USS Excalibur Sim Log - 11.26.17

[Cdr Miranda Hawthorne 0]

MISSION BRIEF: Having located the source of the defective gel packs, Dazim has left. On the Tennessee Valley and Mary Seacole, they are working to restore power as well locate the source of their own problems. Our engineering teams continue to dig into the gel packs as well to determine how it spread.

 

Cptn Swain: BEGIN SIM

Cptn Swain: BEGIN SIM

Cptn Swain: BEGIN SIM

 

Maryse Dubois: ::In the hangar bay, hanging back a moment as her teams leave with their new patients.:: +Tandy+ There was an accident in the hangar bay. I know I may be paranoid, but do you think you can have someone inspect the equipment used? I just want to make sure this accident is unrelated to anything else.

Hunter Matheson: ::under the helm console checking things out::

Rhan K'hal: Captain, there's a lot of comm traffic from the surface trying to reach the other ships. Should I put out a general call to let them all know down there? Then if there's something more urgent I can see what use we are to them.

Tandaris Admiran: +Maryse+ What kind of accident?

Cptn Swain: ::Nods::

Indaura Ryssan: (Me in the hangar bay as well?)

Maryse Dubois: +Tandy+ One of the new loaders malfunctioned.

Maryse Dubois: ((If you want, or you can go with the med team and patients.))

Rhan K'hal: +Alpha Veras II+ Attention all Starfleet personnel on Alpha Veras II, this is the USS Excalibur. Both the Tenn. Valley and Mary Seacole are experiencing power issues and are unable to respond to your communications. We are attempting to assist them, but in the interim both ships are unavailable. Please direct urgent inquiries to the Excalibur, otherwise if you can please stay patient and continue your mission please do. Excalibur out.

Indaura Ryssan: :: With the medical team ::

Tandaris Admiran: +Maryse+ That's ...  interesting. Those don't use bioneural circu... oh.

Rhan K'hal: There, that probably won't reassure them much, but hopefully it'll keep them from panicking. I'm going to put some people on comm duty in the TIC, try to keep the mundane stuff out of our follicles.

Cptn Swain: Send an update to Command as well. I want them to know what’s going on. They may need to dispatch another vessel to assist.

Hakran K'hal: #Dazim> :: in the secret part of his lab, because of course he has one, he is scanning his own supplies of gel ::

Maryse Dubois: +Tandy+ Oh?

Rhan K'hal: Aye, Captain. :: gets on that ::

Hakran K'hal: :: enters the bridge ::

Cptn Swain: We can handle the gap, but we're not equipped to be a medical center for an entire planet AND rebuild their power systems.

Tandaris Admiran: +Maryse+ The loader is linked to the computer systems.

Indaura Ryssan: :: Checking with the patients ::

Hakran K'hal: Ah, Captain. I come bearing recommendations.

Cptn Swain: Hunter, modified our orbit to put us a little closer to the TV and Seacole. It should help with the shuttle communication line.

Maryse Dubois: +Tandy+ Oh sounds bad then...

Cptn Swain: ::Glances over:: Oh?

Hakran K'hal: :: nods :: Commander Admiran, Doctor Dubois and myself believe it would be wise to have a comm buoy prepared for automatic or manual launch containing at least the basics of what's been going on. Just in case this gel problem hits our systems as well.

Hunter Matheson: ::mutters something about 3rd string helm personnel::

Tandaris Admiran: +Maryse+ It means whatever was affecting the Mary Seacole and the Tennessee Valley could be affecting our computers.

Cptn Swain: I agree.

Rhan K'hal: Isn't that a cheery thought. I'll get on it right away.

Hakran K'hal: In the meanwhile, we've had an incident in the shuttlebay. I don't have the specifics, but Dr. Dubois is checking it out.

Hunter Matheson: ::flips out from the helm work:: Aye sir. Moving in.

Cptn Swain: ::Frowns::

Hunter Matheson: ::settling in:: How close, sir?

Cptn Swain: Keep me updated. I assume Tandaris is working on a plan to isolate the bioneural systems?

Cptn Swain: As close as you feel comfortable with.

Hakran K'hal: #Dazim> :: big-eyed, ear-perked surprise as he looks over his scan results :: Interesting... Oh blast it, the Starfleeters are going to discover this. :: rubs chin thoughtfully ::

Hakran K'hal: He is, and aye sir.

Hunter Matheson: ::tapping in a few calcs:: Engaging thrusters. Moving to within... emergency umbilical range.

Rhan K'hal: Okay, I've jammed the Cliff Notes version into a comm buoy... or at least I jammed the notes into memory and someone in the torpedo room is jamming it into the buoy. It'll be on hot standby for release.

Maryse Dubois: :;Sighs:: +Tandy+ Sounds like we need to work on a fix, fast.

Tandaris Admiran: +Maryse+ Agreed.

Tandaris Admiran: ::heads for the bridge::

Maryse Dubois: ::Heading back to the labs.::

Indaura Ryssan: :: Treating them at the hangar :: Using the dermal regen on an ankle ::

Hunter Matheson: Station keeping within standard emergency range between TV and MC.

Indaura Ryssan: +Dubois+ None of the injuries are life threatening.

Hakran K'hal: :: hops into the science console chair, pulls up the data himself - frowns over it for a few moments :: All this bio-tech is way over my head. I still can't quite wrap my head around how this could happen in the first place, let alone be "contagious" even into a closed system.

Cptn Swain: ::Glances over:: Its possible its self-propagating, but not viral.

Tandaris Admiran: ::arrives at the bridge::

Indaura Ryssan: :: Working on the injured without moving them to sickbay ::

Maryse Dubois: +Indaura+ That's good. Have them go to sickbay for a full exam when they are able to move.

Rhan K'hal: :: pops up and pads over to look over his brother's shoulder :: It's a neural system, it's generating electromagnetic radiation. It's possible that it's generating it in a more focused manner, enough to stimulate the neural pathways in other gel. Have you guys tried running a test to see just how much this stuff can hum?

Hunter Matheson: :;makes a few position adjustments::

Hakran K'hal: :: blinks :: I don't believe so, not yet anyway. I didn't think you took any biotech courses, Rhan.

Indaura Ryssan: +Dubois+ Understood. :: signals to her patients that they will be moved ::

Cptn Swain: ::Considers:: That's possible. Though it would be pretty surprising for that to happen naturally.

Hunter Matheson: ::eyes the business end of the console and rethinks getting under there when they're so close to the TV and MC::

Rhan K'hal: Oh, I just happened to not have anything remotely related to biotech happen during some very routine missions that are completely aboveboard and not gaping holes in my short but distinguished service record.

Rhan K'hal: :: grin ::

Hakran K'hal: :: twists an ear at Rhan, then looks over to Tandaris :: What news, Commander?

Indaura Ryssan: :: Helps someone up and motions them to the hangar exit ::

Tandaris Admiran: We have a problem.

Rhan K'hal: :: grin vanishes :: Uh-oh.

Cptn Swain: I don't like problems.

Tandaris Admiran: Well, I have part of a solution. ::comes up alongside ops::

Cptn Swain: Solutions are good.

Tandaris Admiran: Mr. K'hal, can you locate your ...  cousin on the surface, please? ::Swain:: I believe Mr. ...  K'hal can offer us some answers. With your permission, I’d like to take him aboard right now.

Rhan K'hal: :: heads back over to his console since he's apparently going to need it ::

Rhan K'hal: Shouldn't be hard to find one Cait. :: tappity tap tap ::

Indaura Ryssan: :: Enters the lift with her patients ::

Cptn Swain: ::Smirks despite himself::

Hakran K'hal: Ah, not to rain on your parade, Commander, but we're bound to be running into some legal problems just abducting someone off a non-Federation planet.

Cptn Swain: He is a Federation citizen, but give him a moment’s notice before you do.

Rhan K'hal: Uh, consider the parade rained on anyway... I can't find him.

Maryse Dubois: ::Steps out onto the bridge.::

Rhan K'hal: :: taps some more ::

Cptn Swain: ::Lifts a brow::

Rhan K'hal: He's not responding to the a-Veran comm unit frequency we have for him either. Not even getting a voicemail.

Maryse Dubois: I can't believe you actually want him back... Do we have a location of his lab? Maybe he has some sort of shielding preventing anyone from locating him. He did seem to like privacy a little too much.

Cptn Swain: Have the Alpha Vera authorities pay him a visit.

Rhan K'hal: I'll send a politely worded urgent request to that effect, Captain. :: starts making the contact ::

Hakran K'hal: :: has a hunch of his own, checks the computer ::

Indaura Ryssan: :: Enters sickbay, directs each of them to the bio beds ::

Hakran K'hal: He may have shielding, Doctor, and he may have that at more than one location. Where he beamed down to isn't where you picked him up, Commander.

Rhan K'hal: They've agreed to go knock on his door, Captain. We should hear something soon, one way or the other.

Maryse Dubois: ::Nods.:: Sounds like he had a safehouse.

Cptn Swain: What would he need a safe house for.

Tandaris Admiran: While we're waiting ...

Cptn Swain: ::Frowns:: I'd prefer not to start an intergalactic incident.

Tandaris Admiran: I think we've been looking at this from the wrong angle.

Hunter Matheson: ::mutters:: cause he's responsible for the problem and doesn't want to admit it::

Hakran K'hal: Without some serious work from the Doctor, my neck can only tilt so far, Commander.

Tandaris Admiran: ::Rhan:: Are you just going to let him take over the title of "the funny one"?

Hunter Matheson: ::keeping a close watch on position, more worried about the ships than a cat::

Maryse Dubois: ::Smirks.::

Tandaris Admiran: I think Dazim has answers for us because I think, whether he was aware of it or not, Dazim is the one who caused the initial ...  infection ...  of intelligence.

Rhan K'hal: It was bound to happen, he's been on board long enough.

Hunter Matheson: ::stops to listen but doesn't turn::

Indaura Ryssan: :: Starts a more extensive screening ::

Hakran K'hal: :: tilts head :: Anything solid giving you that idea Commander?

Rhan K'hal: :: gets a chirp, checks it out ::

Tandaris Admiran: ::ticks off fingers:: He's a neuroscientist ...  known for doing shady neuroscience ...  working with bio-neural gel on a planet outside Federation jurisdiction ...

Tandaris Admiran: What he didn’t count on was how Alpha Verran's bio-neural gel differs from the Federation's.

Tandaris Admiran: Federation gel-paks have specific engineering tolerances, partly to prevent these kinds of ...  unfortunate evolutions.

Hakran K'hal: I find it hard to believe he'd overlook that. Counted on it, more likely.

Tandaris Admiran: On the flexibility of the neuronal pathways? Yes. On how this would interact with the built-in peering and update protocols, thus spreading the pseudo-intelligence throughout the whole grid? I hope not.

Maryse Dubois: ::Nods in agreement.:: Probably with some monetary motivation behind it.

Tandaris Admiran: Our ships are now experiencing the equivalent of a secondary effect.

Rhan K'hal: :: turns back to Swain, clears throat :: Captain, they checked his lab, the only one they're aware of anyway, also the one where Commander Admiran originally picked him up. He wasn't there. The Verans say they're too busy with everything going on to go looking for him, especially when, for as far as they know, he's done nothing wrong. They did say we could poke around for him ourselves.

Tandaris Admiran: ::rubs his hands together:: It has been a while since we’ve had a proper manhunt.

Maryse Dubois: ::Stands by the auxiliary console, inputting something.::

Cptn Swain: Tell them to put out a planet wide alert for them, you can tell in no uncertain terms its not a request. Tandaris, why don't you take a security team down with Commander Augistine and have a look around. Maybe you can find something in his lab to implicate him.

Tandaris Admiran: Understood.

Rhan K'hal: :: winces :: Captain, remember what you just said about intergalactic incidents...

Rhan K'hal: We don't have any evidence, just speculation at this point.

Cptn Swain: I do. I'll take any of the heat for it.

Tandaris Admiran: In the meantime, all three of our ships need to take their gel-pak circuitry offline and perform a systems-wide reboot. That will temporarily fix our problems until we can get to a starbase and have our gel-paks completely replaced.

Rhan K'hal: :: nods :: Just wanted you to make sure you knew your head was in the guillotine, sir.

Maryse Dubois: All of the initially affected packs belonged to one company. No major incidents in their records save for this moment. I wonder who would gain the most from a company folding under these circumstances?

Rhan K'hal: :: makes the call to aV-II ::

 

Cptn Swain: PAUSE SIM

Cptn Swain: PAUSE SIM

Cptn Swain: PAUSE SIM