Posted by Ensign Kovan ch’Sirhc (Engineering & Communications Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge - Arrival To Vok III

Posted by Ensign Rand Farquharson (Yeoman First Class) in Main Sim - Bridge - Arrival To Vok III

Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Bridge - Arrival To Vok III
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“Helm, theoretically, how long would it take us to intercept if they make the course correction?” Kovan asked.

Ensign ch’Sirhc COMMO/ENGR

”..Depends how quick you want to get to them? If we moved as slowly as them? Give or take a day or so if we did so outside the orbit of Vok III. If we just turned and went to full impulse right now without any attempt at hiding ourselves? A few minutes tops..” He said.

“Do we know of any other alien species in this sector? What about ship movements between the colonies?” She turned to look at Frank’s at the science station and Morgan at the tactical station, “What is it composed of if we had to fire on it?” She silently willed the landing team to check in so they could pass on the information. Contacting them now would give away they noticed something.

Yeoman Rand

”..Only local stellar traffic in this region is those from all three colonies coming and going for different things, and they all use older cargo ships from 2220s and such all of which are just older Starfleet or Civilian colony ships which would easily stand out compared to this thing. Beyond the Orions in roving pirate groups being in the region there are no other known alien species operating. If it is the Orions then they are using a ship and technology we do not have on common records..” The NE said.

=O= Yarwood to Sentinel, we have the authorization to beam down, could you please send the medical team and the equipment at the latest coordinates ? =O= He then waited for the transport to happen.

Lieutenant Alwyn Yarwood - CMO

While Kovan was busy listening for chatter from the asteroid, Rand had an ear piece in waiting to hear from the landing team. =C=This is the Sentinel. Acknowledged Lt. Arrival in 10. Sentinel Out. =C=

=O=Ensign Avarak and medical team report to transporter room 1 for landing team duty.=O= In transporter room 1 the officer on duty was standing by and transported them down as soon as they were ready.

Rand turned to look at the security console and NL Tracey Morgan. “Morgan, is there a dispersal pattern, or SOP where we could seed the system with probes to use as early warning for us for incoming ships, asteroids, dangers, etc. Where we could maybe get some sensor readings on that asteroid as the probes went by, but they would think we were being over cautious about the Orions in the area?”

Yeoman Rand

The NL considered, “..Well it would be near impossible to launch probes and not get noticed, whether by the local colonial ships or that asteroid or whatever. It stands to reason they would likely have some manner of scanning at least within a close area of their ‘ship’. Hence their maneuvering to avoid the earlier asteroid we saw. Long as we kept the probes though further away and not obvious in scans we might be able to slip them by the intruder depending on cagey they are though..” He said.

GM CockRoach

Rand looked at the woman. “I know they will see it. What I am asking is if there is a way to deploy them to make our mysterious visitors think we are monitoring for pirates rather than watching them. Send out 4 or 5 of them, make it look like we are trying for N early warning system. They will see it, we don’t have stealth tech. I just don’t want them to think we are watching them, but further out.”

Yeoman Rand

Kovan leaned back, “Maybe we’re thinking too hard. When you think about it, we caught them through sheer dumb luck. The odds of us happening to be looking the moment they made that correction and to be paying attention enough to notice it odd? I don’t think one in million would quite cover it. They have the perfect disguise, why would they ever think we’re on to them? Hell, for all we know this isn’t their first attempt at this. They could have pulled this multiple times right under everyone’s nose.” Keep focused, he told himself.

He turned in his chair to lean forward with his elbows resting on his knees. “What if instead of sending probes or watching them. . . what if we set a trap for them? We know where they’re headed. Look at their ship, to make a disguise like that they must have sacrificed something and I’m guessing that cost came in power. I’d wager they could only afford impulse in that thing. Another ship could wait outside scan range, hidden by the curve of the planet and once they make their move that ship and us will spring the trap.”

Ensign ch’Sirhc COMMO/ENGR

Rand could see the theory in it. “But what other ship? One of the colony ships? You saw how they reacted to our comms. They aren’t likely to help, and if they do, make us compensate them dearly for it, and who knows what other political drivel they would stir up. Plus we can’t exactly comm them with the plan. It would take them too long to figure out your encryption. We need an exact plan and a way to convey it to Cmdr Alden.”

Yeoman Rand