Shore Leave: The Abandoned Facility

Alira, Zephyr

Mars sets up two search teams to investigate both facilities at the same time. He is in one team, Zephyr and Alira are in the second. With you are Lisa, who jumped at the request to join your mission and who was quickly recruited by Lt. Mars (There might be a follow up conversation with Alira's mother later, as she has not been involved in this decision yet to speed things up), Julia, who is coming along because she knows the layout of these facilities and can help you with that kind of information, and a security officer by the name of Liam Quinn. All of you have been equipped with spacefleet issue phasers, hand held or rifle, your choice.
Once your team has been assembled, you gather in front of the security station and are beamed out to one of the two decommissioned terraforming stations. It's a huge, ugly building that has been painted completely brown to be less visible in the gigantic forest surrounding it. The temperatures here are noticeably colder than they were back in town. Depending on your preference, it might be either slightly too cold or much more pleasant than the tropical weather you were in before.

Julia looks at the building and says: "The front door is that way. There should also be an access tunnel that would lead us right into the center of the facility. The entrance for that should be not far from here in the forest."

Quinn has a rifle, Julia has a pistol, Lisa is also carrying a rifle. Zeph can choose himself.

Julia looks around to get an understanding of the surroundings, then eventually leads you away from the facility into the surrounding forest. You all notice how eerily quiet it is there. Except for your own footsteps and noises you make while stepping on twigs or moving bushes out of the way, there are no noises. No animals, not even wind.
Julia wanders around a bit, searching for the entrance. After two or three minutes, she stops and points you towards a small trapdoor in the forest floor, obscured by some moss but still visible. She clears the door and accesses the computer screen next to it. "This was designed as an evacuation route, not a way in. It should be stripped of its security mechanisms, though, so I'm confident we'll be able to enter through here." She keeps working on it for another minute before the door finally unlocks and opens into a dark, unlit corridor. Quinn leans in and shines a flashlight into it. "Looks empty and intact. Should I go first or are we all going together?", he asks.

"The facility is off the net. I can scramble the access data again but if anyone else wants to get in, that would only slow them down, not stop them. I would need database access to set up anything safer than that", Julia explains.
Quinn jumps in through the trapdoor and shines his flashlight forward. The tunnel is long, straight and dark. The air smells really bad down here but not bad enough that you can't breathe.

"I got your back, Alira!", Lisa says with a smile as she watches everyone climb into the hole and then follows behind you.

"For sneaking out it'll be the same as getting in. I can slow them down but not stop them. Unless you have an idea, Zephyr?", Julia replies.

Julia seals up the exit behind you and works on the console on the inside of the trap door for a minute. "It should only be two or three hundred meters I think", she whispers. You notice that any loud noises you make echo through the tunnel so she is keeping her voice down to prevent that.
Quinn starts walking down the tunnel, his flashlight clipped to his uniform and the phaser rifle in both hands. He's walking slowly and keeping eyes and ears open for anything unexpected.

You move down the tunnel until you eventuall come to its end. There is an automatic double door that does not have any electricity and therefore won't open on its own.
"This door should lead us right into the central command room of the facility", Julia explains quietly. "It should be abandoned and out of power, though"

See what you can do to open it.

Julia walks up to the door and looks at it and the small, powerd down console next to it on the wall. "If we managed to power up this console, we should be able to open the door. But I have no idea how we could do that, sorry. Or we could just try to disrupt the magnetic lock and open them manually but it would be more..." She suddenly breaks off and leans against the door. After a few seconds, she whispers, much quieter than before: "I hear sounds from the other side. Someone or something is moving around in there. Nobody should be here except for us!"

Zeph and Lisa work on connecting the tricorder's power source to the door to get it to open but eventually, they notice that it's not doing anything. It has to be possible somehow but they cant get it to work.

"I think it should be possible. But phaser power cells are designed to emit short bursts of high energy. If we don't do it right, we might fry up the door controls completely", Lisa says.
Quinn adds: "And we would have to take apart one of our phasers. We might need all of them once we get through the door. We don't know if the people on the other side are friendly"