A New Power

[Angcuru]

"So Arias was right," Miera sighs. "The Republic became an Empire and the Jedi were destroyed just as he knew they would be; the two of us were right to leave the order when we did. You must have been just a young padawan when it all happened, by the look of you. It's a wonder that you survived at all." She rubbed her temples for a moment. "Don't give me the details just yet. It's better that we both hear of this at the same time."

OOC - Jorran - Intelligence check. Jorran recalls hearing something about two Jedi generals who were killed during the clone wars when he was a new learner, though he doesn't recall their names.

 

[Galethorn]

"Fair enough, Jorran says, following Miera.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Aasan nods and quietly moves to the main computer, waiting for the sensors to come online and then doing his best to sweep the area and see if he can find the transponder signal for the escape pod.

 

[Angcuru]

Aasan's probing of the area with the ship's sensors yields nothing for over an hour. As Aasan leaned back in the pilot seat waiting for something to happen, he sees a quick blip on the screen which fades into static just as quickly as it appears. A few seconds later, it blips again for all of two seconds, and then fades again.

On top of the ship, Kia's work on unclogging the sensors has been simply clearing off muck and grime that must have been kicked up when they crash landed. She has gotten most of the heavy mass off, but a thick layer of caked algae clings stubbornly to the main dish.

 

[Super Girl]

Kia redoubles her efforts and scrubbing the algae off

edit: not sure what to post, its not like kia would stop clearing off the sensors. Also not sure how algea got caked on to an antenna on the top of the ship when the ship is rightside up.

 

[Angcuru]

Aasan sees the sensor blip becoming more and more frequent on the screen. It looks like it is off to the southeast, though he cannot approximate distance just yet. A few minutes later, the flickering screen stabalizes, and the Kel Dor sees the sensor readout screen clearly indicating that the escape pod is to the southeast of the ship and....moving? Apparently Kia had finished clearing away whatever was clogging the sensor, but something had to be wrong with it still. How would an escape pod be moving after it had landed?

OOC - Crash landing in a small river has the habit of kicking up water, dirt, rocks, etc. River water has lots of algae in it, especially on the bottom. Algae has a nasty habit of getting all dry and hard to clean off when it's been left in the sun for too long. It's also hard to know how long you've been unconscious in situations like Aasan and Kia were in.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Aasan will search around for a loose datapad or anything that he can download the sensor information onto. If they were going to go after it, especially if it was moving, they'd need to be able to see where it was going.

Curious as to why its moving, Aasan will also see if there's any way to get an exact reference on the distance of the signal.

 

[Angcuru]

Aasan cannot find a loose datapad in the cockpit, but he surmises that Kia would likely have one in her quarters. Of course, it would be prudent to ask Kia before he went rooting through her posessions, seeing as humans tend to become emotional over such things.

After recalibrating the sensors on a hunch that the crash might have knocked something important out of alignment, Aasan finally sees a grid fade in to the screen. Automatically following up on the Kel Dor's enguiries, the grid expands, shifts, and contracts until it displays the Dawnspinner and the pod transponder. A faded dotted line continuously shifts to maintain a line-of-sight connection between the two, with a numerical readout placed at the center of the line.

If the computer is correct, then the transponder, and by logic, the pod is approximately 97 kilometers to the southeast, and steadily moving farther away.

 

[Super Girl]

After she had finished scrubbing away at the Sensor/Communication dish, Kia climbed back down into the ship, dogging the hatch behind her to prevent any alien beasties from getting in. The girl proceded to the cockpitt to get the word from Aasan about what was up, and to see if she couldn't figure out where the Pod was in relation to the ship. She was instantly conronted by the motion of the signal, and that didn't make sense, not unless the pod was in motion, and that wasn't likely since a landed pod was pretty much permanently stuck, or if the transponder itself was being moved, and that was much much more likely.

"This is the Dawnsprinter, we have a read on your transponder, but it seems to be in motion, whats going on? Do you still want us to head in your direction?" she asks through the commlink.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

"If you've got a datacard and a datapad I can get these readings onto it would really help," Aasan comments before even looking at Kia. He then glances over his shoulder to her and nods quickly, "It is moving quickly, and the sooner we can get after it the less likely we are to lose it."