T20: High Law and Low Justice (IC Thread 2)

[doghead]

[OOC: Sorry, doghead - He avoids looking at Saanath then ]

A minute or so after Quinn leaves the room, Saanath beeps - or, as is clear a moment later, something in his chair beeps. There is a muffled voice, and then, it's more clear as he reaches down and removes the communicator that's been shoved into the seam between the chair's cushion and its arms.

Male voice: "--still at your dinner?!? Look, I've got Tarshk down here - says he's been ordered to bring Scrautigue to the bridge. That order come from you?"

Saanath checks to see that the communicator is not broadcasting. If not, he places it on the table in front of him.

OOC: Basically, don't want background noise on the channel. Is it possible? T/Comm +9.

 

[Douane]

To the surprise of Ruzz'koff, the captain actually stops to regard Zaedhrarrg. "She will be fine - It's better this way, though. If I'm not back by jump time, go check on her, make sure she's okay. Oh, and tell her roommate she's been bumped up to First Class. Now - out of my way.

A bit confused and taken aback by the strange mix of concern and firm resolve in the captain's voice, Zaedhrarrg is nevertheless unwilling to let the matter slide (and he doesn't possess the good sense to know when to stop):


"Still, don't you think it's very harsh to isolate Vyrkris, especially with her being a a Vargr? You don't realize what this means to us, don't you? How should this be better for her? And she's done nothing wrong besides turning her comlink on and if that is a crime you have to imprison two-thirds of your passengers at least. She should at least be allowed some companionship till this ridiculous matter is resolved!"


(spoken very rapidly and without pauses)

 

[Maerdwyn]

Saanath checks to see that the communicator is not broadcasting. If not, he places it on the table in front of him.

OOC: Basically, don't want background noise on the channel. Is it possible? T/Comm +9.

OOC: The communicator must be activated to respond to whoever is calling the captain - it's not broadcasting whatever is going on in the room at present to him. Not sure if that's what you were asking.

 

[Maerdwyn]

A bit confused and taken aback by the strange mix of concern and firm resolve in the captain's voice, Zaedhrarrg is nevertheless unwilling to let the matter slide (and he doesn't possess the good sense to know when to stop):


"Still, don't you think it's very harsh to isolate Vyrkris, especially with her being a a Vargr? You don't realize what this means to us, don't you? How should this be better for her? And she's done nothing wrong besides turning her comlink on and if that is a crime you have to imprison two-thirds of your passengers at least. She should at least be allowed some companionship till this ridiculous matter is resolved!"


(spoken very rapidly and without pauses)

The captain's eyes blaze, and she pushes past Zaedhrarrg. Without looking back at him, she heads for the bulkhead and says, "Perhaps you might consider that a headstrong girl already being protected from what she might bring on herself and others is not the person most in need of your help this night!" Her tone is measured, yet fierce and full of frustration all at once.

 

[Tonguez]

"You could say that," Quinn grunts without breaking stride. A few steps farther, though, he pulls up short and turns around. "Actually... you're Navy, right?" he asks Ruzz'koff's retreating back. "If you're headed back to the dining room, I'll tag along. There's something I wanted to talk to you about. And something I should show you."

Tomas looks up at the Vargr and then back at Quinn as he says theres something he wants to show him

"Its a bad business" he growls in Vargr and then to Quinn "if theres more to do tonight, then I'll join you too. The Malikot ship wasn't a threat to anything but their Profit margin"

The vehement distaste for Megacorps is quite clear in his eyes

 

[Maerdwyn]

OOC:

We've gotten onto a couple seperate timelines - part by design, part by accident. Just for clarity:


16:00 Vurkris's tape begins
16:40 Distress call received
18:00 Dinner w/ captain, Trelene's dinner in Engineering
18:22 Captain, Vyrkris and guard leave
18:23 Zaedhrarrg and Ruzz'Koff leave, Vid playback begins
18:27 Zaedhrarrg confronts captain (Ongoing)
18:29 Ruzz'koff starts heading back to Captain's dining room
18:33 Vid playack finishes. Quinn and Tomas leave
18:35 Quinn, Tomas and Ruzz'Koff pass each other (Ongoing), Security guard arrives at Trelene and Tagir's table
18:36 Trelene agrees to go with Guard. Captain's communicator goes off in Dining Room (Ongoing).
18:38 Trelene gets on the lift. (ongoing)

So, when it's posible, I need resolutions to (especially) the first two chronological events - Zaed, and then Q, T, and R - since they might have bearing on how the later event play out. At that point we'll get things sync'ed up again. Thanks.

 

[Watus]

Quinn gets back on the lift with Ruzz'koff (and Thomas?), explaining the situation in Vargr and in hushed tones on the way. Finding an isolated table in the dining room, Quinn shows Ruzz'koff the recording, and gives him a minute for it to sink in.

"So here's what I don't understand: 1) on the tape, Nells-Corzin claims he knows the ship is a Corsair. How does he know any more about this ship than the bridge crew? 2) there's no mention on the tape of the results of the scans the Keruuchan was certainly performing on the supposed Corsair. What did they show? If Nells-Corzin found the captain to be in dereliction of duty without basis, then he acted improperly, and may very well have killed as many as fifteen people for no reason other than that they worked for a rival company."

"So, Ruzz'koff: how much do you know about ships sensors, and can you think of any way for us to discretely access the logs for the time period in question?"

 

[Douane]

The captain's eyes blaze, and she pushes past Zaedhrarrg. Without looking back at him, she heads for the bulkhead and says, "Perhaps you might consider that a headstrong girl already being protected from what she might bring on herself and others is not the person most in need of your help this night!" Her tone is measured, yet fierce and full of frustration all at once.

"But .... "


Zaedhrarrgh finally stops when he realizes that he's just talking to the captain's back. Absentmindedly, he scratches himself between the ears while contemplating what to do next.


* Humans! They are so infuriatingly strange sometimes. Why even bother discussing with them, when they never change their preconceived opinions.

I really have to wonder how they they are able to make good starship captains. I mean, what do they do when something unexpected happens during the journey that goes against their cemented plans and routines? Are they able to adapt? Us scouts must really be a different breed!

Besides she never even answered any of my questions. Poor Vyrkris! [Sigh]

Hmm, I must tell Ktarle of her being bumped up. Hope she's not intoxicated again. It would probably reflect bad on her, especially in her own eyes, if I have to carry Ktarle to the new cabin. They are proud people, these Aslan.

Oh, and then I will pay Vyrkris a visit. The solitude must drive her up the walls, as she's a rather chatty one, even for a Vargr. [Grin] *


Smiling once again happily, Zaedhrarrg bounces back to the dinner place.

 

[Wilphe]

Ruzz'koff watches impassively, occassionaly stroking his muzzle.
"Impressive," he says as the vid finishes, "Not in a nice way you understand, but impressive none the less. How many copies of this are there?"

"I did many things, but I am a fair Sensors and Communications walla. It depends what you want to do. If you want to try rescue these people now that would quixotic and probably ultimatly futile. Mutiny is not my idea of fun. Now if you could get into the system and play that over every vid screen in the ship, or just to the bulk of the passangers, then they'd have to do something and it couldn't be covered up. That's a high risk strategy though, very high risk. And the Captain is screwed in that case, and given that she appears to have engineered events to ensure that someone got hold of this I think we owe her that much."
"The neatest way would be take a copy to the port authourity or Navy when we get to one. They can get a warrant to go into the ship's record. The black boxes and CVR should have caught all of this and be able to verify the data. Whether that will make a difference is another matter, but if Nells-Corzin can come out of that okay then pretty much nothing we do will make a difference. It's not very glamorous but it is sensible and quiet."

"This is, of course assuming that Nells-Corzin is actually wrong. He could actually be right, though a corsair these parts of Imperial space seems unlikely. They won't last long if they are."

"I'm sure there is a way to get into the sensor logs, but youd need a hacker to get into ships systems if their internal security is any good. I can make sense of the data, when we get it, but getting it would be the rub."

 

[Wilphe]

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