Posted by Lieutenant Michael Gould (Chief Engineer) in The Mysterious Spaceship

Posted by Commander Jason Harn (Executive Officer) in The Mysterious Spaceship

Posted by Gamemaster Kenson Koh (Gamemaster) in The Mysterious Spaceship
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Gould finds a log entry that suggests that the Iconium ship was hoping to colonise the planet.

GM

“It’s a colony ship.” =/\=Gould to Harn, it’s a colony ship. God help us. It probably shut down when all the Iconians were off the ship.=/\= He started trying a remote startup of the warp core. “I’ll try restarting her from here. If I can’t, we’ll have to do it the old fashioned way.”

-Lt Michael Gould, CE

But Harn was concentrating on the part about the colony ship. Or maybe he was just trying to delay the reactivating of the Iconian ship as long as possible. Either way like all bosses, no matter how well meaning, he was determined to be a distraction. =^=A colony ship? Do you have access to any DNA records? We can compare them to medical readings the landing party took of the ‘natives’.=^=

Jason Harn, XO, on a different page

There was a database of personnel on the ship but it was going to take some time to translate the files so that they can interpret the data. Only after that would they be able to do a comparison with the people that the away team had met.

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“Well this is only going to take forever.” =/\=Gould to Harn. You’re about to receive a crew manifest. It still needs translating, but there are only two of us and so many consoles down here, and I still need to get this bird running.=/\=

=^=Understood,=^= Jason replied. =^=Harn out.=^=

Michael tapped a few things to transmit the crew information to the Dragoon. “Toro. You said you saw a hatch. We’re on a clock, you didn’t happen to see a warp core too?”

-Lt Michael Gould, CE

As he was sending the information, he noticed a flashing symbol. Next to the symbol was a link to another interface. When he touched it, he found the data regarding the warp core. There had been no more fuel for the warp core; that is why it was offline. Diagnostics that were automatically run when the fusion generators were activated showed that except for minor misalignments, the warp core was still able to function if there were fuel.

Toro’s hatch did not lead to the warp core but to the warp engines. The tendrils that had dug deep into the planet was connected to what was the warp engines.

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Jason Harn, XO

“Son of a…” Michael collapsed, his back resting against the console. “We’re out of fuel. The reactors I turned on earlier are it for power. The tendrils we saw earlier on the image of the ship? Resource mines. Trying to power up the warp… core. Wait. A ship in low orbit, dead in the water. Burned up all their fuel trying to get out, and couldn’t anyway.” He rushed to his feet. “What if they got trapped in the microwaves? The Iconians didn’t start all this, they were the first victims. But maybe the mind control didn’t work, so they adapted to the native population and got out.” =/\=Gould to Harn. The Iconian ship is out of fuel for its warp core. Sir, what if she got caught in the microwaves? They tried to mine the planet for resources to fuel their warp core, didn’t work. Plan B: blend in with the natives and find a new way out. You see sir, I’m betting, at least one of them thinks like an engineer. Those microwave emitters come from somewhere and were built by someone. Find them, find their resources, maybe even a new bird, bug out.=/\=

-Lt Michael Gould, CE

=^=I see, so the question is, did they manage to hijack a new ship, or were they forced to simply live on the planet until the end of their days?=^= Jason mused out loud. =^=Are the denizens of that planet descended from the Iconians, or from whoever they stole a starship from? The answer would tell us why the mind control weapon was left on. The thing is, if the Iconians weren’t responsible for the mind controlling microwaves, who was?=^=

Jason Harn, XO, scratching his head.