======= Astrometrics ======= Minutes ran. Oriana followed moving of Gott constanty. Petrel was longer at the one corner of astrometrics and tried to make something with the sensors. He contacted someone with tricorder, Oriana thought, it was someone in engineering, but they saw not any progress till now. Suddenly she heard something from Petrel's site, but it was not Petrel. No one else take car of it, so she continued in her work. But the noise raised and after several sighs and hits legs shucked out of the Jeffies tube followed with the body and head of ... Martin Guzman. Petrel looked shocked at him, but he looked around only and when he saw Oriana, he ran to her and embranced her: "You are alive, dear, I am so happy." Oriana was surprised and her answer to his embrance was wooden: "Martin ... I am happy to see you too ... but other people are here ..." Petrel looked at them strange, muttered something and left the room quickly. The room was quiet as they waited for the probe scans. Terek with help of laex and Petrel managed to move bigger part of the debris to one pile near the entrance to the Astrometrics so the room was now more liveable. Without not too much of rubble around. Althought there was one girder fallen from the ceiling that thez weren't able to move so it had to stay where it was. Petrel was now working on sensors in one corner and Oriana was staring on one of the consoles evidently trying to gather as much data about ship's systems as possible. Alex was talking to doctor Quiocho and Terek was now laying under the main console trying to make it work again. But his engineering skills weren't sufficient for this work so after about twenty minutes of mumbling under the console a few sparks enlighted the dark space down there and Terek swore: " Auch!!!" as he banged his head to the top of the smaal space under the console "Damn it.... stupid power couplings...." and with a few nasty words on his lips he climbed out from there rubing his head and kicking that crap a little in order to blow of the anger. But the attention of all in the room was drawn to the corner where strange sounds came from and where after a few moments appeared an civilian. And what was more surprising he stood up and immediately run to the Oriana calling: "You are alive, dear, I am so happy." "Oh, happy couple together...." whispered Alex to Terek smiling. He had to turn away to prevent himself from laugh as he saw expression on Oriana's face. "Stop it. Can you imagine what would I do to figure out that you are alive after such ride?" Said terek to Alex quietly. "But I have to admit that it really looks interesting..." he added with tone suggesting he's really entertained, and he kissed Alex on a cheek. But in that moment console near Terek beeped so both him and Alex looked at it. It was incoming data from the probe. Looks like it is in half of it's way through the system and {It can't be? ....} "Madam, sorry to disturb you, but this is something you should see. The probe sent us data and it seems that on the third planet of this system are our eggs." Martin came round after a while and he looked at Oriana: "OK, you are right. I will let to work you." He shrink back, looked around and pointed at some debris: "I will just sit here for a while." Very small smile appeared at Oriana's face. She turned to the console hardly again. Then Terek's console beeped and he was in hurry to inform her quickly. In this moment Oriana was in her work again. She came to his console. "We finally have got those data and fortunately it seems that our eggs are on the thir planet of that system. Wait, I'll get out more data about that planet." he tapped few time son the console feeling breath of Oriana on one and Alex on the second shoulder. After a moment a 3D image of the planet appeared on the screen. "I'll try to swich it on the holoemitors, for a better view..." added and began to tap like crazy on the console. {If this ship someone will get into its original state I'll start to believe in the miracles....I wonder how long we'll be able to bypass the damaged pathways. Most of them weren't design for what we're doing with it so it won't hold too long.... Prophets help us....} He had to bypass another group of damaged circuits through console next to him so it blinked and went of, but the holoemitters in the middle of the circular pod came alive and image of the planet appeared, though it was bit scrambled and with some interferences and every now and then it blinked a bit, but it was there so everyone had a clear view. He highlighted areas with the eggs. Four points around whole planet. "Two positions are near the equator of the planet and another two are on the northern and southern hemisphere... seems that they planed it to allow drones to spread regularly on the whole planet...." He also invoked data about planet from the database from their own time to compare it with what they had now.... Oriana looked at the data worried. "Not only this planet, remember the sensor data before we left our time line? The whole quadrant was their. But here they began. And here they must by stopped." She looked on the data at console. "No higher life forms." She zoomed one of the position of eggs. The console obeyed unwillingly and the view changed. Near the hologram came in sight some data. "The eggs are 245.236 meters under the surface," she looked at the others: "Torpedoes?" Terek thought for a moment. "It is possible, but do you think we can be sure that it will destroy it really? Moreover the torpedo systems are offline. It was lucky that we've launched those probes and that those systems weren't damaged as well. " Oriana nodded: "I see." Now Martin came closer: "Why directly so aggressive? Can we not to communicate with them? I know, I am a diplomatist, and I use the words instead of weapons. How they communicate in fact?" "We suppose, they communicate with some sort of telepathy," said Oriana. "Something for you," he smiled. "Maybe .." she looked at him. "But this have one snag. I need the physical contact. And I believe, you haven't any X!Chi in your quarter," she said ironical, but then she continued seriously, looking at her console again: "But maybe you will, if the away team is dead and Gott is flying to end their work. This ship will fly nowhere. And even if it could, we never could to get to the planet before Gott could get to us." It sounded a bit pessimistic, therefore Oriana quickly asked: "Some alternative ideas?" As Martin was speaking Terek only wished that it would be possible and even when he was in heart the scientist and prefered more diplomatic solutions above violent conflicts, this seemed to be unsolvable with any other way than violence. "I wouldn't want more than a peacefull solution to this, but as you probably know. Starfleet tried to establish contact with them wehn we first encountered them, but it ended up almost in masacre. They don't want to communicate, they want to rule without question..." he groaned and mumbled for himself. "I wonder how we'll get rid of those eggs... Commander Guzman seems to be enjoying himself in giving us imposible missions....." then he added more loudly... "But we are science officers. Miracles while on waits, impossible in three days, we'll manage." Alex smiled a bit and added: "As if you weren't enjoying it.... I don't know how about you, but I love short reprieves, don't you?" "Well, as if we have any choice." he replied with sour grin. "But let's make impossible a reality, shall we?" and he returned to Oriana and Martin. "I thought about another solution. It is most probable that it will take very long time before we'll get engines back online and almost impossible to make torpedoes ready so I thought that we perhaps could take a shuttle and have a trip around a planet in the atmosphere transporting antimatter explosives into each landing point and then detonate them remotely..." Oriana raised her eyebrow only. "This seems to be another impeachment of your superior officer's orders, ensign," she said. But then she continued: "It is obvious and justifiable, that imperfect entities make imperfect decisions, which result can be shattered sensors for example. On the other side I am optimist and I believe, that everyone is capable to follow simple logic deduction, that if there is no sensors, there is no sensor scans. At least in the shortly length of time. But in this case, I have the honour to enunciate with my born humility, that we will fulfill requested in less than three days." Oriana amused ilogicaly. She heart Terek's suggestion: "Not very successfully sounded alternative." {But . why not.} "All right, I think, commander is waiting for our report . sooner than in three days." After that they went back to work. Oriana to console to analyze data. Alex went to help Petrel with sensors and Terek went to the tricorded and transmited a message to commander. ======= End Log ======= Lt. Jg. Oriana CSCiO & Ensign Terek Weranis ASCiO & NPC Ensign Alex Quinn ASCiO [by Terek] & NPC Warrant Officer Petrel SCiO [by Oriana] & NPC Martin Guzman Diplomat [by Oriana]