The plan went into action and the away team launched in the shuttles while the Mihoshi drew the attention of the remaining Klingon vessels, which happened very quickly.  Using the disabled B'Rel and the tachyon radiation to cloak their approach.  Vanna carried Jason and Tekar while the other pilot, Nolan Wescott, brought the shuttles just short of their target (Vanna rolls 6,4 ; 11,8).

Thani's sensors immediately saturated with tachyon radiation and she ordered shields up to protect shuttle systems (15,5), but knew anyone entering the B'Rel would have precious little time. Jason and Tekar left first to open the cargo bay door, but without power, it would take time to manually open.  Thani (5,15) recommended Vanna's shuttle be brought alongside as close as possible to attempt to shield them, if only a little.  Vanna carefully navigated alongside (5,2), but the shuttle with Wescott, Bart and Thani began experiencing maneuvering issues.  Bart resolved the maneuvering issues (7,17) but knew the shuttles' system were themselves vulnerable.

Jason (4,2) and Tekar (12,17) breach the cargo doors to find... nothing.  There is no power; this includes lights, gravity and life-support.
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Tekar makes a few hand signs gesturing for security to secure the cargo bay, as he moves forward performing a sweep as he moves. "Bay secure, proceeding to the hallway, can we get a heading on the warhead?" Tekar asks over his communicator as he advances to the door and checks if it's locked before either overriding the door or just proceeding into the hallway and making sure it's secure as well.

Jason followed Tekar and paused to look around. He held his phaser lowered but ready. A brief glance was given to the Vulcan as he spoke and the headed further in. "What kind of time do we have before we should leave? IF its 15 minutes, we need to start heading back after we are half way through that time? Its already been 2 minutes at least." He added that to make sure they knew the time frame.

Within moments of leaving the safety of the shuttle's shields, Jason and Tekar begin to feel a tingle in their extremities.

According to Alex Dupont's calculations, after ten minutes, the tingling will way to numbness and you begin to feel nauseous. Soon after, you may experience the inability to hold and grasp things like your phaser or tricorder.

After fifteen minutes, you will be unable to walk.

After twenty minutes, you will find yourself becoming delirious, unable to reason or think.

After thirty minutes, you will be dead.

In reply to Your Loving GM (msg # 4):

  Right now, only Jason and Tekar are suffering exposure.  The rest are protected by the shuttles' shields.  So if Security spent their time making sure the ship was clear, they could possibly return to the relative safety of the shuttles while Bart & Thani work.  Or they could sweep up to the lift tubes (zero-g) and sweep forward while Bart & Thani head to Engineering.  All are options, just need to decide the plan of action.

"We have to begin returning by six minutes, in order to ensure we can walk into the shuttle.  Ensign Walker, lets head for engineering and secure it for the others." Tekar says as he proceeds

He dug into his memory a moment while rubbing his tingling hand against his leg. "The transporter room, if i recall is beyond the cargo bay, sir. They might not have had any time to move the warhead because of the radiation. Its just this way. We might just want to find it and get it out. The Chiefs can take it from there."
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"Perhaps, however, if it is not at the transporters we'll have wasted time securing the transporter rooms while disabling engineering will end the radiation allowing us unlimited time to search the ship." Tekar points out as they continue in the hallways.

"Hold on Thani, I have an idea..." Grabbing a tricorder, Bart opens up the back and the sensor and starts to rewire the small device. Giving it a small test, he was satisfied with the modification.  "I should be able to bounce a signal off of the other tricorders that Davis and Walker were holding."

The signal would be weak because of the radiation, but being in close proximity, he should get a reading. "Walker, Davis. Bart here.  I need you to turn your tricorders on and start scanning the ship in a circle, slowly."
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Jason gave Tekar a look and shrugged, about to comply when Bart's voice came over the coms.

"Sir?" He took his tricorder out. "Scanning now, sir." He did as Bart asked, started to slowly arc the device from left to right, making eventually a circle. "Sir? Why do you want us to do this?"

"I'm bouncing a tachyon signal off your tricorder so that we can locate the source of the Tachyon radiation through triangulation.  Hopefully that is the torpedo."  Making a few adjustments to get the beam just right, Bart studied the readouts intently.

"Sounds good sir. Let me know when you find something. I think we got maybe 5 minutes max before we should leave." Jason continued to scan with his tricorder for Bart.

Jason stopped moving and glanced back the way they came, frustrated at the lack of exact location. "Lt. Keyes is in the shuttle, she can move it so we can get a better location," he said over coms to Bart and to Vanna. "Ma'am can you do that? Move towards the Above decks? If we can pinpoint it, Chiefs, we have a better idea. Otherwise both me and Lt. Davis will be fried."


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Thani had been monitoring the Tachyon Radiation Levels - TRLs, when suddenly she lets out a gasp. Her antennae are twitching erratically as a look of confusion is plastered on her face and her hand covers her stomach in obvious discomfort.
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In reply to Thani sh'Elliaph (msg # 13):

  The sickening sensation twisted in her stomach and she risked emptying its contents if she didn't take something to settle it quickly.

Looking at Bart, "Quickly, first aid kit, I need something for my stomach if I am to function properly." A pained look crossed her face as she closed her eyes and mouthed some barely audible words, "Ishur Reth."

It took Bart a moment to comprehend what he was hearing. Once he understood, he grabbed the med-kit and opened it.  Quickly scanning for the right capsule, he loaded into the hypospray and injected the Andorian with it, "How's that?"

Vanna easily menuvers the ship and tries to isolate the signal. "I'm on it"

With the additional reference point, you can determine the warhead prototype is located in the aft torpedo bay, one deck up to the rear of the ship.  Main engineering (where life support controls are) is two levels up and to the rear.

"Walker and Davis, we located the warhead. It is in the aft torpedo bay, a level up and to the back from your position. We are heading there now."  looking at Thani, "Ready for this?"

"Ok Chief, let me know if you need help and I'll come up to you. We are heading back to the shuttle if Lt Keyes would be so helpful to come pick us up." Jason was willing to go back in to help Bart no matter how much exposure he had. They were cutting it close now with the pause to triangulate the position.

"Reyes? You and your partner make way towards the upper deck. Sweep main engineering first. Be careful in the aft torpedo room after. You have the ship plans. Make haste." He ordered, taking initiative.

Jason then switched to Bart. "Chief Blatt, it might be idea to get the life support back on first? I am having security sweep ahead of you for any problems in main engineering and the aft torpedo bay."
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Thani nods, "Thank you." She closes her eyes and mutters to herself, "Focus on the mission, the mission is the focus. Worry can happen later." Before she opens her eyes, "We need to purge the radiation or else we will have problems."

Pulling up the schematics, "We need to get to engineering to do the radiation purge. Working on the warhead or longer exposure will impede us otherwise."

Nodding in agreement even though Walker could not possible see him, "Before we do anything, we need to contain and purge the radiation.  then I can worry about life support."  He thought for a moment about his words. Sure it was Klingon technology, but science is science, the systems should be that much different.  "you know, depending on how much time the Mihoshi gives us, we could get the power on this here bird..."  He stopped himself before going further, looking at Thani for approval, "First things first, we get the torpedo.  Then we can worry about survivors and life support."
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Thani looks at Bart, a smirk, "Yes, I thought about skeleton crew the ship back to DS5 as well. We go to engineering and have life support purge the radiation and prevent further radiation. Secure the warhead and then regroup with Mihoshi. If we happen to return with a Klingon Bird of Prey in the process, bonus. But I don't have a manual on the ship operations..."

OOC: Operating a Klingon B'Rel would be no small feat.  They did it in Trek #4, but they had time to prepare the ship for a skeleton crew, familiarize themselves with the layout, possibly make mods, etc.  You'd have far less time, unless you want to wait to see how the Mihoshi fares.

It's about 50m from the vertical shaft to the aft torpedo bay.  The average walking speed it 1.4m/s, so that's about 35 seconds.   With zero G in play, you could propel yourself faster.
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"Scratch that." Jason started heading for the access tube. "Reyes? Bring your partner and check out the aft torpedo bay and secure it. We will head above to engineering. Chiefs Blatt, sh'Elliaph, you can start making your way to engineering. Getting life support on will help reduce the radiation, did I understand correctly?"

Between him and Tekar they were able to get the doors open to the transporter room and then beyond to the access shaft. With the zero g's helping them make the leap up to the level engineering was on. There they would start sweeping the deck to make sure it was safe.


((Pardon the assumptions on what Tekar would do.))

Responding to Walker's assessment of the situation on board the B'rel, Bart replied, "We will be there shortly."  Bart checked his radiation suit was in proper working order prior to putting it one.  Looking over at the Andorian, "Ready when you are, sir."
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Thani quickly gets the suit on, "Ready, let's go." Sync a timer, with the estimate of returning to the shuttle by 15 minutes if things cannot be corrected.

Then make their way to the Engineering to engage life support and purge radiation.


And the obligatory "We gonna die" crucial roll; 16:13, Today: Thani sh'Elliaph rolled 30 using 2d20 ((20,10)).

OOC: Trying to protect Tahni from herself:
01:03, Today: Bartolomy Blatt rolled 29 using 2d20 with rolls of 17,12.

Jason started seeing things above floating and it didn't take him very long to realize those were bodies floating. "What the...?" He had to push one of the bodies gently away as it got in his way.

"Just a warning, there are bodies here. All appear dead so watch it when you come this way. Chief Blatt, sh'Elliaph, I don't think there is any rescue needed at this point, looks like the radiation might have gotten the crew already." Jason said sadly.

They finally reached the engineering deck and he floated through only to grab the edge of the doorway before he ran into another body. "Jeeze," he muttered and gently pushed it away.
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Vanna speaks over the comm. "Think its possible to shut down the shields or whatever system is creating the radiation in conjunction with the torpedo? A second ship might be enough to even the odds for the Mihoshi in this fight." She suggested as she began to power down systems to make her way into the ship as Ensign Walker requested.

Bart was making his way through the hallways slowly.  He was not as proficient in Zero-G as he liked, but he thought he was making good time. "Keyes, a good thought, unfortunately we don't have the crew to fly this thing.  Given a week or two, I might be able to run relays through the bridge to fly it, but I wouldn't trust it in a fight." Looking at his padd to make sure they were on the right path to the engineering room and the torpedo, a though hit him, "Hey Keyes, would the two shuttles have enough thrust to move this bird a few kilometres?"
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"Life support, purge radiation, extract warhead, return to Mihoshi." Thani is repeating to herself as she's following Bart through the zero-g environment. Monitoring her own response to the Tachyon Radiation and tracking time. Noting the density of the radiation as well.

In reply to Bartolomy Blatt (msg # 31):

"The Type-9's really aren't meant to be tug-boats, Chief Blatt," Nolan Wescott said as he heard Bart's question.  "We don't have any cabling with the kind of tensile strength to overcome its inertia except at very low impulse.  We could try to push it, but we'd have little directional control."
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Jason paused a moment and grabbed the body before it floated away too far. There was something weird about it and for a moment he didn't see it then it hit him.

"Commanders? There's something strange here. The bodies in engineering. They look like they have been dead a while. Like as in dead for weeks, not hours."

Jason was more than confused at that, expecting not to see the decomposition level he was seeing in the body and his voice over the comms was filled with that confusion. He moved to the next one and saw the same thing. Checking a third and forth, they all were.

"Yea, they are all like that as far as I can see. I didn't think the radiation would cause that. Should I be worried?"

Combadge to away team, "Everyone, abort, return to the shuttles immediately!" To Blatt, "We need to return to the Type 9 shuttle and rig up a counter tachyon pulse. Otherwise we're either going to succeed as really old should be retired star fleet officers, or relive our childhoods including puberty, or somewhere in that spectrum."

In reply to Thani sh'Elliaph (msg # 35):

"Understood. We are returning." Jason literally gave Tekar a push back the way they came and then braced himself and pushed off to head back down the maintenance shaft, returning quite a bit faster than he had gone up.

Nodding at Thani he turned around and moved as quickly as possible, but staying with the Andorian,  to make it to the shuttle. "Probably not what Ponce de Leon had in mind when he we exploring."

Back at the shuttle with the capabilities...


"Okay, we need to configure this to cancel out tachyon radiation that is causing the temporal fluctuations, we need a counterwave where they will meet and cancel. You familiar with the concept Chief Blatt?"

And then she proceeds to enact the "We all Die protocol" *SIGH*

11:28, Today: Thani sh'Elliaph rolled 40 using 2d20 ((20,20)).

Jason and Tekar returned as quickly as possible and waited for Vannna to come to them. "Lt. Keyes, Cmd sh'Elliaph, we are at the airlock now. Awaiting order."

Perhaps it was whatever had her head buzzing and stomach turning had caused her to misjudge the waveform by the slightest amount. Or perhaps her calculations had been perfect, her implementation had been precise, but some roll of cosmic dice had shifted the micro-singularity just enough.  Whatever it was, it wasn't until it was too late that Thani realized something had gone wrong as, instead of cancelling out each other, the tachyon fields had resonated with each other.  For a brief instant, everyone aboard the shuttle felt as if they were dissolving...

PM

In reply to Thani sh'Elliaph (msg # 41):

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In reply to Your Loving GM (msg # 40):
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In reply to Thani sh'Elliaph (msg # 43):

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In reply to Your Loving GM (msg # 45):

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Jason hit his head hard on the container he had backed up into which in turn dazed him. "What the hell was that?" he groaned. "Walker to Chief Blatt? Cmd sh'Elliaph? Lt. Keyes?" He checked the time to see just how long they had been there because they might be cutting it close and then took his tri-corder back out to check the amount of radiation still around.

Vanna blushes and jerks the controls of the shuttle briefly before adjusting her heading. "This is the Li-Wenliang and I have no idea what that was, what did you do on that ship?"
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In reply to Thani sh'Elliaph (msg # 46):

PM
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Combadge to Away Team, "Team, get aboard your shuttles and return to the Mihoshi immediately. The Shuttle shields are no longer protecting against the Tachyon Radiation. Please acknowledge."
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"Me? I didn't do anything Lt. Keyes," Jason responded, his voice a bit unsteady. Then Thani spoke. "Affirmative Commander. We are waiting for pickup at the airlock now. Li-Wenliang, Lt. Davis and I are waiting on you."

Vanna docks at the airlock to load up the personel, transfering as much power as she safely can to the shuttle's shield as she does. "All aboard the Li-Wenliang express"

Tekar boards the shuttle and glances around as he does. "So, did either of you have any ... unusual experiences a few minutes ago?" he asked hesistantly.

In reply to Bartolomy Blatt (msg # 44):

PM
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Jason followed Tekar into the shuttle but froze at the question. "Yes," he finally said and sat down. "Cmd sh'Elliaph we are in. Where do you want us to head to since I doubt the Mihoshi is done playing."

In reply to Your Loving GM (msg # 54):

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In reply to Bartolomy Blatt (msg # 56):

PM

Bart blinks, as his hand touches his chest, searching for something. Reactin to Thani's voice he starts putting on the safety harness, "um, what the fuck is going on?"

"Mihoshi to away team," Malko's voice came over their comms. "One B'Rel is destroyed and the other may have fled. We're enroute to meet you.  What's your status?"

"We're enroute to you as well. Tachyon Radiation was causing time distortion. Tried to cancel it and it ended up back-lashing in intensity. Entire team was hit by the wave. Our shields aren't protecting us any longer." Thani replies quickly.

To Bart, "Tachyon decided to not cancel but amplify. We're getting exposed to insane levels of radiation. My theory is we either had some horrible hallucinations like dreams, or we crossed into different time lines or our futures."

No response needed for Jason as Malko just nullified his concerns over the orders she had just given.

In reply to Thani sh'Elliaph (msg # 60):

"Acknowledged," Malko said.  "Where there any survivors aboard the B'Rel?  We were targeting it but Cmdr Geary just ordered us to stand down."

"Walker to Mihoshi. No survivors found," Jason said, his tone of voice a bit tired.

In reply to Jason Walker (msg # 62):

"Alright," Malko replied.  "As I said, a med team will be awaiting in the shuttle bay for treatment if any of you are in need.  Otherwise, I suspect Dr. Dupont will want to run a full exam as soon as possible.  Malko out."

OOC: It will only take a minute to two to rendezvous.  You can either interact that last bit, or jump to the Bridge Thread.

In reply to Aurin Malko (msg # 63):

OOC: Good with the jump :D

OOC: Good to jump!