Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Bridge - Those Who Remain Behind
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NE Susan turned to adjust the scan readings, “..Maybe sir. But with the local interference it’s going to make tracking animal or people movements from say trees moving much harder.” She said. But a moment later about 30 blips popped up in a scattering around the whole shuttle area and in and around the smoke huts, the caves, and woods surrounding the crash site. “..Ok so we got these 30 signals coming in, some are these big bugs flying around, one second while I filter those out..” She said.

A moment later 6 of the 30 blips went from a red blip to grey blipping, the remaining 24 blips continued to show movement. 3 were near the cave area, another 2 or 3 were near a wooded spot by the huts they had found, another 10 were seemingly at the edge of the woods near the crash site of the shuttle seeming to mill about. The remaining 7 or 8 blips elsewhere seemed indeterminate and the ability to fully lock onto their signals and positions seemed almost impossible. “..There, that’s the best I can do for now. The grey blips are insects flying in the air, the 5-6 blips by the cave and huts could be animals or maybe humans, we’re not sure due to interference, the 10 around the crash site I’m 70ish percent sure are just local wildlife animals. The last 7-8 blips I can’t make sense of. One moment they could be at one spot then the next they’re a half a mile elsewhere, then another they’re in the air, or another below ground. They only explanation I can figure is the local interference is causing scanner reflections, so they may or not be actual target’s we’re picking up..” she said.

GM CockRoach

Green leaned in to peer at the blips as though those few inches would make a difference. “Program an analytic to machine learn what is a person from an animal movement. I think we can assume that those around the edge of the clearing are probably animals. The areas of interest are the building and the cave and if we can learn the movement there we may be able to track them if they move off from there. I have to wonder if they didn’t hear the shuttle going down. That isn’t quiet.”

• Green

NE Cornbuckle took up that assigned task, “..Aye sir, on it now..” He said, a few minutes passed almost ten in fact before he nodded, “..analytic programmed, it’ll probably take the computer a bit to fully analyze and update their status, say maybe a half an hour or so..” he said.

GM CockRoach

Finally making his way back to the bridge after seeing the shuttle pod off, Jonathan looked at the screen with all of the dots moving around it.

“What have you found so far? And any luck communicating with the Captain?”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO