Judith Eastman
Civilian
Grandma
Posts: 2,593 Likes: 84
Rank: Civilian/other
Position: Civil Servant
Species: Human
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Post by Judith Eastman on Mar 4, 2021 19:47:37 GMT
[Capt. Judith Eastman(-Williams) - Commanding Officer's Office]Judy shook her head, with a sort of bemused skepticism. "Right, another archaeologist. Not looking good for you," she noted, with a neutral expression. "The way I see it, in addition to running the full 2309(a) EIR, I also need to request from you a supplemental form E-944, because of infectious disease risk, a form E-979, to ensure all your team members are up-to-date on pandemic prevention protocols, funding from one of your benefactors for a one-month quarantine, and several dozen other procedures I can't even recall right now."She leaned back in her chair, almost as if she was enjoying this. "Or we can do this the easy way."For all of Sherry's prep work, Judy could keep her in the barrel until the grandkids finished college.
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Sven Aune
Security & Tactical
[TI23]
Posts: 378 Likes: 23
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Position: Chief of Security. Combat Engineer
Species: Human
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Post by Sven Aune on Mar 4, 2021 20:33:59 GMT
|Eastman's Office || Sherry X. |
Sherry crossed her leg.
"It would seem, Captain, that you have not been acting in good faith. From the very beginning you and your office have shown me nothing but contempt, suspicion and in some cases down right discrimination. I suppose you could flaunt what little power you actually have, but as you stated, you are not the only avenue and it wouldn't be very prudent for a Contact to peruse only one. As you are aware..."
Sherry continued to bluster on. Meanwhile...
|Planetary Sciences lab 2 || Ensign Mark Higgens |Lt. Vark Xexx |
"What the?" Mark lifted his hands of the terminal. There was a monetary spike in anti-neutrino emissions from sensor pod A1, located near coordinates X 100.25 Y -25.55. Lasting about 1/100 of a millisecond. Too short to really be anything. But long enough to register? That wasn't possible. Mark checked the readings from the two sister pods, B1 and C1 working in triangulation. Each about 1 km away from each other. B1 and C1 read nothing out of the ordinary. Mark decided to run a self diagnostics on A1. After about 5 minutes it returned a nominal functional report. Perhaps the spike was a false positive.
"Sir." he called over his superior officer. "A1 just picked up some sort of reading. Antineutrino. I think it's a glitch."
Xexx walked over and scrutinized the panel. "I see you have run a level one diagnostic. Good work. Run a level 2 to make sure." the Vulcan turned when all hell broke loose.
Mark was in shock. A massive earthquake just registered from all three sensor pods. "Sir an Earth quake. Magnitude 9.2"
"Where?"
"101.22 by -26.75, I think. I can't get a fix on the exact epicenter."
"That area isn't prone to earthquakes. That is odd."
"Sensor pod A1 is no longer responding."
"Can we get a visual from the orbitals?"
"Working on it."
The image pulled up. What was shown, showed that an entire cliff face slide and broke off and slid into the canyon below.
"That looks serious. Send it up."
Mark pressed a key. The info was sent to ops, and ultimately to Captain Eastman.
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Judith Eastman
Civilian
Grandma
Posts: 2,593 Likes: 84
Rank: Civilian/other
Position: Civil Servant
Species: Human
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Post by Judith Eastman on Mar 4, 2021 21:13:46 GMT
[Capt. Judith Eastman(-Williams) - Commanding Officer's Office]Judy leaned back and smiled, clearly very amused by Sherry's tirade. Now on her fourth teenager, how could she not be? "Well, I wish you the best of luck in that, because you'll need it," she replied once the tirade was over, effectively dismissing the obnoxious woman. 2 hours laterIt was two hours before Judy got the report, and immediately, one thing jumped out to her, namely that this phenomenon seemed awfully similar to that encountered in October[fn] S1E8: Taking Flight[/fn]. "Let's bring that into our investigation from October," she said to Mabel, who was vigorously typing up orders for Ops. "And extend the quarantine perimeter onto that region. I don't want Zaman's tours wandering in there."Next time she accessed her own documents, Sherry would find that in addition to the previous quarantine area (itself dating to October 2380), her own expedition area was now placed under a quarantine under orders of J. Eastman, pending a criminal investigation of national security significance. It was almost Harmonesque in its slyness, if unintentionally so.
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Sven Aune
Security & Tactical
[TI23]
Posts: 378 Likes: 23
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Position: Chief of Security. Combat Engineer
Species: Human
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Post by Sven Aune on Mar 4, 2021 21:41:26 GMT
|Guest Quarters || Sherry X. | J. Iwana|
Jaylene once again had a PADD, and once again her lips pursed. "It looks as if the expedition is now off."
Sherry was packing up the rest of her belongings. "Naturally. Send the scientist back home."
"So that's it? Nothing else left to do."
"Everything has been wrapped up. Nothing left to do but go home. Judy played a hard game. And she thinks she won."
"Indeed."
4 hours later, they were on a transport back to Earth. Or so, their tickets say.
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