USS Arcadia, 08/30/23, 10:00 PM ET

August 31, 2023

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USS Arcadia - Wednesdays 10 ET - Command Staff: Captain Lo'Ami

Between 30-Aug-23 09:07 PM and 30-Aug-23 10:05 PM

Last week --- our very-far-away team split up into 2 groups: one, with possibly prosthetic ears, on the planet

((Better than prosthetic noses))

Lt. Cmdr. Arizhel

((Better than prosthetic noses))

((Very true))

((I mean, I'd need a bit of nose work to pass))

and one still on the Romulan shuttle, which lost the warbird it was docked to

21:09

Meanwhile, on the planet, a laboratory has been found

21:10

(and a lot of storage)

21:10

Any sim-related q's before we start?

None here

Short TBS

sounds good

Anything else?

no questions here

ok then

21:12

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::in orbit of the planet::

21:14

::listening to the maintenance channel since Natell probably needs rest soon::

21:14

::even if she denies it::

@Z> :: Entering the lab with Dana... the lab has a lot of aquarium-like boxes, each with different things in it, and each one has a suspended small sphere in the center :: (q) What are they doing here?

(q) ::scanning aquarium balls:: Not sure, but I'm worried about those spheres.

@spheres> :: have a complex matrix of matter and each one has a very small quantity of protomatter, some of the spheres are empty. The aquarium balls with empty spheres have contents with a similar matrix to the balls ::

:: on the shuttle ::

(q) there are minute amounts of protomatter in those. This seems to be at least one thing they're using it for.

21:19

*@

@Z> (q) there are numbers on all the boxes. This looks like cataloguing experiments

::reading a request from five minutes ago to fix plumbing YESTERDAY::

21:21

::also a broken replicator::

@ (q) We'd probably better be moving along. There's probably more to this.

@box> :: one box, an aquarium with a lizard and its environs, suddenly pops and turns some dazzling colors ::

21:23

@box> :: all that remains is a totally different formation of sand and rock ::

@ (q) Huh...a protomatter weapon?

@Z> (q) Is that what was stolen from Starfleet?

@ (q) Hell if I know... They only briefed us on a need to know basis.

::also someone logging a broken access keycard::

@PA> Attention: phase two complete. Prepare phase three. Prepare phase three.

@ (q) That sounds ominous...

((uh oh))

@Z> (q) FInd a computer console. We need to know what phase three is and just how many phases there are.

21:27

@Z> (q) If this is arranged like most Romulan labs, there should be a console at the wall in that direction.

@ ::nods, and quickly assumes a position at the nearest console and begins hacking:: (edited)

::looks though the history of the maintenance chat, it seems like over the past month the incidents have increased by at least 50%. Is something destabilizing the facility?::

@Z> (q) be careful, security protocols are stronger here than on some backwards trading planet

@ (q) Duly noted.

21:29

::carefully hacks::

@Z> (q) Something else... for a lab this large, have you noticed anything missing?

::mumbles:: Just introduce a Romulan security algorithm here...

21:30

(q) Any researchers?

@Z> (q) Yes... there's nobody here.

@ That's bad.

@Z> :: looks over his shoulder :: how did you get that?

@ Just brought what I needed from the shuttle.

::logs are coming in about phase 3 issues, whatever that means::

maint logs> :: include a lot of checks for power to a large AQS ::

There's something big here...

@PA> Phase 3 active. Phase 3 active.

21:34

@Z> (q) Hurry up, that doesn't sound good

21:34

maint logs> :: lots of successful transporter activity noted ::

Everyone transported out. I believe.

21:35

:: looks up::

:: At here station. She knew what to do, but unsure of some other details of her life ::

((AQS?))

21:36

Looks like they've been transporting a lot of things and care a lot about the power in a large AQS

(artifical quantum sigularity)

((artificial quantum singularity, the romulan equivalent of a warp core ))

21:38

@Z> Everyone except us...

why does the planet have an AQS?

@ maybe we should get out of here.

can you tell them to come back?

@Z> yes... send the signal over the maintaince channel

@ +Arizhel+ Dana here, requesting immediate evacuation.

::attempts to lock onto Z and Dana::

@Z> they just beamed out something really big from the other side of the lab

::wonders why Dana used his real name::

21:39

::beaming them up::

ACTION> everyone shimmers

((everyone?)) (edited)

(( on the AT ))

((Oh okay))

ACTION> a ~100 sq km area of the planet gets momentarily sucked into a point in space, then all the matter gets ejected out

::deshimmers:: Did something very bad just happen?

It looks like 100sq km of the planet got teleported or moved temporarily

21:42

did I do that?

No, I think that was a weapon they stole from Starfleet.

What was that?

Z> What did you see from up here?

::holds up data chits:: I grabbed any data I could while I was there. We can go over it in due time.

just an area disappear and get ejected out

21:45

also it looks like over the past month, the maintenance requests have increased by a lot

That's not what the experiments on the surface did...

my theory is the protomatter is destabilizing the compound

Z> That looked deliberate. They kept talking about phase 3 and everyone evacuated

we should get out of here

Maybe phase 3 is just fundamentally different than phase 2.

whatever it is can't be good

Z> Or phase 3 was covering up the evidence of phase 2

Fair.

Z> Which means our Starfleet weapon is on one of the ships here

I could scan but it will increase odds of detection.

21:48

but the material dispersed here ::puts the approximate location on the display::

There was a big transport out just before us

21:48

That must've been the weapon

Z> Did you scan that large transport? It must have had a massive energy signature

Only superficially since I didn't want to be detected. hopefully that's enough to follow it with

Z> All the ships are moving. Which one do we follow?

It has to be a ship big enough to supply the absolutely massive amounts of power that thing was using.

the one with the most unstable readings looks like it's about to warp

I am scanning everything I can.

Z> Follow it...

Yes sir. ::sets a course to follow it.::

Z> They're not even bothering to cloak

Maybe they don't have the spare power

No one is here but Tal Shiar

21:54

::following the big unstable transport::

Z> Until they get back to Romulan space. Then, they're a fleet of dead ships.

Does the romulan fleet have the firepower to take them on?

Z> If they can muster it in time. The Senate Guard on its own does not. And the Fleet would not be deployed against the Tal Shiar unless they can be convinced of a threat. We're missing convincing evidence of actual danger to the Empire (edited)

21:59

((and...))

Isn't 1000 tons of protomatter evidence?

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paused

Paws'd

The Tal Shiar is getting ready to strike... but what? Is it in the data crystal?

22:01

Find out next time....

i sure hope you got something when you were on planet

22:01

have a good night!

gnight!

Night!

Comments from the peanut gallery?

Awesome sim!

Once I find out my work schedule, maybe I'll be able to come back.

that would be awesome!

yup! Let us know!

For sure!

gnight

Night all!

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