5: Next Stop--Borite
In reply to Zhouth (msg # 13):
[In The Other Sensor Suite, Aboard Vultan]
Having spent almost the entire Jump engaged in Physical Training, Varca is feeling a little slow and stiff. He had got to the Portside Countermeasures compartment just minutes before the transition out of J-Space, but with enough time that he was ready, when Vultan returned to normal space.
As soon as the energy discharge from the transition had cleared, Varca immediately fired up all the active sensors, as well as starting a scan of comm-frequencies (likely duplicating Zhouth's efforts--but then, that's probably why there were two Countermeasures Suites).
Varca's reasoning behind not making a stealth entry into the system is because there is no Starport on Borite--thus no Port Patrol, nobody monitoring space traffic in the system...no Authorities! And because there are "no authorities", Varca is concerned that any Oghman Raiders that might be in the system would have no fear about making an attempt to grab a starship, and it's crew of potentially technically and scientifically trained personnel.
Varca is also fairly confident that no ragtag, patchwork Oghman-run spacecraft is going to get past Vultan's sensors!
After Zhouth detects the comm-signal, Varca attempts to refine the data, maybe narrow down if the signal is coming from a ship orbiting Frangar, or from one of the Gas Giant's moons, or maybe...it's some comm-chatter from some Oghmen who're doing a little Wilderness Refueling, them selves...
OOC: Varca Lexand rolled 8 using 2d6+2, for a Electronics(Sensors) roll to pinpoint the source of the comm-signal.
As the sensors collect data, Varca opens a microphone to the ship's general announcement system,
"I'm analyzing the comm-signal coming from the gas giant, Frangar." Varca announces all over the ship,
"It could be bad comm discipline from an Oghman ship that's skimming fuel, over there. I'd expect that kind of sloppy operations from them. Or it might be something else. Either way, better safe than dead. BB? Get the troops suited up and armed--just in case we get the chance to board an Oghman Raider."
Varca reaches for the switch to clip the mic, but then pauses, adding,
"And also--just in case it needs to be said--No Disintegrations! We're here for information, and plasma-fried gobbets of people--though tasty--are notoriously uncommunicative! Got it?"
That said, Varca shuts down the PA.