Uncovering The Mysteries Within

[Espiculeas]

"WE ARE NOW ON RED ALERT, ALL CREW TO YOUR POSITIONS. WE ARE NOW ON RED ALERT, ALL CREW TO YOUR POSITIONS."

Jack rushed out of bed and quickly slipped into his uniform and hovered his hand over the the head gear button. All modern day space clothes were set up with such a device. It wouldn't stop a projectile, but it might just save your life in time to get to the real protective gear. What had happened while he had been sleeping. There was no change in the engines or he would have noticed, scratch that, the ship was slowing down, port thrusters going in reverse and starboard full ahead, had something popped in ahead of them? That would have been expected, although going to Red Alert just for that? What had been going on.

Jack pressed a button on his intercom after checking the time, it was almost watch-change, "Bridge- Captain, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MY SHIP!"

"Captain- Bridge, Sir this is Ensign Soto, something unbelievable just happened sir, it appears that there is another ship directly in front of us, you won't believe it until you see it sir."

Another ship, unless something had gone wrong, they would have been halfway to the destination. Was this God at work? Had he come to reveal himself to them, to welcome them? Could this be a First Contact scenario? Jack rushed to get to the bridge.

The ship began to shake as the momentum was countered, inertial dampeners were kicking in. The ship rolled, anything that wasn't sealed down was thrown to the ground, it continued on for a few moments, whispers began to spread while the crew wondered what had happened.

"Attention on Deck" called the guard outside the bridge as the captain approached, his call as mandated by countless shipboard customs.

"As you were ... my god!" The captain said as he looked upon the main monitors. The thing was huge, it looked almost bigger then the moon, how could it be a ship, surely it was a sign from God! It was spherical in form, the outside appeared to be flawless, no sign of any human technology marking its perfect form. Had this been Jacks destiny all along?

"What is that thing, get me detailed scans right now" The captain called again, duty demanding him to put aside his faith and maintain the security of his ship.

"Sir, we can't get any scans of it, it doesn't even appear on our sensors. We would have hit it if it hadn't been for the computer. It shouldn't even exist." This was Ensign Soto talking.

"Well then, if the sensors say it doesn't exist, perhaps we should prove them wrong. Get a shuttle prepped and loaded, I want a team to get in there now and find out what the bloody thing is." Jack called, the situation ahead of him looking daunting. Surely it would take months to explore the ship, somehow it looked dead, no movement at all. 'If a ship had almost hit me I would be finding out what was on that ship, and yet there have been no signs that they even noticed, what is going on?' He was thinking to himself.

There are rumors going around the ship like a wildfire, something was found in the middle of nowhere and it was bigger then the Moon? A team was being prepared to go somewhere, where could they go?
Among the 206 crew, 45 were being sent somewhere. Some of the names on the passenger list included: Kafka. L, Cleary. M, Matthewson. J, Reynolds. Z, Ganer. J.

There would be 3 flights in, the first would include a party of engineers finding a way in, the second would include the actual scouting party, and the third would be the lifeline of the entire operation. Supplies.

The passengers have just enough time to gear up, procuring any weapons they may require, and any other supplies they may desire. No one knows whats going on, although the rumors have sparked some theories. They are now being ordered to wait in the hanger bay for further orders.

Each crew member will have a side-arm, a Mk 23 Abdulcom Pistol, standard projectile weapon. Security may add in additional weapons, all of which are similar although more advanced then 21st century weapons.

The shuttle will be launching as soon as everyone posts, once it is cleared for takeoff, it will be headed toward a massive opening, which appears to be the entrance to a cargo bay. More information will be found upon landing.

OOC
Interest Check

[Remini]

~Sigh~"How dumb can you be?" Jessica says with frustration to one of her assistants. She was giving a class on equipment in the engine room. "If I had a nickle for ev..." Jess was interrupted by the red alert over the intercom. Jess looks up at the intercom and takes a moment to guess what could possible call for such an alert. "Alright Jackson, Richard, and Moore, You guys come with me. The rest of you are on repairs detail if needed" Jess says as she points them out. Rushing up the stairs and into the hall she sees the flashing red lights and crew members running all over. She grabs one by the arm "Hey! what's the emergency?" As the man explains the situation Jess tries to hold her excitement in. After letting him go she smiled "A completely foreign ship? This is gonna be fun" Jess tells her people to go to there posts as she runs to her room to suit up and grab her pistol. She rushes to the bridge and stops suddenly when she noticed the captain, she adjusted her uniform and ties her hair up to be professional. She was then instructed on the next coarse of action. She aknowledges and makes her way to the Engineer's Block. She selects her choices for who to accompany her and orders each one to take certain equipment. Jess grabs her main bag she keeps pack specifically for exploratory work. She also grabs her favorite tool which she bands all others from using, simply called The Tooth. A big cannon looking tool with many different sources of power used for creating openings if an entrance cannot be found or opened any other way. Though she always uses the plasma setting as she loves overdoing things. She disregarded the shortness of time as she selects a few bottle of liquor and puts it in the equipment bag in case of any downtime. With everything strapped to her back Jessica heads to the Hangar Bay and waits for further orders.

[Valar Morghulis]

Alarms on the ship were going off and red warning lights were flashing overhead in the central security room. Mike sighed and grabbed his Mk 23 Abdulcom Pistol, shoving it into its holster. He stood up and went over to the lockers to pick up his own personal weapon, a customized 'Scorpion' Plasma Assault Rifle, before exiting the room. Never a good sign, he thought. As he passed by crew members, he picked up bits and pieces of what was going on. "unbelievable...First Contact..." "...looks like the Moon..." "...sending a team to explore..."

"Mike, do you copy?" came a voice through his earpiece.

"Yeah, I hear you. What do you need?"

"You're to report to the hangar and await further instructions."

"Copy that. I'm on my way."

Mike turned at a corner and stopped at another communal weapons locker. He clipped a few grenades, both frag and plasma, to his chest before continuing on. Always expect the unexpected, he thought, as he headed back towards the hangar.

[Crionsio]

Leon is browsing through the different tools he has available to him in his medical lab. Barely having time to sit down for himself, Leon smiles at the state of the art tech in the lab. Just as he finishes examining every nook and cranny, a big red light flashes. Leon opens up his comm to figure out what the matter was.

"An unknown ship?" Leon thinks to himself, curious, "and doesn't appear human? Very interesting."

Leon becomes curious, and when Leon is curious, he gets answers. Determined to be on the first ship over there, he sends a request to the captain to be allowed on the first ship along with the engineers. Leon packs some essentials, state of the art med kit, a journal for notes, and some supplies before heading to his room. Leon grabs his trusty pistol, the one thing he has from his father. It's a heavy pistol that really packs a punch, fast, accurate, and is easy to hide under Leon's lab coat. Then he heads for the hanger, awaiting orders.

[TheJackal]

James brightens at the idea of a new, strange change to the routine life of the ship. When he is authorized to bring a sidearm on the ship, he is slightly confused.

"Why on Earth should I bring a firearm? I'm a computer engineer. Is it that dangerous?" He asks of one of his fellow programmers.

"I don't know James. Probably just procedure." The man says, not looking up from his computer. He was dealing with the sensor glitch that prevented them from seeing the object they were going to explore.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." He says, before heading off, picking up the gun, and taking his personal laptop on board the ship with him, along with two wireless connectors, which will allow him to connect to any systems his computer can recognize, which is most. He heads down to the launch bay, and preps for launch.

[Jakal]

Zack was at the helm when the mysterious ship came into view. He saw it first, but the computer was first to alert Ensign Soto. The computer was always the faster talker, and Zack never wanted to spare the effort to argue with it.

When the Captain came to the bridge and ordered that the new ship be boarded and explored, Zack switched the Bates into autopilot. The computer could pilot the large ship just fine, but piloting a shuttle took a finer touch. That meant Zack would be ferrying everyone back and forth between the two ships as needed. He grabbed his sidearm and proceeded down to the hangar.

He ran a quick systems check on the shuttle when he got there, and then started warming up the engines. While he waited for the passengers to board, he put on his bug-eyed shuttle pilot helmet. The helmet gave him a clear view all around the shuttle, and allowed for finer maneuvering for someone as skilled as he was.

[Espiculeas]

The engineering team was able to efficiently open up an entrance to the mysterious ship, now known to the crew as Point Alpha. It took several minutes to even find a way to cut through the ship, it wasn't even damaged by the plasma cutters or explosives. Finally someone got the bright idea of looking for some kind of opening. The narrow cracks in the hull were almost invisible, it took a certain angle to even noticed it, using good old manpower they were able to force it open, exposing the ships atmosphere to space. Nothing came out, which meant that either nothing was inside or that everything was already sealed down.

They sent in a few engineers with lights to look the room over. Aside from the complete darkness, pierced only by the engineers flashlights, they could find nothing on first glance. They spent some more time rigging the door to open and close on command, and got out of there. That empty place was creepy, their flashlights hadn't even noticed any form of bulkheads, it just looked empty.

Zack piloted the engineers back, their job for now was done, the gear they carried was only meant for entry. Upon reentry to the Bates, 1 and a half hours had passed. All of the crew had been offered food and all of the gear packed, ready to be loaded.

After Zack was offered some of the food, everyone was loaded onto the shuttle and sent into Point Alpha.

You were the first man out, it was your job and you did it well. With a team of 10 guards under your command you establish a perimeter around the shuttle. Your orders for this mission are simple, guard the supplies, guard the scouting party, and keep everyone safe.

The shuttle was landed close to the opening, you can see the bulkhead along side, however your helmet light struggles to Peirce through the darkness. You have a 100 meter area within to look. Based on the scale you begin to believe that it would take at least half an hour of running to reach the other side, although carrying supplies (luckily they were dropping in hover carts to carry it with) and with a fast walk, it might take closer to an hour. Thats if your quick calculations are correct.

As you are the head of security for this mission, your word is law. Do you want to follow the bulkhead left or right, or do you want to head straight on ahead. If this was like the Bates, it would be a cargo hold, and straight ahead would be an entrance to ship. First you have to get the crew ready, a base camp set up, and the supplies have to land. ETD 15 minutes. You notice that when you move there is no sound. The only thing you can see are the helmet lights of the 43 other crew as they debark and look around.

You are amazed by this new world that you have entered, your mind racing as it attempts to answer all of the questions you are thinking. The deck appears to be flawless, there is no sign of life. What could have created such a perfect thing as this? Your mind is left free to ponder, you have no real duties for now, except to handle any injuries, and examine any medical gear or life. That reminds you, you pull out a device to examine the air. Amazingly it seems to be breathable by humans, although there are some unknown elements, do you want to give the all clear to take off helmets, or will you be a test subject and do it first? Perhaps it might be better to stick to protocol and not expose anyone to any possible dangers. You have 14 other scientists with you, only 3 of them are trained in the medical field.

You don't have time to look around, you already saw what they saw anyway, its your second time back and you have another journey to complete. After everyone is off you head back toward the Bates, for the next 15 minutes you will just have the fly the shuttle, easy enough job. You know that the real boring part will be staying with the boarding party when you have landed on Point Alpha once more. You have no duty except to watch over your shuttle, and examine any other vehicles that are found, if anything is even out there.

Your boys did a great job, although you weren't there to supervise them. You probably could have done it quicker yourself, if the Captain hadn't ordered you to stay behind. They would need you on the Bates, and didn't want you to wear yourself out on such a meaningless duty. As soon as you get out of the shuttle you notice the structure, its flawlessness amazes you, making you want to know how it was built. Your job will probably be the most interesting of all, finding out how this baby works. For now you have to wait for your supplies to arrive, then you can start your work with the other 8 engineers brought to help.

You don't know why you need to come out on this lonely ship, they brought you and 9 others who had knowledge of technologies and theoretical technologies to aid anyone should you be required. Of course the prospect of discovering new technologies appealed to you, you might find stuff that was beyond your comprehension, and the challenge to understand it would take you over. Until then you had to wait along like the rest and hope that something interesting could pop up for you.

[Crionsio]

"Interesting, the air is breathable?" Leon thinks to himself. "This is defiantly not human. If they breathe oxygen however, that's a really good sign. That means whatever alien race created this has a similar lung structure to us. While it doesn't guarantee anything else is similar to humans, it is safe to assume they might have other human-like qualities."

Writing all of this in his notepad, Leon makes a message directly to the security officer. "Cleary, It's not safe to take your helmet off, but this place has air. Which is odd, but almost defiantly it suggests that if find some sort of alien creature here, that it will have lungs. At the very least, aiming for lungs should be able to kill them, if it comes to that. -Dr. Kafka."

Leon continues with his scans, looking for two things in particular: What elements the air is comprised of, and what percentages of each element. Also if any known contagions, diseases, or viruses are detected. There would be no way to detect foreign diseases with this scanner. Leon pages one of the scientists to come on the next shuttle with the equipment necessarily to find any foreign contagions that would be harmful. Then Leon pages the Captain for permission for the scientist to come over on the next flight.

Finally, Leon posts a broadcast, only accessible by those of high enough rank, saying "there is breathable air here. It's not safe to take our suits off however, we have no idea what kind of diseases might be waiting for us. I have a guy on that, until then, helmets stay on." Leon then gets to work scanning the area.

[Espiculeas]

As you look at your device you notice something strange, the amounts of known elements in the air change slowly to that of exactly Earths Oxygen, everything that was unknown vanished, except for one slight trace of an element, barely noticeable by the device. There was no information on it, and likely no way to find out what it was. Perhaps the device which is being loaded into the shuttle will help. Although the Captain did not give you permission to have another man come aboard, you already had someone with most of his skills.

How could you explain the change in the elements, was there some sort of automated system scanning the visitors and matching their needs? How had the element levels been changed so quickly and to the exact requirements of humans? What was that unknown still out there in almost not noticeable amounts.

There is a slight humming now that comes suddenly on the ship, it starts to slowly increase until it seems to be directly over you. It sounds like some sort of machine is being turned on, although its purpose can not be determined. You begin to hear more sounds, almost as if the ship was waking up. A slight breeze begins to appear, although for now you do not notice it.

[Crionsio]

((Espiculeas, if I say something you disagree with, then just assume my character did what you wanted rather then what I said. For example my character would have known a scientist would be able to do that who was with us, and would have asked him, where as I personally did not.))

Leon notices the change and quickly examines the room for any type of device used to scanned the humans. "I hope we don't have to fight these beings," Leon muttered to himself, "their technology is ages above ours if they can remotely scan and change the elements to whatever pleases them."

All of a sudden a hum fills the room. Leon looks around quizzically, but then goes back to looking for whatever scanned all of the humans.