uses if we wanted..” He finished.

Looking at the master control panel nearby NE Samuel did seem correct in their assumption of this panel being a ‘master switch’ for this whole contraption of Earth and Alien technologies. We the flip of a few switches and a pull of a lever or two they could easily devise how to shut this off. But what they could also see was that a tiny indescribable fraction amount of this power was also being siphoned off to a nearby facility in the opposite direction of from where they had entered. If they deemed to access a report and translated this alien language output to English they found it read the following. =/\= Reactor power output for cryo capsulation facility is online, status: 39.57% efficiency, life sign status: 3 out of 38 cryo capsules still operational =/\= It reported.

GM CockRoach

Samual’s words were technobabble that Naomi failed to keep up with. Engineering was never her area of interest and the less she needed to know, the better in her opinion. She didn’t trust herself to keep a starship running, let alone certain house hold items. Certain parts were simple enough that she raised her eyebrow, a mixture of horror and impressed at the combination. Part of her was grateful they hadn’t brought anyone extremely into Engineering or getting them out might have been an issue.

Once the man finished, she told him to shut it off while she observed the door. Moments ticked by until the man mentioned something about power being siphoned off causing her eyes to dart to his direction. She immediately pulled away and read the report, her eyes widening in shock.

Immediately she opened the communication lines to the ship.

=^= Locke here. We located the energy source and were in the process of shutting it down, but we discovered something. Some of it is being used to power 38 cryo capsules. If we turn it off, only 3 of those will survive. Advice?=^=

She hoped her senior officers didn’t ask her to be a murder. While there was no proof these were human, she wouldn’t have put it past the people here to experiment on their own kind. The very thought made her shudder.

-ENS Naomi D. Locke, Sci