DEV BUILD (branch: master) - NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
 

Check out our latest Fleet Action!

Learn More
 

Part of USS Olympic (Archive): Sea Lion Cave and USS Sarek (Archive): Sea Lion Cave

View Mission

Sea Lion Cave – 1

Dyson Sphere
September 2400
1 likes 765 views

There was a certain catharsis that came from falling off the roof of the runabout.

She should have anticipated the fall.  Her ankle had threatened her with a wobble all morning.  Draia’s footing had felt uncertain from the first step out of the runabout’s hatch.  Her bones could practically feel the differential between the artificial gravity on the runabout and the gravitational pull from the surface of the megastructure.  Beyond the runabout, all Draia could see was an overgrown field in every direction.  Every step was a shuffle through tall grasses.  If she looked at the horizon for too long, she felt a headache sneak up on her, pinching at her cranial ridges, right beside her eyes.

When Doctor Laken whined about an error message from the emergency dump mode of his shoddy Starfleet tricorder, Draia only considered one solution.  There were at least 47 simpler solutions to strengthen the subspace signal between the tricorders and the USS Olympic.  Making adjustments to the transceiver assembly set into the roof of the runabout was just about the most convoluted strategy Draia could have undertaken.  But she was a chief engineer on a planetary survey; how else was she to prove her worth?

Not long after she climbed atop the roof of the runabout, the heel of Draia’s right boot had slipped on the glossy polymer of the antenna.  Losing her balance, she tumbled back over the side of the runabout.  Staring up at the sky, as she fell, Draia supposed it looked much the same shade of blue as the sky in her own home colony.  Only as her body twisted through the air did she see it.  Draia happened to fall through the precise angle that allowed her to see more of the interior of the Dyson Sphere on the other side of the sky.  There was no up.  There was no sky.  There was only protective shell in all directions.

A whole world inside a cave.

Plummeting from the roof of the runabout, Draia had never felt safer in her life.  Through most of her adolescence on her Cardassian home colony, walking out in the open had evoked in her a keen awareness that she could be struck down by a Maquis attack.  At any moment.  Anywhere.  Some of the happiest days of her life had been later, labouring as a miner, entombed and protected by the solid skin of a world.  She had rarely been happier than when she was down deep in a cave.  This moment was one of those happier moments.  Seconds before she hit the ground, finding this whole world inside a cave, was truly the closest she had ever felt to spiritual enlightenment.  

Load Time: 0.31 seconds

Total SQL Queries: 37

2 SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (71748) ORDER BY meta_id ASC
1 SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_name = '71748' AND wp_posts.post_type = 'story' ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC
1 SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM `wp_postmeta`
1 UPDATE `wp_postmeta` SET `meta_value` = '765' WHERE `post_id` = 71748 AND `meta_key` = 'views'
1 SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (69226) ORDER BY meta_id ASC
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 69227 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (69227) ORDER BY meta_id ASC
1 SELECT wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'group_news' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = 'publish')) ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 2
1 SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts WHERE ID IN (140922,140618)
1 SELECT t.*, tt.*, tr.object_id FROM wp_terms AS t INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt ON t.term_id = tt.term_id INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tr ON tr.term_taxonomy_id = tt.term_taxonomy_id WHERE tt.taxonomy IN ('group_news_category') AND tr.object_id IN (140618, 140922) ORDER BY t.name ASC
1 SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (140618,140922) ORDER BY meta_id ASC
1 SELECT wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id ) INNER JOIN wp_postmeta AS mt1 ON ( wp_posts.ID = mt1.post_id ) WHERE 1=1 AND ( ( wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'event_status' AND wp_postmeta.meta_value = 'In Progress' ) AND ( mt1.meta_key = 'event_type' AND mt1.meta_value = 'fleet_action' ) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'events' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = 'publish')) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_title DESC LIMIT 0, 1
1 SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts WHERE ID IN (122202)
1 SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (122202) ORDER BY meta_id ASC
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 13085 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 86412 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT ID, post_name, post_parent, post_type FROM wp_posts WHERE post_name IN ('donate') AND post_type IN ('page','attachment')
1 SELECT meta_id FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'views' AND post_id = 71748
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 69336 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 69131 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 69368 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE ID = '2374' LIMIT 1
1 SELECT user_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id IN (2374) ORDER BY umeta_id ASC
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 69226 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 71569 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (71569) ORDER BY meta_id ASC
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 71567 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id ) WHERE 1=1 AND ( ( wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'member_user' AND wp_postmeta.meta_value = '0' ) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'member' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = 'publish')) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 69503 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (69368) ORDER BY meta_id ASC
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 50958 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 74416 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 69124 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 69444 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 49785 LIMIT 1
1 SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID = 12371 LIMIT 1