Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Sigma 9 - Solar Collector Inspections
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Leading the group then down the hall, they soon came back out into the open, heavy rain pelting their uniforms quickly to be soaked. The group would end up trudging down three blocks past some hurrying colonists carrying bags of goods from a shop nearby, before they rounded a corner and came upon the collection of solar batteries and generator collectors. Higher up the hill were spinning wind farms to boot. Taking shelter inside a maintenance shed Charles turned to the landing party. “..Feel free to take your scans and poke around, or run diagnostics if you want. I’m going to hunker down in here to dry up a little before we move on to where ever you want to go next.” he said.

With Alden taking the last Rifle, Anderson wasn’t entirely sure what to do, so he peered over the man’s shoulder at the scanner results. The rain wasn’t a lot of fun, and he wiped off his shoulders, trying to get a little drier.

Anderson, Sec/Sci

And right about that time the comm officer would speak up, “In comming contact from the landing party, Captain.”

=C=Yeoman Rand to Sentinel. There have been some unidentified disturbances (OOC or if they were I can’t find what they were called. Please correct me if so) that is knocking the power systems out. We are proceeding to the solar power collectors to examine them before heading towards the mines.=C= She wasn’t sure what else Ford would want relayed over open comms, and she they already knew a great many people were missing so that was not anything to report. =C= Other than heavy rain the landing party is intact.” An idea.... “We could use some all weather gear and some rebreathers. The colony may not have enough extras for when we get to the mine. Simply precautionary.=C=

Yeoman Rand

Ford waved his men to a loose perimeter about the solar collectors. “See what you can find for us, Ensign Cleolet,” he told the Caitian. “Be thorough but quick. Let’s get us all out of this miserable weather.” The last was muttered under his breath as he scanned the rain-filtered darkness around them, adjusting his grip on the phaser rifle.

COS Ford

IC: “Yes Sir” Replied Cleolet respectfully as she set her tri-corder to scan. She wanted to see of she could detect any unusually power fluctuation or drains, or any viruses that might have caused the issue. While her tri-corder was doing it think. Cleolet placed it on the ground in as dry a place as possible. She looked to the away team. “Would one of you mind grabbing the wand for me and just running it over the generator? “She asked

Once the away team had responded She then moved over to the side of the generator and too out a sonic screwdriver. She then took off a few panels so she could see the internals of the Generator. Cleolet always liked to do a visual inspection, after all being a Caitian she had better eyesight then almost all other humanoid species. She was looking for any corrosion, rusting or and burn marks that might indicate some sort of power surge or environmental factor that was causing the issues.

Ensign Cleolet (Engineer)

OOC: Sorry for the delay!

Visual inspection of the solar collectors showed they were in good shape, no signs of rust, corrosion, or burns were evident. Scans though picked up a low level electrical pulse signature on each collector. It was faint, likely a residual emission from whatever caused outages before. The scan uplink to the Sentinel’s computer databanks soon returned the following result.

In this case the closest match was a particle emission known as Telisium Bursts, a rare particle emission known to Federation science that occured in areas of electrical flux. Usually these were on planets which held a high methane and ammonia atmosphere. To find it here was highly unusual to say the least given the colony did not meet any of those conditions, nor did the mines. The emissions in short would act like a low level EMP, though only interfering with device operations and not fully shutting down/shorting them out. Another report from the data banks showed Starfleet Intel suspected Orion Raiders were experimenting with such bursts artificially to cause havoc on possible target systems but such reports showed a ship had to be present and an easily detectable particle pulse stream would bathe the area. Again no such thing was in evidence nor reported for the colony or mine. Especially given the earlier mining audio logs reported ‘moving shadows’ and some kind of ruins in the mines.

GM CockRoach

Cleolet put the panels back and looked at the scan results “This is odd. It seems like the machinery has been exposed to a Telisium burst. But that’s almost impossible in these circumstances.” she said rubbing her chin as she thought. Then a thought hit her.

“What was this planet like before the colony? Was it terraformed? and was their any signs of older life?” she asked. If there was any sign of older life or if the planet met the parameters it could be that pockets of air where stored from before the colony. Then the sudden release created the power issues Of course this was a nutty notion but so was finding the results she had.

Ensign Cleolet (Engineer)