Host Advisor_Brunn says:
Only the Good Die Young - Mission 32 - Stardate: 11803.20
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
Summary:  The away teams met up with Advisor Brunn, and once inside main engineering, he instantly moved the away teams and himself to sickbay.  The equipment in sickbay, while a few refits older, seemed to work perfectly fine.  The only thing that stood out were the security settings for the crew, which are at a much lower value.  With the excellent care from Doctor Raeyld, the away teams are back on their feet and operational once again.  More extensive repairs may be need once they are back on their own Claymore…
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
***************** Resume Mission *********************
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::Walking the perimeter of the room, scanning with tricorder::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Watches Aryv wander sickbay as he stands off to one side taking readings from his box.::
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
::Sitting on a biobed, rotating his right shoulder somewhat gingerly::
MO_LtJg_Stevens says:
::quickly steps back over to Damrok:: XO: That may feel a bit tight for a little bit, but it should be  good now.
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Picks up her tools and approaches Brunn:: Brunn: Advisor... ::Nods slightly:: Your injuries.
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::serendipitously scans Brunn and his box while he works on it::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Adjusts a few settings, then closes the box before looking around sickbay.::  CMO:  We have a little longer.  ::Stands and moves over to the bio bed leaving the box on the desk.::
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::leans against one of the walls, just watching the scene for a minute--he's also not sure that he needs to pull out a tricorder when everyone else has one::
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
MO:  Well...it always feels a bit tight, unfortunately.  This is just an...extreme case.  ::Smiles as much as he can, bemused at his propensity for injury::  Thank you, Doctor.  How is the rest of the away team?
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Pauses.::  CEO:  Commander Davis?
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Follows Brunn to the biobed, but nods her head toward the box:: Brunn: Is it protecting us somehow?  ::Takes out her tricorder, and begins to calibrate it - the best she can - for Semilisian physiology::
MO_LtJg_Stevens says:
XO: They're doing fine. Did you talk to the commander about surgery already or do you and I need to set that up?
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::distracted from his leisurely scan of the room, he squints a bit at Brunn::  Brunn:  Yes?
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
MO:  We've determined the necessary procedures, but...I'd just as soon not get ahead of myself, at this stage.  ::Again smiles, but perhaps a bit more transparently::
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: lying quietly, she just looks around, comparing this medical with what she is familiar with.::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Extends his hand.::  CEO:  I should have known.  ::Smiles.::  It could only have been worse if Captain T'Shara had come on this away team.
MO_LtJg_Stevens says:
::smiles back at Damrok before checking her PADD: XO: Well, this should be OK for now, but we will need to have you come back for surgery at some point to prevent it from opening back up in the future.
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::out of habit, more than interest or politeness, he returns the handshake::  Brunn: I'm not sure I follow.  ::dies inside just a little as he resists saying, "Yes, any away team with T'Shara is an unmitigated disaster," or something like that::
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: with a grimace, she finally sits up.  The pain blocker the doc gave her basically eased the pain enough for her to be mobile but not interrupt abilities in any way.::
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Frowns slightly, a bit distracted  ̶  at least, temporarily  ̶  from the fact that Brunn has thus far dodged her question, as she taps several more times into the tricorder, frown deepening another level a few seconds after each::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO:  The chroniton levels didn’t make sense at first.  But seeing you here explains a lot.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: looking for anything helpful, all she notices is there is basically... really... nothing but the walls, ceiling and floors.  But they were different.  The doc might know differently, but there had been at least two refits here.  Not that that helped.::
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: Turns her focus more to the discussion.::
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::wonders if Raeyld removed part of this guy's brain in the last hour::  Brunn: I'm still not sure I follow.
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::antennae focus in on Brunn, listening in from across the room::
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
MO:  Of course.  ::Looks across the room to see Brunn speaking with Davis, then looks back to Stevens::  So, we'll be okay to continue as a group?
MO_LtJg_Stevens says:
XO: Let me know if it acts up, but we should be fine for now.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO:  We must talk about this wonderful vessel if we manage to get back. ::Smiles and proceeds to the biobed next to Damrok.::  You being here is causing the chronitons to shift uncontrollably.  It is a side effect of your time on the Claymore.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: slides off the table carefully, uncertain how far temporary went with what the doc told her.  If they had to fight their way out of here... well, strain seemed inevitable.::
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::looks at Brunn, then Damrok::  Brunn: Well, I'd like to think my time here has resulted in more than an uptick in chroniton levels.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO:  You shouldn't be here.  Space-time knows that.
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
MO:  Understood.  ::After a moment passes, takes a deep breath and slides off the bed, making his way over to Senn::  CSO:  How are you holding up?
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
Brunn: Where should I be?
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Moves more than her should be.::  CMO:  Sorry, Doctor.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
XO:  If things stay simple, I am fine.  If they become complicated... ::: shrugs::
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
CSO:  I know the feeling.
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::drifts to the table where the box is resting::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Laughs.::  CEO:  Certainly not on this Claymore.  This Claymore was from your past.  It doesn’t like you and well the rest of this crew is currently here.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
XO: Have you been listening to Brunn?
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
CSO:  He's not been very talkative up to this point, but he's been speaking with Davis for the last little while.  I've been busy having my own injuries attended.  ::Without thinking about it, rolls his shoulder a little bit again::
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Actually, physically, taps the side of her tricorder a few times, but the readings persist. Until she can run more detailed scans to contradict them, they're the best evidence she has so far:: Brunn: MmHmm.  ::Takes a tool from her kit:: I'll only be a moment.  ::Shifts her position slightly, placing Brunn incidentally between her and Aryv, and gently lifts his arm, otherwise seemingly intent on her work::
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::gestures to Damrok and the others:: Brunn: Are you trying to tell me that they belong here, but I don't?
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::antennae twitch at the sarcastic laugh::
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
XO: Basically he is giving time a... personality.  It does not like us being here, so that is why things are wacky.
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::casually lifts the lid on the box::
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
XO:  I have heard the theory that one cannot be with themselves in the past without consequences.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO:  No.  None of you should be here, Commander.  But those of you who have been on the Claymore the longest cause the most chroniton damage.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
XO: But it has been just that, a theory.  I believe the idea was more that by seeing yourself or talking to yourself you could change history  ̶  the ripple effect.
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
::Looks to Senn, then to Brunn, then back to Senn::  CSO:  As have I  ̶  although I will concede I am not able to articulate the details.
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::looks away for a moment, attempting to process this statement::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO:  So Ensign Aryv over there isn't causing a problem.  You, however, are tearing the ship apart.   ::Pauses.:: In a space-time sort of way.
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::freezes at the sound of his name, hand in the cookie jar expression on his face::
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: catches that last::  Brunn:  So you are saying, depending on the time we were aboard this ship, if it is this time, that individual is having an effect on time... or in this case the chronotons.
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::looks at Senn and Raeyld for a moment, though his curiosity distracts him::  Brunn: Why would the chroniton levels be greater for those of us on Claymore longer?
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Turns to Commander Senn, then back to Commander Davis.::  CEO:  Perhaps I should start at the beginning.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
Adv Brunn:  It might help.  :: glances at the door::
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::Bends over to stare intently at the inside of the box:: Self: Toggle switches, rotary dials, analog gauges...
CEO_Cmdr_Davis says:
::crosses arms, wondering if some sort of mind-bending space-time paradox is about to be introduced::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO:  It was a long time ago when this all started.  ::Looks to Senn and nods.::  I was fresh out of the university. Our space program had just managed its first, what you would call “warp flight.”
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
::Folds his hands behind his back and listens intently::
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Gently pulls aside Brunn's apparent medical patchwork, and begins to repair it with her own, still listening as she speaks, occasionally shifting her weight from one foot to the other when needed::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO:  Over the next few years, we progressed quickly.  Our system had a way of regenerating materials due to the chronitons at the outer shell of our system.  We didn't know that, of course.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO: I had taken a position as a science officer on the first warp four vessel and we attempted to leave the system.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CEO:  It was that first flight we found that leaving through the chronitons caused a time jump.  We ended up in the past or future.  We explored the nearest planetary system and retrieved samples, which we brought back to our system for more detailed examination.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Turns to Damrok.::  XO:  Do you know what we found?
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  Or do you know what a young science officer found?
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Applies a gentle local pain-reliever to Brunn's shoulder, taking care with the dosage (due to his relatively unfamiliar physiology) even after a small test application, and continues her work::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Jerks a bit from the slight sting.::  CMO:  Mmmm.  Pretty bad back there, isn't it, Doctor?
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
::Only shakes his head::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  I found a very, very, very tiny shift in the chroniton field as we brought matter back through.  It was almost unnoticeable, but I saw it.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  I reported this to my commanding officers and they told the government.  Our second journey was approved.  This time we were to bring back more material to verify the chroniton increase.
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::watching the gauges, he makes a very, very minor adjustment to a dial::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  Time passed, and we left and came back, bringing more....  ::Stops.::  SO:  Ensign...  It is not nice to mess with other people’s things.  ::Turns to look at Aryv.::  Especially things that are keeping us alive.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: listening, curious::
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::Puts his hands up, showing they are empty, and steps back::
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
::Raises an eyebrow, turning ninety degrees to look in the direction of Brunn's address to find Aryv messing with Brunn's archaic-looking device::
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Presses her lips together, and continues cleaning up Brunn's shoulder::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:: Where was I...  ::Pauses while he thinks.::  Ah yes.   We returned, this time with matter and biomatter samples.  ::Claps his hands.::  Chronitons jumped again.  However, this time it was more.  The complex biomatter increased the chronitons more than simple matter.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  Biomatter had caused the chronitons to shift.  So an asteroid we mine would regenerate in about five years.  It now took 4.5 years.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  Now the govenment was interested even more.  They requested one last test: to find and bring back a living humanoid.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  Oh, the excitement.  The technical advancements we were making during this time.
MO_LtJg_Stevens says:
::steps into the back to log some notes from her PADD while listening to Brunn::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Turns to Damrok.:: XO:  But it wasn't without its cost.  The first humanoid we brought back increased the chronitons by leaps, but we tried to return then through the field.  ::Stops and lowers his head.::  It never made it through alive.  It simply began to degenerate in front of us.
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::"Well, that sounds great for us."::
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
::Frowns slightly...there would've been no way of knowing::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  We had protested the government’s request to get more humanoids.  But they pushed.  We pushed back.  A compromise was made.  We would track and retrieve only those that history had lost.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  We brought them back from many, many worlds.  Vulcans, humans, Betazoids, Ferengi, many lost to history.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  Our people saw themselves as heroes.  Saving the lost.  Giving them a new home.  All the while the chronitons where increasing.  We could mine an entire asteroid for materials and within a few hours it would regenerate, thousands of people taken to make that happen.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  But that was our downfall.  It called them to us.
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Glances up:: Brunn: It? Called -who-?
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  They were the first to enter our system and the first to leave by their own means.  The Cabowee came here looking for materials and in exchange they would bring souls too us.  They said they would follow our rules.  ::Covers his face with his hand.::  Slaves to mine material for them.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  They brought us forced labor who were taken from their homes; we couldn’t return them.  We told the Cabowee this was unacceptable, and they were to return them at once or give us the technology to return them.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  The first attack destroyed our government and twenty five percent of our population.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  We tried to resist and fight back.  ::Shakes his head.:: They toyed with us.  Their next few attacks reduced our population from 8 billion to under a million.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  My wife, children, family all gone.  I prayed, but they took me to a work camp near the outer part of the system.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Looks around sickbay.::  XO:  Then she showed up.  Near the work camp.  The Cabowee had left the system, knowing we could not leave, spread out from one another...   She was glorious.  White...  She hung in the blackness of space above our work camp.
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Frowns slightly::
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
Brunn:  ...The Claymore.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: And the appearance of the Claymore took away the Cabowee’s power... making them hate the crew of the Claymore.  But there had to be more given the hatred.::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  ::Turns to Damrok and nods.::  Oh yes, the Claymore.  I was chosen to try and make contact.  We had a single work shuttle we modified to fly off the asteroid.  
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  When I got to her, I entered through the shuttle bay.  She was even more amazing on the inside.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  I spent a week aboard her.  The universal translator learned my language and translated after about twenty hours.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  I took a shuttle down and brought more aboard to begin learning her.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  To make a long story short, we did learn her and we used her to attack the Cabowee when they returned.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  But it didn’t stop there.  We hunted them...  We modified the Claymore with our own technologies.  And we hunted the Cabowee.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
:: sighs... and there was the answer::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
ALL:  I'm not proud of those decisions as Captain of the Claymore.  It was a very low time for myself and my people.  While we were off hunting the Cabowee...  Our people were dying of starvation, sickness and lack of basic services we once had.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  As we approached the complete genocide of the Cabowee, I stopped.  It wasn't...  ::Lowers his head.::  It wasn't enough.  So I used the chronitons to make the void space.  Then I ordered us to a point in time before the Cabowee even knew about us...  And then I condemned them, all of them.  To life without existence.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  After that we returned home.  To rebuild.  We placed the Claymore in orbit.  Came up with a story.  Rebuilt based on Federation principles.  I was first president, then as time passed moved to lower and lower positions.  Until today.  I am the last of that time.  There is no one on the planet that knows the truth.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
Adv Brunn:  What does that mean, life without existence?
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
::Lowers his head a moment, not really capable of evaluating this series of decisions, because he, unlike the Semilisians, didn't have to live through it::
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Just as she's finishing Brunn's shoulder, her tool fumbles from her fingers, clattering to the floor::  ::Very quietly:: Excuse me.   ::Ducks down beside the biobed to find it::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
::Turns to Senn.::  CSO:  I ordered their entire population to be captured and imprisoned in a made, confined area.  They could see the outside world, yet never age, never make contact with the outside world.  They only had what we had given them, nothing but eternal life...  We left them in a galaxy far from here.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  But something happened.  They began finding a way out.  Slowly and not even physically.  They are connected with the Claymore somehow.  As if the warp core was tearing a path for them.
CMO_Cmdr_Raeyld says:
::Bites her lips together slightly to ensure they stay closed::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
All:  I continue to fight them at times. Making adjustments to the chroniton fields.  Adjusting the void space around them.  But now that you have arrived.  All of you.  I can't control it.  It is a matter of time before they will come.
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
Adv Brunn:  What do you believe would happen if we destroyed this Claymore?
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
CSO:  If we destroy this Claymore there is no way to stop the Cabowee.  They will come here regardless of this ship of yours.
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
::begins running theories in his head. How to stop the Cabowee from returning to this time::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  Commander, you must understand.  War is coming.  I don't know if I can stop it again.  And my people have no idea what is coming.
Host XO_Cmdr_Damrok says:
Brunn:  Doctor...why didn't you tell us this to begin with?  We could have been more prepared.  You must have known we would begin to piece this sequence of events together when Commander Senn and I were granted access.
SO_Ens_Aryv says:
Brunn: Collapsing the void space?
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:
Adv Brunn:  And yet they are tied to this ship.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  I had a chance that you and Commander Senn might alter the chronitons, essentially cutting them off.  I was wrong.  It only opened the tear.  SO:  The void is already breaking down.  That box is the only thing keeping the void together.   If we are lucky, we have a month before the Cabowee arrive.  Then they will destroy this system.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
XO:  Its anyone’s guess where or what they do after that.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
ACTION:  Q appears in sickbay next to Commander Damrok.
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
<Q> XO:  Well, Commander.  Can you guess what happens?
CSO_Cmd_Senn says:	
:: looks over with a frown and then double sighs::
Host Advisor_Brunn says:
***************************** Pause Mission *****************************

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