Posted by Lieutenant Colonel Melissa Barber-Tafoya (MACO) in Bridge (Main Sim)

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

Posted by Lieutenant Colonel Melissa Barber-Tafoya (MACO) in Bridge (Main Sim)
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SNIP

Isaac bolted from his seat and was in the turbo lift with in seconds he got the pattern and he answers from storage grabbed a few sets of them then he got the hypospray tag he needed and was on his way to the transport room. As he stepped onto the transporter pad he waited patiently just for the officer to get a stable lock to Beam him down. He opened his COM device =^= Lieutenant black to make it on site I’m on my way down with pattern answers and a tag formula to help with the evacuation =^= then he looked up at the transport officer and said “ Energize“

Lt. Isaac black (AC)

[0]Captain, we have people ready to beam up. [0]

MACO

OOC: Wow. One long weekend and see what I miss ..
IC:

The range was not far from the City sphere so the Bonnie could get in quite close to reduce the range and any interference from the Black Hole. However, the transporter technology was still developing. The pattern enhancers, while not really helping against the gravity, would help speed up the ability for beaming by up to a third.

As though by mundane means, Bane stepped out from the lift, having returned from the away mission, still looking eerily like a off color match of the Captain. “Captain?” he inquired as he stepped out.
Wookiee

Ari about jumped. She hadn’t actually expected him to answer. Turning to him, she shook her head. “This ship can’t hold everyone. I’m open to suggestions, provided your answer isn’t ‘then just let them die’.” As much as she knew that was the likely scenario, she wasn’t ready to hear it out loud yet.

Ari
CO

The comm from the shuttle came just then. They were unloaded and heading back. Ari moved to hit the comm at her seat. =^=Copy that, Barr.=^= She said and looked at Bane. “So any suggestions?” She asked a bit irritated.

Ari
CO

“You know how the Watchmen outside … warned you about the presence of the Bane. In this form I have been .. under their radar. You have a choice. Should I return to the form of my vessel I can transport the population who dwell here. However it risks an attack by the Watchmen on myself, possibly yourself, and at the least an enduring enmity between them and your people.” He paused. “If they come to battle, none of us may survive.”
- Bane

A lot of scenarios and suggestions had crossed her mind about what Bane might say. But Ari never expected him to claim that his vessel was a form he could take at will, or that it could move everyone… though at the cost of all their lives.

“If we did that, how long would it take for you to acquire those who are left? And once full, where to we take them? Perhaps a planet just out of range where the Watchers won’t follow? Or do we use close enough to make them realize we do it out of mercy and not maliciousness?” She was speaking to Bane, but her mind was racing. She could cost this crew their lives for the sake of saving another race. It seemed counter productive but she couldn’t bring herself to dismiss it out of hand.

Ari
CO

“It is a risk. I do not think all can be saved. This city sphere can fail and be pulled into the black hole at any time. I understand there are distant smaller spheres and would take time to collect them all. Do we wait and risk losing the Sphere? Or leave the distant spheres to themselves? The automated Watchmen will detect me when I expand to ship form.” Bane paused. “There are worlds to the edge of this sector beyond the Seven Dwarves that may be habitable.”
-Bane

“Leave the other Spheres to themselves? How is what we do here going to harm them? We need to save all we can. But I also have to weigh our actions here if they affect a half dozen more of these inside out ‘worlds’.” She had just thought it a simple thing, when he asked… ship, fill, run like hell.

Now he was throwing the others in the mix? She sincerely hoped she had heard him wrong. If not, this was about to get ugly… fast.

Ari
CO

Bane appeared the longsuffering being that a future Q might make. “No, the smaller living spheres here. Like Dal’s and others like them here inside this Dyson Sphere. You are focused on this large sphere - granted that is failing and will soon be pulled into the singularity - I am asking about the others that live beyond Dal’s smaller home sphere. Are they left behind? From my speaking with the others in the shuttle there may be again that population of beings not in this First City Sphere. “
- Bane

She was at her wits end… save some, save none, leave others to chance? How did one make such a decision?

She gave a short barked laugh that sounded like it bordered on hysteria or helplessness. “I don’t suppose you know how to fix the black hole so we don’t have to worry about it?” She knew she had to make a decision fast. Save who she could, or risk losing everyone.

Ari
CO

“Would that the Bane could,” he said.

Melissa responded [0]Can we suspend some of them in the transport buffer for the time being. We still have a large portion of the population down here.[0] She said quietly [0]We tell them 20 more and we’re going to have a riot on our hands. Lt Black believes that it is possible based on research. It’s not perfect…but we have to do something.[0]

MACO

Numbers would be limited that way .. and experimental. Transporter tech was still fledgling. Risks were high.
Wookiee

Ari sat back in her chair a moment, her console bringing up the information as it came to her chair. A sigh settled out of her and she shook her head. Pressing the comm she responded to the MACO [O]We could try. But honestly, it’s risky. I can’t say with certainty how many would survive and be restored later. I....[O] she paused a moment and exhaled long and slow. [O]Stand by…[O]

She stood and looked at Bane. “I know the risks, but it can’t be helped. We try and see how many we can help… or we do nothing and everyone dies, regardless.” It was a hard decision, but she had to make it. “Take us to Red Alert,” she ordered the bridge. The red lights falling around the ship as tactical posts were soon being scattered to.

Her gaze went back to Bane. “I accept… how do we get everyone onto your ship?” It was the best she could come up with. She was still loathing ever coming out here in the first place.

Ari
CO

Bane, in Ari form, frowned in thought. “I can dock with the City Sphere and start .. small. I can expand. But I don’t know at what point the Sentinels here will pick me up.”

With that Bane essentially dissolved, a trace of cloud floating toward a bulkhead and disappearing through it.

Wookiee

Ari nodded and watched the Bane disappear. “Ok everyone. Brace for incoming.” She tapped the console. [O] Attention all away teams. A ship will be docking with the City Sphere. I want everyone on board that we can get. Shuttles, keep bringing them here. If we are stuffed, we’ll see about crossing to other ship at first opportunity. And guy… be alert. We are gonna get resistance from outside. I want everyone at Red Alert.[O]

She didn’t like it, but she had no choice. Her conscious was already screaming at how many would get left behind.

Ari
CO

[O] Understood Captain. Just cleared the Bonaventure, and making my next run. [O]

Ltjg Barr - CSO

Hearing the red alert, Ensign Bohannon walked onto the bridge. “Ensign Bohannon reporting for bridge duty” he said.

Bohannon

[0] Captain, what are your orders. Where do you want me to direct people. [0] Melissa asked as she separated people into groups of 20. “Everyone listen up.” Melissa said “We have another ship that is going to dock with us. Prepare to move out as soon as it’s docked.” She said

MACO

Ari tapped the comm on her chair, her finger rising a moment to pause Bohannon a moment. [O] Get them to a central evac point. The ship will be docking with the ring. It’s Bane’s ship.[O] While it was really Bane, and not so much a separate ship, it was easier than trying to explain at this moment. The important thing was to rescue who they could, as quickly as they could.

Turning to Bohannon, she smiled. “Take up the engineering post, I need to make sure we are ready when this fight arrives.” She nodded to the vacant post and turned back to the view screen.

Ari
CO

[O]Yes Captain.[O] She said as she began directing others to a central evac point for the incoming ship.

MACO

She said and stepped away and took out her communicator [O]Bonnie this is Barber-Tafoya. We need an emergency transport of three people to the Bonnie. We have a critically injured woman and a child. Isaac is coming back with them. I will be on the Bane. [O]

MACO