The Long Journey Home

[Arthur Campbell]

As flattering as it would be Mr Moretti I don't feel I should take all the credit. Truth be told I hadn't considered the possibility of such exotic materials in the wreckage. If not for your comment about rock structures I probably would have dismissed the material as junk. I insist you take the credit, anyone could have extracted this element from this sample. The genius was the idea to look, and that was you sir.


Arthur packed up his tools and kaboom fell eagerly in to step beside him, at least Arthur assumed he was eager.

Besides I have no use reputation or prestige in my line of work. You on the other hand will benefit greatly. I'll leave the samples of the element with you and let you deliver the report on what little we found here, do what you will Mr Moretti.


With that Arthur left and headed out. Eventually he ended up at the mess hall. He grabbed a tray of food he sat down at a random table and started scribbling on his notepad in between mouthfuls. All the while kaboom whirred and rolled around his feet observing the goings on of the canteen.

Spoiler

Before heading to the canteen Arthur will stop by the armoury looking for Meia, if she's not there he'll look around on the pretense of looking for her but is eager to assess how secure it is in terms of locks and cameras. He'll also look for a pen or similar small object that may be lying on Meia's desk, that I assume she has. rolls in case needed
(perception:flat pass) (Investigation: one degree of success) (Larceny: flat pass)
If she is there, he'll have a conversation about her water bomb alarm clock thing

 

[Aleksandra Zhukov]

She finished up her mouthful and said "Well one of the things I was thinking is that if that 'ship' is the only other source of paksis energy out here would we be able to track it? I think that'd be a step in the right direction. And yes I can see that there is no way we can stop using paksis but it might be worth running a few more tests to see if we can get predictable results. If not we'll just have to inform command that any use of it will have to be a calculated risk which isn't the end of the world."

She paused thoughtfully for a moment.

"Though, from personal experience I can say that making command decisions with volatile variables is not fun." she said a little wistfully.

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Olga looked up at ghost and smiled "Well it is a shame that s s s s s SAsAsAs errrerrr" Her image froze up and began flickering violently and the message [ERROR 6174 UINDENTIFIED ERROR] Flashes beneath her figure.

 

['Ghost']

Turning back to look at Olga after the error report, Ghost opens up a link to Aleksandra.

Private Zhukova, Olga has frozen up and is currently displaying the error message 6714 unidentified error. Our current position is the sports hall. I'm not sure there's anything I can do to help, but if there is let me know.

He knew how to reboot, and enact minor repairs on Sarah. Whether this was the same between VIs, but he would never want anyone to damage Sarah further. Knowing that, he had no intention of possibly damaging Olga further.

 

[Universal_narration]

Hanger bay

"Away we go!" Sarah hooks up one of the escort ships with the subject and gets permission to launch. She sends the ship out to fly beside the wanderer in autopilot mode.

The cube starts to hum quietly in holder Sarah has placed it. It slowly starts spinning on the spot and begins to sound like it is making a pattern in both it spinning and the humming.

"Ohhh it's moving, I wonder why that is?"

Arthur

Spoiler

You find her desk easy enough and there are several pens, a few notes and a clip board left on the desk. The rest of the weapons and armour are behind the desk in locked cages and have sensors on them with cameras all about the place. Most of the security systems are pointing at the armaments more than her desk, so discreetly doing something at her desk doesn't seem to give too much away.

Research Cupboard

Spoiler

Moving to PMs

Raymond following girls, trial 1 of ?

Ezra sits down in her designated seat and brings up the control console. She starts to work while replying to your questions. "I'm from Japan, Clarissa is from England. I'm sure you'd like to ask us more than that now. How about this, how does it feel to be lost in space?"

The conversation is overheard by Bart sitting in the cockpit, he swings his chair around to look at the 3 having a conversation and waves. "Heya there Raymond, how's it going? Right now 'it's quiet.. too quiet.'" Bart starts to make shifty eye motions across the bridge making it seem overly dramatic.

Sports hall

OOC: Just a note Olga hasn't been disabled in any way just 'hurt' as it were.

Fedor clasps his hands together. "You sure are a flatterer, shall we start with bicep curls and forward chops with some weights. I do not presume I can match your prowess my friend. Though I will try to keep up in reps with at least the weights I can manage." Fedor smiles with anticipation and starts preparing some weights for the two of them.

Most of the Starseeker members present look oddly at Alexander, some giving him a thumbs up others just shaking their heads and continuing to do their workouts. Two of them stop their workouts and join Fedor though they are just looking on for the moment. Seemingly interested in what is going to happen.

Mess hall

Arthur arrives at the mess hall seeing a few members of starseeker milling about but also sees Aleksandra talking to Meia and another girl he hasn't met before.

Tami places her arms on the table and leans forward a bit. "Well tracking the ship is easy, we can detect paksis energies just fine. I didn't bother scanning for it when the fighting start as I had assumed we wouldn't encounter life like that using the same technology. We could definitely run a few tests on the Paksis core though it will be hard to stress test it as producing random results during travel will not make the bridge happy. Perhaps we can do experiments when the ship comes to a complete halt."

J.D Tsuba and Hans walk in a few moments later and sit down to discuss while they eat.

"The system that is near us has about 6 planets. Of those 3 are far too hot and/or have a very poor stratosphere. They are unlikely to yield anything beneficial to us. The other three places seem to be better. One planet which is relatively far away from the star of the system still manages to have water though most is frozen solid. Odd currents of an ocean built on ice caps. Though it will be enough to sustain life. Another has a continent not unlike Pangaea was way back in the Triassic period of Earth. That should produce something fortuitous though likely is filled with life that might be dangerous. If Earth was able to produce Dinosaurs on such a place I wonder what a planet out here would do. The last planet has a few radio signals coming form it, that would suggest advanced life forms, though we know that those robots operate near this area so it could be a forward base. All the planets I think could yield something beneficial to us, it is just a matter of opportunity cost." Hans strokes his chin while he has a think of the possibilities.

Tactics room

The numbers and the positioning of the enemy ships compared to how well they could have maneuvered seemed to suggest this was an attack of opportunity. It was too disorganized to by an ambush. There was very little background noise anywhere recorded but there was radio waves detected between each of the robots though since there is little on the wanderer to pick up the frequency of those communications there is little to go on. However there was something pulsing microwaves from the ships themselves though it was a constant wavelength.

 

[Mikhail Zhukov]

Something slightly sinister appeared in Mikhail's grin.

Output still negative across the board. Probably just booting up, give it some time. He paused for a second.Sarah put us in a drift I will keep an eye on the manual override in case our guest decides to misbehave.

Mikhail continued observing the screens connected to the adapter, talking without shifting his attention away.

How are the coms? Are they threatening us with martial tribunal yet?

 

[Aleksandra Zhukov]

"I think that would be a good place to start I-" Aleksandra was cut of buy her communicator going off. She paused for a second to listen to the the transmission. "I'll be right there sir."

She turned to the two women. "I'm very sorry ladies I'll have to cut this short It seems something has befallen my other VI. I'd love to do this again some time, message me whenever." She waved briefly and dashed off to the sports centre.

When she arrived she saluted as Briefly as propriety would allow and then began to look over her spasmodically flashing VI, Ula watched on apparently shocked and terrified. "Sir please tell me in full what happened." Aleksandra said calmly and sternly.

 

[Alexander Bauhdric]

Alexander nods to Fedor, a smile on his lips.

"That is no problem, my friend. It is the effort, not the power, that counts. These muscles I possess would be worthless if not for the willpower and drive that I sharpen them with."

He moved over to the weights rack, picking up several dumbbells, judging their weight as he went down the racks, before settling for some nearer the heavier end.

"Ah! Lets start with some muscle-toning them. Low weight, high reps; that will challenge us both equally!"

He smiled, picking up his weights; a set of dumbbells that were probably too heavy for most of Starseeker, but he picks them up with relative ease. Nodding his head to the members of Starseeker who had stopped to watch him, he then proceeded to start pumping metal, grunting as his muscles flexed, a sheen of sweat covering his shoulders and back as worked out

OOC: Will edit this post with dice-rolls for an upper-body strength check when I get to Amy's; she can verify my rolling there.

 

['Ghost']

Turning to Aleksandra....

Nothing, I dismounted from the bars. Olga floated nearby and started talking to me, after I asked her why she had come to see me she froze up like that. The only time I've seen such reactions in Sarah is during breaching attempts of her AI, but there should be no hostile signals nearby, at least if there was we'd know about it from the bridge. I'm certainly not carrying anything that might disrupt the AI of a VI.

As usual his face set in stone, not a flicker of emotion. As he speaks though his eyes move away from Aleksandra's and he starts to survey the surroundings.
[MENTION=6699115]Universal_narration[/MENTION]

Spoiler

Can I see any evidence of my friend about? Or anything that might indicate the ghost, beast or whatever the hell it is XD

 

[Ray_Ray]

Rey hummed, forwarding the data to the necessary people as she looked around... in her haste she hadn't actually checked if anyone else was around.

 

[Ray Ray]

"Ah,yeah, you heard about that too... I'm a big boy, soldiers are prepared for this eventuality,ey?" He was lying through his teeth. He'd had enough reservations about taking this mission in the first place, now they were stuck here for a while...perhaps forever.

He snapped out of his thought trail as he heard Bart, ears perking up.

"The Lucky Texan, John Wayne, 1934? 'Where ya headed, cowboy?' it was quiet before we got here I take it, ey?"