Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Bridge
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=/\= In either case keep us appraised if you can, despite our future friend here at HQ telling me not too I’m sending the USS Portsmouth and USS Brans both Miranda class cruisers out your way with several Larson class destroyers. I know they won’t be of much help but they should be there in another hour or two regardless. If you find a use for them in some way get in touch with Captain Sturpets of the Portsmouth he’s got overall tactical command of that squadron..=/\= He said.

=/\= Anything else?=/\=

=/\= I appreciate the gesture Admiral, but as I just outlined, the reason the Merrimack is fighting capable here, is due to the temporal hiccup we got during our time with the Elders and Ancients, that also effected our weapons. No heroics here, Sir, but Captain Sturpets’ squadron do not have that protection or upgrade, and they would be heavily disadvantaged in any fight against the Dark Serpents. I think that it is better that they assemble somewhere nearby and wait for the present time, making a show of force. If we get into a battle, once the tide has turned in our favour, we can call in the cavalry to finish off. With all due respect, Sir, if it doesn’t turn in our favour, then it would be pointless to throw more ships, and weaker ships, into an unwinnable frontal assault. =/\=

Cross heard her transmitter bleep and clicked it open....Glen would hear the doctor mutter something before closing it back. ‘’Captain that was from sickbay,apparently our new doctor is some what paranoid and suggested that the twins would be safer if we erect the force field emitter once its available’’ for a brief moment she turned her face away lest he saw the tears welling up in her eyes.

As we waited for the Admiral to reply Glen made a thumbs up sign back to Cross. He found it unlikely that it was really Bre’s idea. Glen could understand that Cross might feel that way after her own child was stolen by the Ancients/Elders but it was a concern he now had himself too. These Dark Serpents could flit in and out of subspace at will and that made the Merrimack vulnerable. So, anything that increased the protection of the ship was okay with him.

=/\= If you’re sure then, Captain. Very well I’ll put the squadron on standby 5 light years off. Anything else to add?=/\= He asked

=/\= Nothing important that I can think of right now… Just one thing! I admit that I don’t fully understand the weapons that my XO and COS are preparing, with the assistance of the Ark Angel. I do however, know that previous experiments with subspace weapons have shown they have a very unpredictable nature. I’m a little concerned about the effects that could occur as a result of using these weapons, such as a subspace tear, but I have agreed to it as I see no other way of attacking the Dark Serpents when they seem to exist within subspace itself. There is a strong possibility that Ark Angel, or ourselves, may cause permanent damage to subspace in this region although it is very remote and unpopulated. It could even be the reason that the third planet disappears. Having time travelled so much, having seen the Merrimack in the future turned into a floating museum, it makes me wonder about our legacy. I don’t wish to be remembered as the Captain who destroyed a Sector and made it uninhabitable. =/\=

William perked up at the sound of subspace weaponry, he hadn’t been in the meeting much to his chagrin so this was the first he’d heard about what kind of weapon they were designing. He’d been briefly a part of a think tank that was looking into potential uses of Subspace weapons, although his work had been entirely theoretical as he understood it the weapons were probably the most unstable kinds of weaponry available.

When the call to the Admiral had finally finished, Captain Glen turned to his CSO. “You weren’t in the meeting but you will have gathered that we are going to investigate the third planet in this system and why it no longer exists in the time from which the Ark Angel came back from. I want you to lead on that investigation. You will also have gathered from my conversation with the admiral that we are working on subspace torpedo weapons to defeat the Dark Serpents. I have a bad feeling that the loss of the third planet is no coincidence. I noticed in your personnel file that you were briefly a part of a think tank that was looking into potential uses of Subspace weapons. You are therefore probably the most qualified person aboard to investigate any link.”

The turbolift doors opened into the Bridge, but Remi didn’t step out. He took a moment to let it sink in. The activity level, the big forward screen. Of course he had been in the simulators, the ship museums, and all that. But this was his first time aboard an active starship’s command center.

William nodded “Yes, Sir” He looked at the newcomer before turning back to the Captain “Our research concluded before we got to making physical tests, Starfleet decided they wanted Weapons R&D to take over, which was quite a relief. But I’d need access to the Ark Angels sensor data on where the planet should be in their timeline” He stood up and placed on hand to his chin thinking “I wonder if we could truly create a planet-killer in our armory” He spoke somberly,

“Please, don’t even joke about it! It must be something to do with my thirty-something age, and the son I have who I have never seen, but seriously, I do worry about the kind of legacy I’m leaving for the future. When we visited the future and saw the Black Rock facility with the Merrimack in centre stage as a floating museum, there was a great celebration of our contribution to history… …But I just don’t see it! I’m the Captain who has helped to start three wars and destroyed countless planetary ecosystems. Now, we might be adding the destruction of an entire planet that…” Glen stopped an looked to the turbolift where William had looked earlier. The doors remained open.

“Are you joining us?” Glen asked, “Or just taking in the view?”

As scans of the third planet came back in they were now orbiting it seemed at first to be mostly a generally dead rock of iron and nickel. But then deeper scans would show a myriad of caves and tunnels crisscrossing the slightly bigger then mercury sized planet. These showed a just within tolerance class-m atmosphere! Also picked up were signs of subterranean plant and small animal life. Kind of interesting really if they weren’t facing another problem.

But then scans for artificial sources came up with a blip! William in this case could report a small caravan roughly 100 yards by 250 yards around 1/2 mile beneath the surface, with two small underground rivers riding through it with plant and animal life, the artificial anomaly was almost smack in the center of the caravan. But several deposits of lead and gold seemed to be creating interference to get a better read. Maybe they could send a small away team down to investigate

OOC: Hint hint…

GM CockRoach

=^=Captain, the subspace torrent bombs are ready. We need to be at least one AU away when we set one off. The second is a back up in case the first fails. We do not want to set off two of these at the same time.=^=

Kord, XO