Posted by Captain Arialla Bovar (Captain) in Bridge (Main Sim)

Posted by Commander T’Leia (XO (outgoing)) in Bridge (Main Sim)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Alison Barr (Chief Science Officer) in Bridge (Main Sim)
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The view on the screen switched from a full on shot of grey and black mottled metal to the curvature of what, had it been a world, would have sported an atmosphere. Now it appeared to be the curvature of an asteroid, albeit a very large one. Ahead loomed the open portal that the previous two shuttles had disappeared through. Now, they too swung around to enter.

The moment they did enter the helm would feel the tug of the black hole in the center of the space. Energy readings dotted all about, though, sadly, nothing obvious from the surface of the sphere that looked to be scraped clean leaving only irregular foundations. The energy readings ranged from small, individual locations to larger clusters of energy - none on the surface but all at least a hundred kilometers from the inner surface of the sphere.
- Wookiee

“Captain, I’m not really picking up much,” Alison said as she looked over the energy readings. “The inner surface is bare, only a few irregular structures. But I am getting some energy readings from above the inner surface.”

Ltjg Barr - CSO

((OOc for the record, we just entered the meteor/asteroid ring surrounding the sphere… we aren’t going to enter the sphere, just get closer....))
OOC: For the record … blows raspberry .. ugh .. okay, rewinds tape ..

Ari nodded as they moved closer. “See if you can find a source, Barr. If we can find the hot spot on this thing, maybe we can find a control center of some kind. Although,” she added, grinning at the Science Chief, “if you can find a more unusual cold spot, lemme know. Maybe it’s where the heat is ‘absent’ that we to concentrate.”

She half whispered a silent prayer to the gods to look after her crewmen. It seemed everyone would need a bit of a hope and a prayer right now.

Ari
CO

“I’ll take a look Captain, but I don’t think these clusters are a source of the control center. They seem a bit to erratic. But I’ll see if maybe we can find a cold spot.”

Alison looked over the sensors again, looking to see if there was any notable absences of energy.

Ltjg Barr - CSO

Sensors could find a lot of cold spots where there looked to be simply nothing there emanating.

However in three spots that they could see with their perspective, there were ‘hot’ spots. It looked to be a thermal kind of energy where heat was radiating. By what means and why was another story from that distance. Those spots glowed a rosy red on the screen filtered for thermal energy. There were the other smaller ‘dots’ over the surface showing habitations or other spheres. By scale, the surface regions were enormous.
- Wookiee

Ari frowned. She had hoped a void of sorts would show where, perhaps, some reactor or something wasn’t working properly. “Figures it wouldn’t be that easy,” she murmured to herself. “Ok,” she raised her voice as she reasoned out loud. “So most of those are habitats, or at least clusters of life. But those larger cold spots are a bit erratic as well.” She didn’t exactly figure it would be easy, but she had hoped for ‘something’.

She tapped the console on her chair to call to the away teams. [O]Status update… MACO? Baumann? What’s happening out there? We’ve moved closer to assist but We can’t penetrate the sphere much to see what’s going on.[O]

Ari
CO

“Captain, it’s probably part of the reason why they can’t communicate with the interior of the sphere. I’m not seeing consistent power readings across the sphere. There are a smattering of hot spots, but I’m seeing three main concentrations. These might be where the spheres inhabitants are grouping together…”

Alison looked over the sensor readings again.

“You know Captain. It sort of reminds me of a caste set-up. With a group holding all of the power, and the people without power just struggling to hang on around the main cities.”

Ltjg Barr - CSO

=^=Apologies Captain. We are attempting to evacuate the people here into one of their spacecraft in case our MACO team is unsuccessful. Engineering is having a look at their craft at this time to improve its efficiency.=^=

Commander T’Leia

[O] Roger, T’Leia… keep everyone safe if you can. Most of all I want everyone home safe for dinner tonight.[O] she smiled as she finished the thought, [O]That’s an order.[O]

She left the comms open as they had been, but she turned her attention to Barr. “It makes sense. In a closed environment like that, whether they know it or not, some kind of hierarchy was bound to be created. Ok, so we can’t really make the weakest the strongest. But we also can’t help the strongest stomp the weakest. So… suggestions? My thoughts are we get the leaders together and see if there is a way to work together, or separate them in the sphere so they aren’t on top of one another. Then maybe work together to stay alive?” She had no idea what had started the infighting, so figuring out a solution at this point was premature.

But then she sighed again. How do you tell someone the inside of their world isn’t all there is? She knew it wasn’t her place to simply say ‘hey, there’s a whole universe out there’. But at the same time, she couldn’t just turn her back on them now they were here. “I should have stayed a scientist,” she thought just as her comm system beeped. There was an urgent incoming message. A frown darkened her features as she rose and moved to her ready room, “Barr… hold things together a moment, I need to get this message.”

Growling at the timing, she closed her door and tapped out the code to retrieve the message…

*To: Captain Bovar
From: Vulcan High Command

Captain Bovar,

At this time we would like all exchange officers who are in Command positions in Starfleet to stand down from those positions. This is due to some reorganizations in our different member ranks.

In this regard we would like Commander T’Leia to step down into an advisory or diplomatic capacity until things are finalized.

Thank you for your cooperation at this time.
Vulcan High Command*

“WHAT!?” Her growled anger was heard on the bridge a moment before she came back to her seat and tapped the comm. [O]T’Leia, as of right now, you are adviser to Lieutenant Commander Baumann, who is hereby field promoted to XO. Orders from High Command.[O] She knew it would throw things into a kilter on the away mission, but if she didn’t do this now, things that occurred after the missive had reached her, and she’d been seen as reading it, could make things hairy for them all. She just hoped everyone could keep it together and just do what they were doing. She had faith in Baumann to step up, he was practically her third in command down there as it was.

[O] Lieutenant Baumann, you are hereby field promoted to Lieutenant Commander and made XO for the duration of the mission. T’Leia is your adviser. Mission parameters haven’t changed. I have every faith in you. [O] She knew the words weren’t very comforting, but it couldn’t be helped. Still… the question remained… how do you help a sequestered species without interfering too much?

Ari
CO

In his typical even and calm manner, Baumann responded over the comms to T’Leia and the Bonaventure bridge. The only response was [O] Understood, Captain. [O] and then his comms switched back to the frequency that included the ‘discussion’ with the Raider group.

Baumann, AC