Jack O'Neill
Banned
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- Age 35
- Seen Jul 15, 2015
"We got nothing, Miss Mireille," trooper Margot Pierce said matter-of-factly to Kasumi. "Security logs, cargo inventory, crew rosters, you name it. They've all been wiped beyond hope of recovery. Comm systems have been destroyed, and navigation's shot to hell. I'm surprised this thing is still in orbit."
"Right then," Kasumi replied. "We're wasting our time here on the bridge. Let's commence the search." She put away her lightsaber and took out her DC-15 rifle. "Come on, now!"
"Ma'am, yes, ma'am!" her troopers said, saluting. With that, Kasumi exited the bridge, her squad following her into the cramped, dark, twisting corridors of the Corvette. After a minute of walking, they came upon a downright bizarre tableu; something obviously not of Human design had been added to the smooth white walls of the Corvette. It was a structure of sorts, made of a strange encrusted substance and crudely imitating a complex of pipes; to some extent, it resembled a chambered swallow's nest scaled to the proportions of a starship's interior, and it attenuated so gradually into the walls that it was hard to tell where one ended and the other began.
"What the hell is that?" Margot asked.
"Hell if I know," Kasumi replied offhandedly. "Let's keep going."
Kasumi and her squad proceeded even further into the techno-organic maze. Inside this maze, the air was thick with steam, and water was actually dripping down the walls; the walls themselves were getting more and more organic, with a translucent quality to them. "Looks like some sort of secreted resin," Margot said.
Kasumi looked over at one of the walls; fused to it was a bas-relief of general detritus, ranging from wiring and other electronics to Human and non-Human remains. "Well, whatever did this tore apart the ship to build this, and once they were done with the crew..." she trailed off.
"It's getting a bit hot in here, don't you think?" Margot asked her comrades.
"Really? I didn't notice," trooper Harmon Bauer replied. "Where are we, anyway?"
"I believe this is the engineering section," Kasumi said, consulting a datapad with a graphic readout of the Corvette's corridors and rooms. "We're right next to the primary heat exchanger. It takes a lot of firepower to destroy it, but once it goes, the cooling system goes with it, along with fusion containment and eventually the reactor itself." She put away the datapad. "In other words, let's not be too careless with our blasters, okay?" Once she was done with what she was saying, Kasumi and her squad proceeded even further into the Corvette's engineering section. What they found was downright shocking.
Engineering was basically a room of horrors. The crew (at least, what was left of it) had been brought here and entombed alive; their cocoons, which protruded from the niches in the organic walls, were made from the same translucent resin used to build the walls. The bodies--some Human, others non-Human--were frozen in all sorts of twisted, agonizing positions; the vast majority of these were dessicated, nearly skeletal, in appearance, with their ribcages burst outwards as if thermal detonators had blown from inside. Kasumi could sense a strong dark side presence here; the violent, painful deaths these innocent individuals had suffered lay strongly on her now-troubled mind. She walked up to one of the cocoons and examined it; entombed inside was a raven-haired Human woman, pale and cadaverous. Her eyes snapped open.
"Guys? You had better come here," Kasumi called out to her squad.
The woman's lips moved feebly, as if speaking took every single ounce of what little strength she had left. Almost unexpectedly, her hand broke free from the resin cocoon and grabbed Kasumi by the sleeve. "Help me...please," she said in a raspy whisper.
"Don't worry, that's what we're here for," Kasumi said, producing one of her lightsabers from her belt. She ignited it and began cutting into the cocoon in an effort to cut the woman free. "Nobody deserves this kind of treatment...except for the Sith, of course," Kasumi muttered to herself while cutting the cocoon.
"Right then," Kasumi replied. "We're wasting our time here on the bridge. Let's commence the search." She put away her lightsaber and took out her DC-15 rifle. "Come on, now!"
"Ma'am, yes, ma'am!" her troopers said, saluting. With that, Kasumi exited the bridge, her squad following her into the cramped, dark, twisting corridors of the Corvette. After a minute of walking, they came upon a downright bizarre tableu; something obviously not of Human design had been added to the smooth white walls of the Corvette. It was a structure of sorts, made of a strange encrusted substance and crudely imitating a complex of pipes; to some extent, it resembled a chambered swallow's nest scaled to the proportions of a starship's interior, and it attenuated so gradually into the walls that it was hard to tell where one ended and the other began.
"What the hell is that?" Margot asked.
"Hell if I know," Kasumi replied offhandedly. "Let's keep going."
Kasumi and her squad proceeded even further into the techno-organic maze. Inside this maze, the air was thick with steam, and water was actually dripping down the walls; the walls themselves were getting more and more organic, with a translucent quality to them. "Looks like some sort of secreted resin," Margot said.
Kasumi looked over at one of the walls; fused to it was a bas-relief of general detritus, ranging from wiring and other electronics to Human and non-Human remains. "Well, whatever did this tore apart the ship to build this, and once they were done with the crew..." she trailed off.
"It's getting a bit hot in here, don't you think?" Margot asked her comrades.
"Really? I didn't notice," trooper Harmon Bauer replied. "Where are we, anyway?"
"I believe this is the engineering section," Kasumi said, consulting a datapad with a graphic readout of the Corvette's corridors and rooms. "We're right next to the primary heat exchanger. It takes a lot of firepower to destroy it, but once it goes, the cooling system goes with it, along with fusion containment and eventually the reactor itself." She put away the datapad. "In other words, let's not be too careless with our blasters, okay?" Once she was done with what she was saying, Kasumi and her squad proceeded even further into the Corvette's engineering section. What they found was downright shocking.
Engineering was basically a room of horrors. The crew (at least, what was left of it) had been brought here and entombed alive; their cocoons, which protruded from the niches in the organic walls, were made from the same translucent resin used to build the walls. The bodies--some Human, others non-Human--were frozen in all sorts of twisted, agonizing positions; the vast majority of these were dessicated, nearly skeletal, in appearance, with their ribcages burst outwards as if thermal detonators had blown from inside. Kasumi could sense a strong dark side presence here; the violent, painful deaths these innocent individuals had suffered lay strongly on her now-troubled mind. She walked up to one of the cocoons and examined it; entombed inside was a raven-haired Human woman, pale and cadaverous. Her eyes snapped open.
"Guys? You had better come here," Kasumi called out to her squad.
The woman's lips moved feebly, as if speaking took every single ounce of what little strength she had left. Almost unexpectedly, her hand broke free from the resin cocoon and grabbed Kasumi by the sleeve. "Help me...please," she said in a raspy whisper.
"Don't worry, that's what we're here for," Kasumi said, producing one of her lightsabers from her belt. She ignited it and began cutting into the cocoon in an effort to cut the woman free. "Nobody deserves this kind of treatment...except for the Sith, of course," Kasumi muttered to herself while cutting the cocoon.