The USS Oberon departs Chiron station and sets course into the gaping wound through the nebula. The crew crosses the threshold and several alarms start blaring. Even with the passage through the Hellsmouth the sheer amount of volatility and ferocious storms play havoc with the sensors. A shockwave from a distant explosion sends debris peppering against the shields and causes the ship to vibrate but after a few hours the ship has crossed to the other side. The crew are now the first among Starfleet to cross the Hellsmouth Nebula and once the sensors are rebooted to clear the electrical discharge from the passage data starts feeding into the sensors.

There is a lot of long range activity and the sensors quickly detect signs of warp travel however due to the distances involved it will take some time to triangulate the source of these signals to provide more accurate headings but a general direction can be identified.

OOC: On the map, it is North, North-East and East are signs of advanced civilization

Meanwhile shorter range sensors pick up a few things of note. The first is that the telltale tears in subspace show that the Abaddon Dreadnaught had passed this way. In fact thanks to the top minds of Starfleet working night and day for the past few months the Oberon was equipped with algorithms that could trace the path of the dreadnaught like following breadcrumbs.

Sensors also indicate a pair of M-Class worlds just a few light years away. Sensor readings show evidence of pre-warp civilization in the form of primitive radio waves equivalent to Earth's 20th century technology based on the bandwidth and encoding.


OOC: To recap, three obvious paths of exploration:
1) Follow the dreadnought trail
2) Focus on triangulating warp signatures
3) Explore a pre-warp civilization

"Welcome to the far side of the Hellsmouth," Lt T'Saen announced.  Lieutenant.  That would certainly take some getting used to.

Without turning the she inquired of Garrity, "Course Commander?"

Garrity frowned in thought. It was, in fact, harder than it looked to be in command. How do you choose between three unknown, and in fact unknowable, courses, any one of which could just be a quick and painful death? And not just for him, but for everyone under his command.

Still. That was the job.

"Our primary directive here is to seek new life and new civilizations. And I think it's best if we start getting a sense of the political atmosphere in the Quadrant, so that when we get around to our secondary directive, we'll have a better idea of how to proceed."

A pause.

"Lt.Wright? Can we get a lock on those warp trail? Helm, once you've got it, lock in a course and let's see what we're dealing with out here."

The crew quickly learns that it isn't a single warp trail but clusters of warp travel. After several hours of making small warp jumps and then taking additional scans the crew is able to identify seven distinct pockets of heavy warp travel, all of them several days or weeks away.


OOC: Where to now? In this square is the double M-Class planets and no other close anomalies but to the north is warp activity that seems to be along the path of the Abaddon ship. We'll say it takes a day to cross a square so there are three bubbles of warp activity within a week's journey.

"Seven warp trails certainly gives us plenty from which to choose," Petroka stated. "Are there any your data suggest would be more fruitful than the others?"
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The crewman at the comms station raises his voice. He's a bit nervous and keeps his eyes fixed on the screen.

"Uhhh...Captain? We've been monitoring the radio signals coming from one of the Class-M planets in the area and the computer has provided a summary. It seems there is some king of ecological disaster that is going on...one broadcast is talking about the planet tearing itself apart.

Sensors have also picked up faint signals with energy patterns similar emitted by the alien device from Signi.

T'Sean regards Garrity but refrains from voicing her opinion.  The situation certainly sounded grave and the world was nearby in comparison to the warp signatures that appeared to possibly be a week away.  This was the captain's decision.

The hardest thing, so far, about being in charge was the multitude of decisions that had to be made more or less on intuition or impulse, with no real indication if it's the right or wrong decision.

This one, at least was easy.

"Lt. T'Saen, take us to the planet, as fast as you dare. Let's get sensors fired up and ready to start taking as many readings as we can."

He tapped his comm-badge.

"Bridge to Medbay, get a medic to Transporter Room Two, on the double."

Looked over at Ops.

"Lt. zh'Kerja, form up an Away Team."

A small pause and a small smile.

"Let's get to it."

Prime Directive protocols would have the ship go into high orbit and run dark so as to shield itself from low tech observation.

“Aye sir.” Ylis responded, tapping her com as she turned to head for the turbolift. “Security Team Alpha, meet me in Transporter Room 2. This is not a drill.” The Andorian added the last bit because she had been planning some extensive drills with her security and tactical teams, and she had touched on that topic at their first meeting shortly after shoving off. She wanted to make sure that Alpha Team was bringing its A game... not that she would have expected anything less during a drill, truth be told.

Sebastian glanced at Garrity and then Ylis, "Lieutenant, I'd like to accompany on the away team. I might be able to help dealing with the natives and identifying whatever ecological disasters are going on down there, and I know my way around flying a shuttle in atmosphere if we need to evacuate quickly."

Garrity nods. "We'll need your help up here figuring out what's happening, and whether we can even insert ourselves without violating the Prime Directive. After that, it's zh'Kerja's call. But it's okay by me."

A pause.

"Flight? Once we're out of Warp, take us into as high an orbit as you can and go dark. And then I'll need every ounce of data the Sensors can give us. I need to know what's happening, what we can do about it, and what the locals look like so we can see if we can blend in."
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The Oberon moves into high orbit over Orgun III where the radio signals are coming from. A quick scan of Orgun II shows that there is also an abundant ecosystem and signs of sentient life albeit one in a primitive state, roughly equivalent to Earth's late Iron Age on the cusp of Middle Ages. Without the dedication of months for observation and research further details would be hard to come by.

Orgun III however while still a pre-warp civilization has entered the Space Age as evident by the network of orbital satellite. The computer systems equates it to technology roughly on par with Earth circa 1990's.

Judging by intercepted communications from their satellites the dominant species calls itself the Lormeans and are a mammalian species that look similar to humanoid lemurs although biologically speaking they are quite different. Overall their society seems to be both highly tribal but also relatively peaceful. Intercepted news and entertainment shows a strong focus on community and family although the world is split into hundreds of competing governments. Conflict seems to be resolved through very intricate and involved diplomacy as opposed to war.

The distress signals take a few hours to fully decipher and get a clear picture of what is going on with the planet. Firstly the sensor scans have shown similar energy patterns to the planetary tractor beam the crew had used on Signi and the science team onboard the Oberon puts it as highly likely that the system was artificially created as having two M-Class planets with nearly identical atmospheric conditions despite being different sizes and orbits seems highly unlikely. What seems more likely is that the planet Orgun III contains a subspace tractor that was used to "create" the solar system based on the original desires.

Second the device appears to be malfunctioning as the sensors are showing buildups of energy and then a premature discharge corresponding to massive earthquakes.

Third the presence of the subspace signal means that things like communication and transporters likely not possible and could interfere with shuttle transit to the surface. There have been several intercepted news reports of unexplained airplane crashes.

Finally as both planets are pre-warp both civilizations fall under the purview of the Prime Directive, the Starfleet policy of noninterference.


OOC:

Momentum: 0
Threat: 0
Conditions: Subspace Signal - all Sensor based rolls are +1 difficulty

Possible Next Steps:
Scanning the surface for the source of the energy: Reason + Science, Difficulty 2
Scanning Orgun II's surface for more information on the sister planet: Reason + Science, Difficulty 1
Modifying a shuttle to be resistant to the subspace interference: Reason + Engineering, Difficulty 2

Sebastian takes a moment to study the readings appearing at his station, and then taps on the screen, "scanning the surface to try and figure out the source of all of that energy." It's not long before a frown forms on his face, "uhh, Captain, this is definitely not right."

Yay! My first roll and I get a complication

14:52, Today: Sebastian Wright rolled 22 using 2d20 with rolls of 2,20.  Reason+Science: 16, Diff: 2 - Scan surface.

Unaware that something was about to happen at Sebastian's station, Garrity called out, "We're going to want a shuttle prepped as well. ASAP."

If they were going down, they were going to go down hot. And he wanted to be ready.

Just then the science team called up to the bridge to report that the Ferengi map had been successfully decode and would be ready to review by the time the away mission was concluded.

---

Sebastian accidentally points the deflector dish unknowingly directly at the energy source. A feedback resonance develops and before he can react the console starts to spark and goes dark.

Down in engineering damage reports start filtering in, the main deflector dish was temporarily burnt out and so scanning the surface would be next to impossible for several hours while repairs were made.

The silver lining was that because of this accident the crew did now have a rough idea of the area where the signal was originating from but there was still a span of dozens of square kilometers where the alien device could be hiding.

Garrity winced and frowned and scanned the damage reports. Not great. But better than it could have been.

"Alright, people, let's work the problem. Ops, can we get that shuttle prepped and ready ASAP? Medical, how hard would it be to modify the away team to resemble the natives? Security, is your Away Team ready?"

OOC: I know Ylis is away from the game, but that's for whomever will be answering for her.

Sarah stared at the displays on her console in shock and then hits her comm badge. "Engineering to the bridge, what's going on up there? We've lost the main deflector dish."    She grabs her tool kit and makes her way up to the main deflector dish to begin the repair and survey and additional damage that may not be registering yet.

off to repair the deflector dish, focus Damage Control.  (3 successes toward making an improvised repair)
13:43, Today: Sarah Greene rolled 28 using 3d20 with rolls of 12,8,8.

Medical reports that it can provide some dermal grafted fur and subdermal implants to modify the structures of the face to match. Transmission intercepts allow for matching current fashion and adding tail extensions however Laila reminds the captain that these would all be surface and cosmetic. The ship isn't equipped with the necessary supplies to fool a medical scan.

---

Sarah gets the engineering team on task to repair the deflector dish. Nothing critical was damaged and getting the dish online will only take a couple of hours but because it needs to be realigned it will be several more hours on top of that to run diagnostics before it is fully cleared.

An out of alignment deflector would make high speed travel dangerous as it could collapse and open up the ship to damage from space debris as well as making detailed scans quite noisy in terms of data. The dish will be partially operational within 3 hours and fully operational within 6.

Garrity thought quick. As quick as he could anyway. He'd always been more of a slow-grinder.

"Okay, team, here's the play. Everyone who's going, get down to medical for a facelift. Nothing they'll do to you will fool a medical scan, so you need to be extremely careful not to attract more attention than you have to. Once you're down safe, we'll move Oberron back to a safe distance until the dish is repaired. The shuttle can go to WARP better than we can right now, if need arises."

A pause.

"You first, and foremost job down there is to quietly gather intel about what's happening to the planet. I want contact with the locals only at need, and only as much as you need. Let's keep it quick, quiet and efficient down there. Okay?"

The shuttle approaches the planet under the cover of darkness using its superior technology to mask and obfuscate its approach from primitive radar scans from the surface. A landing zone is identified on the outskirts of the capital city and the crew start sweeping the area for clearer signs of the alien ruins. Unfortunately just as before the subspace signal makes scanning a difficult task as the readings are constantly being distorted.

Eventually the signal source is located and the crew make their approach to the alien ruins. The ruins are similar to the ones on Signi, built into a mountainside of seemingly impenetrable rock modified on the atomic level to display herebefore unseen levels of resilience and strength. Unlike on Signi, however, the giant blast door is already shut and sealed.

If it is like the Signi ruins then there should be other entrances to underground tunnels located all across the planet's surface.

Momentum: 0
Threat: 0
Condition: Subspace Signal - +1 difficulty to all scans

Obvious Rolls
Scan for signal source - Reason + Science - diff 2
Scan for natives/surveillance - Reason + Security - diff 2
Look for signs of tracks - Intuition + Security - diff 1

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Petroka frowned at the tail as she sat in the shuttle. "If I'm not sitting on it it's moving on its own accord like it has a mind of its own."

She looked over at the human Commander. "This isn't going to get you into trouble with Starfleet, is it? From what I understand about your Prime Directive this is rather close to the line, if not butting against it where one wrong move would cross said line."
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Sebastian turned and looked at the Romulan, "Well, yes, we are definitely skirting the line, but given what I've heard of the last time this technology was seen in action, I'm of the opinion it's a necessity to try and keep these people alive. Otherwise, the Prime Directive won't really matter, will it?"

"But if we can't find the source of that signal, none of this will really matter," he says as he turns back to his controls and starts scanning for the signal.

Scanning for signal source, barely succeeded (15, 16, 18 with TN of 16)
Add 1 Threat for an extra die

21:53, Today: Sebastian Wright rolled 49 using 3d20 with rolls of 15,16,18.  Reason+Science: 16, Diff: 2 - Scan for signal source.

This is Sebastian's first encounter with the subspace interference signal and despite being properly briefed experiencing it first hand put the reports in context. The sheer amount of energy being pumped just beneath the surface of reality was causing interference across nearly all spectrums and because the power of the device cycled similar to alternating current an operator had to constantly adjust the tricorder to compensate. Even still a person was lucky to get a clean reading for a few seconds before the signal would shift and the tricorder would be bombarded with junk data once again.

Fiddling with his tricorder Sebastian was able to briefly get a clean scan and pinpoint the source of the signal. Cross referencing it with topological maps stored on file revealed a canyon four kilometers away that seems to be the strongest source of the alien signal. Presumably if the layout is similar to Signus there would be an entrance to the control ruins down there.

A female Caitan engineer moves over to stand behind Sebastian reading the data over his shoulder.  "This is the data from the device?" She asked curiously as she tries to get a good reading on what exactly it is transmitting before the signal once again degrades into a collection of little more than static on the instrument.

04:22, Today: Felician Keener rolled 15 using 2d20 with rolls of 13,2.  Reason + Science, to study the data before its gone. .1 sucess

As far as the group can tell it appears the signal is identical to the one from Signi however the effects are quite different. On Signi the signal was continually building up to the point it threatened a tear in space-time but here the signal appears to be discharging on its own. It builds up and then discharges which seems to correspond to tectonic movements.

The away team follows the signal Sebastian had isolated to the ravine. The trees thin out revealing a sharp jagged cliff face. Initial scans show that this was not the result of natural erosion from wind or water but instead the ground itself seemed to have been cracked and then water naturally accumulated at the bottom forming a shallow lake. Embedded into the side of cliff in a shallow alcove is a closed blast door, the same as was seen on Signi. Its isolated location will make accessing it difficult and this time the door is already closed. Getting inside an impenetrable bunker will be another challenge.

Before the away team can begin to tackle the problem they hear the whirl of helicopter rotors approaching rapidly. Spotlights start illuminating the area, sweeping back and forth. They seem at first localized around where the shuttle had landed but quickly spread out from there and before the away team can get back to the cover of the woods a spotlight shines directly onto them.

"Stop where you are! This is the police!"

The nearest city is called Chiva, the capital of the nation of Eceria, one of the more prosperous nations on Orgun III. The away teams cosmetic disguise should hold up to routine questioning by local law enforcement. The away team doesn't have to worry about a possible prime directive breach until things move into medical procedures or DNA profiles.

Overall while the various nations have slightly different customs and legal systems in general law enforcement is very humane. Prisoners are given fair trials, access to attorneys and law libraries and the use of torture is practically unheard of. The Lamari, the lemur-like species inhabiting Orgun III, experience quite low crime rates so overall the police are viewed more as public servants than brutal enforcers.

In reply to Universe (msg # 27):

The Captain paced across the bridge, as he waited for more information to come in. He knew the away team would need time to gather information. Engineering needed time to fix the sensor array and analyze the data.

Still, he could see the concern in the eyes of the bridge crew and decided to address the crew.


"Tactical,  open ship wide comms."


John breathed deeply ad spoke


"All hands, this is your captain. We are currently faced with a mystery and one wit dire consequences. The Planet below is experiencing unnatural seismic phenomenon that could bring catastrophic damage to the planet. Also,  a Pre-Warp civilization may be threatened with extinction.

This is not a simple problem and we will not stumble into a simple solution.

But, all of you are Starfleet. Every single one of you is among the best and brightest. We will overcome technical difficulties, collect and analyze the data and bring our enormous resources to bear in executing a solution.

Know this, our most vital resource is you, the crew. This ship is a technological marvel, but it is the crew that gets the job done.

 We carry the weight of a world on our collective shoulders, and yet this is what we have trained for.

We all have long hours and hard work and difficult decisions ahead...but I trust this crew to come through yet again.

Garrity, out"

OOC: trying to put some momentum in the pool

Presence 10 + Command 4 = 14


11:41, Today: John Garrity rolled 19 using 2d20 with rolls of 11,8.  Inspire .

Petroka smirked as they were caught rather quickly by the police. "So Federation, what do your precious rules say to do in circumstances like these?" She asked under her breath as the native law enforcement fanned out around them. "Does the Prime Directive still apply?"

In reply to Cmdr. Petroka (msg # 29):

"Unfortunately it does Commander...but I don't think it is going to matter if these officers get a close look at us. Our disguises won't stand up to the kind of close scrutiny they will subject us to."

Hissing the response shoulder to shoulder with Commander Petroka, Delphina eyes the force arrayed against them.

"Perhaps we should try a wide stun? Minimal impact on the species..."

One of the security crewman shifts at Delphina's comment.

"Do you really think they're going to do medical tests on us? We don't even know why they are arresting us."

The natives did not appear to posses the technology needed to penetrate the masking around the shuttle or the ship and by all accounts their society had a very strict code of ethics law enforcement had to follow. Charges had to be stated, those arrested had immediate rights to legal counsel etc.

In reply to Universe (msg # 31):

"Well Just playing devil's advocate here commander, but that bunker looks an awful lot like a high security military base to me and I am just a doctor. That may change the calculus of the legal rights equation here...another factor is time. Do we really have time to risk getting entangled in a potentially slow local legal process even if they don't do tests. Then again...federation bases have brigs inside them. Letting them capture us could potentially get us passed that big honking door."


The Denobrian shrugs her shoulders faintly as she leaves command choices to the commanders...

"The Prime Directive will be well and truly broken in the event of any serious medical examination, Petty Officer. Were I a Starfleet officer I would now be weighing that against the continuing of this mission or stunning these natives and leaving this area," the Commander said, sotto voce as she looked around the area.

In reply to Cmdr. Petroka (msg # 33):

"I know ma'am. I think the natives believe we are trespassing near some kind of sensitive government facility. As potential enemies of the state our legal rights status is iffy and the chance they will draw blood or perhaps just use xray or similar scans on us for security reasons is greatly increased. Scans to detect weapons and espionage equipment hidden on us could provide enough medical information to set off suspicions. I recommend we attempt to avoid capture at this juncture. We could always ask them what they plan then stun them."

Delphine whispers back and gets carefully ready to draw on the guards...

The helicopter circles for a second and then lands near the ravine. The pilot stays in the helicopter but two other officers step out. They don't appear to be armed and instead are waving the away team forwards toward them.

"You are in a restricted zone! Please come with us for questioning."

The helicopter definitely wouldn't fit the entire team which would mean they are probably calling in some ground vehicles for transportation. From the briefing the natives have rather ostentatious displays for ranks and authority so it appears that none of the officers present are ranking members.

Felician looks nervously at the others and gently chewed on her lip as they were ordered to come along with the military personnel.  This wasn't good, for a second she wished that they had been able to stun the officers but knew that wasn't an option especially with the helicopters above them.

Ylis peered out from her surgically-altered disguise and glanced at the two waving them to approach.  Plus a third in the helo.  Only three, with reinforcements on the way - probably via ground - and an unknown timeframe distant.

For a moment, she waited for an officer to tell her what to do.

I am an officer, now, she realized, a cold chill running up her spine.

She glanced to Sebastian as her furred hand dipped into the pouch that contained her phaser.

Petroka decided the indecision of these Federation officers (how were they a potent military force?) had wasted enough of their time. If they were captured the cosmetic surgery would not keep them from being discovered and evidence of alien races would not be good for any involved.

She moved strikingly fast and pulled out her phaser (she would much rather use her disruptor but killing them would make things worse) which was set on stun and fired on the guards.

OOC: Alright then. Roll initiative and declare your actions!

In reply to Universe (msg # 39):

Well that was the sound of excrement hitting the rotary air impeller alright. Phaser Fire opened up and training kicked in. Delphina was more at home in the medical bay but she was not a stranger to fire fights either.

She had already thumbed her phaser to a wide stun setting while she was making her suggestion to the Commander. So when she yanked it out and pointed it at a cluster of guards it produced a fan of energy instead of a single beam.

OOC: not sure on rolls especially with the odd setting.

In reply to Chief Petty Officer Delphina (msg # 40):

Aldershot was caught by surprise when phasers began being drawn. His mind raced, he felt that this was not the Starfleet way to handle the situation. He also knew it would probably be an efficient method of handling the security forces. He just knew that a court martial was coming.

With his mind racing as he quickly drew his phaser, his first shot was not well aimed.

OOC:

I don’t know if this is helpful, but I’m spelling out what I am doing to help folks less familiar with t system see how it works. I apologize if this is just crowding the post.

Actiony Actions are nearly always Daring (10) and shooting is Security (4). So I want to roll under 14.

This is the start of something that could quickly go sideways, but it hasn’t yet so I will not use meta currency.

But if I wanted to, I could’ve used Momentum from the common pool. Or added dice to my roll by adding Threat Dice to the GM’s pool.

It has been my experience, that threat dice are fun and usually make the game more dramatic but not super deadly. So in games where I’m familiar with folks, I use threat dice frequently. But, I know some folks freak out at adding a meta currency that will he used against us later. So, I’m going to be more cautious here than usual.


13:25, Today: Crewman Aldershot rolled 37 using 2d20 with rolls of 20,17.  Daring + Security (14).

So while The Universe will  Adjudicate  the specifics of the outcome, you can tell neither of the rolls were successful.

Felician drew her phaser hesistantly and took aim at the nearest officer.  "Please drop your weapon and surrender." she stated half heartedly knowing that the situtation is most likely already beyond salvation before firing with the phaser on stun at one of the nearby guards.

16:19, Today: Felician Keener rolled 18 using 2d20 with rolls of 17,1.  Sec + daring.
(2 sucesses?)

16:22, Today: Felician Keener rolled 20 using 6d6 with rolls of 6,4,6,1,2,1.  phaser.

Aldershot raises his phaser and fires a stun beam at the approaching officers but the natives have remarkable reflexes, diving for cover even as Aldershot fires. The beam goes between them.

The officers are scrambling for weapons, pulling out nonlethal tasers in response.

"Put the weapon down! This is the police! Killing us isn't going to solve anything!"

OOC: Officer #1 is now in cover and the crew has lost the element of surprise. As a complication due to their superior reflexes ranged attacks will be at +1 difficulty

Felician draws her phaser and stuns the second officer, knocking him unconscious.

The pilot starts warming up the helicopter rotor and seems to be speaking into his headset.

---

Combat Tracker

Active:
Aldershot -
Officer #1 - In Cover
Felician Keeper
Pilot
-->Starfleet
Starfleet
Starfleet
Starfleet
Starfleet


Yet to Act (not in any order):
Delphina
Petroka
Sebastian Wright
Ylis
T'Saen

---

Momentum: 0
Threat: 14


Agile Reflexes - Ranged attacks are at +1 difficulty against Officer #1
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OOC: 21:43, Today: Chief Petty Officer Delphina rolled 11 using 2d20 with rolls of 9,2.  Vs DC 12 Ranged Attack.

So Success even against the higher difficulty right?

Phaser Stun Damage- 21:47, Today: Chief Petty Officer Delphina rolled 19 using 6d6 ((6,6,1,1,2,3)).

<bzzzt> another phaser clips the officer and he flies out sprawling onto the ground unconscious.

---

The pilot is protected by the helicopter he is piloting. A phaser shot could disable the helicopter completely but could be viewed as a direct violation of the Prime Directive. Even with witnesses and potential video recording all the Lormeans have is a couple of unconscious officers and an unknown weapon. While bad it wouldn't be definitive proof of alien contact and could be plausibly dismissed. If the helicopter was damaged to the point of inoperability they would be able to study the damage, calculate energy outputs and realize the technology was not possible given their current technology.

It would be as if a WWII soldier went back to the middle ages. If he just knocked a couple guys out with his rifle people might think he was just strangely dressed with a weird club but as soon as he started shooting it off people would realize something was wrong.

Then again unless the ancient device was disabled there was a good chance the subspace signal would trigger a complete annihilation of the Lormean civilization and so the long term ramifications of violating the Prime Directive would be limited. Historically Starfleet tends to be lenient towards Captains who breach the Directive in pursuit of noble causes.

On the flip side if someone was fast enough they might be able to sprint the distance and grab hold of the helicopter before the pilot could take off again. It would have to be a fast sprint (Fitness + Security vs. Difficulty 4) but it could be possible to get close and disable the pilot before he escapes.

---

Combat Tracker


Active:
Aldershot -
Officer #1 - In Cover
Felician Keeper
Pilot
Delphina
-->Starfleet
Starfleet
Starfleet
Starfleet


Yet to Act (not in any order):
Delphina
Petroka
Sebastian Wright
Ylis
T'Saen

---

Momentum: 0
Threat: 14

Moving swiftly T'saen is able to reach the helicopter before it takes off. She and the pilot struggle for a bit but she keeps him grounded long enough for Ylis to run up and stun him.

Now the away team has a local helicopter and three unconscious officers to deal with.

OOC: Spinning on a bit...

The team is able to neutralize the officers with minimal impact to the Prime Directive. Turning their attention back to the ruins the team is confronted with the obstacle that the door is currently shut. Without any way to access the controls from the outside one of the engineers has the idea to try using the signals and codes they learned from the previous site and sends out a signal that roughly translates to "OPEN" in the alien language. Sure enough there is a giant rumble and the door begins to open.

The interior is very familiar compared to the late ruin they explored only this one doesn't have colonists building out ramps, ladders, lifts and staircases. It takes the better part of an hour to carefully descend through the vertical chambers and end up at the control junction.

As soon as the team gets close it is very apparent something is wrong. Giant pulses of energy arc out of the room and a quick peek inside shows the control consoles have been blasted apart and the central obelisk is cracked. It no longer seem to be able to contain the energy being pumped inside of it so is discharging it into the surrounding room.

These pulses seem to correspond to seismic activity and this malfunctioning control site seems to be the reason behind the rise in earthquakes the natives are experiencing.