Posted by Gamemaster Creeping Dread (GM) in Bridge - Readying the Ship for Departure

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Alexander Stewart (Chief Armory Officer) in Bridge - Readying the Ship for Departure

Posted by Commander Natalia Ivanka Petrenkov (Executive Officer/Chief Science Officer) in Bridge - Readying the Ship for Departure
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“Stewart, scan for signatures or anomalies, Conlon, search for signals and hails and try a general hail, anything that someone might pick up.” Marceau said, and then used the comm system to page engineering: =/\= “Bridge to engineering, I need a power status. Is there any way we can move faster?” =/\=

~ Capt Renault

“Scanning, sirr.” Stewart said as he had already been scanning and watching for anything out of the normal.

~Lt. Commander Alexander Stewart CAO

Sickbay sent confirmation to the Comms station that Rachel and her small staff were ready to receive any potential injured as well as read to head away at a moments notice.

Dr Grey- CMO

[O]Faster Captain? I’m an engineer Captain, not a miracle worker. We’ve already got one of the fastest ships in the fleet. How much faster are you wanting us to go?[O]

Lt. Paige Garrison - CE

“Aye, Captain,” Aiden replied. “Sickbay reports full mission readiness.” He set the system for a wide-band transmission. “Civilian Vessels, this is the Starship Sojourner. Please Respond.”

Ensign Aiden Conlon
Linguist/Comms Officer

“I want to reach the first coordinates quickly. We don’t know how many supplies the ship had left.” Renault said into the comms. He nodded to Conlon’s notification.

~ Capt Renault

OOC: I read back .. we are doing our max cruising speed of 3.8. Can do 3.9 for up to 12 hours and 4.0 for 3 hours. We’ve not been upgraded yet to post Xindi upgrade. Gene

Natalia was humming quietly to herself at the Science station as she listened and waited.

Commander Natalia Petrenkov, XO/CSO

OOC: thanks, Gene.

IC:

“Helena, bring us to warp 3.9, try to cover some more ground.” Marceau said.

~ Capt Renault

“Aye, Sir.” Her hand moved over to the throttle, slowly bringing the ship up to 3.9. The hum of the engines increased, Helena could feel it in her hands on the controls and through the soles of her feet. She loved the feel of how smoothly the Sojo responded to the controls.

Lt. Laursen, Helm/Navigation Officer

[O]Bridge, Engineering here. You’ve got about…12 hours before our systems start to over heat and shut down. Then we are definitely going have slow down Captain.[O]

Lt. Paige Garrison - CE

No one answered the hails and no anomalies were within sensor range. The Sojourner had been at maximum warp for almost nine of the twelve hour shut off time. It was beginning to look like they’d need to slow down and vent the engines soon. But… a faint transmission was received though it was full of static.

~Creeping Dread

“Transmission coming in, Captain. Trying to clarify.”

Ensign Aiden Conlon
Linguist/Comms Officer

“Can we tell where it’s coming from? It could tell us which direction to go.” Marceau said, looking around the bridge.

~ Capt Renault

The engines were going to start showing the extra work that had been placed on them. Helena spoke over her shoulder, “We’re reaching the nine of twelve hour mark for the engines, Captain. Should I drop to impulse to vent the engines while we search for a signal?”

Lt. Laursen, Helm/Navigation Officer

Only fragments of words were coming through. Nothing that could be made sense of. Any attempt to triangulate the signal would conclude that their course needs to turn to port 23 degrees but distance is still undetermined.

~Creeping Dread
OOC: I am returned from LOA. Had a great vacation!
IC:
Stewart immediately began to triangulate and scan in the area where the signal was coming from to see if there any ships in the area.

~Lt. Commander Alexander Stewart CAO

Marceau nodded. “Drop to impulse, vent the engines. Keep triangulating the signal and follow it.”

~ Capt Renault

“Aye Sir, dropping to impulse,” Helena responded. The constant noise of the engines’ hum lowered as the ship dropped from warp. Her hands rested over the controls, waiting for a possible course correction.

Lt. Laursen, Helm/Navigation Officer

Natalia ran a scan for any vessels in the surrounding area and tried to locate where the signal could be coming from paying close attention to any warp signatures.

Commander Natalia Petrenkov, XO/CSO

The Sojourner exited warp in the proximity of what seemed to be an asteroid field. There were still no ships on scan but the asteroid field could very well be making any signatures. The triangulation of the signal indicated it was coming from somewhere deep in the field.

~Creeping Dread

Stewart frowned, “It will be verry difficult to find ships in tharr, whetherr frriend orr foe.” He warned as he put the scanners on shorter scan to enhance the definition of the scans.

~Lt. Commander Alexander Stewart CAO

The shorter scan narrowed the direction of the signal origin but didn’t discover what was sending it. There was nothing that could be down to narrow it down further without getting closer.

~Creeping Dread

“Sojourner to unidentified vessel. Please repeat with as strengthened a signal as possible,” Aiden transmitted, just on the off chance they were capable of replying.

Ensign Aiden Conlon
Linguist/Comms Officer

The signal continued as it was though the Sojourner’s proximity did make some of the message decipherable. “static disabled static unknown static assistance static oh no…” The message repeats.

~Creeping Dread

“We need to get closerr, sirr, forr the signal to get clearrerr.” Stewart said as he worked on the sensors to try and get a sense of what it was coming from.

~Lt. Commander Alexander Stewart CAO

“That sounded a little ominous, no? Let’s keep on our guards and move in,” Marceau said.

~ Capt Renault

Helena looked at the field un front of them. Navigating an asteroid field in a ship the size of Sojourner was not the same as doing it in a shuttle. “Aye Captain. Moving to enter the asteroid field a one quarter impulse.” She would need time and careful thrusters to maneuver safely.

Lt. Laursen, Helm/Navigation Officer

A quarter impulse was going to prove a bit optimistic. As the Sojourner neared the outer edges of the field Helena would see that the spacing and speed of the rocks, big and small, was chaotic. Trying to fit the ship in there was going to need a deft hand at a much slower speed.

~Creeping Dread

Helena brought the ship to a full stop. “Captain, I can take the ship in there,” Helena had the skill, “but it’s going to be a tight fit. Those rocks are moving more wildly than I would like to take Sojourner in there. We could take a shuttle, but a smaller craft would take more damage if we get hit.” Helena reminded herself sternly to not think about 3rd year right now.

Lt. Laursen, Helm/Navigation Officer

“If the shuttle gets in trrouble in therre, we canna get in to get it out. We could use the Main Deflectorr to make ourrselves a path.” Stewart suggested.

~Lt. Commander Alexander Stewart CAO

Natalia stood thinking for a second, then had an idea. She began to try and track the movement of the asteroids to see if they could predict where they were going to move. It was her hope that she could help plot a course through the field.

Commander Natalia Petrenkov CSO/XO

Marceau couldn’t help but remember third year and shuddered involuntarily. He nodded to Stewart, “We should polarize our hull plating. I’m not entirely confident the deflector can do it, but we may have to try that.”

~ Capt Renault

“Aye sirr, hull polarrized.” Stewart said crisply.

Helena waited for confirmation that the hull had been polarized. “Dropping to one-thirty-second impulse.” It was enough to give them a bit of momentum from full stop and then Helena used just the thrusters to move them through the field. It was tense and required a quick and very steady hand on the controls. Luckily Helena had both in full measure.

Lt. Laursen, Helm/Navigation Officer

OOC: Choose a number between one and ten please.

The ship drifted into the field under that low impulse and Helena’s piloting with the thrusters got them past the perimeter successfully but then density and speed of the rocks increased. The deflector was able to push some of the forward oriented ones out of the way but the armor took some hits the others it couldn’t. Armor integrity dropped by fifteen percent and the ship shook moderately. So far the danger wasn’t extreme but continuing on was going to increase that.

~Creeping Dread

“Arrmorr integrity down 15%, Captain.” Stewart said with a frown as he held onto his board with one hand and began rerouting systems with the other. “Rrerrouting non essential systems to give morre powerr to the hull polarrization , Captain.”

Helena slowed almost to a stop to let some of the rocks pass. “Captain,” she spoke over her shoulder. She was loathe to say she couldn’t do it. She could, but she didn’t think it was wise. “Space is three-dimensional. Maybe we can back out and go around. Circle above or below the belt to get closer to the signal.”

Lt. Laursen, Helm/Navigation Officer

~Lt. Commander Alexander Stewart CAO

OOC: Ya don’t have shields. The polarized hull is your armor.

~Creeping Dread

OOC: 7

IC:

Natalia held onto the edge of the Science station as the ship shook. She took a breath as her pulse began to quicken. She continued to see if she could see if the movement of the asteroids could be predicted.

Commander Natalia Petrenkov CSO/XO

OOC:fixed:)
~Lt. Commander Alexander Stewart CAO

OOC: I’m going to let Lucas respond before I take Tom’s number choice and put it in effect.

~Creeping Dread

OOC: Tom’s 7 stands XD

IC:

“Try to circle below,” Marceau said, voice tight, though he was trying to keep it relaxed. The man was terrified to fly and the shaking was terrifying to him. “Allez, Helena, maintenant,” he added, slipping into his native language.

~ Capt Renault