4952 Delcia

Nero wastes some time and energy engaging in futility before you all decide to examine the doors. While Nero wastes more time checking if the sand if jamming the doors, both Sam and Sorrack will notice what seems to be a control panel. The reason you did not noticed it first is because it does not "pops" out of the door, everything is flush with the strange metal of the doors. There are some inscriptions in a strange alien language that none of you understands with two buttons that, if it weren't for the faintest hint of an outline for them, you wouldn't know they are there. Sorrack is about to suggest to be careful as you have no idea if those are the buttons which will open the door when Sam decided to blindly tempt her luck and press one...

The doors then start to open, revealing a large hangar with many alcoves and two rooms near the back. A set of stairs are visible further back, behind a pile of crates which are stacked roughly in the middle of this large hangar. The high ceiling seems to be getting even higher about one-third the way in, and you can see what looks to be a control booth up high, with large windows to give any would-be operators there a good view of this hangar. And of course, the most obvious feature of all, the badly chemically burnt body of a dead Erakai lying in front of you... The same burns you saw on your fellow survivors when you had to run for your lives...

The knives Sorrack has been idly playing with disappear into somewhere, and from that same somewhere a wristcom is produced. It is surprisingly clean, not nearly as covered in goo as one might expect. He actives the comm and begins relaying information to the ship. He walks over to the body, looking for any identifying marks on the body or uniform.

@ Sam: You did not had time to examine the other shipwreck survivors' bodies as you were running for your lives back then, so you decide to take the time to examine this one. If this is indeed the same creatures which attacked you that did this, perhaps you can learn a bit more about those...

Subject seems to be a zin-era Erakai and the cause of death seems to be chemical burns which covers a large percentage of its body. The burns seems to have been caused by some highly caustic substance, not unlike what can passes for stomach acid in many lifeforms across the Frontier. Curiously, Sam also finds some small bit of molten metal encrusted into the Erakai's skin where the larger burns are located. Recalling what she knows of Erakai biology and the current temperature, Sam determines that time of death would correlate with the window of time the Dawn Star's crew went missing...

@ Trudy: If there are indeed any computer to interface with, they are more than likely located in that small observation station above you. Also, looking at the dead Erakai before you, it would correspond to Yularia Rydthang, the ship's medic.

@ Sorrack: Sorrack contacts Yvonne. "You've found a dead Erakai you say. This must be Yularia Rydthang, our ship's medic. This is troubling news... I hope the others survived."

Sorrack asks the ship:
Now that the doors are open, are you able to do a scan or something for life forms or wristcomms. Maybe point us in the right direction?

Yvonne responds. "Scanning...

...

...

Scanning inconclusive. The strange materials of the interior prevents my scans from functioning properly..."

As you begin to enter the massive structure, you hear a faint noise.

Scratch
Scratch
Scratch

After pausing and listening a little closer, you notice that the cadence begin to change and a new sound is evident.

Scratch
Scratch
Hisss

Although the emptiness of this room makes it hard to tell where the sound comes from, you have a good idea of which direction this sound is in. Now, do you investigate or avoid it?