Ulith III Biophage Crisis 2303.Q4.M3 Result
- Location
- Australia
[X] Plan Fortify Solitude
[X] [Starfleet Command] Mobilise an Asset (1 turn)
[X] [Federation Emergency Council] Mobilise an Asset (1 turn)
[X] [Andorian Civil Engineering Team] Fortify Solitude Outpost (+2 C, +2 S) (2 turns)
[X] [Starfleet Medical Command] Evacuate Liath V (55k) to Andor Sector (1 turn)
[X] [Tellarite Mining Expedition] Scuttle Arcori III shipyards (1 turn)
[X] [Starfleet Infectious Disease Institute] Biophage Vaccine Research Rush - (1 turn)
[X] [Vulcan Science Academy Detachment] Ulith III Biophage General Research Rush (1 turn)
[X] [Starfleet Tactical Command - Tiger Team] Biophage Combat Research Rush (1 turn)
[X] [Commodore T'Faer] Suicide Shuttle Countermeasures (1 turn)
[X] [Starfleet Tactical Command - Runabout Recon Squadron] Scout Neutral Zone Area 3 (2 turn)
[X] [RBZ Fleet - Commodore T'Faer] Own Initiative
[X] [Starfleet Command] Mobilise an Asset (1 turn)
[X] [Federation Emergency Council] Mobilise an Asset (1 turn)
[X] [Andorian Civil Engineering Team] Fortify Solitude Outpost (+2 C, +2 S) (2 turns)
[X] [Starfleet Medical Command] Evacuate Liath V (55k) to Andor Sector (1 turn)
[X] [Tellarite Mining Expedition] Scuttle Arcori III shipyards (1 turn)
[X] [Starfleet Infectious Disease Institute] Biophage Vaccine Research Rush - (1 turn)
[X] [Vulcan Science Academy Detachment] Ulith III Biophage General Research Rush (1 turn)
[X] [Starfleet Tactical Command - Tiger Team] Biophage Combat Research Rush (1 turn)
[X] [Commodore T'Faer] Suicide Shuttle Countermeasures (1 turn)
[X] [Starfleet Tactical Command - Runabout Recon Squadron] Scout Neutral Zone Area 3 (2 turn)
[X] [RBZ Fleet - Commodore T'Faer] Own Initiative
Sector Command's Report, Commodore T'Faer, Stardate 21407.5
Making my report as required, Admiral Kahurangi. After the irregularities of the previous month's evacuation effort, I can report that this month's effort has been peaceful. The evacuation of Liath V was undertaken by the Starfleet Medical Command with a number of cargo ships and Starfleet Hospital Ships. A total of 49,213 colonists survived the early attack on the colony, and these colonists are now settling in to Machado IV.
We encountered no attacks from the Biophage during this period. However, Starfleet Tactical's team of scouts delivered news that an inhabited world had been located, already consumed by the Biophage. Best estimates show the world to have been a colony world of a species we have not yet encountered, with ten thousand inhabitants living in biodomes. It is difficult to ascertain precisely what level of technological development they were at. However, debris found it orbit matches that of the escort-class vessels that attacked at Kiterunner last month. Ergo, we may assume they are a warp-capable culture if, indeed, they still exist.
I led a task force consisting of Sarek, Kumari, Challorn, and two Centaurs, and arrived to investigate the planet. From our investigations, the planet was infected two months ago, seemingly from orbit. The world was held for as long as was practicable, and allowed further research to be undertaken. A canister of Electro-Plasma was dropped on one site to test its efficacy against the Biophage, and proved satisfactory.
Our Betazoid attachments were transferred to the Centaur-class escorts and sent lower into the atmosphere to experiment. They received ineffective fire from functional surface batteries, which were neutralised by phaser fire from the Sarek. The Empaths reported debilitating sensations the closer they came to the infected Biomass. They report that the thoughts and minds of those consumed live on in a collective whole. They were able to determine that the homeworld of this species was not in this Area, but in Area 2, though they are not sure where. The experience of such a jumbled hive mind is apparently deeply unpleasant.
We encountered in orbit the debris of one ship that we believe was struck by the infection beam weapon of the Biophage's major units. The Vulcan Science Academy detachment was able to study this debris before it was sterilised, and drew some conclusions as to its mechanism.
With regards to the incident with Captain Michael O'Hara of the USS Excelsior. While I regret the necessity of the action, I maintain it was the correct action, as borne out by the fact that the infected craft did, in fact, escape. However, as has been suggested to me, this is an inefficient time to air such concerns, and I will refrain from revisiting them until the conclusion of this state of emergency.
End Report
Internal Diplomacy Report, Federation Councillor, Emergency Committee Chairman Hayley Singh
Efforts to continue the mobilisation of the Federation's resources are bearing fruit. We have a number of task forces already under way and under your control, and we expect to be able to raise two more soon. The Andorians are closest to the scene and are providing much of the opening contribution, plus Starfleet's own assets. A list of new teams will be sent to you shortly.
Please Select two new Teams (Line voting, top two vote getters win)
[ ][NEW] Andorian Orbit Guard Runabouts - Combat (Recon) Team
[ ][NEW] Starfleet Academy Red Squad Runabouts - Combat (Recon) team
[ ][NEW] Shorc Xurth Resource Combine (Tellar Prime) - Industry (Heavy) Team
[ ][NEW] North America Productivity Commission (Earth) - Industry (Heavy) Team
[ ][NEW] Cheleb-Kor Industrial Centre (Vulcan) - Industry (Heavy) Team
[ ][NEW] Dhara Heavy Industry Park (Andoria) - Industry (Heavy) Team
[ ][NEW] 40 Eridani A Ship Design Detachment - Research (Ships) Team
[ ][NEW] Federation Diplomatic Service - External Diplomacy
[ ][NEW] Councillor Stesk - External Diplomacy
[ ][NEW] Andorian Civil Service - Internal Diplomacy Team
[ ][NEW] Tellarite Work Crew - Civil Engineering Team
[ ][NEW] United Earth Station Service - Civil Engineering Team
[ ][NEW] Andorian Blue Hand - Civil Engineering (Medical) Team
End Report
Starfleet Shipyard Operations Report
All three Oberths have been commissioned into service in a lamentably foreshortened ceremony. Although unavoidable in the current state of emergency, Vice Admiral Sousa had keenly wished for a more prominent launching ceremony to show case so much scientific capacity joining Starfleet. She does suggest that one of them could even be attached to Commodore T'Faer's RBZ fleet, where although a direct combat liability, their powerful sensors may help free up an Excelsior for combat duty.
[ ][OBERTH] Assign an Oberth
[ ][OBERTH] Leave them for safer space
Starfleet Engineering Command Report
Engineers completed a pair of crucial objectives over the last month. First the Tellarite Mining Expedition, though smarting from the loss of one of their cargo ships in orbit around Arcori III, returned to that world. There they used powerful charges to destroy the shipyard to prevent its possible capture and misuse by the enemy. On the more constructive side of the fence, the team from Andoria travelled to Solitude Outpost and began to process of improving the weapons and sensors on that platform. Starfleet's own Engineers are still at work around Machado IV setting up an outpost with powerful sensor arrays, and say that they will be ready during the next month.
Starfleet Medical Command Report
Ulith III Biophage General Research Rush
The general research on the Biophage has revealed many new results, which has been provided to the Infectious Diseases team to further their work. The access provided by Commodore T'Faer has led to advancements, and a more comprehensive understanding of the Biophage's infection beam. Further, the efforts of reviewing the Dunwich IV record has revealed its own, disturbing, secrets. This has been confirmed by the experiences of the Betazoid empaths. Effectively, the Biophage subsumes the memories and personalities of all those that it consumes. They all live on in a hideous sort of half-life. Paraphrasing the Vulcan report, of course. Dunwich IV maintained faked communications to hide its infected status in large part because of the Biophage's ability to take over these details. In some cases this even extended into fooling distant family members into believing kin on Dunwich IV were still alive. This does, however, also explain how the organism has the technical know-how to operate starships. Let us pray that shipyard engineers are not also consumed.
As a conclusion, beware trusting communications with sources that may be infected.
10 / 10 Perform full analysis of the properties of the Biophage.
20 / 20 Fully Examine the Dunwich IV colony site and review the gigaquads of sensor data pulled in.
10 / 10 Assess Biophage Infection Beam Properties [+5 from Examination of Debris at Birkeed III]
10 / 10 Assess Biophage Technical Repurposing Abilities
Biophage Vaccine Research Rush
We have discovered a number of mechanisms for safely disposing of the Biophage samples, though they all require technologies that would not have been available to the Romulans at the time they were investigating this organism. More importantly however, we have what we believe in the prelude to a vaccine! There is a substance that will substantially reduce the infection and reconstruction rate of the Biophage on organic materials. The reconstruction still occurs, but this much reduced rate is one that we believe we can improve to a total resistence with more work.
10 / 10 Perform full analysis of the properties of the Biophage.
15 / 20 Sample Bio-laboratory Containment Procedures
20 / 20 Sterilisation Procedures
30 / 30 Vaccine Development I [+5 from Completion of Sterilisation Procedures] [+10 from Completion of Biophage General Research]
0 / ?? Vaccine Development II
14 / 20 Structural Integrity Field Modifications I
Starfleet Tactical Command Report
Admiral, this month Starfleet Tactical has begun another scouting assignment within the Neutral Zone, taking in Area 3. We have located a colony world of an unknown species but, regrettably, not before the Biophage. Commodore T'Faer can no doubt provide the full story there. In other news, our special tactics team is taking on further research in directly combating the Biophage in the field, while T'Faer worked to improve our responses to cloaked suicide shuttles.
Biophage Combat Research Rush
Our Special Tactics Team has continued to explore options for more effectively combating the effects of the Biophage. The suggestions of using EPS conduit venting into infected spaces has been developed into a workable doctrine, and is now available, complete with an instruction set for ship Engineers to follow to enable to system without causing permanent damage. It must be remembered, however, we cannot protect crew in sections where this is deployed, so all Captains are advised it is a desperation move only.
20 / 20 Develop EPS Venting Protocols [+5 for Actions at Birkeed III]
17 / 20 Romulan Combat Footage Analysis
16 / 20 Phaser Firebreaks (to slow spread of biophage on a planet)
13 / 20 Rapid Beam-out (Save crews while minimising the risk of conveying the infection)
[Ships will now have a save against Infection short of Warp Core Breaches - however losses among crew will be sustained - Save is, on a d6, 5+ for Escorts, 4+ for Cruisers, 3+ for Explorers]
Suicide Shuttle Countermeasures
8 / 15 Shuttle Cloak Sensor Pattern Analysis (+1 to Science when attempting to spot inbound shuttles) [+4 from Combat Experience]
13 / 15 Mutual Support Formation (+1 to Combat when attempting to intercept inbound shuttles) [+4 from Combat Experience]
8 / 30 Tachyon Burst Sweep (+1 to Science when attempting to spot inbound cloaked vessels) [+4 from Combat Experience]
4 / 20 Shield Harmonics Modifications (+1 to Shield when attempting to withstand a hit)
USS Enterprise Report
We have continued to hold position around Alepsis II. The presence of a shipyard capable of producing Birds of Prey, with 1.2 million colonists, has the Admiral very hesitant about deploying afield. However, scouting into Area 2 has apparently been encountering resistance, and after the destruction of two scout craft has been abandoned. I am told that we will be preparing a reconnaissance in force into this area next month to determine what is present. Clearly there is something present that the Biophage would prefer we not have. When we do, the Admiral will set up on our auxiliary bridge, but not before. He hasn't asked, and I haven't offered, to allow him to move his flag here full time. I have been working carefully with my security officer to limit our exposure during this time, and will ensure security personnel are present, both for their security and our security, as well as a technical expert to ensure no foul play occurs to the computer system.
I have warned the Admiral outright that any suspected Tal Shiar agent is to be left behind, because if I suspect anyone they're going to be teleported only halfway home.
Beyond that, I have done my level best to keep up our diplomatic relations with the Romulans. I am sure you would be most proud if you were here, Admiral. I have learned many fascinating things about Romulans and their culture. I don't know about any kind of lasting friendship, but I do harbour great hopes that this time of crisis can give birth to a defrosting of relations, and an understanding.
Or at least lead them all to be less jackassed.
End Report.
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