Star Trek: Starbase 777 - briefing-room

In the briefing room, the entire Eventide crew was beamed. Out the window of the briefing room, the bits and pieces of the Eventide could be seen floating in the water soon after impact.

"I am sorry about your ship, Captain..." Nutz said with a frown.

"At least she went down wet." A very tall Antedian with curves and fishy features was also present in the room. They looked equally sad as they watched the destruction of the Federation ship.

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"Maybe we should have escorted you guys here," A KDF officer, the one who had invited the Eventide there was also in the briefing room, watching with much sadness as the Eventide's bits floated about out the window.

"I'm sorry, I should have warned you about the gravity, Captain Rai." And there was a tiny Galardonian crew member with them too. He was helping the Klingons and gotten to the planet before the Eventide.

Although slightly frazzled internally, yet showing no real signs of being so, the COO stood with her hands clasped in front of her, watching and listening silently. Certainly not the most ideal circumstances. The Eventide was a beautiful ship. "It is unfortunate that the Eventide was destroyed upon impact," Mira spoke, her voice calm and soothing as usual. "Still. What is important is that all of our crew is safe and sound. I express my gratitude for that much. Ships can be rebuilt." (edited)

"What--" Saith whipped around, still gripping his own arms in anticipation of the crash. He thought he was going to die. Oh. Oh man. "What the hell—?"

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Essen was also quite frazzled. She stayed closer to Mira. Mira kept her calm. "We're safe, yeah, but it's... It's hard getting that image out of your head of almost crashing. You never really understand it unless you witness it yourself." After a breath, trying to keep optimistic... "But you're right, sir, we're all safe, that's what matters." She looked over to Saith. "Hey, we're safe, alright? We're safe," she said gently.

"I think panicking is a reasonable reaction to this situation." Iviaan was suddenly very, very grateful he could not see. He had been stunned into silence for a long moment, and was just now regaining his ability to speak, letting out a shaky breath. "Riov, are you alright..?"

"I feel so bad... De'z, go get these poor dry individuals a spray bottle," Nutz turned to his Antedian friend and tapped the tall fish-like individual on the shoulder.

Vara was beamed into the room with a small cough. “Woo! Not dead yet!” She said with glee, before coughing awkwardly and standing to the side.

D'ez bowed their head and went to the replicator to replicate a spray bottle. "Does anyone else need anything? There are no injuries, right?"

She gave a quick side eye to Vara before putting her hands behind her back and watching the meeting. “I believe we are all accounted for, sir.” She said.

Alizati was here, being very zen through all of this, somehow. He stood near Mira. "I am unharmed."

"I'm fine, thank you," Saith mumbled, wanting very badly to add "please don't talk to me like a child", but he didn't want to be seen as rude. Only a few months more of being a cadet, after all. "Uh- I'm okay. I think we were all transported in time."

Mira examined herself, checking for any injuries. She didn't feel anything was out of place, but she still double checked. "I am unharmed as well," she added to Alizati.

"I am alright," Rai looked at Iviaan and gave him a slow nod. Despite not be a very emotive individual, small tears could be seen welling up in the corner of Rai's eyes as he looked out the window.

"Please, let us moisten you guys up, you look horribly dry," Nutz looked around the room, only seeing a ton of dry bodies whilst he was out here, in his very moist wetsuit.

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Essen looked to Rai, noticing the tears well up in his eyes. "I'm so, so sorry, sir," Essen said. "The Eventide obviously meant so much to you. We'll get her back after this is all over. I hope." She had as much wishful thinking as she could, Rai seemed like he needed support.

Iviaan patted Rai's shoulder, not very good with words or feelings, but offering a comforting presence. "Ah, we're meant to be dry, I believe.. thank you for the offer nonetheless?"

"The Eventide..." Rai inhaled slowly, then exhaled, and then covered his face with his hands to hide his tears. The pat on the shoulder was welcomed and he took a few steps closer to Iviaan.

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"Clearly he needs to be wet right now," Na'utz pointed to Rai. D'ez spritzed the captain with a little water. "Are you sure? It helps with stress."

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She gave a sympathetic look towards Rai (Iviaan already had the shoulder pat down, what a king). “We’ll rebuild sir, better then before.”

Mira also approached Rai, staying quiet for a moment before she spoke. "I wish peace unto you during this difficult time, friend," her voice was even gentler than normal. "Peace unto your mind and spirit so that you may be released from this pain. You are not alone. We will support you."

"I don't mind being wet," clearly it was some kind of planet thing, so he wanted to make a good impression! Saith could always replicate a new uniform, after all. (edited)

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"I have failed everyone..." Rai said through his tears, it was rare to see the typically stoic Romulan cry, but it felt as if he was losing a family member.

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D'ez smiled softly and sprayed some mist above Saith's head. "Let me know if you need more."

Seiyya was just Standing There, generally quite calm for a woman who almost died. She almost died a lot, this wasn’t new to her. Still, it was always a wild time, and she knew that everyone else might be a little more shaken than she was. She was just a chill guy. She stood by the Captain at a respectable Romulan distance, but she felt that he was more than a little shaken at losing his ship. Surprisingly enough, this was not the first Captain who had just lost his ship that she had met in her life. “Sir, you did your best with the information you had at the time. No one’s been hurt, you have failed no one.” She said in a quieter tone.

"Riov." Ivi's hold tightened; a comforting, steady presence. "I understand feeling grief. But you did not fail anyone. You saved us," came the answer, perhaps not as meaningful coming from a TTS voice, but still. "You did nothing wrong, sir. You did all that you possibly could have." (edited)

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"No, no nononononononono," Essen said, going up to Rai, standing beside him. "No, sir, you didn't fail anyone. You know why?" As she took a moment. "Because we're still standing beside you. We believe in you. We always have believed in you." As she reminisced on her own journey, Essen told Rai what she herself needed to hear all those years ago. "Mistakes do not define you. Your heart and your spirit are what matter. You love your crew and you love your ship. The only way you'd fail us is if you didn't care. But you do. And we care about you too. We won't leave you. We're here till the end."

“I’m not dead so I’m happy.” Vara said, offering a thumbs up to the Riov. Please note: she needs social skills training badly.

Meanwhile, Saith was getting Sprayed. Yay! "Awesome, thanks." he said, shaking his head a little like a dog that'd been out in the rain.

Stepping in, Mira spoke. "I believe the ensign means that you have acted fast enough to save us, Riov, in that, you have not failed us," Mira said. "We are grateful for you."

"If it is any consolidation, the Monean Maritime Commission is prepared to supply and assist in the repairs to your vessel, captain. We do not know much about Federation ships, but we are willing to work with you. I already have a team out to salvage the wreckage to ensure we can put the ship back together," Na'utz said to Rai, feeling bad this all happened before they even started the invsetigation.

"I..." Rai took another deep breath. "If only we had gone through the wormhole slower or I gave the order for reverse thrusters faster," Rai balled his hands into fists. "and those pickle jars. Had I not gotten stuck, we could have left earlier with the KDF..." Rai's mind could not stop thinking about the what ifs. Iviaan's words soothed him, Essen's words were validating, the security officer echoed Essen's words, and it was nice to hear the new senior staff Mira be so understanding. "Ensign," Rai looked at Vara. "It is good our lives were saved by the Moneans, however this ship was our ride home."

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"You're welcome," They said to Saith and then looked around the room at all the dry people. "No one else need a spray? Or anything, I can replicate some water, or snacks? "

Essen looked up to Rai once more. "No, sir, it's okay, it really is, you couldn't have seen this coming," Essen said. "People make mistakes. No one's immune to it. Not me, not Alizati, not Captain Mo, not anyone. You did your best, and you know what? You succeeded. Because we're still here. You saved us. And we can't thank you enough for saving us." Her voice was genuine as she looked up to Rai.

“I would not mind a spray.” Seiyya said, both out of politeness and the fact that her skin was very dry at the moment, having forgotten to moisturize for a bit. Her skin wasn’t a fan of the lack of moisture- being a little wet would be nice.

"Oh." Saith quickly wiped his face with the back of his sleeve, recognizing now was not the time to goof around. "Um- surely we can catch a ride with the KDF?.."

D'ez smiled and walked over to the Romulan security officer and did a little spray above her head to moisten her up. "Let me know if you need more."

She put her finger to her chin. “Hmmm, that does pose a problem. Oooh ooh! I can steal things on the street to pay for a ride home!” She said, not seeing anything with that sentence.

Mira stepped to Rai once more. "In whatever way we can, we will work to bring back your ship upon the conclusion of this mission, Riov. It is the least we can do for you. For saving our lives."

"Yes, you are free to ride with us, we would be happy to assist our allies in any way we can. I have my engineers already prepared to help with your ship's repairs," Suus reassured the nice tactical ensign and then glanced at the Romulan captain.

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"We are a fully aquatic planet, we have no streets."

"Oh, thank the elements." Saith was VERY worried about the whole ride home thing. "Thank you very much, sir."

She pouted like a sad dog at the lack of streets. “Darn it.”

Seiyya, having been enjoying the moisture, raised an eyebrow at Vara. She had been a space criminal and stolen things before, but that didn’t mean she was about that life now. She was very surprised that someone would suggest theft- let alone a Starfleet officer. “Perhaps we should not commit crimes while we are here, Ensign.”

"We may need some stealing. Stealing our missing people back from whoever took them," Sus looked towards Vara.

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With a smile, Essen turned to Rai. "See, sir?? They've got our backs, all of us. Things will turn out okay in the end. Everything will. We'll all be okay. And you'll be okay."

"I'm... okey dokey... this place is trippy" Maya was also here, albeit still trying to process both the loss of the Eventide and suddenly being transported here on a Monean. After a little bit of taking in her surroundings, she turned to Rai. "What matters is we're still here, Riov. And when we're together, we'll find a way."

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"A-Ah... that's right, the missing people. We have a mission here," Rai sniffled, feeling bad that their disaster briefly took away attention from their mission.

“Oh I’m good at that! Are they being held in some manner of safe or lockbox?” She said to Suss(Y Baca).

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The little piggy-like officer waffled towards the centre of the room. "Not a safe," He spoke up and held a PADD above his head. "We've scanned the ocean and there's a large structure downwards."

"This reminds me of the Undine mission I heard so much about," Essen remarked. "A structure, eh? What do we know about the structure?"

"That is the energy refinery on this planet. It is nothing worth investigating," D'ez said almost immediately to Chris. "And what Undine mission?"

"I wasn't on the mission so I don't know everything, but a while back our team was tasked with rescuing some hostages," Essen said. "One of them was our own former XO. Stealth was key in that mission. So we've had to do a rescue mission before, so I'm suspecting stealth will be key in this case now." (edited)

"I think we should investigate that energy refinery!" Sus spoke up, raising his voice above everyone.

She tensed up remembering the undine mission, and then the body of the undine she killed. “Uh, yeah!”

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"Perhaps that may be a logical place to begin our investigation," Mira said.

"And see what? How we process our dilithium? And it's a huge facility, maybe try scanning the planet again," Na'utz said nervously, a little frustrated at the prying.

Mira looked to Na'utz. "I have learned in the past that answers may lie in the places in which we least expect them," she said. "It is worth an investigation, even if brief."

"There are no other large structures on this planet that can hold as many missing persons as we have. I have about..." Chris looked at his PADD. "300 missing people."

"Oh. Well." Saith blinked in quiet disbelief. "That'll do it."

"Three---hundred???" Essen said, a bit shocked. "Yeah, that'll do it, definitely, but we definitely have our work cut out for us! Three hundred??"

"It's very dangerous there, we keep it at about 80% humidity!"

"Well, it is still best to leave no stone unturned, especially when its our crewmen involved." Jena spoke up with a nod in agreement to Mira

“With beaming involved, 300 people won’t be too much of a transportation issue. Is there anywhere you could house 300 people in this facility?” She asked the Sovereign.

"Then I will acompany everyone. I am the official investigator on this colony, I know my ins and outs of the facility." D'ez volunteered, their big fishy eyes staring at everyone.

Mira nodded back to Jena, smiling at her. "Agreed. If there are three hundred people that are missing, the best we can do is -- no pun intended -- dive right in."

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Aaaand a facepalm at the horrible pun from Mira. Come onnnnn.

"The facility is black on our scans, it's conveniently too deep for most scanners to get to," Chris mentioned with a small nod.

"Its definitely worth the plunge." Maya added to Mira's words, pun intended

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"The facility is coated with a heavy plating. As i said, we procss our dilithium there," Na'utz said with his arms crossed, clearly unhappy about where the team wanted to search.

“This is not the proper time for puns.” She said softly. “Understood, we will try to conduct our operation without damage to your operation.”

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D'ez sprayed the bottle of water on themself a few times.

At this point, he had a decent amount of experience in rescue missions, even beyond the Undine mission. It wasn't even his job, but he always ended up where he needed to be. Perhaps this time would be no different. "It's fine to make jokes at a time like this. Essential, even. It reduces stress and keeps people level-headed. Just make sure it doesn't become a distraction."

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"I think... it is about time we get our feet wet," Rai gave Eshen a nod as he wiped some tears from his cheeks.

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"Understood," Mira replied to Na'utz. "If I may, Sovereign. Our options for recovering the missing people are limited. We are unable to deduce more from the scanners."

"I understand. And oh, please, call me Na'utz. And that is Investigator D'ez," Na'utz said, realising he didn't introduce everyone!

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"My name is M'jar Suss," Sus introduced himself.

"And my name is Christopher Phineus B'Kon, but everyone just calls me Chris, or Chris P. whichever is fine," He wiggled his hands and waved.

Jena was genuinely trying her best not to participate in the water puns.. She wouldn't want to flounder the rapport the crew had with Na'utz right now, especially observing how... crabby... he was getting over the consensus that having a little look sea at the refinement facility. "If it's just simply a refinement facility, Sovereign, I don't see much harm if we checked on it first to have that crossed off the list of possibilities before we look elsewere"

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"Essen. Professional little shit," Essen introduced herself. "Our new COO, Lieutenant Commander Mira Chalet." And she pointed to Mira.

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"You will need a good sub to get down there," Na'utz said, glancing out at the water.

Mere moments away he was at the helm's console, feeling the relentless pull of gravity on the Eventide's hull, dragging her down towards the water like a drowned spirit would an unlucky sailor, and he was right there, watching the ocean's relentless approach - only to suddenly end up here, with too many voices, and too many people, surrounding him everywhere; and all Syrax could do is stare at her corpse in disbelief, brain not quite catching up yet to what... what just happened..? "The ship," he blurted out, feeling a tad bit lightheaded, probably because the lights were too bright (they were not), and that caused his eyes to water (no other possible reasons).

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"Sy," and here was the steadiness to nullify the helmsman's sudden bout of shakiness. Saren carefully squeezed his cousin's shoulders, seeing that he was, ultimately, okay, but in dire need of just... a moment to catch his breath. Seeing the ship he has steered for so long go down so suddenly, understandably, was quite a shock. He listened to the briefing in the meantime, careful not to miss any vital details, eyes gliding over the crew to make sure there were no casualties.

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Mira nodded in agreement to Jena once more. "I agree with our Chief of Security," she said to Na'utz and D'ez.

"That isn't a good way to introduce yourself to our allies, Lieutenant," Iviaan said quietly to Essen. (edited)

"No no, it's alright. I understand the jokes. As long as it is not about that.... Earth food from the country of Japan," D'ez shuddered as they said that and spritzed a little more water onto themself.

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Kya nodded as she looked to the guests. “Peldor Joi, I am Kya Pok.” She said with a respectful bow.

They found nautical puns hilarious. You could tell by the corners of their mouth twitching upwards half a millimeter and how they exhaled slightly out their nose. "You mean sushi?" Sir. Tact.

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Essen let out a mental sigh of relief as D'ez understood the jokes. Perhaps she could call herself a little shit more often! "Phew, I'm glad you understand. Just a nickname I give myself, that's all. So! What's the game plan?" She turned to Iviaan. "Heh, good point," she whispered. "That was close." (edited)

"That cuisine is wildly offensive," D'ez narrowed their large fishy eyes for a moment.

"That's how I feel about bacon." Chris said with a little frown.

"If it makes you feel better, I don't eat sushi," Essen said. "Never really liked it. Can't say the same for bacon..."

"Essen! It's Ramadan on earth!" Chris looked at Essen with a mild look of shock.

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"Do you only eat seaweed and other ocean plants?" Thalass asked. It was a blunt question, but sure people who lived on a water planet ate the fish here?

"Bismallah I am going to get on this sub by myself," Sus said as he was already walking towards the exit of the room.

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"At least I haven't had any bacon lately," Essen said. "I try and stay away from it unless it's like a food cheat day. Gotta keep the kung fu skills up to par!"

"Yes, we eat seaweed and other ocean plans. Sometimes smaller fish, but it depends really," D'ez replied to the blue Vulcan.

Oh, he'll also get onto the sub. "Sorry, sir, I got a little distracted," the tone would be sheepish if not for the dull monotony of the TTS bot.

"Do you eat them raw or cook them?" How would you even do the latter? Would you go above the water to start a fire, or did this whole planet play by spongebob rules?

"I will.... also advise getting on to the sub that the Moneans have so graciously prepared us," Rai said as he also began to make his way to the exit.

“I too, am going into the sub.” She said stepping towards the sub.

“Let’s go go go!” She said, heading for the submarine.

"It's dangerous to go alone, take these," Na'utz said as he had a whole bunch of spray bottles set up for people to take. "Stay moist."

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"Totally agree, De'z. I couldn't stand the stuff. Sushi got me in sickbay once, really bad food poisoning... would love some seaweed though." Maya said, still a fan of sushi, but not as much as before since the.... sashimi accident. "Okey Dokey, Riov!" Maya said excitedly as she headed towards the sub

*Sus took a bottle and just opened it and doused himself with water before heading to the #submarine-transport *

"Same, I'll join you," Essen said. "Come on Mira! Weeeee're off to see the Wizard! The wonderful wizard of... The Moneans!"

Mira chuckled and followed Essen to the #submarine-transport.

"We eat them raw, raw everything. We live in a fully aquatic environment so as you can imagine, fire does not work," D'ez responded to the Vulcan again as they were also following the crowd to the sub.

"time to go

under the sea

" Jena quietly sang to herself as she followed Mira and the others to the sub transport

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"So you... Eat raw fish?" Thalass! You're gonna be late for the submarine!

Saith tried very hard not to cringe at the poor diplomacy of his fellow officers, scooting into the submarine.

"Sometimes," D'ez said with a shrug. "We eat a normal aquatic being lifestyle. Like, what do aquatics eat on your planet? We eat like them, probably."

"...What do you think sushi is?" They were baffled. Bamboozled. Perplexed. Discombobulated.

"With all due respect, you can talk about these things while getting into the submarine, sirs," okay, enough of that. The junior assistant let his taller companion go first, headcounting the officers because old habits die hard, before walking to the submarine himself.

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"We do not eat that type of raw fish! Not fish that large...and ... those fish look like us, so I become sad when I think of it," D'ez replied as they were trying to squeeze around the tables to get to the exit.

Oh, right. The submarine. The submarine specifically for going on their mission. The submarine that would enable them to traverse underwater. That submarine. "I don't understand your logic, but I'll put the matter aside for now." And into the submarine they went!

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Just realised I forgot to write Eshen going into the submarine too, so I'm yeeting him in there. Consider him yoten.

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