Posted by Lieutenant Commander Tom Jarvis (Internal Security) in Bridge (2021 Sim)
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A nervous wreck, she may be, but also very orderly and quick to get at least a basic dataset of what she was ordered to find.

->Kesh, Engineering

There was an alert. The long range sensors picked up two ships, each about half the size of the Genesis, moving towards the system.

GM

All of this looked delicious to Reia. When she was in the academy, she had dreams of becoming a doctor and quickly realized she had the wrong kind of bedside manner for such an endeavor. Languages were like a puzzle she enjoyed figuring out though so, she dove into this one barely registering everything else going on around her.

• Reia, CIO

“Go to yellow alert, maintain silent running.” Tom ordered upon seeing the two ships closing, “Withdraw the probes.”

Tom tapped his comm badge.

”=^=Bridge to Captain… We have inbound. I don’t think they’ve detected us yet. Maintaining silent running over magnetic pole of uninhabitable planet.=^=”

• Tom, IntSec

=^=Inbound?=^= There was a rustle, =^=To us? I’m on my way…=^= That wasn’t something he liked hearing.

The ships were travelling at Warp 3 and would be in the system in 40 minutes. Their technology on their ships seem to be more primitive than Starfleet’s in the mid 22nd century. They had engines that were similar to those of the Federation. They had beam weapons that were more disruptor like than phasers. Their projectile weapons made use of antimatter. They had primitive shields. Their sensor systems were more akin to mid 22nd Starfleet ships.

GM

Marius

Tom waited for Marius to arrive.

• Tom, IntSec

With no evident initial hits on the power signature matching any known Klingon technology, Kesh began widening the search to other races that the Klingons had interacted with to any significant degree. Perhaps their power cores had been scavanged from a debris field and reverse engineered, or perhaps the Klingons traded it somewhere or… other such things.

It started to seem like a pointless exercise as the minutes dragged on, as it was not likely going to matter. Still, the ship’s engineering systems were still in perfect working order and Reia had taken over the task of searching for clues in the broadcast channels, so maybe something useful will come of it.

It certainly helps that it’s busy work and Kesh could let her two heart chambers calm down and stop giving her a backache.

-> Kesh, Engineering