Excellent question, and just as a general note: the environment of Alemar III is going to contribute heavily to why communications go down. Basically, the atmosphere is chock full of nasty highly-charged particles that get in the way of sensor arrays and comm links (like the kind of interference that prevents a radio station from coming through clearly). The outpost has a dampening system in place, as well as back up communications, which make it possible to establish communications at all. But once those go down, and they will, the atmosphere's electromagnetic pollution is going to interfere with any clear connection. That's why things such as Starfleet combadges won't be able to work. If the sub-dermal implants the Andromeda crew use utilize any kind of wave technology to establish a connection to each other, they very well may be rendered useless or, at the least, unreliable.
If it's more of a telepathic link or other such connection to each other, then I see no immediate issue with the link staying intact. It will depend mostly on who among the Andromeda crew sign up to participate, and who remain on the Enterprise. The rescue team from the Enterprise won't be shuttling down until Day 2, after loosing communication with the away team. If someone is on-board who can tell them something has gone horribly wrong sooner than that, the plot may be over much quicker than planned! But if, say, Dylan is trapped in the foyer and Trance is trapped underground, and they can pass messages along to each other, that wouldn't be a problem.
OOC, the reason comms go down is to prevent the Enterprise from immediately knowing what's happened, and to facilitate our small teams having to work together to find the solution to their unique issue. Teams should work together, rather than seek a solution from someone on a different team. Other than that, talking to one another if the possibility exists shouldn't be too much of a hurdle for any plot to overcome. :)
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Excellent question, and just as a general note: the environment of Alemar III is going to contribute heavily to why communications go down. Basically, the atmosphere is chock full of nasty highly-charged particles that get in the way of sensor arrays and comm links (like the kind of interference that prevents a radio station from coming through clearly). The outpost has a dampening system in place, as well as back up communications, which make it possible to establish communications at all. But once those go down, and they will, the atmosphere's electromagnetic pollution is going to interfere with any clear connection. That's why things such as Starfleet combadges won't be able to work. If the sub-dermal implants the Andromeda crew use utilize any kind of wave technology to establish a connection to each other, they very well may be rendered useless or, at the least, unreliable.
If it's more of a telepathic link or other such connection to each other, then I see no immediate issue with the link staying intact. It will depend mostly on who among the Andromeda crew sign up to participate, and who remain on the Enterprise. The rescue team from the Enterprise won't be shuttling down until Day 2, after loosing communication with the away team. If someone is on-board who can tell them something has gone horribly wrong sooner than that, the plot may be over much quicker than planned! But if, say, Dylan is trapped in the foyer and Trance is trapped underground, and they can pass messages along to each other, that wouldn't be a problem.
OOC, the reason comms go down is to prevent the Enterprise from immediately knowing what's happened, and to facilitate our small teams having to work together to find the solution to their unique issue. Teams should work together, rather than seek a solution from someone on a different team. Other than that, talking to one another if the possibility exists shouldn't be too much of a hurdle for any plot to overcome. :)