Lt. Zena Quetan Following all recent Posts Santos ran his fingers through his goatee and frowned, contact had just been cut with the two remaining officers on board the Conscript which obviously concerned him. A security team mean while had been sent to retrieve the torpedo which they had managed to transport over. Zena scanned the Conscript and surrounding area her console beeped as it detected high levels of some sort of concoction of gases and radiation emitting from the Conscript "Sir...I'm detecting high levels of an unknown substance coming from the Conscript...that could be why contact was cut with them, it's raising the temperature on the ship, making systems malfunction and causing interference...." Zena informed the Captain "What do you propose Lieutenant?" he asked "I'm not sure... If the temperature keeps rising then the ship will blow in less than an hour and anybody still on there will start to feel the effects of it way before that, if I could find a way to counteract it we could prevent it reaching that point or at least buy us some time to evacuate the remaining people on board and get the hell out of here!...or if that fails try and get another away team on their in hazard suits but that would be very dangerous" She replied Santos nodded "Ok get to work on a way to reverse the effects I don't want to leave our officers on their any longer than necessary" Zena walked towards the turbo lift to go to the Labs The intercom came to life "Captain, We have opened the torpedo...." It was the security team "And?" Santos replied "Sir the occupant of it is dead...It's a Star Fleet Officer sir, not a prisoner" The line went silent "Thank you Lieutenant" Santos replied "Sir! A ship has just appeared in the sector it's making a bee line for the Conscript, it's weapons are online" The officer at COMMS blurted out "Go to Yellow Alert and Hail them.." Santos ordered The bridge stood in silence as they waited on a reply... ************************************************************* USS Vanguard: http://ncv80221.netfirms.com/default.htm Vanguard Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/ncv80221 Gamma Fleet: http://gammafleet.trekplayer.com/ FreeLists: //www.freelists.org *************************************************************