Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Toveka Brine (Science Officer) in Runabout Fenrir - “Scattered Memories”

Posted by Lieutenant Duncan Rhodes (Chief Science Officer) in Runabout Fenrir - “Scattered Memories”

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Toveka Brine (Science Officer) in Runabout Fenrir - “Scattered Memories” Posted by… suppressed (4) by the Post Ghost! 👻 By the time they were started on the first section, she had managed to control her emotions enough to join him back up front in the co pilot seat. She had caught a couple of the ship sensors registering other ships and when the third one turned out to be debris, she had simply allowed Duncan to check each anomaly as it popped up. “Approaching Sector Five.” She said as they moved into the next ‘grid’ on the sensors. About ten minutes into it, she furrowed her brow and frowned. “40 degrees off port bow. There is a gravity well and anomalous readings that are outside the other reading levels we have gotten.” While she was doing her best to maintain her composure, the idea they were actually going to ‘find’ something made her heart race. : : : : : : : : : : Lt JG Toveka Brine : : : : : Science : : : : : : : : “Got it” Duncan confirmed, changing the heading of the runabout to approach the sensor contact. From here, he could see that the sensor contact was being partially blocked by a very large asteroid, and it took him a few moments to pick a safe path around and through the debri field, which got more cluttered with objects the closer they approached as the gravity well collected various asteroids and debri from the destruction of the planets. Pockets of gases became clearer on sensors, some of which Duncan took care to avoid because of the risk of igniting a reaction with the ionization from their impulse engines. : : : : : : : : Presently, the runabout came around the large Asteroid and Duncan almost froze. “Contact!” he said somewhat urgently, at the same time checking his shields and powering the engines for a burst of speed to escape the large and threatening form of a Romulan Warbird that was hiding behind the Asteroid. : : : : : : : : Lt Rhodes : : : : CSO : : : : : : Toveka had been heading for the front of the shuttle as Duncan made his way around the asteroid. When the contact was shouted out, she was at his shoulder and a soft growl fell from her lips before she managed to control herself. Sliding into the other seat, she frowned. “What are they doing here? Are they the cause of the well?” She wasn’t sure how, but if they were, there was a reason… and if there was a reason, she wanted to know about it. : : : : : : Lt JG Toveka Brine : : : Science : : : : Duncan pulled the nose of the Runabout around for a quick getaway, looking to see what he could put between them when the sensor readings caught his eyes. “Wait” he said, curious. “I’m getting no power readings from the ships Singularity drive. No shield emissions either. She’s dead in the water so to speak” Duncan began to bring up other readings as he double checked the first, one eye still on a quick getaway. “Doctor Brine, scan the ship” he said, “Look for any life signs or anything out of the ordinary, small power emissions or energy fields. That ship is in the middle of a Gravity well, and everything I am getting is saying it is a derelict.” : : : : Lt Rhodes : : CSO : : Toveka frowned as her fingers danced over her console to see if any life signs were readable. The drives were indeed cold, yet it didn’t seem to be falling into the well at all. Something was keeping it just over the edge of being sucked in. “Scanning for life signs, power emissions or any other hot spots....” She glanced constantly from the ship to the readings and back again. A thought then occurred to her. “Also scanning for hull markings to identify the ship.” If it was one of the older ships, perhaps it was caught between two fields that were keeping it from being sucked in. And if it was a new ship, then the reason it was here was something she had to ascertain for certain. There weren’t any war birds in the sector that she was aware of. : : Lt JG Toveka Brine : Science “No life signs” Duncan confirmed, then looked at the readings more closely. “There is an energy signature of some kind inside it Brine, look. It is similar to the energy well and powerful, so similar we almost missed it completely as background energy.” He asjudted the readings more to look over the ship. “It’s old” he said, looking at her, “The markings are known to be from pre-Hobus event Romulan ships......” then he cut off as something else caught his eye. “Another energy signature out in the field” he explained, “It looked like a ship, but it’s gone. It appears to be just the energy from the anomalies interacting with the debris field, but it keeps looking like a ship is out there. We shouldn’t take too long, lets get in and find out whats happening. We can’t take the shuttle in, the debris is too dense around it, and I am reading distortions from the energy well that would affect the transporter. Toveka we can’t transport over either, we are going to have to suit up and exo-suit over to it.” Lt Rhodes CSO

Toveka ran the scenario over again. Rhodes was right. Transporters wouldn’t work and the shuttle was too big. She hated the suits and had only agreed to bring them in case of emergency. While claustrophobia want an issue, the young scientist had never been able to be calm in the all encompassing exo-suit.

While part of her wanted to remain behind to monitor her supervisor, the other part wouldn’t let her. “Then let’s do it.”

As she moved to the back of the shuttle to retrieve her outfit, it dances thru her head. The image of him out there alone and something happening. Or worse, him missing something vital because it wasn’t really his mission. Either way made her conscience balk, so she put the one piece on and held her helmet, delaying print it on for as long as possible and trying to do some breathing techniques to keep Duncan from discovering her hesitation and calling off the mission.

Lt JG Toveka Brine
Scientist

Slipping the suit on and fastening the various straps and clips to make ti fit right, Duncan looked at the Romulan scientist. While most people would be busy concentrating on getting the suit right, Duncan had no fears about the coming excursion and as he was used to his own practice of meditating to relax, recognized her breathing pattern. “Not a fan of spacewalks?” he asked her, “It won’t be long, just a quick trip over, a look around, and back before dinner.” He smiled and patted her shoulder, then picked up his helmet and an excursion pack, strapped a phaser to his suit, and moved to the airlock on the runabout after setting the ship on a holding pattern with automatic avoidance for the small asteroids floating in the area.

Lt Rhodes, CSO

Toveka shook her head slightly at the query, “No, not a fan.” As they finished suiting up, she strapped her own phaser on and her pack was strapped to her hips and moved back out of the way.

A few moments later, the hatch opened and weightlessness enveloped her body. The magnetic boots kept her on the deck but the change was definitely felt, none the less. She let him lead the way and as he departed, she was on his proverbial heels. With the shuttle moving away behind them, she pulled out her tricorder and began scanning to see if they could narrow down the location they were heading to.

Lt JG Toveka Brine
Scientist

“It’s over there, towards the big Romulan Warbird of Death” Duncan joked, then lit his thrusters and boosted off towards the ship. Checking his own tricorder, he let his suit adjust his flight to avoid debris and frowned slightly. “I’m getting odd readings” he radioed back to Brine, “The energy field might be confusing it, but there seems to be no way I can get a good reading on the Warbird. We’ll need to get closer.”

Lt Rhodes, CSO

Growing up with the ‘bird of death’ being something to fear, she remained silent and merely followed behind him. When he mentioned the odd readings, she pulled her own device out. She didn’t like having to go closer but knew they had no choice. “I’m right behind you…” she echoed. If he was listening, the stoic fearless half Romulan was starting to sound a bit fearful.

She moved closer to him and was only a couple arm lengths behind as they got within meters of the giant ship. The hairs on the back of her neck standing up, Toveka managed to finally speak after swallowing the lump in her throat… twice. “Duncan… something isn’t right. These readings… they shouldn’t be… they shouldn’t be possible.” The fear in her voice was evident now as she tried to maintain her composure and remain scientific.
What had she been thinking? She should have remained in her science lab with her film sheets and calculations. But as scared as she was to move forward, she was completely unable to turn around and head back, either.

Lt Toveka Brine
Scientist

Using the thrusters to come to a stop, Duncan looked along the length of the vessel and turned from side to side, using the suits scanner to look for irregularities. “These readings are coming from inside, but the ship itself has no power” he confirmed. “There’s some kind of damage further along, it might be a way in. Without power we’re not going to be able to open the hatches unless we cut into it, and we haven’t got the tools for that here. Lets check out the damage.”

Gently boosting along the side of the huge Romulan Warbird, they kept a look out for incoming rocks from the field around them. Caught in the gravity well, however, most of the area was held in place fairly stable. With plenty of oxygen left, time wasn’t an issue but Duncan was concerned about the anomalous readings he had picked up, it was like something was out there watching them, and the thought that on this system alone, among these very rocks, an entire planet with billions of people had died made Duncans mind flick to the old time ghost stories and shudder slightly.

Soon, a huge torn opening appeared in the side of the ship, the interior lit only by the light of the systems star and the lights coming from the two Scientists suits, otherwise, the interior was dark and dead. Perfect for ghosts. Raising his arm to stop himself at the edge of the opening, Duncan ran a scan. “This wasn’t energy weapons fire” he confirmed, “it is damage from an asteroid strike. I’m picking up similar strikes in other places, it looks like the damage caused the ship to lose power and life support, in the chaos of the evacuation and supernovae energy, nobody was coming back for them. Lets see what we have.” Pulling himself forward, Duncan floated in past the damage which was large enough to have ripped off the outer hull and expose a number of decks to space, just from this one strike alone. Rock could still be seen in the interior.

Hovering over the deck, he activated his magnetic boots and felt himself drop to the floor, where his feet stuck securely. Turning on all the lights on his suit, he took a brief look around from his position. The door that lead in from this room, obviously once a quarters, was open. Whatever had happened after the strike, had happened extremely fast as damage control appeared to have not worked. “If the computers aren’t too damaged” he said to Brine through the comm, “we can power up a console with our suits and download as much as we can. The Bridge is that way, but the power reading is that way, in the opposite direction.” Duncan adjusted the Phaser at his side, it would be no good against Ghosts, but the readings he had from the Shuttle made him think it wasn’t just ghosts haunting this boneyard.

Lt Rhodes, CSO