USS Cherokee 
Altrius, Part 13
11510.11

Starring_
Steve Weller as CO_Ayidee and Producer
Dawn Freeman as OPS_Cmdr_Nash
Topper Loghry as CTO_LT_Q`ten
Zach Farland as CNS_Ens_Daniels
Guest Star
Pablo Delsoglio as SO_Expendable
Ship's Log, Stardate 11510.11, Tio Ayidee recording.  The Quellerite station is still powering up, and our investigation proceeds but the amount we need to learn is vast.

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Host CO_Ayidee says:
::With the crew on station, trying to get a grasp on just what we are dealing with.::

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
::In the computer room going through the database looking for ship's compliment, manifest and station's log files::

SO_Expendable says:
;;going through a vast quantity of files;;

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: I just had a thought...

ACTION: Counselor Daniels search finds a listing of those in the station's stasis chambers.  There are tens of thousands of names listed.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: First for everything.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: This facility is by all accounts billions and billions of years old.  What kind of defenses does it employ?

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
All: I found the list I was looking for.  It's a list of what look like names.  There are thousands listed.

SO_Expendable says:
CNS: Any reference to the reason for their cryogenic status?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: Any way of telling who a leader may be? Or at least someone who could help guide us should they start waking up?

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: Good question.  I bet not good because something came along and did this station damage, it knocked out the recharge devise on this place and did damage to the door we came through.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
SO: Not yet, I'm still looking for the station's logs.

SO_Expendable says:
CNS: Acknowledged... will do the same.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CNS/ CTO: They were hit by the enemy that is impossible to defeat, time.  Any system breaks down with no maintenance.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CO: What about the damaged airlock door?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CO: I don't know sir. Overall this place seems to have held up pretty well over the eons.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: They should have thought to make a few maintenance droids.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CNS: Set a station about a stellar orbit and leave it orbit for eons and something will hit it.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: maybe they did, we just haven't found them yet.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CO: I guess that makes sense.  Who could have found this place, it was well hidden?  Oh wait, I found this place.  ::Smiles::

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: Admit it.  We basically 'tripped' over it.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: Okay but, that's not what the history books will say.

SO_Expendable says:
All: I found something interesting here... There is a log reporting that her race realized the sun on their system was dying, and there was enough time to evacuate the whole population.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CTO: He has a point, history is written by the victors and you two will be credited with the discovery.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CO: So we're the 24th Century Howard Carters.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
All: I may have found out who and where their leaders might be.  I found biographies linked to the names and there location is listed and a map too.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: I vote to concentrate on those people.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
<EO> CO: Sir, I'm going to bring a few Engineers over to take a look at the procedural computers.
OPS: Your staff would probably want a look themselves, right?

OPS_Cmdr_Nash says:
EO:  Of course.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: I'm looking at the top of the list.  I figure VIPs always like to be first.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
SO: A dying sun.  That would explain a lot.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CNS: Dead now.  But if they built this station to keep their leftovers safe, they must have had some plan moving forward.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
SO: They must be engineering wizards to rig up this place... I like to think of it as an ark.

SO_Expendable says:
CO/CNS: So far, all evidence leads us to think that way.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CO: That's what I thought.  That's when the supplies were found, turned to dust.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CNS: Ark is a good term for it.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: But the Pertel... Empire, for lack of a better term was at least as large as the Federation. If they knew their sun was dying, why this?  Couldn't they just have evacuated the population to other systems?

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: Good question, Watson.  Why not just go somewhere else?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
:: looks around:: CNS: Who’s Watson?

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
All: Knowing all them other races they must have had warp capable ships.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
<EO> CNS/ CTO: If one of the core worlds stars went nova, it would take some time to evacuate an entire world.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: Sherlock Holmes best friend and colleague.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: I don't believe I have ever met this Sherlock Holmes.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
EO: No more time than it took to build this station.

SO_Expendable says:
CTO/CNS: I certainly enjoy those ancient novels... good mysteries to solve…like the ones we are uncracking right now

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: Earth literature, my illiterate friend.  Holmes and Watson solved mysteries in 19th century Victorian London.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
SO: See, you know what I'm talking about.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
<EO> CTO: If they built it from scratch.  A Starbase crew could set a Buckingham class up to do this in a few months.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
::Gets a pouty look on his face:: CNS: I'm not illiterate.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
ALL: the Roman Empire!

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: What about it?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: Earth History.  The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most powerful in the history of your planet, but when the actual city of Rome fell, the Empire dissolved.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: At least the western half of it.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: The empire continued in the east, but without the city of Rome, it became known as the Byzantine Empire.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: Yup, and Nero fiddled.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: The Pertels wanted to preserve the nucleus of their empire. The soul of the empire if you will.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: So, you're saying, the Pertels were sentimentally attached to this star system and didn't want to leave it even though they could and it would have been the most sensible thing to do?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: If they had just evacuated the population to different areas of their empire, and let their core planet die, the empire would continue, but it just wouldn't be the same.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: They wanted to preserve the 'soul' of their empire.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: I've lived so many places in my life I've never had a connection to a place.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: Consider the Klingon Empire.  When Praxis blew up, the Klingon people as a whole swallowed their pride and asked the Federation for help, rather than lose Qo'noS.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
::Still looking for a file in the names list that will point out a possible leader of the Pertels::

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CTO: There is more to a society than its planetary core.  Moving the people?  Easy enough to do.  The infrastructure?  The cultural icons?  Depending how much you wanted to preserve that could take decades even with a Starfleet sized fleet.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: I guess some people do fall in love with a place, I understand, even though I've never experienced it myself.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CO: yes, but with the Klingons, Qo'noS was not just a planet. It is what made the Klingon Race the people they are today. I believe the Pertels felt the same way concerning Queller, and that is why they constructed this "ark", as you called it. To preserve as much of themselves as they could.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: You know, there's probably a treasure on this station, precious metals and gem stones wouldn't have turned to dust.

SO_Expendable says:
::his mind wanders a bit, remembering those hours spent reading such good novels... like "the sign of four".. then shakes his head and returns to work::

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: I agree with you, however, what the Pertels considered treasure, may not coincide with our own perception of treasure.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
<EO2> ALL: There is a file for the pod control, as expected, but there's something disturbing.  There is a count down going, and it seems to be showing readiness within the next few minutes.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
EO2: You mean they are going to be waking up?

Host CO_Ayidee says:
<EO2> CTO: Not sure, sir.  Don't know the protocol for this procedure.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
::Reading data on the screen::  All: You know, I think I have found the head frogman.  I found several high mucky-mucks but, I think this guy is the big cheese.  According to the map the guy is only about 300 meters away from our current location.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: Can you point him out?

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: I think I can lead you there.  ::Takes another look at the map::

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: Let's go say hi!

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CO: Sir, you want us to be there when the leader of the swamp wakes up?

Host CO_Ayidee says:
CNS: Yes, if they do wake up it would be good to be in position.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
<EO2> All: The countdown is about done, sirs.

ACTION: The control computers all flip to the same display, one that the Universal Translator reads as "Enter Access Code to begin restoration"

Host CO_Ayidee says:
All: Well it seems we have some control over this.  But what is the code?

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CO: Looks like another mystery.

SO_Expendable says:
CO: It must be hidden in same log file somewhere on those databases.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CO:... and who was suppose to be here to input the code?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: Maybe that's why the leader needs to wake up first.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: How was the leader supposed to wake up, do you see a rooster?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: I don't know. Maybe their computer was programmed to wake up the leader first so that he could determine if it was time to wake up everyone else.

CNS_Ens_Daniels says:
CTO: So, let's go see if he or she is waking up.

Host CO_Ayidee says:
All: Or whoever they thought was coming back was expected to have the code.  But there must be a backup, a final contingency plan. And it has to be on station for that plan to have any chance.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
::Motions for the CNS to lead the way:: CNS: Age before beauty.

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