[Mission] Distress Call

[Diamat]

A new mission has now started. Read about the recent reforms here. Over the next few days, while we head to the Idran System, I hope people will slowly start to join back in after our hiatus. By the time of our arrival, I hope most of us will be assembled.

Background:
Our stay at DS10 has ended. The ship is fully repaired. Suddenly, a distress call is received by DS10 and the surrounding ships, including the Indefatigable.

OOC:
For the moment, I will take over the Captain's role. I am still working on a permanent solution for the Captain issue. Please confirm your presence by posting something in either this thread or another (OOC or dialogue, as long as I know you are there). This is so that I know when we will arrive in the Idran system, and I can begin the action.

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Mission Start:

Receiving Distress Call *Ring, ring!*

[Hobbes]

OOC: I'm in.

[Roxas]

OOC: I'm here; just waiting for something to do.

[Tazgrent]

Lt. Commander Grissom was holding the bridge while the was Captain off-duty. Hearing the hail, he orders it placed on screen.

[Diamat]

There was no visual to be seen. All that came through was static. Nevertheless, it was clear that the message came from the Idran system.

[Ferdiad]

OOC:I'm in broskis

[Agamemnon]

OOC: Here.

[Tazgrent]

"Computer, what records do we have of ships passing through the Idran system at this time?"

[Diamat]

Computer: "There are no records of Federation vessels currently in the Idran System."

[Roxas]

Ambassador Rhodes had just finished conversing with the Vulcan High Ambassador; still rather annoyed that he had been given such a humiliating task. He briskly walked onto the deck; his fellow colleagues in the Intelligence department had wandered off and left him on his lonesome, so he fancied checking the bridge.

[Tazgrent]

"Hmm..." mused Grissom. "Alright. Helm, lay in a course for the Idran System at Warp 6.5. Advise all stations to be on guard, but this isn't an alert. Simply being cautious."
After a moment, he noticed the ambassador enter the bridge and turned to greet him.
"Ambassador, what can I do for you? How was your conference?"

[Roxas]

"Hmm..." mused Grissom. "Alright. Helm, lay in a course for the Idran System at Warp 6.5. Advise all stations to be on guard, but this isn't an alert. Simply being cautious."
After a moment, he noticed the ambassador enter the bridge and turned to greet him.
"Ambassador, what can I do for you? How was your conference?"

Markus acknowledged Grissom; nodding as he approached the main focal point of the bridge, fixated on the far beyond outside the glass.

"It was satisfactory, if you call having to apologize to someone and losing all dignity in the process progress. But enough about that; how are things on the bridge?"

[Tazgrent]

Markus acknowledged Grissom; nodding as he approached the main focal point of the bridge, fixated on the far beyond outside the glass.

"It was satisfactory, if you call having to apologize to someone and losing all dignity in the process progress. But enough about that; how are things on the bridge?"

"Things are well enough, considering."
Grissom turns back to the viewscreen.
"Can we get a precise location for that distress call?"

[Diamat]

OOC: This is for the Ops officer to interpret; I purposely scrambled some sentences to make things more challenging for the ops officer

Sensor Readings:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Signal Type: Distress
Alien Race Frequency Match: database not match frequency any in the existing does frequency
Origin of Signal: Class M surface planet
M class planet's life signs: Pre-industrial civilization (developmental equivalent of Earth's Ancient Greece)

[Ferdiad]

Tom acknowledged his Superior by punching a few buttons on the console.

[Agamemnon]

Harrison rolled out of bed, put on his uniform, checked his gun, sat down on his bed again, said a short prayer to prepare for the mission, and promptly fell back asleep.

[Diamat]

The Indefatigable arrived at the Idran System. There was one M class planet in the system.

OOC: Let's get this party started! By the way, whenever you scan something, mods will play the sensors. In other words, when somebody orders something to be scanned, mods will provide sensor feedback.

['Gunny]

"Sir, it... it appears that the distress call is coming from the surface of the planet, however I believe that we are receiving interference from the planets Ionosphere, that last sensor reading was fairly garbled.

What I can tell you is this: It isn't anything we have encountered before."

[Tazgrent]

"Helm, bring us into a geosynchronous orbit above the site of the distress call. Lieutenant O'Falvey, I'd like you to assemble an away team and report to Transporter Room 3."

[Ferdiad]

Tom carefully piloted the ship into the Orbit above the planet.