Posted by Gamemaster Kenson Koh (Gamemaster) in USS Dragoon

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Balfor Kolar (Chief Science Officer) in USS Dragoon

Posted by Commander Jason Harn (Executive Officer) in USS Dragoon
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=^=Harn I’m clear your beaming over to the ship. We just received an update from Ric. They are close enough to receive a weak com badge call from help. The signal is weak but we have the coordinates. Apparently a crew member is hiding from unknown subjects but fears discovery at any minute. Check the Dragoon or split your team. We need to check on that person. Rics squad is flying to that location now to get in closer.=^=

Came the Captains voice over the Xo’s com

Parker CO

=^=Aye-aye sir. We’re beaming over to the Dragoon now.=^= he glanced over to the chief petty officer manning the transporter console. “Energize Mister O’Connell.”
The transporter room vanished in a shower of sparks to be replaced by the transporter room aboard the USS Dragoon.

Kolar withdrew his tricorder with the speed of master quick draw. He began scanning as he started materializing. “Scanning.” He reported without being requested.

Balfor CSO

Jason glanced around the old fashioned way as he stepped off the transporter pad and walked over to the unmanned console to check to see if there was any power. “It looks like Ric is going to be handling the extraction, but does anybody think we should put boots on the ground first? We don’t know how long it will take his pilots to find a landing site.”

OOC: Sidney’s instructions sounded like we’re going to be checking out the Dragoon while Ric and Ael land on the planet. Does anybody want to go back them up?

Jason Harn, XO

Jason Harn, XO

It took only a second before they realised how cold it was and how hard it was to breathe. Harn could not turn on the console: either power reached total depletion state, or the ship’s power went offline. Tricorders showed that there was no one in the immediate vicinity. Neither were there corpses. There was no evidence of weapons being discharged. what was very clear in the scans was that the ship was hit with microwaves. Their shields would have been down when it happened.

They were on Deck 10, one deck above main engineering.

GM
“We’re clear.” Kolar said with a cough. “No bio signs living or dead within range. Residual radiation suggests that the ship was hit at least once by the mircowave weapon with her shields down.”

“It appears that Engineering is a deck below us, Commander.” The Counselor stated. Trevor holstered his tricorder and rubbed his hands together in order to feel warm. “Did the crew just give up without a fight?” The Lieutenant asked, thinking out loud.

CNS

“It also appears that life support has been deactivated a long time,” Jason grimaced. =^=Harn to Olinski: the away team is going to need a set of oxygen masks and some cold weather clothing if we’re expected to function here. It looks like the ship has almost no power at all on this deck.=^=

Jason Harn, XO

The Andorian thought the temperature was actually quite comfortable, although the air was a little too thin for his liking. He tried to steady his breathing as his antannae listened in for the usual vibrations he picked up aboard a starship. As suspected, things were too quiet.

He added to the conversation: “Commander, I think we should check the security logs and the armory. I’d like to know if anyone left this ship armed.”

COS Ch’zaolrirh

About then the requested items from the Olinksi were beamed over to their coordinates.

Sidney

“I’d like to go to the bridge to check the senors and the captain logs.” Kolar suggested unhelpfully, lets all separate, it will be much easier to over-power us.

Balfor Kolar CSO

“I think that the first thing we sh-should do is find a way to restore power,” Jason shivered testily as he put an oxygen mask over his face and unfolded a set cold weather clothing. “I don’t think the sensors or the logs will tell us ANYTHING before we do.” The lightweight, adjustable bodysuit came with a hood, goggles, and a lower face cover. Each suit came with a power cell smaller than a human fingernail that powered the heating elements that could maintain a stable body temperature down to -20 degrees Fahrenheit (or -29 degrees Celsius). He sat down on the step to the transporter and removed his shoes before standing up and climbing into the cold weather suit. “Mister Gould, feel free to call the shots until we get life support back on. Where do we go from here?”

Jason Harn, XO, giving someone else on the team a chance to lead for once

“If there is no damage, there is very little we can do in engineering that we can’t do remotely from the bridge.” Kolar offered but didn’t seem to expect that his point would be taken.

Ch’zaolrirh grabbed one of the outfits as he didn’t want to be the odd alien out. Just the same he kept the hood off, but made sure to get the face mask on since Oxygen was going to be a problem if the ship remained offline for too long.

Michael thought for a moment. “We go down to engineering and turn on main power. From the looks of things, there wasn’t a struggle. Everything looks intact. So it must be possible to reboot all the systems.” He led the way to a jeffries tube. “It looks like either a total systems shutdown or a complete power failure. I’m guessing option A. I can’t imagine a way a blunt force hit with microwaves-” He started trying to force open the door. “-could be targeted enough to specifically hit one system. Upside is: either way, all we have to do is get the power back on.” He finally lifted the door. “Less than glamorous way to get around. But it doesn’t require any power. Follow me.” He climbed in. He felt like an Ensign again, climbing through the jeffries tubes to get around.

“They don’t make a Jeffries tube in a size Harn do they?” Jason groaned as he put his shoes back on, followed by the cold weather boots. He grunted and groaned as he followed the others into the internal maintenance conduits used to provide crew access to various ship’s systems. And he thought that squeezing into a cockpit was awkward.

Kolar was surprisingly agile heading down the jefferies tubes, placing his feet outside the rail and sliding down only checking his speed with his hands on the ‘steps’ every other rung.

When they were finally a deck below, Michael pushed through into Main Engineering. He made a beeline for the warp core. He had to get the reactor started. He went over to a console and looked for some way to make his tricorder into a short term battery for one console.

-Lt Michael Gould, CE

“If its a cold restart, we could be talking about a half an hour to get the system to temperature and that’s skipping a whole bunch of important steps.” He pulled out his tricorder doing a quick scan of the area and then the systems.

The COS remained by the Jeffries tube until everyone had safely made their way out. Once everyone was accounted for he slipped in behind the rest of the team as he examined their surroundings for anything out of place. He wasn’t sure what he might be looking for as he rarely spent time in engineering areas.

COS Ch’zaolrirh

Jason was rubbing the back of his neck with one hand while rubbing the small of his back with his fist. The cold weather clothing, while impressively thin compared to the 22nd century version, still seemed bulky enough to interfere with even most cursory of massages. “Okay, I guess the next two questions are WHAT caused the Dragoon to lose power and IS IT SAFE to restore power?”

Jason Harn, XO

Kolar walked over to the taller Harn leaned in, like he occasionally did with the Captain when he had an idea or point that he didn’t need the entire bridge/away team to hear, “We could have used the log from the bridge, which I could have remotely powered and accessed with my tricorder to get those answers.”

Kolar

“Now you tell me,” Jason groaned as he adjusted the thermal control that was located on the left wrist of his cold suit. “Oh well, I’d rather take the turbolift up to the bridge than take all of those flights of stairs anyway.”

There did not seem to be anything amiss in Engineering: no signs of violence nor signs of any damage to the core nor the consoles. From tricorder readings, it would seem that the core was actually taken offline. However, due to the time the core had been offline, there was only a 32% certainty on this point. Yet, there was no other signs to show anything but that it was taken offline deliberately.

GM

“Nothing seems broken,” Jason muttered as he took readings with his tricorder. “Are the dilithium crystals intact?”

Jason Harn, XO, who could have sworn that he posted this two days ago