T20: High Law and Low Justice, Part 3

[Maerdwyn]

ooc: . Given the sign before you, this deck looks very ops-oriented. Engineering, when it's broken up into two parts, usually has the jump drive and maneuver drives in seperate locations. Piloting would be done from the flight deck/conn; Saanath now thinks that would likely be on a different deck - there's just not room for it down here if the cargo bays are assumed to take up much volume at all.

 

[Maerdwyn]

One of the fighters adjusts course, and is closing the distance with Beta.The other is on target for Dvonn/Alpha.

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on Beta:

Zaedhrarrg grips the controls more firmly and says, "Okay, captain, here they come! Good thing you've got a scout aboard! Now, I'm sure I could dance around out here avoid their missiles indefinitely, but we've still got people to save, so I think we need a longer term plan." When Julia doesn't immediately respond, he continues. "For instance, I could try letting a missile get a lock on us and then buzz the fighter so that th missle hits it by accident, or..." he drops off at Julia slightly horrified stare, and looks to Trelene for ideas.

 

[Tonguez]

"I'm going to try and get a comm link to the boats" Tomas informs Saanath

"we need to get everyone on board, since this ship got more chance against attack than those tin-can boats outside. "So Life support first to check we can get an atmosphere and then engines"

He pauses to make sure Saanath at least has understood and follows with
"Quinn - are you there." before heading towards Life Support

(ooc yep definately a Rat Bastard DM!)

 

[Maerdwyn]

Tomas rushes down the corridor, turns a corner and passes through an iris valve into a massive room. The instant reaction is one of relief as the familiar shape of a fusion reactor looms before him, and he takes in the welcome sounds of an engineering room. But looking and listening closer, things don't seem quite so good. The sounds the reactor is making tell Tomas tell that it is running, but at nowhere near peak efficiency. His eyes are first drawn a few meters in front of him, where the contents of a tool chest lie sprawled across the floor. The chest itself is overturned, apparently having fallen of off the shelf that's right near it.

Then he notices the dust. It covers the floor here, even thicker than in the airlock. There is a layer of it on the tool chest, and even the sprawled tools. Tomas sees that some of the tools are missing - there are hand and foot prints in the dust near the tools, and outlines in the dust where tools had bee before being picked up. Looking back, Tomas can see foot prints in the dust leading to this spot from the door, and he wonder how he didn't see them as he came in. He sees the footprints lead away from the tools, through the swirls and little piles of dust that have been formed by the currents of the power plant's fans, across the huge room, towards what Tomas recognizes as Life Support.

There is a ladder next to the unit, and Tomas can see a large piece of metal sticking out the system at an angle no self-respecting engineer would create on purpose. Whether there is more physical damage, Tomas simply can't tell yet, and for the moment, he doesn't even think about it. Beneath the ladder is a huge, almost meter-high pile of the white stuff, and just in front of the ladder, lying face up on the floor, is someone in a vac suit.

 

[Seonaid]

With no answer forthcoming, Ktarle gets to work on restoring communication. She mutters under her breath as she works.

[T/Computer +14]

[Sorry for the delay. I think there was some confusion.]

 

[Maerdwyn]

[Sorry for the delay. I think there was some confusion.]

[ooc: my bad, sorry]

Ktarle works for a full minute, trying to do what she can to strip away some of the intereference that's blocking communications. Just as Vyrkris announces, "Three minutes!" Ktarle is able to isolate part of an incoming message. It's not enough fully break through the jamming; rather she's recorded the incoming signal and has "washed" through the it until some words come through:

"[begins] [static]...uchan boats.....is Captain....fence Boat Junkyard Dog....received your distress...will provide assist.... arrive in....hang in there... [ends]

 

[Watus]

Quinn, at this point, is basically interested in determing approximately how the ship has been derelict, which is increasingly thinking it is. He spends a few seconds poking around, looking at the fish and the fishtank, for instance, and anything else before heading back down down to the others.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Quinn, at this point, is basically interested in determing approximately how the ship has been derelict, which is increasingly thinking it is. He spends a few seconds poking around, looking at the fish and the fishtank, for instance, and anything else before heading back down down to the others.

The fish, including a large eel-like thing, are clearly dead, though they seem not to have decomposed at all. Then, in the puddle, Quinn sees a small shell move ever so slowly in the pudddle, with the foot of a mollusk peeking out from beneath the shell. There are two other shells, as well, and though these are not moving, they are on top of the pieces of still-green aquatic plants lying in the water. There is no dust on the fish, plants, or water, which is only remarkable because Quinn now notices the dust is on everything else - the couches, tables, the floor. He looks around more, and sees that nearer the starbord side of the area, leading from a couple of the staterooms down the aft corridor, there are the hints of footprints in the dust, as if they had been covered up almost immdiately after they were formed.

 

[doghead]

Saanath considers the silence on the comm for a moment while he awaits Quinn's response. Not getting anything, he heads after Tomas. At the sight of the footprints in the 'dust', something clicks. Everything makes alot more sense.

"Oh Christ. Quinn. Tomas. Do not breach your vacc suit seal. I'll bet my pants that that dust is toxic or some such."

Saanath follows Tomas' gaze across the vast room. The pile of power and the body only serves to confirm his suspicion for him.

"Quinn. We've got something here you might wanna see. Tomas. Watch your step."

Saanath hand hovers briefly over his pistol before moving over to the baton. He pulls it out and gives the room a careful once over for threats. Then he steps back to the door where he can catch sight of Quinn when he comes. He cuts his PComm feed, going to the suits comm. "Quinn. We're in engineering. And we've got a body."

 

[Seonaid]

After listening for a moment, Ktarle tries to open communications outward (unless that's obviously not going to work). "This is Ker-Alpha, we are not hostile. Please stand down!" Without waiting for an answer, she gets back to working on the interference.