Posted by Lieutenant Thomas McGregor (COS) in Bridge Main SIM First contact - all BO’s to the bridge!
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=^= We are using a computer algorithm that aids us in language translation. Since we have peaceful relationships with many different species, the algorithm is rather well developed right now and can pick up a new language fairly fast. Thank you for your warm welcome Admiral. We would be delighted to meet you and get to know each other. =^=

• Julien King, CO

=/\=That is convenient isn’t it?=/\= The tone of the rear admiral had become more friendly. =/\=May I invite you to our ship, the Merry? I hope to show that we do not have any ill feelings for the first people we meet outside our system.=/\=
- GM

David had remained unusually silent through the entire exchange. Riley would definitely be able to sense a feeling of anxiousness from his lover, as well as the sense that David knew more than he was letting on, a particular feeling that only Riley would know how to detect.

David cast a glance over towards the Captain, awaiting his decision.

-David Michaels, CSO

Ben was eager about this momentous occasion of first contact. He recalled a time from his village that a couple of lost hikers who wandered into the boundary. He shaked off that memory to listen carefully on the first contact.

Lt (j.g.) Park

Marishka weighed the odds of her going on this first contact mission. She could make the argument that showing diverse races, able to work together, might put these people at ease. She knew that there were other people on the bridge who could do that just as well but, ‘Could they keep them as safe as she could?’ she wondered as she made a mental weapons check. This was an inventory of everything she had on her person at that moment.

Marishka, CIO

Thomas felt he shared the same anxiety as the other Bridge crew members towards the idea of traveling to the just-encountered ships. The Admiral sounded a bit too friendly. He would at least like to see the GPSC crew on viewer before any agreements were made. It was a lot easier to discern intent from a being’s face than through their voice.

COS

Sage maintained her place behind the command chairs, but she was feeling a flush of excitement. First contact!!! It was the number one reason she’d joined Star Fleet instead of starting a private practice on Earth. Medicine was her life, but the chance to meet new species was a powerful desire for her. Whatever away team was chosen to go to the Merry, Sage hoped she was on it.

—Sage

Dagen thought ‘they are a trusting lot’ given that he was an Admiral. Military types were usually overly cautious about unknown ships barreling into their system right after a loss of one of their ships - sure, due to an accident on their part. His brow furrowed. Dagen’s past hosts - two of them anyway - had met ‘new’ races from their time in Starfleet. This was not ‘new’ to Dagen, and in his lifetime and career had met many a ‘new’ race - even if it wasn’t ‘new new’, but new to him. OP42 was good for that. He rubbed his chin and felt the everpresent stubble. Maybe he was just being overly cautious. They couldn’t exactly surprise them. Much. But then other races with a much lower tech level had messed with other ships before - the Enterprise D for one. But, all one could do was stay on their toes and keep attentive.

With that, he scanned for other ships, platforms around the worlds or other things that could mess up. If this was their world, would they not be visiting their ‘world’ and the government rather than on a ship? Hmmm. Well, perhaps the Admiral was only doing what he was ordered or knew to do until he received other orders.
Dagen, CE

There were four other ships but they were about a third of the size of the Admiral’s ship, more like large runabouts. Their weapons systems revealed them to be more combat like fighters although the firepower could not match the Admiral’s ship, the Merry. That these ships lacked for in firepower, they had in manoeuvrability. There seemed to be a orbital platform that was probably used for the Merry’s servicing. Whilst large, it could also for the smaller ships as well. The platform also had two weapons systems. All weapons of the Pallas system were not a threat to the Genesis. The shields would be able to withstand their nuclear weapons. The Genesis’s phasers would probably render all their nuclear powered weapons useless.
- GM

“Statistically speaking first contact tends to be relatively safe… although we should use the shuttles if we visit. Lets keep the transporters secret for now… just in case we have to make a run for it.”

Marius

“Other ships in the area show four large runabout sized ships. They are armed and engineering analysis show them to likely be quite maneuverable. Overall threat level is nominal to the Genesis, sirs, unless they pull a rabbit out of their hat.” A shuttle would likely be a good idea. The Liberty would hold as many as the captain wanted on the mission, was defensive and between the micro torpedoes and phasers would defend itself well against their conventional weapons if needed. It was also not as obviously ‘military’ in appearance as the Armadillo’s.
- Dagen, CE

Riley’s eyes leveled on David for several moments. He could sense little to nothing from the alien species due to the distance and audio only communication, but he knew the Chief Scientist well enough to know he knew something. David wasn’t given to unnecessary anxiety. He’d been through too much for that, so what Riley sensed from him now had to be significant. Riley could assume David knew something of this race, something more nefarious than the simple, friendly welcome they’d received so far, but it would be only that, an assumption, and he couldn’t ask. He couldn’t ask David to betray the rules to which he was bound as a time traveler.

“Captain,” he pitched his voice, as had others, low enough to not transmit over the comm, “I think Commander Marius’s recommendation is prudent. I’d recommend caution in our approach, despite their rudimentary technology.”

Dekker, CNS

Marishka merely nodded in agreement while she kept her eyes on the console waiting for them to come withing visual range.

Marishka, CIO

Thomas surreptitiously pulled out a PaDD, sending an alert message down to Security to ready an honor guard for Away Team duties. He also began in his head trying to figure out just who among the Senior Staff the Captain was likely to want to send, and the craft he was likely to pick, to figure out how big a team he was likely to get away with sending for protection.

COS

“So which of us is going to be sitting on the bridge watching the show?” Marius said as he looked at Julien. He was pretty sure he would be on the bench, unless Julien was thinking that both of them would go…

Marius