Event | Satellite | Salvage & Repairs

[ironwood]

Characters: Any and all!
Date: May 22 - 26, 2013
Location: Keeliai, turtleside, ARSHEPHELIOS cluster remains
Situation: The fires are put out and repairs around the city have begun. With life preserved, eyes turn now to what exactly crashed down into the ocean.
Warnings/Rating: Please put CW in your subject lines

Satellite Crash Event

Crash Landing | Salvage Party | Shocking Spectres

Questions | Keeliai | Repairs | Salvage | Other | Oceanside | Shellside | ARSHEPHELIOS-side | Coralside


The majority of fires are reported as under control and repair crews start forming up to bring Keeliai back to her pre-scorched splendour. This is all well and good, but there remains a cluster of debris that crashed into the ocean drawing the attention of salvagers and Foreigners alike. Boats and teams form up and head up to scour the ocean, where the cluster rests upon an expansive and ancient coral formation and can be reached within ten metres of the surface.

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OCEANSIDE

[ironwood]

SHELLSIDE

[ironwood]

[The fires are not quite out by the time the first few kedan head to the southern edge of the turtle and start parsing off into teams to investigate the nature of exactly what crashed into the waters. Some remains float on the water between the shell's edge and an ancient coral reef that Tu Vishan navigated around the night before and a few dive in to retrieve bits of foam and some light packages which are contain an oddly flavoured powdered substance when they are torn open.

While some of the curious kedan simply dive in and shift to an aquatic form, those with an eye to bring larger things back to shore order up boats from a dozen fisherkedan in the area. They canvass the crowd for interested salvaging groups, charging a small fee (three juulan per trip) to the crews on the promise that they will only take ten percent of any profits made from items sold off this salvage boat. Foreigners and kedan are welcomed here, especially those guests which have or can take a form appropriate to aquatic exploration.]

ARSHEPHELIOS-SIDE

[ironwood]

[Ten metres beneath the surface rests the twelve-satellite orbital defense platform ARSHEPHELIOS. The cluster came to rest within an ancient coral reef after tearing a deep rift into it. Kedan can be found diving in and around it, staring curiously at the markings that identify it for they have never seen that name before, nor does it occur in their common folklore.

ARSHEPHELIOS itself shows the wear and tear of atmospheric re-entry, with scorch marks tracking down insulated panels and melted sensor antennae jutting lopsidedly from the exterior panels. The make of the cluster is reminiscent of communications satellites conglomerated into a rough star shape, but there are oval pods incorporated into the infrastructure that can be opened to reveal sparse, zero-gravity living quarters. No bodies are contained within and only a few bits of emptied food packets remain of whatever once inhabited them.

While there are dozens of arrays situated across the cluster that once held sensitive equipment to measure unknown parametres, much of these have been melted down to scrap and are being treated as such by any kedan salvaging or paying juulan for the finds. Charred circuitry fetches five juulan per board and warped metal ten juulan per twenty pounds.

The real worth's found inside the living units and once fried panels have been pushed aside. A few dozen more time capsules like those found in Keeliai remain in the pods and another five thousand black cylinders can be found. These bear jagged line etchings that have been shaded blue; they lack apparent seams and stand at half a metre tall each with a third of that being measured for width. Each etching is different and a vague pattern can be discerned by comparing ten or fifteen of them together. The kedan have no information about these either and offer ten juulan on the promise of salvageable material within.

Then there's the technology, which far surpasses what Keeliai knows today. The vast majority of it has malfunctioned, but there are circuitry panels associated with weapons technology, wiring kits familiar to the eyes of a communications installer, and a half dozen other assorted husks and shells of things that once were -- and have yet to exist in the eyes of the kedan. While near nothing can function on its own, those with wise eyes or quick minds may see potential to integrate these things into technology they currently possess...]

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[relentlesstide]

[Arthur is in his element here; he has a lot of experience exploring shipwrecks of all sorts, and whatever this was is just a more high tech wreck. He, Mera, and Garth will likely sell off some scrap metal and things for a little extra juulan, but he's not down here for scrap metal or pocket money. No, he wants to know what it is that crashed here, and he's gone straight below for answers. Some of it reminds him of the Watchtower, in a way, and it's definitely crashed from space, he recognizes that much.

The living quarters catch his attention, along with the bits of food packaging. Something was living up here... But what, or who?

Still, the technology on the satellite, or whatever it was, catches his attention more. It's more advanced than what he's seen in the city, and while he's investigating, he'll probably try to carefully salvage some of it. Even if he can't do anything with it, he's sure someone else in the League can.]

[ooc: If your character wants to send him into the wreckage for anything/ask him to bring stuff up for them, he's making periodic trips to the surface and can be caught then!]

[queenoftheseas]

[Mera, unsurprisingly enough, came down to see the satellite with Arthur. She was exploring the other side but found nothing of real interest. To her, at least. Arthur probably knows more about it. He's used to surface technology whereas she's only used to Atlantean tech. And the things they come up with in Xebel but this is not on the same level as that. She swims around to meet Arthur, floating up to his side]

Anything interesting?

[relentlesstide]

[He's studying some kind of control panel curiously, brow furrowed.] I'm not sure. It's space technology, kind of reminds me of the Watchtower. We might be able to bring some of this out intact and do something with it, it's much more advanced that everything in Keeliai.

[queenoftheseas]

[This all is completely foreign to Mera. She keeps her distance, letting Arthur investigate. She will be zero help with anything but hauling it away]

I'm sure there's someone on the turtle who could investigate it and get more out of it than either of us can. Even waterlogged it might be useful somehow.

[apologiesmyking]

[Investigating things that find their way to the bottom of the sea is quite normal for Kaldur to do. It was his duty as both a soldier and Aquaman's protege to keep Atlantis safe. After dousing the flames in the outlying areas of the turtle's shell, Kaldur turned his attention to the water and what had descended into it. He dives in easily and swims around the perimeter before searching for an entrance. If this was a station someone might be inside.

Would Arthur like to join him?]

[relentlesstide]

[Damn right he'll join him. He hasn't been here long, but when he sees Kaldur, he swims toward him easily, trident on his back for now. They're not sure what might be on there, it's best that neither of them wander around alone when there's backup (and another set of eyes, also useful) to be had.] Kind of looks like the Watchtower in some ways, doesn't it? Tech-wise, at least.

[apologiesmyking]

[Kaldur looks around, trying to assess what possible dangers might be inside before they enter.]

I would not know, to be honest. We were not permitted on the Watchtower. Nor would we know of it if it were not for a slip of someone else's tongue. Still, there is some significantly advanced technology here in comparison to what we have seen in Keeliai.

AM I TOO LATE FOR ATLANTEAN PARTY

[mopirates_moproblems]

[James comes out to the crash sight, mostly out of curiosity. He'd been helping in the city, but the truth was, his skills were better suited to water than to land. He'd raised wrecks before. He thought he could be of use to those salvaging what they could from the -- thing.

Of course, he didn't know the particulars of those working the sea operation, so when he arrived there, he was mistakenly looking for a ship. All he saw was a few Kedan diving parties, and no real organized effort -- at least, nothing he can identify as one.

NEVER TOO LATE

[relentlesstide]

[Arthur hasn't seen a whole lot in the way of organization, all things considered. Most kedan are just shifting some gills and diving in, and Arthur doesn't have to shift at all. His gills flare slightly and flatten again as he surfaces with another armload of salvaged tech, taking it to shore to deposit in the cart his family rented to carry it all back home (or to someone who knows what to do with it). He catches sight of the newcomer and waves. No sense in turning away help - the longer this thing sits in the sea, the longer it'll disturb the native marine life.] Ahoy there!

\o/

[mopirates_moproblems]

[And all James can think is, 'finally, someone who uses 'ahoy' correctly. Yes, it had been an issue in his brief time there.]

Ahoy!

[He shades his eyes against the sun, trying to get a good look at the man who greeted him. From this angle, it's hard to notice anything unusual (like gills) although, really, James has already been forced to adjust to Tu Vishan's more colorful inhabitants.]

Anything I can do to help?

[He's already setting his coat and sword aside. And, of course, his hat.]

CORALSIDE

[ironwood]

[Beneath the ARSHEPHELIOS cluster and extending down beyond the barrier of Tu Vishan's presence exists a vast coral structure that exhibits traits of both deep water and tropical coral growths knows to many Foreigners. The water has been disturbed and a murky cloud very slowly settles in the aftermath of the crash, bits of coral debris breaking off and sinking into the deep as the weight of the cluster continues to bear down upon it.

Marine life appears to have abandoned reef on impact, with some fish carcasses and coral growths showing burns and crush trauma. Over the days of salvage, some slowly returns -- either by emerging cautiously from their homes nestled deep within the heart of the reef or by returning from the deeps that they fled to upon impact. They display a variety of colours and temperaments, some investigating the salvagers up close and others nipping them before darting off.

Some debris can be found at rest on the reef's lower ridges, with similarities to the salvage found in Keeliai and on the cluster itself, but it is rare in comparison.]

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[littlecousin]

[It's going to take the reef decades, if not centuries, to recover from the damage the crash has done to it. Nita's retrieving stray satellite bits from this depth not for the salvage fees the kedan are paying, but because she wants to minimize the risk that any exotic materials in the debris will have of poisoning the reef in the years to come.

With the hand that's not carrying the remains of a space station, she shoos off an eel that decided to express its displeasure at her presence with teeth.]

Get lost, you jerk. I'm trying to help.

[Namor can talk to sea life. Why can't she?

Or maybe the sea life just isn't listening. Nita glares after the eel as it retreats into the murky distance. Ingrate.]

[kelpful]

Need a hand? [Propelled carefully by a borrowed current, Percy floats into view. Apparently he means that quite literally; a fist of solidified water forms in from of him, his real hand guiding it gently through the debris.

He snorts a little at the departure of the eel.] Oh man, you do not want to know what it just said.

[littlecousin]

I don't care what it thinks!

[FISH ARE JERKS. She likes dolphins.]

[kelpful]

Do they all treat you like that? Because seriously, I've heard horses with better manners.

[relentlesstide]

[It's really no surprise that Arthur is out here too, helping to get the large pieces of debris back to shore where it can stop disrupting all the marine life. He's accompanied by a small school of fish hanging anxiously behind him as he swims up, trident on his back for now, and starts carefully extracting another piece of the wreckage.]

They're all just agitated right now. Strange things crashing into their homes tend to do that. For what it's worth he- ...no, he isn't apologizing. [A light shrug.]

[littlecousin]

Fish are total jerks.

[She doesn't sound surprised, just resigned. This is apparently kind of a sore spot with her.]

[relentlesstide]

[He almost looks amused, quirking an eyebrow.] Do you get that sort of reception a lot?

Re: open | Have a Korra

[alphatar]

[Holding an armful of satellite “treasure” and using her free hand to bend water so she had a bubble of air around her head, Korra almost stopped completely when she saw a woman with blond hair swimming freely. Gaping was her first reaction since she had never seen anyone be this deep who wasn’t a kedan or without assistance.]

Hi…? [Deciding whether she was a foreigner or someone who just so happened to be in the ocean as Tu Vishan continued his cruise on the planet wasn’t something her brain was up to at just this point in time.]

You too? [She nodded her head towards the salvage the woman had while she was swimming.]

HI KORRA

[littlecousin]

[Nita's gills, rarely visible on the surface, are obvious here, a row of three slits on each side of her neck. Plus, she has a pair of little white wings at each ankle because that makes sense, comics.

She stops when Korra addresses her, floating with her enormous chunk of satellite without any real effort.]

Oh, hi. You're Korra, right?

[queenoftheseas]

[She was exploring the reef too, seeing what damage was done and if there was any way to fix it. She's a little annoyed, actually. Why do surface dwellers always have to find ways to ruin the ocean? Even here, god. But then she spots Nita and the eel and kind of....forgets about that. Nita water you doing]

Are you having an argument with an eel? [Though really she's not surprised. Arthur drags her to aquariums so he can check on the fish. That's much weirder than this]

[littlecousin]

An argument would require the stupid thing to actually listen to me.

[Nita is really, really not used to not getting what she wants, so fish more or less ignoring her is a source of irritation every time it happens.]