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Ricardo changes course and flies the /Mae Lee/ toward the apparent  
derelict. As the distance decreases, an image begins to develop on the 
large screen at the front of the bridge, and on the screens around the 
ship that are tied to that screen.

Floating against the blackness of space and illuminated by the red light 
of the M4 companion sun you see a small ship in the shape of a 
triangular arrowhead. The ship is slowly tumbling and as it does you see 
all sides. There is no visible external damage, but there is also 
nothing to indicate it is anything but a dead ship. You don't see any 
writing or markings on the ship's surface from the images you are 
getting, if there are any, they are too small to be picked up at this 
distance.

Ricardo, Cory and Shawn immediately identify the design of the derelict 
as a Charlotte class scout ship. This is an older design, but is still 
very common both within the Confederation Scout Service and in private 
service.

Charlotte class ships are just over 100 dtons in volume, and originally 
were only a J1 ships, but over the years many were upgraded to J2, so 
this one could be either. There is a single popup turret on the ventral 
surface housing, usually, a glaser. There could be a crew of anywhere 
from 1 to 5 aboard a ship of this class.

Watching from back in Engineering, Kelly notices the fuel nozzle at the 
front of the ship is still open. The nozzle there is opened at jump to 
expel the jump fuel making the jump bubble for the ship. It is kept open 
during jump so small amounts of hydrogen gas can be expelled to maintain 
a proper bubble. One of the first things Kelly, or *any*, Engineer would 
do after emergence would be to close the nozzle. It is very unusual to 
see the nozzle open on this ship as it tumbles through space like this.

At this ship's current vector it will slowly tumble out of the system on 
a very long elliptical orbit. It will be several hundred years before it 
returns this close to the mainworld.

The /Mae Lee/ will sweep past this derelict ship at several hundred 
kilometers per second, and the real vectors of the two ships don't match 
either. It will take about forty minutes burning the Heplar drive to 
match vectors with the derelict if you choose to do that.

Eris
AKU GM

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On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 03:55  PM, Eris Reddoch wrote:

> Ricardo changes course and flies the /Mae Lee/ toward the apparent
> derelict. As the distance decreases, an image begins to develop on the
> large screen at the front of the bridge, and on the screens around the
> ship that are tied to that screen.
>
> Floating against the blackness of space and illuminated by the red 
> light
> of the M4 companion sun you see a small ship in the shape of a
> triangular arrowhead. The ship is slowly tumbling and as it does you 
> see
> all sides. There is no visible external damage, but there is also
> nothing to indicate it is anything but a dead ship. You don't see any
> writing or markings on the ship's surface from the images you are
> getting, if there are any, they are too small to be picked up at this
> distance.

"Thata a Charlie...whatinthehell is it doing out here?" He looks at it 
silently a moment. "Oh crap, I bet it's a misjump." He punches his comm 
"Mira, it's a Charlotte class scout... I don't remember any more, did 
they have lowrides in them?"

He says "Arvitis, is that enough of an energy sig for a low berth? If 
it is, there might be someone alive on that thing, and in that orbit, 
they're not coming back for a long time..."

> The /Mae Lee/ will sweep past this derelict ship at several hundred
> kilometers per second, and the real vectors of the two ships don't 
> match
> either. It will take about forty minutes burning the Heplar drive to
> match vectors with the derelict if you choose to do that.

What's our fuel load? Is this a two hours out of our way thing or two 
days out of our way?

--
"Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D.
Bruce Johnson

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Johnson" 
>
> "Thata a Charlie...whatinthehell is it doing out here?" He looks at it
> silently a moment. "Oh crap, I bet it's a misjump." He punches his comm
> "Mira, it's a Charlotte class scout... I don't remember any more, did
> they have lowrides in them?"

Lysia listens carefully, she's not sure what a Charlotte is but evidentally
Mira and Ricardo do.  "Charlotte is that one of those cookie cutter scouts
the CSA uses?"

Lysia David

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Bruce Johnson wrote:

> > Ricardo changes course and flies the /Mae Lee/ toward the apparent
> > derelict. As the distance decreases, an image begins to develop on
> > the large screen at the front of the bridge, and on the screens
> > around the ship that are tied to that screen.
> >
> > Floating against the blackness of space and illuminated by the red
> > light of the M4 companion sun you see a small ship in the shape of
> > a triangular arrowhead. The ship is slowly tumbling and as it does
> > you see all sides. There is no visible external damage, but there
> > is also nothing to indicate it is anything but a dead ship. You
> > don't see any writing or markings on the ship's surface from the
> > images you are getting, if there are any, they are too small to be
> > picked up at this distance.
>
>  "Thats a Charlie...whatinthehell is it doing out here?" He looks at
>  it silently a moment. "Oh crap, I bet it's a misjump." He punches his
>  comm "Mira, it's a Charlotte class scout... I don't remember any
>  more, did they have lowrides in them?"

Mira remembers that, yes the Charlottes do have emergency lowberths in 
them, usually the standard one that can hold up to four people.

>  He says "Arvitis, is that enough of an energy sig for a low berth? If
>  it is, there might be someone alive on that thing, and in that
>  orbit, they're not coming back for a long time..."

Arvitis nods and says, "I don't know exactly how much you'd need for 
that, so I don't know. Maybe."

> > The /Mae Lee/ will sweep past this derelict ship at several hundred
> > kilometers per second, and the real vectors of the two ships don't
> > match either. It will take about forty minutes burning the Heplar
> > drive to match vectors with the derelict if you choose to do that.
>
>  What's our fuel load? Is this a two hours out of our way thing or two
>  days out of our way?

Two or three hours, not days. 

Eris
AKU GM

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> >  "Thats a Charlie...whatinthehell is it doing out here?" He looks at
> >  it silently a moment. "Oh crap, I bet it's a misjump." He punches his
> >  comm "Mira, it's a Charlotte class scout... I don't remember any
> >  more, did they have lowrides in them?"
>
>Mira remembers that, yes the Charlottes do have emergency lowberths in
>them, usually the standard one that can hold up to four people.

"They have emergencies, stock four," Mira replies.


> >  He says "Arvitis, is that enough of an energy sig for a low berth? If
> >  it is, there might be someone alive on that thing, and in that
> >  orbit, they're not coming back for a long time..."
>
>Arvitis nods and says, "I don't know exactly how much you'd need for
>that, so I don't know. Maybe."
>
> > > The /Mae Lee/ will sweep past this derelict ship at several hundred
> > > kilometers per second, and the real vectors of the two ships don't
> > > match either. It will take about forty minutes burning the Heplar
> > > drive to match vectors with the derelict if you choose to do that.
> >
> >  What's our fuel load? Is this a two hours out of our way thing or two
> >  days out of our way?
>
>Two or three hours, not days. 

Mira 

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On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 06:24  PM, Eris Reddoch wrote:

> Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
>>> Ricardo changes course and flies the /Mae Lee/ toward the apparent
>>> derelict. As the distance decreases, an image begins to develop on
>>> the large screen at the front of the bridge, and on the screens
>>> around the ship that are tied to that screen.
>>>
>>> Floating against the blackness of space and illuminated by the red
>>> light of the M4 companion sun you see a small ship in the shape of
>>> a triangular arrowhead. The ship is slowly tumbling and as it does
>>> you see all sides. There is no visible external damage, but there
>>> is also nothing to indicate it is anything but a dead ship. You
>>> don't see any writing or markings on the ship's surface from the
>>> images you are getting, if there are any, they are too small to be
>>> picked up at this distance.
>>
>>  "Thats a Charlie...whatinthehell is it doing out here?" He looks at
>>  it silently a moment. "Oh crap, I bet it's a misjump." He punches his
>>  comm "Mira, it's a Charlotte class scout... I don't remember any
>>  more, did they have lowrides in them?"
>
> Mira remembers that, yes the Charlottes do have emergency lowberths in
> them, usually the standard one that can hold up to four people.
>
>>  He says "Arvitis, is that enough of an energy sig for a low berth? If
>>  it is, there might be someone alive on that thing, and in that
>>  orbit, they're not coming back for a long time..."
>
> Arvitis nods and says, "I don't know exactly how much you'd need for
> that, so I don't know. Maybe."
>
>>> The /Mae Lee/ will sweep past this derelict ship at several hundred
>>> kilometers per second, and the real vectors of the two ships don't
>>> match either. It will take about forty minutes burning the Heplar
>>> drive to match vectors with the derelict if you choose to do that.
>>
>>  What's our fuel load? Is this a two hours out of our way thing or two
>>  days out of our way?
>
> Two or three hours, not days. 

Ricardo announces "All right folks. we're gonna match up to her and see 
what's up with her. If she did misjump there might be someone still 
alive in low berth. If not, we can put a salvage claim on it."

"Cory, get on the horn to Serbia control, send them some pictures of 
it, and tell them we're matching vectors and are investigating, no, say 
'attempting a rescue or recovery.' Lets not give them anything too 
concrete about exactly where it is; if we have to come back for it, I 
want just us to be able to find it..salvage tends to be a possession is 
9/10'ths kind of thing."

"Arvitis, get as much data on the thing as you can. I want to know 
*where* on that ship the enerygy is coming from and as much detail on 
the surface as possible. We should be able to get some decent 
integration time as I match vectors.

"Lysia, Mira, stay on the guns until we get there. Then we'll have 
 take over. Lysia, you take Zeek and..." 
he thinks a moment "Illane over with Mira as a boarding party. Hows 
Ukanav in zero gee? Has he ever? If so, take him too."

"Kelly, we have any way of securing this thing? Hell. We could pull 
what Akus did to Ollies dad and just swallow her if we have the 
space.." (I don't know what we have in terms of a loading right now. We 
couldn't fit it on the hangar deck, could we? Someone could fly the 
Walk on in from here. Take a while, though..) "If not we're gonna have 
to plant a beacon on her...be nice if we could make it a keyed one. See 
if we've got something, or if you can whip one up."

He looks over at Shawm. Well, one of us should go over too. Rock Paper 
Scissors, winner gets to choose. "

(Terry, send Eris three choices, in case of ties...)

--
"Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D.
Bruce Johnson

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> Ricardo announces "All right folks. we're gonna match up to her and see
> what's up with her. If she did misjump there might be someone still
> alive in low berth. If not, we can put a salvage claim on it."
> 
> "Cory, get on the horn to Serbia control, send them some pictures of
> it, and tell them we're matching vectors and are investigating, no, say
> 'attempting a rescue or recovery.' Lets not give them anything too
> concrete about exactly where it is; if we have to come back for it, I
> want just us to be able to find it..salvage tends to be a possession is
> 9/10'ths kind of thing."
> 
> "Arvitis, get as much data on the thing as you can. I want to know
> *where* on that ship the enerygy is coming from and as much detail on
> the surface as possible. We should be able to get some decent
> integration time as I match vectors.
> 
> "Lysia, Mira, stay on the guns until we get there. Then we'll have
>  take over. Lysia, you take Zeek and..."
> he thinks a moment "Illane over with Mira as a boarding party. Hows
> Ukanav in zero gee? Has he ever? If so, take him too."
> 
> "Kelly, we have any way of securing this thing? Hell. We could pull
> what Akus did to Ollies dad and just swallow her if we have the
> space.." (I don't know what we have in terms of a loading right now. We
> couldn't fit it on the hangar deck, could we? Someone could fly the
> Walk on in from here. Take a while, though..) "If not we're gonna have
> to plant a beacon on her...be nice if we could make it a keyed one. See
> if we've got something, or if you can whip one up."
> 
> He looks over at Shawm. Well, one of us should go over too. Rock Paper
> Scissors, winner gets to choose. "
> 
> (Terry, send Eris three choices, in case of ties...)

"With her dead in space, even if there *is* someone in a low berth the ship may be entitled to a
lower level of salvage. The fact she is uncontrolled is the factor."

OOC: For some reason, I think current maritime law says 10% of the value of the vessel if it is dead
in the water and has to be rescued. That may not apply here so what is the law, Eris, for both
unoccupied and occupied?

"As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff is for the XO."

Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.

Shawn

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> "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff is for the XO."
> 
> Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.

Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.

"I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."

Shawn

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On Saturday 17 July 2004 23:43, Terry Mixon wrote:
> > "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff is for
> > the XO."
> >
> > Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.
>
> Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.
>
> "I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."

"Well before you decide, and all go fighting to get over there, can  I make 
the suggestion that something may have killed the crew over there so decon 
procedures should be in place before you leave and consideration should be 
given for who we can loose to a few weeks of isolation if it becomes 
required." He then adds emphaticaly "The doc" which he never calls her "isn't 
one of them."

-- 
Earl F Hampton
http://hamiii.sytes.net/index.phtml

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> > > "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff is for
> > > the XO."
> > >
> > > Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.
> >
> > Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.
> >
> > "I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."
> 
> "Well before you decide, and all go fighting to get over there, can  I make
> the suggestion that something may have killed the crew over there so decon
> procedures should be in place before you leave and consideration should be
> given for who we can loose to a few weeks of isolation if it becomes
> required." He then adds emphaticaly "The doc" which he never calls her "isn't
> one of them."

"Good point. Suits and we look and perhaps Mira should stay back, just in case. Likely not disease.
Probably mechanical but no need taking chances."

Shawn

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On Sunday 18 July 2004 00:03, Terry Mixon wrote:
> > > > "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff is
> > > > for the XO."
> > > >
> > > > Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.
> > >
> > > Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.
> > >
> > > "I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."
> >
> > "Well before you decide, and all go fighting to get over there, can  I
> > make the suggestion that something may have killed the crew over there so
> > decon procedures should be in place before you leave and consideration
> > should be given for who we can loose to a few weeks of isolation if it
> > becomes required." He then adds emphaticaly "The doc" which he never
> > calls her "isn't one of them."
>
> "Good point. Suits and we look and perhaps Mira should stay back, just in
> case. Likely not disease. Probably mechanical but no need taking chances."
>

"Hmmm, I wonder," Cory mumbles to himself. He turns the directional array to 
the ship and squawks it like he was setting up a comm relay through it, just 
to see if there is a response.
-- 
Earl F Hampton
http://hamiii.sytes.net/index.phtml

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Earl F Hampton wrote:

>  "Hmmm, I wonder," Cory mumbles to himself. He turns the directional
>  array to the ship and squawks it like he was setting up a comm relay
>  through it, just to see if there is a response.

No response.

Eris
AKU GM

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Mixon" 

> > > > Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.
> > >
> > > Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.
> > >
> > > "I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."
> >
> > "Well before you decide, and all go fighting to get over there, can  I
make
> > the suggestion that something may have killed the crew over there so
decon
> > procedures should be in place before you leave and consideration should
be
> > given for who we can loose to a few weeks of isolation if it becomes
> > required." He then adds emphaticaly "The doc" which he never calls her
"isn't
> > one of them."
>
> "Good point. Suits and we look and perhaps Mira should stay back, just in
case.
> Likely not disease.  Probably mechanical but no need taking chances."

"Suits are a given."  Lysia comm's in, "We don't know what, if any
atmosphere they might have over there.  I'd rather not open a door to
engineering and find myself walking to Serbia."

Lysia David

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At 09:03 PM 7/17/2004, you wrote:
> > > > "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff 
> is for
> > > > the XO."
> > > >
> > > > Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.
> > >
> > > Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.
> > >
> > > "I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."
> >
> > "Well before you decide, and all go fighting to get over there, can  I make
> > the suggestion that something may have killed the crew over there so decon
> > procedures should be in place before you leave and consideration should be
> > given for who we can loose to a few weeks of isolation if it becomes
> > required." He then adds emphaticaly "The doc" which he never calls her 
> "isn't
> > one of them."
>
>"Good point. Suits and we look and perhaps Mira should stay back, just in 
>case. Likely not disease.
>Probably mechanical but no need taking chances."

Mira intrudes, with a tender, "Thanks for the thought, Cory."

Then in a brisker tone, "However, I'm well versed in safety protocol for 
dealing with infectious diseases. It has been a primary specialty and I've 
been on several first response missions during my time in the Scouts. I 
really think I should be present if not leading the team."

Mira 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mira Hasta-Rur" 

> > > > > "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff
> > > > > is for the XO."
> > > > >
> > > > > Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.
> > > >
> > > > Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.
> > > >
> > > > "I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."
> > >
> > > "Well before you decide, and all go fighting to get over there, can  I
make
> > > the suggestion that something may have killed the crew over there so
decon
> > > procedures should be in place before you leave and consideration
should be
> > > given for who we can loose to a few weeks of isolation if it becomes
> > > required." He then adds emphaticaly "The doc" which he never calls her
> > > "isn't one of them."
> >
> >"Good point. Suits and we look and perhaps Mira should stay back, just in
> >case. Likely not disease.  Probably mechanical but no need taking
chances."
>
> Mira intrudes, with a tender, "Thanks for the thought, Cory."
>
> Then in a brisker tone, "However, I'm well versed in safety protocol for
> dealing with infectious diseases. It has been a primary specialty and I've
> been on several first response missions during my time in the Scouts. I
> really think I should be present if not leading the team."

"All three of the boarding actions I did before Cathay were actively
resisting.  Complete razorblade factories, I've never done a passive search,
might be a nice change of pace."

"Besides," Lysia adds with a grin, "I was just a grunt who never made it
past Corporal, I did the work I didn't direct it.  Mira's probably a better
choice as lead."

Lysia David

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On Sunday 18 July 2004 00:19, Mira Hasta-Rur wrote:
> At 09:03 PM 7/17/2004, you wrote:
> > > > > "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff
> >
> > is for
> >
> > > > > the XO."
> > > > >
> > > > > Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.
> > > >
> > > > Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.
> > > >
> > > > "I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."
> > >
> > > "Well before you decide, and all go fighting to get over there, can  I
> > > make the suggestion that something may have killed the crew over there
> > > so decon procedures should be in place before you leave and
> > > consideration should be given for who we can loose to a few weeks of
> > > isolation if it becomes required." He then adds emphaticaly "The doc"
> > > which he never calls her
> >
> > "isn't
> >
> > > one of them."
> >
> >"Good point. Suits and we look and perhaps Mira should stay back, just in
> >case. Likely not disease.
> >Probably mechanical but no need taking chances."
>
> Mira intrudes, with a tender, "Thanks for the thought, Cory."
>
> Then in a brisker tone, "However, I'm well versed in safety protocol for
> dealing with infectious diseases. It has been a primary specialty and I've
> been on several first response missions during my time in the Scouts. I
> really think I should be present if not leading the team."

"And I would agree with you if we were talking about live people, but in this 
case if they are alive, they are in low berths. Which means they'd need 
transport to sickbay before you brought them out anyway, which will be an 
engineering fuction. Secondly if you're hurt then we are left with Woof to 
preform what first aid needs doing. Thirdly you can pilot and shoot which are 
way more important to us on Mae Lee than on a disabled scout vessal. 
Especially with both Shawn and Ricky convinced they need to go and it's still 
possible this thing is bait for someone lurking near. Now quit arguing, if 
you make me explain the rest of my reasons, you'll ruin my mecurial 
reputaion."

-- 
Earl F Hampton
http://hamiii.sytes.net/index.phtml

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earl F Hampton" 

> > >"Good point. Suits and we look and perhaps Mira should stay back, just
in
> > >case. Likely not disease.  Probably mechanical but no need taking
chances."
> >
> > Mira intrudes, with a tender, "Thanks for the thought, Cory."
> >
> > Then in a brisker tone, "However, I'm well versed in safety protocol for
> > dealing with infectious diseases. It has been a primary specialty and
I've
> > been on several first response missions during my time in the Scouts. I
> > really think I should be present if not leading the team."
>
> "And I would agree with you if we were talking about live people, but in
this
> case if they are alive, they are in low berths. Which means they'd need
> transport to sickbay before you brought them out anyway, which will be an
> engineering fuction. Secondly if you're hurt then we are left with Woof to
> preform what first aid needs doing. Thirdly you can pilot and shoot which
are
> way more important to us on Mae Lee than on a disabled scout vessal.
> Especially with both Shawn and Ricky convinced they need to go and it's
still
> possible this thing is bait for someone lurking near. Now quit arguing, if
> you make me explain the rest of my reasons, you'll ruin my mecurial
> reputaion."

"Meow."  Lysia grins in her turret.

She's put the helmet of her suit on the back of her headrest.  She's got the
plumbing all hooked up to it so it's ready to go but it's rather
claustrophobic in the turret no point in making it worse.  Her gloves are
tucked carefully into her belt.

Lysia David

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On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 09:03  PM, Terry Mixon wrote:

>>>> "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff 
>>>> is for
>>>> the XO."
>>>>
>>>> Shawn grinned and did the rock paper scissors thing.
>>>
>>> Shawn grinned even though Ricardo beat him.
>>>
>>> "I bet Uk would watch the shop while we both go."
>>
>> "Well before you decide, and all go fighting to get over there, can  
>> I make
>> the suggestion that something may have killed the crew over there so 
>> decon
>> procedures should be in place before you leave and consideration 
>> should be
>> given for who we can loose to a few weeks of isolation if it becomes
>> required." He then adds emphaticaly "The doc" which he never calls 
>> her "isn't
>> one of them."
>
> "Good point. Suits and we look and perhaps Mira should stay back, just 
> in case. Likely not disease.
> Probably mechanical but no need taking chances."

  Ricardo shakes his head. "No, we stay suited inside the thing, but 
Mira's got to be there...do YOU know what an infectios disease looks 
like, or can you tell it from a rotted body? I can't...we need a 
medical officer with us."
--
"Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D.
Bruce Johnson

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> >  "Give me a few minutes to work on it, Captain." Kelly responds.
> >
> >  He unkeys the comm and sighs. "Okay, now..."
> >
> >  TGM: Can the cargo bay admit and hold the scout, either fully or
> >  partially?
>
> Even if the cargo hold was emptied it couldn't take the scout fully
> inside. The scout is just a bit too long. You could get most of it
> inside, but the front 8 meters would stick out of your front 
clamshell
>
> hatch. You wouldn't want to try landing the /Mae Lee/ like that.
>
> >  And, does Kelly know how to fabricate or modify something
> >  to create the beacon? Something like a spare transponder module
> >  might
> >  work..
>
> This should be easy to do. Kelly could build one from a comm unit, a
> fuel cell, antenna, and some electronics...all from spare parts you
> have
> aboard. If you want to, you could just take a spare transponder unit
> (which is really just a comm unit with some electronics built in) and
>
> program it to respond to a coded signal.  You'll need someone with
> Electronics skill to work on it and Computer skill to create, or
> adjust,
> the programming, though.

Kelly has explained the above to April as he formulated it. "Okay, 
let's tell Ricardo the news." He keys his com. "Captain, We can get the 
scout most of the way into the cargo bay, but about 8 meters of her 
nose will be outside. I can rig up a beacon, but I'll need some help to 
program it."

JR

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JR wrote:

> > This should be easy to do. Kelly could build one from a comm unit,
> > a fuel cell, antenna, and some electronics...all from spare parts
> > you have aboard. If you want to, you could just take a spare
> > transponder unit (which is really just a comm unit with some
> > electronics built in) and program it to respond to a coded signal.
> > You'll need someone with Electronics skill to work on it and
> > Computer skill to create, or adjust, the programming, though.
>
>  Kelly has explained the above to April as he formulated it. "Okay,
>  let's tell Ricardo the news." He keys his com. "Captain, We can get
>  the scout most of the way into the cargo bay, but about 8 meters of
>  her nose will be outside. I can rig up a beacon, but I'll need some
>  help to program it."

Kelly has the required Electronics skill and he recalls that Martan was 
very skilled with Computers...too bad Martan has gone missing. He thinks 
Mira and Shawn might have some skill in that area, but not nearly as 
much as Martan. To the best of his memory, no one else can do more than 
simply operate a computer for general tasks. He doesn't know about 
April, Ilane, Ukanav, Jac, or Lysia, though.

Eris
AKU GM

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eris Reddoch" 

> Kelly has the required Electronics skill and he recalls that Martan was
> very skilled with Computers...too bad Martan has gone missing. He thinks
> Mira and Shawn might have some skill in that area, but not nearly as
> much as Martan. To the best of his memory, no one else can do more than
> simply operate a computer for general tasks. He doesn't know about
> April, Ilane, Ukanav, Jac, or Lysia, though.

[OOC: Ilane doesn't know computers, but she *does* have Zero-G-3 and Vacc
Suit-2 as well as some mechanical and electronics skill. ;-)]

-- 
Bob K. (aka Ilane Lanik)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JR" 
> Kelly has explained the above to April as he formulated it. "Okay,
> let's tell Ricardo the news." He keys his com. "Captain, We can get the
> scout most of the way into the cargo bay, but about 8 meters of her
> nose will be outside. I can rig up a beacon, but I'll need some help to
> program it."

April nods and trys to follow what he is doing, "Well, I can find my way
around a pc fine to operate it but programming...no. ;)"

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On Sunday, July 18, 2004, at 10:24  AM, Earl F Hampton wrote:

> On Sunday 18 July 2004 00:19, Mira Hasta-Rur wrote:
>> At 09:03 PM 7/17/2004, you wrote:
>>>>>> "As the Captain, you should stay with the Lee. That kind of stuff
>>>

> "And I would agree with you if we were talking about live people, but 
> in this
> case if they are alive, they are in low berths. Which means they'd need
> transport to sickbay before you brought them out anyway, which will be 
> an
> engineering fuction. Secondly if you're hurt then we are left with 
> Woof to
> preform what first aid needs doing. Thirdly you can pilot and shoot 
> which are
> way more important to us on Mae Lee than on a disabled scout vessal.
> Especially with both Shawn and Ricky convinced they need to go and 
> it's still
> possible this thing is bait for someone lurking near. Now quit 
> arguing, if
> you make me explain the rest of my reasons, you'll ruin my mecurial
> reputaion."

Ricardo shakes his head. "Bait? They'd have to be awfully patient 
fishermen...Mira's been on enough first in teams that I trust her, and 
she's going over with a tiger team to protect her."  He sighs. "All 
right, I"ll stay here, Shawn you go."

"Don't get to have any fun anymore" he grumbles in a low voice.



--
"Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D.
Bruce Johnson

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Johnson" 
> > "And I would agree with you if we were talking about live people, but
> > in this case if they are alive, they are in low berths. Which means
they'd
> > need transport to sickbay before you brought them out anyway, which
> > will be an engineering fuction. Secondly if you're hurt then we are left
with
> > Woof to preform what first aid needs doing. Thirdly you can pilot and
> > shoot which are way more important to us on Mae Lee than on a
> > disabled scout vessal.  Especially with both Shawn and Ricky convinced
> > they need to go and it's still possible this thing is bait for someone
lurking
> > near. Now quit arguing, if you make me explain the rest of my reasons,
> > you'll ruin my mecurial reputaion."
>
> Ricardo shakes his head. "Bait? They'd have to be awfully patient
> fishermen...Mira's been on enough first in teams that I trust her, and
> she's going over with a tiger team to protect her."  He sighs. "All
> right, I"ll stay here, Shawn you go."
>
> "Don't get to have any fun anymore" he grumbles in a low voice.

Lysia nods as she watches the information about the ship stream into her
turret, "Aye, it was pure BS luck that we preciped near this thing, anyone
using it as bait would have it broadcasting for help with a very weak
signal."

Lysia adjusts the shoulder assembly in her suit trying to get it feeling a
little more right.

Lysia David

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> > "And I would agree with you if we were talking about live people, but
> > in this
> > case if they are alive, they are in low berths. Which means they'd need
> > transport to sickbay before you brought them out anyway, which will be
> > an
> > engineering fuction. Secondly if you're hurt then we are left with
> > Woof 
> > preform what first aid needs doing. Thirdly you can pilot and shoot
> > which are
> > way more important to us on Mae Lee than on a disabled scout vessal.
> > Especially with both Shawn and Ricky convinced they need to go and
> > it's still
> > possible this thing is bait for someone lurking near. Now quit
> > arguing, if
> > you make me explain the rest of my reasons, you'll ruin my mecurial
> > reputaion."
> 
> Ricardo shakes his head. "Bait? They'd have to be awfully patient
> fishermen...Mira's been on enough first in teams that I trust her, and
> she's going over with a tiger team to protect her."  He sighs. "All
> right, I"ll stay here, Shawn you go."
> 
> "Don't get to have any fun anymore" he grumbles in a low voice.

"I don't think it's bait. Leave Uk and Arvitis and go too."

Shawn got his suit and suited up. 

"We have about thirty five minutes to match course. Kelly, if we have to tow it, how would we do
that? I hope we can restore power, though."

Shawn

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> > Ricardo shakes his head. "Bait? They'd have to be awfully patient
> > fishermen...Mira's been on enough first in teams that I trust her, and
> > she's going over with a tiger team to protect her."  He sighs. "All
> > right, I"ll stay here, Shawn you go."
> >
> > "Don't get to have any fun anymore" he grumbles in a low voice.
> 
> "I don't think it's bait. Leave Uk and Arvitis and go too."
> 
> Shawn got his suit and suited up.
> 
> "We have about thirty five minutes to match course. Kelly, if we have to tow it, how would we do
> that? I hope we can restore power, though."

OOC: The gunnery issue may be a null point, I just realized. We have scanned the area. There are no
other ships out here. Once the boarding party is in the other ship, we can't shoot it or risk
killing them.

Terry

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Bruce Johnson wrote:

>  Ricardo announces "All right folks. we're gonna match up to her and
>  see what's up with her. If she did misjump there might be someone
>  still alive in low berth. If not, we can put a salvage claim on it."
>
>  "Cory, get on the horn to Serbia control, send them some pictures of
>  it, and tell them we're matching vectors and are investigating, no,
>  say 'attempting a rescue or recovery.' Lets not give them anything
>  too concrete about exactly where it is; if we have to come back for
>  it, I want just us to be able to find it..salvage tends to be a
>  possession is 9/10'ths kind of thing."

Arvitis turns toward Ricardo and says, "Ricky, this is outside the CSA, 
and the laws out here aren't the ones back home. I don't suppose we'd 
even *consider* checking it out and if it was empty just not reporting 
it to anyone?"

He cocks his head and raises his eyebrows, "You know, what I mean?"

>  "Arvitis, get as much data on the thing as you can. I want to know
>  *where* on that ship the enerygy is coming from and as much detail on
>  the surface as possible. We should be able to get some decent
>  integration time as I match vectors.

"Okay." Arvitis turns back to his sensors.

>  "Lysia, Mira, stay on the guns until we get there. Then we'll have
>   take over. Lysia, you take Zeek and..."
>  he thinks a moment "Illane over with Mira as a boarding party. Hows
>  Ukanav in zero gee? Has he ever? If so, take him too."

"Sorry." Ukanav comms back, "I've worked on ships, but only water ships, 
not space ships. I don't know how to put a vacc suit on much less walk 
around in null g."

>  "Kelly, we have any way of securing this thing? Hell. We could pull
>  what Akus did to Ollies dad and just swallow her if we have the
>  space.." (I don't know what we have in terms of a loading right now.
>  We couldn't fit it on the hangar deck, could we? Someone could fly
>  the Walk on in from here. Take a while, though..) "If not we're gonna
>  have to plant a beacon on her...be nice if we could make it a keyed
>  one. See if we've got something, or if you can whip one up."
>
>  He looks over at Shawm. Well, one of us should go over too. Rock
>  Paper Scissors, winner gets to choose. "
>
>  (Terry, send Eris three choices, in case of ties...)

Eris
AKU GM

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On Saturday 17 July 2004 23:40, Eris Reddoch wrote:
> Bruce Johnson wrote:
> >  Ricardo announces "All right folks. we're gonna match up to her and
> >  see what's up with her. If she did misjump there might be someone
> >  still alive in low berth. If not, we can put a salvage claim on it."
> >
> >  "Cory, get on the horn to Serbia control, send them some pictures of
> >  it, and tell them we're matching vectors and are investigating, no,
> >  say 'attempting a rescue or recovery.' Lets not give them anything
> >  too concrete about exactly where it is; if we have to come back for
> >  it, I want just us to be able to find it..salvage tends to be a
> >  possession is 9/10'ths kind of thing."
>
> Arvitis turns toward Ricardo and says, "Ricky, this is outside the CSA,
> and the laws out here aren't the ones back home. I don't suppose we'd
> even *consider* checking it out and if it was empty just not reporting
> it to anyone?"

Cory hesitates then asks " Um are you sure you want me to do that. If I fire 
the transponder to be legal and talk with control then they and anyone else 
will know where we are. If I don't fire the transponder then we are subject 
to a fine right?"

>
> He cocks his head and raises his eyebrows, "You know, what I mean?"
>
> >  "Arvitis, get as much data on the thing as you can. I want to know
> >  *where* on that ship the enerygy is coming from and as much detail on
> >  the surface as possible. We should be able to get some decent
> >  integration time as I match vectors.
>
> "Okay." Arvitis turns back to his sensors.
>
> >  "Lysia, Mira, stay on the guns until we get there. Then we'll have
> >   take over. Lysia, you take Zeek and..."
> >  he thinks a moment "Illane over with Mira as a boarding party. Hows
> >  Ukanav in zero gee? Has he ever? If so, take him too."
>
> "Sorry." Ukanav comms back, "I've worked on ships, but only water ships,
> not space ships. I don't know how to put a vacc suit on much less walk
> around in null g."
>
> >  "Kelly, we have any way of securing this thing? Hell. We could pull
> >  what Akus did to Ollies dad and just swallow her if we have the
> >  space.." (I don't know what we have in terms of a loading right now.
> >  We couldn't fit it on the hangar deck, could we? Someone could fly
> >  the Walk on in from here. Take a while, though..) "If not we're gonna
> >  have to plant a beacon on her...be nice if we could make it a keyed
> >  one. See if we've got something, or if you can whip one up."
> >
> >  He looks over at Shawm. Well, one of us should go over too. Rock
> >  Paper Scissors, winner gets to choose. "
> >
> >  (Terry, send Eris three choices, in case of ties...)
>
> Eris
> AKU GM

-- 
Earl F Hampton
http://hamiii.sytes.net/index.phtml

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> > Arvitis turns toward Ricardo and says, "Ricky, this is outside the CSA,
> > and the laws out here aren't the ones back home. I don't suppose we'd
> > even *consider* checking it out and if it was empty just not reporting
> > it to anyone?"
> 
> Cory hesitates then asks " Um are you sure you want me to do that. If I fire
> the transponder to be legal and talk with control then they and anyone else
> will know where we are. If I don't fire the transponder then we are subject
> to a fine right?"

"They have a point. We might aught to wait and see what we find."
 
Shawn

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On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 09:02  PM, Terry Mixon wrote:

>>> Arvitis turns toward Ricardo and says, "Ricky, this is outside the 
>>> CSA,
>>> and the laws out here aren't the ones back home. I don't suppose we'd
>>> even *consider* checking it out and if it was empty just not 
>>> reporting
>>> it to anyone?"
>>
>> Cory hesitates then asks " Um are you sure you want me to do that. If 
>> I fire
>> the transponder to be legal and talk with control then they and 
>> anyone else
>> will know where we are. If I don't fire the transponder then we are 
>> subject
>> to a fine right?"
>
> "They have a point. We might aught to wait and see what we find."

Ricardo thinks a moment. "Well, I can say I've only been a captain for 
a little while, barely passed my laws exam...lets hold off until we 
know for sure, then."

--
"Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D.
Bruce Johnson

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Johnson" 

> "Lysia, Mira, stay on the guns until we get there. Then we'll have
>  take over. Lysia, you take Zeek and..."
> he thinks a moment "Illane over with Mira as a boarding party. Hows
> Ukanav in zero gee? Has he ever? If so, take him too."

Lysia nods in her turret while she's watching the derelict, "Aye captain
aye."

"Ukanav's never been off world before this trip captain, he's going to need
some training before he's ready."

"Do we have a lay out of a standard one of these ships?  I'd like to know
where to look before we open an airlock.

Lysia David

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Adunaphell wrote:

>  "Do we have a lay out of a standard one of these ships? I'd like to
>  know where to look before we open an airlock.

Let's use 
http://www.sff.net/people/kitsune/traveller/images/t20scoutlg.png for 
the layout of the Charlotte class. 

Eris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eris Reddoch" 
> 
> >  "Do we have a lay out of a standard one of these ships? I'd like to
> >  know where to look before we open an airlock.
> 
> Let's use 
> http://www.sff.net/people/kitsune/traveller/images/t20scoutlg.png for 
> the layout of the Charlotte class. 

Excellent Smithers... Excellent.

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> Watching from back in Engineering, Kelly notices the fuel nozzle at
> the
> front of the ship is still open. The nozzle there is opened at jump 
to
>
> expel the jump fuel making the jump bubble for the ship. It is kept
> open
> during jump so small amounts of hydrogen gas can be expelled to
> maintain
> a proper bubble. One of the first things Kelly, or *any*, Engineer
> would
> do after emergence would be to close the nozzle. It is very unusual 
to
>
> see the nozzle open on this ship as it tumbles through space like
> this.

Kelly points to the display as he comments to April. "The ship's 
obviously out of control and powered down, but it looks like they had a 
problem when they exited jump. This nozzle should be closed first thing 
after emergence, like I did after we emerged."

JR

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> "Kelly, we have any way of securing this thing? Hell. We could pull
> what Akus did to Ollies dad and just swallow her if we have the
> space.." (I don't know what we have in terms of a loading right now.
> We
> couldn't fit it on the hangar deck, could we? Someone could fly the
> Walk on in from here. Take a while, though..) "If not we're gonna 
have
>
> to plant a beacon on her...be nice if we could make it a keyed one.
> See
> if we've got something, or if you can whip one up."

"Give me a few minutes to work on it, Captain." Kelly responds.

He unkeys the comm and sighs. "Okay, now..."

TGM: Can the cargo bay admit and hold the scout, either fully or 
partially? And, does Kelly know how to fabricate or modify something to 
create the beacon? Something like a spare transponder module might 
work..

JR

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JR wrote:

> > "Kelly, we have any way of securing this thing? Hell. We could pull
> > what Akus did to Ollies dad and just swallow her if we have the
> > space.." (I don't know what we have in terms of a loading right
> > now. We couldn't fit it on the hangar deck, could we? Someone could
> > fly the Walk on in from here. Take a while, though..) "If not
> > we're gonna have to plant a beacon on her...be nice if we could
> > make it a keyed one. See if we've got something, or if you can whip
> > one up."
>
>  "Give me a few minutes to work on it, Captain." Kelly responds.
>
>  He unkeys the comm and sighs. "Okay, now..."
>
>  TGM: Can the cargo bay admit and hold the scout, either fully or
>  partially?

Even if the cargo hold was emptied it couldn't take the scout fully 
inside. The scout is just a bit too long. You could get most of it 
inside, but the front 8 meters would stick out of your front clamshell 
hatch. You wouldn't want to try landing the /Mae Lee/ like that.

>  And, does Kelly know how to fabricate or modify something
>  to create the beacon? Something like a spare transponder module might
>  work..

This should be easy to do. Kelly could build one from a comm unit, a 
fuel cell, antenna, and some electronics...all from spare parts you have 
aboard. If you want to, you could just take a spare transponder unit 
(which is really just a comm unit with some electronics built in) and 
program it to respond to a coded signal.  You'll need someone with 
Electronics skill to work on it and Computer skill to create, or adjust, 
the programming, though.

Eris
AKU GM

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JR" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:27 AM
Subject: Re: [akus] 997.281: Derelict!


> Kelly points to the display as he comments to April. "The ship's 
> obviously out of control and powered down, but it looks like they had a 
> problem when they exited jump. This nozzle should be closed first thing 
> after emergence, like I did after we emerged."

April nods, "What sort thing do you think happened?"

April