Shore Leave: The Abandoned Facility

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Jun 22, 2019 3:03 pm
Ok. How easy to just destroy the panel? I should be able to open the door manually, fairly easily
Jun 22, 2019 5:10 pm
OK. Julia, you hold my phaser and use yours to blow the door panel. I will force the door. Depending on the situation I will either grab my phaser from you, or just rush into the room.
Everyone else, have your phasers ready to go. No one should be in there, so stun everyone no matter what uniforms they are wearing. We can sort it out after.


She looks around to make sure everyone is on board.

Ready Julia? Go!
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Jun 22, 2019 5:21 pm
Julia does what you tell her. Quinn stands in front of the door, his weapon ready. Lisa is also in position, ready to fire her rifle at any movement.
Once Julia shoots the console, Alira pushes the door open. It's heavy but she manages without much trouble. You hear some shouting from the other side. Nothing too informative. "Cover" or "Intruders"...
As she is opening the door, Alira sees six people in the large room behind it. It looks like the control center of the facility, large, deactivated screens and computer terminals everywhere, a huge tactical terminal that can display large maps in the center. The men are wearing civilian clothes in a style that looks like Earth or at least the center of the Consortium. They are all human, four men, two women. They're all armed with spacefleet style phasers, rifles and handguns and as soon as a moderate slit is open in the door, a phaser beam is fired towards Alira.
OOC:
Give me a roll to not die. You're prepared and an expert.
Jun 22, 2019 5:37 pm
This is me. Not getting hit.

Rolls

Do not die. Feelings whoa whoa whoa feelings - (3D6)

(521) = 8

Jun 22, 2019 5:55 pm
Alira dodges out of the way at the last possible second, the phaser shooting through the slit in the door right where she was standing less than a second earlier. Quinn immediately moves to the door and opens fire through it into the room but quickly has to dodge to the side as well when another shot goes through the half-open door. "Whoever they are, they know how to fire a phaser", he says.
Lisa grabs her rifle firmly in both hands and moves to the door. She leans into the opening to fire but moves out of it again before she even gets a single shot off.
Jun 22, 2019 8:36 pm
This is Alira Vitan of Spacefleet. This is a Spacefleet building. If you are Spacefleet, put down your weapons. If you are not Spacefleet surrender immediately.
A Security force will be transporting here and they may be more trigger happy than I am. You have 10 seconds to toss your weapons my way.

10

9

Rolls

Rolling feelings to sound convincing. Expert but not prepared - (2D6)

(43) = 7

If you consider me prepared - (1D6)

(2) = 2

Jun 22, 2019 10:29 pm
The phaser fire from the other side of the door stops but you don't hear the sound of weapons droppin to the ground.

You continue your countdown and eventually reach 0. There is no response or even sound of movement
Jun 22, 2019 10:31 pm
...1
She gets on the communicator
This is Alira Vitan. We have found unauthorized and armed insurgents at my location. I need a full security team to beam to the front of the building and someone with stun grenades to my location. Now! If you need higher authorization, contact the Admiral

We are under phaser fire, this is a code red priority!
Jun 22, 2019 10:33 pm
Alira takes a quick look. If she draws no fire she gets back on the communicator.

Track any transports from this location, they may have a transporter.
Jun 22, 2019 10:34 pm
There is a short delay before you get a reply: "Understood, Lieutenant. We are transporting a team to the entrance and an armed officer to your location now."

You still have to wait almost a full minute until a woman wearing resort security uniform with a belt that has three stun grenades attached to it and carrying a phaser rifle materializes in the tunnel only a meter away from Alira.

There is still no sound from beyond the door untli this point.
Jun 22, 2019 10:42 pm
I assume they are gone, but could you toss a grenade in there please?

As soon as it goes off we enter the room in classic cover each other mode and secure the room.
Jun 22, 2019 10:55 pm
The newly arrived woman doesn't hesitate. She goes up the door and peeks through the gap that Alira opened. "It looks empty", she says but she still takes one of the grenades from her belt and throws it into the center of the room.
There is an explosion shortly after and you all see bright light for a second. Everyone standing in the blast radius of the grenade should be stunned just the same as if they had been hit by a phaser set to stun.

Immediately after the explosion, Quinn, the woman and Alira enter through the gap in the door. Lisa follows right after them. It doesn't take them long to realize that the room is empty. Whoever the people in here were, they aren't here anymore.

However, they were not able to hide what they were doing in time. A battery is hooked up to one of the main consoles in the control room and unlike everything else in the room, that terminal is running. If you inspect it, you will be able to see that it is accessing terraforming data, specifically the information on the stellarforming that has been done on the star of the Caspera system.
Jun 22, 2019 11:06 pm
OK

Alira takes a deep breath.

She gets on the communicator
Notify the Admiral that terraforming information may have been compromised. Heaven knows what that could be used for.
I need my team beamed to the other terraforming station to join up with the team there.
Warn that team that they may meet resistance.
The extra team that came here can stay and guard this area.


She turns to the others on her area.

Sorry, I don't know your name, but you with the grenades are with me.
Julia, you stay here and assess what information was accessed and make sure nothing else is being taken. Shut it down.

Everyone else, let's get ready to be transported.
Jun 23, 2019 6:28 am
Julia gets to work on the console right away, Quinn stays with her as a guard. Lisa, Alira, the woman with the grenades, Bea Cardona, (and possibly Zephyr) get ready to beam to the other site. At one point during their preparations, the team that Alira requested to the front door of the building comes in and secures the room.

When they beam over and materialize in the other facility, the command center is already secured. It looks in slightly worse shape than the other site but there is no battery hooked up to any of the terminals and no signs of a fight.
Lt. Mars walks up to Alira and says: "We still haven't searched the whole building but the command center was empty. We did not encounter any resistance. We heard about your firefight. I hope nobody got injured"
Jun 23, 2019 6:56 am
No. Luckily they fled after the first couple of shots. I think we got there on time. They wanted something there for sure.
Do you know if they had any luck tracing the transporter signals?
If they did, I guess we follow them. If not, continue searching.


Alira sighs and looks around.

I am getting tired of these people. Mars, make sure everyone knows that they are armed and not afraid to shoot.
Jun 23, 2019 7:33 pm
Zephyr, who remained behind with Julia rather than beaming over to the second terraforming facility with the others, approaches a terminal. Assuming he has security access, he attempts to prod the system to figure out if anyone has accessed it recently.

Maybe if we get more specifics about the type of data they were looking for we can piece this mystery together, he says.

Why on earth would these people be gathering stellarforming data? Do they have their own star they'd like to modify to support life forms in a system? Or maybe their plan is more sinister, and they plan to use Caspera's star as a weapon against this system.
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Rolls

lasers, expert - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (5) = 5

1d6 : (6) = 6

Julia's help - (1d6)

(2) = 2

Jun 23, 2019 9:16 pm
Zeph

Zeph goes through the information on the screen with Julia. Although he is a scientist and familiar with the basics of terraforming, Zephyr has trouble understanding much of the jargon, abbreviations and calculations used here. If he had more time, he could familiarize himself with it but for now, he's relying on Julia to explain most of it to him.

"It's possible they have a start in mind to stellarform but the equipment is extremely expensive and even if they have the funds, it will take them years to replicate the success we've had here, even with this data, if they managed to steal it. I'm no expert on terrorism but I feel like they probably have something faster in mind", Julia thinks out loud. "With this data, they could in theory revert the stellarforming of Caspera's star - or change the parameters enough to let it swallow this planet - but what would be the point? Destroying this resort makes no strategic sense and there are faster ways of doing that." She keeps looking through the files with Zephyr, explaining things to him and copying data from the terminal onto her datapad. "I can show this to my commanding officer - or maybe to Maen. They know much more about stellarforming than we do and might be able to pick up on a pattern or anything that we're missing."
Alira

"I would love to say we're increasing security but with the search and the responsibility of guarding the resort guests, we are already spread very thin. I will make sure to remind all my people again that the attackers are armed and dangerous. And I will tell them to shoot without hesitation when they encounter them - Shoot to stun, obviously", Mars replies.
A man in golden uniform joins your conversation. He shows Alira a datapad and says: "There are obvious traces of transporter activity where you encountered hostiles in the other facility. We have not been able to track down their destination but we are continuing our search. That confirms that these people must have a ship in the system, however, as there are no transporters on the entire planet."
Jun 23, 2019 10:10 pm
Please let me know as soon as you get a lock on that trace.

For now I guess we just continue searching warehouses.


She taps her transporter.

Please transport my team to the next warehouse on the list.
Jun 24, 2019 11:35 am
"Stand by", a voice replies and a few seconds later, Alira, Lisa and Bea are beamed to the first warehouse on their list. The building is old and mostly made of wood. Looking at the surrounding area, you are on the slope of a huge mountain, at the edge of a large forest. Lisa, who picked up a tricorder in the second facility, aims it at the warehouse and says: "I'm not picking up any life signs. Should we still have a look in there or move on?"
Jun 24, 2019 5:29 pm
let's take a quick look just in case there is a base or something. Then if there is nothing, on to the next one.
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