Posted by Commander Brad Walker (Chief Of Staff/Second Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Captain Dira Myqian (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Captain Dira Myqian (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge
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The looked relieved. =^= Thank you Captain, the Ancestors have smiled on us today. We’re very fortunate you heard our call. The Nebula as you call it, does have a tendency to harm those who come in unprepared. Our atmosphere is Oxygen-Nitrogen based, I hope that won’t cause any discomfort?=^= She looked inquisitively at Dira.

Dira smiled. =/\=Ours is similar if not exactly the same. We should be fine. Either way, our team will still be wearing protective gear.=/\=

“On it.” the Scottish XO said softly. He stood up and walked towards the Security station. “Commander Haven, get me a two person security team in full biohazard kit.” He looked at the Chief of Staff. “Doctor. I’d like four of your best triage and infectious disease specialists for the Away Team.” He glanced at the Science station and added “Commander Dev, you and two others. Virology knowledge would be a boon, for certain. All of you meet me in the shuttle bay in ten minutes. Again, full containment suits and biohazard protocols. And I’m not taking the chance of beaming through that hull. We’ll dock and use the shuttle as a primary triage station.”

Brad nodded, mentally running through his roster for the best options. He would also need to balance keeping a skilled staff manning the Owie’s triage space…

=/\= Walker to Marshall and McCandless. I need you to pick one additional doctor and nurse with triage and/or infectious disease experience and report to the shuttle bay in full biohazard gear in ten minutes for an initial assessment of the ship we’re dealing with.=/\=

=^= Aye Sir, we’ll meet you there. =^= John looked for Nurse Davies and they both suited up and made their way to the Shuttlebay.

Sinclair looked at Myqian. “Captain, we made need to connect the umbilical at some point. Recommend we pre-position for that. I’ll make sure we do what we can for them before we bring anyone aboard.” and he turned and headed to the turbo lift.

Cmdr. Royal Sinclair, XO

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

McCandless Head Nurse
GM Budgie

Myqian nodded. “On it. And no unnecessary risks, Commander. I mean. Make sure your entire team is clear about that,” she said to Royal before focusing on the screen again.

=/\=Our team is assembling. They’ll come over by shuttle and assess the situation and make recommendations back to us about how best to proceed. In order to facilitate aide, we’re going to move our ship into a better position. It’ll allow us to connect directly if needed.”

“Helm, move us slowly into a better position, eighth impulse,” Myqian ordered.

Captain Myqian, CO

=^= Thank you Captain. Your aid is greatly appreciated. We’ll have a medical team on stand by, our healer will be there to meet them. Thank you again Captain. =^= The screen went dark.

“Eighth impulse, aye Captain.” The helmsman replied, adjusting the speed and telemetry. The ship moved into the better position, allowing for easy access, should they need to dock directly.

=^=Bridge, Engineering. We are having to keep a close eye on the systems still, we haven’t been able to completely eliminate the interference we have been getting with the ships systems. But as long as we stay on top of it, we shouldn’t have any further issues.=^=

Lt Sutret - CE

She gave a nod that Koria couldn’t see. =/\=Acknowledged. We’re going to use shuttles and not risk issues with transporters. If you can keep us mostly stable, I’ll call that a win. Good job, everyone. Bridge out.=/\=

Captain Myqian, CO

=^=Sutret to the Bridge. Hold launching those shuttles. We are headed there right now to modify their systems so they can safely fly in the nebula.=^=

Lt Sutret - CE

“Oh, yeah that’s probably a good idea,” Brad said to himself from the sensor station he was monitoring. “Still, hopefully it’s a quick fix, this is rather urgent…”

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

She nodded. =/\=Acknowledged Lieutenant, but be quick about it. And focus your efforts on the away team’s shuttle first and then do our two medical runabouts and other vessels after.=/\=

=/\=Bridge to Sinclair. Gather your team, but stand by. Engineering needs to make some modifications to the shuttles. They’ll be as fast as they can.=/\=

Captain Myqian, CO
GM Budgie

=/\= Sinclair. Yeah, I kinda picked up on that, Bridge. =/\= he said with a chuckle.

Cmdr. Royal Sinclair, XO

As the away team prepared and the ship moved into its new position, the tactical station that Haven was at beeped an alert. Sensors detected something very briefly but now it was gone.

~Mischief Maker

Zoi blinked and in the moment of blinking, the alert disappeared as quickly as it had come. She pulled up the logs.

“I dislike beeps from that direction,” Brad quietly murmured.

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

The beeping came and went again, on the same console.

GM Budgie

“What do the sensors think they’ve seen?” Brad asked.

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

Zoi, looked at the readout for the type of alert. She also ran a full sensor sweep of the area they were heading towards and sent the results to her security team in the security office to look for more such anomalies. “Sir, they are seeing something but it is so brief, we are not getting much. Performing a full sensor sweep of the area now. My team is on it. Suggest we go to yellow alert.”

Haven, CoS

The sensors picked up another blip during the scan, it was there for a millisecond and then it vanished again.

GM Budgie

Dira turned to face the tactical station, her brows pressed against her ridges. This is all we need,” she thought, taking a deep breath and adding this newest variable to an already complicated situation. She dropped her gaze to Brad. “Can’t have things be simple, now can we?”

Captain Myqian, CO

He gave a small snort. “Simple is boring, anyway,” he said. “I do think yellow alert is a good idea, though. And maybe we can ask the Keeper if her own ship is picking up anything?”

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

=/\=Kane to Walker. Triage is prepped and ready to recieve.=/\=

Lt. Cmdr. Kane, AMO

=/\=Understood. We’ve reached the ship in distress, so it shouldn’t be too much longer,=/\= Brad replied.

“Can we get a life sign check?” he asked the science station operator.

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

Ensign Corruthers nodded “Aye Sir, scanning again now.” The computer beeped and then came back with an update.
“There’s currently, 290.... 289 onboard. Sir.” Corruthers replied.

GM Budgie

Brad paled. “That’s down sixty people in just the last, what, twenty minutes?” he asked.

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

The Ensign nodded.
“Aye sir.” She wanted to comment more but it wasn’t her place.

GM Budgie

There was no way to ease people’s worries in this situation. It was a terrible situation and they could only do what they could do.

“We do the best we can. It’ll be all hands on deck. As soon as the first runabout is heading back with patients we’ll get down to the triage deck.” Yes, she was including herself. She had the requisite skills and though she wasn’t keeping her full medical qualifications up to date, she was keeping up on the learning as much as possible.

Captain Myqian, CO

“I suppose we also don’t know what stage everyone on board has it,” Brad added quietly. “Those sixty may have barely been hanging on at end-stage at the last scan. The numbers only tell one aspect of any story.”

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

Dira nodded, trying unsuccessfully to not tap her fingers on the armrest of her command chair. She didn’t want to be sitting here waiting,- she wanted to be down there in the action with everyone, helping. “The first priority will be getting info from our guests about the symptoms and staging. Once we know the timeline we’re working with, triage will be easier.”

“We should also make sure the biology labs are ready to receive samples to study and try and come up with a treatment, if not an outright cure,” Brad said. “I know science is already busy studying the nebula, but this should probably take priority.”

“Agreed,” Dira said. “See to it. We have biomedical staff so they crevices the samples. It might be worth getting Dr. Solomon Kane in on it too. He’s got a knack for seeing things from different perspectives.” An understatement of course, but Dira understood the man a bit better than many. He might be difficult for some to work with but when it was crunchy time she knew he’d get the job done. Right now they needed every advantage since time was most definitely not on their side.

“If anyone’s able to crack this nut, it’ll be him,” Brad said in agreement, tapping out orders on his console for the biomedical researchers… and Mr. Dr. Kane.

=^= Bridge, this is Lt Sutret. We’ve finished modifying the shuttle and they are good to launch. We are working on modifying the runabouts next. =^=

Lt Sutret - CE

=/\=Acknowledged, and good work. We should have patients aboard hopefully soon. Pay close attention to the environmental and biohazard systems. We don’t want any issues once we have these people on board,=/\= Myqian said.

Captain Myqian, CO

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

=^=Understood Captain. We’ll get right on those systems right after we finish with the runabouts.=^=

Lt Sutret - CE

“Thank you , Lieutenant. Bridge out.” Dira retook her seat in a bid to not pace across the bridge. Instead she looked to Brad. “I’ve always hated this part,” she said softly. “The waiting always felt interminable.”

Captain Myqian, CO

“It is,” Brad agreed. “But then once patients start rolling in, we’ll forget about how anxious we were waiting and become anxious about saving lives.”

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

Seeing the blip a second time on her screen, Zoi ran a full range of scans on that area including sending over her information to the science officer on duty to have them run their scans. She didn’t trust inconsistencies and this one had her hackles raised on the back of her neck. “Captain, I am seeing something odd on my screen. Running a few extra scans on it to make it out, but I don’t like it.”

Haven, CoS

“Captain, the away team’s shuttle has reached the Celestial Whisper. All readings nominal.”

Myqian gave a nod. “Good,” she said as she moved over to Zoi’s station. “I don’t like it either. The situation is precarious enough in this nebula,” she said to the COS.

The ensign at the science station gave Zoi a nod of confirmation and ran some deeper level scans on the surrounding area, including a metaphasic sweep. “Confirming, there’s soemthing there. Can’t be sure, but it’s larger enough to be a vessel. It’s disturbing the EM background. Must be some sort of cloak, or maybe the nebula is masking their signal some how.”

~Mischief Maker

Dira frowned. “Take us to yellow alert,” she told Zoi and turned to face the view screen. They couldn’t use transporters, and they knew so little about these people and this nebula. “Can we disrupt that are of space enough to let them know we know they are there, but not cause any harm?”

Captain Myqian, CO

“If we’ve detected them, however fleetingly the contact has been, it’s likely whatever is in this nebula is interfering with their masking as well,” Brad chimed in as the alert lights began pulsing yellow. “Can we call over to the Whisper and see if they have an escort that they know about?”

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

Dira turned her gaze towards the view screen, taking in the nebula, and the stricken ship they were desperate to help. She nodded and looked over at the comm station. “Open a channel to the Celestial Whisper.”

“Channel open, captain.”

=/\=This is Captain Myqian on the Ogawa. We’re detecting some unusual signals and are wondering if you might have another ship nearby.=/\= She had no way to know how much of her message came through clearly, but at least their last conversation had been a bit clearer.

Captain Myqian, CO

Bump for Tom

OOC: Well, with there being no Tom for the time being… Linds?

IC: Brad took note that the away team had reached the Whisper, sending up a little prayer that they’d be able to quickly get to the bottom of this.

Cmdr. Dr. Brad Walker
Chief of Staff

OOC: Yep, lol. Here we go.
IC:
The screen shifted and a man appeared. He had the same pale blue skin. \Greetings. I am Assistant Keeper Jusetith Zor’ell. Keeper Vell’kor is greeting your people. You say you detected unusual signals?\

Dira nodded, relieved to note that the interference seemed to be less currently. Whether that would stay that would remained to be seen. “Yes. There seem to be something near our two vessels that is disturbing the EM background. We can’t identify it, and it comes in and out of our detection.”

Zor’ell was still, with no expression crossing his face for several seconds. He looked off to the side and nodded before he looked back to Myqian. //Captain. that is most unusual. It is possible it could be a ship. We are checking to see if we can also detect it.// He looked away again, the voice of someone else on the Whisper’s command area too soft to make out.

Dira shot Brad a look. Well, at least no one was panicked. That was good, right?

The Assistant Keeper looked back at the screen. //We cannot detect anything unusual, but your ship does seem to interact with the nebula in interesting ways. Perhaps you are detecting something we cannot because of this uniqueness.\

“It’s quite possible,” Dira said. “If it is a ship, should we be concerned. Is it one of yours.”

Zor’ell’s mouth opened and then he clamped it shut. //No, it is not here with us. We are on a pilgrimage. It is sacred. If it belongs to my people, then we have ways of detecting them and are trying to do so now. But some types of our ships can veil themselves. It is… unusual, however. And I have no idea why one would do so here.\

Dira nodded. “We’ll stand by and wait for your results. Meanwhile, I need to confer with my crew. We have people visiting you and we are preparing to take on any of yours that you need us too. I want to make sure everything is safe.”

He nodded and the screen returned to the view of the intense and chaotic nebula and the Celestial Whisper before them.

Myqian blew out a breath. “Just to make things more fun, right?” she said towards Brad and Zoi, before turning to Haven. “Let’s be proactive and assume there is a ship and if it’s hiding in plain sight, it doesn’t mean us well. We have hundreds of ill people on that ship, plus we’ll have our own people going back and forth. Make sure we can keep everyone safe.” Her gut said that is someone didn’t want them interfering with the Whisper, they would have objected by now.

=/\=Bridge to Engineering. Is it possible to improve our sensors any further? We’re detecting distortions in the EM background but we can’t pinpoint further. We might have company and our friends are helping to confirm if that is the case, but I don’t want to rely on that.=/\=

Captain Myqian, CO