Posted by Rear Admiral CockRoach (GM) in Main Sim - Several Days Later - Arrival At Deba Colony
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A comm call came in from the Captain: =/\=Sentinel, this is Captain Zarath. We’re in the settlement near the Administration Center. This destruction looks like it was purposefully inflicted. We’re looking for signs of survivors now. Please update me with any… relevant information the sensors come up with. We’ll check back in with you in a couple of hours./=/\=

-Zarath, CO

A sigh went out of her in silence as Amber heard the Captain’s voice. Him on the surface, to her, was still a bad idea. She glanced to the Helm officer and waited for his reply.

Amber Comm

IC: Black Wolf directed to link the XO and CO together on his reply.

=^=Captain, this is Chief Black Wolf. Once we were able to get through the interference, we received two messages. A written text coming from the access to the mining tunnels near Cmdr. Cerny’s position. The message said “Don’t trust the cows.” We then received a second message coming from the administration building near your position, sir. This was a vocal message and also cryptically stated to not trust the cows. A ‘mooing’ could be heard in the background.=^=

CPO Black Wolf (Helm)

Amber was trying to find other communications and tap into whatever logs she could from the planet. Maybe if she could get into the back logs and calls…

She kept trying to tap in remotely to see if she could get any voice or video records to explain why they should now be scared of the cows.

Amber Comm

Amber’s check to look for more signals turned up empty for anything from the colony. Perhaps an expanded signal search for non-traditional forms, or forgoing that and looking through the colony’s logs would give more information. After all she did have open access to the colony’s databanks! An unusual but fortuitous find.

They would both be able to hear the XO’s report to the Captain, that was prompted by Black Wolf’s call:

=/\= Captain, we’re picking up a herd nearby our position, =/\= Cerny reported. =/\= Also we’ve found a fire fighting vehicle here, where there is evidence that a colonist was attacked by at least one of these “cows”. =/\=

– Ivo Cerny, XO/CSO

GM CockRoach

Amber grinned, “Gotcha..” she murmured as she realized the logs and data banks were open to her when she clicked on the links half expecting them to deny her. She also re-calibrated the search for signals to include anything outside the colony or on any other transmission band she could read from their equipment. If she could just find out ‘something’. She had both her consoles going as she murmured now and then and bit her lip as small tidbits led her deeper and deeper into the ever expanding search for someone, or some thing, that would help them figure this out.

Amber
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