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<h3 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">USS FEYNMAN: Away Team. CIC-Moonbase</h3> | |||
<h4 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','Arial'; color: royalblue; font-weight: bold;">by | |||
Andrew Catterick 1-30-1996</h4> | |||
SD:80130.0930<br> | |||
MD:1.1430<br> | |||
Scene: Command Centre, Moonbase<br> | |||
Zane and the historian, Ensign McGivers entered the last | |||
unexplored room on the level. The entrance way was somewhat removed | |||
from the others and, unlike everywhere else they had been, was preceded by | |||
a 20 foot corridor that was exposed to the moon rock. As they entered | |||
the differences continued. | |||
Zane slowly turned to look at all the equipment. "Ensign, this | |||
is much different than everything else we have seen thus far. Suggestions?" | |||
"I have come across this technology before. It is definitly not | |||
the same as the rest of the moonbase." | |||
"Do you know whose it may be?" Zane asked. | |||
"I could not say which race, specifically, but it is difinitly an | |||
offshoot of a larger 'parent' civilization, the Briglen." McGivers | |||
replied as she scanned her tricoder over any writing she could find. | |||
"The Briglen? I'm not sure I ever heard of them." Zane asked as | |||
he went from display screen to display screen trying to decipher what he | |||
was seeing. | |||
"The Briglenian League existed about 500,000 to 600,000 years ago | |||
and at its highpoint is believed to have been about half the size of the | |||
Federation. We don't know if they died out, were conquered, assimilated | |||
by other cultures or even if they still exist. Unfortunately we have | |||
never discovered a Briglen world. We have found numerous outposts and | |||
observatories such as this one and from there have been able to determine | |||
the rest." | |||
Zane was a little confused. "Are you saying this room is all | |||
they built here? Why?" | |||
"Yes, it seemed the Briglen were explorers much as ourselves. | |||
Like us when they found an inhabited planet below a certain level | |||
they would set up a covert base to monitor it. We have found bases of | |||
this nature throughout the Federation, and the Romulan and Klingon Empires." | |||
"So whoever built this moonbase was being quietly watched by the | |||
Briglen and they happened to stumble across this room. Ensign, the | |||
equipment in this base can't be anymore than 1000 to 1500 years old." | |||
"Yes sir it is a miraculous find." McGiver's replied enthusiastically. | |||
"Well then, are we able to decipher their writings?" | |||
"I believe so sir. If you could just access the computer from | |||
that workstation there I will feed a translation program into the | |||
mainframe here." | |||
Zane sat where he was directed and stared at the screen for a few | |||
seconds. Deciding that the middle box on the screen was the proper one. | |||
He touched it lightly with his finger. Nothing. Undaunted he tried | |||
another and was met with the same fate. A few more tries. "Uh, Ensign..." | |||
"Oh sorry sir." McGivers replied smiling "You have to use those | |||
buttons in front of you, the keyboard, until I feed the program in. | |||
After that we can hook the tricorder right into it and use it as an | |||
interface." | |||
Zane looked down, cracking his knuckles. "Keyboard. How quaint." | |||
<<<NRPG>>> | |||
Nogura: I hope you two didn't take the runabout out there just to | |||
wreck it. Weren't you on a surveying mission trying to chase | |||
down something interesting. You better find something good | |||
to help explain all the damage you've done.<BEG> | |||
Away Team:Enjoying our excursion. Loved the virus idea. The Andromeda | |||
Strain of the 24th century! | |||
FEYNMAN:Ominous forboding! | |||
respectfully submitted, | |||
LT.CMDR Zane | |||