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

Posted by Ensign Aiden Conlon (Linguist/Comms Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Vice Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Bridge
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OOC: Small edit the cargo ships didnt move when you did (since you didnt move as i was corrected in pm, so they just causally moved themselves lol

On the screen the two flanking cargo ships slowly moved on thrusters to spread out slightly with the main freighter still off their forward bow now.

GM CockRoach

Now to just wait and see what the Captain would do, because she did not think the freighters were going to back down so easily.

Cmdr Grace - XO/CSO

Green checked his chrono. Inwardly he was seething with even the broken up message that he had heard. That was damning, at least to him, though he had to admit that what was missing could make his assumptions invalid. Still he was irked with these people and their attitude. They had space savvy. He had to admit that as he saw them shift position. The Lt should be up soon now. He could see a potential chief engineer position in his future. It was not today. As much as that disappointed him Green was a career sailor and knew promotions didn’t always go according to one’s wishes. He was sure it would come. So too he was torn between wanting to stay on the bridge and gain more experience here and being in engineering where he was most familiar. In his 16 years in space he had been around and knew a great deal and tried to push the other engineers to excellence. Where he was now he could be in the thick of it, be where the action was and get his hands dirty. As a Chief there was other things that took one’s attention. Less doing and more administration and other bits. He had done some of that when they were between chief’s this year. Was it possible that he didn’t do a well enough job at it and so was passed over?

But back to the present .. these three. What were they doing? He checked sensor readings on the skin of the ship to see whether they were being scanned and for the fourth time looked at the power EPS relays. This was a new ship and had not exactly been pushed yet beyond cruising speed to this new star. He tapped out a message for Bekele Send out an alert to all hands to stations among the engineers. For now treat it as a drill. Time it for all hands to stations. Situation here pending.

• Green, NL Eng

Less than a minute later the notification beeped on his comms and he checked the message. Good. The follow up call came quickly. =^= Orders sir? =^=
Green replied back. =^= Freighters are acting suspicious. Skipper is challenging them. I don’t expect trouble but keep alert. Prepare power distribution to hull polarization. =^=
=^= Acknowledged. =^= There, that was it. He would check the logs later to see how they did and what they did and make his report to the Chief for improvements. They really had not done much ‘drilling’ like this along the way here. He would make sure at least the engineers were well drilled for any emergency.

Shortly another call came to him, this time from Gagarin. He had to lean in to catch each of the accented words. =^= Gagarin to Lt Green. General Quarters complete. EPS Alpha 9 ready. Damage and Fire crews moving to station. =^=
=^= Very good Mr Gagarin. Carry on. =^=

=^= Green to Armory. Ensign Serinde report. =^=
=^= Rigging up a communicator here Lt. The Armory boys say they can listen in and target as the orders are confirmed from the bridge with only a small loss of time. Having this on an open channel, frequency 387.3, encrypted. =^= There was the sound of tearing duct tape in the background.
=^= Confirm 387.3 Encrypted.=^= He looked over. At the moment there wasn’t a matching communicator at tactical. He would fix that. =^= I will get one set up here. Stand by for a test. =^=

With that Green stood. “Engineering reports systems green standing by,” he reported before moving to the equipment locker to pull out a communicator from the emergency kit used in the event of the built in communications failing. The roll of duct tape followed. So much for high tech solutions.

GM CockRoach

Aiden opened a hail to the freighters as the rest of the crew began to relocate to more combat-oriented stations. =/\= “Cargo ships, please report your reason for being distinctly off your registered course,” =/\= he stated firmly, the neutral, unemotional tone in stark contrast to his normally cheerful demeanor. He fiddled with the comm settings as he asked, trying to amplify any background noise in addition to the main reply.

Ensign Conlon, Comms

Heather tried not to roll her eyes. She may be a simple scientist but she could only see two out comes. Either they were going to deny it, or they were going to just start shooting. Neither would be a useful outcome.

Cmdr. Grace - XO/CSO

• Green, NL Eng