Six
/ P3X-796 – NEAR THE GATE /
Eldran Tutanna looked up from his examination of the Gate and its Encoder. His electrum eyes glittered in the afternoon sun. "Humans, Commander." He told the lady standing behind him and slightly to his right and watching over his shoulder.
Siyrena Tavarrell frowned. "This far out?" She asked, her own gold eyes reflecting the startlement in her voice.
"Apparently." Eldran answered. "It seems that four of them came here via the Gate, but only three of them left." He added, frowning slightly.
This information did not please Siyrena at all. "Then there is yet one here." She turned toward another member of the team she had brought with her. "Tiyanna, scan the area. I want to know where this Human is now." Her voice had become harder in that statement, a reflection of the Gold she truly was.
Tiyanna Iymarrean nodded. Her half Kryll heritage gave her malachite green eyes, but her Builder half made them metallic malachite. Those eyes were as hard and intense as her Commander's gold ones though. This lady was not the Commander of Gold for this ship for nothing, after all. "Understood, Commander." She acknowledged, turning then to the rest of her Squad and ordering them to fan out and begin the Sweep.
Siyrena turned back to Eldran. "Where did the three go?"
Eldran turned back to the Encoder, touching symbols in a sequence that did not activate the Gate, but rather, told it to go into Records Mode and scan its cache. A moment of humming, and the small data device Eldran had set atop the Encoder flickered to life, flashing the requested data in the form of Sector Coordinates.
Eldran read off the coordinates then looked up at his Commander. Siyrena frowned. "There has been a great deal of activity from that world's Gate of late. Perhaps this warrants further investigation. Signal the ship. Inform them that I am returning and to have a channel to Homeworld awaiting me."
Eldran nodded and proceeded as directed. Siyrena vanished in a twist of Gold energy, a signature Gift of the full-bloods. Eldran turned back to the Encoder then.
This could get extremely . . . complicated . . .