Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Sr. GM) in Main Sim- Shuttle (Baker)

Posted by Captain Remy Boudreaux (Starfleet Intelligence) in Main Sim- Shuttle (Baker)

Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Sr. GM) in Main Sim- Shuttle (Baker)
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Alita was able to fish out what she thought was all of them with only a couple of close calls - one where a stray gloop of plasma was ejected and scored across her visor - partially melting the plate but not all through. Still the suit did register a micro fracture and slow loss of oxygen, the message scrolling across her display with a countdown of oxygen remaining. Her first tug didn’t yield success, though she did find one more cable that was attached amongst the mess of them already detached.

As Alita continued to work, Basil did his best to assist with interference as she worked to get the necessary equipment free.

Petty Officer Baker, Tac/Spec

That was a job. While gravity was null there in effect so that any ejecta that occurred tended to go in any direction. Baker had to keep himself clear as well as things off Alita .. something that became greater an effort as more of the conduit corroded away.

OOC: Hey, guys! Sorry for the absence. Was finishing up the latest script of my comic coming out next year and needed to step away to focus on that. But should be back now!
OOC: Well how cool is that!!

Remy’s humor belied his true concern for Alita. He stood near her feet, ready to pull her out of the crawlspace in case of an emergency. His gaze kept going from Alita to the components they had collected in a pile. There had to be some useful information in there somewhere. That’s why he wanted to get it back to the Wolverine, let engineering, science, and ops go over it all in a more conducive environment.

There was also the issue of the cavern behind the Jem’Hadar ship that needed investigating . . .

Boudreaux (Intel)

At last the unit came free into Alita’s hand …
Wookiee

“Hell yeah, that is how we do it on the Wolverine!”

With that done Alita slid down wanting to get as far away from that situation as possible. She knew that her suit was registering a microfacture and blinked a few times to be certain she was reading correctly.

“Boudreaux, Baker, I need to get the hell out of here. My suit is registering a microfracture and I’m losing oxygen. So let’s go. Get these components and I think we’re done.”

• Alita, MO/COS

Baker’s eyes widened slightly at Alita’s announcement of her suit being compromised and immediately moved to help her get out. As he did so, he radioed back to Ensign Black on the shuttle to beam them and the components out of the ship.

Petty Officer Baker, Tac/Spec

The transport would go through fine .. Alita would note on her internal displays that her oxygen levels were descending, but that she would only be in danger should there not be transport out within the hour. Still, until then she could faintly hear a thin whistle of air escaping ..
Wookiee

=^=Alita, get back to de Wolverine wit’ dose components. Get Ops, Engineering, and Science working on dem. We need some info’ma-SHON as to what de ‘ell is goine on ‘ere,=^= Remy reported.

He turned to look at Baker and conyinued. =^=Mr. Baker an’ I are goine to investigate dat cavern. Maybe we can fin’ some clues dere, too. We’ll return soon in de Gambit.=^-

Boudreaux (Intel)

Baker raised an eyebrow at Boudreaux and then turned to Alita for confirmation. It was obvious that Boudreaux seemed to be in command in some way here, but Baker didn’t know exactly how he fit into the hierarchy of the ship. In his mind, until told otherwise by someone of proper rank, his orders still came from Lt. Commander Claire. And personally, that’s how he’d prefer it stay.

Perhaps Remy forgot that he was a civilian here, Alita knew he had been put in charge of this part of the mission but couldn’t help glaring at him for a few seconds.

“Yeah, that works. Stay safe, I don’t want to lose you again dammit.”

Alita quickly scooped up everything and made her way towards shuttle baker.

• Alita, MO/COS

With the orders given, Baker turned to Boudreaux and said, “Lead the way, Mr. Boudreaux.”

-Petty Officer Baker, Tac/Spec.

Remy contacted the Gambit, and gave the order for he and Baker to be transported 5 meters past the nose of the Jem’Hadar ship (assuming that will place us inside the cavern?).

A brief moment later, he and Baker had materialized in the cavern with a alien ship at their backs. . . .

Boudreaux (Intel)

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Baker looked around as much as his suit allowed him. He hated the limited movement these things gave. He drew out a phaser and looked to Boudreaux. “Ready when you are Mr. Boudreaux.”

Petty Officer Baker, Tac/Spec

The duo would need to use personal thruster accessories for this trip as the cavern was spacious and if there were hand holds and the like or anywhere at the moment to walk it was farther along. Dark, visuals through their visor display showed slightly greenish tinted walls of a silicate like composition, rough hewn in places, natural in others.

As they thrusted further along and past a bend they noted four hard point weapons emplacements that, when scanned, were low power energy weapons combined with quite high power tractor beams. They showed up as a diamond shaped black mass standing out from the lighter colored stone, or so the sensors in the suit would define them. They were in all four quadrants .. left, ceiling and floor of the cavern. There was one further curve beyond that, one more such hard point looking straight at them. Scans would show no energy signatures from either.

However, there looked to be a hint of a railing starting just before the bend and just past the hard point emplacement.
- Wookiee

Remy looked at the weapon placements and sighed. “De weapons look to be inactive. I believe it’s safe to proceed,” he said as he began moving forward.

OOC: GM, is the cavern large enough that the Jem Hadar ship would be able to maneuver through the tunnel?

Boudreaux (Intel)

Totally so. There did appear to be some .. changes to the cavern with the entire asteroid becoming unstable but the ship could still easily move about in here.

Beyond the cavern opened up further. Smaller rocks moved about here dislodged from an ugly scar that fractured the cavern almost in two, almost like an earthquake at a fault line. That said, there was no other vessel there but the cavern had berths for three such ships as they had seen. Each was accessible by a companionway that snaked its way along the wall of the cavern. Each berth had an accompanying metal bay door that could house a shuttle or, in all likelihood be for resupply.
- Wookiee

Baker looked about the space and gave a low whistle. “Looks like they were trying to set up a base here. Not a bad idea, except that the planet is so unstable. I wonder if perhaps the Jem Hadar are responsible for the seismic anomalies of the planet.” Baker turned to Boudreaux, “Shall we head on?”

Petty Officer Baker, Tac/Spec

Tactically it would be a small base but they too have purposes ..
- Wookiee

“Oui, we shall. We’ll leave de seismic issues to de science types. Right now, let’s jus’ focus on findine antine useful. If dis was a base, maybe we can find some environmental controls so we can take de party suits off. Stay sharp. I doubt dere’s anyone alive in ‘ere, bu’ i don’ wan’ no surprises.”

Remy drew his phaser and advanced . . . .

Boudreaux (Intel)

Baker gave a nod he wasn’t entirely sure Remy could see and drew his own phaser before advancing alongside him.
-Baker, Tac/Spec

(bump for GM)

As they approached one of the portals they would note that the metal frame and door were corroded and the latter buckled in places. It was not done by violence but something else. While it would not easily open and mechanics would be futile a ‘chunk’ of the metal had broken off showing itself to be brittle. The duo could ‘help’ this along where a section of the blast door would break off with some effort.

Beyond it was dark. Lights would show a rough but skillfully carved out chamber that still held crates which were amazingly held into place by fibrous straps; not being metal they were not corroded, though some of the crates being metallic showed signs of degeneration. These were all set up along the walls and rear of the chamber. Some few had broken out from the straps that had failed and floated about in the microgravity. Beyond was a door set within the rock that had been secure but a shifting in the asteroid had crumpled it leaving it ajar enough to pass through. To one side was a long transparent window to what was likely a control room. It was showing stress fractures in it but was not broken. No power sources were detected.

Beyond this door the passage branched - one to further interior and one to the right probably to the control room.
- Wookiee

As he and Baker passed through the various places, Remy paid meticulous attention to what the were finding, logging every detail in his mind.

“Whoever ‘ad de idea to make dis place a base of opera-SHONS mus’ no’ ‘ave been de sharpest tool in de box. Between de atmosphere being caustic and de shifting tectonics, I’m surprised dey were able to get dis much of de base completed.”

Boudreaux (Intel)

Indeed. By the look of the corrosion what metals that the Dominion utilized for their ships, while tough on the one side, they looked more prone to being affected by the regions effects.

By all appearances the base looked like it was in the process of being abandoned. There wasn’t much in the way of ‘stores’ there and general inventory of what would normally be at a base was noticeably absent or minimal.

It did however look like they weren’t the first ones to have found this base. Here and there they would find cabinets opened and not closed, or crates broken into. A weapons locker had been jimmied and torched to open it and if there were any contents there when the Jem’hadar left they were now gone.
- Wookiee

Remy tapped his comm badge and reported to the the ship.

=^=Boudreaux to de Wolverine. Ens. Baker an’ I ‘ave been explorine de cavern behind de Jem’hadar ship. We found an abandoned base, no’ in very good shape. De mystery is dat someone got ‘ere before us–signs of forced entry on a number of cabinets, broken into crates, weapon lockers. . . . no way o’ knowine if dey found anytine.=^=

Captain Remy Boudreaux
Starfleet Intelligence USS Wolverine