11-21-2025, 02:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2025, 02:11 AM by Sebastian Cortez.)
Sebastian picked up on something that caught his attention, Lt. Ra’an said, "Type K planet, sir. Mostly carbon dioxide, very thin atmosphere. No sentient life as we know it," the Chief Science Officer explained. "The planet likely faced a major ecological event approximately 98,000 years ago that likely wiped out civilization. There are remnants of fossilized structures on the southern continent - they would have been large ones, mostly eroded at this point. No energy signatures whatsoever coming from the planet, no signs of a satellite network, no radio traffic."
A ship is sent out with Communications equipment to communicate with whom? Assuming that these were the remainder of a civilization destroyed by an ecological disaster, why worry about communicating? To whom were they communicating?
Sebastian then began a scan of Icarus III, he programmed the search parameters to look for large metallic structures on the surface of the planet, as well as any kind of Command and Control structures.
Everything was begging to fall into place, the story was practically writing it’s self, It all made sense now, A Civilization abuses its planets, through pollution or war or a biological weapon, they search the night skies for a new home, but their Scientists miscalculated how much longer they could survive on the surface, they assemble an explorer ship to go and check on the most likely habitable worlds, but to escape the misery on the surface the civilization moves underground to escape the harsh environment above ground, after 98,000 years there would be no satellite network, because there was no one to maintain the satellites, chances are they fell to the surface of the planet.
As Sebastian waited for the scan results to come back. He spoke to the officers on the Bridge, “Sirs, forgive me my enthusiasm, but I think I figured this out. Please, hear me out.
We won’t find any indications of a Satellite network, because after 98,000 years, the satellite orbits have decayed and have probably crashed back to the surface. Now, with the environment on the surface getting so harsh, the government decided to send out a ship to find them a new home, but I’m guessing, the lack of warp limited their search to their home system or the ones next to them. As the conditions on the surface continued to deteriorate the people moved underground.
If you take into consideration the sleeper ship's lack of sophisticated communication, chances are their satellites were probably primitive as well. By Federation's standards, the satellites may have told them there were planets outside their system, but they weren't certain these planets could sustain life. So they sent out the ship to investigate,” Said Sebastian.
Sebastian knew that this had to be the correct theory. He did enjoy a good mystery, and this one was shaping up to be a great one.
“Captain, I agree with Lt. Gath, board the ship, access their computer systems, find out what they are doing, make any repairs, but seeing how their ship isn’t in the best condition, might I suggest we go into a low orbit of Icarus III and see if there are any survivors underground,” Said Cortez, his voice even, his tone confident in his assessment.
== Tag All. ==
== GM Input, does Sebastian's scan find any crashed satellites on the surface?==
A ship is sent out with Communications equipment to communicate with whom? Assuming that these were the remainder of a civilization destroyed by an ecological disaster, why worry about communicating? To whom were they communicating?
Sebastian then began a scan of Icarus III, he programmed the search parameters to look for large metallic structures on the surface of the planet, as well as any kind of Command and Control structures.
Everything was begging to fall into place, the story was practically writing it’s self, It all made sense now, A Civilization abuses its planets, through pollution or war or a biological weapon, they search the night skies for a new home, but their Scientists miscalculated how much longer they could survive on the surface, they assemble an explorer ship to go and check on the most likely habitable worlds, but to escape the misery on the surface the civilization moves underground to escape the harsh environment above ground, after 98,000 years there would be no satellite network, because there was no one to maintain the satellites, chances are they fell to the surface of the planet.
As Sebastian waited for the scan results to come back. He spoke to the officers on the Bridge, “Sirs, forgive me my enthusiasm, but I think I figured this out. Please, hear me out.
We won’t find any indications of a Satellite network, because after 98,000 years, the satellite orbits have decayed and have probably crashed back to the surface. Now, with the environment on the surface getting so harsh, the government decided to send out a ship to find them a new home, but I’m guessing, the lack of warp limited their search to their home system or the ones next to them. As the conditions on the surface continued to deteriorate the people moved underground.
If you take into consideration the sleeper ship's lack of sophisticated communication, chances are their satellites were probably primitive as well. By Federation's standards, the satellites may have told them there were planets outside their system, but they weren't certain these planets could sustain life. So they sent out the ship to investigate,” Said Sebastian.
Sebastian knew that this had to be the correct theory. He did enjoy a good mystery, and this one was shaping up to be a great one.
“Captain, I agree with Lt. Gath, board the ship, access their computer systems, find out what they are doing, make any repairs, but seeing how their ship isn’t in the best condition, might I suggest we go into a low orbit of Icarus III and see if there are any survivors underground,” Said Cortez, his voice even, his tone confident in his assessment.
== Tag All. ==
== GM Input, does Sebastian's scan find any crashed satellites on the surface?==