- Alassca - Ready Room Meeting -<br/><br/>Alassca touched the screen to download her findings to the Ready Room and stepped into it for Commander Grayn's meeting.  She looked around a moment, trying to envision what had happened here.  The Captain and Dr. Pracoos engaged in some sort of pleasureable activity, then she suddenly whisked away and Pracoos left unconscious.  The first image was intriguing; the latter more disturbing.  She wondered how the Nymphans, assuming they were responsible, had located the Captain and beamed her away.<br/><br/>She logged in to the Ready Room display and prepared to present her new scans to the acting Captain and the rest of the staff.<br/><br/>"I have not yet been able to penetrate their subsurface cloaking," she began when she was called upon.  "However, the cloaking itself reveals an interesting pattern."  An image went onto the display.  "Here is the pattern of cloak at the central village and the surrounding five.  As you can see, there appears to be subsurface cloaks from the center complex to each village, and a cloaked line from each village to its neighboring village on either side.  Furthermore, the lines from the center complex extend..."  She zoomed out the image on the display, to show a wider view of the surface.  "... to more networks in the same pentagon and center structure of our known village.  The pattern is so geometrically precise, it is almost mathmatically or religiously conceived.  It extends throughout the hemisphere.  I haven't found a direct link to the abandoned ships yet, but it could be very deep, beyond the capabilities of our scans."<br/><br/>She zoomed in on one of the other sites.  "There is no indication of villages or other surface construction at these other sites.  For that matter, we cannot even be certain these cloak patterns are actually hiding tunnels in place.  They may be the final indicators of a long-crumbled infrastructure.  On the other hand, they might be the outline of precisely planned future expansion."<br/><br/>"Dr. Duke," she addressed the head of Medical, "I'm curious about the spore you said overwhelmed Lt. Firlawan and caused her death.  I overheard you say it was attempting to infiltrate her reproductive system.  Could this have been some form of alien biological attempt at impregnation, or even egg laying?  Can you determine if it was introduced through the atmosphere, or from sexual contact?"<br/>