Posted by Captain Freja Andreassen (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim- The Forbidden Nebula Star system- Into the Gamma Quadrant! The Fleet Sets Sail, A Race Against Time and Terror!”

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Melanie Hall (Chief of Security) in Main Sim- The Forbidden Nebula Star system- Into the Gamma Quadrant! The Fleet Sets Sail, A Race Against Time and Terror!”

Posted by Lieutenant Jeffrey “Bob” Jeffers (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim- The Forbidden Nebula Star system- Into the Gamma Quadrant! The Fleet Sets Sail, A Race Against Time and Terror!”
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The long-range scan reveals that there are 5 more star systems within range though not many details could be made out with this low-resolution scan the one system that was close enough that more information could be made out this system sitting 3.5 Lightyears away showed a Yellow Dwarf star with 4 planets the last one being a Gas Giant with Rings hidden in these rings was 5 cargo ships they were sheltering as the Dominion had ordered they had most systems powered down at the moment except for basic life support however one of the ships had a fluctuating power signature that looked strange however there could be any number of reasons why the energy signature was off on that one for now the fleet would need more evidence something was truly wrong to act

The Pickett and the ships guarding it arrived back while the scan was being conducted

Other ships started scanning and sharing the data with the chimera

Firstly the Skeleton shows Structural Integrity damage but what is strange is its more of Material Degradation scaring shows a High-Energy Biochemical Corrosion almost as if what is left was partially liquified

There is an Organic Residue on the skeleton that a sample can be collected from and anylized more closely

GMT Phoenix

“Let’s quarantine any samples we decide to bring aboard for further analysis,” Freja spoke as she sat in her command chair.

~Freja Andreassen~

Bob continued to pace around Engineering. He wandered if he could be more useful on the bridge.
=^=Jeffers to the Bridge. Do you need me up there, I feel like a spare part down here.=^=

Lt. Bob Jeffers (CE)

“Cap, you may wanna see this”

The Chief Science Officer looked towards the Captain of the Chimera with a look of concern on his face. “Whatever dissolved that ship all but melted it. These scans…” he paused for a moment, double checking the data just to confirm what he was thinking was correct. The look of concern grew even more as he blinked and adjusted his glasses.

“There’s traces on that ship of biochemical corrosion… By it’s very nature biochemical only occurs within living organisms. Cap, biochemical suggests something living” he spoke finally. “There’s more, because our fun doesn’t end there. I did those long range scans? Yeah, they’re interesting as well” he continued. “Scan’s reveal a few ships a few light years away, all mostly powered down but one is fluctuating massively. I’d need to confirm with Jeffers, but I don’t think ships are supposed to do that”

Lieutenant Junior Grade Edwards - Chief Science Officer - USS Chimera

“That’s....disconcerting,” Freja remarked, =^=Yeah Chief, we could use you, our Science Chief could use your collaboration on some scans he’s getting back from our wreck, something tells me it might need an engineer’s touch.=^=

=^=Righto Captain, I’m on my way.=^= He replied, turning to Ensign Reese he said “Keep everything ticking over down here while I’m away. Any issues let me know.” With that, he turned and headed out of Engineering and up to the Bridge.

Freja turned back to her CSO, “Work with Jeffers and see if we can come up with a few theories on why that ship is doing what’s it’s doing, because I don’t want us to land in a situation where we’re the ones with power fluctuations having us blink like a Christmas tree.”

~Freja Andreassen~

A few minutes later Bob arrived on the Bridge. He looked around and grinned, he loved being on the bridge. It was true he loved ships in general but he liked looking out of the viewer at the stars. He just had the dream job really. He looked around Engineering and over to the Science station, there was someone he didn’t recognise The CSO maybe he thought to himself. He walked over to Jasper with a friendly smile on his face.
“Hello there, Bob Jeffers. I’m the Chief Engineer. Feel free to call me whatever you like, most call me Chief.” He introduced himself holding out his hand.
“I gather you need a hand?” He asked.

Lt. Bob Jeffers (CE)

“Edwards, Chief Science”

He cast his eyes to the friendly looking Chief Engineer and took his hand softly. He gave the hand a little shake before turning back to his station, the look of concern still present and obvious for Bob Jeffers to see.

Bob had a much firmer grip and his hand was rough and calloused, only natural for a Chief Engineer. He noticed the concern in Jasper’s eyes.

“Make sense of these scans for me. You know how ships are put together, yes?” he asked inquisitively. “What does this to a ship? How can something biorganic do this to a ship?”

Bob huffed slightly blowing out his cheeks as he looked over the scan. It was odd and indeed worrying. He played it down for Jasper’s benefit.
“Well, I’d say it was something big whatever it was. To cause that much damage, we’ll know more once the sample is analysed.” He then turned to the other ships.
“Those are even stranger. That fluctuating one. Can we get further information on it? I’d like to know the root cause.” He said then realised he hadn’t been at all reassuring.
“Don’t worry Edwards, I’m sure we’ll have this figured out. There’s an explanation for everything.”

The Chief Engineer was anything but reassuring.

Jasper adjusted his glasses, eyes dancing over the scans on the screens in front of him. His fingers tapped on the computer panels, adjusting the scans to try and focus in on the ship with it’s fluctuating power systems. What he didn’t understand was why there was only one ship with a freaky power system and the rest seemed completely normal, like nothing was happening.

“Talk me through this” he asked of the CE. “Give me some valid reasons why a ship’s power would freak like that and tell me that it definitely isn’t related to the scans I’m looking at in relation the cargo vessel”

Bob puffed out his cheeks lost in though.
“Could be anything to be honest with you. We’d need to get in closer to do a more in depth scan.” He replied.

A Comm Call came in “This is NE Rhaine We have just finished collecting the samples I am transporting them to Sickbay for analysis ANd I have sent one sample over to the Nightengale as they have even more detailed facilities to use” the female ensign called over the comms

GMT Phoenix

Lieutenant Junior Grade Edwards - Chief Science Officer - USS Chimera
Lt. Bob Jeffers (CE)

=^=Acknowledged, please maintain standard quarantine protocols, at least until we have a better idea of what exactly we are handling,=^= Freja replied firmly. She knew some officers found it annoying when she stated the obvious, but her first duty was to ensure that her crew came back in one piece from this mission and she took it very seriously.

~Freja Andreassen~

Lunan chimed in, “I feel I may be useful coordinating with the science teams, I can beam over to the Nightengale in minutes?”

-Lt. Commander Lunan Farrah: XO-
Lieutenant Junior Grade Edwards - Chief Science Officer - USS Chimera

“I don’t really want to step too far onto the Nightengale’s science crew or their command crew,” Freja replied to her XO, carefully thinking through her words, “Coordinate with them from here, unless they request your presence Commander.” She didn’t want to step too hard on other crews unless she needed to and they weren’t quite at the point where she was worried about other crews not doing what was needed. Hopefully they wouldn’t be there at all.

~Freja Andreassen~

For Bob The more he looked at the scan the more he might see that actually while it was stripped down to just the skeleton it was done in a very methotical manner there was no ripping or tearing of connections it was almost as if it was scrapped while in flight though at the same time what was left was clearly showing the damage whatever the Biological thing was

As for Jasper He would not be able to adjust the scans as the System the cargo ships were in was at the outer range of the Sensors and thus no higher resolution images could be brought up at this time they would need to get closer to figure that out

GMT Phoenix

Bob looked over the scan in detail. He drowned out the rest of the bridge. Curious He thought then turned to Jasper.
“It looks like the ship has been methodically stripped down to its bare parts. Almost scraped. Whatever happened it wasn’t ripped or teared.” He turned to Jasper.
“Seen anything like this before?” He asked.

Lt. Bob Jeffers (CE)

He shook his head.

“No, never” he commented. “The scans I took from it though…” he continued, face more concerned that ever. “I mused before you came up here Chief, biochemical suggests something alive and the scans that I took show a lot of biochemical matter” he finished, casting his eyes to the Chief Engineer.

Bob nodded as Jasper replied he was deep in thought.
“It does seem like that something alive and something big took apart that ship. It must have been huge.” He replied not really believing what he was saying. There wasn’t anything capable of doing anything like that to a ship.

“Captain, we need to know what’s going on with that ship”

Lieutenant Junior Grade Edwards - Chief Science Officer - USS Chimera

Bob nodded in agreement.
“Aye Captain. I’d definitely like to get a closer look.”

Lt. Bob Jeffers (CE)

As usual, Lieutenant Hall stood at her post as she was doing her duty. She didn’t know what to say so she stayed right where she is and with no questions asked she smiled.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Melanie Hall
U.S.S. Chimera
Chief of Security

“Let’s see if medical comes up with any major red flags from their sample before we get a closer look,” Freja replied, “They should have some preliminary information for us soon I’d wager. If nothing major comes up, I’ll greenlight us moving in to get a closer look.”

~Freja Andreassen~

“I can oversee things in Sickbay if you’d prefer to be up here?” Lunan asked, keen to do what he could to get to the bottom of this mystery.

-Lt. Commander Lunan Farrah: XO-

“Go, see what they’ve got so far,” Freja nodded.

~Freja Andreassen~

Keitah stepped forward, her expression serious. “Captain,” she began, meeting Freja’s gaze, “I want you to know that I fully support your decision to maintain quarantine protocols. It’s essential for the safety of our crew.”
She continued, “Given the potential threat, I believe it’s wise to prioritize caution. I will ensure our security measures are tight, and I can coordinate with Lieutenant Hall to bolster our defenses should we need to board that ship.”

Lieutenant Naisyr
(Counselor)

“Perfect, do so,” Freja nodded, “We need to get to the bottom of this mystery, but I don’t think it’s wise to take chances, there’s something very off going on and I think the best way forward is to cautiously explore our options.”

Bob looked over to the Counsellor and nodded. He hoped that the organism was looked at in Sickbay quickly. He was eager to investigate the ship.

Lt. Bob Jeffers (CE)

Jasper kept his eyes on the scans in front of him, he was focused on establishing exactly what was going on and ensuring that the Chimera left the Gamma Quadrant intact.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Edwards - Chief Science Officer - USS Chimera

Hall still stood by her station as she was running scans. She was glad to be doing something but however, she had scans come in that didn’t look normal. She was not sure how to address it.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Melanie Hall
U.S.S. Chimera
Chief of Security

=^=Andreassen to Sickbay, please update us as soon as you’ve completed preliminary scans, we have a ship with odd readings and once the organism is analyzed, I think that’s our next step,=^= Freja tapped her badge.

~Freja Andreassen~

Hall stood there looking at her results. She then looked at the captain. “Captain you might want to look at these. I’m not sure if I’m the only one seeing this.” She said. However, she also felt like it was unusual for her.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Melanie Hall
U.S.S. Chimera
Chief of Security

the Chiefs Scans showed nothing really out of the ordinary actually given that they were focused on the system they were currently based in The system had Two Dead Planitoid remnants a Dying Star and the Mysterious Purple Nebula that the Dominion say is off limits but can be used if necessary

GMT Phoenix

Bob continued to stand and wait wondering what the medics would find.

Lt. Bob Jeffers (CE)

OOC Bump waiting on Medical to move things forward

KG

OOC: I agree.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Melanie Hall
U.S.S. Chimera
Chief of Security

OOC Moving forward to keep things running looked at my notes and realised it was not the Nightengale that was part of the task force its the USS Lister so changing that

IC an urgent hail came in from the USS Lister It was Captain Jiaze She looked worried “Captain Andreassen We have finished scanning the sample you sent over from that skeleton you should be aware this Biomass seems to be a mix of tech and organic I have my engineering crew looking at it too we found 63 individual DNA signatures of Karrema individuals in it and a subspace energy signature!” the Subspace energy signature came up on screen and Instantly Jasper and Bob would both see that the strange signature coming from one of the Karrema ships…matched the subspace energy signature coming form the sample Whatever happened to this Cargo ship skeleton it was already happening to one of those cargo ships!

GMT Phoenix

=^=Acknowledged Captain, it looks like whatever happened to our cargo ship skeleton is probably at an earlier stage on the nearby cargo ships, it would certainly explain the energy readings we’re getting, let’s start working on potential ways to counter this effect so that we can even reverse existing damage, but definitely stop it from getting worse.=^= Freja ordered.

Turning to her Chief Engineer and Science Officer, “Start analyzing that subspace energy signature, I want to know specifically how to interrupt it, hopefully may stop whatever’s going on.”

~Freja Andreassen~

A distress call came in at that moment from the cargo ships

=^=”THIS IS THE KTS PROSPERUS VENTURE! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK BY ONE OF OUR OWN CARGO SHIPS ITS FIRING SOMETHING WEIRD AT US ITS EATTING THROUGH THE HULL ITS…ITS KILLING US HELP US PLEASE!!!!” the scream of the Cargo Captain began to pick up Digital Distortions and artifacting much like the Message the Dominion got from their fleet

MGT Phoenix

=^=Fleet, this is Captain Andreassen, we have a distress signal, I don’t know if we can distinguish between whatever the cargo ship is firing at the Prosperus Venture, but we need to render aid where we can, anyone have some suggestions on how to avoid becoming victims ourselves?=^=

“Looks like we’re really going to need to figure out how to stop this stuff in its tracks quick,” she said quietly.

~Freja Andreassen~

“Captain. If you don’t need me here. I’ll start doing security runs and doing some security training with my security officers.” She said with a somewhat of a smile.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Melanie Hall
U.S.S. Chimera
Chief of Security

OOC is the captain ordering the fleet to run to the aid of the cargo ships?

KG

OOC: Yes, but maybe not run head long without a plan in place first. She’s soliciting suggestions for a plan of attack, so to speak.

IC:

“Are we at risk if we move into transporter range?” Freja asked her senior staff, “A ship has asked for aid, we need to render it, ideally without too much risk to this crew and our fellow fleet ships.”

~Freja Andreassen~

=^= Captain this is Shara The USS Lister was kind enough to share the Data among all ships I am afraid we just don’t have enough information to go off just yet I would recommend that we stay out of transporter range and throw all available emergency power into shields for the time being and maybe a small contingent of ships move to investigate I would recommend yourself The Pickett Y’Tang One of my Battlecruisers and one of the Romulan Ships” she said Sensors would show that the whole fleet was getting ready to warp in case the captain wanted the whole fleet to go as well

MGT Phoenix

[[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Miz’uki]]
[[Chief Engineer]] [[USS Memorial]]

OOC: Anything I can do as an NE here?

-Kieron-

Bob frowned and turned to Jasper.

He offered a nod in return.

“Weird. You seeing what I’m seeing? It looks like whatever happened to the Skeleton ship is happening to one of the cargo ships.” Then he turned to Freja.
“Captain, it looks like the same thing that happened to the skeleton ship is happening to one of the cargo ships. I think that the infected cargo ship will pass that on to the one it’s attacking. I advise extreme caution, despite my curiosity wanting to get the better of me.” He explained and waited for orders.

Lt. Bob Jeffers (CE)

As she stood there at her station listening. She was thinking about how it could affect them. However, not know how it would affect them since she is only a Chief security officer.

Lieutenant Junior Grade Melanie Hall
U.S.S. Chimera
Chief of Security

=^=Ackcnowledged Shara, I’m willing to volunteer the Chimera, this is a risky maneuver, anyone else willing to take a look?=^= Freja Andreassen replied, she didn’t really want to force ships into this, but just sitting back and watching another ship fall to whatever the heck this was wasn’t something she really wanted to do. The fighter pilot in her wanted to do something.

~Freja Andreassen~

His eyes were darting over the scans at a rapid pace, taking in as much information as he could. Bob wasn’t wrong, it was a fair suggestion to treat this like a disease. “Cap, the Engineer is right” he started. “If we go close to that ship, there’s a hell of a risk that we end up shredded down to nothing as well”. His fingers kept tapping away at the controls. “I’ll run some extra scans, see how close we can get and try and figure out how to decontaminate anyone we bring onboard”

Lieutenant Junior Grade Edwards - Chief Science Officer - USS Chimera