> Once everyone was on the transporter pad,
> the Transporter Chief enganged
> the transporter and sent the lot down to Xendo.
>
> Upon arrival the team was greeted to a
> wonderfull view of the ocean from
> atop a hill. The ocean was about 100 meters
> away, and the sounds of the surf
> and the avian life were just barely above a
> whisper in volume. The scrub
> brush on the small dunes on the seaward side of
> the hill dotted the landscape.
> Behind them was, unfortunately, a different
> view. The chared and pock marked
> remains of a base camp. The ruins were merely
> 20 meters behind them, and
> looked like they belonged just about anywhere
> but this idealic scene by the
> ocean. The markings on the shells of buildings
> were Starfleet in origin.
> Blast marks on the buildings and the pock marks
> in between indicated that the
> camp was hit initially from the air, small
> craft most likely. A second wave
> of land based weaponry followed. Small arms
> like those carried by foot
> soldiers.
>
> Scans of the encampment revealed no signs of
> life, and no bodies. However,
> the range of the tricorder was only a 40 meter
> radius. Some native animal
> life was detected, but nothing that could pose
> a threat to the party.
>
> ***
>
> Back in the command center:
>
> Michael Nash had a fresh pot of coffee on the
> desk beside him. On the vid screen
> that covered the far wall he had six different
> sections: Three showed various scans
> he was running of the area below, one was a
> data scroll, yet another showed him the
> readings of Maggie's tricorder. He placed a
> mic/speaker combination into his ear
> and then talked to the team. "Looks like they
> were hit hard and fast," he
> said. "Any indication they may have escaped
> somewhere?" He tuned the scanners to
> look for any signs of life or material in the
> immediate area.
>
There were tracks that led into the scrub brush, but those eventually
stopped. There were others that went off towards the woods near by, but they
went beyond scanning range. Someone would have to follow them to see where,
if any where, they led.
