Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade John Forster (Chief Weapons Officer) in Main Sim: Aboard Shuttle Copernicus Ancient Derelict – Docking Chamber

Posted by Lieutenant T’Sol (Second Officer / Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim: Aboard Shuttle Copernicus Ancient Derelict – Docking Chamber

Posted by Gamemaster Nosferatu (GM) in Main Sim: Aboard Shuttle Copernicus Ancient Derelict – Docking Chamber
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She looked up and saw the two come around. “Commander, Lieutenant. I’ve found some very unusual readings of some sort of living being. Not sure where but something is alive down here.” She reported. “I would recommend we go and head back to the ship and inform the captain.” She added.

Lieutenant T’Sol
Chief Science Officer/Second Officer
USS Chernov

OOC: Being pedantic… Will instructed the away team not to take weapons… he may be reconsidering this life choice, but we need to live with it.

IC:

“Yes, quite.” Will said, nodding toward the biomechanical figure that stood before them. “What do you make of it?” asked, both T’Sol and Forster.

Cmdr William Archer
First Officer

“Well, it’s clearly not Borg because the organic and mechanical are perfectly combined. I don’t see any weapons, but it looks extremely strong.” John said out loud “do you think we should try talking with them?” He asked

Lt. John Forster (CWO)

“It is only logical that we do try for a first contact. But I must give a warning. A bit of a primitive species we have yet to identify. The logical choice is to make first contact and being cautious about doing so. This species also seems to be ‘gentle’. Which of course isn’t the word choice that I would use. But having phasers even if it is a single phase may or may not provoke them.” She added.

Lieutenant T’Sol
Chief Science Officer/Second Officer
USS Chernov

T’Sol’s tricorder continued processing the unusual readings as the Away Team studied the figure before them. The results remained difficult to reconcile. The scanner detected something resembling biological activity, but it was interwoven with energy patterns and fluctuations that seemed to extend beyond the boundaries of a conventional physical body.

More importantly, the tricorder finally resolved the discrepancy in the contact count. Four distinct life signs remained elsewhere aboard the derelict, clustered together behind an active forcefield.

The figure before the Away Team was the fifth.

Its appearance was only partially corporeal. A vaguely humanoid form stood several meters away, translucent enough that portions of the compartment behind it remained visible. Its outline shifted subtly, occasionally becoming more substantial before fading again, as though it existed somewhere between matter and energy.

There were hints of something biomechanical within the manifestation, but the tricorder could not clearly distinguish where biology ended and whatever other process sustained the figure began.

The figure made no threatening movement toward Archer, T’Sol, or Forster. Instead, its head slowly turned toward T’Sol as another harmonic vibration passed through the derelict. Nearby panels flickered to life, and the figure briefly became considerably more distinct. Then a single word reached them, more in their minds than aloud.

“Tamm.”The harmonic vibration faded, but the apparition remained. Whatever Tamm was, the Away Team had found the source of T’Sol’s fifth contact.

Gamemaster Nosferatu
Your Darkest Nightmare

She gave a puzzled look at the figure after it said Tamm. “Commander. Lieutenant. Do either of you know what it said? Tamm is a very unusual word. My question is, why’d it look directly at me?” She asked.

Lieutenant T’Sol
Chief Science Officer/Second Officer
USS Chernov

OOC: OK at first I thought my account was having problems but it turns out that we’re not tagging people or they’re supposed to be tagged so it’s not showing up that someone responded and now my system was double posting I do apologize for that

The blue-white containment field surrounding the four bio-mechanical figures flashed. Once, twice, then the entire chamber shook as a harmonic pulse travelled through the derelict. The four contained figures reacted simultaneously.

Until now, their movements had been controlled and almost analytical, that changed instantly. One struck the containment field and the impact produced a brilliant flash.
A second joined it before all four began hammering against the barrier in perfect synchronization.

The derelict responded. Blue-white illumination raced through the walls and floor toward the chamber. The containment field strengthened, but the four figures changed tactics almost immediately. Instead of striking randomly, they began attacking the same section of the field. A fracture of darkness appeared through the otherwise brilliant barrier.

Then the Away Team’s tricorders sounded showing additional contacts. Small objects were entering the derelict through the precise hull breach discovered earlier. Four probe-sized signatures moved rapidly through the interior corridors, following a direct route toward the Away Team and the containment chamber.

One of the four contained aliens suddenly stopped attacking as its head turned toward the Starfleet officers before then toward Tamm’s incorporeal form. The remaining three continued pounding the barrier as the first probe rounded the distant corridor junction. These were not the being like creatures but rounded probes. Its rounded surface unfolded and a narrow emitter emerged from its body.

The Away Team had only seconds before it reached them.

Nosferatu
Your Darkest Nightmare