Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Bridge - Setting Out
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A reply finally came through on audio. The UT was still processing through the language so the message was fragmented =/\= By the Great Beyond! This is unknown words Unknown Word of the tri-party Council ship Unknown word we are in distress and need unknown word unknown word you can provide. To repair our unknown word unknown word..=/\= the female like voice said.

Inola frowned. She hated it when there were words she didn’t know. “They definitely need help, something broke on their ship. I’m not sure what though. The translator usually gets to technical words last.” She turned around. “Captain, I’m guessing we aren’t the first aliens they’ve run into out here. They didn’t seem all that surprised.”

“It does appear as if the translator cuts out on their proper names,” Hal noted. “But. The intent of their reply is clear enough. They’re relieved to hear from us. Their situation may be worse then we initially thought.”

“Then we don’t have any time to delay,” Glen replied to Hal. “In your opinion, is it safe for us to send a small landing party… er, are we calling them away teams now, I can never remember.... anyway, a engineering detail, with Inola to translate, yourself and Mooney as security, and myself. No obvious modern weapons or technology. We’ll need to beam across though!”

“We should have at least have one communicator in our party, Sir,” Hal said. “But that’s the party that we should send over. I don’t think that they’ll have much in the way of weapons.”

Inola smiled. This was already more exciting than the Starbase. “I’d argue that while their society may be post warp, they may still have pre-warp weaponry equipping their security officers.”

*I agree with both, ” replied Glen. “We do need one communicator, if just to call to come back. They are likely to have swords and projectile weapons. I’m not sure what weapons we need to take, if any. We are going there to help them. If they kill us they die too. Also, I can have the Transporter Chief keep a permanent Transporter lock on us for a quick return.”

“It would also be prudent to bring a Scientific Tricorder with the team so my team can analyse and give further input” William added.

Glen thought it was a slippery slope. He’d said no modern weapons or tech. Then, he’d said okay to a communicator. If they took a tricorder, then why not a phaser too? But they did need to be able to identify and fix the fault on the ship, and to do it as speedily as possible.

Reluctantly, Glen said, “Okay then, one tricorder!”

“Captain,” Kord began, “In keeping it low tech as possible there are reasonable exceptions. Obviously they have long distance wireless communication capabilities so our communicators should raise little interest except maybe in miniaturization if they don’t have something similar. Same with weapons. It would be reasonable to assume that we have means of defending ourselves. However, as we don’t see any traces of transporter technology at the moment I suggest the use of shuttles and, if we have them as guests, keep replicator tech quiet as it was developed from transporter technology. Exposing similar technologies is not the issue. The issue would come from showing then technologies they haven’t developed yet.”

“With the technology, I’m not bothered that they know we are much more advanced,” replied Glen. “I don’t want to frighten them of course, but mainly I just don’t want to give them an inducement to want to steal from us, which then might lead to violence. They don’t need to steal or back engineer our tech, we will tell them that we can share technology with them in time. Think of it like taking off your antique Rolex watch when visiting an old Earth sanctuary district. Which is why we will transport rather than shuttle. We are too vulnerable on a docked shuttle and the shuttle is full of tech itself. The transporter is a quick beam in and, if needs be, a quick beam out again. Anyway, if it does become an escape and rescue mission, then the shuttle will be no use to take their whole crew off.”

“So, if there is nothing else, we should leave as soon as possible,” Glen said. “That ship doesn’t look in very good shape.”

While the crew debated what to use and how another audio comm message came through for Inola. =/\= Hello? Are you still receiving us? By the Eternal Abyss we are not that low on life support are we, to be collectively hallucinating? unknown words that trail off =/\= the female like voice asked.

Inola turned to the rest of the bridge. “I’d suggest we stop debating and head over. I doubt they’ll be much of a threat, but they’ll be even less of one if they die while we sit here arguing.” She wasn’t known for her patience anyway. “Would you like to answer them Captain or should I?”
-Inola, Comms

Glen gave a nod, and said, “Be my guest!”

-Glen, CO

Inola nodded sharply. =/\= We are still receiving you. We plan to send a team over to your ship to assist you in repairs. =/\=

-Inola, Comms

=/\= Oh thank the Eternal Wise Ones, we were getting worried for a moment that our life support was malfunctioning. Our unknown word broke after we attempted to leave this system. My engineer says we need to unknown eight words. Hopefully you and they can get us at least stabilized. Where are you from? Our home system is only 3 unknown words away from here. We had suspected other life was evident in the nearby star unknown word from radio echoes but have yet to meet anyone. =/\= The female voice said.

“And we’re still beaming over, Sir?” Hal asked. “I doubt that they’ll be hostile to people who are helping them.”

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GM CockRoach

“They’re asking questions now sir. Fairly standard ones, who are you, where do you come from, but still. The sort of thing we might want to explain in person.” Inola smiled. “And we’re their welcome wagon. First aliens they’ve ever met.”
-Inola, Comms