Contemplation

Posted on Wed Oct 21st, 2020 @ 9:57am by Captain Rhenora Kaylen

Mission: Diplomatic Masquerade
Location: Captain's Quarters

With the away team back on board the Captain had a few hours of quiet time before Gul Maccet was due to arrive at Orias III. Her apprehension seemed to grow with each passing hour despite the attempts to quell it with rational and even irrational thinking. Frustrated she retired to her quarters, leaving Commander Savar to handle things as he was more than capable of doing.

The lazily spinning world of Orias III filled the viewport, it's brown and beige colours brilliant against the blackness of the surrounding space. The place really was a desolate wasteland, devoid of any regular form of vegetation. Her mind starting churning over the details again, any subterranean civilization would require some kind of power source, not only for light in the depths of the planets surface, but also for growing their food. Hydroponic and other systems were common in underground settlements, and most places no matter how desolate generally had some kind of underground water source, whether it been aquafers, rivers or springs.

They'd already scanned for power sources from orbit, but Savar and his team didn't get a chance to get any proper readings whilst they were on the planet before the storm hit. Rhenora had a gut feeling they'd find some on closer inspection.

She plonked on the couch under the large window, watching the brown orb below them, her mind wandering through all the different possibilities. Either way, she would get to the bottom of it before Maccet took the first opportunity to blow it from existence.