Teeth of Eridonus - log transcripts

darthhorvath

Introductory Episode

[7:07] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <Intro> It has been several days since Kl’vok assisted in the activation of SANEK Array, counterpart of Starfleet’s MIDAS. The vessel is still in the vicinity providing final assistance before it++
[7:09] [Local] Thorgar@photis: ++before it departs for Eridon Nebula. The crew and ‘external collaborators’ have gathered in the ship’s mess hall, where fresh gagh, bloodwine and other Klingon and Imperial-client delicacies are++
[7:09] [Local] Thorgar@photis: ++served.
[7:10] D’Krane@Shadow1710 | Compared to some of the other Klingons, D’Krane Mozh of House Kretzhana is not a man to celebrate war and battle with the infamous revelary known to beat within most Klingons. Despite>
[7:11] D’Krane@Shadow1710 < a prosperous career in the KDF, he kept himself to himself and barely touched his bloodwine, he just tapped his glass of Raktajino and looked troubled…
[7:11] Zahnithri@amyclaren has been avoiding the food since arriving in the mess hall earlier, though she seems to be determined to find the bottom of the barrel of bloodwine by herself… and yet does not seem affected >
[7:12] D’Krane@Shadow1710 (His personal canteen filled with creamy Raktajino*
[7:12] Zahnithri@amyclaren || by the alcohol. Probably something to do with the amount of metal that sticks out of her skin.
[7:13] Thorgar@photis looks around the gathered crowd, nodding to each one as they would enter the mess hall and would gesture to the table.
[7:13] Lakara@isabeldawn takes a deep, heavy chug of her bloodwine - Only the third cup she’d drained tonight. Unlike the others, the woman was a bit more agressive. Though bearin the mark of a captain, she also bore the -
[7:13] Ginora@datguyyoulike had been looking over a PADD, occasionally looking at Thorgar in case he was about to say something.
[7:13] Lakara@isabeldawn - the seal of the ship’'s house, implying the warrior had a different reason for being aboard the vessel. She seems unbothered by the politics at play, drinking and eating quite heftily.
[7:15] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Siblings in arms and science… and any other venerable craft you may possess, I welcome you aboard the vessel Kl’vok.”
[7:16] Zahnithri@amyclaren raises her mug at Thorgar, sloshing bloodwine out of it onto the table and floor. It’s the polite thing to do, after all.
[7:17] Thorgar@photis he leans with one arm on the table, with other he places ha kur’leth in front of him, dropping it with a slight clank.
[7:17] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would give a curt nod to Thorgar and then raises his still full tankard of bloodwine in greeting. “We are honoured to be aboard Captain Thorgar.”
[7:18] [Local] Eva@darkelf2×1: follows D’Krane’s lead and raises her mug
[7:18] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Very spacious. *She nods and takes another deep drink before putting it on the table. She keeps her arms on the table though and peers across them, curious.
[7:20] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Thank you”, he says briefly and chins to the weapon. "This ship and this kur’leth are only two things from my father’s legacy after he and many of my family were betrayed by the Mad Emperor and his++
[7:21] [Local] Thorgar@photis: worm Aakar", he says and spits aside. “But I intend to honour my father’s scientific legacy and continue his dream - prove that the frontier can be conquered by science as well as by blade.”
[7:24] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would raise an eyebrow and leans on his chair. “And this conquest begins with the SANEK Array?”
[7:24] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Hah! I think have that one covered.
[7:25] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Should any of you have any doubts and turn away, I will not hold it against you or your honour. There are many paths to Sto-vo-kor, after all”, he says and turns to D’Krane. "SANEK Array is++
[7:26] Zahnithri@amyclaren shrugs. “I’m being paid. I don’t leave a job undone while I’m under contract.”
[7:26] [Local] Thorgar@photis: is Empire’s response to Federation and their bragging MIDAS Array. But yes, it is our starting position. From here we shall venture into Eridon Nebula which has remained neglected by the Empire for++
[7:26] [Local] Thorgar@photis: ++too long and is ripe for seizing whatever riches it may hide."
[7:27] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would frown at Zahnithri’s words. D’Krane may be an introvert but he knows better than to take on a task just because there is payment involved.
[7:28] Thorgar@photis turns to Lakara. “Lakara, daughter of Temir, of House Krotak, patron of this vessel, would like to address us before I proceed further?”
[7:30] Lakara@isabeldawn peers up at Thorgar and shakes her head. "You don’t seem the type to need an inspirational speech. I’l be here on the opening steps of your voyage to see what value a science ship can offer here -
[7:30] Ginora@datguyyoulike passes a glance to the partially borgified klingon woman for a moment, then back to Thorgar.
[7:30] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: - on the frontier.
[7:31] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Such a vessel will require an Engineer. I, D’Krane Mozh of House Kretzhana will be glad to assist Captain Lakara.”
[7:32] [Local] Eva@darkelf2×1: her combadge chirps. “Excuse me. I must take my leave”
[7:32] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: I appreciate it, D’krane, but you adress it to the wrong person. She smirks wryly over at him, visibly amused before nodding back to Thorgar Though I command a warship, I am here to observe on -
[7:32] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: - behalf of the house. Mind that means I’l still be getting my paws dirty.
[7:32] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: But if you’re offering your services, Captain Thorgar is the one to talk to.
[7:33] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Then, D’Krane, son of Mozh, you are welcome to be the Engineer on this journey. Lady Zahnithri, did I understand correctly you will be with your own support vessel?”
[7:34] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would chuckle briefly.
[7:34] Zahnithri@amyclaren shakes her head. “I will remain aboard your vessel for the duration. My vessel will remain nearby for cover, if needed.”
[7:35] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: I am more useful where I can be hands-on, rather than over a comm link."
[7:35] D’Krane@Shadow1710 notes the leaving of the starfleet officer and hummed before shrugging and focusing on the others.
[7:36] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “If it is okay with you Captain i’d find myself most useful on a sensors station, come the time.”
[7:36] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “For those who don’t know me here, I am Zahnithri of no House, an engineer, tinkerer, and ‘salvage creation and procurement specialist’.”
[7:36] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Hmm…”
[7:38] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “An out-of-the-box officer”, nods to Zahnihri. “This will be useful”, then turns to Ginora. “Very well, Ginora, your skills be useful there.”
[7:39] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “D’Krane, you wish to address us?”
[7:41] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would stand up and shakes his head. “I do not have anything important to address other than what I have already said Captain. I only await for your word.”
[7:42] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Then…”, he looks across the gathered crowd. “If no doubts worry you now, I suggest we return to the bridge and get underway”, he nods firmly.
[7:43] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: I look forward to seeing what this crew can do, Captain Thorgar.
[7:43] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “As am I, Lady Lakara.”
[7:43] Zahnithri@amyclaren nods and follows the group, dunking her mug in the bloodwine once more on the way out and bringing it with her.
[7:43] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “It shall be a glorious day indeed!”
[7:44] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would then lean over to whisper something into Thorgar’s ear.
[7:44] Thorgar@photis listens with attention.
[7:44] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: I doubt it. We’re so close to our borders, any real threat should have been picked up by stationary arrays! …But space IS weird. We’ve been surprised before. Who knows.
[7:44] Ginora@datguyyoulike stands and stretches, folding up her PADD and putting it into a pouch.
[7:45] [Tell] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Raktz was my father, Mozh is just part of my name.”
[7:45] D’Krane@Shadow1710 takes a moment to look at Ginora, noting the Cardassian carefully.
[7:46] Thorgar@photis nods to D’Krane. “I stand corrected, son of Raktz.”
[7:46] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would nod in agreement, clearly he’s used to such a mistake.
[7:49] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “I am sure you will manage regardless.”
[7:50] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “I’ve already have, I’ve done so for decades.”
[7:50] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Good. Let us get to work then.”
[7:50] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Apologies Captain.”
[7:51] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> With all of them at their respective posts, Kl’vok issues orders and instructions to get ship going, setting course for Eridon Nebula. Within an hour they cross into the area itself, sensors++
[7:51] [Local] Thorgar@photis: working at their full collecting data.
[7:52] D’Krane@Shadow1710 ponders the situation.
[7:53] Lakara@isabeldawn peers about the bridge to supervise the consoles of the crewmembers, particularly Thorgar’s regular crew. As a combat captain, she’s particularly attentive to the tactical display.
[7:53] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> The vessel and everyone onboard shudder and main sensors, operated by Ginora, sound off.
[7:53] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: I don’t suppose we’l be lucky enough to find a planet full of xenotech infested by Humans like we did in the T’ong nebula..
[7:54] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Likely not, Lak…”, he says as he is interrupted by the slight shaking.
[7:54] Ginora@datguyyoulike cracks her knuckles, looking over the sensor controls and preparing to make use of them.
[7:54] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: That is unfortunate.
[7:54] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Humans on a lost world? Colony ship?”
[7:55] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “I bet the Enterprise was involved.”
[7:55] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Aye, they thought it wise to colonize near Imperial space for some reason! Her lips twist into a little smile Surprisingly reasonable though, I’l give them that.
[7:55] Zahnithri@amyclaren snorts. That ship was a menace.
[7:55] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: They wern’t affiliated with the Federation. We are working on “pursuading” them into a vassalage agreement.
[7:56] D’Krane@Shadow1710 | In equal amounts of attention as Lakara, D’Krane operates the Engineering Station.
[7:57] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Captain, there is an irregularity in the warp field.”
[7:58] Zahnithri@amyclaren frowns and brings up D’Krane’s display on her own console so she can see the issue for herself.
[7:58] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “It seems our warp field is destablising each time we’re bumped.”
[7:58] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “It’s a field of micro-singularities, half a light year in every direction in front of us, Captain. I imagine that would be what is disrupting the warp.”
[7:58] Zahnithri@amyclaren just leans over to look at D’Krane’s display like she’s actually paying attention to what’s around her.

[8:00] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Micro-singularities”, he repeats. “Likely causing an intertial effect… almost like a bump at superluminal speeds.”
[8:00] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Interesting. Captain, I suggest dropping to impulse to take the strain off of the warp drive. And to investigate."
[8:01] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Micro-singularities..Is that a natural phenomena?The woman asks with a frown. She wasn’t a scientist, and sometimes it shows
[8:01] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> The frequency and the intensity of ‘bumps’ seem to increase a little every minute or so.
[8:01] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would tap away at his console, attempting to stablise and adjust the field.
[8:01] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “It could be, but when someone says ‘singularity’ I immediately think ‘Romulan fuckery’.”
[8:02] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “I believe they are. I read somewhere that they were theoretical quite a long time ago.”
[8:02] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “I am attempting to adjust the field but Zahnithri’s suggestion may help prevent a field collapse.”
[8:04] Zahnithri@amyclaren ’s console chimes, and she checks it before speaking up again. "The Nilgera is reporting similar issues to ours, and is coming out of warp now. It seems the size of this vessel is shielding >
[8:04] Thorgar@photis nods to D’Krane and Zahn. “Very well. Drop us out of warp and proceed at half impulse.”
[8:04] Zahnithri@amyclaren || us from the effects, but they are more pronounced on the smaller ships with us."
[8:05] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Hmm… They’re similar to the singularities you’d expect of a romulan ship… But I do not believe them to be artifical.”
[8:06] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Zahnithri, have Nilgera align sensor systems with ours, that way we can gain information from delays in effects, given the distance between our ships.”
[8:06] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “There’s a bit of a blanket of tetryon radiation as well which is why they may be natural.”
[8:06] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Hrm. Might that mean something of interest is nearby?
[8:06] Zahnithri@amyclaren checks her readouts. “Similar, but tiny. I have not seen this effect occur naturally from a Romulan vessel before.”
[8:06] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: <FX> With D’Krane’s suggestions, the Helm drops the ship out of warp and begins to proceed at Half Impulse.*
[8:09] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Ginora, attempt to realign our lateral sensor array for tetryon radiation. That may provide us a more accurate mapping. And share the data with Nilgera.”
[8:09] Zahnithri@amyclaren nods and sends a message to the Nilgera to begin sensor sweeps. “Captain, initial readings indicate that the phenomenon is proportional to the size of the warp bubble of the affected vessel.”
[8:09] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Can do.”
[8:10] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Nilgera is launching warp probes for further data.”
[8:10] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Kl’vok continues to move forward, ‘bumps’ still occurring but barely noticable."
[8:10] Ginora@datguyyoulike a finger across the console, carefully modifying the sensors for the present radiation, then begins another scan.
[8:10] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “I’m having Engineering Teams moniter all decks for any anomalous ‘bumps’ on our journey.”
[8:11] [STORP.ORG] Thorgar@photis: Zahn, this will be difficulty 1, give me one d20 roll on Discord.
[8:12] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: ((18))
[8:12] [STORP.ORG] Thorgar@photis: Ginora, also give me one d20
[8:12] [STORP.ORG] Ginora@datguyyoulike: 7. Woe.
[8:13] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “D’Krane, can you make any compensatory adjustments to minimze the bumps?”
[8:13] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Already looking into it, It may take five minutes.”
[8:14] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Nilgera’s probes seem to map out tetryon radiation across the region in long range, avoiding many of bumps. Ginora’s attempts are met by “stuborness” of sensory system, but she can at least++
[8:15] [Local] Thorgar@photis: ++confirm what probes have found - the whole region is teeming with microsingularities - they grow denser and bigger as the vessels proceed deeper, as if someone poked spacetime with a pencil++
[8:16] [Local] Thorgar@photis: ++letting subspace particles like tetryons “leak” into normal space. <FX-end>
[8:16] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Curious..Most curious. I’m no scientist, but what are the chances that this is artificially generated?
[8:17] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Imperfect. Hm. It’s almost like they’re fighting us being present.”
[8:17] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “D’Krayne. From what I am seeing in these sensor scans, the bumps are caused by the tetryons leaking into real space, rather than the singularities themselves. Do you concur?”
[8:18] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Considering how the Engineering Teams are complaining like they’re fighting the Borg, I’m not surprised.”
[8:18] Thorgar@photis turns to Lakara. “You suspect someone… mined the area with subspace anomalies?”
[8:19] Zahnithri@amyclaren cocks an eyebrow at the comment.
[8:19] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “If you and Ginora can find a pattern to these anomalies, Engineering will owe you a crate of bloodwine.”
[8:19] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “The technology to do so is theoretical, but the theory -is- sound.”
[8:20] Thorgar@photis rubs his chin. “Which of the known species handle tetryon particles and energies well?”
[8:20] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Hmm…not many.”
[8:21] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “If we are able to rotate shield modulation so that the tetryons slide off rather than impact directly… and that would be Tholians, Captain.”
[8:21] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> The ‘bumpness’ is increasing almost as if they were at Warp 1, though they clearly weren’t.
[8:21] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Though they tend to close such anomalies, rather than utilize them.”
[8:22] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: It could be that. It could also be a discovery instead.
[8:22] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: A dyson sphere. Or a space station or derelict of an unknown civilization.
[8:22] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: A new phenomena..
[8:22] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Hirogen as well, I believe. This could be a way to slow vessels so that they can board them.”
[8:22] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: All I am saying is it might be worth investigating if these singularities emenate from somewhere.
[8:22] Lakara@isabeldawn is not impressed.
[8:22] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “I doubt the Hirogen would have an interest into this outside of hunting Zahnithri.”
[8:23] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I agree. This could be a devastating weapon for the Empire to use against her enemies.”
[8:23] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “The borg as well but we are rather far away from them.”
[8:23] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “For Hirogen, it would be something new of a approach”, he says to Zahn. “D’Krane, your thoughts on shield rotation as Zahnithri proposed?”
[8:23] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Not as far as you might think, Cardassian.”
[8:23] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Ginora, make a long range scan for Tholian vessels.”
[8:24] D’Krane@Shadow1710 frowns at the increased ‘bump’ and starts to growl. “It’s risky but I’d rather not have another bump like that again.”
[8:24] Ginora@datguyyoulike begins a scan for Tholian vessels, slowly expanding the range.
[8:25] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Believe me if there were borg present, there’d be far more signs than these anomalies.”
[8:25] Thorgar@photis nods. “Very well, you two work the algorithm for the shield rotation based on the data thus far.”
[8:25] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Ginora, We have an Ex-Borg right here.”
[8:26] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Anyway…”
[8:26] Zahnithri@amyclaren turns back to her console, tapping away.
[8:26] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would get onto his console, co-ordinating with Zahnithri to make adjustments.
[8:27] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Yes, you are always closer than you are comfortable with. I am aware of this.”
[8:27] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Reminds me of voles, really.”
[8:28] Zahnithri@amyclaren answers even as she works with shield power distribution numbers. “Voles are delicious. They should not be blamed for the Union’s complete lack of culinary talent.”
[8:29] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Both capable and hard-working, D’Krane and Zahnithri work in concerto to find an algorithm, but simulations fail to produce anything viable for now. The results to spit out something interesting+
[8:29] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Zahnithri! Focus!”
[8:30] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: "I was referring to more their everpresence, you hardly cook anything to begin with seeing as it’s normally consumed live. In any case, there are no signs of tholians, though I do detect some <c>
[8:30] [Local] Thorgar@photis: +though… tetryon particles live slightly longer than usual and their quantum resonance signature - the fundemantal vibration of existence - is different from that of our universe.
[8:30] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …Kind of large object, with increased microsingularities and radiation the closer you get to it."
[8:31] Lakara@isabeldawn moves over to the nearby tactical console, bringing up a star map of nearby areas. She wasn’t trying to scan for anything - She was trying to bring up the long range telemitry to see which planets-
[8:31] Lakara@isabeldawn - had been deemed mineral rich or potentially hosting life.
[8:32] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: From everything I am seeing here, these are tetryons… but not as we know them? They are different enough that our shields aren’t able to fully maintain modulation on impact."
[8:33] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Within the range Lakara is searching, there should be three planetary systems. Emphasize on ‘should’.
[8:34] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Most confusing”, Thorgar says to Zahn and D’Krane then turns to Ginora. “Bring it on screen.”
[8:34] D’Krane@Shadow1710 would frown at the numbers and the simulations before he brings them onto the main screen.
[8:34] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “This is more alien than the Federation…”
[8:35] D’Krane@Shadow1710 - Or he brings up his findings to the mainscreen alongside Ginora’s results.
[8:35] Lakara@isabeldawn lets out a thoughtful grumble. Turning to the ship’s sensors, she directs the tactical sensors in the direction of the three planetary systems..To see if the ship’s own sensors line up with -
[8:35] Lakara@isabeldawn - telemetry.
[8:36] Ginora@datguyyoulike tries to get one final scan of the object, before sliding a hand on her console to bring up an image on the main viewscreen.
[8:36] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I agree. It’s… there is an ancient weapon from human history, spikes attached to a small ball that were used against their cavalry mounts to slow them or deny them the field. Caltrops.”
[8:37] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “This feels like something similar, if we are able to determine how it is created.”
[8:37] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> On the main viewer a somewhat hexagonal shape, white in colour and around it a blue haze, what is usually an effect of tetryon radiation in visual part of the spectrum.
[8:37] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “What is that?”
[8:38] Lakara@isabeldawn performs a double take at her results, peering over at Thorgar. “Captain Thorgar!”
[8:39] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Yes, Lady Lakara?”
[8:39] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: I’ve quickly compared our own sensor results with the results of long range telemetry gathered from the Empire earlier.
[8:40] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: According to our sensors, none of the planetary systems that SHOULD be there…Are.
[8:40] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “…”
[8:40] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Now this is something I haven’t seen before.. How curious.”
[8:40] Thorgar@photis blinks in confusion, remaining silent for a few moments. “Are you saying they are gone?”
[8:40] D’Krane@Shadow1710 looks to Ginora then looks to Zahnithri. “did I hear that right?”
[8:42] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: The sensors seem to think so. That doesn’t guarantee anything.
[8:42] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I am not your medic. How would I know if your hearing is accurate? Given your advancing age, the odds are not good.”
[8:42] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: But at the very least there is more going on here then a cloud and a derelict station.
[8:43] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Go to Danger Alert, level 2. Full stop.”
[8:43] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Hmm…”
[8:43] Ginora@datguyyoulike returns her attention back to sensors, looking for signs, any signs of another ship.
[8:44] [Local] D’Krane@Shadow1710: “Advancing-”
[8:44] Lakara@isabeldawn ’s voice turns a little more ambitious, gleaning. “Though..If we could claim that station, we’d immidiately have a forward outpost for further expansion.”
[8:44] [Local] Thorgar@photis: And with this… we are wrapped up 😃
[8:44] [Local] Thorgar@photis: mt
[8:44] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “No other ships, no signs of other ships besides our own. No sign of past ships either.”
[8:45] D’Krane@Shadow1710 looks offended all off a sudden yet restrains himself from strangling Zahnithra.
[8:45] [Local] Thorgar@photis: TO BE CONTINUED…
[8:45] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “And if the technology can be duplicated, if could be replicated and installed along our borders.”

darthhorvath

Teeth of Eridonus - Episode 2: Fermi Paradox

Aboard Kl'vok

[9:04] [Local] Thorgar@photis: Last time on Teeth of Eridonus: IKS Kl’vok and her escorts entered long-neglected Eridon Nebula and at the very beginning flew into a problem. Normal space teeming with microsingularities which makes+
[9:05] [Local] Thorgar@photis: +warp travel and navigation difficult. Long range sensors across the flotilla indicate an unknown space station to be at the center of these microsingularity anomalies and it is very likely the+
[9:06] [Local] Thorgar@photis: +the source of flotilla’s troubles. Casual scan of the area by Lakara uncovered another unsettling truth: three planetary systems have vanished. And now - the continuation.
[9:07] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> On Kl’vok’s main viewer, a hexagonal space station is seen. Information is displayed, based on valiant efforts by Ginora and D’Krane. The station itself doesn’t seem to have any external+
[9:08] [Local] Thorgar@photis: armaments, but its shielding emits large amounts of energy and radiation, indicating it could stand against a large bombardment. Tactical is sharing continuous updates with other stations, while our+
[9:09] [Local] Thorgar@photis: heroes decide how to approach this situation… or station itself, next.
[9:09] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Status of that station’s shields? Is it blocking transports? Lakara peers towards the tactical display with a piratical glint in her eyes
[9:11] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Hmm.”
[9:11] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Can our sensors read anything behind the shields? "
[9:11] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “I am running additional subspace scans on lateral sensor network.”
[9:12] Ginora@datguyyoulike checks over the sensors, calibrating something, then hemming. “Strong shields, to be expected of a station I would suppose. They do appear to be flucuating in a few parts.”
[9:12] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Perhaps we should fire a small probe through the shield bubble, to see if it stops solid matter.
[9:12] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “They may be having an issue with the power aboard, or we could try overloading them by simply shooting them, though it may be a bad idea in this environment.”
[9:13] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Fluctuating is good, but not ideal. Getting in might not mean getting out again. I would caution against a direct assault, though if you can identify the shield emitters that are fluctuating…”
[9:14] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Probe can be prepared. Zahnithri, your console has direct access to probe pre-launch sequences. Prepare a standard Chokta Mark III probe, it should suffice.”
[9:14] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: An assault is premature! But it seems clear to me we’l learn nothing sitting here with SENSORS..And leaving a find like this is clearly no option.
[9:15] Lakara@isabeldawn is not impressed.
[9:15] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Clearly, SOMEONE has to go on board, by transporter beam or shuttle. The Klingon erupts into a warm grin Think of the adventure to board a station of an unknown race!
[9:15] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Or a cage. An adventure either way really.”
[9:15] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Though less likely to end on your own terms.”
[9:16] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Considering…”, grins at Lakara. “… we found it at the very entrance of Eridon Region, it may serve as Guardian at the Gates, as Earthlings like to say. A challenge on many levels.”
[9:17] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “The probe is prepared. Do understand that many races, Klingons included, would take the launch of a probe against them as a hostile act.”
[9:17] Lakara@isabeldawn gives Zahnithri a confused look. Then shrugs and waves her approval to fire it. Details!
[9:18] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “However, if you can get me the coordinates of the damaged emitters, Ginora, I can beam it into them through the gap and remove them completely?”
[9:18] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Assuming I can pinpoint them in all this interference…”
[9:18] Ginora@datguyyoulike sets to work on the console.
[9:18] Thorgar@photis nods to Zahn to proceed with probe launch and turns to Ginora, awaiting the reply.
[9:18] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “As two items can not coexist in the same place, the resulting explosion should give us a sizeable gap.”
[9:19] Zahnithri@amyclaren shrugs at the order to fire and launches the probe. She can always beam something else into the inner works if needed.
[9:19] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: My first suggestion would be to see if solid matter will be allowed through the shields. Then we can take a shuttle through.
[9:19] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: But if you can take out the emitters, who am I to complain.
[9:21] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Ginora’s work for KDF Intelligence certainly pays off. Although there is some hassle as first, additional reference data coming from Zahn’s probe make the job easier. Sensors do detect several+
[9:22] [Local] Thorgar@photis: +gaps in the shielding which are steady/stationary, in a sense their position or shielding intensity do not fluctuate. Further scan however also shows and indication of activity aboard the station.
[9:23] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Well, i’ve not seen those kinds of signatures in a bit. How many of you are familiar with the Dyson Swarmers?”
[9:24] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Dyson swarmers? You are saying this structure contains them?!
[9:24] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “The automated guardians?!”
[9:24] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Or energy signatures similar to them, it would explain why we’re having trouble here.”
[9:24] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Vaguely familiar. If you are detecting such things inside, that would make this an Iconian construct.”
[9:25] Thorgar@photis ponders the situation.
[9:26] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “That does implicate a few things.”
[9:26] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: "The probe has located several stationary gaps in the shielding that are not fluctuating. The probe has been scanned by the construct but not engaged. I believe we could fit a shuttle through one >
[9:26] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: the gaps, but it would need to be cloaked to avoid being scanned by the station."
[9:27] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Probe remains in circumventing orbit around the station, with structure’s sensors clearly fixed on it.
[9:29] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “One moment, I need to interface with the Nilgera.”
[9:30] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Do remember what I said about cages, they tend to be hidden into the environment.”
[9:31] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: "Captain. If this is an Iconian facility, the presence and usage of extensive tetryon particles indicates that we are most likely dealing with a servitor species of the Iconians, the beings known as>
[9:31] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: the Solanae. They exist in a space/time adjacent to ours, and are adept at moving back and forth between the two undetected."
[9:31] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: IF it is, then it’s an intolerable presence to have on our borders!
[9:32] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: And it must be subjugated or scourged!
[9:32] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: “One we’ll sc- you read my thoughts.”
[9:32] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Solanae. The subspace servitor race.”, he grits his teeth.
[9:32] [Local] Thorgar@photis: "Ginora, Zahn
[9:32] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: I say we board it with enough explosives to detonate the core. Just in case. If it turns out to be some alien race t hat happens to build like them, they neednt know of our intentions.
[9:32] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Subjugation is not advised. They are loyal to the Iconians.”
[9:33] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: “And their crimes knows no bounds.”
[9:33] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Ginora, Zahnithri, attempt to locate is there is any safe spot on the station. Though i think wherever we go those Swamers will reach us eventually. Those machines are as efficient as Hirogens.”
[9:33] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Indeed…It will be GLORIOUS!
[9:34] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “The swarmers themselves are easily disabled by standard EMP devices and weapons.”
[9:34] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “And I concur. We scavenge what information we can and blow this to pieces.”
[9:34] [Emotes] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Yes!
[9:34] Tohi@Neronn#74903 agrees.
[9:34] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Doing so. It will hopefully be as simple as a shielded airlock.”
[9:34] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Bring heavy disruptors and sharpen the bat’leths, we will need both!
[9:34] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Recommend arming our insertion team with such.”
[9:35] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Do we have an extra antimatter containment device this vessel could part with, Captain?”
[9:35] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: “I just have a pulsewave rifle you would appreciate to its just value. I concur Zahnithri suggestion. EMP it is.”
[9:35] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Is that the rifle with the bayonet? Very useful!
[9:35] Ginora@datguyyoulike scans the station, trying to see if she can find an airlock first, and, failing that, anywhere they can beam in. Just any kind of entryway really.
[9:35] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “I thought you would never ask, Zahnithri. Though I think Chief D’Krane will not be happy with it.”
[9:36] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: The same with the bayonet, and the photon grenade launcher. A true work of our Empire weaponsmiths!
[9:36] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “And the cores from a few photon torpedoes. Stripped down, they are portable.”
[9:37] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Perfect.
[9:37] Zahnithri@amyclaren taps the comm panel. “Nilgera, prepare boarding and scuttling charges and beam them to the shuttle bay of this vessel.”
[9:37] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Captain, be sure to transmit all data back to the Empire before we board
[9:38] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: …Just in case..They prove able to destroy this ship. They need to know of the threat on our borders.
[9:38] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “You’ll excuse myself being at a distance and firing a phaser. I’ve found an airlock by the way, though I think we can only fit a single shuttle inside.”
[9:38] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: ..Plus, if I’m going to die I want them to make an opera of it.
[9:38] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Zahnithri, prepare a data bouy.”
[9:38] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “How many can your shuttles hold, Captain? Preparing bouy.”
[9:39] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “We have four standard shuttles in our bay, Zahn. Whad do you have in mind?”
[9:39] [Emotes] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Yes!
[9:39] Tohi@Neronn#74903 agrees with Lakara.
[9:39] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I can remain outside the shuttle and place charges on the exterior of the station while you all make your way inside.”
[9:39] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “That will give you more space in the shuttle for explosives.”
[9:40] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Use shuttle’s emergency transporters to beam them directly in if we can’t find other way.”
[9:41] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Sounds a good plan with space given.
[9:41] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Is that useful?
[9:41] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As the Klingons and their allies enthusiatically prepare for boarding, the station remains silent. OOC: Let’s make our way for Dyson Joint Command. We will use STOIC channel from there onwards++
[9:41] [Local] Thorgar@photis: as it is a public map.
[9:41] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: I thought Solanae space plating was rather resistant to ship based weaponry.
[9:41] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Typically.”
[9:41] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “That’s why blowing it from inside by any means necessary is required.”
[9:41] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Not enough against Klingon might.
[9:42] [Emotes] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Yes!
[9:42] Tohi@Neronn#74903 agrees with Thorgar.
[9:39] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I can remain outside the shuttle and place charges on the exterior of the station while you all make your way inside.”
[9:39] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “That will give you more space in the shuttle for explosives.”
[9:40] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Use shuttle’s emergency transporters to beam them directly in if we can’t find other way.”
[9:41] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Sounds a good plan with space given.
[9:41] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Is that useful?
[9:41] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As the Klingons and their allies enthusiatically prepare for boarding, the station remains silent. OOC: Let’s make our way for Dyson Joint Command. We will use STOIC channel from there onwards++
[9:41] [Local] Thorgar@photis: as it is a public map.
[9:41] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: I thought Solanae space plating was rather resistant to ship based weaponry.
[9:41] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Typically.”
[9:41] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “That’s why blowing it from inside by any means necessary is required.”
[9:41] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Not enough against Klingon might.
[9:42] [Emotes] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Yes!
[9:42] Tohi@Neronn#74903 agrees with Thorgar.
[9:42] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Ship-based, yes. It scatters the energy from most energy weapons. If I can locate weak points, though, scuttling charges can crack a small asteroid. They will do well enough for our needs.”

darthhorvath

Aboard Solanae Station

[9:47] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> The five valiant soldiers board the station. With Zahn staying behind to secure their return point, the other four proceed down the hallway, finding themselves in what appears to be a storage++
[9:47] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: area. Casings of tetryon and transphasic weaponry can be detected, or least components for them, but no specific computer terminal.
[9:47] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni rides to the station maglocked to the outside of the shuttle, a number of rather large explosive charges attached to her armored EV suit. She detaches as the shuttle docks and starts >
[9:48] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: to make her way across the surface of the station, the wrist-mounted tricorder of her suit scanning before her as she searches for interesting places to leave presents for the Solanae.
[9:48] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara enters the hallway, carrying a heavy rifle with bayonet. On her back was a bat’leth. On her belt is a rebreather mask. Just in case She cheks for the presence of light..Is power on or off?
[9:48] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Did the scanners even pick up any -biologicals- in here?”
[9:48] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “This situation brings to mind a saying from home.”
[9:50] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “None. It seems the automated swarmers are only here. But given that Solanae are subspace natives, they may be around but we couldn’t detect them from afar. Be vigilant.”, he says and unholsters his++
[9:50] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: weapons.
[9:50] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “There are ways to die, and then there are ways to die.”
[9:50] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Tohi enter with her rifle too, already in a position of surveying and firing on any near menace. She wear her bat’leth on her back.
[9:50] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “I am reminded that the Iconians built their spheres around stars… what might this station be built around? Is it containing an anomaly of some sort as well?”
[9:51] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Then we rely on our warrior senses. Smell. Hearing. Stay on guard.”
[9:51] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “How do you suppose you smell an ancient machine in an ancient station?”
[9:51] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: It will be glorious.
[9:51] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “I am starting to think this station had a similar purpose to what Iconians did in Calbriden system.”
[9:53] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “…Hrm. I don’t suppose we’l be able to seize the station instead of destroying it..Wouldnt that be useful..”
[9:53] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Tohi walk slowly, but always in a surveillance posture.
[9:53] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Seizing yes, but could we maintain it. No one has ever established control over the swarmers.”
[9:54] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “That didn’t go over so well last time.”
[9:54] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “The Swarmers would have to go. Bah..No sense wondering. Let’s see what we encounter.”
[9:54] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> The group reaches the doors but they do not open. There is a small control pad to Ginora’s side of semicircular frame.
[9:55] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Ginora, you are our help here.
[9:55] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “Let’s see if this works here too.”
[9:55] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> Zahni can be heard humming opera softly over comms as she works, setting her first charge on something that appears rather important.
[9:55] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: crouch slowly, preparing to fire toward any moving target once it open.
[9:55] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Zahni, how are you proceeding?”
[9:56] Ginora@datguyyoulike holsters her phaser, retriving a tricord along with a rod like tool she connects to the panel.
[9:56] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “So it is. Give me a few moments.”
[9:57] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> "I have located what appears to be an exterior cargo port of some type with a power distribution node directly next to it. I have placed a charge to breach both once triggered. It should make >
[9:57] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: quite a mess. I am unable to locate where you are within the station, as my tricorder is unable to penetrate further into the hull."
[9:57] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Her fiddling looks almost elegant to other three as Ginora does her tricks and doors quietly open without so much as a hiss.
[9:58] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Try to locate us directly through communication devices, Zahnithri. The fact you can still hear us should be your guide.”
[9:58] Ginora@datguyyoulike shrinks her tools and puts it into the tricorder, attatching it to her belt and retriving her phaser.
[9:59] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Thorgar steps in carefully.
[9:59] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “I am currently bouncing comms through the shuttle. Should I try to do the same with the shuttle’s sensors?”
[10:00] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> And that very first step suddenly makes station go awake. Even Zahn on the outside would notice some rumble. Alarms sound off and there is some clicking coming over PA though translators can’t++
[10:00] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: process it.
[10:00] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “You may, Zahn…”, he stops as alarms go off. “By Kahless.”
[10:00] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “They know we are here. Accessing shuttle sensors now.”
[10:02] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Zahnithri, what can you offer us?”
[10:02] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> "Swarmers have gone active. Numerous energy signatures beginning to converge on your location. Given the size and age of the facility, they will take some time to engage you, but time is of >
[10:02] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara advances across the hallway, rifle raised. If she reaches the end before anything emerges, the Klingon props her back against the wall into a hiding position..And draws a bat’leths, ready to-
[10:02] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - ambush anything that comes through from behind
[10:03] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: the essence. I am moving to give them something else to worry about now."
[10:03] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “Scout units may arrive sooner, but you have perhaps twenty minutes, possibly thirty.”
[10:03] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Acknowledged, Zahnithri.”
[10:04] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora withdraws her tricorder, scanning ahead for any signs of swarmers, or any surprises, she’s going to be leaving it on.
[10:04] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: FX> Thorgar crouches on the opposite as the doors swish open. Inside the central room they can see one Swarmer in process of activation in the very center of the room.
[10:05] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Tohi keep her rifle for now, but also a steady pose. Seeing the swarmer, she make a gesture to its direction, indicating permission of fire.
[10:05] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni changes direction and moves towards the center of the station, planting explosives as she goes. When she reaches what appears to be a large joint between the swarmers and the away team, she >
[10:05] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Oh that’s what that power reading on the tricorder was.”
[10:05] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: rigs a few hull-breaker charges together and places them there, then retreats to a safe distance.
[10:06] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “Distraction ready on your mark.”
[10:06] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Hm, three more in the other hallway, how quickly do you suppose we can dispatch all of them?”
[10:06] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “The sooner we fire, the sooner we dispatch them.”, he nods and takes aim.
[10:06] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <GM> Gimme a moment to emote Zahn’s action consequences.
[10:07] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara takes aim for the activating swarmer. She lines her sight straight for the droid’s core, before erupting in a single high impact bolt of the disruptor to try and fry it before it can come aliv
[10:07] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: * Alive
[10:07] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> With charges in place, Zahn retreats to safe distance and not a moment to soon, charges go off. Explosion reverbates through the structure, some vibrations may even reach the team. There is no++
[10:08] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: damage to external structure, of course, but Zahn would detect that part of awoken Swarmers are going towards the explosion location.
[10:09] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “Some of them are now moving my way to investigate. The hull is breached in several locations.”
[10:10] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Thorgar shoots.
[10:10] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni kicks off the station’s surface and heads for another junction, ready to do the same thing again to buy more time for those inside.
[10:12] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “Brace. I am going to vent the cargo bay I rigged.”
[10:12] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> With roll of 13, Thorgar shoots at the swarmer but his phaser bounces of the shields and damages the recharge station instead.
[10:13] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Meanwhile, Lakara’s more powerful weapon causes the swarmer shields to drop down from 70% to 30% as it was still charging up.
[10:13] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: <c> Understood.
[10:14] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Seeing Lakara shoot is not enough, Tohi will then fire herself too, as assistance!
[10:14] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Bother.” Ginora takes aim with her phaser after the previous shots visibly did nothing.
[10:14] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Thorgar continues to fire.
[10:15] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Waste of time..!” Lakara pushes herself up and sends herself into a low charge for the creature - If the other shots do not take it out, the Klingon attempts to shove her bayonet clear into it’s -
[10:15] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - frame to take it out!
[10:15] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Zahn seems to warm up with her salvage skills. Another explosion occurs, though this one has an effect as a power junction is damaged, slowing down awakening of additional swarmers further below.
[10:17] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Swamer is distracted by missed shots, but for all its power it is not used to closed combat as Lakara’s bayonet is shoved into it, followed by BZZZZP and smoke. Swarmer is dead.
[10:17] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: turns to Tohi “Remind me not to get on the pointy end of her warrior mood.”
[10:18] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni makes her way across the hull until she is close to the away team and starts to hack her way into an airlock there. <C> "Explosives have limited effect on the hull. Should have brought a >
[10:18] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Hahah!” Lakara’s laughter bellows through the hall as she watches her prey fall “First blood is mine!” AFter crying out, she watches some fluid leak from the bot, humming “..Or first-..oil..”
[10:18] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: tricobalt mine. I am entering the facility to join you."
[10:18] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: “On the contrary! I congrats her bravery!”
[10:19] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Good, Zahnithri. We have had our first catch of the day. Or Lakara has but we still have three more.”
[10:19] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Assuming there isn’t a deactivated one some place. Behind a panel.”
[10:20] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: We’ll smash it.
[10:20] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: One of the panels in the hall rattles a few times…
[10:20] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: And then a wild Zahni kicks it out and emerges!
[10:20] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: turns to the noise “Ah, you are here. Good.”
[10:20] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Hm, give me a second here…”
[10:21] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I was not able to buy us much time, but I have lessened the number coming towards us.”
[10:21] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Let’s get set up for the next ambush.” Lakara nods, and starts moving towards the other hallway, setting herself up by its side
[10:22] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Remember, close combat seems to be in our favour. Remain Klingon.”, he laughs.
[10:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “Nothing but the scanners I already detected, we won’t find out if there are more in the walls until they’re biting at our heels.”
[10:22] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: In response, Tohi simply swap her weapon for her bat’leth..
[10:23] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni grins, baring her teeth. “This fires solid projectiles tipped with nanoprobes designed to begin assimilation of whatever they impact. I have not tested it on swarmers yet.”
[10:23] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Thump thump thump… Zahn’s damage to power junction blocked the door and three swarmers are banging to get through. Doors bend and fall out of their frame. Three Swarmers appear.
[10:24] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Cover me. Tohi respond as she scream running toward them!
[10:24] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Aims in general direction of Swarmers and braces himself.
[10:25] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara had positioned herself, Bat’leth in hand. The moment a door bends, the Klingon turns and shoves the sharpest end of the bat’leth through like a spear, keeping her body angled so as not to be -
[10:25] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - in their line of fire while stabbing into the bot from the side
[10:25] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni chooses the closest swarmer and fires a pair of rounds into it! (And now we see if her weapon works!)
[10:26] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Tohi behaviour against the swarmers would seem like a mad dog attacking. However, her slash scream precisions and technique, as she protect her advance with her blade-
[10:27] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: -before slashing and thrusting in one singular charge
[10:28] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Swarmers are clearly not programmed for Klingon close encounter. Two aimed by Lakara and Tohi suffer damage after being sliced like butter. The third one, aimed by Zahn is infected but simply++
[10:28] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: shuts down. Zahn could it pick it up on the way back for salvage.
[10:28] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: AH AH AH AH AH !
[10:32] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni flips open the tricorder on her wrist again and scans ahead of them, looking for a fun place to set the antimatter charge so they can blow this popsicle stand.
[10:32] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “More terminals. That way.” Ginora gestures with her tricorder carrying hand.
[10:32] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Hm, what other way really?”
[10:33] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: moves forward
[10:34] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Room is as you. Except that biobeds are charging stations for Swarmers. Three are empty, one has a Swarmer that seemed to have malfunctioned due to age. Just by the entrance there is a large++
[10:34] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: terminal station with two access points.
[10:35] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Thorgar moves to one of access points.
[10:35] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “At last..I take it we brought decryption ciphers from the Iconian war?”
[10:35] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “It is standard equipment nowadays.”
[10:35] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Trusting the engineers to hack the computer, Lakara cautiously peers around the corner on the other side of the room. Any threats?
[10:36] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Holsters his weapons and opens his tricorder and interfaces with the station in front of him.
[10:36] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I will cover you while you work.”
[10:36] Ginora@datguyyoulike places her tricorder on the empty space next to her, setting it to scan for unknowns crossing a proximity barrier.
[10:36] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: More intel -Mo’kai- than engineer, Tohi cover Lakara advance!
[10:36] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora places her tricorder on the empty space next to her, setting it to scan for unknowns crossing a proximity barrier.
[10:39] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C>
[10:39] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Mhrm..It looks like we’re clear for now, though who knows how long that will last.”
[10:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> "Well the first bit of information I can tell you is the room is currently empty. Less so in 15 minutes. With some more digging, I believe the servitors tried creating an environment just for <C>
[10:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …Themselves within just this region of space, which would explain all the anomalies we’ve detected including those singularities. "
[10:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “My advice is we leave.”
[10:41] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “So if we leave it in place, they will eventually succeed. Are we able to destroy it, or at least disable it long enough for us to find a better way of dealing with it?”
[10:41] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: "I concur but there is a problem. With station in bad shape, it may self destruct and without proper shutdown before hand, it wall cause a subspace explosion similar to that caused by Omega molecules.
[10:42] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: But such a presence is intolerable in our territory. Mhfp.
[10:42] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Well the conversion failed as well hence the number.”
[10:42] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I sincerely hope your sensors are wrong.”
[10:42] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “But I assume you have a plan for stopping it?”
[10:43] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They will attempt to repair it if we leave now. That will buy us some time to research such things and return better prepared.”
[10:43] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “I wish the sensors were wrong. If we do not activate the procedure, the explosion radius will reach SANEK Array.”
[10:44] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “But we will have to work quickly. Ginora, I am sending to your tricorder the procedure. We need one more person. Trinary system of Iconiancs I am afraid.”
[10:44] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “They’l love that.”
[10:44] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “So what needs to be done?”
[10:44] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “… So we are going to help them further work?”
[10:45] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “No, we will shut down the conversion process, then set this facility to self-destruct.”
[10:45] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Zahnithri, I suspect you are the third expert with computers.”
[10:45] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I am.”
[10:46] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I don’t suppose the bot are low enough in number that we can secure this place as a forward staging area, instead..”
[10:46] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Do you suppose you can fight 36 by yourself?”
[10:46] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “It would be a glorious way to die!”
[10:46] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “I wish we could, but Swarmers are known to replicate at superb rates.”
[10:46] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “…But no.”
[10:46] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Bah. F ine. Let’s make haste, then!”
[10:47] [STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: We’ll give you the time needed.
[10:47] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “What do you know we agree.”
[10:47] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni steps up to the console, places both hands on it’s surface, and concentrates. Nanotubules spear out of her flesh and deep into the console, interfacing with it smoothly.
[10:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “If we are going to, we’d best position ourselves at that door.”
[10:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara eseeks to enter the hallway again. Around the midway point ,she seeks to rig one of the EMP grenades as an improvised mine, using her tactical expertise to rig it to blow on proximity, hoping-
[10:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - to weaken the first wave that might arrive
[10:48] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Thorgar forwards part of the procedure to Zahn and Ginora. It is fairly easy but long. OOC: Each of us will roll one last d20. Number of successful rolls will determine the number of vanished++
[10:48] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: systems we can retrieve back.
[10:51] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <GM> Two out of three, very nice. 😃
[10:53] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: After a while, just in nick of time, Thorgar says. “It is done. Let’s go.”
[10:54] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Hopefully this data is worth it.”
[10:54] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Good news: There are not thirty five swarmers on our position yet.”
[10:54] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Indeed. We should hurry, though.”
[STOIC] Tohi@Neronn#74903: “We have some advance, let’s not waste it. Us Klingons have the endurance.”
[10:55] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni clips her rifle to her armor and draws her Bat’leth.

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Back on Kl'vok

[10:58] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Away team successfully returns to Kl’vok and all the ships hastily retreat from station’s vicinity. On the main viewer, the station’s form shimmers a little, before it begins to explode on++
[10:59] [Local] Thorgar@photis: points along its hull, including a few fireworks from Zahn’s setups. As the station explodes, a massive subspace wave emerges like a sphere growing in radius and passes through the system. Long range+
[11:00] [Local] Thorgar@photis: sensors depict reappearance of all three star systems, but with one caveat - one star has turned into brown dwarf due to accelerated aging and no planets survived. The microsingularities vanish as++
[11:01] [Local] Thorgar@photis: does the tetryon radiation, yet scars in spacetime remain. The locations of of microsingularities, small as they are have subspace underneath them destroyed. Warp travel will be cautious until the++
[11:01] [Local] Thorgar@photis: area is fully mapped.
[11:01] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: "I am transmitting the information I downloaded to the main computer of this vessel. Among the data I collected are schematics for something called a tetryon particle stabilizer… it should allow >
[11:01] Lakara@isabeldawn lets out a howl o triumph as the station explodes! She then turns to the others with a renewed sense of alarm.
[11:01] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: for the development of weapons utilizing tetryons, and possibly the navigation of this region of space."
[11:02] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Do you realize what just happned? We have boarded an Iconian station, battled its guardians, and rendered it into space dust with just one science vessel and a daring strike team!
[11:02] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Do not forget or downplay this - It’s stories like these that will get young warriors excited about boarding exploration vessels in the future!
[11:03] Zahnithri@amyclaren holds up her new swarmer. It’s dead, but intact. “This is going to keep me busy for a while, I think!”
[11:03] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “That, Lakara-zhantai, was my intent all along.”, he bursts into laughter. “I must say, you all performed very… VERY well.”
[11:03] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Lakara is right. Today is one more stone proving the might of Klingon science.
[11:04] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Zahnithri, Ginora… you have an extra bottle of bloodwine. My treat.”
[11:04] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: And.. mh. Indulge into this.. swarmer, Zahnithri.
[11:04] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “As for you, Lakara and Tohi, well… what can I say, classical warriors.”
[11:04] Ginora@datguyyoulike looks back at the yelling klingons, then sensors. “Yes… Bloodwine.”
[11:05] [Local] Zahnithri@amyclaren: I got to blow things up, got a new project, and tested my rifle. It has been a good day.
[11:05] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Bah ! We did good for the Empire and the house.
[11:05] Lakara@isabeldawn smirks and shrugs. “I will call for the Thorm to salvage the station. She is small enough to make it trhrough the singularities.”
[11:06] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Drink and fest! I’ll sing the good news to the rest of the Empire tonight!
[11:06] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “If you find anything in that dust, Lakara.”
[11:06] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: As for this ship..It seems we have a new frontier, with possible Iconian treasures ripe for the taking! And new worlds to claim!
[11:06] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Another question is why this has been seemingly kept hidden up until now.”
[11:06] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Classical iconian treachery.
[11:07] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: That’s hardly a mystery..Iconian technology still has many mysteries to us. Their stations are capable of remaining removed from sensors when in an inactive state.
[11:07] Thorgar@photis nods to Ginora. “I think this station was probably a prototype of what eventually led to the one in Calbriden system.”
[11:07] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Which was destroyed by Delta Flight under Captain Tom Paris.”
[11:08] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “But we have downloaded much data, there is a lot to sift through.”
[11:08] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Just like them to never install a detactivate button isn’t it? Or at least a good one if what I heard about the Romulans’ gate to be true.”
[11:08] [Local] Lakara@isabeldawn: Regardless, this is proving a very fruitful expedition so far.
[11:08] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: “Just like them… But I suppose these data you have downloaded will give you answers.”
[11:08] [Local] Tohi@Neronn#74903: Indeed…
[11:09] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Lack of deactivation button only demonstrates their vanity, Ginora.”
11:09] [Local] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “A people with a lack of problems.”
[11:10] [Local] Thorgar@photis: “Helm, set course for the nearest star system. Let’s see if we can stick a Krotak banner into solid ground for a change.”

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Teeth of Eridonus - Episode 3: Children of The Unhappy Ones

Transcript

[9:12] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <INTRO> Several days have past since our heroes eliminated the threat of Solanae Station. With information and some technology gathered, crews have been kept busy with reverse-engineering the++
[9:13] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++components, while other vessels of House Krotak map out the anomalies area previously encountered. Meanwhile, Kl’Vok and her escorts have reached the third system in this region, the only one with++
[9:14] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: habitable and, even more interesting, an inhabited planet. The crews have set up the camp a few kelicams (1 kelicams is roughly 2 kilometers) away from the settlement where the inhabitants have been++
[9:14] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: located. <END-OF-INTRO>
[9:15] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: looks to Lakara, Zahn and Ginora "Finally, some solid ground and gravity. The crews have set up the camp. I have made some preliminary long range scans. The inhabited area does not show signs of++
[9:16] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: higher technology but metallurgical readings of same area are… confusing."
[9:16] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni flips open her tricorder, an upgraded and half-borgified Federation model, and sterts to scan the area around the beam-in site.
[9:17] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Define confusing.” The Klingon looks around. She does seem happy to be on the ground, studying the plants and foilage. Science is best left to the scientists
[9:17] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Considering the size of the habitat and its geometry, I would say we are looking at late agrarian society.”
[9:17] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “It’s been a little since I last set foot on a planet. About time I’ve done so.” With that, the Cardassian withdraws her own tricorder, confusing metallurgical readings? She wants to see so herself.
[9:18] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: You detect standard M-class conditions like gravity, plant and animal life, atmosphere is suitable. Scenery is comparable to Qo’nos before Praxis Disaster.
[9:19] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: There is some interference from planet’s stronger magnetic field, though otherwise it is standard M-class world. The met.analysis indicates the presence of compounds used++
[9:19] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Hmm. Compatible to Klingon physiology. Standard gravity, dense plant life, plentiful animals. Some of them on the larger size.”
[9:19] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: in B’rel BoPs from TOS/TMP era.
[9:20] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Hrmpf..Primitive creatures.” She peers over at Thorgar “You realize that means they may have never seen aliens before. Should we observe from stealth first, perhaps?”
[9:20] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: turns to Lakara “Well, Lady Lakara, the confusing part is… there are some metallic compounds that shouldn’t be there.”
[9:21] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I will need to see some geological data, but the tricorder is picking up trace elements in the soil and water that are… interesting.”
[9:21] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I don’t suppose you know what compounds those actually are, Thorgar?”
[9:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Having just scanned myself, interference with the scanners aside, they’re similar to that of older B’rels, to answer your question.”
[9:22] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: You can ofc add some of your own ideas 😃
[9:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “The interfence I mentioned makes it hard to tell how much, before you ask.”
[9:23] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: chins to Ginora, while looking at Lakara “Precisely that. Ship hull alloys and compounds.”
[9:23] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Bioscans from orbit were inconclusive due to the planet’s strong magnetic fields.”
[9:24] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Intriguing..” Lakara strokes her chin and humms “That should only be limited to a single region of the planet then, should it not?”
[9:25] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: nods firmly “That is correct. Other habitats are too far away for denizens to reach on foot in several dozen days. But here… we may find fellow Klingons.”
[9:26] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni snaps her tricorder closed, looking around as she taps it against her leg. “How wide-spread is the presence of these alloys?”
[9:26] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: "As for the natives, it seems rather straightforward to me, test their strength, and if they are worthy, incorporate them. I don’t see too much reason to deviate if they are klingons or not given <c>
[9:26] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …How they do not have contact with the Empire."
[9:27] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: looks to Ginora “That would be a standard procedure. We are not on tight leash as Starfleet.” then looks to Zahn “On this planet, it is just this one location where alloys were found.”
[9:27] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “If not.. Well the gorn learned what happens when you don’t bow.”
[9:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Hrm. First, we need knowledge. Of their weapons if nothing else. IT will be little test if we bring disruptors to a fight with bows and arrows”
[9:28] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “We also need to learn how this B’rel material got here! IF a vessel is still largely intact, its databanks may still be salvageable.”
[9:28] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Consistant with debris in the high atmosphere, then, rather than a Genesis-style device.”
[9:30] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: She nods. “The planet is a bit too similar to pre-Praxis Qo’nos to not suspect creation by mortal hands.”
[9:30] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Rather discounting the most simple explanation? Iron isn’t limited to one planet, why would B’rel metal?”
[9:31] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “The metal used in the construction of Klingon vessels is an alloy designed and created by our scientists. It is not naturally occurring.”
[9:31] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Fair enough then as I am no engineer.”
[9:31] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “I suppose we shall see. Lakara, would you prefer to investigate these people with bows and arrows for… extra challenge on your side?”
[9:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I would prefer to observe them from hiding, deduce what technologgy level they are on, and of course, get eyes on the source of this fabled metal!”
[9:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I imagine once we -see- the source, much will be explained.”
[9:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “-Then-, we can think about giving them a worthy test. Pack bat’leths and mek’leths just in case.”
[9:33] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “If we do need to approach them, I should take point. Arrows wil not be as deadly to me, given my internal construction and my exoskeletal reinforcements.”
[9:34] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Unsheaths his kur’leth. “Then I am ready.”
[9:34] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni taps a command into her gauntlet PADD, and a moment later a bat’leth materializes at her feet. Scooping it up, she nods. “I am ready as well.”
[9:34] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Thorgar, what direction is their nearest settlement?”
[9:34] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: I’ll head first to show you where to walk. 😃
[9:35] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: *Points forward. Across the river, in that ridge."
[9:36] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni flips her tricorder open again.
[9:36] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As they walk into the ridge, foliage grows denser and there is humming among it as animals wander about.
[9:36] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “I remember having to investigate Bajor’s Northern pole.”
[9:37] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They will most likely have sentries or hunting parties around the outskirts. Keep your heads up.”
[9:37] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: The animal life is definitely richer in the ridge as your tricorder identifies plants which would be edible to the group after some thermal processing.
[9:37] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: Otherwise, you do not find any humanoids except the four of us.
[9:37] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “They certainly would have been watching us from the treelines, why not? Strangers setting up camp? Someone will notice and raise alarm.”
[9:38] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “It appears clear. Plentiful life around us. With high ground and that river nearby, it is a smart place for an encampment.”
[9:38] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “The ridge will be dangerous to cross, that is true. Anything from your North Pole experience to aid us?”
[9:39] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: inhales deeply “Smells of lower predators around here. A good hunting ground.”
[9:39] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Little, other than assuming you are always being watched at every second, as we were. Mind you, power was at a premium due to the hardship, so this was all set up without any power.”
[9:39] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Understood.”
[9:40] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I miss hunting. Animals can smell my metallic bits from much further away… it makes the hunt impossible.”
[9:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Any minor intrusion will be noticed, it may have been for us to not be transported to the camp as I assure you they were watching it.”
[9:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: been better for*))
[9:40] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As they enter the ridge, Thorgar moves aside observing the opposite side of the cliff.
[9:41] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “This would be where I would stage an ambush, if I were going to.”
[9:41] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Then that means they’re still not sure we’re a threat.”
[9:41] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Or they want us to meet them, do you suppose they’ll roll out a feast? Ah, probably not.”
[9:42] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Early societies considered everything a threat that was not them.”
[9:42] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> An hour into their walk, Ginora’s and Zahn’s tricorders begin to blip.
[9:42] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “If it’s other klingons as predicted then I suppose I should be cautious hm?”
[9:42] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora slows for a moment to withdraw her tricorder, checking it over as she walks along with the others.
[9:42] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni raises a fist over her shoulder, then sweeps her tricorder before her, fiddling with buttons to narrow down the scans.
[9:43] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: You detect humanoid lifesigns half of kelicam away. They are moving away from us at slow pace though. There are three of them.
[9:43] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: You detect humanoid lifesigns half of kelicam away. They are moving away from us at slow pace though. There are three of them.
[9:44] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Three humanoids. Moving away from us slowly. We are not yet detected.”
[9:44] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Abruptly stops as he sees the two opening their tricorders.
[9:44] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara doesn’t speak much as the pair cross. One hand is near a disruptor pistol, watching the foilage and ready for ambush. She moves silently though, having learned to hide her noises within her -
[9:44] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - armor “..Hrm..How far from the settlement..Can we not get elevation on them? Up a hill or something?”
[9:45] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Or they know we’re here and are telling the rest.”
[9:45] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “..We have binoculars..There is no need to get right up in their face for a scout..”
[9:45] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni does not know stealth. She crunches through everything at a steady pace.
[9:45] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Are you able to scale these walls?”
[9:46] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: The ridge cliffs are steep. You’d need climbing equipment to go up.
[9:46] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “If you’re asking me, I probably could.”
[9:46] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I know that I can’t.”
[9:46] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: The settlement is another our walk from humanoids’ current position. One and half for us.
[9:47] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “I am fit, but these are… steep.”
[9:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I believe so…The climbing gear should allow it.”
[9:48] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “We can stop here while you ascend, if you would like.”
[9:50] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Who needs equipment when you have training?” The Cardassian looks upwards… Then starts her ascent, checking her grip a few times before continuing upwards.
[9:50] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: As they wait for Ginora to prep her climbing equipment, Thorgar scans flora/foliage. “Hmmm, these large flowers have some fats usually found in targ meat.”
[9:51] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Taking out a set of hooks and ropes, Lakara also begins her scend. She’s rather swift in her ascent, but isnt averse to using some technology to help matters along
[9:51] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They probably make for some delicious meals, then.”
[9:51] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Or eat targs.”
[9:52] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora had simply elected to climb the old fashioned way, save for a small hook for gripping.
[9:54] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I see a ridge, I see animals.. They’re quite calm at the moment if you’re wondering.”
[9:54] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As time passes, Zahn through her long range eyes and Ginora/Lakara spot a big fireplace ahead, just the game presents it. There is no fire, but there is some smoke rising barely.
[9:55] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara attempts to zoom, and quite far at that, u sing her binoculars. She’s trying to spot signs of civilization. Camps, or structures. If none are v isible, she’d switch to heat vision to try and s
[9:56] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Spot people
[9:56] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “…Smoke, though no fire. I can’t quite tell how recent, not from this distance.”
[9:57] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: You would notice a glimpse of a tall tower-like structure to the far south. In our proximity, you’d spot three humanoids in the ridge through heat view, indicating they++
[9:57] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: stopped for resting.
[9:57] [Tell] Lakara@isabeldawn: (Is that tower made of wood, metal, something else?)
[9:57] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Odd not to have seen anyone yet, this close to their settlement.”
[9:57] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “ Three humanoids..They’re stopped. There’s a structure in the distance. Marking it all on your map.”
[9:57] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: You estimate it is wooden and maybe some stone.
[9:58] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “I suggest avoiding the humanoids for now, and approach the tower unseen. That will give some actual information. No signs of metal in the tower’s construction, though.”
[9:58] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Given time and distance, those should be the same three the tricorders picked up earlier. They are in no hurry, so they most likely do not know we are here yet.”
[9:59] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Looks to his updated map on the tricorder. <C> “Hmm, tower’s location is approximate to the location of B’Rel alloy. Interesting.”
[10:01] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “Mayhaps it was built on top. There is one way we can find out. I suggest using the cliffs to remain in hiding.”
[10:01] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: You tricorder estimates that, based on biosigns, there is 30% possibility three humanoids are Klingon.
[10:02] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Constructing a building around the alloy? Hm, that’s curious.”
[10:02] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “I am unable to scale those cliffs, so I will try to stay in the trees and approach from ground level.”
[10:02] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “If you can proceed cautiously, Lakara.”
[10:02] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Scanning what I can… There is a thirty percent chance that at least three of the locals are actually klingons. Wonder if there were another people here before them.”
[10:04] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: <C> “If Klingons did crash here, they would have attempted to subjugate any locals to ensure their own survival. Stranded on a planet is no reason not to further the Empire’s goals.”
[10:05] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “Well obviously not, no doubt while trying to fix their equipment to send a message too.”
[10:06] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “In that case it would seem they had failed.”
[10:06] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> The three humanoids proceed to walk in direction of the tower and the settlement around it. Lakara and Ginora find no issues walking along the ridge cliffs while Zahn and Thorgar proceed++
[10:06] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “We will see..” Lakara maintains her exploratory posture, using no small amount of effort to scale the cliffs to get a closer view at the outpost. Once the settlement comes into view, Lakara would -
[10:06] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: carefully in the lower portion until they meet at location where tower is clearly visible. Tricorders would now pick up on a few dozen lifesigns in the settlment but still below 100."
[10:06] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - seek to use military binoculars to get a decent view of it. Even at a range far beyond what non-technological humanoids should see, she hunkers low within the bushes out of sheer instinct
[10:08] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: At this distance and from higher vantage point, you can make out individual settlers. They do not seem particularly Klingon. In a sense you don’t see typical Klink features.
[10:08] [Tell] Lakara@isabeldawn: And the buildings?
[10:08] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Scanning…They don’t -look- Klingon, they look…”
[10:09] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “Looks are decieving.”
[10:09] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: Buildings are wooden and stone cottages. You’d recognise two distinct types of construction: one unknown close to center of settlement and one agrarian Klingon, around the++
[10:09] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: tower. I.e. tower is NOT at the center of village.
[10:10] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: Your scans indicate less than 100 denizens, some are recognised as Klingons but with low probability. You’d need a more accurate, dedicacated bioscan.
[10:11] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: You can try to make a scan, but gimme a d20 roll 😃
[10:11] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They have eyes.”
[10:12] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Eyes that could see us, and ears that could hear us”, he notes and chuckles a little to Zahn.
[10:12] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “The walls have both depending on circumstances.”
[10:13] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Contrary to popular belief, I do not have telescopic vision because of my implants. All I can tell is that they have eyes. And skin.”
[10:13] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I do not see pointy ears, so probably not Romulans.”
[10:13] [Tell] Lakara@isabeldawn: 15!
[10:14] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: Your scans say they are partially Klingon, but even that is a bit… off. Klingon but somehow… modified.
[10:15] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Finally, Lakara sends a dump of data towards the pads of the rest of the party, showing agrarian Klingon construction around the tower, and unknown construction near the town centre. Wooden and stone
[10:15] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: Modified in a way that
[10:15] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: is not typical for procreation with non-Klingons.
[10:15] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - The limited bioscans she has suggest some kind of halfbreed or other diluted creature with Klingon DNA. Not quite a pure halfbreed, but modified somehow "Grhm…Not true Klingons, but our people -
[10:16] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - were here…But something’s clearly changed them. Symbiosis with the local plantlife, maybe. Or something more sinister. Either way.."
[10:16] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara attempts to zero in on the metal..Hoping to find where the source of the klingon metals may be
[10:17] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “The bulk of the vessel should be near the tower. The crew of the vessel would have built their first fortifications to protect the crash site…” She looks at the readings, pondering them >
[10:17] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: for a moment. “Do not eat anything here. Do not drink the water. I do not like this.”
[10:18] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: you find at this distance that amount of alloy would correspond to parts of B’Rel around the warp engines since alloy is still magnetised. Also, you find that alloy is about++
[10:18] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: 200 years old.
[10:19] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Two hundred years old..Right. Enough gathering of knowledge. Let me commence a tactical analysis.”
[10:19] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: It is within the tower and some in surrounding side buildings of the tower.
[10:20] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “And maybe we can get a sight of the locals as well.”
[10:20] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: Run a bioscan, give me a d20 roll and add 5 to it.
[10:20] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “It seems the B’rel has been turned into construction. If we want answers, we must get it frtom within the tower.”
[10:20] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Mm.. Give me a second…”
[10:20] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: *Lakara then begins to zoom in to the settlement..Especially around the tower. Seeking a path of entry to it. And she seeks to inspect the locals: Where are they around the tower, how tricky would it-
[10:21] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “And the residents?”
[10:21] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - be to manouver around them, and what are their armaments.."
[10:21] [Tell] Ginora@datguyyoulike: 5 naked, + 5 is 10))
[10:21] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: It is mid-day, you’d find residents wandering about as if it were market day or going to and from their homes for fishing, agrarian activites and so forth.
[10:21] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I can send a flare over their heads, if you would like to see how they react.”
[10:22] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: Just enough 😃 Your bioscnas, added to what Lakara already found out, show traces of Augment Virus genetic modifications within the population.
[10:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Scan compl-…. Oooh how very interesting.”
[10:22] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: as for armaments, spears, knives, bows arrows, quite medieval
10:24] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “You wish to scare them, Zahnithri?”
[10:25] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <c> “Captain how is your history?”
[10:25] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “They would draw their weapons, letting us see what they are using. They would look around and scatter, letting us see their physical abilities.”
[10:25] [Tell] To Lakara@isabeldawn: There is no indication of having guards, police or anyone patrolling intently.
[10:25] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “And they would come out of hiding, showing us their true numbers.”
[10:26] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Not a bad idea, but I am not sure Lakara and Ginora might agree.” <C> “My history is generally fine, Ginora, why do you ask?”
[10:26] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Armaments: Bows, arrows, and spears. tactical spacing..No guards.”
[10:26] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “These people do not seem used to having enemies.”
[10:26] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “It MAY be possible to sneak inside the tower to see what can be salvaged..But it is within a settlement. It is unlikely.”
[10:26] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Lakara is of course in charge. I simply offer suggestions.”
[10:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara, still atop the mountain, is communicating via comms “The way I see it we have two options.”
[10:27] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Village built around B’Rel alloy, with armed residents who seem Klingon but do not have enemies. Many clues yet no pattern.”
[10:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Make contact and open negotiations..Or hostilities. Or send in a single agent to explore from hiding.”
[10:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Their armaments seem hutning tools.”
[10:28] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Well do you recall the klingon situation circa… Say, a couple centuries ago? I’m a little hesitant to really conclude for sure given social faux pas.”
[10:28] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Klingons would have taught their children how to survive. They would not have regressed this far after only a few centuries.”
[10:29] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Looks to Ginora position upward even if doesn’t see her directly and frowns. “I assume you refer to lack of proper forehead ridges.”
[10:29] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C“We can assume nothing. Ginora, how is your stealth abilities?”
[10:30] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I do. And I’m in intelligence. I know how to not leave a footprint.”
[10:30] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Zahni mutters to herself, rolling information around too low for anyone to really understand.
[10:31] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “Then here is what I suggest.”
[10:31] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C "Ginora sneaks into the tower and attempts to discern what happned to the B’rel as best she can. Recover reading materials if need be. I will remain on the mountain on overwatch. Thorgar and -
[10:31] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - Zahnithri remain near the tower."
[10:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “If Ginora is discovered ,we move in and make contact. IF they are hostile..We will test their strength. One way or another, we will have our answers.”
[10:32] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “A solid plan.”
[10:32] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Agreed.”
[10:33] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Then excuse me as I find a way in.”
[10:33] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “I have concerns about all of this. Something about this is… familiar, but I can’t place it. Something from my time in the Collective.”
[10:33] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: I won’t follow you, but I will navigate what Ginora sees. For each success, you can approach the tower and emote what you do.
[10:34] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “If you can remember, it may aid Ginora in her search.”
[10:35] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora, still high up, tries getting as close as possible, along with checking if she can perhaps scale the tower, assuming it’s worth it.
[10:35] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Plants that contain Targ proteins. People who are sort of Klingon… a planet more than slightly similar to the Qo’nos the crashed vessel is from.”
[10:36] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> She could scale the tower, assuming she can jump unnoticed over other trees and houses, though she may risk being caught if anyone looks up. Residents do go about their daily business it seems.++
[10:37] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “It’s as if the planet -designed- all of this to make the crash survivors comfortable.”
[10:37] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++As she approaches closer, she’d pick on another interesting fact. Her UT discerns their language very quickly. She doesn’t even need it. Folks speak Klingon.
[10:37] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara uses her binoculars to keep overwatch for Ginora. She watches to see when the villagers are looking and not, and wil send signals to Ginora alerting her of her windows of opportunity
[10:38] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “If possible, I would like to dissect one of them.”
[10:38] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “You sound as if Preservers created this place.”
[10:38] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> "You’ll be either happy or horrified to know they are speaking klingon if my translator is working correctly.. Hmm.. This tower.. I might be able to climb it but i’d need 20 seconds <c>
[10:38] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …If I were to climb high enough for anyone to not notice. Most people don’t look up after all."
[10:39] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “That is certainly a possibility. Another is that whatever caused them to crash felt some responsibility to them afterwards?”
[10:40] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “It was not when I was in the Borg. I’ve read about such things in the mission logs of the Enterprise. 1701-D, but that was a sort of holodeck.”
[10:40] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Resident-small-talk> “The Sky Ancestors smile with this year’s crops growth… Guardian Korak blessed us… I shall name my son after the Great Warrior Kor…”
[10:41] [Tell] Zahnithri@amyclaren: To Zahni, it feels like a biological version of that Vegas holodeck thing from TNG))
[10:41] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: gimme d20
[10:41] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: aaaah… yeah I remember… when whole thing was created after a book 😃
[10:41] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “We need records! Answers! Any logs they left behind, pieces of writing, perhaps an old computer..Something that can give answers. If yo ucan see it within..That would help.”
[10:41] [Tell] Ginora@datguyyoulike: 15))
[10:41] [Tell] Zahnithri@amyclaren: yeah
[10:42] [Tell] To Zahnithri@amyclaren: Nice association but don’t worry isn’t that. But still good thinking. I like your ponderings 😃
[10:42] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Perhaps my klingon mythology needs updating but does a ‘Korak’ mean anything to the rest of you?”
[10:42] [Tell] Zahnithri@amyclaren: Possibly also something from TOS, but I don’t remember that one exactly. Something similar with an astronaut
[10:43] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Her training of no leaving footprints pays off to Ginora as she reaches the side wings of the tower. And just so happens that on her level is open.
[10:44] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <C> “Korak, Korak, Korak… there was smaller House Korak in time of Organian Peace Treaty with Federation.”
[10:44] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Similar time period to everything else we’ve seen.”
[10:45] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “The locals are mentioning something about Sky Ancestors and a Guardian Korak.” Ginora looks up the tower. “Do you suppose I can climb this tower high enough in time? It my not be worth it.”
[10:45] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Time period definitely confirmed. But it also means these Klingons are from a period when we were… still troubled by Augment Virus infection.” <C> “I leave it to your estimate, Ginora.”
[10:47] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Oh wonderful, so what is the plan for you?”
[10:47] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Which would explained why neither Ginora nor Lakara were able to scan a full Klingon biosign.”
[10:47] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Are you able to hide a tricorder up there set to passive scan and silent?”
[10:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “My suggestin: Find either writing or a computer log of some kind and get out. If you can. ”
[10:48] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “…That..IS an excellent suggestion. Do that! then withdraw!”
[10:48] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “We can use it to help surveil the area while we fall back and set up camp behind holoscreens.”
[10:48] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Hide a tricorder or find a ship log. Odds are after this much time it’s not going to have any power left.”
[10:48] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “The secrecy will not last long..These were of Klingon blood once. Honour dictates they be given a chance to prove their worth to the Empire anew. But for now, that will do.”
[10:49] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: C “No..But there may be books or tablets. See what you can do, but do not linger.”
[10:49] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “A tricorder would also give us a booster to tap into anything left of the computers. I am able to do quite a bit remotely.”
[10:50] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I’m already here, I could find a place for it.”
[10:50] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I’m already here, I could find a place for it.”
[10:50] [STOIC] Zahnithri@amyclaren: “Please do.”
[10:51] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Within the tower, Ginora would see a staircasing built around the alloy they detected. It is a support beam for warp coils in B’Rel bird of prey. On the inside walls, Ginora would find drawings++
[10:52] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: B’rel shaped objects, one depicting what seems to be a planetfall.
[10:52] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “Quite a few drawings in here.. I’ll send some images your way too.”
[10:54] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: Would you want that?
[10:55] [Tell] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Could keep it interesting, only Cardassian in a party of klingons.))
[10:55] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: I rolled 7. xD
[10:56] [Tell] Ginora@datguyyoulike: And I got a 19 lol))
[10:56] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: Fuck xD
[10:57] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Ginora successfully hides the tricorder and links it with Zahns for data collection. And just as she gets through the window she entered in, a childish voice can be heard:++
[10:57] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++“You don’t look like one of Sky Guardians.”
[10:59] [Tell] To Ginora@datguyyoulike: It is a boy in late teens, seems agile and has Klingon-styled braided hair.
[10:59] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: The Cardassian woman sets her phaser to stun. “You’re just dreaming, maybe you should wake up.”
[11:00] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Boy> “Oh, you speak like us?”
[11:02] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Sssshh.. Just wake up.” In a quick move, partially banking on the teen not really being familiar with weaponry of the time, the Cardassian fires a stun beam. It was hopefully not too loud, but <c>
[11:03] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …She’s not taking chances, someone heard it as far as she is concerned.
[11:03] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “I strongly suggest we leave quickly.”
[11:03] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Exfil. Now. Do you require beamup?”
[11:04] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Boy> collapses with one the, luckily for him, flat roof with a thud. Doesn’t seem to be hurt, just like falling a sleep while standing. Ginora retreats without a trace or sound.
[11:04] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: <C> “That would be most helpful.”
[11:05] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <GM> Beamed or not, the group successfully leaves the premises - the mystery still remains: who are these people?

darthhorvath

Episode 4: Children of The Unhappy Ones, Pt 2

Transcript

[7:03] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <INTRO> Three days later, the away team gathers at the planetside camp, hidden behind holo-camouflage. The scans of planet are in, reports are written and distributed. Now it is the matter of++
[7:04] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++question… how to approach the QuchHa’ half and quarter-breeds?. <INTRO ENDS>
[7:04] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Ginora, Lakara. Welcome back.”
[7:05] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Thank you.” Lakara nods with a smile that doesnt reach her eyes, peering at Ginora “I have read your analysis, but I found a crucial detail missing from the reports.”
[7:05] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Namely the status of the planet’s wildlife and fauna. How -…Dangerous..Are they? And how dangerous is the environment to exist in in general?”
[7:06] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Not dangerous enough to displace your wayward kin it would seem.”
[7:07] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: "From what my on-site teams have examined in the vicinitty of several kellicams around this camp, wildlife is as good… or as bad, as on colonies across the Empire. Within fauna, there are some++
[7:08] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: plants that will be deadly for anyone upon consumption. Toxins are toxins wherever you go, but it seems that majority is either treatable by thermal processing… or cooking. Or with appropriate++
[7:08] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: medication."
[7:08] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Hrm..Unfortunate. I was hoping for something exceptionally viscious.” The Klingon frowns and crosses her arms across her chest. She scoffs and peers at Ginora
[7:08] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Do we know how these locals regard us aliens..Or Klingons, in this case?”
[7:09] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “There was a little girl who didn’t seem particularly shocked by presence.”
[7:11] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “They know they’re not from here, at the very least.”
[7:11] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “Hmm. So they are at least acquainted with the idea of… someone else than themselves.”
7:12] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: "Hrm. Well. My plan has not changed. I suggest we approach them openly, and bid them to send their mightiest warriors. IF they can defeat our party, or at least put up a good fight, they will earn -
[7:12] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - the right to govern themselves as a vassl in my book. If they are weak, or worse, cowardly..Then House Krotak will put them under occupation."
[7:12] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Either way, this planet would make an excellent agricultural colony, especially with its distance to front lines.”
[7:13] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “And as a staging point for deeper into the nebula. Naturally grown food can be a good… how do Humans call it… bargaining chip?” grins
[7:14] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Not just for this part of space..Our House’s prestige and power would grow much from a heavily developed agricultural world.”
[7:14] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Food is still the lifeblood of peoples, and being able to provide it can earn a lot of favors to cash in.”
[7:15] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “But more importantly! These people must prove their strength! For a pool of warriors to recruit from can be even more valuable!”
[7:16] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: "Bioscans suggest that the original natives are Preserver-based humanoids and their average strength ranges between Andorians and Cardassians… that is an estimation however. My concern is…++
[7:16] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “We’ve also checked the mineral composition prior before haven’t we?”
[7:17] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: suppose we claim this village, what about the rest of original natives?" he asks and turns to Ginora “Yes we have.”
[7:19] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Given the difference in technology, I suspect it will matter little.”
[7:19] Lakara@isabeldawn is not impressed.
[7:20] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: "An occupation force should have no problem subjugating or displacing -any- village that stands in our way. And if we support these people, they will soon eclipse all other settlemetns on this planet.
[7:20] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “..Ideally, I would sponsor a grand tournament where all may send their warriors..Once our initial work is complete. Let the strongest earn the right to be the capital.”
[7:20] Thorgar@photis ponders the situation.
[7:21] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Once we have our vassal, House Krotak can assign an Imperial governor to develop the world in tandem with the locals.”
[7:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “It might be prudent to have the strongest of them answer to said governor.”
[7:22] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “It will also serve as an introduction to our culture in an… entertaining way. While conquering them via proxies among their own people. Less waste of potential warriors and workforce.”
[7:22] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Find the strongest, give them responsibility, do not let them forget who they answer to.”
[7:22] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: nods to Ginora “Such a person would be a liasion, I agree.”
[7:24] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “..You’re not as scientific as you seem, Thorgar.” Lakara nods with a warm grin, baring her fangs
[7:25] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Indeed..It might be worth considering a slow, grinding conquest of this world on -their- techonology level instead..Such a slow, generational war will produce strong warriors rather then food!”
[7:25] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “The strongest of them can be taken to serve the Empire, but such concerns will be for the governor to decide. Ours is to enroll them.”
[7:26] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: smiles to Lakara “In an Empire as our own, just being a scientist makes for a very short life.” he laughs
[7:28] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Either way, there’s only one way to test if they are strong enough to be worth the effort.”
[7:28] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “And then wise enough to grasp the opportunity they have before them.”
[7:28] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “If they lack either, then this whole debate is pointless.”
[7:29] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: looks between Ginora and Lakara as he unsheaths his father’s kur’leth “Who is interested in making introductions then?”
[7:33] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: AFter waiting a moment for Ginora, Lakara shrugs and picks up her bat’leth, grinning toothily “I hope they’l put up a decent fight.”
[7:34] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora places her hands behind her back, clearing her throat. “Usually, i’m not one to go into melee, or fight unless I have to. Still it serves to be there.”

[7:34] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “You cannot fight for the Empire without knowing how to fight honorably! I trust you’ve been trained enough not to be useless.”
[7:35] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I am ready.”
[7:35] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Usually, if someone like me is fighting, something has gone terribly wrong.”
[7:35] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: “And we still need to pick up your tricorder back. A nice thing to have.” he nods then turns to some of his crew “J’tor, Dorana, you two are with us.”
[7:37] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> The five walk over to the improvised transporter pad within the camp and wooosh… beam out to the village outskirt. <FX-scene change>
[7:37] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Where’s the Klingons in this crew if you need them..They’re going to miss out on all the fun.”
[7:38] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “This is getting me nostalgic, granted there was less fighting to test worth.”
[7:40] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> As they walk towards the settlement outskirts, residents notice them. Among them is a girl that Ginora will recognise. The girl exclaims: "There… there she is. I told you Sky Ancestors were++
[7:40] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++coming back. She brought the Ancestors back." And with that, the villagers stiffen but children seem to be amazed though they do not approach the five entering.
[7:41] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “It would seem i’ve brought salvation. I cannot say i’m used to it.”
[7:41] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara scoffs a touch and moves to enter the stronghold. She keeps her bat’leth in one hand, hauling it along as she seeks to make her way to, or into, the largest building
[7:43] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Male Villager> “Orin, get the guards… and Elder Jor. He needs to see this… if his eyes still serve him.”, the man laughs. “So prophecies were true.”
[7:44] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Soon enough, somewhere a kind of bell can be heard and several men and women, resembling Humans and Human-Klingon hybrids come out armed: with spears, bows and arrows and a few… with mek’leths+
[7:44] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: and bat’leths."
[7:45] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara tries to advance further. Rather then the hybrids, her eyes draw to the bat’leths and mek’leths ,attempting to identify their age..If the locals made them, or inherited them from the original
[7:45] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “I see it too. Old or new?”
[7:46] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> One tall, muscular male, armed with two mek’leths of non-standard design steps on Lakara’s path. “Halt. I am Konno, Master of Arms, Guardian of Elder. Who are you?”
[7:49] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara’s muscles tighten, restlessly, her grip on her bat’leth tightening as if prepeared for violence. She’s visibly straining to calm herself enough to speak "I am Lakara, daughter of Temir, -
[7:50] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - Herald of the Klingon Empire! And we are here to test your worthiness!" The Klingon angles the sharp blade of her bath’leth to the man. It was less then a threat, but more then a friendly gesture*
[7:50] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “If you are the Master at Arms, then the challenge is yours to take up.”
[7:53] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Konno nods respectfully then points one mek’leth tip at Lakara’s forehead. “You are of the Empire. Are you of non-tainted ones then?”
[7:56] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara shoots Ginora a brief questioning look as if to explain the tainted definition to her “My blood is pure.” She remarks all the same
[7:56] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora’s head crests at the mention of ‘non-tainted’, beyond that, nothing.
[7:58] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Konno’s focus briefly switched to Ginora as he asks: “And this one in your escort? Tainted like our Sky Ancestors or a creature of a different breed?”
[8:00] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Answers are for those who deserve them!” Lakara abrubtly raises her voice and brandishes her bat’leth back on the man "You are not our equal yet, Konno! Prove your people have not grown weak on -
[8:01] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - this world! Once you have, you’l have all your answers…And more."
[8:02] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: One named Orin steps to Konno’s side and points a finger at Ginora: “That is the one who cast a dream spell on my daughter on the roof. I demand retribution. My daughter was telling the truth.”
[8:04] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “I was wondering when he’d show up.”
[8:05] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Thorgar leans to Ginora, whispering: “How are your skills with Klingon hand weapons?”
[8:06] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “I wouldn’t say impressive.” Ginora mutters back to Thorgar.
[8:07] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Then we have two. One more is needed!” Too caught up in Klingon warrior ethos, Lakara doesnt seem to stop to consider ginora’s skills, instead directing her attention at the crowd and lifting her -
[8:07] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Orin armed with mek’leth at on his side and a bat’leth which seems slightly shorter, more accomidating to Orin’s shorter stature.
[8:08] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - bat’leth “Who amongst you will fight?! This is a challenge that will be sung about for generations! Do you deny the call of battle?!”
[8:10] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> A big chunky fella steps out and lets a growl. He is about a head taller than Thorgar annd the only one with full Klingon ridges. “I am S’leg, son of S’leg. I will fight.”
[8:10] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: To which Thorgar lets out a Klingon version of “Oh, crap, this one is mine, isn’t he?”
[8:11] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Meanwhile, Jtor offers a set of hand weapons to Ginora to choose from.
[8:12] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora lets out a sigh, her displeasure WILL be known. She looks at her options, before deciding on a knife, checking it’s weight for a second. "I don’t suppose it would be worth mentioning i’m a <c>
[8:13] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …Scout of sorts?"
[8:13] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara finally looks back to the Master at Arms “Where do you hold your battles?” Judging from the sheer number of melee weapons, she’s presuming the presence of a combat arena of some kind
[8:15] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Konno points to the (dancing area). “This is very perform duels to settle those things that mere words cannot mend, Herald of the Empire. Follow me.”
[8:15] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Ah, thought not.”
[8:17] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Exciting!” Lakara steps into the ring and circles back and forth. Now in full warrior mode, the Klingon watches all three warriors like a hawk. Her eyes w ere slightly feral, sinking through her -
[8:18] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - knees and bandishing the wide, sharp blade to all three. She’s ready to strike, and deliberately keeping it unclear at whom "The fact you wield our weapons means I now expect much, warriors! I was-
[8:18] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - worried you would only come with spears!"
[8:18] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Konnos speaks. “Master of Arms against the Herald. Orin seeking retribution of the Dream Witch. S’leg against…”, looks to Thorgar who unsheaths his kur’leht and says “Thorgar, son of Morak.”
[8:20] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “If you’re wondering I stunned the daughter, didn’t need alarms.”
[8:21] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Orin spits on the ground beside him. “Speak what you will.”
[8:22] [Emotes] Ginora@datguyyoulike: rolls 22 (1-100)
[8:24] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 77 (1-100)
[8:24] [Emotes] Lakara@isabeldawn: rolls 11 (1-100)
[8:25] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 16 (1-100)
[8:25] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 93 (1-100)
[8:26] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 87 (1-100)
[8:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Unaware of how skilled, or not, the warriors are, Lakara finally lunges forward! Twin Mek’leths offer a problem, one that Lakara naturally seeks to fix by graspign the bat’leth at the lower ends and-
[8:28] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - swinging the balde wide for her foe, using the vastly increased reach to strike at him before he can strike at her!
[8:28] [Local] Thorgar@photis: <Konno> wields his two mek’leths with relative ease and blocks Lakara’s attacks from either angle. With two hand weapons, it looks more like a dance than the usual Klingon movement. His jumps at low++
[8:28] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Konno> wields his two mek’leths with relative ease and blocks Lakara’s attacks from either angle. With two hand weapons, it looks more like a dance than the usual Klingon movement. His jumps at low++
[8:29] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: True to her word Ginora wasn’t much of a fighter, she had picked something a little easier for her to use, basically, a dagger. she had blocked the first blow from the one known as Orin, but her <C>
[8:29] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++strikes are elegant, almost looking as if he glides in the air. He parries successfully and strikes a cut on Lakara’s upper arm, causing a superficial bleed.
[8:31] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: …Inexperience didn’t see that it was a distraction for a shoulder coming at her face, for now, leaving a bruise. Likely more to come. (2:3)
[8:32] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Orin> hurls into Ginora with anger. His short temper is bestened by Ginora’s agility, but he does land a strike as Ginora describes.
[8:32] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara seems caught off guard by the artistic grace of Konno’s swirling blades! The woman is quick to fall back and prevent a horrible injkury, but he still nicks her arm and draws blood! The injury-
[8:33] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - was so light it seemed to delight her more then anything else! (Will hold attack emote for next round of rolls)
[8:33] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Thorgar> however… got the big guy. S’leg swings with his bat’leth and clashes against Thorgar’s kur’leth but the big fella’s momentum sends Thorgar few steps backward and he falls down on ground.
[8:33] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Aagh.. Zhal!”
[8:34] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Thorgar comments: “For quchHa’ children, you fight well.”
8:36] [Emotes] Lakara@isabeldawn: rolls 50 (1-100)
[8:37] [Emotes] Ginora@datguyyoulike: rolls 59 (1-100)
[8:37] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 35 (1-100)
[8:38] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 76 (1-100)
[8:39] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 48 (1-100)
[8:39] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Now that she knew his method of fighting, Lakara began to match him. The woman lunges forward, thrusting her blades forward in a single, frontal thrust to make it impossible to parry effectively! -
[8:39] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - Expecting another flowery dodge, Lakara swiftly releases her bat’leth with one hand only to grab the upper handle with both and swing it in a wide, distant arc, attempting to catch the dancing-
[8:40] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 72 (1-100)
[8:40] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - armsmaster with her reach! Trusting in the presence of Bragh’lulh, Lakara was NOT as gentle, and would tear the sharp blade into his side in a bloody puncture or rip if she manages to get him in -
[8:40] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - reach!
[8:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Already knowing she was likely to lose and on the backfoot, she for the most part tries to remain on the offensive, dodging and catching the blade however she can. It was of little use.
[8:42] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Konno> seems to have overestimated his wide-angle approach with his two mek’leths as the wide-arc swing of Lakara lands right into his elbow, causing him to drop one mek’leth in the process.
[8:43] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Orin> continues his advance with all his body mass and thrungs into Ginora, pushing her further out of the ring. Whether she falls on the floor or not, remains for round 3.
[8:44] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Thorgar> meanwhile has recovered and takes S’leg’s slow, sloppy movement to his advantage as he runs to giant’s side and thrusts his kur’leth into S’leg’s right quadriceps.
[8:47] [Emotes] Lakara@isabeldawn: rolls 64 (1-100)
[8:47] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 62 (1-100)
[8:48] [Emotes] Ginora@datguyyoulike: rolls 14 (1-100)
[8:48] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 67 (1-100)
[8:49] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 8 (1-100)
[8:50] [Emotes] Ginora@datguyyoulike: rolls 23 (1-100)
[8:50] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Not content with just a little injury, Lakara launches into a ferocious offensive with her bat’leth! She aims to TRULY test Konno, Klingon style, forcing the Armsmaster to duck, weave, and parry as -
[8:50] [Emotes] Thorgar@photis: rolls 64 (1-100)
[8:50] [Emotes] Ginora@datguyyoulike: rolls 25 (1-100)
[8:51] [Emotes] Ginora@datguyyoulike: rolls 93 (1-100)
[8:53] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - she proves adept with a Bat’leth. The heir lunges in a wide sweep first, then suddenly changes tactics by grasping both ends and thrusting each tip forward in quick, rapid thrusts - She seeks to -
[8:53] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - wear down his defenses, and the moment the Armsmaster’s attention slips, Lakara pounces like a predator, seeking to ram the sharp blade right into the arms master’s gut and shove him to the floor! -
[8:53] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - Not a fatal injury, but definetely not harmless either!
[8:54] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Konno> may be a dancer with blades, but Lakara proves to be a quick learner in this particular case. Her quick changes of tactic wear him out as he is stabbed in his both legs and falls to the++
[8:55] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++dropping his second mek’leth. Lying on his back, bleeding he looks at Lakara and says: “Damn you, Herald. I was never taught this.”
[8:56] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora surprises the world by being honest when she said she’s not a fighter. Nobody seems to have caught onto her repeated that multiple times. She continously plays defensive to no avail.
[8:57] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Orin> strikes with his dtakgh blade and uses his body mass again to slam her out of the “ring”… and then stops, staring at her and says: “Seems you are no Dream Witch at all.”
[8:58] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora coughts, brushing herself off, trying to maintain a sense of dignity. “Only someone who doesn’t fight, i’ve only said so what, three times?”
[8:59] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Impressive by the way you’ve beaten a non-fighter in a fight.”
[8:59] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Wh-” Ginora realizes she’s probably going to cause more incident than she needs, and stops talkings.
[8:59] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Thorgar> struck kur’leth into S’leg’s fat leg but was unable to pull it out. S’leg loses balance a little but catches Thorgar and punches him with a closed fist in the face. Thorgar flies out of the+
[9:00] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: +ring and is knocked out.
[9:01] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Orin> and <S’leg> prepare to engage Lakara but <Konno> shouts: “Halt! Halt you idiots. This is a duel, not war.”
[9:02] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <FX> Jtor and Dorana rush to aid KOed Thorgar.
[9:03] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara had stood over Konno, pointing a razzor sharp blade at his throat! Still, any warrior who can read the intention to kill can see there is none in her eyes. AS the two warriors advance, Lakara-
[9:03] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - falls back and raises her bat’leth to the two warriors,as if prepeared to fight them both! But she waits to see if they’l heed his words
[9:05] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: A new, deep bass voice is heard from dais: “Orin, you know the rules. Those out of the ring are out of the battle, you earned your retribution. Go to your daughter. S’leg, you have a mill to run.”++
[9:06] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++a Klingon with cataracts speaks looking in general direction of duelling area. He is clearly blind. “Tend to that fallen Klingon.”
[9:06] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara lowers her bat’leth as well, and reaches down to offer Konno a hand up. If its taken, she’d roughly drag him to his feet - A Klingon way to test his ability to endure iinjury, to be sure
[9:08] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Konno> accepts the hand and stands up, offering a grin. “I am such a fool” he says then notices the Kligon on podium. “Elder Jor?”
[9:08] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “You will learn.” Lakara nodded at Konno, and they were simple words that seemed full of promise before turning her attention to the Elder
[9:09] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “Master of Arms,… Herald and her escort. Please join me.” he looks to general direction of Lakara and Ginora as others move away and villagers disperse with cheer and chatter
[9:10] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara nods. Before moving to follopow him, she moves to check on Ginora and Thorgar. IF any need a hand up, they are offered, and she cant help but grin a bit at Thorgar’s condition "Stronger then-
[9:11] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - they look, arn’t they?" She was laughing a little, visibly pleased!
[9:12] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Thorgar doesn’t respond as he is still knocked out. Jtor picks up his kurleth and says to Lakara and Ginora: “We will take him back to camp. The big fellow beat the Kahless’ spirit out of him.”
[9:13] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Despite not being a fighter, Ginora seems to at least still be standing, though she is bleeding from the nose, there’s cuts along her arms, and bruise along her face. The knife, she hands to <C>
[9:13] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: ..Whatever native passes by her.
[9:13] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: Lakara frowns, visibly surprised. She shakes her head and deliversa gentle kick to his leg, just in case that’s enough to rouse him, before moving on "Bah! His loss..Come, Ginora! At least you’re -
[9:13] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - still awake!" Sympathy for Ginora? She’s walking, isn’t she?
[9:14] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: The Klingon grabs the edge of the platform and clambers up to join the Elder’s side
[9:15] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Elder Jor> smiles a toothless smile. “Ah the sound of metal against metal. I haven’t heard that in years. I am Jor, son of Ghar the Fallen, who was son of Korak.”
[9:16] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Haven’t had a thrashing like that since my last recruitment.” Ginora wipes under her nose, that nose bleeding isn’t going away.
[9:17] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Elder Jor. I am Lakara, son of Temir, heir of House Krotak, Captain of the Klingon Defense Force!” She gesture sat Ginora “Our scout, Ginora, braver then most of her kind.” She flashes Ginora an -
[9:18] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - approving grin. At least she got in the ring
[9:20] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “A pleasure to meet you, Lakara. Ginora, who is your kind?”
[9:21] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: Ginora rubs the bottom of her chin, looking to Lakara for a response, if she does give one. She decides to not wait. “Cardassian, not important as of right now.”
[9:23] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “So Empire met others than those damn Humans. Did we finally conquer their Federation?”
[9:24] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> rubs his forehead where the ridges were supposed to be. “Their cursed virus.”
[9:25] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Thankfully not! They were worthy enemies. But we have since forged a lasting peace and stood together against many glorious foes.”
[9:25] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: She twists her lips at seeing his lacking ridges, and lifts a finger t owards them “We can cure that.”
[9:26] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Enemies are a complicated thing these days.”
[9:27] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “Bah! I am too old for that.”, he comments. "Enemies were always complicated, I guess. I am the last pure-blood Klingon here. Others… our children… the settlers of this planet somehow++
[9:27] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++supressed the virus."
[9:27] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Did you get stranded here along with some ship of Humans or something?”
[9:31] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> "My grandfather Korak banished my father Ghar and me for violating the peace treaty forced upon us by those superior beings. We were banished to Eridon Nebula. Upon entering, our warp drive++
[9:32] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++collapsed. We sought a refuge on some station but its automated defenses killed half of our crew when we boarded it. We escaped and crash landed here, among these people. Since then, we have been++
[9:32] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++teaching them Klingon ways in hope that Empire would find us some day."
[9:33] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Aaah. We too encountered that station.”
[9:34] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “You don’t sound as if you suffered the same menace as we have.”
[9:35] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “No, but the station’s masters unleashed a ferocious war upon the galaxy. The Empire was nearly destroyed. But we triumphed.”
[9:36] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I wil ltell you all olf that and more, but first, the fate of this planet is an issue. We know there are cities all over. I assume they are all independant?”
[9:37] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “They are. We… befriended two or three settlements around us. Befriended in Klingon way, of course. But planet is much larger and I am not sure how many even know we live here”, he thumbs++
[9:38] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: behind him. “I kept the ship’s surviving databanks to best of my skills. But age is catching up on me.”
[9:39] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “No matter. You need not carry it alone anymore.” Lakara nods, firmly, and raises her voice proudly "The Empire will claim this world! ..But not as conquerors. Your people fought well. They deserve-
[9:40] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “City states, makes sense, given what they have available.”
[9:40] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: - to live free as befit a culture of warriors! Nevertheless..-Someone- will need to unite those cities if they are to become part of our glorious Empire.."
[9:41] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “..It would take a truly great warrior..Worthy of song..And an army whose lives would consist of nothing but glory.”
[9:42] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> nods to Ginora. “Yes, I think you know about this planet’s riches than I”, then looks to Lakara. "I have no children of my own. But Konno, Master of Arms, will succeed me. In my time, we++
[9:43] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: ++encountered about a dozen more settlements and they… may be persuaded to submit to our rule. But rest of this world… that will be up to Konno to plan. If he has Imperial blessings."
[9:44] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “He will have Imperial blessings only so long as he is worthy.”
[9:44] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “The Empire could subjugate this world in a day were we so inclined. Instead, he will fight, and bleed, and even die to prove his worth.But the reward is freedom. To be a true member of the Empire.”
[9:45] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> laughs. “I think you will find his ‘dancing’ worthy. But it did sound as he needs more recent training in tactics of Defense force.”
[9:45] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “And when the planet is united, it will stand independant under the banner of Krotak, not a mere conquest. I trust it will be motivation enough.”
[9:46] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “I nurtured the Prophecy of Sky Ancestors’ return for many years. People here, and our three… vassal settlements… they will fall in line. Others… will have to be shown a piece of wisdom.”
[9:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I will watch his development with great interest, then.”
[9:47] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “And we will reserve places in the Klingon defense Force for the worthies of warriors.”
[9:48] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “There are battles taking place out there that will make any fight here look like playfighting kittens!”
[9:48] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: Jor nods respectfully in Lakara’s and Ginora’s general direction “The children of QuchHa’ will finally be redeemed.”, he smiles and then sighs. "But I need rest now, Lakara, Ginora. You and your people+
[9:49] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: +are welcome to seek rest here as well. I think you impressed them enough. Just don’t… throw dream spells on children anymore, hm?"
[9:49] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “Well if I have to.. No, I hear you.”
[9:50] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “I believe we can spare an evening. I will be honoured to tell stories around a fire, and teach a song or two!”
[9:51] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “That will please my old soul to no end.”
[9:51] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “Konno will provide you with ship databank in the morning. History needs to be preserved.”
[9:52] [STOIC] Lakara@isabeldawn: “Ginora is capable of recovering them. This place will look good with some Imperial banners flying over them!”
[9:53] [STOIC] Ginora@datguyyoulike: “It might take a bit to recover and preserve them properly but it shouldn’t be hard.”
[9:53] [STOIC] Thorgar@photis: <Jor> “Whatever you can do…”, he nods. “But for now, let’s rest and then dine.”