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."
"Consider it done, Mr. Nash.", responded the XO.
{anyone else want to pop in?}
After a few more minutes, another scan was made. This time the more intense scan
passed through the main city to get a general pay fo the land, then focused on the
garrison. The first scan focused on the northern most diamond of the fort. The
structure was stone, a stone that complicated scans. It reflected a good deal of the
energy from the sensor beam. However, some information was learned. There was an
extensive cell network in the bottom of this section of the garrison. There was
capacity for roughly 300 prisioners. The garbled life signs were consistant with
beings coming from the Federation, indicating that they could very well be from the
South Hampton.
What was of particular interest was the fact that the reactor not only powered the
garrison, but powered a good portion of the city.
{response}
*****
Chris
GM- SPD & JSOC
