OOC: So this will hopefully give some action to those players not part of the away team. Anyone who doesn’t have somewhere else to be posting during the sim is welcome to join in here…

IC: Less than an hour had passed since Commander Raauhl’s departure. Any minute now Cobb expected to hear the tell-tale chirp of the comms channel and a message announcing they had arrived on the Celeste’s bridge. But in the meantime, the captain paced. And stopped. And gulped coffee. And paced again.

“MacReady. Anything new to report?” Cobb gave voice to an anxious desperation.
“No, captain.”
“Good.”

And so the cycle began anew. Pace. Drink. Pace. Drink. Question MacReady. Drink. Coffee then whiskey then coffee.
“Captain!” MacReady’s call was like a sledgehammer to slowly fracturing glass.
“Aye? What is it?”
“I’m reading a ship. Just entered the sector and heading our way. It appears to be Orion.”

• Captain Zachariah Cobb