RP: SNV Gam'trosha [Chapter 3.2] The Unknown Jui'varen!

Cargo bay

Being in the cargo bay Lato heard the shuttle as it landed nearby.
'Wonder who that is.' he thought. No one had been sent off ship and the logistics shuttles were a little deeper sounding.
Finishing up on the module he was working on the Laibe wiped off his hands and face with the towel in his toolbox before making his way towards the docking bay.

Bridge

"Right now just keep monitoring our sensors, once we begin our descent into the atmosphere you'll need to start scanning for viable landing sites and send said information to Def'leor," said Sa'kira, who had gotten up out of her chair and was standing behind and to the left of Def'leor. "Once that dropship is docked, seal the bay doors and then take us into the atmosphere."

Vector 41 - Gam'trosha Docking Bay

"Names Shi'sha'tra Je'ha'shue," remarked Shi'sha'tra. "But most people just call me Shi..." for good reason, given her name was a long one. She walked over to the drop-ships ramps and slapped the door controls. "I guess we can leave this cargo here for now," she looked back at the stacked and tethered crates. "And report to whomever meets us here."

Vector 41 - Gam'trosha Docking Bay

Once freed from the confines of his seatbelt, Seu slid down from the seat, claws clicking faintly upon the panelled flooring. "Shi'sha'tra Je'ha'shue," he repeated with a clear accent, bowing his head in respect to the female. "I'm sure there will be personnel here to receive the shipment as required. Thank you for the long flight."

The My'leke turned and retrieved his duffel from cargo, shouldering it with the help of his long tail. Then he turned to join Shi to prepare for debarkation.

Engineering

Keri'cruen shot Quin a slight, warm smile after Ye'gor's response to the senior engineers statement. The young kit's blue-green jewel-like gaze shifted back then, turning to meet the luminous golden stare of the taller, adolescant Laibe.

"You're really doing well," Keri said in his usual soft-spoken dulcet tones, "Keep this up and you'll be A'Fuereb in no time at all."

The young silver-haired engineer shifted his weight and pushed gently off a hand rail -- guiding his slight mass toward one of the computer workstations present. He caught hold of another hand-hold grip that had been built into the consoles metal frame, allowing the young Shukaren Daur to manipulate himself into a more-or-less rest position relative to the computer console. Keri'cruen's nimble, lightly furred digits flickered over the controls for several moments until a couple of information windows flickered to life before him.

After taking a glance at the data displayed, Keri turned his gaze to look back over his shoulder at the others and said, "Ah we appear to have some kind of company. According to the ship ops monitor, the docking bay has just come into use."

Bridge

Def'leor continued to monitor the approach of the drop ship. Once it was in the bay she activated the system to seal the out doors.

"Bay secure, initiating orbital insertion with atmospheric penetration." She called out as her fingers sent the necessary commands. Def'leor felt the acceleration of the Gam'trosha as it surged forward. She pulled up the out put of the sensors onto her IDT so she could watch for any debris in their path. Once she was satisfied with their trajectory she opened a ship wide channel.

"Attention all hands, we are approach one of the planets in the system. We are forgoing entering orbit and transitioning to the atmosphere. Secure any loose equipment and be prepared for unexpected and sudden movements until we reach the lower atmosphere. Bridge out." she broadcasted.

Def'leor then synched her restraints to minimize any turbulence they hit.

Engineering

The second complement on his abilities caused Ye'gor's tail to stop and ears to pop up and angle towards Keri. Being accepted like this almost made him consider some of Bar'diel's suggestions; but all in good time. Some things did not have to happen the instant a possibility existed. One should ensure it exists first, anyway, before taking advantage of it.

When you young engineer heard about someone new arriving, however, he rotated himself around to look at the A'Fuereb.

"Would it be allowable to investigate?" the Laibe kit asked in response.

Docking Bay

Vector 41's loading ramp gently eased down against the bays deck, giving a muted 'thud' when it finally made contact. The inside of the bay was devoid of any other personnel, at least right now, Shi glanced about the bay; placing a hand on the edge of the ship and look around to the side. With a shrug, she turned to Shi'sha'tra, "Let's go ahead and pull these crates out," she and glanced down at her feet, she could feel the ship vibrating a little bit before hearing the announcement. " Ok scratch that, looks like the ship is about to head into the atmosphere, let's wait here until it clears, after all we don't want to risk getting injured before we even had a chance to greet the Shipmistress no?" she smiled at her Daur companion.

Engineering

"Go right on ahead," said Quin with a smile as she waved her hand at a visual display and caused it to vanish. "Just becareful, since we are now entering an atmosphere -" she looked up at Keri, "-it would be best to hang on in case the planet has gravity.

Docking Bay

Seu let Shi inspect the bay first before tentatively following her out to the edge of the ramp, toenails clicking upon the metal gridding. He too had heard the announcement, and his dismay was betrayed by a drooping of ears.

"Lovely," he remarked dryly, sitting back on his narrow haunches. "I am content to wait here as you have suggested, Shi. Speaking of which, you know the name of our Shipmistress?" the My'leke asked.

As the ship descended into the planets upper atmosphere; onboard sensors began to light up with various pieces of information related to the planets current weather. A strange phenomena was occurring below the ship, sensors would pick up a large increase in electrical energy that denoted the presence of lightning only there was no evidence of any clouds. High winds were also being reported, with those winds clocking at nearly eighty miles per hour with gusts at almost twice that speed.

As the ship descended, high winds began to buffet its surfaces, inside the deck shuddered and a sudden violent gust of wind crashed into the ship, causing anything not bolted down or secured to come loose. Within the ships hanger bay, crates groaned as their straps kept them from moving anywhere, but elsewhere in the bay the two would hear the occasional metal clanging of an unsecured tool or a loose maintenance hatch bashing against the side of the wall.

Anyone who had been in the ships hallways, but hadn't properly taken hold of any of the hallways hand rails would soon find themselves on the ground.

Engineering

"In that case, X'Muyeia, I will remain here until we have safely settled," the young Laibe offered before flying fore and down as the ships acceleration changed.

Ye'gor first hit some railing on the second level cat-walk, causing a few wet snaps in his chest, then fell down to the main floor of the engineering bay on his back. The first winded him significantly, but the second impact redoubled that while also knocking him unconscious. The engineer's only perception was everything moving so damn fast, all kinds of pain, then blackness.

Docking Bay

Being neither bolted down or safely secured, Seu suddenly found himself left hanging in the air for a split second as the floor abruptly dropped out from beneath him. The white My'leke then landed back down onto all four feet for the other half of his airborne second, and instinctively he clenched his claws into the gridded ramp before the ship could lurch again.

"And I thought the small ships were bad!" he yelped.

Bridge

Def'leor resisted the urge to fight the wind and turbulence. Instead she chose to go with the flow and try to find a way out without subjecting the ship to stresses that could damage it. The energy readings below were more a concern, was this some sort of planetary defense system. She routed more power to the shields bringing them to battle mode. She opened an intercom channel, "Bridge to Engineering... there is some sort of massive power surge below us, shields are priority for power management."

She looked around to check the other bridge personnel. She first looked to ensure that the Ship Mistress was okay, while calling out. "We need an analysis of the activity on the surface."

Zur'el on the bridge didn't have much aversion to the turbulence, since he was seated in his chair at his station with straps on. It bothered him a ship this size had that much reaction, though he let the though pass since he wasn't all that familiar with ships entering and leaving atmospheres.



Bar'Diel on the other hand was tossed about in her office and was smacked by a few books. Her perfectly laid out office was trashed... Grumbling and rubbing her forehead where the book attacked her, she stood up and looked around. "I'm going to need to nail everything to the deck..."

Bridge

Vladi'mir was in his chair but wasn't strapped in and got launched out of his chair landing on the floor face first "gah!" he slowly got back up and coughed getting back to chair and checks on the atmosphere of the planet, ignoring what had just happened with the turbulence . As he typed at his console he smiled and strapped in just in case it happened again, the atmosphere looked breathable he was more worried about the strange phenomena that had happened and might happen again.

Bridge

Further scans showed that an area roughly twenty one kilometers around the ship was highly charged and that once every few seconds these charges resulted in a bolt of lightning that danced from one point to another and could extend for a long distance, one scan showed a bolt that spread almost eight kilometers, almost half the size of the 'storm', if one could classify it as that given there was still no evidence of any clouds.

Vladi'mirs scans of the surface showed that they were roughly twenty five thousand feet off the ground, and that the area below twenty thousand was calm.

Def'leors systems showed that the ship was riding the winds rather smoothly, compared to what had happened moments earlier. There was very little shuddering, and the ship wasn't being tossed about, although the ships speed indicator did show that they were moving at a relatively high rate of speed; at roughly six hundred and eighty one kilometers per hour.

"Find us a path out of here Lexicon," said Sa'kira.

Engineering

Quin yelped when gravity began to take hold on the ship, she had just enough time to grab hold of a handrail before she no longer felt wightlessness. As she settled onto the walkway she heard a loud thud and had time to turn around to see that Ye'gor hit the walkway rails and then the deck. It was only luck that the main deck was designed to be flat and no have any protrusion or raised platforms on it. "Keri get the medkit and tend to him!" shouted Quin as she attempted to keep the ships shields at a stable level.

Bridge

Def''leor was trying to make sense out of what was happening. At the speed they were traveling they should clear the energy field in less than two minutes. Now it the field around the ship was a result of their passage, then it would stay with them and they would have to try something else. Until she had more data she opted for the wait and see.

"Ship Mistress, going to hold current course and speed. If the effect is location specific we will be clear in less than 90 seconds from now. If the field remains then hopeful our sensors will provide some useful data on a better plan." she called out.

Bridge

New information began to appear on Def'leors systems, including more accurate wind directions. It also showed how far out the storm 'extended', and that the area twenty thousand feet below them was calm and clear; additional details would've been provided but sensors weren't too useful in pinging the areas outside of the storm due to the electrical interference. Current time clock showed that the Gam'trosha, on its current heading and speed, would be exiting shortly.

Def'leors systems also showed that one of their sister ships and a transport were actually following them through the storm, they were directly behind the ship and 'matching' their rate of descent and speed.

Bridge

Def'leor scanned the data coming in with her eyes while holding the ship steady. "This weather does not feel natural Ship Mistress. We are showing calm and clear below us. This kind of meteorological mess usually requires sizable thermal activity at the lower levels. I suggest that once clear we may want to make a lower approach and find a site from which to explore. The phenomenon could present a severe hazard to any effort to colonize so the more we learn about it the better." She called out.

"Damn it, D'Uruulin, get your paws on that stick," came a gruff voice out of nowhere, as images floated and warped around. Soon the coalesed into an image of the second cockpit of an old bomber before the voice called out again, "I'm not going to tell you again!"

Ye'gor saw his paws stretch out for the controls before hearing himself call back, "I have it!" He seemed to shake a little, but the craft looked to be still flying stable until the stick felt a little more loaded and a couple of his larger shakes translated some. The paws eventually stopped shaking, however.

"Alright, now grab that throttle and give it a little more," the young Laibe heard and his right paw seemed to move towards the a few levers. He pushed only very slightly on them to which the voice yelled at him to give it more. He paused for a moment, then shoved the levers forward and everything got loud very quickly, then went dark.

It hurt, it hurt more than it should have... More than it did back then.


Engineering

Ye'gor took a painful, ragged breath with his shattered chest and winced in pain. His tail curled up against him as his eyes and fists clenched tightly - his teeth bared at the pain.

"G'Tyere!" he called out as best as he could before issuing a painful sounding cough, "I... I think I hit it to hard"

The ship shuddered slightly from the turbulence, its altitude display counted down as the ship continued through the storm. Finally, the lightning began to dissipate as the ship approached the edge of the storm, but before it finally exited there was one final bolt of lightning that caused the ships sensors to momentarily cut out, with the sensor cycling itself for a few moments before they returned to normal. The ship was now below the storm, above them the lightning continued for a few more seconds and then strangely the storm dissipated and all that was left was a clear sky.

So clear, in fact, that Def'leors visual sensors showed a vast forested landscape before them. There were large, rolling hills directly ahead of the ship, with a mountain off to the left and a lake that was off to the right that had a good sized clearing for the ship and its companions. Trailing close behind was their companion She'tan'ora and the supply transport, which kept some distance behind just in case anything happened. The transport eased off to the side, changing its course slightly before realigning with the course that the Gam'trosha was presently on.

"That wasn't normal...." Sa'kira could be heard saying, as she brought up the data on their flight path.