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The Mnemosyne Crew ([personal profile] mnemosynecrew) wrote in [community profile] themnemosyne2024-12-16 07:47 pm
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Mini-Event


EVENT


One day, the Mnemosyne's sensors registers something unusual and the CL-10s light up to show a faint blip on the available short-range scans. Passive systems initially marked it as debris, but now L3TH3's own analysis reveals distinct structural patterns - artificial, deliberate. A derelict vessel.

The object hangs in the void, its silhouette jagged and uneven, as if time and space had waged a slow, corrosive war against it. Its hull is composed of a dark, matte material, absorbing most of the light from the surrounding nebula. Occasional metallic glints hinted at fractured plating, edges sharp like broken glass. It's small enough to take one, maybe two passengers. Not a ship to travel the ends of space with.

The vessel's shape is similar to a manta ray with a lattice of interwoven plates, some half-collapsed, others eerily intact. Small, irregular openings dotted its surface, their purpose unclear. Sections of the hull appeared fused, as though reshaped by intense heat or pressure. Faint scorch marks suggested prior damage, but there were no visible signs of propulsion systems or weaponry.


The Mnemosyne's scanners continue to sweep the ship, pulses of blue light rippling over its surface. The analysis returned incomplete data:

Material Composition: 47% unknown alloys, 32% organic compounds, remaining elements unidentifiable.
Power Signatures: Negligible. Residual traces of energy detected in isolated regions.
Life Signs: None detected.
Radiation Analysis: No hazardous emissions identified.
Quarantine Measures: Establishing containment procedures for potential recovery operations.


As the Mnemosyne drifts closer, external cameras capture the vessel in greater detail. The nebula's soft pink and purple hues frames the derelict ship, its battered form casting long shadows across the void. Automated proximity lights from the Mnemosyne illuminates portions of the alien craft, revealing intricate surface etchings - patterns resembling flowing script or circuitry, carved deep into the hull.

It drifts silently, its history unknown, its purpose long abandoned. Yet its presence in uncharted space raised questions that neither the Mnemosyne's crew nor its AI can yet answer.



Welcome to a little mini-event to stir things up over the Holidays! Crew can decide if they want to examine the ship further, take it into the hangar or leave it where it is.


plantussy: (mallow)

[personal profile] plantussy 2024-12-28 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty bad behind the wheel of vehicles in general so definitely no piloting here.

Maybe drones are the easiest way if we want to limit space walk time.
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[personal profile] anesthetic_rage 2024-12-28 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
If we can get it in with the drones, a disused area can be quarantined and it can be purged thoroughly from the outside while the air is kept from cycling with our own.

This is probably a terrible idea but I'm still on board.
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[personal profile] plantussy 2024-12-28 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
We might be able to take it into the hangar with drone help and then shut that down for decontamination?
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[personal profile] anesthetic_rage 2024-12-31 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, exactly. Shut the hangar down as the ship gets back underway. Seal it. Decontaminate like nothing flat, including the methods that were used to sterilize before. once it's cleared to investigate, we go in.
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[personal profile] plantussy 2025-01-04 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think we can be any more careful than that.
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[personal profile] anesthetic_rage 2025-01-05 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
The only more careful option is not grabbing it in the first place. And, that might be short-sighted in other ways. so here we are.
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[personal profile] plantussy 2025-01-05 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Here we are.

[ He wants to tell Zaeed to be careful again, but that would just be redundant. Instead; ]

Good luck.
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[personal profile] anesthetic_rage 2025-01-08 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
To us all. To us all.