Apologies for the delay. I was having too much fun in the meatverse.

   A question before I put virtual pencil to paper:

   How far is it from me to Cheng? I'm thinking that Abdool will likely have to sprint to get to him, and any Momentum gained can be used the First Aid roll to stabilize, or use 2 Momentum to get Cheng back up and functioning again. (I know I'm stabilizing a character whose PC has left the game, but we need bodies, or we're going to become bodies at this point)

Everyone is within close range so one movement action is all that is necessary to reach him.

edit: Round 3 everyone. Laila you can make your medic check along with your next round's action in your next post.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:11, Mon 29 July 2019.

Are the last Ulhans near each other?

Yes.

I will be on an away mission to Indianapolis (for Gencon) Wednesday night to Sunday. I will be able to post in theory, time allowing. Just a heads up.

What up y'all?

nm here, I'm waiting till closer to the end of the lineup before deciding my actions, likely to try to shoot at some of the remaining romulans.

Howdy all, I'm taking over T'Saen.

I'm unclear, is she still in the fight or was she knocked out already?

I think she's still knocked out, but that'd be up to the ST :)

That's what I thought too but wanted to be sure in case anyone was waiting on me to post

No you guys are just waiting on me. We'll get you back into the fight.

   Most likely the Doctor will make her way amongst the injured, treating them as necessary. (This will include any injured Romulans - "Do no harm", after all). Once that is over, she'll make her way to help out Greene with the alien device.

   Let me know if there are any rolls that need to be made.

is it possible to access the comm array in the device that received the signal the other ship had sent earlier?

Are you talking about the alien signal subspace tractor? Because the alien device cannot be powered back up once it was shut down. I explained that earlier when there was concern that someone else might be able to use it as a weapon.

Well, I was talking about the device but not the tractor portion of it.  Since it received a signal to power up, it must have a receiver if nothing else, that we might be able to use to communicate with the other ship.

Sarah, with knowing what frequencies the device sent the message on could we simulate it using colony communication array, shuttle or even our communicators to attempt contact on similar frequency.

I think knowing the frequency and that we are using subspace would be the most important elements of plan. Not the delivery system. Your thoughts

if we know the frequency is received on we could broadcast on it assuming its not encrypted.  if its encrypted, we'd have to have the key to the encryption to broadcast otherwise they'd just get static that made no sense.

think of it as tuning your radio to an FM station but the station is spread across the whole spectrum.  At key points you'd get part of the signal, but most parts are just static, the computer takes all the parts and puts it together using the encryption key so that it is a complete broadcast.

I guess my point is we scanned the point of origin. We have access through comm system to translate. It seems that you are making assumptions on facts that I have not seen put in play. Perhaps, you have received through PM facts I have not which will make all my other words moot.

I understand your point. Much like the Germans used encrypted code to communicate. My thought is not necessarily the same. Perhaps, they can only receive communications on the subspace frequency they transmitted on. I am not certain that is it. Perhaps, the transmissions sent prior to this by Belfast were not received because they did not call the right number.

Much like a hamm radio trying to tie into a cellphone network.

Is Cheng up and operational? Just wanted to know since the Doc stayed behind I wouldn't want to leave one crewmen alone.

@Sarah: The alien device is completely powered down. Ain't nothing coming out of that. BUUUT you could try and use the settler's comms to replicate a signal. You have plenty of scans of...something. You would have no idea what kind of signal you're sending though.

To translate this to more understandable terms, think about ascii. It's a series of 1's and 0's combined to make up letters that make up words. H = 01001000, Hello = 0100100001100101011011000110110001101111

So you have the signal, which is either on or off, you have the channel or frequency that it used, and the encryption. For ascii an H = 01001000 while in morse code an H = 0000 (four shorts).

So right now you have the frequency and a message that was just 111111111111111111111111111111. As far as your equipment could tell, there wasn't modulation that would indicate a more advanced signal, just a giant "I'M HEEEEEERRRRREEEE".

So yes, you can blast a signal using the civilian comms at the alien ship. It will be a fraction of the power and most likely absolute gibberish. You could do something rudimentary like blasting out prime numbers or the Fibonacci sequence. On the Voyager probe is a series of mathematical equations meant to facilitate communication.

If you had more to go on the universal translators could pick up the slack but the alien signal was not diverse enough. You can read the language when it is printed out but short of creating a planet-wide hologram you need to know how to translate the words into the signal and that is the missing component at the moment.

i get it universe :)

Sorry all, I missed the part about the device not being able to be started again

He is now. Hello all, new guy here taking over Cheng. Please be gentle, I'm new to the rules.