Posted by Lieutenant Commander Avik (XO) in Main Sim: Europa Arrives

Posted by Gamemaster Creeping Dread (Gamemaster) in Main Sim: Europa Arrives

SNIP the whole thing we have to torture Jody for

It was about a week and a half before the Europa dropped out of warp at the edge of the destination system. This was a system with binary white dwarfs, typically thought to be uninhabitable due to the higher levels of radiation present. A quick sensor sweep would discover that the only habitable planet was tidally locked in position on the opposite side of a gas giant. The gas giant was effectively shielding the planet from the majority of the radiation thrown off by the binary stars. In orbit of the populated planet was a very crude looking space station. Docked up to the space station were three spacecraft. One of the craft could very well have been the warp capable vessel.

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Avik was on duty during this time. Her figure rose from her seat as she contacted the Captain, summoning him to the bridge. Patiently the XO observed the image on the viewscreen while they waited for Dvorak to arrive. It wouldn’t take long.

–XO, Avik, Lt. Cmdr

Indeed it did not, for the Captain stepped out of the Ready Room a moment later. Instead of walking to his chair, he took a few steps towards the viewscreen to look at what was on there. After a moment or two, he just whistled slightly.

“These people are probably still using rockets,” he said. “You can tell based on how the whole thing is made of interconnected cylindrical parts. It’s probably the only way they could get anything into orbit. Which is even crazier than it was for humanity when you consider the additional gravitational forces being part of a crazy planetary system like this. Oh, geez, they’ve even got solar panels. I bet they still use radiators, too.” Clearly, the Captain was enjoying this mission already.

“Let’s try to avoid being detected until we know what we’re dealing with here,” he thought aloud for the crew’s benefit. Johann doubted they’d be seen unless there was an active attempt to look for them, but he didn’t want to take any chances. If it really was a pre-warp society, then they’d have several minutes before it would be even possible to be detected, and even then it would probably still be really difficult at this range.

“All stop. Are sensors picking up any subspace activity or warp signatures?”

– Johann Dvorak, CO