Caimlyn and the others were definitely going to have a great deal of a challenge to get to their people planetside. "Boss, are we allowed to go planetside at all?"
(OOC: This is a question for Bedru, I would think. Mike considers her boss on this whole thing) While Michael waited for the decision, he turned to Maggie. "Let's get a visual on that city garrison," he said. "And then, since they couldn't tell we were scanning them before, let's try it again. Quick scans first of the garrison, then later, if they don't bitch, more detailed scans. Let's find out people, and let's learn the layout of the place." Maggie nodded. "On it," she told him. > The screen flashed, then displayed the garrison. It was located just north of the central portion, as if the city was once much smaller, and grew to encircle it long ago. The compound was actually quite simple in it's lay out. An octagonal walled compound with watch towers at every point. There were three gates, a main on the north side and two others on the southeast and south west sides. Outside of the main gate sported guard "shacks" on either side of the gate to house on duty sentries. Estimating on the size of them, they could house about 10 soldiers a piece. The other gates had similar structures, but much smaller. Inside the walls, stood a single building that was in the shape of three diamonds joined together. (OOC: think the Mitsubishi logo, with a larger joined area.) The entire exterior of the complex was made of stone, thick stone. It was quite impressive looking, yet some how less than modern. From the hurried scan, the garrison was manned by roughly 1200. Above ground the main building was 5 stories tall and extended another 4 below ground. It appeared as if the cell blocks were on the lowest level, but just who was in it was not determined. Metal alloys were also detected on the inside, and in the gate doors make up. The complex was powered by both solar plant inside the compound and a reactor beneith. Steven studied the scans carefully, formulating questions at the same time. "Is there any way for us to locate the South Hampton's crew? And will we be able to get them out if we do manage to locate them?" Protector's liason officer (the XO) added, "These are limited scans, so we should not read too much into them. If there are not any serious protests, we will try for more scans, but considering how touchy the Ramesar are... That is probably why Mr. Nash requested a quick scan, so to appear accidential. But from what little we have here, I would say that beaming is an option, but it would take a while. Even with all transporters working, we could not take the entire crew of the South Hampton up in less than 20 or 30 cycles, at roughly 3 to 6 seconds per cycle. As to locate them. With further scans we should be able to see if where they are if they are in that garrison as we were told." "Give it five minutes. If there are no protests to what we did, start running indepth scans on the garrison, one section at a time, in brief bursts. Try and time them for moments when our engines cycle, so the energy bursts may be camoflouged in the background noise." (eh?)
