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Post by Gheskori on Jul 30, 2016 9:23:33 GMT
Mission 8: A Wreath of Visions
Three months ago following the discovery of an unstable 'warp highway' lying between the Federation core and the edge of the galaxy (a corridor through space that amplifies the power of a warp bubble), two exploratory vessels of Oberth class were sent to explore the Galactic Barrier, the first opportunity for Federationn vessels to do so in over fifty years.
At the conduit's exit point, they found masses of debris, remains of starships and space stations, all of completely unknown origin. Grazing the edge of the Galactic Barrier itself, they found the only intact craft amongst all the billions of tonnes of wreckage, a space station on an outward trajectory from the galactic core, now undergoing gradual deterioration as it's submitted to tidal forces within the Barrier. Well within the Barrier they found a small planet, on which was a dilapidated habitation occupied by one man who would not see them.
The two vessels arrived back in Federation space three weeks later, the crews unable to explain their reappearance. They had not used the highway. Their computer systems had been wiped, and the only knowledge gained of what lay out there was from their varyingly lucid, confused, deranged or schizophrenically emotionless testimonies.
In under two years the highway will have degraded to such an extent that it will no longer be accessible. The USS Enzio has been assigned to access the highway and investigate what may have been responsible for the two crews' mysterious return journey, to start again the research on the alien technology and the surviving station that continues to orbit farther and farther from the galactic centre, and to seek out the enigmatic individual who lives alone on the rogue planet within the Barrier. One thing causes Command apprehension, one thing that throws the whole mission into doubt, can they trust the eyewitness accounts of the unstable Oberth crewmembers? What may actually lie the other side of the highway?
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Post by Gheskori on Jul 30, 2016 9:47:35 GMT
Gheskori had eventually returned to the Enzio, now being much better acquainted with the details of the assignment. Basirov had kept him waiting again, this time in the lobby, not even as far as the door of his office. Even though they were of the same rank, Basirov somehow managed to exert an influence over the Denobulan. Why he should allow the man the lead in all their discussions, to the point where he was actually giving Ghes orders, Ghes didn't really understand, considering Basirov had already made it clear that despite his proclaimed love of Denobulan culture he didn't think much of Gheskori his fellow Admiral at all.
Well, the man's orders came from the Commander-in-Chief, so Gheskori could hardly object to their content even if he may have had a case about Basirov dictating everything to him all the time...
He entered his ready room, having left Mwv'mci in their quarters with permission to explore the ship but having advised her to stay away from critical systems; even the mess hall he considered a point of contention (not for reasons of her clumsiness with mechanical objects but because of the company she'd inevitably attract), though he'd never and indeed he shouldn't forbid her from going there.
Why was he being so protective of her? With his first two wives he'd been happy to let them be 'friendly' with others in their shared social and/or professional circles immediately - as was usually the case with all wedded Denobulans. Perhaps, he reasoned, his coddling of Mwv'mci had something to do with the new assignment. This mission was hardly going to be 'a walk in the park', as the human expression went, no indeed, far from it, thus his guardianship (argh! did his internal monologue say that? Analysing his previous relationships he couldn't see anything indicating a 'patriarchical' relation to his partner... hmmm) may be a product of the possible serious danger the crew could be exposed to on this assignment.
She'd decided to accompany him after all, despite the acrimonious manner in which their 'shore leave' had ended. It wasn't Ghes who'd suggested they build a raft - floating downstream, the lashings coming loose and logs getting caught in the reeds at the side of the river, Mwv'mci ending up in the water, struggling to swim, Ghes holding onto the three remaining lashed logs as he reached the passage between the 'Bosphorus' like boulders and had discovered the four metre waterfall just the other side of it; plunging with the logs into a hollowed out near-spherical pool where one of the logs would've struck him a blow on the head if the safety protocols hadn't intervened at the critical moment.
Perhaps he should've gone back to rescue her, leave those blasted logs and the intriguing gap the river had carved between the rocks that reminded him of Jason and the Argonauts, he considered now, scratching his chin and sitting back in his desk chair in the ready room; the problem was he did have a slight phobia of water; any heroic attempt at saving her from 'drowning' would've caused him as much terror as it would've caused her at having to watch him flail about in the rapids yelling pathetically.
He grinned at the thought despite himself, reaching forward for a PADD and scanning through the list of new personnel. Seventeen new officers and enlisteds. Taking a second PADD he settled back in his chair, finding his page for Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Holding it one hand, he used the other to open a comm to the ship and Starbase, "All USS Enzio senior staff, this is Admiral Gheskori. Report to the conference room on the Enzio by 1500 hours. Shore leave is concluded."
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Jul 31, 2016 11:48:49 GMT
Tiana was scrubbing phosphorescent dye from her hands when the Admiral's message came over the comm.
=/\=All USS Enzio senior staff, this is Admiral Gheskori. Report to the conference room on the Enzio by 1500 hours. Shore leave is concluded.=/\= She verbally acknowledged the order and carried on scrubbing. Ensign Hurel had not intended to create a permanent dye when he had started hybridising the Meltorian Ragworts but that is what had come out. He was back in his quarters having been covered nearly as thoroughly as auxiliary lab 3 during his work. When he had realised how bad the situation was and that the dye wasn't shifting he had called Tiana. She had site-to-sited him back to his quarters and told him to dispose of his uniform. She had volunteered to do the lab clean up - keeping records of what worked and what didn't as she did so.
It had taken a diperiodic hydroxide to remove the stains from the lab benches. Of course she couldn't use that on her skin (well not unless she really wanted to dissolve herself) so she was left with old fashioned scrubbing until the top layer or so were gone. She sent out the orders to bring her staff back on board and wrap up the lab reorganisation that was still on going.
By the time 1450 rolled around Ensign Huel had returned to the lab to deal with his plants and start analysing the dye properly. He still had a few yellow stains but was looking better. She still had a couple of small dye stains but was actually pretty excited about what had been discovered. The two of them talked over potential applications as the first round of analysis started.
Tiana was grateful that she had set a reminder when her train of thought was interrupted by the computer telling her that she needed to be in the conference room in five minutes. She took her leave of the lab and walked to the lift.
She arrived in the conference room a minute early and settled in a chair opposite the Admiral. "Afternoon," she smiled as they waited for the rest of the senior staff to arrive.
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Post by Aeryn Tavik on Jul 31, 2016 17:38:43 GMT
Breathing slowly and deeply, Aeryn settled into the next posture. She was practicing Von Kal Von, a discipline very similar to yoga, meant to relax the body and loosen the muscles. It was surprisingly relaxing and Aeryn had been studying it for a couple of months now. One thing was certain however, she was ready to get on with a new mission. It was an ancy feeling to be sure. She didn't like sitting around and even with all the things to do aboard the starbase, she needed to be doing something. When she heard the call come in for the staff meeting, she breathed a sigh of relief. "Finally," she said allowed. She closed down the holodeck program and returned to her quarters. She had three hours and needed to recall the troops.
Entering the marine barracks, she found her second sitting drinking what appeared to be a bottle of scotch. "What the hell is this?" she asked, slightly annoyed.
Chang took the bottle and gulped another long batch. "Its fake. And it tastes like it too." The sound of utter disgust sprang forth from his mouth.
"Waste time with crappy alcohol on your own time," Aeryn ordered. "Gather the men. Sounds like we're shipping out." Chang reluctantly stood up from the desk and went to the console to start issuing the recall from shoreleave.
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Right at 1500 hours, Aeryn strode into the conference room. She was likely the last one to arrive, given the group already present. She took a seat at the end of the table from Admiral Gheskori. There was a PADD in front of her. She didn't want to read so she waited. Looking up, she said, "Afternoon admiral. What have we got this time?"
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Post by Gheskori on Aug 3, 2016 15:40:32 GMT
Ghes nodded, "We're just waiting for Lieutenant Marin to arrive, Colonel." The engineer joined them three minutes late, in which time Ghes had already begun the briefing in earnest, standing beside the sector map that showed a plotted course from Starbase 47 to the Galactic Barrier.
"The highway, as Lieutenant Marin will be able to inform us, increases power to a warp bubble courtesy of a natural property that defies physical laws above lightspeed, meaning we apply a new coefficient to our Cochrane scale. We will be able to travel to the edge of the galaxy using this tunnel through normal space even faster than we could with the transwarp drive."
"And at the other end of this... highway, we expect to find what?" someone asked.
"As I said, we don't know for sure," Ghes said, pursing lips, "The USS Sydney and USS Crazy Horse-A, Oberth class explorer vessels, discovered what their crews stated were masses of debris belonging to an unknown species, and one intact space station, also of the unknown species, very close to the Galactic Barrier. They returned not via the highway but through some unknown method, and were unable to remember how it'd happened."
He moved to the other side of the screen, pressing a button to bring up the personnel rosters of each ship. All had returned safely, however it'd been done, they had returned safely. "Nor were their computer banks able to provide us with such information," he continued, "They were found wiped, again by an unknown mechanism, when they were investigated on the vessels reaching Starbase. Half the crews..." he paused, "Were, unstable... to say the least."
"Then they can't be trusted? They could've seen anything. Isn't this rather too dangerous to be sending one vessel, sir?"
"One thing which the C-in-C..." the staff stirred, murmuring slightly at the naming of such a high profile individual and by implication their involvement in this investigation; Ghes said, "Yes, the C-in-C... One thing which the C-in-C thinks makes the two ships' story about the debris, the mostly intact station, and the planet beyond it within the Barrier with its one inhabitant, believable, is that the captain of the Sydney was completely unaffected by the varying degrees of madness among her and her fellow CO's crewmembers, and she had much the same story. Moreover, the Sydney CO and the C-in-C go way back, and if there is trust between them then Starfleet believes it's acceptable to send one vessel.
"Commander Galwyn Cet. Your primary duty as we head out for the location of the warp highway will be to ascertain its level of degradation, how long we can expect to remain in there and if our presence in there contributes to its degradation. We want to be able to make the return trip, and need to know if it'll be accessible from the other end when that time comes."
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"Colonel Tavik. Start drilling your people immediately, and continue to keep the drills regular during our transit in the warp highway and after our arrival. Whatever could've caused the amnesia and madness of those crews, and whatever propelled their ships back here must, whether its benevolent or malevolent in intent, be a powerful force, whether it is conscious, sentient like a lifeform, or a natural force in our galaxy." Or from beyond it, he thought, chilled slightly by the idea. "Any questions?"
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He informed the staff they would be leaving at 1700, and that once underway, would they like to join him in the mess hall? (Where he could keep an eye on his wife if she was present, and ward her off from other tables or any tables at all).
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The Enzio had departed Starbase 47, now en route for the warp highway approximately eleven lightyears away. Approaching the coordinates, the Prometheus class ship dropped out of warp and began scans to try and detect the invisible gateway through to the hyperluminal.
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Post by Aeryn Tavik on Aug 10, 2016 1:16:37 GMT
Remembering back to the meeting, Aeryn couldn't help but notice its brevity, given the importance of the situation. It was obvious that the mission was top priority, given Admiral Gheskori's involvement, but surely they had more information than just what had been given. She was used to little to no knowledge, certainly, but this time? She needed more. Now, though, was not the time. Sitting in her office, Aeryn went over the marks of the latest set of drills. Realistically, for a marine unit that was still relatively new to space, they were performing to her standards, which admittedly were much higher than that of the rest of the marine corps. She demanded nothing short of excellence in the field and out of the field.
She gathered the troops. As they assembled in formation, Captain Chang stood at the front facing the unit, as he always did. Aeryn wondered if he was drunk again, given his current demeanor. He was almost always professional, but there was something about him today. He wasn't all there. She'd need to talk to him later. "Marines!" she called out. "In my hand, I hold the latest in your perfomance drill evaluations. Captain Chang will call it out."
The marine captain did so and Aeryn surveyed the crowd. They weren't wholeheartedly pleased with it. Aeryn wasn't either, to be fair. She spoke out, "At this point, most of the crew would be dead. Those who aren't would most likely be captured or dying." She paused. "We've got to do better folks. Conditioning. Now!" she ordered. They dissipated and only Chang was left. He didn't say anything, and only looked out the port. "Something on your mind, Chang?"
He scoffed a bit. "There are always things on my mind. I'm fine."
Aeryn wasn't convinced. "Get your [word deleted] together, marine. We've got work to do." He nodded his understanding.
As he left, Aeryn checked the time. It was nearing 1700. She sighed. Time to go mingle again
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She entered the mess hall with time to spare and made her way to the beverage dispenser. She took a cardassian sunset, even though it would be fake, and meandered around. There were only a few crewmen around, but obviously not a part of her intended group. She'd have to wait a few.
Great...
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Post by Gheskori on Aug 10, 2016 20:40:41 GMT
Ghes was lying on the couch in his quarters with a PADD in hand finishing the novel. Mwv'mci was in the sonic shower, preparing for the mess hall rendezvous. Irked by something whirling about in his thoughts, he called, "Dearest!" A muffled response came. "What did Oaklen say again to the Gorn ambassador on the third moon?" "When?" "Before I left Denobula. That is, before you were born... ahh, never mind." He sat up and looked behind him out the portal at space's blackness - somewhere out there, in that field he was watching, was the entrance or rather a window into the warp highway. How quickly they could gain access to the veritable tunnel through space depended on Tiana's detection methods. And what they would find there on the other side... well it may well turn on the veracity of the half-crazed (taking the Oberth ships' complements as a whole) reports from those unfortunate USS Sydney and USS Crazy Horse-A crews. If only they could find another way of checking the reports for evidence of total fact, perhaps involving those people among his crew who were experts at reading Federation species' behaviour, whatever their mental states, and verifying accuracy of what they said, and it would be have to even in the case of the most extreme schizophrenic. Well, perhaps there was a way, the image of the mess hall in Ghes's mind. He made his way through the corridors, his wife not quite on his arm but the illusion of that being kept firmly in place by Gheskori - linked arms kept a centimetre or two away from actually touching, for Denobulans despised such contact except during more private moments or when necessary, or in a few other situations. He ramped up the authenticity of the illusion even more now as crewmen who, in addition to acknowledging the CO, also looked at the two of them longer than necessary, as the newly wedded walked the passages and entered the mess hall. At the table he'd reserved for them Colonel Tavik was present, along with another senior officer - the occasionally tardy engineer Lieutenant Marin. "Well, hello both! Colonel, I didn't realise you were getting comfortable with the young man already." Marin looked awkward suddenly, clearing his throat. Ghes drew back a chair for Mwv'mci before he slid around the table to his own seat, of course having forgotten something and hence sending Mwv'mci to the replicator, then thinking better of it and returning her to her seat before fetching refreshments himself. Can't have her intercepted on the way. The talk progressed haltingly for the first minute or two as the officers adapted to having their newly promoted (to full Admiral) CO sitting at the table (that double-coupled with the presence of Ghes's young new wife and the vein in which he'd chosen to hail the two officers already present), but eventually their chat relaxed into a good rhythm. Ghes looked at the dark liquid before him, "Well, it's most unusual..." he was replying to Marin who - sitting at one end of the table - was disagreeably spending more time looking at Mwv'mci the other end. "It's called Denobulan coffee." He looked at Aeryn, "Colonel. Most of your team is new, I haven't had the chance to read up on their service records... Tell me, do any of them specialise in reading emotions and behaviour in interrogation scenarios? In cases where those emotions, in a criminal for instance, may intentionally or otherwise show that they're telling a lie?" <Tag Aeryn> <Tag Tiana for when arrive - not compulsory, may continue research to get into the warp highway >
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Aug 28, 2016 14:18:44 GMT
"Commander Galwyn Cet. Your primary duty as we head out for the location of the warp highway will be to ascertain its level of degradation, how long we can expect to remain in there and if our presence in there contributes to its degradation. We want to be able to make the return trip, and need to know if it'll be accessible from the other end when that time comes."
Tiana nodded. She was very excited about this, it wasn't often that you actually got to study a warp highway. Of course, warp physics and related phenomena weren't exactly her forte. However she had a member of staff who knew a lot about them.
Half an hour later Tiana, Tomal, SCPO Hernandez and PO M'Rell were gathered in Tiana's office making plans and notes across the desk. Tiana was drinking her third mug of coffee but PO M'Rell was currently banned from caffeine. The young Caitian was in the middle of her PhD research on rare warp phenomena and the chance to investigate a warp highway meant that she was practically vibrating with excitement. Tiana had to smile. She sometime felt a bit jaded but it was important to remember that joy of discovery was why they were out here. Of course, even if she got that joy back she was never going to match M'Rell's energy.
M'Rell was currently leaning over the desk typing so fast that Tiana couldn't focus on her fingers. Rather than allow herself to get dizzy Tiana focused on checking the energy, space and personnel requirements of the plans made so far. A plan was only of use if they could actually do it. She shivered slightly as she took her mug back to the replicator, exciting as this was she couldn't afford to lose sight of what had happened to the previous mission. They had to find a way to ensure that the Enzio did not meet the same fate. That would be an equally interesting but rather less relaxed planning session that would follow this one.
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Post by Gheskori on Aug 30, 2016 20:10:37 GMT
OOC: Moving ahead a little, can back post mess hall & science lab things if wish Ghes stepped onto the bridge with thirty minutes to go until the Enzio was able to enter the warp highway. It would take that length of time for the deflector to complete alignment of itself with the tunnel's median longitudinal axis, after which they would be on their way to the rim of the galaxy, intersecting it at the circle drawn out by the Galactic Barrier. Before he could sit down Ops reported of an incoming subspace communication for the CO, on an encrypted channel. "In my ready room. Let me know when we've completed alignment." The door skidded aside; he walked to his desk, rotating the screen around and tapping a button; an Admiral's face appeared, a panoramic window behind her showing the lower level of the Ops of Starbase 47. He smiled as best as he was able - he had a suspicion this wasn't good news, "Autochne, good to see you again."
She smiled weakly, "Admiral. I'm sending you our visual data now." Half the screen transformed into a video feed, grainy with weak colour; it showed a man running around a large square in a tropical location; there was a bundle of material on the ground a few metres distant, and a line of shuffling to the left, just in view - a row of people. The man in the centre was gesticulating. A tall stone structure, obviously ancient was in the far background. Mexico?
"I've just been talking to the Assistant C-in-C at Starfleet Headquarters," Autochne said, "He sent me the footage you're seeing. 17 hours ago over 200 crewmen of the vessels returned from the Galactic Barrier, the USS Sydney and the USS Crazy Horse-A, escaped confinement. Captain Reighting was found hanged in his cell; Starfleet Security believe it to be a suicide. The other crewmen have travelled to Yucatan and have seized the cache of prototype zero point warheads that -"
"The Litac Armament."
"Yes. Which has been awaiting disposal 33 years." On the screen the visual feed moved, across the square closer to the bundle of material. To Ghes's horror, he saw that the bundle wasn't clothing but a pile of dead bodies, mutilated humanoids with dismembered limbs sticking out every which way. The gesticulating individual walked over and through the mass of flesh. As he stepped out of the shadow of the Mayan architecture the ragged Starfleet uniform he wore became discernible.
Autochne continued, "A junior officer of Captain Reighting escaped first, leaving the detention area under a false name. He was one of those catalogued as psychopathic by the psychological profile evaluators in the wake of the Galactic Barrier mission."
The image magnified on the grainy indistinct form of the mad officer's face as he moved and shouted. "That's him in the video you're seeing: Lieutenant Korcawski."Returning to the bridge, Ghes thought over the rest of what he was told as he took the command chair. If he'd known the man, Korcawski, was running a death cult on Earth since escaping he would've been, to say the least, filled with a few more objections to Brasidas and co. about heading out here; now he was threatening the destruction of nearby cities and towns (about Yucatan), having the proto-quantum torpedo arsenal with him - a junior officer on the Sydney, in posession of Federation Council members, blackmailing SF Command for control of armed forces... and SF Intel or whoever else dare not risk a recovery operation lest Korcawski kept his word and annihilated those settlements, or his own people - the 200 Sydney and Crazy Horse crewmembers. He saw the countdown 'til the Enzio was ready to enter the warp highway was near its end, "Activate the deflector. Bring us about to the coordinates of the highway, prepare to send the beam along its vector of direction of travel. Tiana, are the modifications to the deflector you advised after studying the warp highway's characteristics complete? And we're inside the volume beyond the highway access point?" <Tag Tiana>"Helm, set course, coordinates where Sydney and Crazy Horse-A dropped out of warp. Engage, warp 9." They barrelled at warp speed along the highway, the local velocity readings matching on or about warp 9, but with it being quite obvious to them that their actual speed of propagation was far in excess of the Enzio's maximum rated, given the star-fixings, ultra-rapid red and blueshifts and the 'interesting' coefficients operating on the ordinary laws of post-Einsteinian physics. "Two hours 'til the Oberth class vessels' coordinates on dropping out of warp, Admiral." <Tag All> (I'll give people a chance to back post first if they wish before I give too much more to do; next post I'll have us getting out of the warp highway so there'll be more on the horizon then)
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Sept 11, 2016 15:22:12 GMT
Tiana had not been surprised when implementing the changes to the deflector dish had proved a bit more complicated than it had appeared. The Enzio was not an Oberth class ship and several of the differences had proved to be important. Her staff had worked alongside engineering staff round the clock but the changes had been made. They had been tested and the deflector came on line and everything held stable but there was no way to test how well they would handle the stresses of the warp highway.
As they approached the highway start point Tiana took her place on the bridge. She filled her display with scrolling output from the deflectors, the sensors and various other ships systems. She took a silent deep breath as the Admiral ordered the deflector activiated and took the Enzio into the highway.
"Tiana, are the modifications to the deflector you advised after studying the warp highway's characteristics complete? And we're inside the volume beyond the highway access point?"
Tiana didn't look up from her screens as she replied to the Admiral. "Deflector modifications are online and output is steady and within expected parameters. We are on the Highway, sir."
Tiana stared at her screens for a moment longer. Everything was looking good so far. She permitted herself a look at the viewscreen, yes, it was beautiful but the numbers on her display meant far more.
Two hours to where the Crazy Horse and the Sydney had left the highway. That gave her plenty of time to continue making modifications to the sensors, she was determined to monitor anything in the neural frequency range. They weren't usually scanned for and she and her team felt that it would be an obvious place to look for whatever had affected the earlier two ships.
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Post by Gheskori on Sept 16, 2016 15:36:31 GMT
The star-like phenomena - whose appearance as such was an effect of warp travel - streamed across the screen from a conceptual point at the front of the warp bubble. The effect was distorted slightly, colours from the extremes of the visual spectrum encapsulated within the knots that decorated the bubble being the only sign of the Enzio's hyperluminal speed.
In the hub of activity that was the bridge, Ghes returned to the command chair as the helm informed him they were three minutes from the end of the highway. Long range sensors were just beginning to detect - albeit in a distorted manner owing to the ultra high warp velocity - the first signs of the wreckage belonging to the unknown species' fleet, along with remnants of what the two Oberth explorers' crews had identified as deep space stations. He thought briefly about Mwv'mci; she'd called twice from his quarters and both time he'd told her to go back to bed.
"Thirty seconds 'til the end of the highway, sir. Already reading a drop in absolute velocity; local is holding steady at warp 9.12."
"Acknowledged. Prepare to decelerate, and pull us out of the highway 0.1 parsecs short of the terminus."
The Prometheus class pitched off the highway, warp engines bleeding speed as the ship passed the threshold allowing for a smooth transition to normal space; a jewel-studded sable cloak spread out before them as the engine note dropped in pitch a couple of octaves, the warp bubble undergoing controlled collapse as the vessel established full impulse.
He sighed and grinned, tugging down on his jacket, "Commander Galwyn, scan the region." He stood and approached the screen, furrowing his brow and peering closely: it was clear already that space wasn't empty - something was imposed between them and the stars, invisible outlines of fragmented structures. "How far does the debris extend for...?"
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The street was separated from the square by a block of tall pyramidal buildings in the style of the Mayan civilisation of Central America. Under the azure sky, Ghes felt the tropical heat prickling his skin, inducing perspiration and stinging his eyes... something like gnats buzzed about him, hampering sensation in presenting themselves as the focus of experience. The Denobulan boy rolled over, standing and blinking to try clear his vision, it was like the air and the whole environment was melting; a memory of the past! he realised, I'm reliving a moment that never existed in any sort of present.
Sounds of other children playing drifted into his consciousness. It was coming from around the corner ahead, boys and girls about his age hopping, skipping and shouting in delight. As he approached there became visible behind them in the main square a set of totem poles, a man at their centre setting light to a cairn while another approached and affixed red and black banners to the poles, Ghes retreating a couple steps in fear as both charged to the edge of the square screaming.
Steadying himself as he experienced what he knew to be a redistribution of pressure in his head, Ghes focussed on the viewscreen again. "Did anyone else feel that?" he murmured, not loud enough to be heard. Somewhere in the far distance, approximately 60 ly away to be exact, was the Galactic Barrier.
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Sept 25, 2016 15:24:47 GMT
"Commander Galwyn, scan the region. How far does the debris extend for...?" the Admiral asked
Tiana pulled up the sensor information and then...
It was a sunny day she was sitting having a picnic with her family. She had her husband were laughing the children were either playing catch or splashing in the stream. And then... she looked up, the storm clouds were gathering it wasn't safe. She had to run. She had to get away from here. There wasn't anywhere to run to...
Tiana found herself gripping the side of her console with white knuckled fingers. She forced herself to let go and took a deep breath. That was how all the problems had started. Memories returning and yet... That memory did not feel like one of Ryat's. She wasn't sure if that was better or worse. Someone else's memories versus potentially going mad...
Although given what had happened to the crews of the Sydney and the Crazy Horse maybe it was madness in either direction.
"Did anyone else feel that?" Tiana looked up at the Admiral's words, he sounded a little disconcerted of course she had no way to know why he was disconcerted.
"I felt a flash of memory, sir." Tiana said "Not one of mine." She added in clarification."
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"The debris cloud is about three hundred kilometers in diameter although less than a kilometer thick. Mostly rock, some metallic constituents. My initial theory is that it was one rocky body that was deliberately destroyed, I will need more data to confirm"
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Post by Aeryn Tavik on Sept 26, 2016 1:00:30 GMT
Aeryn stood leaning against the railing on the port side of the bridge. She was looking at a PADD that her MXO gave her regarding his thoughts on the reorganization of the current squads. She asked him to make changes that may be required for their current mission and she’d hoped it was done right. After all, he was on somewhat of a probationary period. Aeryn looked around the bridge, seeing various crewmembers walking about, talking about technical data and shipboard modifications. She ignored most of it, though understanding it would be a different thing. Given a certain period of time, she could read up on something and at least make an informed decision. But as with everything, sometimes “enough” just wasn’t enough.
She heard the call that they were nearing the end of the conduit. Aeryn turned round and stood attentively, waiting for the Enzio to actually drop out. The whole situation baffled her, what appears to have happened with the other ships, but until they actually found something and made a determination on what to do, Aeryn would be sitting on her hands. She leaned, forward this time, onto the railing. As they started their deceleration manuever, she steadied herself, just in case. The ship dropped to impulse into a field densely populated by debris. “Must of had the party without me,” she said to no one in particular.
The scene around seemed bright. A dark sense washed over her as she peered toward an open window. In her periphery, she saw shelves full of books on both sides of her room, but they seemed irrelevant. Everything around her seemed irrelevant. As the sun shown through the window, all she could see outside it was the brilliant yellow that blinded her. The dark feeling swept over her again, but it felt different. It felt so...angry. Looking down at the floor, filtered sounds of screaming flooded the sound patterns of the room. The screaming got louder and louder. Then a feeling of profound accomplishment washed over her. She was …. Pleased…
Aeryn regained the moment, frantically looking around. She was on the Enzio bridge, completely disoriented. “What the hell was that!” she exclaimed.
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Post by Gheskori on Oct 2, 2016 21:46:11 GMT
"I felt a flash of memory, sir." Tiana said "Not one of mine."
Ghes turned from the viewscreen, jolted back to the present and only partially aware that he'd spoken himself. He blinked furiously, refocussing on himself... what had just happened? "No... one of Cet's memories?" he asked.
“What the hell was that!” Aeryn exclaimed.
"I don't know..." He lumbered back over to the command chair and turning to face the broken image of the stars on the viewscreen, "Conference. Helm, take us past the debris at full impulse... give it a wide berth and come to all stop a million km from the Galactic Barrier."
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The half dozen staff around the table regarded the schematic drawn out of the region, "Tiana, you said you detected metals in the debris field, is there any chance they could be... sufficiently structured in such a way to be able to respond to our presence, and cause these anomalies?" Ghes asked.
It seemed that four out of six of them (including Gheskori) had had visions, or memories, it was hard to discern which, if either. Apparently over a hundred people over the ship had experienced something as well, three of whom had checked themselves into sickbay with complaints of headaches.
"Heightened brain activity in the frontal lobe... the language centre," the temporary CMO stated, "I might say it was caused by an artificial stimulation during deep sleep, though this is clearly nothing of the sort. I wish we had information from the Crazy Horse and Sydney crews to compare our experiences. Unfortunately they were too unbalanced to report anything at all about their mission."
Ghes nodded, "It was very much as if I left the bridge for a moment, or what was the bridge wasn't familiar," he mused, "What did you all see?"
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"We continue as if nothing has happened for the time being," there was little else they could do, he thought, whether they were being influenced, forced into some mass delusion by something or not - it could have a range of just a few kilometres or extend throughout the whole region of space; unfortunately there was no way to tell at the moment, "If however anyone has involuntary recall of memories again, or experiences anything else mysterious, contact the doctor..." he nodded at the CMO and as his head was returning to rest position it was as if it passed into a different environment.
He was dwarfed by the giants that stood about him, by the others in the line, and by the man who stood so that he sheltered the young Denobulan from the glare of the sun and from the cult's leader Korcawski, whose warped face was painted with white and blue planet-shaped marks. "Let me protect him, Lieutenant," his protector spoke in the sunburnt square in Yucatan, "He deserves a chance... all of them do." Korcawski glared at the protector and looked with disinterest at the boy. He passed over them and proceeded to the end of the line nearest the entrance to the pyramid, something murderous in his gait.
He finished the nod and after a wait pursed his lips and clicked his fingers, tapping significantly at his temple, "What do you know? A temple, a square..." the scene fled away from him to infinity before he could reach out and make any of the fading images stay.
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Oct 8, 2016 13:05:20 GMT
"I felt a flash of memory, sir." Tiana said "Not one of mine."
Ghes turned from the viewscreen, jolted back to the present and only partially aware that he'd spoken himself. He blinked furiously, refocussing on himself... what had just happened? "No... one of Cet's memories?" he asked.
"Definitely not, sir." Tiana said. She continued to consider the issue for a long moment. It had felt like a memory and those people had been familiar but she had no idea who they were. She tapped her screen and tightened the focus of her next scan.
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Later in the meeting "Tiana, you said you detected metals in the debris field, is there any chance they could be... sufficiently structured in such a way to be able to respond to our presence, and cause these anomalies?" Ghes asked.
"It's theoretically possible. I haven't observed a pattern to the debris field yet but the more detailed scans are still ongoing."
"Heightened brain activity in the frontal lobe... the language centre," the temporary CMO stated, "I might say it was caused by an artificial stimulation during deep sleep, though this is clearly nothing of the sort. I wish we had information from the Crazy Horse and Sydney crews to compare our experiences. Unfortunately they were too unbalanced to report anything at all about their mission."
Ghes nodded, "It was very much as if I left the bridge for a moment, or what was the bridge wasn't familiar," he mused, "What did you all see?"
As the most senior present Tiana spoke first. "I was sitting in a field having a picnic with my family. Then the storm clouds rolled in and we had to run. It felt like a memory, while I was there I recognised those people and could name them all. But, it wasn't my memory."
She knew that the Trill pronouns for clarifying when one was speaking about the host, the symbiont, or both did not translate in to federation standard. Yes, plenty of people had tried over the years, but Tiana had never liked any of the translations. She just tended to use the federation standard pronouns even if that occasionally meant that she had to clarify things.
"I wonder if it is meant to be a warning."
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"We continue as if nothing has happened for the time being, If however anyone has involuntary recall of memories again, or experiences anything else mysterious, contact the doctor..." he nodded at the CMO and as his head was returning to rest position it was as if it passed into a different environment.
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Post by Aeryn Tavik on Oct 11, 2016 21:29:00 GMT
Aeyrn sat quietly in the meeting for the most part. After she'd shared her "memory," she found that the room had grown a bit darker with their own emotions. Aeryn herself was more than confused. Everyone else's experiences seemed so different compared to hers. She wasn't entirely sure what to make of it.
"From what I've experienced thus far, I can be certain that I have never experienced what I have seen. Yet, it feels so real, as if it had happened to me." The final of the four that had experienced it shared their story and Aeryn sat back. The Admiral ordered that the Enzio continue onward as if nothing had happened. It was the right course of action, to be sure. She'd read enough reports to know that anything affecting any kind of timeline was going to be dodgy at best and it would be proper to proceed as if it hadn't happened. She wondered, however, what the doctor was going to do about it. It seemed as though there wasn't much that could be done, but if anything was to be found, Aeryn knew she could rely on the Enzio medical staff.
Coming back to the moment, Aeryn look up at Admiral Gheskori.
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---------------------------------------------------- Main Engineering
Lieutenant Kempton stood holding the bar up so it didn't fall on the ensign. He was getting impatient. Ever since the acting CEO had left for sickbay, it seemed the entire engine room was falling apart. This was not a normal day and Kempton was sure that whatever was happening around the ship most definitely had to be some sort of alien influence. He'd overheard several conversations regarding some set of visions that many of the crew were expriencing, He, however, had not been caught in it. Perhaps it was his, as he would say, very developed brain. It was all hear say, though. He'd be sure to take it to the next level if anything came of it.
The younger engineer finished his task and Kempton lowered the bar. "Finally. I wasn't sure you were going to finish," he said sarcastically.
"Oh don't worry, sir, I wouldn't let your baby arms stay up for too long."
"And they thank you," Kempton said. "Ok let's re-initialize the power grid in this section. I'll be damned if Almighty Brexton has to go back to sickbay for popping a blood vessel."
THe ensign laughed. "Evenually she's going to hear you say crap like that."
"She'd have to have an attention span longer that a Turkelian Gnat to catch on to anything in here." He moved over to a console and prepped the start up. "Ok, aaaand mark!"
The power whirred to life and he saw the lights and consoles come back online. "Excellent. One less thing I have to do before I die." He moved toward the railing and looked down at the warp core. He peered over the side and looked at the other crews working.
Barely able to see, he looked around. There was wreckage all around him. Fires burned to his left and right. There was nowhere to go. A sense of fear and despair flooded through him. He was trapped. He tried to move some of the debris, but couldn't get far. He took a look to his left, seeing a somehow unbroken mirror still facing him. He was severely scarred and burned. He screamed. He then fell over and his eyes closed.
The young ensign turned at the sound of the thud. He didn't see Kempton on the upper floor anymore. Running to the railing, he glanced over the side and saw Kempton on the floor below, unresponsive. "Engineering to sickbay. Medical Emergency!"
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Post by Gheskori on Oct 15, 2016 20:21:35 GMT
"It's possible there is a connection between them," Ghes nodded, "Collate reports from everyone who was affected to see if we can discern any sort of pattern, Commander Galwyn. You said you sensed, separately, rage and pleasure, Colonel?" He turned to a third officer at the table, "Commander Daya, are you sure there was nothing you experienced during this... anomaly?
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"Now that it's happened to me just now..." Ghes began. The doctor had stood from the table in concern, circling the Admiral and withdrawing her medical tricorder; Ghes continued as she waved it at the back of his head, "Perhaps the doctor can clear it up." He doubted that however. Even now he could see her in the corner of his eye, downloading the received data to her fellow conspirators in the engine room; she would pay for her malfeas- !
At that moment a message came for the doctor from sickbay, reinforcing Ghes's suspicions and rage before the notions and images of betrayal dissolved, frittered away by some force he was not aware of and even if he was wouldn't comprehend as being its own entity. "Lieutenant Kempson's taken a fall in engineering," she informed them, "I'll call again from sickbay once I've learnt his condition."
Ghes returned his attention to the others - no longer in the power of whatever had influenced his emotions - before addressing the computer, "Display file Yucatan-Silphius Beta on conference room viewer." The hazy and indistinct image of the square surrounded by Mayan buildings in Central America was shown on the screen, "Before entering the warp highway I was sent this by Starfleet Command. I thought it pertinent to mention it now seeing as we have experienced these... anomalies.
"An officer of the USS Sydney, Lieutenant Korcawski, has broken out of his containment centre along with others of his crew and officers of the Crazy Horse-A. He's made for Yucatan, having kidnapped three members of the Federation Council and stolen an arsenal of quantum torpedo prototypes dating from 45 years ago, and started what could be called a death cult, sacrificing members of his own order to - it is thought - further his own aims, that is from his twisted viewpoint. Additionally, he's threatening nearby towns with destruction via the prototype quantums, unless he's made C-in-C of Starfleet.
"Korcawski and the others were all categorised as psychotic by the mission evaluators; even more than they may have thought it seems... Therefore, this provides us with extra incentive to find out what happened to these people... In solving the mystery of what's caused their insanity, we may be able to liberate them and also avert disaster." He sighed, "And perhaps for ourselves, too. Computer, can you clear up the image any?"
The pixellated image of Korcawski's face - the man was screaming, though the grainy moving image wasn't accompanied by any sound - improved in resolution, and it and the background image of the sunlit square sharpened into bright clarity... Ghes's face paled, Korcawski... the same man as in his visions!
"I don't believe it... It's him." Something prodded at his memory as he spoke the words - simulating itself as always having been there, sliding into place among the language troves of his Broca's area. A tearing sensation of familiarity coursed through his skull and became visible in his mind's eye, a long-ago remembrance of a dead-eyed and distant cultist and another being who'd imposed himself in order to protect Ghes and others.
"Who, sir?" someone asked confusedly.
"I do recognise him," he said and pointed at the conference screen, "This scene is from my childhood." After a reign of silence the five of them were summoned to the bridge, Ghes taking his seat and requesting a status report, though he was able to discern perhaps part of the problem just by looking at the viewscreen: the ship was moving of its own accord, at just over 10 km per second towards the Galactic Barrier, "Full reverse!" The engines strained to no avail.
The CMO called from sickbay informing Ghes that Kempson had awoken, before the SMO's commbadge buzzed, =/\=Colonel Tavik, Private Jellop here, sir... I've just been attacked by Chang and Private Buxton=/\= he reported matter-of-factly, =/\=They left the barracks without a word, bowling me over... I think they're heading for the shuttlebay.=/\=
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Post by Daya on Oct 15, 2016 22:59:06 GMT
Commander Daya settled into the chair onboard the shuttle as it slowed for its final approach to the USS Enzio. Daya had been away on a special assignment for Starfleet intelligence for some time and was finally back to his normal mission. As the shuttle's power shut down Daya felt the Enzio enter warp speed and realized just how far behind he was for the day. He spent the next couple hours going through the PADDs that had been placed on his desk. He started reading up on the current mission as he felt the ship exit warp speed.
Daya entered the conference room as one of the first to arrive. Taking his seat he watched as the others arrived, something obviously bothering them. "Commander Daya, are you sure there was nothing you experienced during this...anomaly?"
"No sir, im actually kinda surprised i didnt experience anything. And we don't have any idea why some people are affected and others aren't? "
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Oct 16, 2016 12:30:22 GMT
Tiana was staring at display screens full of data. Roughly half the Enzio's crew had see something when they arrived. There was no obvious pattern. She had examined the data in terms of telepaths/empaths and other psi-sensitives, as well as for people who had had recent telepathic contacts. She had plotted three dimension distributions of the people who had seen something. But, there was nothing. Tiana stared at the latest set of failed analysis and bit back a curse.
The console beeped notifying her that the latest round of scans of the cloud were complete. She pulled up the information. It appeared that Ghes's suggestion was on the right track. It wasn't the metal in the cloud that was drawing her attention but a crystalline material that was much more common. It was most silicate, chemically seemingly unremarkable but the most recent surveys showed it to be be very regularly distributed and somehow holding patterns of charge. Comparisons with earlier scans showed that the charges were changing. It appeared that this whole dust cloud was some form of recording device. However, whether it was natural or have been deliberately constructed Tiana could say.
She tapped her comm badge to inform the Admiral of what she had discovered, she just hoped she wasn't too late.
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Post by Gheskori on Oct 21, 2016 20:02:12 GMT
Lieutenant Korcawski regarded the room full of debilitated children, all arranged in little rows struck through by lengths at differing angles to make a rhombic crosshatching pattern, and colour coded according to their particular affliction. The other insisted on caring for these things, who'd shown themselves to be sufficiently infuriating to cause Korcawski problems in his spacetime-crumpling operations.
The lieutenant's vision settled on the alien boy in the front row, who was toying with a writing implement and peering out the glassless window at the baked square; the boy's eyes shone as they caught the light of the pyre, the light subdued as latest offerings of meat were piled upon it.
Ghes's sleeping wife - Mwv'mci - watched Korcawski stride on past the boy, whom she recognised as a younger version of her husband, and approach the corner of the room. Leading away from it was a staircase at 45 degrees from the right angle where the walls met.
She looked in terror from the boy back to Korcawski and saw the latter freeze in a similar state of fear, his eyes looking up the staircase that receded to infinity in the room's corner. Stepping forward she leant around to see what he was seeing: a woman figure stood at the head of the stairs, partly silhouetted against a white light from a doorway... It was the marine officer of the Enzio, Colonel Tavik, Mwv'mci saw.
"Thank you, Tiana," Ghes answered over the comm, directing his gaze forward at the Galactic Barrier growing slowly but steadily out the viewscreen, "Is it possible to tell how old this recording structure is? How long ago - perhaps if it's artificial - since it was put in place? Or perhaps it's - somehow - part of the natural fallout from the destruction of whatever these metals constituted."
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"You have your answer, Mr Daya, it seems we don't know at all what is causing particular members of the crew to be affected over others. No method to this madness, perhaps." As he spoke an alert sounded from Daya's console, the man informing him they were picking up a marker buoy, Starfleet in origin. "Starfleet?! Further information," he requested.
By way of reply, Daya put the buoy's message over speakers, "Warning. This volume has been designated a Federation quarantine zone, by order of Captain Themmis of the USS Crazy Horse-A. Do not enter within 17 million kilometres. Failure to comply may cause substantial material damage to ship and crew... Warning. This volume..."
"I see..." He stood, twitching and blinking rapidly. "Themmis, I knew him... He laid this down." The man had been taken to a psychiatric institute - along with not a few others of the two Oberth vessels - reduced to little more than a lump of flesh spouting nonsense and experiencing frequent seizures.
"Yet we have no choice but to go forward," someone said the obvious.
Ghes hardened, sweeping a hand to include all the bridge crew in his address, as if they all would be able to - or should - devote themselves to it: "Keep trying to break its hold on us." What 'it' was - whatever it was that was in the Barrier - had a strong grip on the Enzio, pulling it in against its will... and now they were sailing hopelessly past a warning marker buoy dropped by the ship of the now insane Captain Themmis!
"Sir. There is another carrier wave on the buoy's signal, able to be decoded by Starfleet vessels only... Patching it through, "This is Themmis. Whoever you are... whoever they sent after us... We've no choice but to head into the Barrier. The responsible agent must be found... Nearly eighty of my officers are under sedation in sickbay following psychotic episodes. We've detected an emission from a planet catalogued by Starfleet global star charts as Upsilon Omicron Psi 14 in the Barrier... Believe it's responsible for the pull on my ship and the USS Sydney, Reighting's vessel. Listen! The gas and dust cloud, the metallic wreckage inside it... it's the same technology as what's generating the emission. Whoever was wiped out there is from the same place as that force on planet Upsilon. If you can help it, Starfleet vessel, don't go near..."
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Oct 30, 2016 10:52:38 GMT
OOC: Sorry for the short post been hit by a lingering type cold which is sapping energy and motivation.
"Thank you, Tiana," Ghes answered over the comm, directing his gaze forward at the Galactic Barrier growing slowly but steadily out the viewscreen, "Is it possible to tell how old this recording structure is? How long ago - perhaps if it's artificial - since it was put in place? Or perhaps it's - somehow - part of the natural fallout from the destruction of whatever these metals constituted."
"I am looking in to the decay of the pattern and how long it could possible be stable under the local variations in gravity. I will report back as soon as the results of the analysis is complete."
Tiana cut the comm line and sighed, she had the beginnings of a headache. Someone who was a little more paranoid than Tiana might conclude that it was the result of the memory assault, or however you described it, that had happened earlier; Tiana suspected that it was the result of result of staring fixedly at her display for too long. She glanced away, had a long blink and found her eyes were dry. She screwed them shut for a longer moment and then, when she had reopened her eyes walked over to the replicator and ordered a glass of iced water and some orange juice. She drank the fruit juice and then walked back to her console with the water. There was more to do, there was always more to do.
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Post by Gheskori on Nov 7, 2016 20:13:26 GMT
20 hours later...
The Enzio was now 40,000 km from the Galactic Barrier, able to discern features within it at the location Captain Themmis's ghostly voice had made them aware of. The quarantine marker had been left far behind now, sending its sombre signal into the once more lifeless volume about the asteroid field.
Tuning sensors to a peculiar frequency of subspace, they'd at last found the emission (pulling them against their will) the recording of the Crazy Horse's Captain had spoken of, and indeed it did emanate from the planet Federation star charts had labelled Upsilon Omicron Psi 14 just inside the Barrier.
Having given orders to scan the world as best as they were able, he'd made his way to his quarters. His wife Mwv'mci had awoken several hours ago - shortly before he'd checked by earlier, and apparently she'd had a 'dream' which - from her description - sounded awfully like one of the visions Ghes had experienced in the conference room, even down to the bizarre classroom he'd found himself in. Something was playing upon their shared experiences... She was the second person on board to also experience the forced - and very familiar, as if they were part of a past that'd been transplanted in them - visions, and he suspected there would be more such occurrences for a multitude of the crew.
The CMO had stopped by and presented her with a neuro-cortical stimulator that would activate should she fall asleep. Entering, Ghes found the room in darkness, however his young wife was awake, sitting on the edge of a couch by the coffee table... "Lights," he sat beside her and held her hand, saying after a while ruminatively, "Whatever it is, dear... I'm sure it's to be found on that planet."
"You, as a boy, weren't the only one in the vision," she replied and directed intense eyes on him.
Ghes asked her who else. "Your soldier," Mwv'mci replied, "The marine officer, she was standing at the top of a flight of stairs with the door behind her slightly ajar... a pale light from beyond. And the man you said was from the USS Sydney was staring up at her, a knife in his hand and an odd glint in his eye." She peered closely at Ghes, "It was as if he was afraid... Of what was to come."
=/\= Admiral Gheskori, this is the bridge.=/\= He acknowledged. =/\= We've detected a lifesign in the northern hemisphere of Upsilon Omicron... near where the emission is coming from, and a metallic mass surrounding it for 17 km in all directions. Whoever it is, they're all alone down there and have been for some time.=/\=
=/\=How does it compare with Themmis's recording... Are you finding the same metal as in the asteroid field?=/\=
=/\= It's the same, sir.=/\= Ghes planted a kiss on Mwv'mci's cheek and made for the exit; that lifesign may hold the key to the recording device amongst the asteroids, why they were being pulled in, and possibly what was causing this visions.
Tenuous atmosphere, he remembered, =/\=Gheskori to Colonel Tavik, Commanders Galwyn Cet and Daya, please meet me in transporter room 1.=/\=
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Nov 20, 2016 16:11:51 GMT
OOC: I apologise once again for the gap in posting. I have finally beaten off the cold.
Tiana had reached 16 hours on duty when her own protocols kicked in and made her take break. She wasn't entirely sure needed one or that she would be able to rest if she did leave. But she knew from experience that if she didn't take a break then her staff wouldn't either and that would be bad. In an effort to be a reasonable example (being on duty 16 hours straight wasn't good but it was was an occupational hazard for a department head in the middle of a mission), Tiana left the lab and headed for her quarters. She had a long shower and changed into her sleepwear before sprawling on her bed, suddenly realising she was very tired.
Tiana killed the lights in her quarters and tugged the quilt up over her. She did her best to sleep though with the Captain of the Crazy Horse's warning still echoing in her mind she doubted she would be able to.
=/\=Gheskori to Colonel Tavik, Commanders Galwyn Cet and Daya, please meet me in transporter room 1.=/\=
The Admiral's message definitely woke her so she had slept. Tiana swallowed twice and tested her voice before acknowledging the summons. She dragged herself out of bed and in to a clean uniform. A glance at the chrono indicated that she had had about 4 hours sleep - could be worse. She quickly braided her hair, grateful that habit meant that this was an action that did not require thought.
She snagged a PADD off her coffee table and started running throughj the latest discoveries. It was clear that they were going to investigate something and it would be good to know what. She downed a glass of fruit juice and picked up a tricorder and general science kit as she headed for the transporter room. The whole operation had taken less than ten minutes and although Tiana felt awake (and a bit better for the sleep in truth) she was still forced to smother a yawn as she reached the transporter room. She took her place with the rest of the away team.
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Post by Gheskori on Nov 23, 2016 19:48:31 GMT
See here for plot clarification on OOC thread"Commander," Ghes nodded, "You're the first to arrive." It was an obvious statement; the only other in the room was the transporter operator who was now rolling his eyes. In the following minutes the other senior staff members arrived, not including Aeryn Tavik who was seeing to the troubles with Corporal Chang, instead including the fourth officer who'd been in the ward room (at the time when Ghes had his second 'attack') and had experienced a vision also, Lieutenant Vren, the quartermaster. He'd spoken of a flight of birds from the eaves of an impossibly large building, and a ringing shot as if of a discharging projectile-based weapon, followed by blinding lights and falling to the ground in a state of sudden deafness.Now Commander Galwyn and Lieutenant Marin were with them, they had a quartet of visionaries, so to speak, and it'd turned out that the overall demographic of types of visions over the whole ship was quite well represented in these four's reasonably disparate memory/vision types. For some reason, Ghes thought this fair representation was going to put them in good stead when they encountered whatever was in the midst of that barren plain... Eight columns materialised and deposited the officers on a reasonably flat section of ground, it dropping away only minimally perceptibly as the distance they looked over climbed to miles; in the far distance was a chain of mountains, but drawing their attention to the mid-distance foreground was a motley hamlet of dilapidated structures, they reflected from their roofs of seeming quartz diffuse stellar light that filtered through the seemingly permanent cloud layer. Nodding to Tiana and Daya to begin scans of the hamlet <Tag Tiana, Daya>, Ghes walked through the very thin dust across the plain on ground with barely any vegetation and completely open, fence and partitionless. The buildings ahead gave the impression of being totally deserted, though that could well be just the general appearance of them - as if a small ship had shot through the clouds and slammed into the surface, its constituents scattering and scoring the surface with a dark mark. Once they'd entered to within a hundred metres, he turned around; the three security guards with them (making up the number to eight along with the temporary CMO) had been following him closely, "Spread around the settlement, one of you from each of the other three directions; we'll take the front. One of you take Vren." The guards nodded and withdrew to the sides, hurrying on ahead with the quartermaster. As they neared the boundary - arbitrarily drawn in Ghes's mind; where the broken down sections as if from a hastily landed ship stepped up to an appreciable degree in density - Vren, off to the left with the security team leader, suddenly fell into the dust, his small figure's palms flattened against his temples and falling to the side as the security Ensign hurried to him. "Lieutenant!" Ghes commed immediately. Vren managed to reply but all Ghes could hear from him were sounds of pain. Had he been struck by the visions? He looked around panickedly at the other away team members, finally one of them stating that a particle density was increasing exponentially towards one of the three buildings, and there was a high likelihood that it was connected to Vren's sudden attack - then the further they walked into the hamlet, the more severe whatever was afflicting Vren would become in its latent effect on the rest of them... <Tag Tiana, Daya>
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Tiana Galwyn Cet
Commander 1C
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Post by Tiana Galwyn Cet on Dec 3, 2016 17:31:29 GMT
Tiana took a deep as she set off on her survey. The hamlet ahead of them had clearly been uninhabited for some time she could get a a precise indication of when there had been people here. There was a something that was preventing her scans from penetrating as far as she felt they should. She had sent a message back up to the ship to do some more detailed scans. She knew that nothing untoward had shown up before they had beamed down but that didn't mean there wasn't anything.
She shook her head slightly. She didn't have a headache and she couldn't hear anything but there was something. Something she couldn't describe hanging just out of reach...
A cry of pain rent through the too quiet air. Tiana whirled round kicking up a miniature dust storm as she did so. It took her a moment to focus on Lieutenant Vren on his knees in the dust. She made a quick scan of him. She wasn't holding a medical tricorder but it was clear his brain was... well if it was a computer Tiana would say he was maxing out his processing capacity. She had no idea what to call that in a person but it couldn't be good. She saw the medic running over. She swallowed, there was nothing she could do directly for Lieutenant Vren, she just had to figure out what was going one here. Was it her imagination or was that nagging feeling at the back of her mind getting stronger?
Tiana looked fixedly at her tricorder screen, trying to find anything that had changed, anything that could account for what had happened to the lieutenant. She cycled through all the frequencies, there had to be something.
"There's an exponential increase in the number of belerium13 particles in the approach to that building." Tiana pointed although she wasn't aware that anyone was looking at her. As far as she was aware the only ways that could happen was if something was either generating belerium or somehow collecting every particle in the sector and bringing it here.
She wasn't aware of any negative effects of belerium but then as far as she was aware there had never been an exposure to this level of it either so they were in new territory. It was all they had to go on.
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