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Back on the Darwin, they are dealing with changing circumstances. [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-darwin/azdpt8-W5Jg Merrick arrives on the bridge] just after Brell and Valdivia have left and takes his seat at the science station and gives a report to the Captain. Interestingly Renos receives a call from Starfleet command and takes it in nir ready room, leaving Wilmer in charge of the bridge. R’Ven reiterates his update to Wilmer that sensors had picked up fleeting secondary life signs from the large predatory creature that nearly impacted the ship earlier as well as the Santiago. While the energy from the nebula makes acquiring a precise reading difficult it appeared that the readings came from either inside or in very close precise proximity to the creatures. | |||
Also they are getting no direct communication from the Santiago but they have enhanced sensor feed is registering impacts to the shuttle, subspace pockets and other similar disturbances that were forming or appearing around them. And that there is a cosmozoan that appears to be at least four times as large as the shuttle. | |||
Using the enhancements that have been implemented on the Santiago Merrick updates the sensors on the Darwin and on the Probes as well. Other Cosmozoan fish are detected of all size, shapes and varieties. Also small wormholes and what would appear to be Cosmozoan nests. And that is when Wilmer comes to the conclusion that this is an [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-darwin/t3HhisECFmQ alien mating ground!] | |||
At a command from Wilmer the ship’s warp ion signature is altered to its most subtle configuration. Several of the officers worry that this may make it more difficult to maneuver when it is called upon. But they are to use maneuvering thrusters only to move. | |||
Once the Darwin implements the change the data feed from the Santiago shows that hundreds of tiny being swarming out a small worm hole near their location. A quick call to the Santiago allays any fears as Rennyn says they are going to [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-darwin/lOUKeLeEIX0 hold position] until they can move without harming the young. R’Ven relays Wilmer’s theory that this whole region is a mating ground. But then R’Ven detects a [http://i.imgur.com/71w2Qpn.jpg much larger Cosmozoan], one larger than the Darwin itself is holding position at the extreme edge of their revised sensor range. | |||
Rennyn says they are going to steer clear of than and closes the connection. | |||
On the bridge Renos has reappeared after nir call and actually asks Wilmer [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-darwin/qIxCECZKK9M “Did you miss me?”] Vacating his position at the center seat Wilmer updated Renos about what has been seen. R’Ven informs Renos about the much larger Cosmozoan that is holding position. Renos wonders about the away teams and informs them that Starfleet is recalling them to work on damaged communication relays between the Alpha and Delta Quadrant. Renos notes that the metaphasic energy that permeates the nebula appears to be damaging the young and R’Ven investigates. At the same time R’Ven is still examining the huge Cosmozoan. It is still holding position, energy coalescing and dispersing at its tail end, but nothing threatening. Occasionally it opened its large jaws and sucked in several smaller Cosmozoans and then closed them again. As Merrick watched the creature/ship. | |||
And then the ship’s internal sensors detect an energy discharge from within the sphere near where Commanders Brell, Valdivia and Rhyn are working. | |||
Brell, Valdivia and Rhyn, after stopping to get appropriate EVA gear quickly make their way down to the science lab which is linked to the containment sphere to get a closer look at the fish that have been brought on board the Darwin. Standing inside the airlock they plan their mission. Valdivia wanted to take readings and warns that the creatures possess a field that surrounds them at a strength that the Darwin would not easily detect but that it would make it painful to touch. He also professes a desire to tag the fish, even though it is something that is no longer done, but says he would put a request in for it as SST. It was something that [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-darwin/5IqV6rz3wE0 Brell frowned upon]. | Brell, Valdivia and Rhyn, after stopping to get appropriate EVA gear quickly make their way down to the science lab which is linked to the containment sphere to get a closer look at the fish that have been brought on board the Darwin. Standing inside the airlock they plan their mission. Valdivia wanted to take readings and warns that the creatures possess a field that surrounds them at a strength that the Darwin would not easily detect but that it would make it painful to touch. He also professes a desire to tag the fish, even though it is something that is no longer done, but says he would put a request in for it as SST. It was something that [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sb118-darwin/5IqV6rz3wE0 Brell frowned upon]. | ||