NAZGUL #8: Discoveries

Posted on Wed Nov 6th, 2024 @ 7:56pm by Lieutenant Ainkara "Kara"

Mission: NAZGUL: {CD&MISSION} Return to Basics
Location: Unre star system
Timeline: Current

OOC: I am going to say that Kara took a Delta from Nazgul, not M-69, for story purposes. A small change to help affect what I have in mind.

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Lieutenant JG Ainkara had gone through three hollow chambers filled with nothing but computer consoles. However, with each room she came to there were more consoles as if the deeper into the facility one went the more operations were being conducted. A typical set up for Iconians. It was now obvious that they had found this Preserver lab and began to convert it to one of their own before something caused them to move on. With Iconians, the multiple rooms with multiple workers was a security trend. Those who were just there to serve and press keys were seldom, if ever, allowed into the main laboratory. Kara would know since she had been an experiment in biosynthetics, and her memory was clouded on the facts. In time, perhaps, she would remember it all. For now, though, she just wanted to find the main laboratory and find out what the positronic signature represented. Having read about Commander Data in the Academy, Kara was determined to see if perhaps Arik Soong had found this place and set up a lab here. For someone like her, a scientist, it would be a treasure trove.

Having seen to the consoles in this chamber, the fourth she had come to, and knowing she was far beneath the mountain range above her position, Kara looked to the next door to be opened. It was smaller in width to the previous chamber doors, this one just wide enough to allow two humanoids to walk inside shoulder to shoulder and not touch the walls. The previous accessways were wide enough for four abreast. Going through the motions she got the door to unseal and crack open, this one giving a hiss of air as it split and began to slide apart. A steamy vapor came from within the chamber beyond, and a hydraulic lock mechanism had hissed in release denoting that this was the main chamber for all this build-up. Looking through the entryway cautiously, Kara could see a massive, natural rock chamber. There as an ambient white-amber illumination within, and as the door slid to fully open the lighting within got bright enough to be comfortable and provide an ability to see without hinderance.

Kara, hand on the butt of her pistol, moved forward through the doorway, which was four feet in depth with the doors placed evenly at two feet. Whatever was in here was not meant to be gotten to easily, what with Preserver and Iconian security measures in place. Preserver security was there to whisk people elsewhere when trespassed. Iconians, on the other hand, did not appreciate trespassers, so their security methods were far more deadly in nature. Kara just hoped, as was the usual, that if one got through the initial security locks then the mainframe would denote she was meant to be here and would not attack.

Entering the main chamber Kara's eyes went wide with wonder as her face went this way and that as her eyes tried to take it all in. The flooring was a raised platform style with transparisteel plates to walk on above a cavern-like chasm below. A river of magma flowed beneath the flooring a few hundred feet below, cascading down from a lava-fall. The main generator, which was straight ahead of her and massive, was being fed its power by geothermal technology. And, from the looks of it, a system that could last for hundreds of centuries. The main platform was circular in this massive chamber, with section placed evenly in the four 'corners' of the flooring, with steps leading up to lab stations filled with a plethora of technology to fulfill whatever research and development they were intended for. It was warm in here, warmer than she had expected, and why a bit of steamy vapor had rushed forth from the door as this chamber had been hermetically sealed.

Looking to the 'corner' platform the furthest away from herself on the left, Kara decided to straighten her stature and just walk forward. Technically, she was an Iconian product, and perhaps with a little luck she would be recognized as such and not be attacked as she made her way across the open, circular platform. The center of the platform had a dais, with a three step ascent on either side of it. Looking down through the flooring with its intricate designs engraved into them, Kara saw what she did not expect to see. A singular control station was a few meters away, facing this odd dais, so she hurried over to it. Kara touched the activation spot and the console lit up, written in Iconian. Her back was now to the power core as she read the data she was scrolling, her reticle eye committing it to her memory. She dare not activate the sequence to raise the spires from beneath the floor, knowing that such an action may draw any remaining Iconians to her position if they knew one of their sacred spaces had been violated. Kara deactivated the console and let it be. They could always return at another time for a full analysis.

Turning away from the console she aimed for her original destination, the upper left 'corner' platform off the main platform. There was an odd white-blue glow coming from behind a row of databanks and computer consoles. Kara made her way up the steps and leaned her body forward to peer around the machinery cautiously since the white-blue light was an odd addition to the white-amber ambience of the chamber. Once her gaze cleared the machinery, Kara's eyes once again lit up and she rushed forward. Right there before her was an Iconian stasis pod, almost exactly like the one she had been found in, the white-blue glow coming from the small viewport over the face of what appeared to be a humanoid. Running up and placing her hands on either side of the pod, similar to an embrace, her own face a mere inch from the window, Kara smiled to herself. There was a person inside. They looked to be young but that was a quick observation of conscience since many species had longer lifespans than others. Kara still thought they looked rather young in appearance, and they were bald. No hair on their body anywhere as far as she could tell by just looking at the face and head. Rounded ears, and very Human-looking in appearance. Angling her face this way and that Kara tried to look down into the pod to try and see more, but the half cylindrical shape of the pod, and the small size of the window, prevented any further visual examination. She spun in place and looked to the machinery, the computers, letting go of the pod and stepping over to them. This would take time but Kara was in her element now. She had to determine if this was the positronic source, or if this was just a treasure to be found while exploring. Yet, this seemed to be the last chamber in the facility.

TBC

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