From: Joy Phillips (jkatjovi_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2007 - 04:17:25 PDT
“The lights went out”
(Cont’d from “Extended Family”)
Location: GS-2
Scene: Gorman Quarters (habitat module)
Stardate: 2.70723.1219
"Thank you, Kat," Xana sighed. "There is one more
thing…"
"Oh, I hate when you say that," Kat replied.
Xana managed to look both innocent and a little
affronted as she shuffled the baby in her arms. “How
can you say that?”
“Because whenever you want something from me it
usually leads me to ending up in trouble.”
The ambassador shook her head still looking affronted,
“I can’t believe you think that. Anyway all I want is
a meeting with some senior officers.”
Kat raised an eyebrow. “Why?”
Her friend grinned and suddenly all of her attention
was focused on the week old baby in her arm, he was
gurgling up at the blue lady, and a chubby hand
reached up to wrap around her white hair.
Xana disentangled herself with the ease of an
experienced mum, “it’s nothing important.” Se wrangled
her way out.
“Which ones?”
“Lieutenants Eishnala Kor and Yao.”
Kat narrowed her eyes at her friend, “you want to see
my chief security officer and my chief science officer
but you won’t tell me why?”
Xana smiled slightly and then sighed. “Kat, if someone
was in trouble and I needed help I’d come to you
knowing full well you’d do anything to help, but with
this you’d go to Kane, now I don’t know that it’s
going to work and I don’t want him breathing down my
neck, so please, just set up a meeting?”
Kat scowled, “I wouldn’t just go to Kane.”
Xana grinned, “Now, there’s no need to sulk about it
killer.”
“Yeah, yeah. Alright Bols I’ll speak to the
appropriate people and let you know.”
“You’re a doll.”
=[/\]=
Scene: Arboretum (entertainment Module)
Darrien watched the man stood in the centre of his
flock, he called himself the preacher and shouted
words of encouragement, people had been coming to hear
him all day, to listen to this mans truths.
A steady tide of people were now moving through his
arboretum, as they ebbed and flowed around the
“preacher” listening to his words, his promises of a
hidden entity coming to rescue them.
The El’aurien stared, something concerned him about
the man in front of him, and something niggled at the
back of his mind causing him to stare in frustration
at the man in front of him.
“Mr. Darrien?”
The older man started and then glanced at the J’naii
officer stood in front of him in nan science uniform.
“Lieutenant Yao, thank you for coming.”
Na nodded her head the once and then looked around at
the crowd and the large expanse of grass. “Sorry about
the delay we’ve been busy in the science department;
you said you needed to speak to me.” She prodded
“Yes, has anything been done about the food issue?”
“What food issue?” Yao asked carefully.
“About what we’re going to do about food when the
power is used and we have no more replicators?”
Yao paused and considered nan instructions and the
idea that na had to give people hope that science
would win out. Then na looked into the eyes of the
tall man in front of nan and sighed, “it’s on the
list.”
Darrien smiled slightly, “well we have a large expanse
of unused grounds here, I’d be happy to turn it into a
farm, if you feel it necessary.”
Yao looked around, if the worst came to the worst
there would be no way the station could be self
sufficient, still maybe this would help. “it may be
appropriate.” Na started, and then the lights went out
and the arboretum was plunged into darkness
=[/\]=
Scene: Promenade, bar (Entertainment module)
Jacob Crichton was sat at a bar, it seemed to have
become his regular and others around him nodded at
him, always a bad sign if you didn’t want to get a
reputation when people in a pub recognized you.
He ordered a beer and then moved to the back of the
bar to sit in a booth, he pulled the small PADD out of
his pocket and double checked the schematics on it.
A moment later Nick Cannon joined him and settled down
on the other side of the table, “you wanted to see
me?”
“Yes sir.” The cadet nodded his head double checked
the PADD and then nodded, “I think this is about done,
there are just a few parts I can’t get hold of through
any normal means, I was wondering if you could help.”
Nick raised an eyebrow and then held his hand out for
the PADD, the filter looked unusually to his eyes but
as he scanned it he nodded and took a sip of his
drink. “I can get some of these things, a few of the
more obscure bits we may need to speak to Commander
Gorman about.”
“The CMO?”
“No his wife, the XO, she should have contacts to get
us this stuff.” Nick explained, “and at least then we
don’t need to disturb the Captain.” As he spoke the
light nearest them flickered, Jake glanced up at it,
and then found himself plunged into darkness.
=[/\]=
Scene: Engineering (operations module)
Lieutenant Salor was on duty, it was easier to
suppress the dreams when he was working so he focused
on the job at hand.
“Lieutenant Salor!” the shout came from outside and
Salor stood up moving into the main engineering
department, “we had an energy surge.” One of the
engineers carried on when he saw he had his superior
officers attention. “The entire entertainment module
has lost power.”
“What about back up power?”
“Negative, it’s not coming up; they’ve got nothing
over there at all.”
Salor blinked, if he had been anything less than
Vulcan he may have sworn. “Someone alert Ops to the
situation and find out the cause, send a team across
to the module and see if we can’t get the doors open.”
The lieutenant thought to himself, safety precautions
would have come into place, “stop the walkways from
contracting, we need access to those doors.” He barked
a final order.
=[/\]=
NRPG: Hi guys, we have another week, maybe two before
Jerome is back so thought I’d add a little mayhem,
hope I did ok with Yao and Jake, will try for
something with Eishnala in my next post.
Have fun making this as much or as little as you want.
Joy Phillips
Commander Katlina Gorman
XO
GS-2
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