Posted by Lieutenant Miriam Cross (Chief Medical Officer) in Main sim - Bridge 3 Days Later - Arrival To Unity System

Posted by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) in Main sim - Bridge 3 Days Later - Arrival To Unity System
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Lance cursed for the fourth time under his breath as he argued with the ships computer. Managing the probes plus now searching for the pilots. It should have been simple but the error messages he was getting were clearly because another piece of technology hated him. “Come on.... We were friends yesterday” he hissed.

He searched again for the survivor and his brother “Don’t you dare give me that photo of that creepy grinning duck again, I swear you’re not helping here” Lance warned the computer in a low voice.

Then there was the steaks of light that were mentioned, he knew the boss works want to know what they were, heck her wanted to know what they were, but he had his hands full, but he wasn’t alive in this.

=/\= Ensign Ryder can you come up to the bridge, I could do with a second pair of hands up here. =/\= Lance said two eyes were likely going to be better than one.

“Any progress on the origin of those streaks of light or with hacking into the local computer systems,” Glen asked Lance and his team.

Scans for any odd light streaks near the Unity colony actively or residue for the time being showed nothing evident. But since this happened well near 7-8 months ago having anything remaining like say if it was a fast moving comet, weapon, or something was unlikely. As they passed by the planet, more up close scans around the planet showed nothing that stood out, until they reached the currently Sunward facing side. A quick simulation though through the computer to back date it would possibly put such side being facing away around the rough date of time the man had given. With this in mind, scans of the land showing nothing more recent activity wise, but in the southern most ocean range deep under the water 4 large impact craters about a 2km or so across circular roughly were in evidence spaced out over 50 square kms. The age of impact put it in line with the lights shown, so maybe they were simply large comets the man saw that hit the planet? But then it might occur to folks such a large amount of impacts underwater would have caused considerable climate shifts or costal damage in the nearby cities in that route, no such evidence of this or of changing weather patterns was found. This was certainly something to follow up on though once they got the man in question safely aboard.

By this point the Merrimack had pulled up alongside the mining post, and after another moment the transporter chief reported the man was aboard though ‘smelling riper then roadkill roasting in a swamp’. He was currently on his way by escort by NE’s to sickbay. Meanwhile securing the pod was an easy enough matter, tractoring it into their shuttle bay. The NE’s there reported they would have a report in the next half hour or so.

Lastly attempts to hack into the colony’s computer networks was a fairly easy enough task, at least for less secure access points. Local news reports, public records, all that were easy enough. Through this they were able to confirm that both men were who they said they were and both currently listed as dead due to ‘work place accident, and loss of contact’ 7 to 8 months ago. Record scans to do more things like try to figure out why nothing off planet was being done or acknowledged though would take a bit.

McDuff started flicking through the newly acquired information as soon as it began arriving in. He read as quickly as he could, he was looking for any nuggets of information that might relevant. He wanted to be as clued up as possible.

Beyond the above mentioned bit of information easily accessible without worrying too much of triggering security measures nothing else came up. Now if they wanted to try their hands at hacking into more secure places like government or local military sources they could but the risk of being detected rose some.

Captain Glen grew impatient waiting for the results of scans and searches to be returned. A half hour wait seemed like an eternity. He contacted Doctor Cross in the Sickbay again. =/\= Bridge to Sickbay. Captain speaking. Have you determined whether Michael Duck is fit to be questioned yet? =/\=

• Glen, CO

=/\= Captain he’s just arrived in sickbay , I will let you know how he is psychologically …Cross out =/\ came her swift reply .

Cross CMO.

In the meantime the Merrimack had returned to a distant orbit nearer too but not in direct orbit of Unity. Scans were much as they showed before in their earlier pass.

GM CockRoach