8:01 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: peers at Passio as she’‘s on the bridge, humming in thought as she taps away on her console. It’'s a quiet moment!
8:06 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: reads from their PADD
8:06 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: is not impressed.
8:06 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: walked onto the bridge, sipping something some sort of very angry red liquid out of a vacuum flask, a bland look on her face.
8:08 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: peers over her shoulder at T’Evoryn, blinking and giving the woman a nod of acknowledgement.
8:20 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: nodded back to Sh’Lyna as she wandered over, still sipping from the flask. “Dr. T’Evoryn, Vulcan Science Academy,” she said bluntly, by way of introduction. “If you were wondering why I’m here. Yourself?” she added, quirking her head slightly at the PADD in her hand.
8:22 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: Captains Log Supplemental, the Siva has arrived at the heart of the ‘Corridor’ anomaly and has located a Reman vessel which appears to be trapped in a mycelial rift. We have recieved no response to hails, and there appears to be no signs of life aboard. We are assembling an away team to board the vessel and investigate what happened.
8:24 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: eyed T’Evoryn and Passio quietly from her position at the rear of the bridge.
8:25 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: finally takes nore of the additional members of the bridge crew
8:25 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Busy day, huh?
8:26 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: Commander Tar’nin, is there anything else you can provide that will assist with our efforts? Do you recognise this class of vessel?
8:28 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: …Commander Shallas, of the Siva. Chief operations officer. She eventually replies, blinking, as her eyes trail from her padd up to Evoryn. She smiles faintly at her, despite the lack of formality
8:28 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: works quietly at the aft science station, working through a tasklist given to him by Cdr Sorek. His eyes lift briefly, noting the stir around the bridge.
8:28 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Did you travel here from outside the Nebula?
8:29 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Yeah. Hathos class. Similar to a Dhelan, but a tad tougher. Not a particularly unusual sight for a Reman ship, though.
8:30 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: nodded. “A runabout, yes. I’ve spent quite a bit of time on DS-13 with the 38th Fleet, so they asked me to come out here and offer my assistance.”
8:30 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: …You must have had an interesting ride, then! The T’ong Nebula takes forever to get to, at least by runabout standards.
8:31 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: It’s been a long enough trip on board the Siva, but then I suppose it makes sense - Starfleet ships in the Area have encountered some truly bizarre things here that a scientist would want in on.
8:31 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: pauses at the mention of “Hathos-class,” pulling up Reman schematics to verify the match against earlier scan profiles.
8:32 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: Would you be able to provide us with a listing of key areas and their locations on the ship?
8:32 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Ach, well, it’s braw t’ave both ye lasses here, anyway.” The scotswoman grinned at both vulcanoids
8:32 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: twitched an eyebrow as she folded her arms over her chest. “Is that so? It’d certainly be more stimulating than remaining at the station….”
8:33 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Sure. Served on a Dhelan for a while. Deck layouts aren’t one to one, but they should be close enough.
8:34 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: If you like, I can give you a full briefing of what is happening and directions on where to go after tonight’s mission?
8:35 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: glanced over her shoulder at the technician. “Thank you for the warm welcome, then,” she replied neutrally, while casting a glance over at Passio. “An interesting assignment indeed.” She then+
8:35 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: turned back to Sh’Lyna and added, “That’d be most helpful, thank you.”
8:40 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: nods slowly. “Lieutenant Buckley, Ensign Davin, work with the Commander to identify a suitable beamin point, likely engineering, but make sure it’s safe.”
8:40 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: If you get aboard, maybe we can work out the nature of this anomaly, and if it’s long term safe.
8:41 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Aye, captain. Analyzing the warbird’s structural integrity to find an area the isnae likely to collapse on our heads…”
8:42 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Captain, engineering is usually some distance away from the bridge, even on Reman ships.
8:42 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: nods once to Buckley, quietly tagging two likely beam-in points, one near main power relays, another near secondary EPS control.
8:43 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: You think the bridge might have more useful insights, Commander?
8:44 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: The bridge tends to be where the main command and control consoles can be found, and provides access to the ship’s sensors, officers logs…All encrypted, of course.
8:44 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: It is also where one is most likely to find any command staff, if they survive.
8:45 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: cross references those beam in points with the warbird’s structural integrity to figure out the best one.
8:46 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: glanced over her shoulder. “What about lifeform readings?” she asked.
8:49 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Bridge wouldnae be a good idea. It’s exposed to space, and EV suits cannae protect angainst the potential effects of direct exposure to the anomaly. We’ll be most likely tae find what we’re after in enginnering, I think.”
8:50 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: …Agreeed. That is where any crew would fall back to.
8:52 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: Last we checked there were no signs of life aboard, has that changed?
8:53 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: looked over her shoulder to Tollas
8:53 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Not as far as I know, but it does mean any logs and..Remains..Would be there.
8:54 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: doesn’t immediately respond, gaze fixed on the sensor feed. After a beat, he blinks once, quietly: “Apologies, Lt (Buckley). I was… considering matters. Did you say something?.”
8:55 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: "Cap asked for a confirmation that there’s no life signs.
8:56 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: adjusts the sensor sweep, narrowing to Reman bio-signatures. “No confirmed life signs aboard. Signal clarity remains low, but… nothing registers.”
8:57 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: ..Sounds like we should at least bear in mind that it is possible there are survivors
8:57 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: I can’t rule out disruption. Sensor clarity is degraded. If there are survivors, they’re either shielded… or obscured by the rift’s resonance.
8:58 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Aye. Either way, we’ll ken fer sure once we’re over there.”
9:00 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: Indeed we will.
9:06 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “I’ve got a suitable location not too far from engineering, the relays are looking like our best insertion point.”
9:06 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Well then, I’d best find my best EV suit.
9:07 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: You’re going as well, Commander?
9:07 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Of course! Like I’d pass up an adventure like this.
9:08 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: steps away from the console, movements precise. “Coordinates confirmed. I’m ready to deploy when you are, Lieutenant.”
9:08 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: piped up, "I’d like to accompany the team as well. I’ve little doubt the Academy will want physical analysis.
9:08 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “I willnae say no ta havin’ a tour guide along. Given both the doctors are busy, I’m sure having her along will be a boon as well.”
9:09 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: gestures to T’Evoryn with the second sentence.
9:10 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: pauses briefly to retrieve an exographic scanner from the bridge sci alcove, slinging the device across his shoulder with practised ease.
9:10 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: glanced over her shoulder. “Well… I’m hardly a physician, but I can certainly apply field medicine in a pinch.”
9:10 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Well, Commander? Care to do a little field work?
9:11 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: It’s the Captain’s call in the end, but I’m not opposed to getting my shirt bloody if needs be.
9:12 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: Commander, I’m sure Garland can cover for you. Your expertise might be needed.
9:13 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Very well, Captain.
9:13 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: tugs at her shirt and smiles. “This should be fun~”
9:13 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Isnae likely tae get bloody unless yer EV suit rips, Commander. And i ken well, at that point ye’d have other problems.”
9:14 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Well, then, it’s settled! I’ll head back over to the Dhae’Rhian to grab a suit and arm up.
9:14 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: ..It’s a figure of speech!
9:17 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Aye. I’ll go suit up, meet ye in transporter room…two?”
9:18 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Two it is.
9:28 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: | The Away Team beams over, with a last minute addition of a junior security officer, who curiously didn’t have a last name.
9:29 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: materialises aboard the Reman vessel, visor HUD flickering as it calibrates. “Local pressure stable… gravity low. Scanner online, beginning sweep.”
9:29 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: raises the exographic unit, sweeping across the corridor bulkhead. “No movement detected… structural stress minor but increasing aftward.”
9:29 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: | The engineering bay is dark and cold, artifical gravity no longer functioned and loose items floated in the area.
9:29 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: frowned slightly as she looked around the bridge. “I’m not… sensing anything,” she said softly.
9:30 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Sensing aside…I fear we will not be finding any survivors here
9:30 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: activated her magboots with a click of her heels, and started heading towards the nearest console to try and assess the ship’s status
9:30 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: | Thick cables ran from the singularity core connected to the super structure of the vessel
9:30 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: begins to slowly manouver herself towards the singularity core, attempting to tap at the console to view the status of the core in particular..
9:31 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: | The consoles were dark, but an ingenious engineer might be able to power them with a compatible power source.
9:32 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: engages his magboots with a low hum, stabilising against the drifting debris. “I’m detecting power reroutes… multiple lines drawn into the superstructure.”
9:32 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: activates her own magboots and wanders towards the doorway to engineering, weapon drawn. Just in case.
9:33 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: followed suit with her own magboots, then made her way to another console to wait for power to come back on, whereupon, she would begin trying to access ship logs.
9:38 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: leans down, tilting her head. She attempts to, carefully, connect a small cable to the status console from the power conduits that seem to be running from the core, effectively bypassing any fused lines if succesful..
9:38 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: crouched down under the console, removing the maintenance panel to get a look underneath at the wiring and such. She opened her engineering kit, removing an auxiliary power unit specifically
9:43 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: opens the door to the hall slowly, looking for any sign of surviving Remans, or anywhere they could go if engineering turned up bust.
9:44 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: lets out a frustrated sneer and lightly slams the console when her scheme to fuse the cables doesnt work.
9:45 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: let out a wry chuckle. “If the core was unstable, we’d have much more pressing issues,” she remarked.
9:45 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: shifts his scan arc to the upper bulkhead conduits. “Power routing is fragmented… but I’m reading a partial flow to the aft EPS junction.”
9:45 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Hall seems clear. We might even be able to make it over to the transporter room if we wanted. Maybe check the transporter logs.
9:45 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: glances toward Buckley. “If we can get a connection link from that node, we might light up auxiliary across this deck.”
9:47 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: I’m most concerned about that singularity core, being a miniature black hole as it is.
9:49 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Aye, let me finish looking over systems, before I start powering up other shite.”
9:56 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Hmmm…no bodies in the hall. That’s odd. You would expect if the structural collapse caused casualties the place would be more…corpsey…
9:59 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Could they have left on a shuttle?
10:00 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: All of them?
10:01 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “I dinnae think singularity cores simply… died like this. Quite possibly something related to the anomaly? I dinnae ken, but… Mister Davin, if you could attempt to help me determine where the power is being drawn to, i’ll hook this generator into the actual power grid.” She frowned.
10:02 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: disconnected her portable generator before getting to her feet
10:02 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: nods once, shifting beside Buckley to reroute his scanner output. “Tracing draw now… there. Power’s bleeding toward Deck 3…. possibly a containment array or lab node.”
10:03 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: taps the scanner display. “No surge activity… but the flow’s unnatural. Like something’s feeding from the grid, not just through it.”
10:03 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: "A gradual, locationless drain
10:04 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: nods slowly, gaze fixed on the flickering energy trace. “Exactly. Not a discharge… an unravelling. Like the core’s being bled from every quantum seam.”
10:04 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: tone low. “It is just a theory, but if the rift somehow ‘poisoned’ it, the crew may have linked the grid to stabilise the collapse… but all they did was delay the inevitable.”
10:05 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: It might also not be quite dead..Just in the process of collapse. Or in low power mode..I have a hard time telling
10:06 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: Could be you’re right. It’s not stable, but it’s not gone either. Feels like it’s… stuck mid-collapse perhaps? This is quite novel to me.
10:07 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Perhaps the Reman Chief engineer managed to stabilize it
10:07 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: thinks for a moment, before exclaiming, "Oh shit!
10:08 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Then my power unit isnae gonna do very much. It’ll be drained in a matter of hours. We’ll have ta use that time very wisely.”
10:08 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Commander..
10:08 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Hey, have you guys checked on the cloak? That thing’s still keeping this ship only half invisible.
10:10 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: If the cloak’s active, even partially, it’s likely drawing from auxiliary. That might explain the drain pattern.
10:10 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: Disabling it might buy us more time, but it could also destabilise whatever’s keeping the rift from tearing the hull apart.
10:11 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: That. Doesn’t sound very good.
10:12 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Didnt you detect a power drain to a nearby section?
10:12 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: "Aye, deck three.
10:12 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Is it possible there are survivors there? If so, I’'d want to ask them before we meddle with any of their tech.
10:12 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: “I theorize that if the cloak collapses uncontrolled, the energy release could well shear the rift boundary… sudden phase friction, possible hull fracturing.”
10:12 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: speaks evenly, the tone clinical… like reading from a report, not predicting catastrophe.
10:12 [Local] T’Evoryn@Blackwater#5311: listened quietly, then started pacing slowly back and forth. She made her way over to another panel and began tapping on it, whiel muttering to herself, “Then what happened to the crew?”
10:14 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: I’ll sweep Deck Three with my exographic scanner. I can max it out, but it will burn it out also. If anyone is out there behind cover or shielding, it may catch a silhouette or thermal ghost?
10:15 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: "…I think we should stop laser focusing on the idea of survivors, and focus a bit more on getting answers. With this dampening field we’re not going to be able to find survivors unless we do a deck by deck sweep. But perhaps if we can solve the engineering situation, and get the ship online, internal sensors should tell us if there are survivors. One problem solves another, aye?
10:16 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: looks to them all on whether or not to proceed
10:16 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Then maybe we just check Deck 3 with our, y’know, natural sensors. The ones in our faces.
10:16 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: I’m afraid it has less to do with the survivors themselves. Singularity cores are not well understood on their own, nevermind how they interact with what’s currently besides it.
10:17 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Answers can come from tinkering with another species’s vital systems, but so can consequences. Caution would dictate we ask the people who work here if we can.
10:18 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: A max-power sweep with the exographic scanner should reveal even trace thermals or displacement… unless obstructed by solid duranium-tritanium weave, like the Doomsday Machine hull.
10:18 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “…i don’t see anyone working here, Commander. We can check deck three, but if there’s nobody there, i’d suggest we’re on our own.”
10:18 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: nods at skye
10:18 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Well, the power draw’s going there too, right? So either we find survivors, or whatever else is drawing that power
10:18 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: I can go and check it out with the Commander if you like. That way you can turn the field off the moment we have word for you
10:18 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: eyes the timer on his suit chonometer, which he set at the outset
10:19 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “…Can we be sure we won’t lose comms over that distance?”
10:19 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: No idea
10:20 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: We can’t be sure of anything. But if we can comm the Siva, we can likely comm each other
10:20 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: I can modify a comm relay and set it midway… extend our signal net by a few dozen metres at most, if we place it properly.
10:21 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Sounds like a better plan than no plan
10:21 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: We could possibly duplicate that to create a breadcrumb chain of relays
10:21 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Good plan, but if we’re splitting up, I nee ye here with me.” A sigh as she triggered her comm. “Buckley to Siva.”
10:21 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: The rift’s distortion effect is unpredictable however.
10:21 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: Go ahead, Liuetenant.
10:23 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Commander, can you lead the way to the third deck? You seem more familliar with the layout of these ships then me.
10:24 [Local] Passio@optoprime101#573: Yeah, I should be able to find the way there.
10:24 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: <C> “Just checking comms, Commander. We’re splitting up. Shallas is heading towards a power drain on deck three, while Davin and I try to restore power. Meanwhile, can you send me a Romulan engineering handbook, particularly anything related to singularity cores… and a copy of the scans we’ve taken of the anomaly, if ye please?”
10:24 [Local] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: Lead the way!
10:25 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: hands the relays to Shallas one by one, each marked with a brief identifier for placement. “Comms relays preconfigured. Signal repeaters should hold against local scattering, provided the deck’s structure isn’t fully collapsed.”
10:26 [Local] Kara@S.J.Brex: =C= Confirmed, we’ll send what we can. Keep in contact over there.
10:27 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: returns to the console beside Buckley.
10:28 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: <C> “Aye, will do. Buckley out.” She ended the comm, grinning to Davin. “Last time I was in a singularity core, i was dating this gorgeous Romulan engineer… And i was focused a bit more on her.”
10:29 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: smirked behind her suit visor.
10:29 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: Hopefully this encounter ends with fewer plasma burns? Tollas attempts humour
10:29 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: allows a faint lift of his brow, then returns his focus to the power feed.
10:31 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “I… what’s fewer than zero?” She blinked in confusion, before deciding she didn’t know him nearly enough to detail what she actually got up to. Instead, she moved over towards the core. “Right, let’s disconnect these extraneous tubes before we start powering everything up?”
10:32 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: (Passio taps her comms unit) Tar’nin to engineering. Anything you can give us on where we’re looking up here?
10:33 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: Agreed. If we restore flow with those still in place, we risk backfeeding into failed circuits… or worse, the rift itself
10:33 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: moves beside her, beginning to scan each cable for active charge or residual phase alignment.
10:33 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: These two are inert. This one… still carrying trace resonance. Recommend isolating it before full decoupling.
10:34 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: taps the line in question with a gloved finger, marking it with a soft pulse on his and Buckley’s HUD.
10:40 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: starts with the inert cables, as disconnecting them would be easy, before proceeding with each disconnect in order.
10:43 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Davin, get that comm please.”
10:43 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: =C= Davin to Tar’nin. You’re headed toward Deck Three. Power draw suggests a containment system or sealed lab, possibly both. =C=
10:43 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: =C= Structural integrity is patchy. Minimal gravity, likely to be debris. Watch for radiation pockets. I’ve pushed a possible safe route to your tricorder. =C=
10:44 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: (Passio steps further into the halls, moving slowly and carefully along the route).
10:45 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: monitors each disconnection, scanning the core junction for shifts in phase alignment.
10:45 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: No surge detected… yet said low The field remains nominal. Proceeding at this rate, we’ll have clean input channels within two minutes.
10:46 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Aye, fortunately the timer wilnae start ticking until I reconnect the power unit.”
10:49 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: (Passio scans the room she arrives in, her eyes landing on the strange waterfall contained within. The signs of combat also don’t go unnoticed) Tar’nin here. I think I found…something…
10:50 [STOIC] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: “Not something, Commander. Those scorch marks are consistent with Elachi weaponry.”
10:52 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | The ship begins to shudder as a blast of mycelial energy cascades into the singularity
10:52 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: …fvadt.
10:53 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: looks up sharply from the console, focus narrowing as the comm crackles
10:53 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | The cables strewn throughout the ship glow a bright blue and the singularity pulses through its casing, causing visible ripples.
10:54 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: braces against the console as the deck rumbles beneath him, eyes fixed on the core.
10:54 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: The rift’s bleeding energy directly into the singularity. The cables are acting as a conduit…
10:54 [STOIC] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: “It looks like the cloak is focused around this room..I can’t tell what it’s hiding, though. But I think you can turn it off?”
10:55 [STOIC] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: “There’s no one here to tell us elsewise, that’s for sure.”
10:55 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: I can try. I might not know internals, but I can operate a cloaking device well enough…
10:55 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: =C= Understood. If the cloak’s anchored to that room, deactivating it may release power load across the grid, could stabilise the core… or spike it. =C=
10:56 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: Wonderful.
10:56 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “Mo creach. Clear the lines, Davin!”
10:56 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: =C= Siva to Away Team, what’s happening over there? The corridor is shifting.
10:57 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: =C= Davin to Shallas. We’re clear of the lines in engineering. If you disable the cloak, there’s no risk of feedback from our end. =C=
10:58 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: Right! Lemme just…this button, then this one, then this one. Step by step Tar’nin…
10:58 [STOIC] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: <C> “Siva, Buckley. Some Republic engineer decided to wire the bloody core directly into the bloody mycelial rift.”
10:59 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: Also, quick note, the glass containing the…waterfall? Is cracking. Which I think is bad.
11:00 [STOIC] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: “That might be a mycelial rift itself..”
11:00 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: Okay, done! We oughta move, now!
11:01 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | As the shuddering calms down, energy now cascades along the cables back away from the singularity, towards the outer hull.
11:03 [Local] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: “…where’s the flow going, Davin?”
11:03 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: pivots back to the console, rerouting scanner output to track the energy direction through the outer conduits.
11:03 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | As the energy spreads out, from the hull, causing wide arcing discharges into the rift, the areas which have been disconnected are now slowly being instead consumed into the rift itself.
11:04 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: =C=… the energy flow vector points aft, Deck Seven by this ship’s layout. Looks like it’s feeding into a dorsal emitter or hull node. Possibly a launch system.
11:05 [STOIC] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: <C> “Siva, status on the rift?”
11:05 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | As the cloak deactivates, the corridor anomaly shifts further, now rotating along with the unbalanced singularity, rapidly losing energy.
11:06 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: =C= Correction, cascade is destabilising the disconnected zones. The rift’s drawing them in. Structural cohesion’s failing where lines were severed. =C
11:06 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: =C= The rift appears to be growing in certain directions, and we’re now detecting high chroniton emissions from some areas of the hull.
11:07 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: That sounds really bad! Elements I am not dealing with temporal shit, today! OR YESTERDAY FOR THAT MATTER.
11:07 [STOIC] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: “So the cloak WAS holding the ship together..Is it possible to tractor the ship out of the grip of the rift? Obviously once we’re OFF it.”
11:07 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: =C= If the growth continues, sections of the ship may be slipping out of phase… or into alternate temporal states. We need to evacuate =C=
11:08 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: =C= Stand by for emergency beamout.
11:10 [STOIC] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: <C> “Negative! Stand ty, Siva.” She looks to Davin. “We need to reconnect these cables. They’re using the singularity core to absorb the mycelial energy from the rift to keep it from spreading.” She rushed back towards the cables to start hooking them up if she could.
11:11 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: Buckley, wait! Reconnecting now could create an uncontrolled feedback loop. The core’s unstable and the rift’s already feeding on the hull.
11:12 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: steps after her, scanner humming sharply as it picks up rising interference.
11:12 [Local] Tollas Davin@nynik: If the flow reverses mid-link, it won’t stabilise, it’ll explode.
11:12 [STOIC] Sh’Lyna Shallas@isabeldawn: V’Lani moves to the medical console, trying to access the systems to see if she can channel containment to hold back the cracking rift somehow within medical
11:14 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: Sh’Lyna, I respect your drive, but we’ve gotta move, now!
11:16 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: Commander Tar’nin to RRW Dhae’Rhian, requesting emergency transport. Lock onto Sh’Lyn and I and get us out of here, now!
11:17 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: (Passio and Sh’Lyna are wrapped in energy just as the mycelial rift overtakes their position, arriving on the bridge of the Dhae’Rhian just in time.)
11:18 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | Down in the Reman vessel’s engineering, the attempt to stabalise the core isn’t succeeding, the unbalance is continuing to build and the core begins violently shaking in its containment
11:19 [STOIC] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: <C> "Ach, fine! Siva, get us the bloody hell out of here!
11:19 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | While the plan was solid, the unbalance had already taken hold.
11:21 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | The crew in Engineering is beamed away as the casing of the core shatters, with intense gravity bounding out into the nebula
11:22 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: | Davin watches the containment shell flicker, then crack: hairline fractures webbing across its surface. His eyes widen, the calm slipping just for a moment.
11:23 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: … and then he dematerialises
11:26 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | As the crew beam back aboard the safety of the Siva and Dhae’Rhian, the Reman vessel continues its unbalanced tumble into the rift.
11:27 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | The rift itself appears to be drawn back into the slowly contracting and exposed singularity, before exploding in a brilliant blue flash.
11:28 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: | Davin materialises on the Siva’s transporter pad, dropping to one knee with scanner still in hand, eyes locked on the last reading of the collapsing core. The scanner stop recording when it hit its maximum detection level.
11:30 [STOIC] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: Skye cursed loudly in scots gaelic as she removed her helmet, tossing it to the ground in irritation. She didn’t fail often, and clearly wasn’t taking it well.
11:30 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: FX | The corridor itself finally collapses and the nebula returns to its usual red and purples, gravity distortions return to normal and all that’s left now is the mycelial scar.
11:31 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: =C= Dhae’Rhian to Siva. Did everyone make it out okay?
11:33 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: =C= We have the Engineering crew, did you get the other team?
11:34 [STOIC] Passio@optoprime101#573: =C= We did, thankfully. Sh’Lyna and myself are safely aboard the bridge. You can retrieve your crewmember at any time.
11:35 [STOIC] Kara@S.J.Brex: =C= Thank you Commander, that’s good to know.
11:36 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: Davin taps on his tricorder as he confers with Cdr Sorek
11:38 [STOIC] Tollas Davin@nynik: The closure appears to be a recoil event. With no stabilising mass, the rift folded inward. The scar left behind may represent a residual interdimensional seam. It is remarkable. It may yield valuable data on understanding how the Corridor appears, or could be… encouraged to appear.
11:40 [STOIC] Skye Buckley@fenixxx3: Skye glanced back to Tollas, taking a deep breath with a sigh. She nodded, relieved that she hadn’t just ended the universe. She turns and heads to the turbolift.
