Posted by Lieutenant Miriam Cross (Chief Medical Officer) in Main Sim - Bridge - Setting Out

Posted by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) in Main Sim - Bridge - Setting Out
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Then the puzzle of this catastrophe was finally explained. The Risan sub-light ship had been taken from the colony within its own system by the gravitational anomaly, most probably from the explosion of a deuterium canister, and then deposited at the other end, light-years away inside the nebula. Only one survivor was now remaining, his estimated time left was critically low. Pinned down, so unable to operate a pattern enhancer himself, or to put on one of the Emergency Transport Suits. And there were several more deuterium canisters aboard. An entire starship already lost in an attempted rescue. Can I risk another? thought Glen.

Glen had crossed the Bridge and was now at NE Coals’ communication console. “Can I speak to him?” Glen asked NE Coals.

=/\= This is the USS Merrimack. Hello Cornwellis. Captain Glen speaking. You’ve done well to make it this far. We are inside the nebula and can see your ship. We are pulling out every stop in our attempts to rescue you. Can you confirm that you are the only living person aboard? =/\=

There was a pause and a squeal of static before it cleared =/\=....Yes besides my co-pilot static burst .....but he’s gone, we had a crate of Risan field mice for a science lab on our delivery route but static burst –ead most likely.. =/\= he replied.

Mice!! thought Glen, The rise in Carbon Dioxide must be giving him Brain Fog.

But the knowledge that there was only one person to be saved was important. It would be much easier for the Merri to pinpoint and isolate a single life-sign aboard the Risan vessel. They could make the rescue more quickly, and Glen might consider taking the ship further into the “whirlpool” if it could be for a more limited time. Just as long as the rising Carbon Dioxide doesn’t kill him first!

=/\= Don’t worry! We are going to get you out of there. Just hang on a little longer. Can you do that? =/\= Glen told Cornwellis.

There was a bit of a weak cough from the man before he replied, =/\= Not....not going anywhere like this Captain..=/\= He said, guess he was still with it enough to crack jokes.

“Someone could be searching Risan records for ‘Cornwellis’ for me, please?” Glen asked the Bridge crew. “Quick as you like! I need a first name. When he said it, it was lost in all that static. Find out who he is … what is his age and what are his vital stats … his temperament …his service record, his purpose, his passion …I need to know what makes him tick …I need a ray of sunshine to burn off his brain fog, and to keep him talking to us as along as possible!”

McDuff turned to his station and began hurriedly working the Computer hoping for the quick production of results.

Lieutenant Cameron McDuff
Chief Of Security

Looking through their databanks for the particular Risan colony, they found 18 matches for a Cornwellis, all between the ages of 8 months and 72 years of age. So likely a large family. Of those 18, 3 matched with a first named that ended with ‘iel’, the first was an 8 month old infant named Reniel Cornwellis listed as female, the second was 29 years old named Daniel Cornwellis the 2nd, listed as male, and the third was 46 years old also named Daniel Cornwellis also male. Records showed ‘the 2nd’ was the son of the third listing. So they were dealing likely with one of them......or maybe both if the son/father had been co-pilot.

Cross turned to the Captain ‘’ This is getting complicated by the minute , if you take the ship in would it be able to withstand the physical hardship of the whirlpool , strain and exposure ?’’ the CMO asked .

Glen replied ,”Oh! You’re back again? …To answer your question, I have no idea how exactly much the ship would be able to withstand, which is why I have engineers who can calculate that for me. Given the state of your patient, my guess would be not a great deal, but then Daniel Cornwellis has survived right in the heart of it, and his injuries are secondary, from falling objects. But we’re debating in a vacuum here. Let’s go get some answers.”

’’ Oh! You’re back again? ‘’
Cross wondered if that meant that Glen missed her or the other way round ....she came to the conclusion that it must be the latter .

‘’Captain I know I cannot offer much but at least I did suggest we find another route which you did with less severity turbulence and tempestuousness lightning bolts, beside I do need to know how many patients I’ll expect , that is if we manage to get any back ‘’ then as an after thought she continued ‘’It seems there ain’t much ‘’ she finished off with a deep sigh.

Glen replied, “I can only tell you that there is certainly just the one survivor to rescue ..and apparently there are also some laboratory mice, but I’m not risking the Merrimack to rescue those, not even if they were found to be merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings. I’ll answer for that decision if I ever need to.”

• Glen, CO

Cross tried to figure out if Glen was in a foul mood or just being plain cheeky ,in any case she though it would be wise to say nothing but Cross was Cross ‘’Sir if the explosion from the canisters made the helium and nitrogen which were already present might have caused them to infuse and thus created the whirlpool ‘’ if that theory was correct then the CE or the science dept could come up with a solution and make it less hazard for the Merrimack to enter.

OOC : too far to throw a rock at my head :)
Cross CMO.