Season 2 Ep 1 Page 11

- Bridge –

After hearing the recorded message she turned to Sheela “Lieutenant get on sensors and locate that ship” she paused “ESS, that is pre Federation is it not Lieutenant?”

"Definitely not standard issue any more. The Frequency is so outdated that the radio modulation and transmitting frequency is crudely produced. Not as refined as standards to this day n age." Sheela spoke looking at the console that showed the frequency. "It's a viable frequency, but the impurity of manufacture of the resonating crystal makes it hard to digitalize from analogue."

“Thought so, Mr. Barker set the course for the heading Sheela gives you” She said to the Helmsman.

“yes Captain” He responded and got to work while they waited for Sheela to get the coordinates.

Despite her many eccentricities Sheela was good at her job and did not keep them waiting long.

"Vector 271 mark - 30 degrees." Sheela had already triangulated the source of the beacon. "Rendezvous point of crossing the source of the beacon's path is the optimum course. It has a drift rate of hundred meters per second. From our port to starboard."

Looking at the Mousian and nodding her thanks “got that Ensign?”

“Yes ma’am, setting heading maximum warp available upon your command” Barker said.

With that the ship came about and went to warp on the heading of the distress call. It was a good distance so maximum warp was required.

While the ship was en-route word came back from Sterling that they had a limited number of torpedoes and the last two Phaser inductor coils for the Phaser arrays and the last two Pulse cannon power coils had just been installed. Jasmine sent word back down to the main armoury telling Sterling to take some downtime and relax a bit; it will be sometime before they reach their destination. During the trip time Jasmine read some data on her PADD, when she felt a subtle engine change she looked up and saw the ship drop from warp and what greeted them was a drifting badly damaged NX Class Cruiser.

Jasmine looked at it, she saw massive battle damage that was a few hundred years old, one of this nacelles was holed, it had lost part of its deflector dish the section between the nacelles was also missing, how the distress call had not run out of power by now was a miracle, but there it was a piece of history.

Swivelling her chair around “Lieutenant Sheela see if you can detect any life signs or such” Jasmine said. Then to Donovan get a tractor beam on that ship and stabilize its spin” She said and Donovan nodded.

A few moments later....

Swivelling her chair around “Lieutenant Sheela see if you can detect any life signs or such” Jasmine said. Then to Donovan "get a tractor beam on that ship and stabilize its spin” She said and Donovan nodded.

Sheela moved to another station on the bridge to assist with the scanning of the derelict, along with the Science Officer. "There is organic material aboard the Derelict. In what passes for the ship's Infirmary."

When the report came back Jasmine looked at Sheela “Lieutenant get your EVA suit ready and your kit, you are on the away team, I will need you to pull the ships data recorder and see if you can download its databanks *pause* also meet me in transporter room one” She said.

Sheela gave a soft "squeak" and scampered back to her com's station. Did a quick check for any of her gear and snagged it to the disappointment of Donovan. She didn't even leave behind 'dime a dozen' usb cables she uses for her equipment t o connect to the ship's systems. But she left her com's console operating so that they could use it to zero in on the derelict.

Nodding as the Mousian left the bridge to get her stuff together she tapped her Commbadge =/\= Somers to Doctor Cahill =/\=

Tapping her Commbadge =/\= Cahill here Captain=/\=

=/\= Doctor Grab an advanced equipped med kit and meet me in transporter room one, also bring a sidearm and your EVA suit =/\=

=/\= Acknowledged Captain, I will meet you in transporter room one. =/\=

=/\= Affirmative Doctor see you in five minutes =/\= She said and disconnected from Cahill and made a connection to her XO. =/\= Somers to Sterling =/\=

- Main deflector control room -

Maia had left the bridge and went to supervise the adjustments on the main deflector dish, really just routine maintenance but it was quite delicate work. especially since the phase compensators needed to be re-calibrated after almost every scan. There was no way to automate this process with this equipment, but Maia and her team were already developing a calibration device that could be incorporated into the deflector dishes of the next class starship.

=/\= Somers to Sterling =/\=

=/\= Sterling here go ahead =/\=

=/\= Sorry to disrupt your downtime but you are needed on the bridge" =/\=

=/\= Acknowledged Captain I'm on my way =/\=

"Alright Sergeant Delany, duty calls again, please complete the recalibration then report to science lab two I have another job for you.."

"Aye Sir". Delany replied.

Maia foot padded it back to the bridge.

=/\= Affirmative Commander, Somers out =/\= with that she closed the line and looked at Donovan “Major with me, grab your EVA suit and side arm and meet me in transporter room one” She said.

“Aye Captain” Donovan responded and left the bridge.

Not long after Donovan had left Sterling arrived on the bridge, she looked at her XO “the bridge is yours Commander” Jasmine said.

"Commander Sterling reports as ordered Captain".

“Basically we have arrived at the source of the distress call and found out it is an old NX class ship and as to why I am going, One there is not clear and present danger and Two why should you have all the fun on away missions” She said with a smile.

"Understood captain, what's the plan?" Maia asked.

“Good, will see you in a bit” she said and left the bridge.

"Alright fair enough Captain, have fun. Yellow alert Maia ordered. Maintain combat battle stations".

With that Somers left the bridge in very capable hands.

- Transporter Room One –

Jasmine was last there she looked at the transporter chief “Got us a beam in zone Chief?” She asked as she got onto the transporter.

“Yes Sir, just outside Cargo bay one” She said.

“Good, you three ready?” She asked looking at her away team as she put her helmet on.

“I am good to go” Donovan said.

Sheela scampered to her den and grabbed her kit and equipment she would need for the trip across to the derelict. EVAC suit on but the visor was open till needed. She arrived at the designated transporter room.

Sheela nodded to the rest and closed up her EVAC suit as she took her place on the transporter pad.

The rest of the team arrives; she moves her gear into position and then finishes putting on her EVAC Suit. The order is given and we are sent to the derelict.

“Good, Energize Chief” She said and a moment later she had to adjust her footing “Activate mag boots” she said turning her magnetic soled boots on. “Okay where were those power signatures coming from?” She asked.

- Derelict -

Once fully materialized, Sheela took off like a shot out of the cannon as Somers voice followed behind her disappearing backside. She moved with practiced ease, zeroing on the location she needed to be.

Once on board Cahill pulls out her tri-corder and makes the scan. "The life forms are this way" She said as she moves to a door and it does not open. An Engineer comes over and opens the door so they could go through and then continued to follow the signs and to check for other survivors. There are several that were not so lucky and their decayed bodies were laying along the corridors.

We kept making our way to the point the life signs were coming from.

“Okay lets get to them then” Jasmine said leading the way.

Once fully materialized, Sheela took off like a shot out of the cannon as Somers voice followed behind her disappearing backside. She moved with practiced ease, zeroing on the location she needed to be.

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