Planet VI: Ice Planet

Climbing up the rope left secured to the side of the ships hatch you enter the ship. The interior is dark with red emergency lighting strip where walls meet floor and ceiling dimly illuminating the are within. The inner hatch is also open and small snow drifts have accumulated within the airlock area. Beyond the inner door you see an empty hallway, similarly light by the dull red glow that barely makes it better than pitch black. The local terminal in the airlock is dead as are all door controls. There are signs of wear on some of the surfaces of the panels and door. They could be tool marks from repairs but it could also be from someone forcing access to the electronics behind them. Other than that there is little of note here and you will need to delve deeper into the ship to learn more.

The ship is inert and due to its design with extremely limited networking requires those on site to manually control terminals or connect remote transceiver to individual stations for remote access. With this in mind you have brought a transceiver each and use them to connect to terminals as you come to them. The ship is on reserve power so until you get to engineering each section of the ship is limited to how much it can power up.



Turning on your suit lights you begin moving into the ship. The first thing you notice is that the snow blown into this hallway shows signs of traffic, with a path being trod into it in the middle compressed, but fresh snow covering it indicates it is not recent though you would need to examine or scan it for a guess on when this happened. You quickly come to a T intersection with what looks to be a main corridor heading forwards to where the drridge is and aft to the engines. So far the ship seems to follow the standard layout.

This section of the ship appears free of combat damage. The trail in the corridor indicates that there were either survivors or someone visited the wreckage afterwards often enough to compress the snow. Deeper into the ship past the first intersection the snow has thinned, though a thin layer of ice still coats most surfaces.

Moving from the midship hatch you move to to the main corridor and then move back to the unexplored cargo bay first. Upon reaching it you open the door to find a large room with neatly organized crates. They are arranged to create partitioned sections within the large area and there are old signs of habitation. Some of the crates are open while others look to have been positioned to allow easy access to their contents.

If you are on the ship looking towards the front (prow) the port side is on the left and the starboard side is on the right, while aft is at the back where engineering is.

Much of the cargo is intact, though frost covers everything. This section of the ship was heavily looted, with several empty crates and boxes. Some crates still hold valuable trade goods (nothing useful at this time : ex: spices, perfumes, complex base chemical components, etc), though others appear to have been emptied and by the looks of the manifests you can find these likely held items that might be useful for survival or construction. All that you find are several broken tools or ones without any power, a few scattered personal effects and digital pads.

While the others move to the wreck and start searching it Alandra is able to direct the ship systems to correlate all the data collected on the creatures. The results reveal little in the way of weaknesses other than the expected susceptibility to heat, but the results do help enhance the sensors abilities to detect and target "vital" portions of their mass.

A quick scan from the Odyssey reveals that engineering is clear of the creatures but looks to be sealed. After the exploration team heads down the main corridor they soon verify the doors are closed and unresponsive though they do have power.

With a slight his the door release and you realize they had been pressurized and heated with what was likely breathable air. As the door opens a cloud of vapor billows out and the cold sweeps into the engine rooms beyond. The interior lights blink on revealing a large room with multiple control panels, several of which blink to life as the door opens. The room shows signs of battle damage but also some repair. Most of the clutter is simply shoved out of the way to keep select areas clear.

The doors close and the environmental systems begin to restore a habitable environment. Looking around you see nor hear signs of any but yourselves. Though there are signs of repairs it all looks ot have been done some time ago. Hal finds that other than power generation and life support all other engineering systems were intentionally disabled. The doors were rigged to lock when closed from the inside with only a forced entry allowing this to be bypassed. Thus whoever did the work left and closed the doors behind themselves.

A quick check of the systems shows logs dating after the earlier records recovered from the bridge. Though no records about the crew were entered you do find system status were updated after the crash and even adjusted as word was done to them. Whomever survived did not seem to care about leaving a record for any who found the ship but was keeping meticulous track of the technological resources still operating, or at least those that were deemed critical for continued use. You do not that many tools and smaller or portable systems receive a final mark of "Reassigned".

Give me specifics you look for and/or rolls on additional activities/searches.

Tying the system in to the Odyssey and sending back all records for Avro and Alandra to begin reviewing you then search engineering and note the absolute lack of anything useful in its current state. Fortunately there are several large pieces of equipment that can be salvaged. The best pieces, unfortunately, are tied to the power plant and can not be removed till it is fully deactivated. Thus the most use and value you find would come from powering down the ship and draining it for fuel and stripping its primary systems.

You do identify that while the ships complement of swarm missiles has already been removed half the ship's rapid fire laser system is still completely functional. In fact some of the record indicate it was used after the crash though you are unsure for what purpose. Other than that all you find are large materials for ship repair such as bulkhead plating and spools of metals and plastics used by fabricators for system printings. Though not matching your ships fabricators you could likely adapt them for the use and craft components should the need arise. With all your finds being bulkin but of value your work to transfer them to the Odyssey looks to be a lot of heavy lifting and wrangling with sleds till you can get the materials to the open.