Posted by Commander Ryder Raauhl (Executive Officer) in The second half of a vanishing act

Posted by Ensign Juliet Anders (Security Officer / RTF) in The second half of a vanishing act

Posted by Lieutenant Alan Dysart (Communications Officer) in The second half of a vanishing act

Off in space, drenched in darkness. A rip in space and time, old and familiar to this place opened for the second time since humans had begun traveling the stars. And something spilled out. A piece of an old starship, and some escape pods. Most of them were damaged beyond repair. But one still held life. And that life was calling for pickup.

-Alan Dysart

Down time…

Juliet leaned back in the chair and looked at the screen. Down time was her favorite time on the Levi. It gave her a chance to watch the stars. While most watched the stars to admire their beauty and simplicity, Jewels had other reasons. Having traveled all over space, stars weren’t the most exciting thing in the vast darkness of ‘out there’. She looked for what was between them. Planets, asteroid fields, comets and other minutia that most dismissed out of hand as mundane.

But tonight, as the Chrono kicked over a super early 0300, something made her sit up and take notice. A blip on the furthest reaches of the scanner’s ability set off a small alarm. She had been using the array to read deep space far beyond the ship’s normal sensor range, so she guessed the bridge hasn’t been alerted, yet. Cranking up the clarity a couple more notches, like ratcheting a tie down just past its safety level, she managed to get a reading. A ship, and debris, lay out there as if it has been spit out by some great dark monster without form. Cocking her head to the side, she tapped the console as the rip disappeared, =^=Shuttle Bay to Bridge, this is Jewels, ummmm… It’s Anders. I have a ship with debris, possibly pods, on the far scanners. And there’s a feint signal coming from that direction.=^=

She quickly tapped out a query for distance, =^=Permission to take runabout to investigate?=^= The chances of a positive response, especially by herself, were slim to none. But what else could she do? One didn’t ignore such calls for attention out here.

Juliet Anders
Jewels
RTF/Security

Raauhl had dismissed most of the CIC crew, they’d been on station for twice their duty peroid and knew the rest of the crew had been working hard. They had now established most of their communications and the ship was slowly gaining more power. When Anders voice came over the comms he was curious, he’d been monitoring the locals sub systems and had missed what she was detailing, feeling the the motion of cabin fever he made a decision. =^= Meet me at the shuttle bay, I’ll accompany you Ensign=^= he explained before giving command to the next ranking officer a science officer he trusted before heading to the shuttle bay.

• Commander Raauhl, XO

Jewels responded she’d see him there and headed out of the control room she was in and into the main bay. Once there, she pulled the screen up at the podium near the door and frowned. Tapping a few keys, she replayed the scene from a few seconds before she seen the debris. A small gasp escaped her lips as she watched the rip close. That quick, split second, snapshot of time have her a bit more information.

“So you aren’t from here, little traveler. Are you?” When the XO walked in, she’d be running the recognition program. She hoped for two outcomes at the same time. First, she hoped the computer would recognize who has come into their space so they would have a heads up. Second, a small part of her wanted it to read as unknown. Such a discovery, even a small one, would be a big deal to her.

“Come on, little ship… Tell me who you are. And why you’re calling out to me instead of coming to me…” Her murmurs were soft but easily heard if Raauhl walked in

Juliet
“Jewels”
RTF