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After spending a comically long time getting himself secure footing, using the handle to keep him from falling, NE Specs looked into the box and saw the pod, stepping forward and looking inside “Uhm, there’s a child in here” He called out “Who would bring a child on a trip like this and why keep them here?” He mused as he grabbed the communicator [O]Specs to Merrimack, uhm, We’ve got another cryopod here, there’s what looks like a child[O]

Glen replied from the Captain’s Chair, =/\= Are they awake? Or still under cryogenesis? Do we know how to bring them around without damage from thawing? Glen over! =/\=

=^=Still fast asleep sir=^= He leaned forward and with his scanner checked the vital signs of the child =^= Checking vitals now=^=

Tia growled as the box opened and all the debris fell out. After seeing the childlike being, she frowned a bit deeper. =^=Bridge… I don’t see any damage to the pod. But I will need a bit if you want me to figure out how to wake them. Gonna want medical on both sides standing by as well. Hang on=^= she paused a moment looking around. =^= I’m gonna see if I can get some answers here, first…=^= She turned to the others and stepped out of the circle of balls and looked for their alien escort in hopes of getting answers who this child was and why it was hidden from everyone in such an unusual place.

=/\= No problem. Go ahead and keep me informed. We’ll let Sickbay know so they can get prepared. =/\= Glen replied.

Vitals of the child were stable for someone in a cryo state. But one thing was quite obvious also by scans, the child inside was not an Alstarian, the child was human like in appearance, but their skin pattern was a deep yellow color in tone with small spots of orange here and there.

The Alstair crew nearby came eventually at the call by the Merrimack crew, and seemed as mystified and confused as they were. Eventually the UT translated a series of sing song replies by one Alstair female engineer. =/\= No idea who or what that child is from, nor what these balls are. They are clearly not Alstair, nor is that writting around the pod. Perhaps that may hold answers if we can translate it?=/\= She offered.

Specs scanned the text with the tricorder and sent it over to the Merrimack for analysis “I’m sending this over to our ship, hopefully our computers can translate it”

Spec’s scans chugged along and soon were sent off to the Merrimack. Meanwhile some of the Alstarian women were busy sweeping up the metal balls that had fallen about in disarray.

Glen made a reply to William and Tia aboard the Sleeper Ship =/\= Can you give us any more? Don’t the Alstaireans know when and where it was picked up? For Fingale’s sake!!! Try checking the ship’s course logs to see where it has been. The stasis box isn’t a small object to have been delivered to the ship. It would have taken time. The Merrimack computer seems to think that the symbols are a written language and that they tell a story of a child put in stasis and sent to the stars to escape some planetary problem. We need to find that planetary system. =/\=