NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC:

I've no expectation that people will end up reading this too often; or much less that anyone should want to participate.

But if you do have anything to say regarding being a part of it; go ahead and TG me.

And of course, comments would be most welcome.

This whole RP won't last long; and the first post won't tell you much. But it's the only one i've written up so far, so without further ado:

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Part 1: "A Routine Trip"

Sheffingham Harbor
Sheffingham, Porlamar

The Amalgamated Inc. lorry finished unloading it's sensative cargo; several hundred reinforced barrels marked with the dubious 'radioactive' seal.

All were placed in the B.S.S. Indefatigable's hold; a ship 175 feet in length, intented to make a crow's flight to Arkham for radioactive waste treatment and processing.

A routine trip, thought Captain Michael O'Connell.

The B.S.S. Indefatigable was a Federated-owned vessel; one of four massive Oglethorpian corporations, this one in paticular responsible for building and operating Oglethorpia's assorted fission and fusion power plants.

It's voyage to Arkham would only take one day and one night, and then O'Connell would be back home.

With the departure of the Amalgamated Inc. lorry, O'Connell's crew prepared the ship for departure from Sheffingham Harbor.

Within minutes, the B.S.S. Indefatigable was on the open seas off Oglethorpia's east coast.

Part 2 - "Mutator"

The Bureaucratic Tribune

Nuclear waste lost at sea
B.S.S Indefatigable loses half of nuclear waste load

By Dwight Hamilton

OGLETHORPIA (BT) -- The Bureaucratic States Ship Indefatigable, asset of Federated Ltd. has reported the loss of half of its nuclear waste cargo load in a recent storm off the coast of Sheffingham. Triangulation has placed the site of the loss of the cargo halfway between Sheffingham and Arkham; roughly a distance of 26 miles.

Said Indefatigable captain Michael O'Connell, "i'm sure we'll be able to recover the lost nuclear byproduct[s]. The crew and myself; there was little we could do about it at all. Hopefully it'll turn out alright."

The government, in addition to Federated Ltd. has launched efforts into locating the lost waste containers.

Said a head physicist at Arkham's Weiland University, "even if the containers are not found immediately -- say, within a month -- there should be no longterm problem. Those containers are build so that waste may be contained for long periods of time. It won't be a danger as long as they're found and recovered within the next year. Besides, it's not as if a Giant Squid is going to come by and eat up the container[s]."

Part 3: "Shakeup/down"

Captain Mike "Mick" McKinney of the B.S.S. Perry awoke to a start, the sub rocking violently -- but only for a brief moment.

McKinney drug himself out of his captain's quarters and into the control room. "Sonar, what's the deal?"

"Sir, we've got something strange on sonar-" replied the voice.
"What is it?" "Mick" McKinney asked.
"You've got to come down here; operating procedures and all, you understand."

McKinney briefly cursed bureaucracy, and was soon in the sonar room after three key pads and two locked doors.

"It's as big as the sub, sir," said the young man at his sonar station.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Perhaps a sub-"
"Attempt to contact it."

As this was acknowledged, McKinney was knocked to the ground with the sub experiencing another fit of twisting and turning.

There was a brief pause in the rocking.
The crew now were all on their toes; and instead of the rocking that had happened on two earlier occasions, they heard a new sound. This one was of crumpling metal, with McKinney now acting on the situation.

"Engine room, we must be caught on something; bring her up to 22 knots," McKinney said; up 12 from their cruising speed of 10 knots.

The crushing sound continued for a while longer before the B.S.S. Perry seemed to slip away from whatever was grasping it; within minutes the submarine surfaced, and some of the crew inspected the submarine's hull from above the water.

The length of the 353 ft long sub was covered in depressions that seemed to circle the submarine; maybe 6 inches deep, dozens of them to the very tail of the boat.

None of the crewmen knew or could even guess at what could create such strange marks on the submarine; but their deep-sea excercise was cut short by the strange occurence. It was back to port for the crew of the B.S.S. Perry.

Part 3: "Shakeup/down"

Captain Mike "Mick" McKinney of the B.S.S. Perry awoke to a start, the sub rocking violently -- but only for a brief moment.

McKinney drug himself out of his captain's quarters and into the control room. "Sonar, what's the deal?"

"Sir, we've got something strange on sonar-" replied the voice.
"What is it?" "Mick" McKinney asked.
"You've got to come down here; operating procedures and all, you understand."

McKinney briefly cursed bureaucracy, and was soon in the sonar room after three key pads and two locked doors.

"It's as big as the sub, sir," said the young man at his sonar station.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Perhaps a sub-"
"Attempt to contact it."

As this was acknowledged, McKinney was knocked to the ground with the sub experiencing another fit of twisting and turning.

There was a brief pause in the rocking.
The crew now were all on their toes; and instead of the rocking that had happened on two earlier occasions, they heard a new sound. This one was of crumpling metal, with McKinney now acting on the situation.

"Engine room, we must be caught on something; bring her up to 22 knots," McKinney said; up 12 from their cruising speed of 10 knots.

The crushing sound continued for a while longer before the B.S.S. Perry seemed to slip away from whatever was grasping it; within minutes the submarine surfaced, and some of the crew inspected the submarine's hull from above the water.

The length of the 353 ft long sub was covered in depressions that seemed to circle the submarine; maybe 6 inches deep, dozens of them to the very tail of the boat.

None of the crewmen knew or could even guess at what could create such strange marks on the submarine; but their deep-sea excercise was cut short by the strange occurence. It was back to port for the crew of the B.S.S. Perry.