<a class="link link--external" href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/67/ba/d6/67bad6b09e26897151727e29ffe811e3.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Thomyris “Riz” Heroux</a><br/>Location: Ticonderoga class assault ship/Bridge.<br/>Tagged: All.<br/><hr class="bbc-hr bbc-hr--3"/><br/>It was tense enough idling in this silent, dreadful darkness. To Thomyris, it felt like the shadows themselves might come alive with some supernatural intent to suck them all up into the abyss that was this derelict ship. She sighed, not liking the order to stand by and do nothing, yet having no other choice. She tried to make a task of examining the consoles and terminals of the bridge, different technology from a different era, but without power they told her little or nothing at all.<br/><br/>Then the Captain’s warning came blazing through the comms.<b>“Radiation...how come we never detected it from space?”</b>She mused aloud, before feeling her heart skip a beat at the next order to power. It was what she had been wanting to do from the beginning...now she was full of anxiety. Still, she moved to follow her orders.<br/><br/><b>“Copy, stand by for powering up.”</b>She answered, pushing herself through zero-gee to what seemed a centralized terminal. She took out her datapad and examined the terminal where external devices could be detected. Of course it was an entirely different standard from what she had. But with today’s technology, being thankfully backwards compatible, all she had to do was line her datapad up and it would send out its own frequency to mimick the input of a data plug.<br/><br/>Her pad came alight as dormant processes flashed across her screen.<b>“Activating stage three systems.”</b><i>Lights, gravity, life support</i>, nothing overly powerful or taxing on supply. The consoles glowed with faint lights to show they were activated, with data flashing across the screens built within them. At first Thomyris tapped at it, but nothing happened. Then she wanted to smack her head.<i>Old technology...use the knobs and dials. It isn’t touch-screen like everything else you’re used to…</i><br/><br/>Lights would flick on throughout the ship, in corridors and chambers. A low humming would be heard as gravity slowly became restored. Then came the thumps and thuds as bodies and other loose objects began to hit the floor. Finally, the air scrubbers began to whine, though at the same time alerts began to flare out. The ship’s air supply was severely depleted. There was no point in removing one’s helmet at that point so Thomyris quickly deactivated air.<br/><br/><b>“I’m seeing tertiary power flares in the Cryo-Chambers. Did you find anything there…?”</b>Thomyris asked, eyes moving to and fro as she read each line of data as it came into her pad. If they needed to defreeze someone, she could initiate the process from the Bridge, though there should be a terminal in the Chamber that allowed them to do it on deck as well.