07-26-2024, 05:37 PM
==Gonna add an element of CO-GM on this post to keep us moving!==
With the away team returning and the Disreputable Damsel cut loose with what sounded like a stern talking-to, Jenny was free to put the next steps into action. What had started as a simple charting mission had already been complicated by the shadowing Cardassian, but the distress call had added yet another spanner in the works, and she was not looking forward to her debrief once they finally arrived at Starbase 214. Crossing the border without permission would have been an act of war against the Talarians, but that was a fight the Yeager could have easily won; it was the Cardassian occupying force that still concerned her.
It's not like they'll need an excuse to come in guns blazing, even if they weren't dealing with a convicted pirate...
The biggest issue they were going to have was that the Os'rusa was still actively pinging them with its sensors; that worked both ways, as it meant the Yeager also knew where the Cardassians were, but it also meant they couldn't do anything sneaky. With the probe deployed, they could carry on with their legitimate charting mission while also effecting the rescue, so long as they were outside of sensor range of the Os'rusa.
Or we could use the probe as a dupe, but there's no telling how long that'll hold up...
An urgent chirping signal sounded from the Tactical and Science consoles; Jenny's own repeater confirmed what the two other officers were being told, the Os'rusa had disengaged her sensors and seemingly just vanished. No signs of power surges or other phenomena that might indicate a ship in distress were detected, leading Jenny to believe they had simply "gone silent" to surreptitiously observe the Yeager. It would be a shame if they didn't have anything to look at.
"Mister Qi, I need you to reprogram that probe to mimic our energy signature. T'Lari, shut down our transponder and all running lights. Theresa, just in case they don't buy our probe, I want you to take us to Warp Seven on any heading you want for one minute. Then drop us out of warp, turn us around, and activate the Slipstream Drive to get us to that distress signal."
As her crew went about their duties, Jenny once again needed to address her Chief Engineer.
"Bridge to Engineering; Altairi, I need you to disguise or mask our energy signature. It doesn't have to be a perfect, just make us look like anything but a Federation starship."
==Qi: the system was safe to enter, with no major environmental hazards.==
With the away team returning and the Disreputable Damsel cut loose with what sounded like a stern talking-to, Jenny was free to put the next steps into action. What had started as a simple charting mission had already been complicated by the shadowing Cardassian, but the distress call had added yet another spanner in the works, and she was not looking forward to her debrief once they finally arrived at Starbase 214. Crossing the border without permission would have been an act of war against the Talarians, but that was a fight the Yeager could have easily won; it was the Cardassian occupying force that still concerned her.
It's not like they'll need an excuse to come in guns blazing, even if they weren't dealing with a convicted pirate...
The biggest issue they were going to have was that the Os'rusa was still actively pinging them with its sensors; that worked both ways, as it meant the Yeager also knew where the Cardassians were, but it also meant they couldn't do anything sneaky. With the probe deployed, they could carry on with their legitimate charting mission while also effecting the rescue, so long as they were outside of sensor range of the Os'rusa.
Or we could use the probe as a dupe, but there's no telling how long that'll hold up...
An urgent chirping signal sounded from the Tactical and Science consoles; Jenny's own repeater confirmed what the two other officers were being told, the Os'rusa had disengaged her sensors and seemingly just vanished. No signs of power surges or other phenomena that might indicate a ship in distress were detected, leading Jenny to believe they had simply "gone silent" to surreptitiously observe the Yeager. It would be a shame if they didn't have anything to look at.
"Mister Qi, I need you to reprogram that probe to mimic our energy signature. T'Lari, shut down our transponder and all running lights. Theresa, just in case they don't buy our probe, I want you to take us to Warp Seven on any heading you want for one minute. Then drop us out of warp, turn us around, and activate the Slipstream Drive to get us to that distress signal."
As her crew went about their duties, Jenny once again needed to address her Chief Engineer.
"Bridge to Engineering; Altairi, I need you to disguise or mask our energy signature. It doesn't have to be a perfect, just make us look like anything but a Federation starship."
==Qi: the system was safe to enter, with no major environmental hazards.==