Posted by Captain Sidney Parker (Commanding Officer) in USS Dragoon: Atten: Toro

Posted by Commander Jason Harn (Executive Officer) in USS Dragoon: Atten: Toro

Posted by Lieutenant Michael Gould (Chief Engineer) in USS Dragoon: Atten: Toro
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=^=Olinski to Landing Party and Dragoon. We have the images and are preparing to beam down the requested supplies. Landing Party what is that smoke related to?=^=

The Captain had opened a com between all three groups.

Parker CO

=^=Acknowledged Olinski. You’ll be handling the supplies. Dragoon. standing by. Harn out.=^= Jason responded before giving the ‘stop sending’ gesture.

Toro brought up a visual of the planet looking for the smoke that Parker was talking about so that they could give him an answer.

CIO

There was a village about a kilometre from the away team which had one of the houses smouldering after a fire. The rest of the houses had sustained slight damage but only this single house was burnt down.

GM

“Thanks to your ingenious ‘transporter relay probe’ Mister Gould, it seems that all we need to do is maintain the Dragoon,” Jason commented. “Still, I think it would be a good exercise if we pooled what we know and see what hypotheses we can come up with. Back in the Academy, we were told that any good officer could use their imagination and think outside the box. So, what do we know… Duffy?”

“What?” Ensign Shannon Duffy squeaked as her round cherubic face reddened. Ensign Duffy was painfully shy. She was a very tall woman, only a little less than two meters tall and a rather wide woman with an hourglass figure that could hold two hours. She never did anything that could draw attention to herself if she could help it. She fidgeted in the helm seat before clearing her throat. “W-well, we n-know that there’s a w-weapon on Antioch that is capable of overriding a person’s nervous system and reducing them to a p-puppet. The landing party has discovered natives, but th-they’re request for foodstuffs indicates that… I don’t know what it indicates sir,” Duffy finished lamely.

“That’s okay, so far we are just trying to nail down what we know, which is apparently not much,” Jason assured her. “Is there anything we missed?” He glanced around the bridge. “If we don’t know anything else for sure, what can we infer?”

Jason Harn, XO, trying to start a discussion

Michael piped in. “It grabbed Lt Primage and her fighter. It has a technological and biological component. Other craft were in similar range, but only she fell in. Either it’s got a very specific influence range, or it’s targeted. It was unshielded, our fighters knocked it out easily. I’d guess it’s a booby trap. By the time a ship figures out what’s happening, she’s dead in the water. We’d have to check flight data, but it’s possible Lt Primage shut down the fighter herself. Just like the crew of the Dragoon. Against their will, but a perfect shutdown, leaving a dead Pendragon cruiser in orbit.”

-Lt Michael Gould, CE

As the positive identification were being made via the tricorder data of the away teams, the Dragoon was able to lock on to the various individuals in the crew of the Dragoon.

GM

“And whatever it is puts people in a prison with no cages,” Jason shuddered. “To do what? Mine dilithium? Live in thatch huts and farm the land as nature intended? What is the end game? And why does the away team need such large quantities of foodstuffs anyway. Just how many people did that booby trap catch anyway? Is there some kind of intelligence making decisions down there or have we stumbled upon one of those ‘computer gods’ Starfleet used to encounter?” Jason stopped his brainstorming to notice that Toro was paying close attention to her sensors. “Something catch your attention Toro?” Jason asked, squirming in the CO’s chair as he realized that he had encouraged the bridge crew to let down their guard and become complacent.

Jason Harn, XO

“We have the crew located.” Toro said “Other than that, everything seems to be okay.” She said (OOC: Was there something I was supposed to pick up on scanners)

CIO

“Transfer the coordinates to the away team and the Olinski,” Jason ordered. “That way everybody is on the same page. Just for the sake of asking, how many people think that we should contact the Dragoon’s people?”

OOC: The data seemed significant at the time and the data needs to be relayed to other threads.

Jason Harn, XO

Toro transferred all of hte information to the away team and the Olinski. “I am torn Commander. Part of me thinks it would be a good idea, however, if they are somehow compromised, that would leave us at risk. And it would be unwise to compromise ourselves as well.”

CIO

Just then, the sensors revealed that was a great surge of energy underneath one of the hills, about a kilometre from where Red squad was at at the moment. There was something unnatural happening at that hill.

GM

“Yeah, I can see both sides of the situation,” Jason sighed. “If they are still under someone’s control, we don’t want to alert them, but if they have free will and believe they are helpless, we don’t want them doing something desperate.” He blinked as he noticed one of his officer’s suddenly became alert and gave their console their undivided attention. “Something happening we should know about?” he asked.

OOC: You’ll notice that I didn’t say WHICH of my officers noticed something alarming on their sensors…

Jason Harn, XO

OOC: I’m going to say that Michael stopped paying attention like a good officer when he was theorising and this lit up his console. Maybe he and Toro both had an eye on things. It wouldn’t be the first time reports were coming from all over the bridge in Star Trek.

IC: “Energy surge underneath a hill. Roughly one kilometre from where our fighters are now. Sir, I have no idea where that energy would’ve come from. Either there’s a generator in that hill or there’s something way deeper down.” He started scanning for any information he could get. “Sir, should we pull our fighters?”

-Lt Michael Gould, CE

“Negative, that’s not our call,” Jason shook his head. “Unless in your professional opinion something is about to overload and cause a massive explosion,” he added ruefully. “Toro, contact the Olinski, and the away team. Let them know what we detected and inform them that we’re going to rotate shield frequencies in case they try that microwave mind control weapon again.” He paused when he remembered that Toro was manning the tactical console. “Oh, uh, and rotate shield frequencies,” he added sheepishly. He was about to say something about matching the shield harmonics to the frequency of the microwave weapon before remembering that Toro had already analyzed the Dragoon’s sensor readings in order to find the best shield setting to resist it. He decided to shut up and allow Toro to do her job.

Jason Harn, XO

OOC: Just fyi we cannot do much of anything on the Olinski until Toro makes that call to the Olinski because we don’t know about it. However when we do Captain Parker tends to blow things up and check what it was afterwards.

Sidney

The energy is channeling towards the destroyed emitters.

GM