T20: High Law and Low Justice, Part 3

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ooc: If Keraplha team heard Quinn say ".. on my way" then they must have arrived before he came back down the stairs no? So wouldn't he have passeed them, or seen them?

Saanath steadies himself after the impact.

"Scratch KerAlpha, but her crew is 'safely' here aboard Dvonn. What's the situation in here? You guys all okay?"

He looks to the others and hiss an unintelligable curse under his breath.

"This is Saanath. Listen carefully. We suspect that the environment may be tainted. So do not breach your suits integrity until we know more. Hold your position. I'll come and get you."

~assuming that Quinn approves~

"I'll bring everyone back here before going anywhere else," Saanath adds to Quinn.

Saanath heads back towards the air lock. At the sight of the others in the corridor he pauses momentarily dead in his tracks. His guts tighten in anxiety. What the hell is going on? Why did they leave the boat? He shoves aside the the obvious questions that come crowding to the fore, and takes a slow breath to calm himself.

"Hey everyone. Question time later OK. Lets get back to the others."

As they walk, Saanath remembers that Ktarle was on Alpha. "Ktarle. Are you able to test this dust for toxicity?"

 

[Watus]

Quinn crouches down to take a closer look at the body and the dust.

 

[Maerdwyn]

He looks to the others and hiss an unintelligable curse under his breath.

"This is Saanath. Listen carefully. We suspect that the environment may be tainted. So do not breach your suits integrity until we know more. Hold your position. I'll come and get you."

Ruzz'koff looks at Vyrkris, whose eyes widen at Saanath's words, and curses quietly into the comm.

ooc: If Keraplha team heard Quinn say ".. on my way" then they must have arrived before he came back down the stairs no? So wouldn't he have passeed them, or seen them?

ooc: There's as iris valve intervening. It opens automatically on approach, but Quinn didn't pass close enough to open it when he came off the stairs and through into the corridor to engineering. Ruzz'koff was hanging back near the airlock entrance, waiting to get a better read on the situation before moving everone further in.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Quinn crouches down to take a closer look at the body and the dust.

Quinn moves over to the body across the room and kneels down. The man is dead, at least as far as any reasonable test (i.e. one not invloving Quinn removing his glove to check a pulse) can determine. He is (was) a young guy, still pimpled, still with a teenager bony face. The visor in fron t of that face is cracked, and the whole of the suit's head and shoulders has burn marks on it, except for a triangle that begins at the crack in the visor near the nose and extends up to the center of the forehead and over to the left side, near the ear. The man's leg is sticking out to the side, awkwardly.

Looking up above the ladder, there is large hole in the main output duct that leads from the life suport system. Burn marks ring the torn metal that extends outward from the hole, and there are two pieces of the titanium sheeting that must have once been part of the conduit - one on the floor, one sticking into the system itself.

The butt of a tool pokes out from the bottom of the dust pile beneath the ladder, and now that Quinn looks closer, he can see that there are little piles of the dust on top of each of the ladder's steps. The dust itself looks crystalline, almost like very fine salt.

 

[Guest 11456]

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

Beta.

As Trelene works on establishing communications, she hears Zaedhrarrg gasp, "Now where are they going?"

She looks up to see Alpha disengage from Dvonn and begin following a course that, if she's not mistaken, will take it closer to the missile, not farther away.

"No! You're going the wrong way! I always knew the Navy had no business being in sp--" His voice dies as the missile connects with the boat. After a brief burst of light, there is nothing but debris. A large chunk of the engines is blown backwards and crashes silently into Dvonn's armored bow bouncing off, apparently harmlessly. The rest of the boat drifts off in other directions.

Trelene does a quick sensor sweep of what is left of alpha and then checks the data for any signs of survivors.

 

[Maerdwyn]

Trelene does a quick sensor sweep of what is left of alpha and then checks the data for any signs of survivors.

Reacting quickly, Trelene gets a scan of the debris while it's still relatively closely packed. She is reasonably sure that there was no organic matter aboard Alpha when it exploded. She might reach a different conclusion if the boat hadn't been docked for so long, because it's possible that all the organic matter would have been incinerated by the blast, but unlikely.

 

[Tonguez]

Getting to a terminal, Tomas attempts to link into the Dvonns comm system and get a signal out to the boats

"KerBeta are you there?
Alpha crew aboard Dvonn
do likewise - will meet you at docking port.
Respond...."

 

[Maerdwyn]

Getting to a terminal, Tomas attempts to link into the Dvonns comm system and get a signal out to the boats

"KerBeta are you there?
Alpha crew aboard Dvonn
do likewise - will meet you at docking port.
Respond...."

Tomas easily patches into Dvonn's system, but has trouble establishing the link with KerBeta. He is using the same channel as before, but there is no response. To get more information, he tries to take firmer control of the system, and is eventually able to gain access to it. The resulting data implies the Dvonn is under the influence of very strong comm jamming. He's not confident he'll be able to break through it.

 

[Guest 11456]

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

Beta.

As Trelene works on establishing communications, she hears Zaedhrarrg gasp, "Now where are they going?"

She looks up to see Alpha disengage from Dvonn and begin following a course that, if she's not mistaken, will take it closer to the missile, not farther away.

"No! You're going the wrong way! I always knew the Navy had no business being in sp--" His voice dies as the missile connects with the boat. After a brief burst of light, there is nothing but debris. A large chunk of the engines is blown backwards and crashes silently into Dvonn's armored bow bouncing off, apparently harmlessly. The rest of the boat drifts off in other directions.

Trelene turns to Zaedhrarrg.

"I do not believe they were on Alpha when the missile hit."

She motions at the sensor data.

"From this data it appears that there was no one aboard when the missile hit. I would wager that they all got aboard the Dvonn. They probably used the auto-pilot to send the boat away from the Dvonn. The Dvonn is much better armored then these boats. Perhaps they decided that they had a better chance of survival there?"

 

[Maerdwyn]

Trelene turns to Zaedhrarrg.

"I do not believe they were on Alpha when the missile hit."

She motions at the sensor data.

"From this data it appears that there was no one aboard when the missile hit. I would wager that they all got aboard the Dvonn. They probably used the auto-pilot to send the boat away from the Dvonn. The Dvonn is much better armored then these boats. Perhaps they decided that they had a better chance of survival there?"

Zaedhrarrg looks at her, then the data, then at her again, still a little dubious. Julia, however, says, "Thank the Star," and looks somewhat cheered. "Okay Trelene. Keep trying to raise the Dvonn on the comm system. Zadherg, do you think you can keep us safe from these fighters for a few more minutes?"

Zaedhrarrg! "Yes, ma'm. Mind you, I would want to see exactly *how* long I can do it, but for a while, yes."

"Good. Trelene, see if you can get them to open Dvonn's hangar. If we can save this boat, I 'd like to. If you can't get them on comm, we'll dock at the airlock instead."