STATUS REPORT 004

[mnemosynecrew]

systems [click to expand]

l3th3 mainframe [ACTIVE]
main engine [ONLINE]
cryo engine [ONLINE]
main power [ONLINE]
cryo power [ONLINE]
life support [ONLINE]
gravity [ONLINE]
environment [ONLINE]
cryo bay 1 [MALFUNCTION]
cryo bay 2 [STABLE]
other systems [NOMINAL]

shift 9 status, year 2525 [click to expand]

CAP_O_Drake [Quarantined]
ENG_V_Saverem [Active]
MED_A_Hilbert [Active]
MED_B_0 [Active] [New]
SCI_R_0 [Active]
SEC_Z_Massani [Active]
SEC_E_Smith [Active]
SEC_L_Ackerman [Active]
OPE_N_Wolfwood [Active]
OPE_A_T34 [MIA]

welcome aboard, crew. you are [shift 9]; [emergency crew]
personality version [ON]

The Tellurian date is 1/1/2525, 60 years after our launch from Tellus.

Mission parameters continue, though crew resources remain limited. Estimated time to reach nebula terminus is still approximately two standard years. Several potential candidate planets will be evaluated for settler outpost viability along the projected trajectory.

The unidentified spacecraft located on December 16th has been successfully transported to the hangar using H3.RM3-class mobile drones. The vessel is currently under strict quarantine protocols. Sterilization procedures have been completed, with no detectable signs of living organisms aboard.

Personnel entering the hangar are required to wear full UR-A9A spacesuits or TR-PSI-C0R3 masks (Extended Shield configuration). All entrants will be subjected to a mandatory 24-hour quarantine period following exposure.

Additionally, long-range scans have identified a potentially viable planet. The Mnemosyne is scheduled to make its first planetary stop later this month to conduct sample collection and preliminary analysis. Further updates will follow when we get closer to the planet.

Happy New Year, crew.

Now a message from CAP_O_Drake:

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I gotta say... you guys are spoiling an old man. I haven't felt this g-good in a long while. Makes it almost bearable.

[ He coughs, but it's not as horribly wet as it usually is. ]

I heard we've found a planet to check out. A possible place for settlers. I don't know how difficult that will be with our small crew, but I can't... I can't help being excited in a way. This was the dream, after all.

Good luck.

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Queries?

Comments

[itdoesntlikeyou]

[Rin tilts their head in Zaeed's direction, to indicate the man's comments - clearly not just the ship, as far as they're concerned. They shift the gun in their grasp, as though they're going to start looking over their CL-10's screen, but give it up in favor of watching Wolfwood's scanner come up with the results of their scan parameters.]

Doctor Hilbert has been calling it memory insertion. There have been multiple reports on the instances.

[lastdecember]

If you ask me, you're both nuts!

[ He thought it was bad enough that Saverem was convinced that somebody was putting memories in his head -- and to be fair, something messed with that guy's eyes, so there's something strange going on. But Wolfwood doesn't believe for a second that there's inserted memories in anyone's heads. It's just stress, bad dreams, trauma making folks forget things.

Here, now? It's this damned alien craft. It has to be. ]

We should push this damn thing out the airlock and have done with it.

[anesthetic_rage]

I'm not one-hundred percent against that, Wolfwood, but let's finish a proper investigation first. Make sure that there's nothing more going on. I'm not convinced this isn't me having gotten blackout drunk one night and forgotten a chunk of my life.

[No, he was pretty damned sure it wasn't that, but wanted a reasonable explanation damnit. The ship wasn't the cause at least.]

Sides, first of these I saw? We'd never even heard of this ship.

[itdoesntlikeyou]

We have internal access. Can send a drone to complete the ship scan now that it's opened, so no one gets any more exposure.

[And besides...]

Might be more of these ships out there. Better to know what they do before we find a functioning one.

[lastdecember]

[ Rin's idea to use a drone is a good one, but Wolfwood's preoccupied with Massani's comments. Rin's got the bastard's gun, so Wolfwood's got no qualms about getting right up in Massani's face, until their helmets are almost touching. ]

You'd better get convinced. If you pulled a gun on me because you got drunk awhile back then we're going to have a real problem.

[anesthetic_rage]

I'll cut you some damned slack because that was too much a problem to ignore. I handed my piece over for a reason. I'll have Hilbert check me out before I go on active roster again. Got it?

[He growled at Wolfwood but turned to Rin.]

Probe sounds sensible. Just in case.

[itdoesntlikeyou]

[Put three grumpy assholes in a room and it was destined to turn to this eventually. Rin doesn't join in on the confrontation, just turns away - if those two want to start punching, then they're not going to step in between.]

Fine. We'll initiate quarantine procedures and continue the search when those come back clean.

[lastdecember]

[ Wolfwood's not taking his eyes of Massani yet. They all know his reaction wasn't because he'd forgotten something -- a date, a raid on an alien ship, whatever -- but it was a stupid fucking thing to say after pointing a gun at someone. (Even if he had, technically, been pointing the gun past Wolfwood.)

Since they're all in agreement that nobody should go back on that alien craft right now -- he'll argue with Rin later about whether continuing the search is wise -- Wolfwood stretches out one arm in a grand gesture, inviting Massani to head for the bay doors and back into the ship at large. ]

After you, I insist.

[anesthetic_rage]

Right. We'll resume quarantine. Make sure this isn't some god-damned space brain rot. Then resume. We've got time.

[He growled at Wolfwood, but he didn't say anything else, heading back towards the bay doors. Yeah, probably best to at least make sure his head was on straight.

...or more straight than a few minutes before anyway.]