mytholder: Now We Are Here, General Transmission #26

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mytholder) wrote,
@ 2008-03-04 21:50:00

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now we are here

Now We Are Here, General Transmission #26
Negotiations with the Flight Crew are continuing, but a consensus is forming. Even Romal, the loudest voice in the militant faction of flighters, is softening his stance. The news that Prospero is undergoing final checks and will be back up soon helps the negotiations immensely.

It's all going well, then...
The St. Andrew shakes for a moment with the shock of a hot launch.

>C-link engaged
>Backup network open/emerg/secpro: null/xcogburn
>SUBJECT: Launch detected

Attention all hands,
something just launched from the rear of the drive spine! Sensor profile looks like a small shuttle or a fat missile... it's vectoring to enter the atmosphere, heading for the jungles south of the landing site.

The ship isn't supposed to have anything like that on board. Another... surprise left for us by the insurgents.

We have one shuttle docked with the ship right now, and it's fully fuelled. I recommend we pursue the insurgent vessel and capture it. No doubt their leaders are on board. If we don't act now, it could vanish into the intermittent gaps in our satellite network. We could track it with the ready shuttle, but that thing's moving quickly and could evade.

Poll #1148910
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Got A Bogey

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Pursue it with the ready shuttle
21 (58.3%)

Track it with the ready shuttle
11 (30.6%)

Track it with the satellite network
4 (11.1%)

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luinthoron
2008-03-04 10:19 pm UTC (link)

While I agree that we need to find out what that thing was (shuttle? missile? something else?) and that it most likely had to do with whoever assisted with the changes in Prospero, I really don't like Cogburn's tone ("insurgents"). Yes, I agree that something has to be done quickly in this case, but Cogburn really needs to think more about what he is saying unless he wants to turn everyone against him. He is already being seen by some as somewhat unstable.

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	cerandor 2008-03-05 12:00 am UTC (link)
	At least in this regard, I'm with Cogburn. We need to know who's on that shuttle. And how the hell did it get past our checks? My only concern is that we could lose our shuttle - that "thing" could be armed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	snarg 2008-03-05 12:08 am UTC (link)
	As for how it got past our checks: with Prospero compromised I don't think we can trust any of that data. Thank goodness that's almost over. Edited at 2008-03-05 12:08 am UTC (Reply to this)(Parent)

	flatvurm 2008-03-05 03:56 am UTC (link)
	I vote for shuttle tracking. I feel like seeing where it's going rather than capturing it, and using the shuttle (rather than the satellites) leaves us with options when the quarry gets where it's headed. (Reply to this)

	arken_thell 2008-03-05 07:33 am UTC (link)
	I say go capture it with extreme force. It could be a distraction but I for one will not take the chance of anything getting away. Also when is Prospero due back online? (Reply to this)

amcathra
2008-03-05 11:29 am UTC (link)

Not to be snarky, but isn't this a military command decision? We don't have time to debate time-critical decisions like this in any meaningful way.

I'm making checks for sabotage on the ship right now and don't have time to waste trying to make decisions I'm not trained for, which risk the lives of anyone sent, not to mind the shuttle itself.

Incidentally, this explains where the lost tank of fuel went.

And while I'm still linked, I understand that taking prisoners requires minimum force and is difficult and dangerous. Just shooting down the shuttle or vaping the landing site from orbit are easier options, though neither gives us information.

I've got to the launch site now, so signing off...

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-05 04:52 pm UTC (link)

Track it with the ready shuttle. Set the Security team and any other non-Flight on the ship on full alert. This could be a distraction. Tracking them with the satellite network will be useless, since they probably manipulated Prospero into proposing that we junk that probe in the first place (I TOLD you that was a mistake!).

See where the thing lands. I'm willing to bet it's conveniently where some of the cargo was offloaded. We have to accept the fact that there may be human hostiles (AESIR or homegrown) among us. I don't suppose we have any way to just blow the thing out of the sky?

Mr Cogburn, it appears we may owe you an apology. Still - we shouldn't overreact until the facts are known.

P.

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	luinthoron 2008-03-05 08:22 pm UTC (link)
	Blowing the thing out of the sky is a nice and quick solution, but capturing whoever might have escaped with it would give us (a chance to get) many much-needed answers. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	light_artisan 2008-03-06 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	. Ahem... we are in the middle of a negotiation, please don't jump like crazy monkeys at the first unknown shuttle departing to the planet. We are a little spot in a planet, I want to think that, if the have not shoot ainst us, they aren't an inmediate treat. Find the landing site and report, don't mess with they. We have better things to do right now. Sci Lt Artisan. . (Reply to this)

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