T20: High Law and Low Justice, Part 3

[doghead]

Trelelawiero, Aslan Male.

Trel is motionless for a moment. But a low rumbling growl comes over the comm.

"Yes. I will help. We will help each other," he finally responds slowly, as if working through to some form of conclusion.

"Where do we want these?" He motions towards the crates they have assembled so far. Once its decided, Trel throws himself into the work whole heartedly. But he moves smoothly and carefully, conserving effort, and thus oxygen. And he suggest that the others do so too, if they don't seem to have thought of it.

ooc: Although, with two old spacer hands its probably not going to be necessary.

Sorry, a couple of quick questions. How long do we think it will take to clean up the fungus and get the life support sytem providing oxygenated air again? And how long til we get to the gas giant? And do we have an operational jump drive? Thanks.

 

[Maerdwyn]

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Ktarle spends the next couple hours caring for the surviving members of the crew and passengers of the dvonn, as well as checking in, by comm, on every boarding party member's oxygen levels about every fifteen minutes.
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Over the next two hours or so, those who are not on the bridge begin collecting dust, and sterilizing the surfaces where it had settled. They locate two other crew members, both deceased. One was in the starboard turret, the other in his quarters. Bots aid boarding party members, and a passenger as they work together to get the dust cleaned up and contained. The job is tedious, and, in the end, without turning on the life support system, again, it will be impossible to determine whether it was completely thorough. But at some point, Trel, Trelene, Tomas, Ruzz'Koff, and Vyrkris all gather on the mid deck, in front of Stateroom 12, within which the baby, Kiria, and several other unconscious Luriani float.

Tomas had entered previously, and saw them all thorugh the window form the dry sitting room into the flooded bathing chamber. He also saw, small blueish-green algae-like colonies of microbials clinging to that window. Looking closer, he saw more globules of the stuff floating in water, and clinging to some of the people. After informing the others of what he found, they all decided to work on the dust first, then address the issues of the submerged luriani and whether to turn the air back on.
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On the bridge, Zaedhrarrg calls Quinn over to sensors. "That's it," he says, pointing to a mass that he has detected on the far side of the gas giant, near one of its moons. "Say hello to Gateway Arms. She's a big one, maybe a cruiser. 815 tons, if my readings are right. We're just over an hour from Gelugon's outer atmosphere, and the fuel skim; we've started to decellerate. The SDB is a ways behind us, but will make up time as we slow down. In about an hour, we'll have GA, two fighters, and an SDB all around us... " He trails off. letting Quinn draw his own conclusions.

Saanath, between making adjustments to Dvonn's course, takes a look at the handcomp. It's clearly badly physically damaged less so by fire or heat than by what appears to be corrosion. The screen it pitted, as are the plastic/composite keys, only moreso. THe unit does not power up, so Saanath opens up the casing, only to find that the insides are badly damaged as well. The memory chip has been all but destroyed, so any data that had been on the comp is likely gone. Still, he keeps going. He removes the comp's innards, until all he is left with is the case, and that's where he sees it: a piece of glass or crystal poking through the inside side of the case's bottom half. The composite casing, at this point is so brittle that he is able to flake it away. He exposes a second memory unit, encased first within glass, and then again within the composite the leads that had connected this unit to the comp's processor have been eaten away, but the chip inside the protective material looks intact. On a closer inspection, he sees, touching the back side of the chip, inside the clear material, a tiny bubble of a brown liquid.

 

[doghead]

Saanath, Merchant, part-time fly boy.

On the bridge, Zaedhrarrg calls Quinn over to sensors. "That's it," he says, pointing to a mass that he has detected on the far side of the gas giant, near one of its moons. "Say hello to Gateway Arms. She's a big one, maybe a cruiser. 815 tons, if my readings are right. We're just over an hour from Gelugon's outer atmosphere, and the fuel skim; we've started to decellerate. The SDB is a ways behind us, but will make up time as we slow down. In about an hour, we'll have GA, two fighters, and an SDB all around us... " He trails off. letting Quinn draw his own conclusions.

Saanath takes a moment to work out what Zaed is taking about. Then he remembers Zaed's prediction that there would be a carrier of some sort for the fighters.

Saanath whistles quietly as Zaed summarises the situation. He clicks of the comm.

"Gateway. Gateway Arms. They are mercenaries, aren't they. And expensive ones. Its looking more and more like Nells-C is trying to set the owners of this ship up for a fall. Paint them in garish green and black and call them pirates.

"On the other hand, the Gateway people might be after Nells-C or whatever it was he seemed to be carrying. All the extra security suggests could mean that there was something of particular value on the Kerrchan.

"Does Gateway Arms have any ties to the Nells-C group of companies? Is it part of the family empire?"

... On a closer inspection, he sees, touching the back side of the chip, inside the clear material, a tiny bubble of a brown liquid.

ooc: Daddy needs a new car. T/Computer Tech +7, T/Comp +9. Whats with the brown stuff? How do I get the chip out of the clear casing? Or do I need to?

 

[Watus]

"Does Gateway Arms have any ties to the Nells-C group of companies? Is it part of the family empire?"

"Yes. Yes it does. In fact, the only ship in system that doesn't belong to the Nells clan is the one you're standing in."

Quinn sits back down the captains chair and harrumphs in a manner which more than elequently expresses his feelings on the matter.

 

[Maerdwyn]

ooc: Daddy needs a new car. T/Computer Tech +7, T/Comp +9. Whats with the brown stuff? How do I get the chip out of the clear casing? Or do I need to?

Saanath:

Spoiler

You've (based on a rather surprising roll of 20) heard of this type of security device before. The two halves of the casing should come apart easily if the sufficient electricity is applied at the site of the two leads. Just as it releases the ionic bonds between the two halves of the protective case, the electricity also releases the seal between the bubble of highly corrosive liquid. destroying the chip. To defeat it the liquid, perform the operation while the leads and the chip/case are bathed in a gas that reacts with the liquid to neutralize it.

If you could get the chip out, it could be installed in any handcomp or other modern computer. The problem is that you don't know what the liquid is, or the gas that will neutralize it.

 

[Guest 11456]

Trelene Scrautigue : Luriani Navy 2/Prof 7/Trav 1: Retired Makhidkarum Vice President

Over the next two hours or so, those who are not on the bridge begin collecting dust, and sterilizing the surfaces where it had settled. They locate two other crew members, both deceased. One was in the starboard turret, the other in his quarters. Bots aid boarding party members, and a passenger as they work together to get the dust cleaned up and contained. The job is tedious, and, in the end, without turning on the life support system, again, it will be impossible to determine whether it was completely thorough. But at some point, Trel, Trelene, Tomas, Ruzz'Koff, and Vyrkris all gather on the mid deck, in front of Stateroom 12, within which the baby, Kiria, and several other unconscious Luriani float.

Tomas had entered previously, and saw them all thorugh the window form the dry sitting room into the flooded bathing chamber. He also saw, small blueish-green algae-like colonies of microbials clinging to that window. Looking closer, he saw more globules of the stuff floating in water, and clinging to some of the people. After informing the others of what he found, they all decided to work on the dust first, then address the issues of the submerged luriani and whether to turn the air back on.

"Once we have taken care of the dust, I can enter the room as is and check on the people within."

 

[Maerdwyn]

OOc: The door separating the bathing chamber from the rest of the stateroom would neet to be opened in order for trelene to get in. That means either draining the room first or letting the several hundred gallons of water rush out of the chamber when the door was opened.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Quinn:

Spoiler

You recognize the chip Saanath is working with if he shows it to you, and how to get to it. The gas needed (flourine) is available from the ship's power system - an engineer could route a small amount of it into any small enclosed container. The biohazard box (clear box with two gloves in the side of it, used for handling specimens. Ktarle's been examinig the dust in it today) in medbay could work for this purpose.

 

[Tonguez]

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But at some point, Trel, Trelene, Tomas, Ruzz'Koff, and Vyrkris all gather on the mid deck, in front of Stateroom 12, within which the baby, Kiria, and several other unconscious Luriani float.

Tomas had entered previously, and saw them all thorugh the window form the dry sitting room into the flooded bathing chamber. He also saw, small blueish-green algae-like colonies of microbials clinging to that window. Looking closer, he saw more globules of the stuff floating in water, and clinging to some of the people. After informing the others of what he found, they all decided to work on the dust first, then address the issues of the submerged luriani and whether to turn the air back on..

"Okay" Tomas looked up at the Stateroom door "anyone got ideas on how to proceed from here. We know that there's green stuff in the water that may or may not be related to the dust. We also know that eventually we need to get an atmosphere - so suggestions?"

 

[doghead]

Trelelawiero, Aslan male.

Trel inspects the room through the window.

"Can we get in and pull them out through the ceiling?

"We'd also need oxygen and masks for them. One set would be enough if we have a place to take them. A small room we can oxygenate. Medlab?"

Trel pauses for a moment.

"Unless of course there is no connection between the green stuff and the dust. Should we aim to get a sample and test it first?"