Posted by Ensign Jayden Bennett (Engineer) in Main Sim - Fast Forward to now -In the Aboretum on USS Athena Posted by Commander Adam Chryst (XO) in Main Sim - Fast Forward to now -In the Aboretum : Posted by Lieut (j.g.) Dan Jones (Scientist) in Main Sim - Fast Forward to now -In the Aboretum : : Posted by Michail in Main Sim - Fast Forward to now -In the Aboretum : : : Posted by Fleet Captain Ghubari Koraia (CO) in Main Sim - Fast Forward to now -In the Aboretum : : : : Posted by Commander Adam Chryst (XO) in Main Sim - Fast Forward to now -In the Aboretum : : : : : Posted by Michail in Main Sim - Fast Forward to now -In the Aboretum : : : : : : Posted by Lieutenant Liam Madison (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - Fast Forward to now -In the Aboretum : : : (snip) : : : : : : : Michail turned and looked at the rock with an enigmatic smile. “Oh what secrets you hold” he said his smile widening into a broad grin. He looked at a chronometer on his wrist. “Let the games begin,,,” : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Michail : : : : : : : : : : : : Liam moved through the corridor to the Aboretum. His legs whipped out with precision and haste, bring him closer to the place he once found comfort. The questions over his situation poured into him as it drove him onwards. With each answer, more seemed to sprout in its place. At the back of his mind, the CSO couldn’t shake the feeling he was missing necessary data. Something critical that would make sense of this all. : : : : : : : : : : : : His figure edged through the door, with Jone likely hot on his heels. Abruptly he slowed to a stop at the stone’s location, his expression, and demeanor filled with caution over what scene he had just walked in on. : : : : : : : : : : : : –CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci : : : : : : : : : : “Right on time” Michail said with a flourishing hand that pointed directly to the stone in question. “I’m sure you have questions”. The ship rocked as it was hit by a damaging blast from the Counterstrike ship. : : : : : : : : : : Michail : : : : : : : : Commander Chryst entered the Arboretum. His stride was off kilter, his line of movement, erratic. His body movements slightly spasmodic, and janky at best. The purple flashes of his cortex firing were almost a solid hue glowing on the surface of his head beneath his hair. The closer to the stone he got the more control he seemed to have, the more he seemed to calm, and settle back to the Android they expected him to be. Adam glanced at the science officers, as well, the Doctor, his wife, and one older gentleman that looked a bit like a professor. They were only missing Ginger, and the Howells. Abruptly the android burst into laughter, his heuristics processor finally having overloaded and cascaded into a failure. It was not a failure he could not fix, but it lead to an awkward half minute of inappropriate belly laughter from the Commander. : : : : : : : : Commander Adam Chryst, Executive Officer, USS Athena, NCC Numbers-Letter : : : : : : =/\=Attention all hands, this is the Captain speaking. All hands abandon ship. I repeat, abandon ship. This is not a drill. You have ten minutes.=/\= Michail, of course, would not be surprised by this announcement. : : : : : : Fl. Captain Koraia, CO : : : : Michail knelt before the rock and took something from his pocket placing it on the rock’s surface. He turned to Commander Chryst and the CSO. With a determined look on his face that made him seem far older he spoke a simple sentence with a certain kind of gravitas. : : : : “Come with me if you want to live”. : : : : With one last wistful look at the arboretum he then headed at full speed for the nearest escape pod. : : : : Michail : : Dan looked at the CSO. “Well it’s time to go.” Dan then started running for an escape pod. : : LT.jg Dan Jones, science The Executive Officer, nodded looked at what Mikhail had set down but knew they were not time to investigate it at the moment. The Captain had ordered the ship abandoned. Adam did not know why, but that order would not have come from the Captain unless it was meant. His steps were more sure then they had been before, and the light show had calmed quite a bit as Adam took non-essential processors off line. Adam was still battling with the giggles as he followed the others. Currently unable to take his heuristics and emotions processer offline as it was overloaded and already in a cascade failure, instead he rerouted the processes that he needed to avoid that for now, and dealt with the emotional tremors and earthquakes the processor provided him for now. Though muttered with an Austrian accent “Get to the chopper” Commander Adam Chyrst, Executive Officer, USS Athena NCC 17891-Letter
Michail smirked slightly at the Austrian accent but laid a hand on the Commander’s arm as he led the four of them to the nearest escape pods. There wasn’t much time left and what came next not even Dulmur and Lucsly knew…
Michail

: : “If you only knew how many…” Liam began than fell into silence when the XO entered, his eyes absorbed the state of the android. : : The image made him even more uncomfortable than before. Any additional words were silenced by the sudden announcement echoing through the ship, the CO’s orders to the escape pods caused the CSO’s lips’ already annoyed frown to resume. This whole time Liam had felt helpless. His actions and knowledge useless against the rapidly occurring events that plagued the crew. For a man use to control, this whole affair was nothing short of stressful. : : Deciding argument and conflict would lead nowhere, like the rest of his actions, Liam just nodded at Jones’ statement. His feet followed the now ‘Australian’ XO as the man lead them to the escape pods. Eventually the stress building within him would shatter, but today wasn’t that day. : : –CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci : : OOC: Sorry for being late, things have been a bit out of sorts this week. I thought it was just hitting the 4th day when my post was due, not the 7th. : : -Janice B : OOC No problem, I have to wait until people are moving towards escape pods before I can start phase two anyway, plus setting the ship on a collision course. It’s all fine :-) Ian

Adam’s steps straightened a bit, as he took more processors offline that were running non-essential subroutines, and reallocated them to data organization. Adam followed along with the others easily arriving at the Escape pod, without hesitation Adam coded it open, and ushered the others inside. The Commander planned to enter last, first ensuring that the other officers were safely aboard as was his duty as Executive Officer.

=^= Captain, I have the Painter, the Keeper, the Minder, our Chief Science Officer and Lieutenants Jones and Delaney with me. =^= Adam stated on the Comms. Keeping track of the crew was a matter of import at this moment, both due to circumstance, and temporal need. Mostly he wanted to let the Captain know where S’Raal, T’Pon, and whom he was assuming was Mikhail were located.

Commander Adam Chryst, Executive Officer, USS Athena NCC 17819-D