Sifting Through the Ashes

[Ebiris]

"Everyone sure covered their tracks, didn't they?" Albert sighs, "You'd think one side would at least leave some sort of warning for the people in stasis... speaking of that, how long until you thaw out the next batch and they can leave quarantine, Hale?"

[Brian]

"They will be reanimate within four hours, and released into quarantine.  Then we will need sixteen hours for health safety," Hale replies.

[Ebiris]

Albert nods, deciding to head back to the bridge and see what everyone else has found.

[Brian]

Albert is the first one back to the bridge.  Kelly can be heard distantly puttering around in the computer control center, which is just below the bridge, and the access-way to the engine control compartment has been left open, flashing red lights warning anyone who sees it to not shut the door.

Currently, the main screen is displaying a shot from the fly-by of the planet that is apparently the ship's goal.  The geography looks unfamiliar, a world of greens and browns, speckled generously with blues and the welcoming white strips that indicate clouds in an atmosphere.  Hopefully it's breathable.

[Ebiris]

Albert spends about ten minutes puttering around the bridge in an effort to look busy before at last settling over the sensor console to see what he can learn about the planet below.

If sensors work, that is.

[Brian]

Hale turned the ship so that the working sensors faced the planet -- the rotation must have been pretty slow, since no one felt it ... but it was probably much more noticable at the periphery of the ship rather than the center of the axis of rotation.

The readings are pretty good, considering it was basically a snapshot as the Eidolon hurtled past.  Initial readings suggest that the atmospheric composition is a bit closer to Stygia than Landon, but that means breathable either way.  The world doesn't seem to have many oceans ... but it could just be the one side the Eidolon got to see in passing has a large continent.

The majority of the landmass is run through with wide rivers and shallow lakes, so it's not entirely a desert world, but there are deserts on it.  All in all, it looks to be tropical, angle of axis and temperature readings suggesting a climate as soft as Corvallis'.

Hale has indicated several locations as potential evacuation/crash landing points, but no actual landing locations yet; the readings weren't quite precise enough for that.

[Brian]

While Albert is patiently waiting for people to show up, and examining the maps of the new (unnamed) planet around Sirroco, Kelly wearily climbs up from the computer access hatch, and begins to trudge wordlessly towards his quarters.

[Ebiris]

Seeing someone finally show up, Albert jumps at the chance to flex his command skills. "Mr Kelly, report?" he asks crisply.

[Dracos]

"Huh?  Oh.  Sorry."  Kelly shook his head, trying to return ot a sembalance of paying attention.  "Um, Okay, the logs have been pretty thoroughly deleted.  On top of that, someone removed a primary memory core.  I tossed together something to start recovering everything we can, but the best thing that could happen now is if we find where that core is.  Hale says it's not on our part of the ship, which means it must be over on the Eidolon part.  And, I'm pretty sure that's it."

Dracos

[Ebiris]

"So long as nobody jettisoned it," Albert notes. "Very well, I'll instruct a thorough search once we have more people on hand. Dismissed."

[Dracos]

Kelly turned and headed off, seeking the comforts of sleep.

Dracos

[Ebiris]

With no one else left to boss around, Albert resumes puttering around the bridge, going over diagnostics and sensor reports and whatever else happens to be on any particular monitor at any given time.

[Brian]

Luckily, the wait for another crewman is substantially shorter this time.  Finn arrives, squeezing something theoretically nutritious out of a tube.

[Ebiris]

"Ah, crewman Finn!" Albert exclaims jovially, looking up. "How go the repairs?"

[Bjorn]

"Airlock's done," Finn reports laconically.  "Next step'd be t' take a walk, but I want a bot to go out and see what we got on our hands first."