Posted by Crewman Guy Fleegman (Security) in Main Sim - Native Village - First Sample Results
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‘’From what Verity said after the analysis and from the knowledge I have which isn’t much, the bacteria could have taken thousands or millions of years to adapt in its present DNA .Its truly mind blowing that it can sequence its DNA to each individual ‘’ Hunter replied .He thought for a couple of seconds ‘’I suppose its not much different from how our gut bacteria works ,I’m wondering why it has not effected us since we have been down here ..maybe something in these humanoid ‘s bodies make the bacteria easier for it to adapt? ‘’..

“More intensive testing aboard the Merrimack might help us to discover,” Glen replied, “but it maybe something we will never know.”

The doctor thought for a moment ‘’At this point its just hypothesis, the Klingon’s also said the bacteria had no effect on them and… and’’ Hunter tried to catch his breath ‘’The inhabitants seem to be health, its not that they are dropping dead ‘’ with that he looked back at the tall strong woman with the spear in her hand *I sure don’t want to pick up a fight with her * the doctor thought.

“We don’t know how many have died,” Glen said, ” because we don’t know their original population to compare, but I think you are correct since it hasn’t killed any of our crew.”

Saelk walked over to join the entourage. “As a precautionary measure, I would recommend that I accompany you as well. I do not know how much the strength of these people have been augmented. However in raw strength I would fair better than any of you.” He said somewhat rather bluntly.

“Don’t worry about that,” Glen told him. “if we could deal with Cara’s tail, we can deal with these natives. The Elder Council are probably quite old men and old women anyway, for whom the bacterial improvements won’t scratch the surface of their deteriorating health issues. In any case, I’d like you to take charge here, in my absence, and organise the collection and safe handling of these medical and water samples, back to the to the Merrimack, if possible. Once there, we will need a more intensive analysis performed. You can see that everything is put away here too.!

“As you wish Captain.” Saelk moved back to the collection teams. He took the samples they collected and began to pack them away into cases for transport.

When Joe had returned in the Shuttle, he had left behind the Security team that he’d brought to serve food, so there were a lot more helping hands now to pack the cases than there had been to unpack them. A science officer was checking everything was correctly labelled. Guy Fleegman was helping pack the water sample bottles into protective bubble wrap before placing into transport boxes. He couldn’t handle the blood samples as he couldn’t stand the sight of blood.

Calm down, Guy thought to himself, it’s been hundreds of days since the last redshirt died.

“Sir?” Guy asked Saelk, “Shall we call down the Shuttle again to return the samples or will we Transport them back?”

Saelk paused as he had stopped putting the canisters away for a moment and had started to inspect one of the water samples. “Call the shuttle down. We don’t want to risk anything happening to the samples.” He said thoughtfully, if it was completely inorganic materials then he would have had them transported back to the ship, but with the samples, and wanted to make sure that they were as viable as possible. “It will also serve to take some of us back as well.”

“Aye, Sir!” Guy replied, and made the call to the Merrimack. “I’d like to be on that Shuttle back!”

Saelk nodded. “That will be fine. I’ll have a couple of the science officers head up with you to maintain the cargo.” He said as he waited for the shuttle.

The Merrimack Shuttlebay replied that the Shuttle had been launched.

Within a few minutes the shuttle came into view, given the clustered nature of the buildings nearby they would have to trudge out of the small shack town to the clearing a few hundreds feet away.

Saelk looked at the shuttle in the distance and he grabbed a portion of the cases and started to trek onward to the shuttle.

The Shuttle landed in almost the same position that it had occupied earlier when the former XO Joe Milligan had brought it down. The doors opened and a couple of NE redshirts came out to help to carry the equipment and boxed samples.

“Sir?” The first NE Security asked Saelk, “Where shall we start?”

Saelk looked thoughtful for a minute. “Lets get the samples of blood and water loaded, then those that want to go back can with whatever room is left on the shuttle. I am going to stay here until the Captain returns.” He said and continued to help with the loading of the shuttle.

“Yes, Sir!” he replied, and the science and security officers began to load up the shuttle.

“Two science officers are to be on the transport to handle the materials. Get the samples to the Biology labs as soon as possible and get a team together to begin working on a detailed, and full spectrum analysis of the samples.” Saelk said and turned looking off towards the direction the others had went to. “I hope the Captain is fairing well in his endeavors.”