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With tasks divested, Captain Shayne ordered a Blue Alert, ordering the crew to assemble on a nearby habitable planetoid to await the ship's repairs by the Orbital Team. However, matters were again complicated by the Chi Ceti's triple suns. It seemed that the chosen landing zone only had a few hours of daylight left. Due to its position in the planetary inner orbit, it would be plunged into a near endless nighttime. Leaving them precious hours to make the drop and set up their camp. | With tasks divested, Captain Shayne ordered a Blue Alert, ordering the crew to assemble on a nearby habitable planetoid to await the ship's repairs by the Orbital Team. However, matters were again complicated by the Chi Ceti's triple suns. It seemed that the chosen landing zone only had a few hours of daylight left. Due to its position in the planetary inner orbit, it would be plunged into a near endless nighttime. Leaving them precious hours to make the drop and set up their camp. | ||
But as the crew made their way down to the planet, Commander Collins, The Captain, and Chief of Security Artinus Serinus had a brand new problem. There was still a single life sign on the ship. That of Counselor R'Ariel. Vowing to get her safely off the ship, the party traveled deep into the ship. Despite the rapidly sapping air and power from the ship. After a time, they found The Counselor. But in a complete different state. The | But as the crew made their way down to the planet, Commander Collins, The Captain, and Chief of Security Artinus Serinus had a brand new problem. There was still a single life sign on the ship. That of Counselor R'Ariel. Vowing to get her safely off the ship, the party traveled deep into the ship. Despite the rapidly sapping air and power from the ship. After a time, they found The Counselor. But in a complete different state. The interference from the Midnight Planet had regressed The Counselor, turning her from medical professional to fierce combatant. A scuffle ensued, drawing Serinus and R'Ariel into a tight grapple. | ||
Collins and The Captain were forced to retreat, but the rest of the party would reassemble later at the final escape pods. Where their luck would go from bad to worse. | Collins and The Captain were forced to retreat, but the rest of the party would reassemble later at the final escape pods. Where their luck would go from bad to worse. Though the pods were all still functional and hard-coded for their chosen landing position, Counselor R'Ariel had another outburst. Literally lashing out at Quentin and pulling him into HER pod just moments before it launched. What followed was more of a fall than a drop. The pair tumbled and careened into the Midnight Planet's atmosphere, coming to a hard landing with the pod then spitting outward and into a nearby tree. | ||
Thankfully The Captain and Chief Serinus were not far behind. Once again reunited, the trio again tried to appeal to R'Ariel's better nature. Who now seemed to be in more control of herself. But the discovery was shortlived as Quentin then became ensnared by the very tree he had hit! It started to scoop him up and entangle him in vast cable-like roots, pulling him toward a sort of beak in the canopy above. Both The Captain and Counselor sprang to Quentin's rescue, but Randal Shayne himself then became entagled as well. Leading R'Ariel and Chief Serinus to bite and pull apart the vines and extricate them from the attacking tree. | |||
Once free the party, using Skeets, tried to find their bearings. Scanning for life signs and then starting off in that direction. Before the found the encampment however, the party happened upon another company in dire straights. Master Cheif Aeryn Ra and Officer Ferentis had had their own set of troubles since the touchdown. And worse still, Ferentis was still stuck in his escape pod which was leaking ignition fluid all over the forest floor. Though Quentin desperately wished to help, The Captain ordered them on which would provide them plenty of distraction. In the form of a whole new attack. | |||
It seemed the party had attracted the attention of a roving pack of creatures. Baring striking similarities to terrain wolves and mid-sized woodland cats. Wasting little time, the pack struck out at the party, just as a hard trace signal for the rest of the crew could be ascertained. One clamped onto Quentin's left hand, twisting and tearing while another latched to Quentin's booted foot. Thankfully, the quick thinking, technical skill of Captain Shayne, and martial talents of Chief Serinus, the "cat-wolves" were beating back into the night by a combo of a sonic pulse and Serinus' strength. | |||
But finally, the party's luck seemed to finally change. As comms had finally been restored by their proximity allowing Ash MacKenna to finally get a message (and location coordinates) out into the ether. Following the signal, our harried party finally found their awaiting ad-hoc encampment. Just in time to see the orbital party return in the banged up, but operational Type 11 Shuttlecraft. But as they reoriented themselves, the planet and its strange light-up plants and native "light creatures" seemed to be fully responding to them now. Fully charging their surroundings with rogue ions and whipping up a pointed pattern field not unlike a transporter field. | |||
But Commander Collins never saw exactly why or how they got back to the ship. Because he passed out from blood loss and exhaustion before he could be beamed back to the ship. Collins woke up in the Sickbay of the ship, hours later, where Dr. Morgenstern was repairing his injuries. She then filled him in on the status of the ship, the miraculous circumstances of their return, and the losses his department had suffered. After another number of hours, Commander Collins was discharged and repairs were affected across the ship. Giving way to Shore Leave conditions and a transit to Casperia Prime. | |||
It is of the opinion(s) of this program(s) that Commander Collins has acclimated well to the transition back to Sciences. Both as section chief and back into somewhat lower position on the Senior Staff. He is attentive toward his superiors, patient with and helpful to junior staffers, and has made a considerable effort in "getting himself out there" amongst the crew. Attempting to forge meaningful connections and realtionships with his shipmates. | |||
However, it is also of the opinion(s) of this program(s) that Commander Collins continues to take dangerous risks in the sake of "not letting his crew down". Commander Collins has conflated responsibility to one's peers as a need to put himself in harm's way for the sake of the "greater good". This program(s) predicts it is only a matter of time before his misguided "selflessness" has deadly represcussions for Commander Collins and his crew. | |||
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