08-20-2024, 11:52 PM
Qi watched as the captain swept the bridge with her flashlight. A delicate tension hung in the air, like static before lightning. The Franklin’s various stations and instruments cast strange long shadows. He thought back to a night in his misspent youth when he and Lumis had snuck into a science museum after dark. Under the harsh security lights, the familiar exhibits looked like they might wake up at any moment.
"Arwen, I want you to try and interface with the computers; anything you can tell us about where this ship was going, or how it got here, would be great." The captain said, examining a periscope that hung from the ceiling.
Qi nodded, stepping lightly. He was an intruder here, but he meant to harm. As he approached one of the consoles, a rectangular plaque clattered at his feet. He bent over to pick it up.
[HMCS Lord Franklin. Dreadnought-class SSBN. Launched 2040.]
Qi read the words aloud to the away team with wonder.
“Strange that this never came up in my research,” he added. “So it was presumably returned and converted for space travel some time between 2040 and its disappearance in 2155.”
Did this have anything to do with the ship’s disappearance? He didn’t see how. Not yet.
Qi wiped a layer of dust from one of the ship’s terminals. He liked the more tactile nature of older interfaces, though he’d never used one outside the holodeck. He hoped that that the ship’s computers had held up better than some of its other systems. Even if the terminals themselves didn’t work, he could download much of the data to his tricorder, provided it hadn’t degraded too badly.
== Tag Away Team
GM Input: what is Qi able to learn about the ship’s mission/most recent activity in the computers? ==
"Arwen, I want you to try and interface with the computers; anything you can tell us about where this ship was going, or how it got here, would be great." The captain said, examining a periscope that hung from the ceiling.
Qi nodded, stepping lightly. He was an intruder here, but he meant to harm. As he approached one of the consoles, a rectangular plaque clattered at his feet. He bent over to pick it up.
[HMCS Lord Franklin. Dreadnought-class SSBN. Launched 2040.]
Qi read the words aloud to the away team with wonder.
“Strange that this never came up in my research,” he added. “So it was presumably returned and converted for space travel some time between 2040 and its disappearance in 2155.”
Did this have anything to do with the ship’s disappearance? He didn’t see how. Not yet.
Qi wiped a layer of dust from one of the ship’s terminals. He liked the more tactile nature of older interfaces, though he’d never used one outside the holodeck. He hoped that that the ship’s computers had held up better than some of its other systems. Even if the terminals themselves didn’t work, he could download much of the data to his tricorder, provided it hadn’t degraded too badly.
== Tag Away Team
GM Input: what is Qi able to learn about the ship’s mission/most recent activity in the computers? ==