USS Challenger - June 29, 2018

[STSF Jami 0]

Cptn Ja'Lale: USS Challenger Mission Brief - 29 June 2018: The Challenger has transferred Captain Sivok and his crew onto the USS Davenport and are resuming their course to Arcadian space. The Challenger is now approaching Arcadian space after a 2 day TBS. Any questions and yes, I had a busy but good week.

Cptn Ja'Lale: BEGIN SIM
Cptn Ja'Lale: BEGIN SIM

Hunter Matheson: ::relieving helm for his watch and it takes a minute for him to catch up:::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ::in his chair, checking star maps::
Hunter Matheson: ::nod:: Approaching Arcadian space, Captain.
Dvokr chim Hok: :: At operations ::
Hunter Matheson: ::puts his fingerprints on the helm log:::
Cptn Ja'Lale: Great. Drop us out of warp please.
Hunter Matheson: Aye, aye, sir. Dropping from warp. ::puts on the brakes::
Hunter Matheson: :::cracks knuckles::
Caitlin Townshend: ::at the science station, conducts routine scans of the system as they drop from warp::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ACTION: Challenger drops out of warp as they enter the Arcadian system
John Randall: ::in engineering overseeing the crew along with Michaels and Maloney::
Hunter Matheson: ::minor adjustments to his helm chair before checking it out::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ACTION: The Vellun Gamma system is a fairly typical system of some planets, with Arcadia being the fifth in the system.
Cptn Ja'Lale: ACTION: Challenger is being hailed.
Hunter Matheson: ::looks over to Hok unless he's supposed to answer it:::
Caitlin Townshend: Scans are all normal so far.
Hunter Matheson: ::shrug:: Incoming hail, Captain.
Cptn Ja'Lale: On screen..
Hunter Matheson: On screen, aye. ::puts it up::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ::A white faced Arcadian with two parallel lines of dark hair on the edges of its cranium appears on screen:: +Challenger+ Welcome to the Vellum Gamma system Challenger. Please, initiate an orbit around our planet.
Cptn Ja'Lale: Thank you. We look forward to meeting with you.
Hunter Matheson: ::waits for the word::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ::looks to Kal:: All right, let's head on over.
Hunter Matheson: Aye, sir. Standard orbit?
Cptn Ja'Lale: Yes, geosynchronous standard orbit
Hunter Matheson: ;::makes for Arcadia::: Geosynchronous orbit, aye.
Caitlin Townshend: ::scans the planet::
Hunter Matheson: ::tags the right planet... he hopes.. and establishes a geosynch orbit::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ACTION: The planet is mostly water with scattered bits of land and cities dotted both above and underwater. Otherwise, it's a pretty generic stock planet to save on budget.
Hunter Matheson: Orbit established. Going to stationkeeping.
Cptn Ja'Lale: Okay, how would you all like to do some planetary exploring? Let's meet in the transporter room in 15 minutes.
Caitlin Townshend: I will bring my most waterproof of uniforms!
Cptn Ja'Lale: Please Mr Hok, let Lt Randall know so he can join us.
Cptn Ja'Lale: Great, me too.. actually I don't need to.
Cptn Ja'Lale: Nevermind... see you in the transporter room... Transporter Room 1
Hunter Matheson: ::not really into this, but... whatever::: Aye, sir.
Hunter Matheson: Sir? Captain?
Cptn Ja'Lale: Yes?
Hunter Matheson: Are there any critters we should be aware of in the water? Like, ones that have human on the menu?
Cptn Ja'Lale: Ah, not that I am aware of. According to my research the Arcadians are the dominant species of this planet and they're pretty pacifistic
Hunter Matheson: Thank you, sir.
John Randall: ::has Michaels and Maloney deploy teams to perform general maintenance while Challenger is in orbit::
Cptn Ja'Lale: All right, now if you'll excuse me... ::heads to the lift::
Hunter Matheson: ::checks helm one last time, then heads to the lift also::
Dvokr chim Hok: +Randall+ Please join the team in Transporter room one.
Caitlin Townshend: ::surrenders her station to a minion, makes her way to the transporter room::
Dyan Sylvanis: ::Is already in the transporter room, cause she's good like that.::
Hunter Matheson: ::after telling Tork to take helm for him:: 
Caitlin Townshend: ::excited because exobiology is her specialty::
Hunter Matheson: ::exits on his quarters level and grabs his diving gear:::
Cptn Ja'Lale: (that's what they look like)
John Randall: ::hears his communicator chirp and whips it out of its holster in time to hear Hok's transmission:: +Bridge+ Acknowledged. On my way. Randall out. ::contacts Michaels and hands him control of engineering; goes to his locker and grabs his toolkit along with his phaser, then leaves engineering and walks to the turbolift:: Deck 10.
Hunter Matheson: ::changes out of his uniform, then heads to TR 1::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ::heads to his quarters to grab some extra stuff that he might need as well as some PADDs from Starfleet::
Caitlin Townshend: ::enters transporter room, nods to Dyan::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ::takes a lift to the transporter room::
Dyan Sylvanis: ::Waves to Caitlin.:: I heard we were going swimming.
John Randall: ::arrives at deck 10, and goes down the corridor to the transporter room; enters, and nods to Townshend and Sylvanis:: Lieutenants.
Hunter Matheson: ::enters TR::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ::exits and enters TR 1::
Dyan Sylvanis: ::Greets everyone that enters.::
Hunter Matheson: ::a small go back holds his uniform and swim gear:::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ::Looks around:: Is this all of us?
Hunter Matheson: ::crooked grin as he nods to Syl::
John Randall: ::nods to the captain::
Cptn Ja'Lale: Lieutenant. ::nods::
Cptn Ja'Lale: Let's go. ::steps onto the pad::
Hunter Matheson: ::steps to the rear::
Dyan Sylvanis: ::Joins the Captain.::
John Randall: ::takes a spot on the pad::
Caitlin Townshend: ::on the pad, ready to go::
Hunter Matheson: ::nod to Caitlin::
Cptn Ja'Lale: ACTION: Once everybody has stepped onto the pad, the team is beamed down to the surface. It looks as if they are beamed to the edge of a beach, with a large expanse of water in front of them.
Caitlin Townshend: ::looks around, smiles at the view::
Dyan Sylvanis: Nice view.
Hunter Matheson: ::taking a look around:: Sure is.
Cptn Ja'Lale: ACTION: A few Arcadian representatives walk up to greet them.
Hunter Matheson: Like Bermuda....
Caitlin Townshend: Now _this_ is a mission.
Hunter Matheson: (w) Yes, ma'am.
Dyan Sylvanis: Yeah. I can get used to this. ::Notes the Arcadians approaching.::
Caitlin Townshend: ::looking out at the ocean:: I bet if you get the right wind conditions you could catch some amazing waves here.
Hunter Matheson: ::Cait:: Sure could. You didn't happen to bring a board?
Cptn Ja'Lale: ACTION: There's 5 Arcadians, with one with a protruding dorsal spine.
Dyan Sylvanis: I heard the old Major was a huge surfer.
Hunter Matheson: Yeah. ::he heard the same::
Caitlin Townshend: ::Matheson:: Nah, we never visited planets with appropriate environments often enough to make it worth the amount of my personal effects allowance it would take up.
Cptn Ja'Lale: Dorsal Spine Arcadian> Welcome to Arcadia. ::happened to overhear their conversation:: I do not know what surfer is, but yes, we do get large waves throughout our planet. I am Firim'Ja. I suppose your Federation equivalent, I am a bit of a leader of this planet, though we do not possess a traditional "government" as you may be used to.
Hunter Matheson: Um...maybe we should make a portable one. There's always body surfing.
Caitlin Townshend: (q) Sounds like a nice side project. And somehow I feel like our present captain might be more sympathetic to visiting aquatic planets more frequently….
Dvokr chim Hok: :: Is where he is ::
Hunter Matheson: ::pretending to listen to them while he listens to Cait::
Hunter Matheson: ::and he nods::
Cptn Ja'Lale: Firim'Ja> Our main settlement is underwater. So if you'll please follow us to our submersible..
Cptn Ja'Lale: Thank you, it's a most beautiful planet.
Dvokr chim Hok: :: Follows ::
Dyan Sylvanis: Should we go ahead and change into our swimwear?
Cptn Ja'Lale: I suppose if you need to, you may go ahead and do so. My knowledge of human physiology in this type of circumstance is admittedly limited.
Cptn Ja'Lale: ::not sure if they'll need swimwear, but he guessed it couldn't hurt, decides to keep wearing his uniform::
Caitlin Townshend: ::follows them to the submersible:: The oceans are so small on Vulcan, and they don’t exactly understand the purpose of "the beach" as a source of recreation. I was always excited whenever my parents took me to a planet with a beach.
Hunter Matheson: So... you seldom went swimming? But isn't xenobio your area?
Cptn Ja'Lale: Firim'Ja>. We have many beaches that straddle our land. Though most of the planet's infrastructure is below the water. ::steps inside the submersible, which has expansive windows of transparent aluminum::
Hunter Matheson: Or is it just land? (w)
Cptn Ja'Lale: Ja'Lale> ::clambers in and takes a seat next to Firim'Ja::
Caitlin Townshend: My studies gave me the opportunity to travel to various environments. I did a few months on Andoria, another few months on Rigel V, which has a really interesting ocean ecosystem where there are trees that root into the seafloor….
Caitlin Townshend: ::now you got her started::
Cptn Ja'Lale: PAUSE SIM
Cptn Ja'Lale: PAUSE SIM
Hunter Matheson: done
Caitlin Townshend: Oh good, we can make the TBS long enough that Caitlin finishes her impromptu lecture :P
Hunter Matheson: heh
Cptn Ja'Lale: A good time to pause I suppose... We'll pick up from here next week and head to their city. TBS will indeed be long enough for Caitlin to finish her lecture... however long that is. 
Cptn Ja'Lale: Any questions?
Cptn Ja'Lale: If not, then sim dismissed. Have a great Canada Day or Independence Day this week, whichever you celebrate unless it's just me. See you next week.