Episode Fourteen: Know Thy Neighbour

[Destiny "Silverwing" Andre]

2259
En route to Ida Galaxy
Silverwing's F-302

Hearing the transmission over the radio, Destiny let out an annoyed sigh. Just when things seemed to be getting exciting, they had to pull back and regroup. Charisma's chuckle could be heard from the back. "Don't worry Des. You will see your action soon enough. Just be patient," she stated while the captain turned her fighter back to the Icarus.

Destiny just rolled her eyes. "It's not the same as flying and fighting in the air Charis. I know I know, I'm an eager beaver but still," saying as they landed the F-302 back into the hanger.


2302
En route to Ida Galaxy
Hanger

After climbing out of the fighter and leaving Charisma to take care of the rest, Destiny walked over to the rest of the group. "So who are in what jumpers?" the captain asked gathering everything she needed, preparing to climb into the jumper. Looking around, the older woman could see all the different crew members assembled together. Either this was bigger than they all thought and needed all the help they could get, or they were bored. She was personally leaning towards the first option but you never could tell.

Turning, the young captain face her leader. "What are the orders sir?" asking knowing it was what everyone else was thinking. With Harrison still in the infirmy, it was Bailey they all had to answer to now. What he said goes, and right now it was his orders, or Nolen's, they were waiting for.

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[Nolen "Dragon" Syaira]

2302
En route to Ida Galaxy
Hanger


Nolen watched as the last of the groups started to gather. Then he reviled his orders with Bailey beside him. Although Bailey had the rank Nolen had more experience than him on this type of mission and thus let him give the orders.

"Okay boy's and girls, Now we have an opportunity that doesn't present it's self very often to us out here. So I want two teams Team one will consist of Myself, Captain Wood, Captain Cromin, Kamarov and Chief Hansford. Team two will consist of Bailey, Captain Andre, Captain Fox, Sub Lieutenant Davidson and Doctor Kells. The mission is to explore as much as we possible can before any further action is taken against us. Alright men to your Jumpers. Jason Des Bailey stay here for a sec."

He said before they had a chance to leave. "Okay guys I know that this was my Idea and all, but be careful at the first sign of danger get out of there and back to the jumpers. There is a reason the Asgard don't like them." he finished the dismissed them all. He hoped into the jumper and no sooner had he and Jason got in to the pilot and co-pilot seats then Tony came up,

"Nolen, of this team, I'm probably the most qualified person to fix or upgrade this Jumper on the fly, as well as flying it if you and your co-pilot are incapacitated, this is entirely your choice, I've flown Jumpers and racked up over about 100 hours of flight time during my time with the Stargate Program, still, up to you",

Nolen raised an eyebrow at the Tech. "I'm sorry Chief but I think Wolf and I can pretty much handle it. But thanks" he said as polite as he could, but thought Bloody Yankee Tech, think they own the place. He then tapped the radio again, "Okay Two you ready, Good, We are a go." He said as he just thought and up went the Jumper. Nolen remembered how to fly and control the Jumper. Once he was out of the bay he clocked the jumper and headed towards the lead ship, with the second jumper close behind.

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[Jason "Wolf" Wood]

2302
En route to Ida Galaxy
Hanger
Jumper 1


Jason now found himself in the Hanger being paired into two teams and was paired with Nolen, along with a few other members. He heard Hansford offer his assitance and then Nolen's typical reply and smiled. Jason sat in the Co-Pilot seat as Nolen took the driver's seat.

"I'm ready and these things are awesome," Jason said grinning at Nolen. "Are we going to split up into our two groups and search the ship to see what treasures we can find, Dragon?" Jason queried.

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[Aleksandr Kamarov]

2302
En route to Ida Galaxy
Hanger

With the final orders to move out, Aleksandr climbed up the rear rang of the Jumper and took a seat in the rear compartment on the bench seats. His left the flying and command of the Ancient runabout to those in the know, and sat in the back fiddling with his backpack. He had brought along only what he could grab from the engineering room one such short notice, and hoped he had everything he would need.


2305
Alien Vessel
Engines

The Jumper had docked with the vessel as close as possible to the engine nodes of the alien vessel, and continued on foot through the inner hallways toward the small bumps on the edges of the ships 'wings'. The other Jumper had made it's way toward the vessel's bridge. Both teams were under strict orders to explore their respective areas of the ships, and report back any finds of interest. Taking into consideration this ship was unlike anything the expedition had ever seen, they were sure to find plenty of wonders.

From his quick scan on the Icarus, Kamarov had detected an artificial gravitation field being emitted from the engine nodes, which were seemingly organic and not mechanical in any fashion. Their exact composition and technology was unknown to the crew; the exact reason the team was here to take a closer look. Staying toward the front of the group, Aleksandr kept his AK-74 at the ready, leading the team down the hallway toward the engine nodes.

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[Tony Hansford]

2302
En route to Ida Galaxy
Hanger

Tony sat in the seat just behind Nolen, he had his tablet plugged into the wall socket and he was using the Jumper to make scans and make a blueprint of the ships inner workings, also coordinating it with the schematics from the Asgard database to create a 3D image of the ship, his tablet could only hold a small amount of the data, but the Jumper could hold far more.

Tony fiddles through his backpack, pulling out a wireless reciever and plugging it into the socket with the fitting, he hoped he could wirelessly link his tablet to the Jumper and recieve schematics as they went on. He looked back at Kamarov, he was fiddling with his pack, Guy seems a little nervous, actually I quite like the man, smart with nerve issues.. Mckay'ish to me, or he's just bored

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2305
Alien Vessel
Engines

After docking the team had begun to move about the hallways, Tony's wireless link was still working, and it amazed him it was working. Tony was looking at the walls, it was almost like being aboard a more advanced Wraith ship, but more organic, he raises his M4A1 at a walkway he heard noises from, on the wall beside him was something different from what he had seen so far, "Guys", he whispered, "Hold up for two seconds, lemme try something here", Tony says as he pulls out a scanner and begins examining the 'device', "Kamarov, you bring anything with a nice amount of power in it?", Tony asks as he places his prods into the 'device', getting nothing yet, "Ok, anyone with something of decent power, I mean DECENT, not a AAA battery", Tony says sarcastically.

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[Robert "Scarecrow" Cromin]

2304
En route to Ida Galaxy
Space

Cromin sat close to the exit of the Jumper and checked his weapons, one last time as they approached the alien ship.

"Major Syaira, when we dock at that ship, what will be your orders for our tactical approach - would you want me to take point?"

Captain Cromin wondered what they could possibly find on that ship.


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[Jonathon "Yoda" Harrison]

2300
BC-303B Battle Cruiser Icarus
Infirmary

Regaining consciousness, Harrison looked aound to see the walls of the infirmary. Cursing under his breath as he ripped off the tethers, he said to the doctor, "Last time I checked, I was addressed as Colonel, Doctor. This isn't the Enterprise." Going to the comm panel, he clicked it and said over the ship-wide PA, "356th pilots and Chief Hansford to the jumpers. I want you to fly over to the enemy ship but do NOT engage ... if engaged, retreat and fire only when you need to. You've got no idea what we're up against. Chief, take your best techs with you."

Turning back to the doctor, Jonathon said, "Your lucky day Doc ... head to the jumpers with the teams. Your 2IC will cover for you."

1204
Bridge

As the jumpers approached the enemy ships, Harrison made it to the bridge and settled back into his chair, assuring the crew he was fine now. Clicking the radio, the Lieutenant Colonel said, "Icarus to ... away team." Smirking at his comment, he continued, "The entities yo may encounter are silicon-based and extremely resistant to ... well, a lot. I reiterate that you should NOT engage unless attacked. They will ignore you until you are perceived as a threat. Icarus out."

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OOC: Cromin, Syaira's rank is Squadron Leader, not Major ... please keep this in mind

[Robert "Scarecrow" Cromin]

OOC: Got it Harrison, i figured that it was Major since he is "04" and he served as Squadron leader in that rank. My mistake, will correct from here on out.

[Nolen "Dragon" Syaira]

2304
En route to Ida Galaxy
Space

"Major Syaira, when we dock at that ship, what will be your orders for our tactical approach - would you want me to take point?"

"That'll be fine Cromin, But just call me by my call sign, I hate using ranks" He replied to Robert while flying into the Hanger of the alien ship. Then Harrison came across the radio.

"The entities yo may encounter are silicon-based and extremely resistant to ... well, a lot. I reiterate that you should NOT engage unless attacked. They will ignore you until you are perceived as a threat. Icarus out."


"Roger that Jumper One Understands and is proceeding with caution, Dragon out" He said as they Landed. He then Radioed the other team, "Team Two go and explore the bridge and the aliens themselves, Silver wing and Doc will be best their Wild Fox and Bailey will keep an eye out." he said then turned to his team before opening the door. "Okay Guys, Wolf and Prophet we will escort the Techs here to the engine room, so they can poke around" he said then opened the door.

2305
Alien Vessel
Engines

Nolen and the team walked down the Hall ways, Nolen held the scanner from the jumper and was taking up the rear.

"Guys", he whispered, "Hold up for two seconds, lemme try something here", Tony says as he pulls out a scanner and begins examining the 'device', "Kamarov, you bring anything with a nice amount of power in it?", Tony asks as he places his prods into the 'device', getting nothing yet, "Ok, anyone with something of decent power, I mean DECENT, not a AAA battery", Tony says sarcastically.


Nolen rolled his eyes at the sarcasm, "Damn and all I have is a pocket full of them. Here take this" he said pulling of his back pack and grabbing the small palm pocket out of it, not before removing the small hard drive attached to it. "Just keep it I'll get another." he said seeing Jason's astonished face at Nolen giving up his mini computer. He then turned back to the hall way as a group of aliens came walking down, "Hold Up" he whispered as the came their way. Nolen gave a hand signal to keep weapons ready put not to point. The aliens came up and scanned them with their scent in the air, by sniffing the air. Nolen didn't know it but he was holding his breath, He released it in a big sigh of relief as the aliens carried on their way. "Well I guess Harrison was right" he commented watching the aliens round the far corner.

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OOC: Thats Okay Robert understandable, I'm RAAF not USAF that's why the rank is different. Um... Jax could you check your Time Stamp, I think it's a little bit off. lol.

[kells]

2300
BC-303B Battle Cruiser Icarus
Infirmary

With his comment , Kells looked to the nurse and saw the nurse lips speak " I tryed to tell you he wasn't a captain ."
Kells looked to his back , by passing anything he said .
" Stop trying to move the subject , You fainted before I found out why . " She changed her tone , " Your going to tell me what happened or I'll have to see you as un fit for duty ." She raised her tone showing she wasn't scared of him " I won't have the Colonel of this Enterprise faint in the heat of battle ."


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2305
Alien Vessel

Kells stood there on the alien vessel and under her breath ,
" This always happens to me , Piss of the boss and moved to the danger zone ."

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[Aleksandr Kamarov]

2306
Alien Vessel
Engines

As they were moving down the hallway, word came over the radio from his Icarus' commander. "The entities yo may encounter are silicon-based and extremely resistant to ... well, a lot. I reiterate that you should NOT engage unless attacked. They will ignore you until you are perceived as a threat. Icarus out." From the sounds of that, the Colonel knew a little bit more about this strange vessel than he was letting on. Typical! Just let the poor Russian wander unprepared into the dangerous threat; it wouldn't be the first time...

The team pulled up near the engines. "Kamarov, you bring anything with a nice amount of power in it?", Tony asked, to which Aleksandr shook his head. With him he had equipment to measure power, regulate it, trace it back to it's origin, reroute it onto a new course, analyze it for it's composition, and maybe even a way or two to drain it. But to generate it he was unprepared. Unsure where the chief was going with this, Kamarov stood back, allowing the Marine to work.

"Hold Up!" Nolen called, breaking the silence of the hall. From a nearby corner, a strange creature emerged, and started in their direction. It was definitely alien in nature; it stood almost twice as tall as a human, with a dark shiny hide over rough boney body. It had a long, thin smooth head, but no obvious eyesight. Behind it followed a long, boney pointed tail. The creature pulled up just short of the team, sniffed around their area, and continued on, seemingly unaware of their presence. Just as soon as it had appeared, the beast was gone.

"That was weird..."

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[Robert "Scarecrow" Cromin]

2305
Alien Vessel
Engines

As the door of the jumper was open Cromin stepped out first as he took point doing a broad sweep of the hanger they just landed in.

As they walked the hallways he got a read on movement coming towards their direction as he turned to warn his team, Syaira already got a read also and told them to get weapons ready.
The aliens came around them, stopped and then they scanned them after which they continued.

"So, it seems that we are not in any immediate danger that is good, i wonder why though because there is absolutely no way that we would allow aliens board our own ship and let them run free. That would be the day ... or is this one big set up"

"Dragon according to our initial scan of their own ship, I believe the engine room is this way" and with that he waited for a response on what to do next.

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[Tony Hansford]

OOC: Cromin, just a heads up here, please refrain from using 'new' technology unless you've requested it, trust me Also, Life Sign Detectors arn't designed for what your doing, they can only be modfied a small amount, and so far, no-one has been able to make it so it can pickup different frequencies, if they could, they would've by now, plus Area 51 would've taken it from you

2306
Alien Vessel
Engines

Tony had taken the power from Nolens PDA and channeled it to the device, only to have one of the aliens pass by, he'd hoped he wasn't the cause, but they just kept moving, doing nothing to the team. Tony lent his M4 against the organic wall and opened up an Asgard translation program he'd uploaded to the Jumper to co-ordinate translation between his tablet and the program, saving him RAM and space on the tablet via the wireless link.

The text was now in Asgard, something Tony could understand, "Ok, I've just gotten access to their entire mainframe, whatcha want to know about'em?", Tony asks as he skims through databases and schematics of ships and bases, all seemingly the same shape, but either bigger or smaller. "Kamarov, can I get you to track where the mainframe room is, then I'll search for it.. wait, think I found where it is, Nolen, with permission, I'd like to take Kamarov and head to their mainframe to see what I can download and find out about these things", Tony asks as he pulls his diagnostic prods from the organic panel and hands Nolen back a black PDA covered in alien matter.

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[patrick]

1204
Bridge

"It's still Harrison's ship Doctor look after him." Patrick called out to Doctor Kells as she took Harrison away to infirmary. Patrick turned towards Nolen and the rest of the pilots who just returned from space. "Sounds like a plan Nolen and don't worry we'll be alright." Patrick explained as he followed the pilots towards the hanger bay where the jumpers where located. "Understood Lt Colonel good to see your okay." Patrick replied as he walked into the jumper that team two would be taking. Patrick walked further into the jumper and took a seat in the pilot's chair. Patrick watched as everyone in team two entered the jumper and he closed the rear door and lifted the jumper into space and towards the alien Vessel.

2305
Alien Vessel
Bridge

Patrick landed the jumper onboard the alien vessel and got out while looking around the place for a moment. Patrick and team two walked down the hallway that he thought would lead to the bridge he hopped that he would be right though only time would tell now. It didn't take long for team two to reach the bridge. Looking on the bridge Patrick noticed the aliens working onboard though it seemed that they haven't noticed or didn't seem to care about team two onboard the bridge. "Well this is confusing what does everyone think of them?" Patrick asked as he watched the aliens as they went by their daily tasks he very much would like to know what was going on and who the aliens where.

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[Aleksandr Kamarov]

2306
Alien Vessel
Engines

At the position they had taken near the engine nodes, the team made small talk among themselves as Tony worked. "So, it seems that we are not in any immediate danger that is good, i wonder why though because there is absolutely no way that we would allow aliens board our own ship and let them run free. That would be the day ... or is this one big set up," Cromin said, in reference to the strange alien that had just walked past. Aleksandr was inclined to agree with him; for whatever reason the alien had continued along it's way without stopping at the team. "Either it didn't detect us," Kamarov replied. "Or it didn't see us as a threat."

Back at the wall, the Chief had continued his work. "Kamarov," he asked. "Can I get you to track where the mainframe room is, then I'll search for it" Alek turned to start his work, but before he could, Tony interrupted him. "Wait, think I found where it is, Nolen, with permission, I'd like to take Kamarov and head to their mainframe to see what I can download and find out about these things", Tony asked. Tony was a little torn; they'd only just arrived at the engine nodes, and he was interested in what made this artificial gravitational drives tick. Still, such calls weren't up to him, and he stood back waiting for confirmation or orders.

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