Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy

[macrorufus]

Huo, though still in zero-g, managed a sharp salute at the Captain when he entered. Though as he saluted a number of thoughts buzzed through his head.
Surely the Captain would remember protocol? He hoped the Captain would remember to return his salute. As he did so, he watched Arratra from the corner of his eyes.
Protocol insisted a junior officer salute first. Technically no matter his rank, Arratra was the junior aboard the GSA ship, though this same Arratra had come aboard making demands.
Huo stayed quiet in either case. This was a meeting of senior officers. An airman like him had little to contribute. And perhaps if he stayed more or less unnoticed he'd be able to remain in the room. He nodded at the pilots with him and motioned at the door, who left with a grumble towards the Engineering section.

[Daryn]

Jon returns Huo's salute sharply. "At least some people remember how things work. At any rate.. Razel, any progress on getting the gravity working again?"

[Nelle Kozera]

"Yeah hang on a moment, I'd rather not turn you guys to pulp. You might feel some initial discomfort, brace yourselves...if you can..." Everyone for a moment would have felt rather off/odd for a moment as the inertial reduction systems kicked in and the ship began accelerating at ten G's but it would still take a few weeks to reach their cruse speed. On the bridge and through out the ship Gravity was returning to the norm of one g. "There we go..." Through out the ship air could be heard moving from one hall to another. "Don't mind the noise. I'm cycling air into the more traveled regions..."

"Now, the interesting bit. While i was in sleep mode the data banks never stopped recording though i have yet to determine why we are so far off course I have found something of interest. That ship that you guys destroyed originated from this system." The entire bridge was flooded with a star map. Show the projected course of the vessel was from a system forty light years out. "Nows here the interesting bit, the passive scanner had been collecting data for the last four hundred years and it seems that their Nearlight drive systems are very similar to ours albeit slower they seem to only be able to reach .8 C. I assume this has to do with poor power generation systems. Now, we can investigate this, though suffice it to say its going to take us forty years to get there though we are only going to witness about two and half years of this journey. And secondly, about your idea about jury rigging a hyperdrive. My on board factory can do a lot of things, but hyperdrives from what the GSA engineer tells me require a special item that can not be built on board this vessel."

"So, here's the choice, We can A. Investigate, or B. plot a course for home, I must say though that even at top speed we won't make back for 40,000 years...."

[Daryn]

Jon nods slowly, pondering the problem. So 40 years to get to the potentially hostile alien system, or 40,000 years to get home."

The GyrFalcon scratches his head and looks around at the assembled officers and the pilot representative. "Do any of you have a suggestion?"

[macrorufus]

Huo shook his head in amazement.
"40,000 years? Is there any point then in even trying to return?"
The pilot shook himself, and raised his ears to stop them from drooping.
"I guess we ought to find out how they know GSA-speech even when they don't originate from the GSA, sir."

[Daryn]

OOC: I was waiting on Arratra to have a chance to post before I go on with mine.

[Nelle Kozera]

OOC: (Its what i'm waiting on as well)

[Arratra]

Arratra frowned. "That could be problematic," he said, "I was hoping we might be able to scavenge some parts... Technically, we could actually fabricate the parts ourselves given some time and resources... neither of which we actually have here."
"There is a fair amount of iridium ore in the debris here," Muukhuz said through Arratra's wrist computer, "It would be a simple matter to collect the debris with the electromagnetic scoop, as the debris is also heavy in ferrous metals."
The holographic projector on the unit glowed, and then the AI manifested her appearance on the bridge; she was a young dragoness in appearance, wearing a leather catsuit. An eyepiece covered her left eye, and mathematical symbols scrolled down it at high speed.
"Some of the parts we will require will need palladium, which I do not detect in this system. I am, however, picking up a strange signature from the debris we collected from the destroyed ship... It is an unknown element."

[Nelle Kozera]

"Hmm, well if you can your ship can collect its debris and bring them in please." Razel asked, "So are we heading for the alien system then, seeing as it would unfeasible to head back home?" The pilot asked, "Tell me now, once I get this ship up to speed its going to take a very long time to change course by anything more than ten degrees."

[Daryn]

Jon taps his fingers on his chair's arm. "Before we go anywhere, why don't we try to figure out how we got here to start with?" he suggests simply, "Razel, since the flight logs and sensors were all working, I'd like you to parse them. Show me where we started to go off course, and look for any spots where we either change coordinates rapidly or the ship accellerated at a rapid pace."

IHe grins, "And stop ogling Arratra's AI."

[Nelle Kozera]

(Rofl)

"Hey...Thats my Business..." He said looking away before his hologram disappeared for a full moment.

"Alright here we go..." He didn't appear though as the massive star map appeared to fill the room again. "This is where we started over Caprica..." The world was far less developed on image that shown with very little in the way of lighting on the night side of the world compared to its contemporary. "We went along the correct course for twenty three light years until we reached here. " The others in the room aside from the captain and Razel would have recognized this area Aqua Rift Zone, it was a very unstable region of space in the Milkyway though no had been able to explain why, just that ships happened to disappear in the region. "Then my sensors blank for 72 hours and then we are drifting out here at 9 gs for the last for the last 400 years without any form of power other than some small back ups. How we got to point A from Point B is beyond me. Though a natural wormhole my have been the cause, I highly doubt it..."

[Daryn]

Jon nods slowly, then stands up to address the others on the ship. "The point we came out of is still way too far away for us to reach from where we are. It's certainly closer for us to get to the alien system from here, so we'll go there."

He turns to Arratra and Huo, "If you could both pool your engineering resources we might be able to shave a little bit of time off our trip. If you can use the knowledge you have now to get our engines to hit that last percentage point of speed we can shave a bit of time off our travels."

[macrorufus]

"Ah sir... I'll get the chief engineer up here."
Huo turned and made his way towards the engineering section, to get the poor, overworked chief of the engineers.

[Nelle Kozera]

Engineering was a mess, superconducting power cables where laying on the floor, plugged into the drive cores. Two engineers where scrambling around with the pilots looking on in confusion. One of the pilots that where helping made the mistake to make a comment towards one of the engineers. That pilot found a useless coolant pipe flying at them. Two engineers made it over to the Timeless Undiscovery it was evident that the chief engineer a male Otter, or the other engineer a female Boarder Collie had very short fuses at the moment. "Sam! Bring that coil over here, Flyboy number 3 grab that Power line and plug it into port 9! NO PORT NINE NOT SEVEN!" The otter was livid and didn't notice the entrance of huo...

[Arratra]

Arratra shrugged helplessly, "I'm a ship's captain and a soldier," he said, "Not an engineer. We'd have to bring the engineers over in one of our shuttles, and right now that's not a good idea. They're working franticly to get our shields operational again."
Muukhuz nodded. "I however," she said, "Have full access to several repair drones, which I can send over to your ship to effect repairs and help with getting the Nearlight drive up to speed."

[Daryn]

Jon walks over to stand in front of Muukhuz to look her over. Not that he'd be able to tell much about a holographic projector other than perhaps appraising the quality of the holo emitter, but it's a habit he has. When he walks to someone, he likes to try to get a good idea of what they're like.

The Gyrfalcon nods slowly then, "Yes, you may as well bring them over. It looks like the engineers over here are going to need all the help they can get." he smiles, "... and stop ogling Razel."

[Arratra]

"I am not!" Muukhuz shot back, looking disgruntled, "It's not like I can be removed from the Shadow dragon or my processor matrix. Besides which, I cannot feel physical attraction to an organic... even if he is integrated into the ship. I am a synthetic intelligence, not an organic being."
"You know how Doc has a thing for that dragoness engineer on Deck Three," Arratra teased, "And he's a less advanced AI than you are!"
Muukhuz sighed, and shook her head. "I'm sending the drones over," she said, before vanishing.
"Doc is our specialist medical AI," Arratra explained to Jon, "Completely up-to-date on all medical procedures, including advanced longevity surgery and I even saw him perform a flash-clone transplant. The heart, in fact. He has complete control over the ship's medbay, and also has a mechanical body, which stores his intelligence systems. He uses it in emergencies when we can't get the patient to the medbay. The entire medbay is capable of operating without his assistance, and there's a full organic medical crew in case something fails. If we could transfer the sleepers to my vessel, we could revive most of them. Even the ones that have taken severe tissue damage could potentially be saved. Captain," he added hastily, not wanting to seem rude.
"Sorry if I seem a bit awkward," he said, shrugging, "I'm not used to dealing with the crew of another vessel on friendly terms... normally I'm boarding pirate of slaver vessels. Or smugglers, of course."

[Daryn]

Jon nods slowly to Arratra. "You know those two are going to network sooner or later."

He then gets back on track, "Your medical facilities sound very advanced. If they can help out and get some of the other thawed out that might be helpful" he pads around the bridge thinking, "Sorry that this isn't the most exciting situation to be in, but I'm sure that'll come to us once we get our ships into a more ready state. The more crewmen we can get back on duty the better off we'll be."

He turns back to Arratra then, "Whatever you might be used to, I think we're all a little out of our element right now. We just have to pool our resources and work together. The rest will fall into place."

The bird might appear to be a very focused individual, but you all get the feeling he may be a decent sort of bird as well.

[Arratra]

"Agreed," Arratra said, nodding, "Oh, by the way, the fighters we have are FTL capable, but only for short ranges; they can manage maybe twenty lights before having to turn back, and they're not capable of synthesising fuel."

Down in engineering, there was a clank as the repair drones hit the secondary airlock, and then cycled through. They were surprisingly small devices, intended for on-the-fly repairs in zero-g environments. But they were entirely capable of handling repairs in environments up to 50 Gs. Almost immediatly one of the three that was there went about splicing cables that had come loose during their millennia adrift.
"Awaiting input," one of the drones said, "What needs repairs?"
Muukhuz wavered into visibility above the drone that had spoken, "These drones have Virtual Intelligence interfaces. Just say what you want them to do... but try to do it clearly, or you might get something fixed that you didn't want fixed that way."

[Nelle Kozera]

"Um Captain...major...I hate to be the barer of bad news, but that gets us four extra crew mean, most of the crew has had their brains destroyed over the last four hundred plus years. Even if you put their brains back together your going to have to reteach them EVERYTHING. In which they may be more burden than they're worth, the person they where are gone. But if you want to try i'll open the Cyro decks for you when your ready for them. We could hold this option off for later when we will have the time to teach them what is needed to help run this vessel. Just a suggestion..."

(As you may have guess neural Death is irreversible.)

[Daryn]

Jon nods slowly, "Perhaps we can't save everyone in the cryo-deck, but some of them must be alright. Hell I made it, there might be a handful of others as well. The more hands we have the better."

[macrorufus]

Huo approached the otter and shook his shoulder noting the chaos in engineering. He made a note to make it up to his pilots later...
"Easy there, Chief. Captain wants a word with you on the bridge, put one of your juniors in charge."
With that Huo stepped forwards to assist the engineers and work beside his pilots.
Better that than be seen to be doing nothing. This was a team effort damnit. He rolled up his sleeves and mucked in.

[Arratra]

Arratra winced.
"Nothing short of a full medical centre can bring those men back," he said, sighing, "Transfer the four we can save to my ship. We'll thaw them out."

[Daryn]

Jonathan nods to Arratra, "Do what you can. In the meantime, you might want to head back to your ship and look in on things. I've got to talk to the engineer from the recent time GSA vessel and see how they're doing. Looks like we'll have a lot of repair work to tend to before we can really go anywhere."

He looks a tad annoyed by that, but there isn't much he can do about it now.

[Arratra]

"I understand," Arratra said, "My fighter is in the docking bay. I can take her back to my ship."

Barely two minutes later, the sleek shape of the Starlight Dragon emerged from the Undiscovery, travelling the short distance between the GSA ship and the Dark Core vessel.
"I've logged your arrival," Muukhuz said, as Likilia's image within the fighter winked out, having gone elsewhere to interact with the engineers. "Shields are operable again, but only at a minimal level," Muukhuz continued, as Arratra stepped onto the bridge and sat down in his command couch, "They can come up to 10% strength at the most, and even then they're wavering."
"Tell the engineers to canibalise what's left of the hyperdrive for the parts they need," Arratra said, "And put any burned-out parts in the smelter. We'll need the metal later."

[Nelle Kozera]

The engineer ignored Huo's information for ten minutes as he finished a major repair. "SAM! Make sure they don't screw something up, wing something at them if they do..." He said to her and she nodded the pilot from before looked the other way as the engineer said that. "Gotta learn somehow..." He muttered to himself before he headed to the maglev elevator to the bridge, once the doors closed he collapsed into the corner of the elevator as it headed to the bridge.

It took five full minutes for it to cross to the bridge and when it did the chief didn't want to move when the door opened. "Um...hey Major, and i'm guess your the captain..." The otter pointed to the GryFalcon. "Yeah...your going to need help me up if you want out of this elevator, or better yet come in here..." The Engineer looked severally drained at this moment, and very unhappy.

[Daryn]

When the maglev doors open Jon is a bit surprised to see the state that the Otter engineer is in. He sighs, "It looks like you're working yourself hard down there." The bird heads over to the elevator and helps the Otter into the bridge and onto an unoccupied helmsman's chair. He then heads to the replicator (or equivelant) and gets the Otter a bottle of water and an meal bar.

Returning with the items he hands them to the chief engineer, "It's not much, but it should help..." he smiles, "How bad is it down there?"

[Nelle Kozera]

"Um...Your drive core was damn near torn apart down there, I think Samantha and me made the mess worse..." He smiled before he downed the water. "But i got the engines working...even if i need to manually tune the engines for the moment so we don't boom." He made paw motions to enforce his words. "Please tell me your not expecting more out of them, I can get them back to normal...if i can get replacement parts for 70% for that drive core..." He leaned back in the chair.

"We can use the metals from some of the non essential areas of this ship for replace parts..." Razel offered, "If you wish..."

[Daryn]

Jon sighs and looks from the Otter to Razel, "Do the best you can. Normal operation would be fine all things considered. It's not like we've got a starbase or anything nearby to dock and repair this thing."

[Arratra]

A nearby COM holopad flickered to life, and a pixelated image of Muukhuz wavered into existence.
"The metals can be reclaimed fairly easily by the repair drones," she said, her voice scratchy with static because the systems were just barely compatible at all, "And we can strip parts from what's left of my hyperdrive to help. There may be compatibility issues, though."