As your ship travels through space you intercept a distress beacon coming from a nearby transport vessel that's stopped entirely. Communications are down and the ship's engines seem non-operational. You and a team of soldiers are sent on board to find any survivors.
As you move onto the ship you find two corpses in the entryway. As you turn over one of them, a skull resembling pic related is staring back at you.
Your characters next step?
Get the fuck out and head straight for our decontamination units. Fuck that shit, I'm not going to be an idiot that starts a damn galaxy-wide plague.
Time to begin salvage operations.
>Everyone in space suits
>Call or use ship intercomm to make sure there are no survivors
>Blow the airlocks of the derelict
>Max level decontamination procedures
>Wait two to four days on our ship relaxing and researching
>Restore power and drive functionality of the derelict if possible, if not, loot the shit out of it
>Mark it as looted for other salvage crews and head off back on mission
lol!
Seconding this, with the added step of turning the derelict ship into radioactive vapor once we have reached minimum safe distance.
To be honest I'm down with this user. Unless our suits are biosealed, and even then I probably pull back and send in a robotic drone or two to explore rather than risk crew lives. Meanwhile I broadcast a hazard signal and put security personnel on alert, scan the surroundings for pirates and scavengers, and send comms to the authorities/my superiors.
Everyone is thinking biohazard but that skull was clearly blown out and melted, the thing growing inside of it is ancillary dross. This man was killed via a plasma weapon
make a mental note to have the gellar fields inspected more thoroughly.
>Oh that's neat there was some kind of violence
Character's next step is probably in the direction of the guy in charge of the boarding party.
>If non military ship: examine corpses for diseases/mutation. Probably set up a "Stay the fuck away" beacon when some horrible contagion is found so desperate and stupid scavvies know where to go to die, call the military, fuck off and get back to my job
>If military ship: examine corpse, discover horrible bio-thing, sit around waiting for the biohazard specialists to show up shooing off desperate scavengers. Conduct extensive scans of ship's interior in the process. Likely end up being hamburger helper for whatever's inside so the biohazard specialists can get samples from key beasties. Then my corpse gets atomized when the ship's declared a loss, has its engines fragged, and gets a healthy push into a one way trip into the nearest star
>even then I probably pull back and send in a robotic drone or two to explore
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>Sir, should we send in the drones?
>No! Send in a small team first, to explore the vessel in sealed armour to protect them from contaminants the drones would be immune to. When we find something, then GTFO and send in the drones.
>And while we wait, sir?
>Broadcast a hazard signal so any nearby pirates and scavengers know we're busy and not to be bothered.
>a ship
>in space
>stopped completely
>in SPACE
Clearly they have a immovable rod on board and this poor fellow got it through the eye, that could be worth quite a bit if we find it.
I've already gone onboard according to the prompt. Ops call. If it was mine I would have sent drones first. Besides we had to make sure it wasn't a comms issue
He means "stopped completely, relative to the other orbital bodies in the system." But, you probably already knew that.
...
We get right back on our own ship and vaporize the derelict from a distance. Willy Pete could still be around, after all.
I pick up the skull and use it to scare and chase the most timid member of the party around the airlock in order to stifle my own terror.
lol dark commedy
This.
I wasnt thinking biohazard I was thinking physical enemy.
From the looks of it id lock the ship down send in some drones and get the boys ready for a bug hunt or pirates.
>Stopped
That's not really how space works. I mean, it could be not accelerating right now, but you can't stop in space without defining a reference frame. Given every object in a solar system is in motion relative to each other you can't really be 'stopped' there either. At best you can be in a stable orbit that matches the orbit of another object, or in stable orbit of an object, or at rest on the surface of an object.
>Next step
Sweep for survivors. These two guys don't count, being dead, but the job description was to look for survivors.
This
I note the extreme state of decomposition, adding it to whatever report we write up. I also note the seeming lack of medical care this person didn't get, because of the extreme tumor this person suffered from for a fairly long time.
I resume looking for rest of the crew, eventually heading to comms and the engine room.
>Call or use ship intercomm to make sure there are no survivors
If there are indeed none, then it is a sign that the Master Plan had prevailed.
>As your ship travels through space you intercept a distress beacon
If you somehow intercept a distress beacon in the Warp, the last thing you ever want to do is stop.
Just leave.
>Get a distress beacon in the warp
>Pass by a flaming ship with the name "The Flying Event Horizonman" on the side
GO FUCKING FASTER TECHPRIESTS MAKE THE SHIP GO FASTER
>minimum safe distance.
> Not just turning your drive on the ship to cleanse it in atomic fire
D'oh shit
>That's not really how space works. I mean, it could be not accelerating right now, but you can't stop in space without defining a reference frame. Given every object in a solar system is in motion relative to each other you can't really be 'stopped' there either. At best you can be in a stable orbit that matches the orbit of another object, or in stable orbit of an object, or at rest on the surface of an object.
The reference frame would be your own ship I presume.
>Skull is blown outward
>no visible signs of an entry point
Time to fucking go. Back to the ship, decontamination and quarantine procedures are followed for everyone that was on board, security footage from the dock will be watched, and the ship is getting scanned for anything that might've slipped through when we docked. After that we're blowing that vessel apart so there's no risk of someone else coming and fucking everything up for the rest of the universe.
how does that kind of thing happens while allowing the human to live enough to grow ?
I'm guessing it's caused by some kind of heat- or energy-based weapon. Partially melts the skull, making it malleable in some places, melting it in others, and boiling the brain causing the pressure to make it burst from the inside.
No I meant irl
Struck by lightning, most likely. Similar principle, but less of, "that guy hates you," and more of, "nature hates you."
Wouldn´t lightening just burn a lot away? The teeth have clearly given in during a growing process. This looks like some cancer or something genetic to me.
Lightning wouldn't burn it off. It might cause it to explode off, but not completely vaporize it.
Google reverse image search lead me to a Reddit thread where someone mentioned an episode of History Cold Case where a woman's body, with the same or similar skull, was found buried next to a monastery. They assumed it was because she was seen as a, 'monster,' because of the massive brain tumor, but later found that it was most likely because, while she was alive, she was their head cook, so they took care of her while she was sick and dying.
You're in the Navigator's hands, now. Tell them to AVOID THE THING, the Tech-Priests can keep the Gellar Field and Warp Drive functioning, but it's the Navigators who take the helm when you're in the Warp.
Follow protocol N-0P3
whats the other skull look like?
If is right,we're in Tau fluff and our only option is surrender.
>Responding to distress signals
ISHYGDDT
>soldiers
>doing salvage
heh.
Anyhow, e'body be in their personals already, yeah? Give a knock-knock one more then pump down to null before crackin all the locks. That just standard anyhow iffen it seems like place is all deaders. If someone is feeling the squidge about bio-bugs or the like then we can dump in some dusties and a pack of cleaners and close the place up for a cycle.
no harm waitin. sticky the doors with tattles and salvage blinkers, maybe bump the orbit to swing it around somewhere handy and let the bones and elsewise melt away until we want it.
easy, yeah?
>leave
>Use remote controlled drones to restore power to the ship, collect computer and personal logs, as well as any useful supplies.
>Put said supplies and drones in level 5 decontamination
>Nuke the ship until I am sure nothing could possibly remain
CONTINUE AND COMPLETE DISASSEMBLY AND CONSUMPTION OF THEIR SHIP
HOSTILES WITH ADVANTAGEOUS ENGINEERING WILL BE EXAMINED AND INTERFERED WITH FOR FUTURE APPLICATION PROSPECTS
PROCEED
Isn't being on the other side of such a situation with alien visitors on your homeworld how your species initially got space travel in the first place?
Flood the ship with radiation from my ships engines. Then attach a tow cable and take it to a pirate salvage operation. Thus triggering the next campaigns story and making me a lot of thrones.
I believe it was caused by white phosphorous.
"Poor bastard. Meteorite impact. Must have cut a hole through the hull. Ahh, there it is!
“We should see if there are survivors and if they have power and check the ships log, assuming it survived. Be wary of chemical and radiation leaks!"
Underrated