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=/\= You call me Lou. That is all you can call me. We look at the equipment based on what Va’s Agents from the Heavens who recently departed back to His graces and leaving us to grow further in Va’s wisdom showed us.=/\= She said pulling out simple paper designs of standard steel shovels, picks, and basic blasting charges. =/\= We use these during mine operations. Though large blasting charges are limited now since Va’s Agents left so we do not use them unless needed. For now we use the unknown word, perhaps referencing shovels/picks, the UT said failing to translate some words,=/\= Pausing then she then pulled out some other dirty papers, stabbing a finger roughly onto the center where a dotted circle detailed the local mine area they were in, =/\= This surface level.=/\= She said then pointed to six other branching shafts that spread out and down about a mile or so in different directions and into the deeper ground, =/\= these are levels and tunnels 1 through 6. We dig for strong metals and shine sun bleanched crystals. The metal we use for more mining and building, the sun bleaching crystals we stored or were given in tribute to Va’s Agents before their departure. For now we store them here,=/\= She said then stabbing an area to the south about 2 miles off on the surface, =/\= Big warehouse size bin, we keep sun crystals until the promise of Va’s Agents return to take more tribute. =/\= She said.

Finally showing some basic gear/simple cell driven machinery she said, =/\= If machines work we use them in mine, if they fail to work we then do work by hand and have Elders who worked closely with Va’s Agents more then I was granted, to come and fix.=/\= She explained pointiong to some left behind crude Klingon mining equipment that had seen it seems better days.

Mullins looked around while awaiting a response and thought to himself, ‘I think I am going to need some assistance, pretty much no matter what is going on.’ So he went ahead and hit his communicator and said =/\=Lt Mullins to NE Condorson and NE Bouchard, please beam down to the entrane of the mine and follow the path down to come meet me in position. I am going to need some assistance going over everything and seeing about fixing things. Thank you.=/\= He continued to wait for a response and waited on the NEs.

The engineer did beam down but behind the hill , looking around the Ensign walked over towards the mine and followed the instruction given by the CE ‘’Sir Ensign Condorson …how can I assist?’’ .

The man was still wearing the gear and tools around his waist ,since he had been tinkering around in the engine room.

“Very nice to hear the information about the mine. Do you have all the non-working equipment in the same place or is it just scattered based on where the items stopped working?” Max was hoping he could start looking into getting those items working to help out. Max knew to not start talking about the Klingons and trying to convince them they are not coming back. There has to be something the people on this planet can do with those sun crystals instead of just letting them sit there. He was worried that the creatures of this planet were expecting and waiting for something which would never happen. He looked around to see everyone working. He was curious about he efficiency of the machines and mining right now, he might be able to help out with that.

=/\= The broken machines of Va’s Agents, what they did take or ruin before their departure back to the Heavens are kept nearby behind this building. You may look them over and service them as you need if it will help us mine further..=/\= She said. Given the description of the sun crystals, Mullins could probably assume given the Klingon’s needs they were likely some type of Dilhtium crystals that were harvested from this and other mines.

Mullins was curious to look at the machines that are out behind the building. He was hoping the engineers from the Merrimack could help getting these machines up and running. He was also very curious to know how much Dilhtium was really stored. He thought for a second and tried to figure out the best way to ask if he could see the rest of the storage of the sun crystals. After thinking for a few minutes, he decided it was better not to ask about that but just see about repairing the machines. He wanted to help make Star-fleet show as being helpful and not hostile. He then responded to the miner, “Is it alright if I go ahead and go look at the machines? I would like to see if we can get them up and running. It should be able to help your people obtain more minerals in a shorter period of time?” He waited for a response. He also wanted to do some scans of the area to see about safety. He was going to need more engineers down here to get everything completed. With the technology in place, he was hoping it would not take much to do the repairs but fixing potential safety issues, that could be a whole different discussion. He was probably going to take this part on himself as it was going to be more in-depth than the machine repairs. He wanted to see how to go about asking to be shown around the mine. He wanted to ask after the other question and then he would bring it up.

NE Banks spoke very quietly to Max, “Sir, I’m sure that you are aware of this already, but if these Sun Crystals are Dilithiium then we don’t need to actually see them. They will give off a peculiar but very specific energy reading which our tricorders can scan for. If you are planning to scan this area about the safety aspects anyway, then you could easily scan the storage areas within the same sweep.”

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Max remembered this was a very good idea. Max knew he was going to need to scan things for safety and this would present a perfect time to do a scan of the Dilhtium. Max then said, very quietly, “Thank you Ensign Banks. I am not sure if that is a good idea and we need to keep it out of the hearing of the miners. We do not want to upset them any further.” He still waited to see how the head of the miners responded to his questions. He wanted to be as helpful as possible to help with the view from the miners of Star-fleet.

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