USS Arcadia, 03/20/24, 10:00 PM ET

March 22

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

Between 3/20/2024 9:03 PM and 3/20/2024 10:02 PM

last time, the AT was released from the cavern and took the Ferengi with them

hey

There was some irregular shaking in the tunnels and the tunnel back collapsed, leaving the AT near a small, inoperative control room

9:05 PM

Anything of importance I missed?

not that I can think of

any sim-related qs before we start?

9:07 PM

relatively short TBS

none here

ok then

9:07 PM

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::looking to see if there's anything that could power the control room::

::scanning around for any kind of potential power source::

9:10 PM

((also, when you said there were wires well behind the equipment, did you mean somewhere we can get to or straight into a rock wall?))

Any power here?

scanner> :: has limited range because the dilithium in the tunnel is blocking it, but no power in range ::

nothing I can see from my scans

9:11 PM

::looking around for anything else interesting::

9:11 PM

::or a way out::

(( well if you push the equipment out of the way or stick your fingers in there or something, you might get to it ))

::carefully pulls console away from wall and starts following wires::

wires> :: are coming out of the rock wall, like they were fished through a very narrow tunnel network ::

::scans through the hole in the wall for the wires to see if there's anything past the wall::

wires> :: are there ::

9:15 PM

hole> :: is quite long and full of wires ::

((Is this just a dead-end control room or are there further places we can actually get to from here?))

there must be a way to get to where the wires are coming from, if people did maintenance

(( the tunnel collapsed

9:18 PM

(( so nowhere to go except back down ))

we might have to make our own passage

9:19 PM

any reason not to use the phaser to cut a hole in the wall?

You can try if you want, just be careful not to damage any of the equipment.

9:20 PM

::sees if he can jury-rig his phaser into powering at least some of the consoles::

((yay, you found power ))

::aims phaser at rock wall that is farthest from the consoles:: stand back.

((lol))

((and the first thing she does is try to blow it up))

I think I'm onto something, hold on a second.

Ferengi> :: being whiny ::

Also, keep your eyes on our guests.

good point

::continues wiring phaser's powerbank into promising-looking console::

::puts phaser back in holster and glares at the ferengi::

9:26 PM

are you always like this?

Drax> Are you always like this?

yes

9:29 PM

though maybe i'm a little bit irritated given i was hit with several clubs and then almost set on fire

ACTION> :: the tunnel shakes again, this time quite hard ::

::slightly sympathizes with Ferengi but keeps it to himself::

any progress, Dana?

Not close to any beam out huh?

we can't even get a signal out to hail the ship

It's looking promising...did we get the Ferengis' disruptors from the natives? One of those would probably have this place up and running.

::looks through the pile of items she got back from the shaman::

9:34 PM

I guess they didn't realize what they had. here you go ::hands him a disruptor::

Ferengi2> The whole thing is surrounded by dilithium. You could be rich and instead you're draining disruptors and consoles.

could we use the dilithium?

9:34 PM

to power this?

::is very glad the natives aren't playing around with disruptors:: Thanks. ::starts wiring in disruptor::

Drax> That's why the Federation won't get this planet. Not enough motive for profit

Being rich isn't exactly helpful when you're dead.

9:35 PM

And unless one of you has a warp core in your pocket I don't think raw dilithium is going to help us.

((nope, just happy to see you))

9:39 PM

((brb cats are trying to kill each other))

((meow))

((they're fine, the little one was just picking a fight))

Drax> We'll see who comes out of this one, then, won't we?

Well, it's looking like all of us or none of us at the moment.

enjoy being buried with great wealth

What does all of this control anyhow?

(( that's the $64,000 adjusted for inflation question))

I mean, I'm sure your buddies up on the ship will shed a tear while they incinerate your corpse mining the dilithium that collapsed on you.

(( so... how's that disruptor mod coming along? ))

9:46 PM

Drax> we'll just see about that...

:: looking over the controls to determine their function::

Almost done wiring in the disruptor...should be done powering it...now.

They might even be the reason this place collapses on us

::flips power switch on makeshift battery::

ACTION> the console boots up

::looks around console for anything that could help or at least shed light on the situation::

Console> :: displaying a big red box with some text in it ::

::reads text::

(( Guru Meditation #205 ))

9:48 PM

Text> :: is not in Federation Standard ::

::tries feeding text through tricorder's UT::

: waiting for the controls to be read ::

progress at least

UT> :: identifies the text as similar to a very old language only known from archeological digs ::

9:51 PM

UT> Network Connection Error.

Well, this is a bit of a problem.

9:51 PM

::taps box to see if it'll do anything regardless of being able to read it::

9:52 PM

::also saves image he fed into tricorder for posterity, assuming they survive this::

Bootup> :: continues, leaving a control screen with a bunch of red-outlined buttons ::

we could try pressing some buttons

That's basically the only option we have.

9:53 PM

::tries pressing first button on screen::

Does it use a passcode

Big red box> :: Network Connection Error ::

::tries going back and pressing another button::

9:54 PM

No, it seems to be giving us network errors.

try a mathematical sequence

Which makes sense, given that whatever network it was connected to at the very least is probably powered down.

9:55 PM

I'm going to try pressing the buttons one at a time and seeing if any work first.

9:55 PM

((Starfleet engineering at its finest!))

((or you could try connecting the network wiring ))

((OK, I'll do that))

Any optical connection?

::tries fiddling around with cabling that could be a network cable::

cabling> :: is old and worn, but the conductors are fine ::

Who am I kidding? It's probably string.

(( you know if you connect 2 cups together by a string, you have a telephone ))

::looks to see if anything is unplugged between tapping through error screens and trying new buttons::

((and...))

::also looks around for any unconnected wires::

unconnected wires> :: not lacking ::

10:00 PM

!pause

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paus'd

Next week, you find out if they used 10bT or 10b2

lol

have a good night

'night!

gnight

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