Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Ashley Walker (Engineering Physicist) in Colony: Engineering Team

Posted by Gamemaster Nosferatu (Gamemaster) in Colony: Engineering Team

Posted by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) in Colony: Engineering Team
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Lance sat crossed legged on a chair at a desk in the main building, he sat with the data the Captain had given him and a note pad, he looked over at the engineers busy doing engineering things. He wasn’t totally sure what they were doing he was deeply focused on what he had in front of him. The numbers looking for patterns and from the patterns possible reasons for what was going on. He hummed to himself tapping his foot, he was pretty glad he wasn’t required to go into the caves, he was much happier with this numbers.

He looked at his pencil scribbles so far and looked to see if he could distinguish any patterns around when people had gone missing verses energy spikes or dips.

What Lance saw with his notes was an increasing number of incidents over the last month. What had started out as a few isolated incidents had turned into an almost daily occurrence now. Missing equipment, any equipment running on signals not working, injuries to workers, reports of nightmares from the workers to the medical teams. It definitely seemed as if there was a campaign of terror going on. It finalized with the missing miners that had disappeared in the last few days with no trace of their whereabouts.
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So, that’s what Stella did. There were lots of men in here. It seemed too easy. She sashayed into the middle of the building, her back arched, her shoulders back and exquisite posture. Looking around at all the men she smiled to the point where it nearly hurt her lips as she called out over the noise. ” Excuse me! ” She waved” Excuse me! I was wondering if you fellows keep maintenance logs and where they might be found. And if l might have a look at them?” She wasn’t sure if anyone had done this yet but at least she wouldn’t be outside by herself. Some of the miners looked kind of cute anyway.

A red headed miner with a matching flame red beard looked her up and down then smiled slowly, “Well now, they do make some nice looking Starfleet officers, now don’t they? And who may you be, miss? Would you even know how to read them there logs?” He winked at her in a winning way.

Seeing the man Stella turned on the charm. One knee appeared to weaken as it went behind the other and she smiled a smile that made her look as sweet as sugar cane just pulled and peeled from the field. ” I thank you sir.” She replied. I always do try to look my best wherever I am. There’s no reason for a girl to let herself go you know.” She then extended her hand to the big redhead man and introduced herself. ” I’m Stella Gagnon Lieutenant Junior Grade Comms officer, late of Slidell Louisiana, Tammany Parrish. ”

She stopped then and thought for a moment about the engineering repair logs. For her purposes the things would be pretty easy. All she wanted to do was to note the downtime and see if there were regular intervals of some sort between the times and then go from there in her little investigation. Still though it would be better to involve the miners in what she was doing. She wouldn’t be so much like someone getting in the way or trying to tell someone what to do. ” Well sugar,” she replied, drawing out the word. ” I might be able to understand some of it but I don’t think it would hurt too much if I had a good looking professional like you around. ” What did you say your name was again”?

The miner looked askance at her hand for a moment before rubbing his right hand on his pant leg before shaking hers.
“John Stewart, Lead on second shift. Well, when there is one. What do I call you? Lieutenant Commander Gagnon?”

” Baaaah!” Stella said waving her hand at the man. “Please John just you call me Stella. I really don’t care for all that formality stuff. And it’s nothing as grand as commander anyway. She looped her arm around the miner’s arm and stepped closer to him then as she asked. ” So, John where might we find these maintenance logs? “

John looked askance at Stella for a moment, a bit non plussed. Then he cleared his throat and pointed toward the 2nd building where Lance was working. “They are in there.” He said briefly.

” Oh, I see him over there! Stella burst out as she recognized Lance. ” O hope I can help them somehow. Sitting around is something I just don’t care for!” She then reached up and gave John a little peck on the cheek and said to him. ” Thank you, John, you’re such a dear. You watch out and keep yourself safe now sugar!”

Stella stated to walk over toward the building closing the distance quickly with her long strides. All the way she could hear the crunch of stone beneath her. She wouldn’t be able to sneak up on a deaf man in these boots. At least they weren’t as uncomfortable as they looked. By the time she reached the other building she was glad to walk into the shade. ” Lance? Lieutenant Malone?”

Guy breathed a sigh of relief as he saw Stella walking back again unharmed. It looked like M’Mera wouldn’t be giving him the works just yet. He was tempted to say something more to Stella, but there was little point, these officers just did whatever they wanted to do. They expected Guy to give his life to protect their own, but they had no consideration about putting his in danger. He just hoped that the information she had been given by the miner with the read beard was worth the risk. She’d given him a kiss, so Guy thought that he must have told her something useful.

Ashley stopped for a little bit and walked over to Guy. Putting a hand on his shoulder. “Hey Guy. Is there something wrong?” She asked him. However, she was too busy working she didn’t know what Guy was thinking.

OOC: What is Ashley exactly working on? I need details or I cannot give results:)

GM Nosferatu
Your Darkest Nightmare

OOC: sorry if I’m not giving full details lately. I’ve give down with something so it’s hard to think at times. I’ll try my best.

Lieutenant J.G. Ashley Walker
Engineering Physicist
U.S.S. Merrimack

OOC: Try taking something apart, or what about switching it off and back on again ;)

IC:
Guy replied to Ashley, “It seems to me like a redshirt’s duty is only to get killed. His death serves as a warning to the rest of the landing party; his sacrifice lets more valuable crew members and the Captain avoid danger. Everyone here thinks it’s a good idea to split up and to wander off on their own. Do they ever listen to me?”

She looked at Guy as she was taking apart a light generator, and she took a pause. “Guy, don’t let anything get to you. I understand that it’s something that you aren’t expecting. But.” She sighs. “We will get through this together, I promise.” She went back to the light generator and started to work on it.

Lieutenant J.G. Ashley Walker
Engineering Physicist
U.S.S. Merrimack

“I hope everyone gets through too, ” replied Guy as he sat down on a chair near to where Ashley was working..

Guy wondered if the light generator wasn’t something that had worked before it was taken apart. They had been given a list of the things that worked and those that didn’t earlier. It seemed that internally powered machines worked but those that required a signal did not. Guy picked up a tool from the table. He was playing with it and read the inscription on it, Starfleet Mk. 3 Micro-Resonator. Danger Radiation. Warning. Can result in aggressive hickeys. Always use tools carefully. Guy didn’t know quite why, but he just had a good feeling about this tool. But what did he know, he was only a redshirt.

• Guy, Sec

Ashley found that there was nothing wrong with the light generator as it had an internal power source, but as it was the main generator it did send signals (think blue tooth) to other smaller light generators which were of course not working as these small ones needed the signals to work themselves. The Larger light generator worked just fine though and there was nothing wrong with the nodes that sent power to other generators, they just did not send the required signals. It was obvious that the crew needed to find the source of whatever it was interrupting the signals.

GM Nosferatu
Your Darkest Nightmare

“Guy. I know that we may just be red shirts. But we do have a purpose. Not dying. But we do have a job as starfleet officers. Never forget that. I know I may not be the captain. But we all care.” She said as she was putting the bigger generator back together as she started to work on the smaller light generators.

Lieutenant J.G. Ashley Walker
Engineering Physicist
U.S.S. Merrimack

The smaller generators were also in good working order, just missing the power signal to turn them on

GM Nosferatu
Your Darkest Nightmare