T20: High Law and Low Justice, Part 3

[Maerdwyn]

Tomas says, "Will do." Tomas realizes he was kind of hoping the fighters were going to try something. He passes through the rear section of the bridge asn he heads down to the lower deck.

Vyrkris reports that she's going to go check out the large berths, and Saanath says, "When I looked, they appeared to hold animals - I gather one of the passengers was a hunter. They're dead now; the medic deactivated the berths and scavenged their nutripacks for the sentients' berths. What are you having her look for?"

 

[Watus]

Vyrkris reports that she's going to go check out the large berths, and Saanath says, "When I looked, they appeared to hold animals - I gather one of the passengers was a hunter. They're dead now; the medic deactivated the berths and scavenged their nutripacks for the sentients' berths. What are you having her look for?"

"I don't know. Anything unusual, I guess. Like I said, it looks like they belong to the guy who may have brought the slime aboard. I don't have the full story yet, but I'd like someone to look 'em over in the meantime."

 

[DrZombie]

"Doc, any idea yet how fast the "spores" turn into the purple goo, or how to kill the spores? If we leave some spores in the lifeunit we can start allover again." And I don't wanna have this problem in jumpspace. Jumpspace? Hmmm.

"Say, anybody got any idea where we're gonna jump to? Any naval bases around or somesuch? Someon a bit impartial instead of on the payroll of these vicious sadistic moneygrabbers?"

 

[Maerdwyn]

ooc: As a retired Navy Lt. Ruzz'koff would know the location of the military bases in the area. Thanks for getting the ball rolling

 

[DrZombie]

The Vargr taps his microphone, looking at his suit's diagnostics table to see if all is clear. "Hello, hello, is this thing still working? It's gone awfully quiet in here."

 

[Maerdwyn]

"Doc, any idea yet how fast the "spores" turn into the purple goo, or how to kill the spores? If we leave some spores in the lifeunit we can start allover again."

"Working on the spores. Oxygen seems to degrade the crystalline shell, and the organism dissolves the rest of it an begins feeding on the ambient oxygen. Then the cells multiply."
"The crystals seem to burn, but given the lange explosion down in Engineering earlier, they probably do so explosively, so I'm not sure if we want to get rid of the large quantities aboard the ship like that. A vacuum doesn't seem to kill the spores, though we've got a very few live cells floating through she ships environment, and introducing those to a vacuum does seem to kill them. In such low concentrations, the cells don't seem to be able form crystals, and gave a limited lifespan in an oxygen-poor environment. More in a while."

 

[Tonguez]

Tomas says, "Will do." Tomas realizes he was kind of hoping the fighters were going to try something. He passes through the rear section of the bridge asn he heads down to the lower deck.

I'I don't like this I really don't' Tomas thinks to himself as he quickly takes stock of everything going on 'I knew that dust had to be alive, and deadly!

damn I pray we get out of here'

Reaching the lower deck he takes up position and tries to figure out how to best go about overriding the boats core...

 

[DrZombie]

"Too much to wish for a housebot to clean up all this mess, I guess. We'll have to do it ourselves." The varhr looks around for a vacuum-cleaner or such.

 

[doghead]

Saanath, Bridge, Helm.

Saanath concentrates on piloting the ship. But somewhere in the back of his mind his brain keeps mulling over the problems to hand. Occassionally something surfaces and he pipes up now and then.

"The Doc mentioned having the passengers sedated to reduce their oxygen demand. Its possible that they are still on board somewhere."

"So burning the stuff out seems to be out, unless we can clear away the dust first. A housebot with a vacuum would be handy there. What about IR or UV light? Or even water? The doc put her daughter in a tank. Electricity? Could we seal the life support system and flood it with something inert like nitrogen?"

 

[Maerdwyn]

Hearing Saanath's words, a few seconds later, Ktarle comes back over the system. "Just tried immersing the stuff in water, and the coating on the dust dissolves almost immediately. And it releases bubbles - I'm testing now, but I'm betting the gas released is oxygen. When the dust dissolves, though, the organism is still live - the cycle would begin again all over unless we interrupt it, kill the cells, or something else. Should I focus on how to kill the cells within the dust, in water, or something else?"

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Down in the hangar, Tomas, having gained access to the Dvonn already, begins working to align the boat to the Dvonn's system. As he does so, he notes on the boat's sensors that the Keruuchan is nearing the JohnHenry base. Tomas is confident that in a few minutes, he will be able to transfer the boat to Dvonn's control.

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Trelene and Ruzz'koff get the last of the slime out of the unit, and think that they have brushed the visible dust out of it. Taking stock of engineering, they see no true housebots, but see some lower tech cleaning supplies - rags, cleaning solution, etc. They do find two housebots on the cargo manifest, one on the uper deck near crew quarters, one in a closet on the mid deck.

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Vyrkris reports back in to Quinn. "Uh, I don't relaly know what these things are, but they're definitely dead. Some sort of big cat, a flying mammal of some sort, a big lizard, and what looks like a cross between a bear and a wolf. I've poked around them a bit, but I can't tell anything's out of the ordinary. Do you want me to look...internally?"

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Zaedhrarrg continues searching for new contects on sensors, and also works on compiling data regarding the Dvonn's last jump. (ooc: results via email.)