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First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 4) - "Unexpected Company" #Amalgaverse Aboard the Enterprise-D, Pilot alerts Kirk from his neural graft cradle on the bridge: “Captain, I’m detecting an FTL window opening off the port bow.” “On screen,”orders Kirk. The viewscreen holds on the empty starfield, then a distant flash as a vessel drops into sub-light.  The image punches in.  Jury-rigged and battle-scarred, it is unmistakably a scavenger ship, no doubt drawn by the freighter’s emergency beacon, silenced too late. The bridge tenses.  As Kirk and the others look on, a smaller shape launches from the scavenger ship – a shuttle, streaking straight for the Waldorf Astoria.  And the away team. “We came to offer help,”observes G’Kar.  “They have come to help themselves. Scavengers are nothing if not honest about their appetites.” What does Kirk do? A – Hail the scavengers.  Warn them off.  Tell them you have people on board rendering aid, then alert the away team to the company headed their way. B – Hail the scavengers.  Order them to recall their shuttle and clear out.  Ready weapons. C – Hold comms silent but go to ready posture, and get word to the away team at once. CHOOSE! [Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date. And TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission!]

First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 4) - "Countdown" #Amalgaverse McKay stares in horror at the mechanical spiders swarming the core.  He is torn between drawing his sidearm and bolting.  He considers, then throws a look to Maia, deferring to the android, who calmly asks: “Are you alright?  I’m detecting a sudden spike in your heart rate and blood pressure.” “What the hell are those?”he asks, swinging his gaze from a surprisingly calm Maia back to the spiders. “The repair drones?”asks Maia.  “Do they make you uncomfortable? “Yes,”replies McKay without hesitation.  “Very.” Maia turns towards the drones and sends a neural command.  They scatter at once, skittering away like cockroaches in the light, clearing the room and disappearing into the vents. Maia proceeds into the room.  An uncertain McKay follows.  He watches as Maia manually vents the drive, then redirects focus to the readings. Not good news.   The venting worked, he reports, but it was only a stopgap.  Containment and regulation have been too badly compromised.  This thing is going to breach no matter what they do. Maia double-checks the readings and confirms as much: “We have less than seventy-five minutes before catastrophic containment failure and total structural loss.” “Oh God!”says McKay.  And then: “Wait.  Is that seventy-five Earth minutes? “No,”replies Maia.  “My default clock runs on Traugott Standard Time.” McKay is palpably relieved.  “So in Earth minutes that’s…?” “Roughly forty-two.” “Oh God!” Maia exits engineering, McKay on her heels.  The Waldorf Astoria is doomed.   And so are they if they remain onboard.  McKay tells her they must abandon ship.  She agrees, but not before she returns to the bridge, tags the cargo with recovery transponders, and jettisons it into space so that Traugott can reclaim their property once the ship is gone. What does McKay do? A – Head straight for the hangar.  Contact the team, regroup, and evacuate now. B – Accompany Maia to the bridge.  Back her up first, then evacuate together. CHOOSE! [Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date. And TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission!]

First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 4) #Amalgaverse [An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter.   The ship’s service android, Maia, helps them gain access to the bridge where they are presented with three crucial tasks: A) Acquiring crucial data from the ship’s computer, B) Investigating a fast-fading life sign, and C) Going to engineering and venting the drive before the core goes critical.] Jack makes the call.  They’ll split up.  Maia and McKay will head to engineering to vent the drive.  He and Daniel will investigate the life sign.  And Rommie will remain on the bridge to decipher the corrupted data. Maia leads the way to engineering, McKay trotting alongside her to keep pace.  He tries to make conversation as they go, asking her how long she’s served aboard the Waldorf Astoria.  She tells him she was commissioned for the freighter’s nine hundred and fifty-sixth voyage, a little over eight years ago after the previous service android was decommissioned and retired. “What’s android retirement like?”asks McKay. “Custodial work at a museum?” “Component donation of functional subsystems, followed by industrial recycling,”replies Maia matter-of-factly. McKay is aghast.  “Are you serious?  That’s horrible!” Maia doesn’t understand the reaction.  “I will have served my purpose.  I am the property of Traugott Corporation after all.  They may do with me as they wish, and my salvageable parts contribute to the betterment of the company.” McKay is winding up to argue the point when they reach engineering.  The doors slide open, and the sight inside stops him cold.  Crawling across the floor, up the walls, and over the core itself are a half-dozen small, metallic spider-like machines. What does McKay do? A) Draw his weapon and fire.  Drive them away from the core. B) Run.  Get clear and warn the others. C) Trust in Maia. Let her handle them. CHOOSE! [Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date. And TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS so that you don't miss a step on this mission!]

First Mission: The Ghost Ship (Part 3) #Amalgaverse [An away team made up of Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, the android/AI Rommie, and Dr. Rodney McKay has been dispatched to investigate a seemingly derelict freighter.  On board, they discover a service android named Maia who offers to accompany them to the bridge – but first they must make a  detour to avoid a potentially compromised section of the ship.] The away team waits as Rommie checks the forward compartment. Moments later she returns and confirms Maia was telling the  truth.  Had they unsealed it, they’d have been hit with a wave of hard radiation that would have shut her down, fried their comms and sensors, and slightly irradiated their testes. Maia says nothing.  She merely turns and continues on her way. You follow, taking the detour around the compromised section, and finally reach the bridge.  Its doors slide open on Maia’s neural command, giving the team full access.  Maia and Rommie immediately get to work, isolating the damaged decks, restoring life support, and killing the emergency beacon before it draws any unwanted company. Rommie notes that the ship’s database has been corrupted by whatever it encountered out there, but she has turned up something very interesting. When the atemporal entity entered this reality, knocking the Waldorf Astoria out of FTL, the freighter’s sensors recorded and analyzed the event as it happened.  According to this analysis, the rift it passed through carries the same harmonics as the residual traces of their own crossings into this universe.  This could well be their key to getting home.  But the data is fragmentary and  corrupted, and it will take some time to decipher. Daniel, at that point, reminds them of the lone life sign a few sections over, still flickering but now growing fainter.  He wants it made the priority.  Maia informs them that the Waldorf Astoria was on an unmanned long haul run, and warns this life sign is likely the entity she warned them about.  She wants to accompany them but there is a much more pressing issue that demands her attention. One of the consoles reveals the anomaly’s pulses have fried the core’s automated containment and regulation, and the reactor is climbing towards a breach, maybe less than an hour from critical.  It can’t be stopped from the bridge.  Someone has to head to engineering and vent the drive by hand. What do you do? A) Wait for Rommie to decipher the corrupted database and retrieve a potential clue to the way home. B) Investigate the life sign.  Reach it before it fades, whatever it turns out to be. C) Go to engineering and vent the drive.  Save the ship. D) Split the team.  O’Neill’s call.  He and Daniel will investigate the life sign, McKay accompanies Maia to engineering, while Rommie stays on the bridge to decipher the corrupted data.  Everything gets done, but it does spread them thin. CHOOSE! [END OF ACT THREE] Check below for our Previously On recap - or click through the quote tweets for every stage of our adventure to date.