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Stepping inside the gate Renos and Rennyn enter a small chamber, which without warning sends them plummeting into the unknown at dizzying speeds! Panicked by what appears to be a malfunction Renos calls for extraction. Establishing a lock the Darwin attempts to initiate transport. However instead of bringing Renos and Rennyn back to the Darwin, an energy buildup overloads the transporters and inadvertently transports Reynolds onto the lift. The lift soon slows and deposits the newly formed trio in the middle of a large building. | Stepping inside the gate Renos and Rennyn enter a small chamber, which without warning sends them plummeting into the unknown at dizzying speeds! Panicked by what appears to be a malfunction Renos calls for extraction. Establishing a lock the Darwin attempts to initiate transport. However instead of bringing Renos and Rennyn back to the Darwin, an energy buildup overloads the transporters and inadvertently transports Reynolds onto the lift. The lift soon slows and deposits the newly formed trio in the middle of a large building. | ||
As the team begin to explore they find a beautiful and spacious atrium filled with huge glass windows. Exotic plants and huge gardens fill the room stretching out as far as the eye can see. | As the team begin to explore they find a beautiful and spacious atrium filled with huge glass windows. Exotic plants and huge gardens fill the room stretching out as far as the eye can see. After discussing the possibility of what some of the plants they had discovered were, Poppy Reynolds discovers a decorative object that resembled a small lighthouse. So awed with its beauty Renos, Ren and Poppy decided to holoimage the piece inside the greenhouse after making them repeat silly phrases. Afterwards, Ren and Poppy began to explore the gardens while Renos, following them, notices a long, chrome pole on the grass. Calling out to nir teammates ne takes nir eyes off the object for a few moments but when ne looks back it's gone. Unable to resolve the strange dilemma they decide to press on.At the same time Ren and Poppy have discovered a musical rolling river, with a large, mechanical device built in the brook itself that created music as the water moved its parts. Unfortunately, when Renos was brought back to listen, much like the sprinkler that Renos had found it had all vanished, | ||
The rest of the three days were filled with many more exciting finds and the captain brought back a great many photos, some of which ne featured in after a little bit of arm twisting. Back in nir ready room, Renos spends days reflecting upon an expedition that everyone wished could have lasted longer. How long would it be before they could once again delve into the depths of the sphere and unlock more of its secrets? The captain was just grateful that everyone made it out of the sphere safely, bringing back exciting discoveries of their own. | |||
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Now inside the mysterious building Doctor Pond, using her tricorder, determined that the air was okay to breath and they removed their breathing equipment. Moving further down the halls they soon discovered that the further they traveled inward the darker it got. Once at the center of the building, two mirroring spiral staircases led up either side of the building from the ground floor to the second. Following another spiral staircase they found numerous large rooms and halls separated by transparent walls. Shining their lights through the walls revealed tables and benches filled with tools and apparatus of varying kinds. Doctor Pond got very excited as they looked like medical labs. They entered one and Varaan was able to restore power and lighting to the area. Pond speculated it to be a lab for researching medicine of some sort. Paulsen attempted to access a interface terminal but was unable to do so when the system prompted her for a code. | |||
Somehow after this she was beamed away leaving Varaan and Pond looking at each other in puzzlement and astonishment. They were able to make partial contact with the ship to confirm she had beamed to it. | |||
The teams searching of the lab prompted a robotic unit to awaken named Inx. It was a copper colored robot with a blunt vaguely humanoid shape. Inx’s movements were quite stiff due to untold years of inactivity and at first had trouble communicating with the starfleet officers but it’s universal translator was able to interpret their languages. They asked if Inx could give them a tour of the facility and explain a bit about the society that built it. The robot began to comply until it reached a programming error that caused it shut down. | |||
Lt Pond stated. “What a sad fate. It might have waited millennia for this moment, only to break down. Maybe we can take it back to the Darwin, to study it in a lab… In our own lab, of course.” | |||
<font color="Darkred">'''Team 3: [Amethyst]'''</font> '''Leader:''' LtCmdr Stennes, Ens Scudder, LtCmdr Tovin, Ens Lambert | <font color="Darkred">'''Team 3: [Amethyst]'''</font> '''Leader:''' LtCmdr Stennes, Ens Scudder, LtCmdr Tovin, Ens Lambert | ||
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Images: [http://www.walldevil.com/wallpapers/a33/town-future.jpg The city] | Images: [http://www.walldevil.com/wallpapers/a33/town-future.jpg The city] | ||
The team entered the building at the end of the alien city plaza and found themselves in a cavernous grand hall with complex glyphs set into the walls. Tovin inferred that the civilization which created them was very old and established, and valued artistic impression in their communications. Lambert investigated a massive obelisk in the center of the hall. While its exterior appeared inert he detected high levels of electrostatic energy inside of it. Just before Stennes advised caution Lambert made physical contact with it and was rendered unconscious for several minutes, putting him in contact with some form of intelligence residing inside the obelisk itself, which unsuccessfully attempted to "repair" his artificial heart and hearing device. | |||
As the team worked to stabilize Lambert, the obelisk opened and an intense violet light filled the hall. Upon Lambert's revival, the officers tried to understand what happened and what the mysterious intelligence meant by threatening to "reassemble" him. After weighing the risks7, LtCmdr Stennes made the decision that the entire team would enter the obelisk together to discover its intentions for Lambert. | |||
<font color="purple">'''Team 4: [Soladite]'''</font> '''Leader:''' LtCmdr Brell, Ltjg Logan, Lt Shayne | <font color="purple">'''Team 4: [Soladite]'''</font> '''Leader:''' LtCmdr Brell, Ltjg Logan, Lt Shayne | ||
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While walking Brell felt an odd tingling sensation. A touch revealed another corridor trimmed in the same Sodalite light, shrouded with illusion. However when the illusion dropped it was not just a single tunnel that appeared, but many of them all angling in different directions. Logan commented. "Reminds me of that maze they put those lab rat’s into test their abilities." | While walking Brell felt an odd tingling sensation. A touch revealed another corridor trimmed in the same Sodalite light, shrouded with illusion. However when the illusion dropped it was not just a single tunnel that appeared, but many of them all angling in different directions. Logan commented. "Reminds me of that maze they put those lab rat’s into test their abilities." | ||
When Shayne picked up biosigns none of them were prepared to see what arrived: Perfect copies of themselves all holding up their phasers. | |||
Brell, soon followed by Logan and Shayne introduced themselves, with no response. Even Logan and Brell wishing each others and their doubles happy birthday brought no reaction. It was only when Kurt, using a few gestures caused them to looked at him. And when the group restated that they had peaceful intent and that they came from the outpost on the surface. Then the dopplegangers vanished. | |||
Continuing down the corridor that the doppelgangers had emerged from the group noticed their phasers had been drained. Having little choice they kept going hoping they could still swap in an unaffected power cell later. | |||
Hours later the trio arrive in a large octagonal room with corridors leading from all sides. Once inside they were sealed in by force fields and their next puzzle was presented to them. A starfield filled of the Pouiyeog region the room with the dyson sphere there were currently inside of in the middle. A small holographic spaceship appeared and a series of navigational challenges given to them. | |||
The officers set up camp beneath the holographic stars and after getting some sleep were able to to crack the language and complete the challenges and tasks. Next they were led into some kind of operations room inside the crystal structure connecting the inner and outer spheres. After a few hours Brell and his team discovered it was the environmental control center of this entire hemisphere of the Dyson’s Sphere and they quickly found that the entire area was being affected by a slow eruption. | |||
The air control systems were highly advanced but had been without maintenance for untold number of years. Their access to systems was limited but they had control of environmental systems automatic maintenance drones. They came up with a plan to redistribute them to accommodate for area unable to cope with the added stress of the volcano. Once the last robotic maintenance drone was in place, another hidden doorway had appeared this one led them to the lift they had first entered in. | |||
<font color=darkorange>'''Team 5: [Amber]'''</font> '''Leader:''' Lt R’Ven, Hars Vlin, Lt Cook | <font color=darkorange>'''Team 5: [Amber]'''</font> '''Leader:''' Lt R’Ven, Hars Vlin, Lt Cook | ||
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Hars suggests looking for water and Cook suggests looking for signs of life. After a moment of contemplation R’Ven agrees. However when his attempts to check in both with the Darwin and then Renos fail, he explains that now they not only must explore, but they also have to find a way out. As Hars started scanning, R'Ven walked a few meters down the overgrown path leading to the first settlement. With still no signs of life showing on his screens something pulled R’Ven off of his feet and into the brush! | Hars suggests looking for water and Cook suggests looking for signs of life. After a moment of contemplation R’Ven agrees. However when his attempts to check in both with the Darwin and then Renos fail, he explains that now they not only must explore, but they also have to find a way out. As Hars started scanning, R'Ven walked a few meters down the overgrown path leading to the first settlement. With still no signs of life showing on his screens something pulled R’Ven off of his feet and into the brush! | ||
Merrick's fall takes him over rough terrain, down a hole and he arrives at the mouth of a cave that opens out into the first of two towns. After taking a short time to recover the trio make their way out into the city. An investigation reveals a town that is completely void of any | |||
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When the lift stopped and the doors slid open it revealed an engineering complex of some kind . The atmosphere seemed hazy, volcanic ash and sulfur is detected in the air. Icavoc orders a determination of the air quality, before proceeding further. It is quickly determined that although there was a Volcanic eruption going on nearby the air was safe to breathe but that they should limit their presence. Valdivia also tells that the group that he feels that the gravity here is natural, not artificial and speculates that there is a white dwarf at the center of the sphere beneath them. | When the lift stopped and the doors slid open it revealed an engineering complex of some kind . The atmosphere seemed hazy, volcanic ash and sulfur is detected in the air. Icavoc orders a determination of the air quality, before proceeding further. It is quickly determined that although there was a Volcanic eruption going on nearby the air was safe to breathe but that they should limit their presence. Valdivia also tells that the group that he feels that the gravity here is natural, not artificial and speculates that there is a white dwarf at the center of the sphere beneath them. | ||
Icavoc, Valdivia and Wilmer examine the air quality of their surroundings, determining it safe to have limited exposure without the re-breathers. While the decision is made to move forward and investigate the volcano, there are concerns about its safety. Studying a map Icavoc locates a building that may contain vehicles that will take the trio where they want to go. They find hover cars. While testing out the new vehicle Wilmer finds that he is capable of flying the craft and during testing they discover that it is much faster than expected. Now they were ready to move faster to their destination, while at the same time, exploring the volcanic ashen lands of the Ruby Gate. | |||