17th Marker | Audio

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[A gruff, older voice comes out clear on the comms.]

Hello, new members and veteran crewmen alike. This is Isaac Clarke. For those of you I haven't yet introduced myself to - I'm the senior Engineering officer aboard the Tranquility. Engineering's my home, and as a certain someone likes to joke[HAYLEY], it's my home away from home. But that's not what I'm coming on to talk about.

The cause of the death of crewmember Chase Kilgannon. All signs of death, compared with video footage from crewmember Shale's last network post confirm that there are creatures out there, and we've fought them before, while recovering what is now the Science Department. We don't have a name for them, but here's the gist: They're humans with beast DNA mixed in, they're smart, they're insane, and they very much will overpower and try to kill you if they get a chance. They've survived multiple jumps, as to how, we don't really know. [The tone maintains a mix between professionalism and warning. He knows people are still mourning, but revenge definitely isn't the answer.]

If you want to read up on the specific, scientific details, here's a post on all the gruesome facts we have so far.

[ARCHIVED VIDEO FEED ATTACHED: DR. BRUCE BANNER {SCI » 006 » 029}, JUMP SEVEN]

Going after these things unarmed is not advised, going alone - unless you have extensive skills in surviving in these kind of scenarios - even less-so. I know of maybe two or three people equipped to be running around the depths of the ship, and evenn then, these things favor having numbers on their side.

These things will not, I repeat will not attempt to strike at the areas we have already secured and tightened security on. This includes the Bridge, the Engineering Deck, the Oxygen Gardens, Life Support Systems, Crew and Passenger Quarters, Gravity Couches, Armory and Firing Range, Shuttle Bay, Medical, Science Department, and all standard hallways and lifts connecting them. Security has already made comments about their patrols, and the gist of that applies here - if you're outside their patrol range, you are at risk of being attacked and killed. Stick to groups if you go out exploring unless you can show extensive singular survival skills, and absolutely consult Kirk and Spock before heading out - we don't need people running out telling nobody and getting killed, even if you want to help and explore, going alone and without telling anyone solves nothing. You need a firearm, you need a way to take hits, and if you don't have those even thinking of going out is a bad idea.

If you want to help, there are plenty of understaffed departments - Flight Crew, Medical, Engineering - not to broadcast the need for more Engineers, but if you can get your hands dirty, we could use you down here.

For those that need to contact me privately about any details - Engineering based or otherwise - you can reach me at the following address:

OPR » 002 » 035

That's all I've got for now, Clarke out.

[And with that, the feed is cut.]

Comments

permavoice;

[darkforce]

If these creatures were defeated before, why not organise a team to seek them out again?

permavoice;

[cutsofftheirlimbs]

Mostly the fact that the ship seems to shift. The secure areas seem to be locked down tightly right now, but when we first showed up, the Science Department wasn't here, and to originally navigate to it, there was a dangerous maze that seemed designed to try and kill us - the current path only opened up much later.

Getting any farther than a few miles outside the secure areas, and there's no telling where you'll end up - or if you'll come back alive.

[deprecate]

[ hullo this dude is one of your mechanical engineers. ]

Cheers for the link. Certainly a lot of shite happening lately.