Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Remi Buchanan (Helm) in Main Sim - Bridge

Posted by Captain John Tiberius Glen (Captain) in Main Sim - Bridge
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“Are you joining us?” Glen asked, “Or just taking in the view?”

Remi answered the query confidently. “Lieutenant Buchanan, sir. I am the shuttle pilot you requested. I have not yet been cleared for Bridge duty, and I did not want to violate security protocols. If someone were to escort me…”

“Welcome to the Bridge,” said Glen. “Please take over at Helm. Put us into a standard orbit about that planet.”

“What does this third planet actually look like? ” Glen asked his CSO. “I don’t supposed it is very interesting?”

William smiled softly as he sat down and started a planetary scan.

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

“There isn’t anything of note on the surface, just rocks and various metallic readings but there is a system of caves that appears to cover most of the subterranean parts of the planet, I’m getting readings of some plant and animal life there. Truly a fascinating prospect and if time itself wasn’t at stake I’d really like to spend a few days cataloguing them.” William said with a hint of disappointment before noticing a blip

“Captain I’m detecting a cavern approximately 90 meters by 230, about 800 meters belove the surface. There seems to be some sort of artificial anomaly right in the middle of it. These caverns do indicate an M-class environment so I’m going to say it’s safe for a team to visit”. He turned around to face the captain again.

“We will need to beam down and investigate,” said Glen. “I’ll need a multidisciplinary team.”

=^=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.=^=

=/\= Very Good… We are now approaching the third planet in the system. There are some anomalous readings beneath the surface so I’m going to send a landing party down to investigate further… These bombs? Where were we thinking of directing them? We have no idea where or when the ‘Dark Serpent’ will appear. That is their tactical advantage over us. Subspace is huge. Sending one bomb at random is unlikely to achieve anything? =/\=

=^=The effective diameter is just over double the orbital diameter of the system. As long as the bomb is within the system at detonation it will affect the entire system but, for best effect, the closer to the center the better. I recommend somewhere between the orbitals of the second and third planets. And once one is detonated the resulting subspace storm will make subspace communications impossible as well as limiting travel to sub light. Warp speeds below factor two will cause damage to the drive systems and over factor two will destroy the vehicle. The effect will last approximately two Terran standard days.=^=

=/\= I think I’m beginning to understand the sheer scale of this. ‘If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one.’ Thanks, Kord. We will need to prepare for the after-effects of this. When we beam down. You can remain behind in command and continue to work on the plan. =/\=

Glen sighed. “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” he said. “I just hope he knows what he is doing!”

“Prepare a landing party, we’re beaming down as soon as we reach the third planet,” Glen said. “Mr. Buchanan, take us into standard orbit, stationary above that anomaly.”

=/\= All hands, this is Captain Glen. Lieutenant Ezial, Lieutenant Nkosenye, Lieutenant Grey, Doctor Cross, Ensign Ericson, NE Riggs (Sec) and NE Murtaugh (Sec), please report to Transporter Room #2 in 30 minutes for landing Party. Glen Out. =/\=

Nkosenye ducked his way onto the bridge and looked at Glenn. “Sir. Commander Kord and I have finished with the devices. I am available for the Landing Party,” he said in his rolling-boulder-like voice.

“Good work!” Glen replied.

“Mr. Buchanan, it looks like you will have the Bridge until Commander Kord relieves you. Please don’t do anything rash,” Glen said.

“Aye, sir.” Buchanan replied from his new station. He rose from the helm and took the center seat.

“Yeoman Hopkins, keep a channel open to the Ark Angel and please let me know if you here anything from them,” Glen said.

“We can take a slow walk down to the Transporters together, if you are ready,” told Lt. Grey and Lt. Nkosenye.

Glen, CO

Ten minutes later, after a short stop for a quick clean up, Kord entered the bridge. Noting that Glen had already left Kord took his customary place standing to the right of the command chair.

“Anything to report?” he asked.

Kord, XO