4/16/2211 Conspiracy Theories

[dragoner]

"Leon, keep the scout between you and the Cyprus, Grack, Strelok, get out of here, fast."

OOC:

by dragoner » 07 Jun 2019, 15:53

There is not much time for more than a cursory search, crew stateroom 2 has a comm console

Hand-held?

Desk top.

"Roger that" Leon replies to Zhenya and manoeuvres the Star. "How are you getting on with jump coordinates" he asks Carlson. "This is going to be tight"

So now the 'Star is no longer docked and tethered?

[vonPilsner]

Elton, in searching area A6, finds a stateroom outfitted as a sick bay, everything appears standard, an autodock maybe slightly newer than the one they have on the 'Star, before he leaves though, one thing different does catch his eye, some boxes with alien writing on them, examining the box he finds they have an object similar to an epipen pen-like injector; where there is a sticker on the box from Apollo Corp, and their sun logo: "Trauma Medichines" with the description of medical nanites of alien manufacture (maybe from Juliana/Anterra/Wolf 46?), the instructions seem to indicate that the pens will simulate at least a medikit first aid situation, if not more, also warning that they are not fully tested. The medichines are rated for all sophonts of the human sphere, at least carbon based life-forms. There are 12 pens, one full box of 10, and a partial box of 2.

Grab the medipens and head back to our ship.
"I think it's time to be going..., I found their sick bay, too bad we don't have time to salvage the autodoc..."

[Bindoner]

Aware of the time pressure Zhenya will try to access and copy ( video of the screen at least if connection and download will take too long ) any files accessible on the comm console before dashing for to the 'Star as fast as possible.

[Bindoner]

Comms roll ?

Bindoner rolled 2d6 and got a total of 8:
3, 5

[dragoner]

Zhenya can pull up the last orders: "After delivery of diplomatic pouch, do sweep for Panther Class pirate ship."

Back on the 'Star, what next for everyone?

[Taki117]

Kuerzu frowns as he looks over the situation, the crew slowly coming aboard. "Take your stations. Best speed for jump. We can't stay here." he orders, still processing the recent excitement.

[vonPilsner]

Elton boards, "Captain, I found these (and presents box of 10 injectibles to Captain) They are new tech, nano-tech actually.... Supposed to be like first aid in a shot... We should all carry one until we find another Doc. If you don't mind, I'd like to keep these two (holding two in hand) as I have been called accident prone in the past." The tension of the boarding action has is wearing off and Elton manages a wan smile as he finishes, "reporting for duty."
Waits to see if the captain has a reply, and then heads for the laser turret control station, still in vacc suit.

[hardrocks]

Calson is ready with a jump solution, "All crew to jump stations" (assuming we are detached from the Scout Ship)

[Taki117]

Kuerzu nods to Elton. "Good find. Stow them at your station and we'll issue them when we complete our jump." He says, now worried about how much fuel they have, and whether the ship can hold together for another jump.

[dragoner]

Calson is ready with a jump solution, "All crew to jump stations" (assuming we are detached from the Scout Ship)

Kuerzu nods to Elton. "Good find. Stow them at your station and we'll issue them when we complete our jump." He says, now worried about how much fuel they have, and whether the ship can hold together for another jump.

As everyone races back aboard to get strapped in, Leon fires the engines with a massive flare of a fusion torch, the 'Star leaping to distance in a few seconds, thrust pushing everyone back into their acceleration couches momentarily before the inertial compensation of the grav field catches up. Activating the jump drive, a wormhole opens for the 'Star, Cal plotting a course and Leon piloting through. In transit through the Einstein-Rosen Bridge type wormhole, there is a sort of abnormal gravitational wave feedback that causes the 'Star to shudder violently, with it's frame groaning. Precipitating back into normal space, it takes the 'Star time to calibrate how much objective time has passed versus subjective time, due to the differing velocities of the wormhole mouths. The scene is quite changed from Theta Persei, a bright F type star to Gliese 96, a dimmer red M type. The main world, Martinek (C200265-9 M Ni Lo Va 123 M1V), a colony of the North Vijayan Empire on Delta Trianguli, is mostly a military outpost defending the approaches to Delta Trianguli. The system is dominated by 3 inner Gas Giant, with Martinek a cold planetoid orbiting 6.55 AU out from the primary.

After various computations, the fuel readings update to 166 tons, -24 tons from leaving the surface of Aurelius; and the clocks add 5 days to objective time, it is now Sunday the 21st, 2211.

[Bindoner]

"This is a good place to sort some things out, the Starport here is basic, the Tech is mediocre. We might be able to Jump out to a point hidden by the furthest Gas Giant, slip in behind it. With luck any observer will think we have left the system, and we can hide in the Giant's shadow. Sort through the incriminating cargo, take what is useful. The rest we can jettison as we make our approach to skim fuel, feed the evidence to the Giant."