Posted by Crewman Guy Fleegman (Security Officer) in Colony: Engineering Team
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As the Away Team finished their conversation with the ship they noted Platus, the Mining Leader, as he rounded the Admin building and approached them at a hurry.
“ Good news! The equipment is all working again! As if there was never anything wrong! It’s amazing! I have sent the miners back to work.” Indeed the Away Team could see that various miners moved around now, tool kits or other equipment in hand as they approached equipment or entered other buildings.

“Was this your doing? Have you found my people?” He asked anxiously.

“Nobody tells me nothing!” muttered Guy.

Stella stood up and brushed her clothing off as the man approached. She fixed him with a steely eye and found no joy at all in the man’s good news. The very idea that perfectly good equipment. All of it nearly had stopped at all for no discernible reason and then suddenly had started again was more than a little bit suspicious. And what made it worse was that one of the things that had broken down were her comms. She knew they had been in perfect shape before she’d left. She’d had to make sure of that to make that private call for the captain. She pointedly ignored the man and turned to Guy asking him. ” Guy is there anything at all you find odd about all this?”

“Do I find this odd?” Guy repeated the question for emphasis. “This entire planet is weird!” But Guy didn’t think it was his place to answer the question from Platus. He left it for one of those in charge here.

At that moment Guy’s transmitter started to bleep =/\= Sharp here …I thought I’ll let you know that we have found other beings living in the caves =/\= the security sounded excited =/\= They are showing us where and how they live ! =/\= he babbled on.

He reasoned there was no harm in contacting Guy without any orders from his D’H , who by the looks of it was having trouble getting up the stairs .

Guy had his communicator on a low volume, but was unsure how much the others and Platus might here. Guy quietly replied, =/\= Is there a connection with the return of Power and Comms up here? It would seem a big coincidence if it wasn’t, and the Mining Leader, Platus, has just walked in here asking about it, and where his missing people are? =/\=

“It’s Sharp,” he told Stella. “There have been some developments down below!”

=/\= Yes the connection is back even with the ship , they call themselves Aenar and there are thousands of them ..taking us where the two persons are and show us evidence of what the Romulans did. Guy don’t tell the miners and their boss anything maybe Platus is hiding something , cannot figure how they have gone undetected . How are you guys holding up there ? =/\= .

=/\= Are those the Captain’s orders, Sharp? Because that leader of miners is here in the room right now, asking for some answers! I’ll say that you don’t quite have the whole picture yet. We are okay, up here. You know they never listen to me as usual. We were worried there was a fire-breathing Dragon that ate it’s victims whole! Sounds instead like a vacation! =/\=

=/\= No Guy , I made contact with you on my own accord to let you know we are safe ,let them ask all they want too .... just don’t say anything =/\= Sharp responded back.

=/\= Okay. You told me nothing too! Keep safe! =/\=

Platus was looking around at them, obviously a bit concerned as no one answered him. “Have you found our people? What’s going on?”

Stella just shook her head in confusion. Yes, she was quite sure she was going mad. Or been there and had come back for a short visit. For she was quite certain that her, the captain, and the Merrimac had had this conversation earlier. She was going to have to make a mental note to herself to see what condition her condition was in when and if she ever returned to the ship. She then turned saw that Platus was still there. She sighed and told Platus. ” Yes, everyone is alright for the moment. “

“Where are they? Are they being brought back here?”

Platus asked, his brow furrowing as a bit of anger and frustration tinged his voice, he couldn’t understand why the Federation people weren’t being more forthcoming.

Guy could see the anger rising in the miner’s leader. He wished that Stella had simply said that she didn’t know, given what Sharp had just told him, but with no one else responding to Platus, Stella must have felt that someone should say something to him. Guy needed to recover the situation now before it got out of hand. It wasn’t his place to speak up. He was only crewman number four on this landing party, but if the situation did get out of hand, as it was liable to… well, you know who was going to get the blame? Not these engineers and scientists, but crewman number four!

“Communications aren’t very good!” Guy said as an opening gambit; it was true, just not the whole truth. “They don’t quite have the whole picture yet, just that your people are safe and sound,” Guy added, which was also true as far as it went. He looked at Stella, then back at Platus, unsure of how he was doing. “We don’t need any unpleasantness here; I’m sure that the Captain and the officers will tell us as soon as they know themselves. Okay?” He realised that he was talking drivel, but could you do better given the circumstances?

The Advisor visibly relaxed now that he had been given a sufficient answer. “At least they are alive. Are your people coming back up soon with them?”

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“I wasn’t told before the connection ended,” Guy said truthfully. “They are investigating something further.”

From the moment just before Guy had started speaking Stella had begun to go Amazon on the rude miner. She’d been through quite enough and needed no more from some rude miner who had set some of her crewmembers in harm’s way. She had stood upright and glared at the miner with both her fists balled together and her feet planted just so. It was then that Guy began speaking. Stella bit down hard on her lower lip not to say anything. She knew that Guy was doing the right thing and admired him for it. But still she felt a screaming urge to mindlessly throw something or break anything close to hand.

Finally catching control of herself Stella smiled sweetly and said to the miner.” We’re sorry we don’t have any more information for you, sugar. But our people are doing everything they can. And you can pretty much rest assured that if we heard from them then your people are all right. Our captain wouldn’t leave a job undone.” Stella then turned to Guy and smiled at him. ” Thanks Guy. “

Stella Gagnon Lt.jg.

Guy was confused. Stella was being nice to him. “No problem” he answered.

• Guy, Sec

The Advisor grunted , obviously not very happy with that response but deciding not to push the point.
“Alright, well if you have nothing to tell me…” He was going to continue when the sounds of a shuttle entering the atmosphere was heard though it could not be seen through the thick canopy of the jungle. Another shuttle was obviously landing where the first had. They only had to wait to see who was coming.

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