Posted by Commander Heather Grace (Executive Officer/Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Ensign Elemirre Serinde (Engineering Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Bridge
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=/\= Well as you say its out of the way. Good for us haulers to regroup sometimes, swap supplies, maybe crew, stories, and well that planet you’re orbiting around as you probably noticed is a nice place to shack up for a night or three to relax in between trips when we’re in the area..=/\= He said. =/\= Havent uh…had too much trouble with the local wild life have you? Those mountain cats are particularly territorial during their mating season and birthing times. =/\= He said the tone slightly evident that he was trying though failing to conceal some other motive or information.

Reggie felt that there were things unsaid. This was an entirely out of the way place to just happen to be ‘in the area’. If they had been sent out to explore it and set a claim to it then it wasn’t on a trade route or they’d have been here before now doing just that. = A real home away from home =^= Green commented neutrally. Haulers weren’t fast. They were merchants. Camping in a system away from the trade routes - he’d have to check on that actually - was not profitable. He then noticed the XO coming by and he breathed in relief as she took over. Perhaps she wasn’t as suspicious as he was, but then he usually was when it came to these haulers.

=^=We saw traces of the cats, but didn’t see any of them ourselves, but I appreciate your warning Captain,=^= Heather said as she stepped towards the center of the bridge, where she nodded towards Lt. Green. She had walked onto the bridge at the beginning of the Captain’s reply.

=^=We only had a chance to do a short survey mission so far. If you have any other insight into the planet we’d definitely appreciate it. Perhaps some recommendations on places to visit while we are here. =^=

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO

=/\= Well nothing really worth pointing out, good R&R spot but nothing else worth doing. We found a few samples of deeper minerals for industrial projects maybe but effort to get them would be not worth it for Earth at this time. The quality is too poor I hear for you Fleeties to use for your fancier ships…=/\= He said. The tone sounded friendly but an undercurrent of probably wanting the Soujourner and Starfleet gone from the system was there at the edge of his tone.

Green moved away from the screen to the far side of the bridge where the comms station was. A Chief Petty was there, what was her name, Carter, yes, Melody Carter. She was an attractive, round faced robust looking brunette. Leaning over he asked in a low voice, “Chief, bring up a map of area trade routes. Does anything pass by here?” He glanced over to the screen, silently assessing Captain Baker while Melody worked her console.

• Green

Green murmured under his breath, “Sorry mate, us ‘Fleeties’ will be around for a while.” He then grunted as he looked at the data.

Pulling up the maps of documented trade routes from the Merchant arm of Earth, officially the closest route was one from Earth passing to Vulcan. Which by warp 1-2 or so was from here still almost 2-3 weeks off course from that route. Having one much less three of these ships show up out of no where was certainly odd. It was possible there were undocumented registered trade routes United Earth Merchants were keeping off the books that passed by this system which would make a group trip into unknown space more likely for protection and stopping here for basic R&R as claimed. But it was still odd.

“Unless there are other significant worlds beyond here to warrant such a course deviation ..” Reggie shook his head and scratched at his beard. “It sounds like they’ve been doing some prospecting. Cats. Minerals. Natives.” As he thought ..

As this all came up on their data bank screen for Green. NE Hollands leaned over from one of the side consoles, murmuring quietly. “..Sir? Maybe its nothing, and maybe its a poor scan result, but I think I’m picking up non-human life signs on the Barker. Not fully sure because there seems to be some radiation interference nearby in the hold by it but they might be a match for the native cave dwellers down below..” he said.

GM CockRoach

Reggie’s back stiffened at that. “This is just a audio call. Chief, put the map of the trade route on the screen for the XO to refer to. Extrapolate further along on the star map to see if there is anything beyond that might justify trading ships going through here. Ensign Hollands, put your scan results up on the screen as well. And continue to work to refine your scans and identify the radiation type and life forms.”

Standing he moved along the edge of the bridge to catch the XO’s attention and gestured that information was coming up onto the screen.
- Green, NL Eng

Heather saw Green moving around and nodded towards him. Granted she had spent her career in Starfleet, and had grown up on Earth, but she never quite understood the frustrations of the freighters.

=^= That’s unfortunate to hear, but thank you for the input Captain. Any chance you would be willing to share your data with us? The brass are wanting us to do a survey of the planet, and anything you’d be willing to share might help us in getting on our way that much sooner. =^=

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO

Aiden slipped quietly onto the bridge, taking his station from NE Charles and quickly familiarizing himself with the situation. The linguist was quite a bit paler than normal, but otherwise in fairly decent condition. Having an idea, he started scanning to see if there was any communication between the three freighters co-occurring with their call with the Sojourner.

Aiden Conlon, Comms/Linguist