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Bane touched a simple control pad on the armrest. Nothing he did looked to activate anything manually but it lit up. A moment later he replied, “Captain, the Bane has no interest in getting in your way of helping whomever is there within. Your sensors can, if you are closer, identify them. On the screen there appeared a rough area of the inner space with the black hole at its center. There appeared three circles … whether they were best guesses or regions or both .. “When you are closer you can focus your sensors there. “
- Bane

Melissa continued with her patrol and awaited further orders.

Maco

Melissa was checking the system access logs when a junior Maco, one NCO Julian Fields, whispered to her. “I hear we’re getting a bunch of the aliens over here for some conference. What kind of security should we set up for that?” Glancing to the ‘Bane’ his cheek twitched. “Is that okay?”
- NC Julian ..

“If you get me close enough Captain, I can definitely see if we can find those singularities. But we are going to have to get much closer.”

Looking at her console, Alison had a feeling that they would almost have to enter the sphere in order to get a good scan of those areas.

Ltjg Barr - CSO

((Can someone please clip… Tried on my cell and nearly lost it all lol… Thanks))

Ari glanced at the screen. They would have to be much closer. She didn’t like the idea, but it couldn’t be helped, apparently.

She nodded to Barr. “Alright folks, let’s see what there is to see. Helm, one quarter impulse. And only till we get readings. I definitely DON’T want to go inside that… thing.” She frowned slightly as she wondered just how much help Bane was being. Either he truly didn’t care who they helped, or she was about to get shot in the back, so to speak.

Ari
CO
((NE Julian… I don’t believe Melissa is on the bridge… Was that a typo?))

The ship was able to move to the threshold of the Sphere and hold there. Sensors were able to pick up everything that was noteworthy on a broad scale. They were able to see farther than the shuttle pods and note that there were regions of the space where there were a number of Sphere (small) clusters while two areas picked up larger clusters. So too there were broad swaths of the surface/area around where there was nothing. The surface in close up scans showed bare metal and in other areas where there looked to be girders or ribs of the surface virtually pulled up and twisted. They were at that point able to pick out the Bonnie’s shuttle pods in one area not too far into the entry.

Nearer to the core they could pick up one faint detection of what could be a gateway that Bane was speaking of. There was a lot of interference from the black hole with the sensors and the energy around it.
- Wookiee