Posted by Rear Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Several Days Later - Arrival At Deba Colony
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It was several days later and the Sentinel finally dropped out of warp outside the Deba system, a nearby Ion storm had halted comm efforts till they had gotten to the system. Which soon revealed a cooling truth, after three efforts to hail the colony they had gotten nothing but static! Entering orbit scans found the colony showed signs of pillars of smoke from some kind of explosions and the once rich fields of farming and milk produce were still burning strong by some form of fuel. Life signs didnt show any sign of the expected colonists either.

Something bad had happened to the peaceful colony of Deba III!

Amber gasped out loud. “Captain… no comm traffic.” She looked at him and shook her head. “I am getting no responses and they aren’t broadcasting.” She glanced at the view screen as it showed the chaos below and her chest tightened. Surely not everyone wasn’t gone. Maybe comms were just down…

Ens Amber Josen
Comm

“Captain, I’ve established a synchronous orbit at 1,030 km above the colony,” Black Wolf reported. The helmsman then zoomed in on the colony to maximum magnification. “That’s the best visual I can get, sir.” He clenched his jaw at the destruction on the surface below.

Black Wolf (Helm)

Cerny was hunched over the scope at the science station. Its blue light shined on his eyes as he twisted the dial on the side in order to adjust the scanning. The scope dutifully and quietly droned on as readings kept being taken: quack-quack-quack-quack…

“I’m not picking up life signs expected from the colony,” he reported. “There is evidence of explosions on the surface. I’m reading fires at the colony. The fields appear to be on fire. Crops seem to have burned off a while ago, something else is acting as fuel. Could be an accelerant. I’m attempting to identify now.”

While still looking through the scope, he pressed a button on the science station, which made a click noise. The button was to trigger a spectral analysis of the fuel that was burning, to see what it actually was and whether it was a known substance.

– Ivo Černý, XO/CSO

The computer began to process the request of analysis just as the Captain spoke....

“Thank you Ms. Josen, Mr. Blackwolf. Stand by, steady as she goes.” A sick feeling roiled in Th’elin’s stomach. His antennae lashing in slow motion, he swiveled his chair toward the Science station. “Mr. Cerny, leave the surface be for now, I want a sensor sweep of the system itself. I want to know about any warp signatures or ion trails… Anything that might give us a sign that this was an attack on the Colony. If someone destroyed five hundred people and their homes and fields… They could be out there now, waiting. Once we’re sure the system is secure, we’ll try to locate survivors and see if we can find out just what happened here.”

The Andorian turned his eyes to the viewscreen once more, slowly swiveling back to center. The bleak expressions surrounding him didn’t do much for his state of mind.

-Zarath, CO

Myasnikov began scouting the astrometrics and navigational library of the system and surrounding space. If they did find a trail, he thought to himself, he could try to anticipate where it went.

Myasnikov, Navigator

Return scans for Ion trails showed nothing in evidence same for warp signatures. Further while their were nebula and such some light years off nothing was close that could cause such a problem like this. The only thing of note was the nearby Ion storm, but that hadnt passed through the system based on scans.

GM CockRoach

Myasnikov looked at the XO. “Commander Cerny, sir. Could the ion storm disrupt ion trails? I am seeing no where a ship could hide… except that storm we passed through.”

Myasnikov, Navigator