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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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There would be a fun task force to have eventually: one to go around conducting diplomacy with species like the Horta, the Vermilion and the Dreamers who aren't even close to the standard anthropoid M-class-dwelling physiology of most of the species we know of.
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I can think of no better way to simultaneously reward our scientific staff while punishing whoever's on our Shit List in the FDS.
Captain's Log - 2322.Q1.M1
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Personal Log, Captain Jeanette Devereaux, Stardate 27771
The blue jewel of the planet Earth is a beautiful background to the Sarek's minor refit. A full naval yard was available at San Francisco Fleet Yards, so I got to spend time watching the planet and the ballet of the yard dogs. Rear Admiral McAdams, who was my Captain aboard the Courageous, joined me and offered her congratulations. A lot of valuable advice she gave me too, as we sat in the lounge behind the bridge, sipping some of Bordeaux's finest as we watched the nacelle coils undergo maintenance. McAdams gave me advice as well when I first made Captain, but it seems that taking on a Five Year Mission is rather a beast of a different character.
A mission of exploration and science, to see what lays behind far horizons. This is why I joined Starfleet.
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Captain's Log, USS Challorn, Stardate 27772
We have come to the Ocuspis System after peculiar sensor readings were reported by the neighbouring Andorian colony. The Ocuspis system is well below the galactic plane from Andor, and recently played host to a collision between two gas giants that held the possibility of forming a brown dwarf. These events were recorded by a research expedition that set up on the rocky fourth planet of the system, which left after the merger completed. However, since that point, the Talamon colony's civilian station began to to pick up the unusual high energy readings that have brought us out here.
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 27773 - Captain Enad Rebin
A distress call has reached us from the M'nrr colony world, a Caitian colony world. They have reported that there is a failure of important infrastructure on the world and they desperately require assistance if the colony world is to survive. I have laid in a course, and Odyssey will respond.
However, I have also called up data on the colony world. Something did not feel right when I saw the distress call - although we are far too far away for telepathy to be of use, I've still learned enough of Caitian body language to have a strong suspicion that something was amiss.
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Captain's Log, USS Sarek, Stardate 27773.5 - Captain Jeanette Devereaux
An unusual little addition to our crew. After the Sarek's overhaul was complete, we made a high-speed impulse burn to Jupiter, now on the far side of the solar system. The new Explorer Corps logistics station has been placed here, and we took on a series of ongoing experiments, and a new set of civilian research teams. But an old acquaintance has also taken ship; Fire Kossan, a member of a mostly-ascended species that decided to explore the galaxy a little after meeting the Courageous about ten years ago. She is a welcome addition to our family here.
Beyond that, my orders are to give the newly refurbished nacelles a good run, which will take us on an extended Warp 9 course past Rigel, to the mining colony at 2 Curacao VII.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27774, Petty Officer Pirea mav Rahn
Defiant's arrived at Risa. I had been looking forward to this; used to hit Risa all the time, back in my spacer days. Never really got great deals, but it always paid off, one way or another. I wonder if Jovan, or Aruzia, or Rinelis, or Lineela, or ... Eh, they probably don't remember me. It's been so long.
Not like I'll find out. Tac's put me in charge of doing a complete inspection and overhaul of the shield emitters. Not a hard job, but a long and tedious one. By the time I'm done, we'll probably already be leaving. Not like it should take more than a few days to negotiate a trade deal.
Jerks.
Okay, fine, Risa's a pretty safe place to do this sort of work. And fine, I guess they still remember the incident on Second Risa. But it's not like that was my fault! How was I supposed to know she was in an exclusive relationship?
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 27775
After arriving at the colony, I have been handed two competing stories. What I do know for sure now is that the distress call was made against the wishes of the colonial administration and the organisation responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure on the planet. The latter two believe there is no crisis of colonial infrastructure, a point greatly contested by the first.
From this point, we begin to enter the realm of, strongly suspected, somewhat suspected, and the ever helpful wild guess. Although I have strong suspicions that the protest committee that made the distress call is a front for a rival syndicate. Unfortunately, someone must have accounted for Starfleet's Counsellors, because I'm getting no sense of deception from them.
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Captain's Log, USS Challorn, Stardate 27776
New ring structures have formed around the merged gas giants, which are of interest to a number of our scientists. But it is the activity within the magnetic field that is grabbing our chief science officer's attention. Some exceptional high-energy particle physics is in action - somehow the electromagnetic belts are combining with a series of higher order processes occurring within the candidate brown dwarf to generate tachyon particles. Moreover, extreme high energy particles. We temporarily lost our number 3 lateral short-range sensor bank after it detected and tried to measure what my science officer tells me was a tachyon charged to Sosok Mass, the subspace equivalent to Planck Mass.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27777, USS Defiant
The Risans are collectively playing hardball. Who ever knew such a thing was possible?
Okay, that's kinda specist of me. But still, even they feel uncomfortable with it. The lead corporate negotiator was practically shaking when he laid out what he called his final offer.
There's two sides here. We're dealing with on one hand, the Risan government, who is trying to stake out a claim to what they're provisionally calling Fourth Risa, which is to be a research colony studying the native wildlife, and on the other, New Vistas, Risa's first megacorp, who are trying to secure mining rights, despite the projected environmental impact mining would have on the native ecology. The government claims that their impact statement should hold sway, New Vistas claims they discovered the site first, and that the carve-out they got for Third Risa should be valid on this other planet as well.
They'll cave. Sooner or later, one way or another, New Vistas will cave. They have to cave, don't they?
If they don't... Well. If we can't wrap this up in a week, it's either abandon these negotiations or miss out on the impending subspace flux event at Aqanah. And those happen once a century.
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 27778
Some detective work has given me the full list of reported failings in important colony infrastructure. Being an ice planet, settled for purposes that I believe had more to do with providing variety to would be colonists than the true habitability of the planet, the primary thermal system is crucial. So the reason for concern is clear ... however, it definitely appears that some massaging of the data is going on. I'm returning to the surface to meet personally with a number of the stakeholders.
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Captain's Log, USS Lexington, Stardate 27778.2
Taking a pause in our survey through the Licori Border Zone, I have had the good fortune to host Captain Acheson of the USS Empancipation, who will be joining us in the next stage of our journey. At present, we have rendezvoused at Clover Outpost to take on supplies and permit crew transfers. Captain Acheson has promised to return the favour at the end of our mission, which I am looking forwards to. A Renaissance is nothing if not comfortable.
Unfortunately, we are somewhat delayed, because a replacement shipment of sensor probes on the SS Subiaco Queen has not yet arrived.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27779, Captain Solen
After an uneventful survey of the Ko-98 system, USS Bull has returned to Tellar Starbase for a minor refit. With my ship in dock, I took the opportunity to visit the Miracht State Repository, the oldest archive in this sector. During my visit, I pulled records of the systems near Kearsage's patrol route. Searching these pre-Federation records, I have discovered evidence that the Ko-109 system may be of particular interest to Kearsage: charts of Ko-109 II show features, at the time dismissed as natural formations, but today suggestive of a possible T'Kon site.
I have notified Captain Jameson.
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Captain's Log, USS Lexington, Stardate 27780.5
We are breaking orbit from Clover to go find the Subiaco. It seems that they have now progressed to more than being late - the outpost has now lost their sensor track. This sort of thing happens frequently at these distances as subspace wakes undergo extinction by passing through those of larger ships, or temporary subspace phenomena disrupt the sensors of distant installations. However, the probes on that ship are the last thing I am waiting on, so I'm not inclined to wait. The Emancipation will be assisting our search pattern.
And to be blunt, shore leave on Clover is terrible, so I'm sure I'm doing my crew a favour by getting us underway.
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"Was it good for you, too?" Aruzia asked her bedmate. She was still a little surprised to have run into Pirea mav Rahn again. It'd been well over a decade since they'd last connected, and both their lives had changed so much ... And yet they'd found each other again, in Defiant's mess hall of all places.
Pirea laughed. "She asks, as if she cares," she teased, before kissing the tall Risan's cheek. Aruzia still remembered - watch what a Tellarite does, not what they say about it.
But don't ignore what they say, or they'll feel insulted. "Of course I care. Why wouldn't I?"
"Alright, maybe you care. Maybe you care too much. Maybe that's why you're stalling the talks? Cute, but I can't be that good to put off whatever it is you're negotiating."
"I don't know, you've made a good case," Aruzia said. "Wait. You don't know what's going on with the talks?"
"I'm enlisted. There's only so much that trickles down to us."
"Alright, let me show you." She got up off Pirea's bed, pulled out a padd from her purse, passed it to her. "It's pretty disturbing, this whole thing with New Vistas. They're trying to boss us around, like ... like this was Alukk. Like this was Alukk in the bad old days, no less. That's the script they're running on."
"Okay, so what you need is leverage. You're the government, so you've got it. Threaten New Vistas - temporarily rescind their operating license on Third Risa, pending inspections, or something. Make it Starfleet inspections if you like wasting my time. Point is, make it clear to them that either they play ball or they get hurt."
"They'll sue, tie this up in courts. And what if they win?"
"That's why you hit them with a counteroffer first. Hire them to run operations on the research colony, let them get some patents or something from the research done there."
"We couldn't -"
"Yes, you totally can do that. I mean, you let them have Third Risa, why not a share of Fourth Risa? And if they do act up ... well, there goes that share."
"Alright, I think that could work," Aruzia said.
"Good. Now, where were we?"
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 27781
My initial situation was correct. A rival syndicate was behind the group, though they had been careful to keep a degree of separation that I had to work through between themselves and the protest group. The overall aim was to embarrass to the colonial administration and the current syndicate to pressure the contract to transfer.
Once I knew exactly where to look it was as easy as transporting into their boardroom.
[Gain +5 pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27782, USS Kearsage - Captain Mark Jameson
I was troubled by the fact that some of the systems near our patrol route haven't been surveyed in many decades. They may be uninhabited, but it is entirely possible that previous surveys missed details that we can pick up now.
Right now, I'm in orbit of Ko-109 II, in one such undersurveyed system. Mineral scans report nothing interesting ... but satellite probes show an UNUSUAL ROCK FORMATION on the smaller continent.
I am assembling a landing party.
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Captain's Log, USS Sarek, Stardate 27782.1
We've just had some form of reciprocal discharge from the port nacelle that has depolarised our entire warp matrix. I must say, I firmly believe that in any other ship, this would have resulted in a deadly explosion blowing out several frames of the secondary hull. However, I most laud the crew of the Sarek, where a quick thinking junior engineering officer managed to discharge the plasma build up by repurposing an unused cargolift and some quick force field work, in about twelve seconds. I will be recommending Lt JG Vinot Idorica, a promising Indorian officer, for commendations. He is just one of a number of new additions to our Engineering department.
However, that still leaves us in the dark as to what just caused this. The simulations we are running are saying that even if we re-polarise the PTC and the warp matrix, we are still going to encounter the same issue. It is not one I have ever encountered on a ship before.
Naturally we have put out a distress call, but I have no intention of allowing my maiden run on the Sarek end with the ignominy of being towed to safety. We will address this matter and get underway before they get here.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27783, USS Defiant
The Risans seem to have worked out a deal themselves. Fourth Risa will stay just a research colony, no mining will be done ... and New Vistas will supervise the colony's operations. I'm not sure that we did much to help, but it's a good deal at least.
All's well that ends well. Now, on to Aqanah, and that subspace flux!
[Gain 15 rp]
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Captain's Log, USS Challorn, Stardate 27783.1
My first officer was supervising a shuttle with three crew that was trailing specialist magnetosphere sensor devices and acquiring plasma samples when one of these Sosok Mass tachyons intersected the warp coils in the starboard nacelle. I have a team from engineering and conn working on the auxiliary bridge to figure out the details of what, but most of our effort is on recovery at the moment. Suffice to say, that nacelle created a spontaneously resonant feedback with the other nacelle and created an imbalanced field. As a result, that nacelle abruptly became, in effect, an impulse drive coil, and tore itself free from its moorings.
The shuttle, now with severe damage, has lost power and is in a rapidly degrading orbit. Efforts to acquire a tractor lock are running into an increasing number of extreme-high-energy particles disrupting the beam. I dare not send another shuttle down there, or the Challorn itself, and am now looking for new options.
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Captain's Log, USS Sarek, Stardate 27783.2
I was an Explorer Corps officer for most of my career, and it seems that I have been bitten by one of our old bad habits: modifying the ship. Some knowledge did not get passed between the departing Chief Engineer, the new Chief Engineer, and the yard team at San Francisco Fleet Yards. In particular a reworking of the phase primary phase conditioners that lead into the warp manifold - this generates a much smoother subspace wake when run through the nacelles, but needed to be compensated for by the plasma injector and coil alignments.
End result, we are back underway, and I have resolved to learn everything I can about every customisation that has been made to the Sarek. She is a venerable ship with nearly thirty years of service, including being nearly blasted to her frame at least once and rebuilt. I have no doubt she has many more surprises waiting for me.
And best of all, we were underway before anyone reached us.
[Gain +5pp]
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Captain's Log, USS Lexington, Stardate 27783.3
While en route, we met the Subiaco Queen, only to discover that they had experienced a sharp time dilation. Their internal clocks were now a day out of sync with Starfleet Proper Time. While taking aboard the sensor probes, we have reviewed their navigational plot and sensor tracks to see what they may have experienced.
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Captain's Log, USS Challorn, Stardate 27783.4
We have successfully recovered Commander Alonh and the others, and they are currently resting in sickbay from radiation exposure. In the end, we had to devise a system for predicting the next Sosok Mass particle and get the remaining warp nacelle to generate the brief burst of impulse power to pull its orbit up high enough for the Challorn to tractor her to safety.
[Gain +5rp]
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Captain's Log, USS Lexington, Stardate 27783.5
By backtracking the voyage of the Queen, and comparing that to the somewhat limited sensor data, plus Starbase 12's long range track, our astrophysics lab has created a model for backtracking the source of the time dilation. Which has led us to the Sigma Delphi binary white dwarf system's innermost planet. An ice world with methane oceans and a great deposit of woznium - a super-dense element used principally in warp core reaction chambers - its eccentric orbit periodically takes it between the binary stars' orbit. The materials interact with the tremendous gravitational forces and generate a spur of space-time curvature that that extends out into passing space lanes.
[New Colony Option - Sigma Delphi, 20 (30) br/yr, located at C2]
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Away Team Log, Stardate 27784, Captain Mark Jameson
I have uncovered startling evidence of past settlement of this system!
I led my team on an investigation of the ruins underneath the unusual rock formation on the smaller continent of Ko-109 II. Deftly avoiding multiple TRAPS and MEGAFAUNA, I have discovered evidence of a T'Kon settlement - remnants of a security perimeter around the settlement, of an ancient sewage system, and of possible religious sites.
Unfortunately, an AVALANCHE has blocked off our entry point. I expect to re-establish communications with Kearsage soon, at which point, my ship should be able to clear the blockage.
[Gain 5 rp, 5 pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27785, Runabout USS Flash
We are carrying a Starfleet JAG investigatory team from Starbase 17 to Hassonus Station, where yesterday USS Incorruptible near-missed a Fiiral in-system craft carrying schoolchildren on a sightseeing trip to Hassonus's larger moon. Six kids were injured in the incident, one of them the planetary governor's niece; needless to say, the Fiiral are livid. Charges of negligent handling of a starship are expected to be filed against Incorruptible's captain.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27790, USS Voshov - Captain Iliae Rurliss
We are conveying the new Trill Ambassador to the Federation, and his pet. 'Fluffy' is a 2-meter tall quadruped, is surprisingly skittish for her size, and can run at speeds of upwards of 50 km/h when scared, as we have discovered. Ambassador Kinan claims she's normally quite calm. Other than 'Fluffy' - and Kinan promises she'll adjust soon - this should hopefully be an uneventful trip.
I say that, and yet we are crossing through space known to be occasionally frequented by Hishmeri. They should remember Salnas, but there may be some ambitious enough to try to start something. Still, taking on Voshov is a tall order.
At the Ambassador's request, we are taking a brief detour to view an upcoming solar superstorm in the CKC-101 system.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27990.1, USS Agile - Captain Prawat Chulanont
We are responding to disturbing reports of a plague outbreak on Lerso V, a colony of the Laio 18ly from Laian itself. A third of the colony is already infected, merely three weeks after the first reported case. The plague itself hasn't been clearly identified; unfortunately, the colony's medical staff were among the first victims. Symptoms reportedly include compromised immune systems, crystalline growths, and behavioral changes, and the condition appears to ultimately be fatal, at least if left untreated.
Right now, they're implementing a strict quarantine, but they're hoping we can identify the bug and develop an antidote, fast, before colonists start dying. Agile's doctor is beaming down into the quarantine zone to conduct an investigation.
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Incident Report, Stardate 27791, Hassonus Traffic Control
On Stardate 27784, USS INCORRUPTIBLE (NCC-2624) and SS STELLAR SOLSTICE (SIS-3385) passed within 500m of each other. STELLAR SOLSTICE was pulled out of the way by INCORRUPTIBLE's tractor beam, resulting in injury to six passengers aboard the in-system craft who were not securely seated when STELLAR SOLSTICE was jolted by the beam.
Factors:
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27993.2, USS Agile
Events have gone ... not according to plan: My chief medical officer is infected. My medical staff, such as it is, now consists of the ship's nurse, my science officer (who did train in exobiology, at least), and a local medical student.
At least we have a lead. Lieutenant Soi believes this may be connected to Phobee Syndrome, a normally mild hive-mind virus endemic to Onos. One of the early victims apparently arrived here on a ship that had previously stopped at Onos, and some symptoms appear similar (if obviously much more severe here). Most notably, Soi reports that the minds of the victims seem 'connected.'
The colonial authorities have had to expand the quarantine zone yet again. If we cannot come up with an antidote soon ...
We'll have it. I'm confident in my team. In the meantime, I've notified Starfleet about the Wayfarer's Light; hopefully nobody else aboard is infected.
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Bridge Transcript, Stardate 27794, USS Voshov
[Cpt. Rurliss]: Status?
[Cmdr. Llyhua]: We've got a little armada dropping out of warp: four thoroughbreds, three andalusians. They're coming in weapons hot.
[Rurliss]: Shields up, yellow alert. And let's see what they want. Hail the lead ship.
[???]: This is Majestic Silver Claw of Sept Argent Whispers. I come seeking - you are not Sorek.
[Rurliss]: Disappointed?
[Silver Claw]: No, you'll do. It has been too long since we last had a true fight, and this time, we are more than prepared. We will tear through your ship's precious shields, board her, strip her for parts and food, and then return to the Perfect to sing of our glorious victory. Are you looking forward to this fight as much as we are?
[Rurliss]: Eh, I'm not really feeling it.
[Silver Claw]: Ha! Are you afraid to die?
[Rurliss]: No, just... this isn't really the right backdrop for a good fight. Sorry. See you at Celesipos? End transmission.
[Ambassador Kinan]: So much for the superstorm. Unless you could've stalled them for two more hours?
[Rurliss]: Sorry, sir. We're faster, we have a chance to lose them. Alright, maximum warp, intercept course with Celesipos, avoiding Ashalla Pact space.
[Llyhua]: Ma'am, the Hishmeri can get ahead of us by crossing through Lecarre space and ambush us en route.
[Rurliss]: I have no intention of traveling to Celesipos. But yes, we should still send a warning. To the Cardassians; the Lecarre won't believe us.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27996.2, USS Agile
Success!
We've cured my CMO, and proven that the antidote Lt. Soi's team worked up works. We're preparing for mass distribution to the colony.
As for Wayfarer's Light, there have been no other reported infections, either aboard ship or at other stops. Perhaps species plays a part? The other crew and passengers were all Betazoids. In any case, I've transmitted them the details of our antidote, so if they do see any infections, they'll be ready.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27796.5, USS Voshov
My little ploy was partially successful. T'Kel put together a probe that could fake Voshov's sensor readings quite fast on short notice; it's been eighteen hours since its launch and our course change, and we've split our pursuers into two groups. Three of the thoroughbreds and one of the andalusians are pursuing our false Voshov, which still leaves two andalusians and one thoroughbred (which must've been modified with a faster warp drive, given her speed) on our tail. Rethelia Sector Command notified us that the Cardassians and Lecarre are moving to intercept the incoming Hishmeri ships, so that's good to know.
Unfortunately, we can't sustain Warp 14 much longer. Pretty soon, I'm going to have to choose a system to fight it out in, before they overtake me and choose for me.
Llyhua and T'Kel have a system in mind. There's no nebulas, let alone dark matter ones, to take advantage of anywhere nearby... but they think that fighting in the Cenessen System should help us even the odds.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27997.2, Lieutenant Commander Igor Tesfaye - USS Agile
That disease ... it wasn't just any ordinary disease. It was trying to build something, and it was using our bodies as tools, our minds as processing power. I wonder what it wanted, but I guess we'll never know.
It's strange. I've never felt so connected to anyone as I did while I was under. Never felt such a sense of purpose, though I can't remember what it was now. In a way, I've never felt so alive.
But it was going to use me up, like it was using up the others. So I'm glad we cured it.
[Gain 15 rp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27798, USS Voshov
Well, that was interesting.
The Cenessen System has a few things going for it: a gas giant we could have lurked inside, a few dense asteroid belts that we could have turned into makeshift minefields... but more importantly than either of those, an energy dampening effect that makes operating shields difficult systemwide.
When the Hishmeri showed up and found their shields inoperable, they were hesitant about engaging us. Hishmeri ships are poorly armored, relying heavily on their high firepower and good shields; fighting in this system took away one part of that equation. Still, they outnumbered me three-to-one, and I appeared just as vulnerable. So, after some posturing on their part, they finally talked themselves into charging.
I led them on a chase for a bit, buying my engineers the last few minutes they needed to finish their work. Then I let them close into weapons range... only for their first volley to impact my shields.
Technically, they weren't shields so much as modified tractor beams, and they wouldn't have lasted long in a prolonged fight. But a graviton field is a graviton field, and this wasn't a prolonged fight. I engaged long enough to disable their warp drives, then left the system.
I'm still not sure what emboldened these Hishmeri enough to brazenly attack a Starfleet explorer. But I'm sure they're regretting their decision.
[Threat Level +1. Gain 20 relations with the Trill.]
The blue jewel of the planet Earth is a beautiful background to the Sarek's minor refit. A full naval yard was available at San Francisco Fleet Yards, so I got to spend time watching the planet and the ballet of the yard dogs. Rear Admiral McAdams, who was my Captain aboard the Courageous, joined me and offered her congratulations. A lot of valuable advice she gave me too, as we sat in the lounge behind the bridge, sipping some of Bordeaux's finest as we watched the nacelle coils undergo maintenance. McAdams gave me advice as well when I first made Captain, but it seems that taking on a Five Year Mission is rather a beast of a different character.
A mission of exploration and science, to see what lays behind far horizons. This is why I joined Starfleet.
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Captain's Log, USS Challorn, Stardate 27772
We have come to the Ocuspis System after peculiar sensor readings were reported by the neighbouring Andorian colony. The Ocuspis system is well below the galactic plane from Andor, and recently played host to a collision between two gas giants that held the possibility of forming a brown dwarf. These events were recorded by a research expedition that set up on the rocky fourth planet of the system, which left after the merger completed. However, since that point, the Talamon colony's civilian station began to to pick up the unusual high energy readings that have brought us out here.
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 27773 - Captain Enad Rebin
A distress call has reached us from the M'nrr colony world, a Caitian colony world. They have reported that there is a failure of important infrastructure on the world and they desperately require assistance if the colony world is to survive. I have laid in a course, and Odyssey will respond.
However, I have also called up data on the colony world. Something did not feel right when I saw the distress call - although we are far too far away for telepathy to be of use, I've still learned enough of Caitian body language to have a strong suspicion that something was amiss.
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Captain's Log, USS Sarek, Stardate 27773.5 - Captain Jeanette Devereaux
An unusual little addition to our crew. After the Sarek's overhaul was complete, we made a high-speed impulse burn to Jupiter, now on the far side of the solar system. The new Explorer Corps logistics station has been placed here, and we took on a series of ongoing experiments, and a new set of civilian research teams. But an old acquaintance has also taken ship; Fire Kossan, a member of a mostly-ascended species that decided to explore the galaxy a little after meeting the Courageous about ten years ago. She is a welcome addition to our family here.
Beyond that, my orders are to give the newly refurbished nacelles a good run, which will take us on an extended Warp 9 course past Rigel, to the mining colony at 2 Curacao VII.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27774, Petty Officer Pirea mav Rahn
Defiant's arrived at Risa. I had been looking forward to this; used to hit Risa all the time, back in my spacer days. Never really got great deals, but it always paid off, one way or another. I wonder if Jovan, or Aruzia, or Rinelis, or Lineela, or ... Eh, they probably don't remember me. It's been so long.
Not like I'll find out. Tac's put me in charge of doing a complete inspection and overhaul of the shield emitters. Not a hard job, but a long and tedious one. By the time I'm done, we'll probably already be leaving. Not like it should take more than a few days to negotiate a trade deal.
Jerks.
Okay, fine, Risa's a pretty safe place to do this sort of work. And fine, I guess they still remember the incident on Second Risa. But it's not like that was my fault! How was I supposed to know she was in an exclusive relationship?
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 27775
After arriving at the colony, I have been handed two competing stories. What I do know for sure now is that the distress call was made against the wishes of the colonial administration and the organisation responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure on the planet. The latter two believe there is no crisis of colonial infrastructure, a point greatly contested by the first.
From this point, we begin to enter the realm of, strongly suspected, somewhat suspected, and the ever helpful wild guess. Although I have strong suspicions that the protest committee that made the distress call is a front for a rival syndicate. Unfortunately, someone must have accounted for Starfleet's Counsellors, because I'm getting no sense of deception from them.
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Captain's Log, USS Challorn, Stardate 27776
New ring structures have formed around the merged gas giants, which are of interest to a number of our scientists. But it is the activity within the magnetic field that is grabbing our chief science officer's attention. Some exceptional high-energy particle physics is in action - somehow the electromagnetic belts are combining with a series of higher order processes occurring within the candidate brown dwarf to generate tachyon particles. Moreover, extreme high energy particles. We temporarily lost our number 3 lateral short-range sensor bank after it detected and tried to measure what my science officer tells me was a tachyon charged to Sosok Mass, the subspace equivalent to Planck Mass.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27777, USS Defiant
The Risans are collectively playing hardball. Who ever knew such a thing was possible?
Okay, that's kinda specist of me. But still, even they feel uncomfortable with it. The lead corporate negotiator was practically shaking when he laid out what he called his final offer.
There's two sides here. We're dealing with on one hand, the Risan government, who is trying to stake out a claim to what they're provisionally calling Fourth Risa, which is to be a research colony studying the native wildlife, and on the other, New Vistas, Risa's first megacorp, who are trying to secure mining rights, despite the projected environmental impact mining would have on the native ecology. The government claims that their impact statement should hold sway, New Vistas claims they discovered the site first, and that the carve-out they got for Third Risa should be valid on this other planet as well.
They'll cave. Sooner or later, one way or another, New Vistas will cave. They have to cave, don't they?
If they don't... Well. If we can't wrap this up in a week, it's either abandon these negotiations or miss out on the impending subspace flux event at Aqanah. And those happen once a century.
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 27778
Some detective work has given me the full list of reported failings in important colony infrastructure. Being an ice planet, settled for purposes that I believe had more to do with providing variety to would be colonists than the true habitability of the planet, the primary thermal system is crucial. So the reason for concern is clear ... however, it definitely appears that some massaging of the data is going on. I'm returning to the surface to meet personally with a number of the stakeholders.
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Captain's Log, USS Lexington, Stardate 27778.2
Taking a pause in our survey through the Licori Border Zone, I have had the good fortune to host Captain Acheson of the USS Empancipation, who will be joining us in the next stage of our journey. At present, we have rendezvoused at Clover Outpost to take on supplies and permit crew transfers. Captain Acheson has promised to return the favour at the end of our mission, which I am looking forwards to. A Renaissance is nothing if not comfortable.
Unfortunately, we are somewhat delayed, because a replacement shipment of sensor probes on the SS Subiaco Queen has not yet arrived.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27779, Captain Solen
After an uneventful survey of the Ko-98 system, USS Bull has returned to Tellar Starbase for a minor refit. With my ship in dock, I took the opportunity to visit the Miracht State Repository, the oldest archive in this sector. During my visit, I pulled records of the systems near Kearsage's patrol route. Searching these pre-Federation records, I have discovered evidence that the Ko-109 system may be of particular interest to Kearsage: charts of Ko-109 II show features, at the time dismissed as natural formations, but today suggestive of a possible T'Kon site.
I have notified Captain Jameson.
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Captain's Log, USS Lexington, Stardate 27780.5
We are breaking orbit from Clover to go find the Subiaco. It seems that they have now progressed to more than being late - the outpost has now lost their sensor track. This sort of thing happens frequently at these distances as subspace wakes undergo extinction by passing through those of larger ships, or temporary subspace phenomena disrupt the sensors of distant installations. However, the probes on that ship are the last thing I am waiting on, so I'm not inclined to wait. The Emancipation will be assisting our search pattern.
And to be blunt, shore leave on Clover is terrible, so I'm sure I'm doing my crew a favour by getting us underway.
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"Was it good for you, too?" Aruzia asked her bedmate. She was still a little surprised to have run into Pirea mav Rahn again. It'd been well over a decade since they'd last connected, and both their lives had changed so much ... And yet they'd found each other again, in Defiant's mess hall of all places.
Pirea laughed. "She asks, as if she cares," she teased, before kissing the tall Risan's cheek. Aruzia still remembered - watch what a Tellarite does, not what they say about it.
But don't ignore what they say, or they'll feel insulted. "Of course I care. Why wouldn't I?"
"Alright, maybe you care. Maybe you care too much. Maybe that's why you're stalling the talks? Cute, but I can't be that good to put off whatever it is you're negotiating."
"I don't know, you've made a good case," Aruzia said. "Wait. You don't know what's going on with the talks?"
"I'm enlisted. There's only so much that trickles down to us."
"Alright, let me show you." She got up off Pirea's bed, pulled out a padd from her purse, passed it to her. "It's pretty disturbing, this whole thing with New Vistas. They're trying to boss us around, like ... like this was Alukk. Like this was Alukk in the bad old days, no less. That's the script they're running on."
"Okay, so what you need is leverage. You're the government, so you've got it. Threaten New Vistas - temporarily rescind their operating license on Third Risa, pending inspections, or something. Make it Starfleet inspections if you like wasting my time. Point is, make it clear to them that either they play ball or they get hurt."
"They'll sue, tie this up in courts. And what if they win?"
"That's why you hit them with a counteroffer first. Hire them to run operations on the research colony, let them get some patents or something from the research done there."
"We couldn't -"
"Yes, you totally can do that. I mean, you let them have Third Risa, why not a share of Fourth Risa? And if they do act up ... well, there goes that share."
"Alright, I think that could work," Aruzia said.
"Good. Now, where were we?"
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 27781
My initial situation was correct. A rival syndicate was behind the group, though they had been careful to keep a degree of separation that I had to work through between themselves and the protest group. The overall aim was to embarrass to the colonial administration and the current syndicate to pressure the contract to transfer.
Once I knew exactly where to look it was as easy as transporting into their boardroom.
[Gain +5 pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27782, USS Kearsage - Captain Mark Jameson
I was troubled by the fact that some of the systems near our patrol route haven't been surveyed in many decades. They may be uninhabited, but it is entirely possible that previous surveys missed details that we can pick up now.
Right now, I'm in orbit of Ko-109 II, in one such undersurveyed system. Mineral scans report nothing interesting ... but satellite probes show an UNUSUAL ROCK FORMATION on the smaller continent.
I am assembling a landing party.
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Captain's Log, USS Sarek, Stardate 27782.1
We've just had some form of reciprocal discharge from the port nacelle that has depolarised our entire warp matrix. I must say, I firmly believe that in any other ship, this would have resulted in a deadly explosion blowing out several frames of the secondary hull. However, I most laud the crew of the Sarek, where a quick thinking junior engineering officer managed to discharge the plasma build up by repurposing an unused cargolift and some quick force field work, in about twelve seconds. I will be recommending Lt JG Vinot Idorica, a promising Indorian officer, for commendations. He is just one of a number of new additions to our Engineering department.
However, that still leaves us in the dark as to what just caused this. The simulations we are running are saying that even if we re-polarise the PTC and the warp matrix, we are still going to encounter the same issue. It is not one I have ever encountered on a ship before.
Naturally we have put out a distress call, but I have no intention of allowing my maiden run on the Sarek end with the ignominy of being towed to safety. We will address this matter and get underway before they get here.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27783, USS Defiant
The Risans seem to have worked out a deal themselves. Fourth Risa will stay just a research colony, no mining will be done ... and New Vistas will supervise the colony's operations. I'm not sure that we did much to help, but it's a good deal at least.
All's well that ends well. Now, on to Aqanah, and that subspace flux!
[Gain 15 rp]
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Captain's Log, USS Challorn, Stardate 27783.1
My first officer was supervising a shuttle with three crew that was trailing specialist magnetosphere sensor devices and acquiring plasma samples when one of these Sosok Mass tachyons intersected the warp coils in the starboard nacelle. I have a team from engineering and conn working on the auxiliary bridge to figure out the details of what, but most of our effort is on recovery at the moment. Suffice to say, that nacelle created a spontaneously resonant feedback with the other nacelle and created an imbalanced field. As a result, that nacelle abruptly became, in effect, an impulse drive coil, and tore itself free from its moorings.
The shuttle, now with severe damage, has lost power and is in a rapidly degrading orbit. Efforts to acquire a tractor lock are running into an increasing number of extreme-high-energy particles disrupting the beam. I dare not send another shuttle down there, or the Challorn itself, and am now looking for new options.
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Captain's Log, USS Sarek, Stardate 27783.2
I was an Explorer Corps officer for most of my career, and it seems that I have been bitten by one of our old bad habits: modifying the ship. Some knowledge did not get passed between the departing Chief Engineer, the new Chief Engineer, and the yard team at San Francisco Fleet Yards. In particular a reworking of the phase primary phase conditioners that lead into the warp manifold - this generates a much smoother subspace wake when run through the nacelles, but needed to be compensated for by the plasma injector and coil alignments.
End result, we are back underway, and I have resolved to learn everything I can about every customisation that has been made to the Sarek. She is a venerable ship with nearly thirty years of service, including being nearly blasted to her frame at least once and rebuilt. I have no doubt she has many more surprises waiting for me.
And best of all, we were underway before anyone reached us.
[Gain +5pp]
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Captain's Log, USS Lexington, Stardate 27783.3
While en route, we met the Subiaco Queen, only to discover that they had experienced a sharp time dilation. Their internal clocks were now a day out of sync with Starfleet Proper Time. While taking aboard the sensor probes, we have reviewed their navigational plot and sensor tracks to see what they may have experienced.
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Captain's Log, USS Challorn, Stardate 27783.4
We have successfully recovered Commander Alonh and the others, and they are currently resting in sickbay from radiation exposure. In the end, we had to devise a system for predicting the next Sosok Mass particle and get the remaining warp nacelle to generate the brief burst of impulse power to pull its orbit up high enough for the Challorn to tractor her to safety.
[Gain +5rp]
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Captain's Log, USS Lexington, Stardate 27783.5
By backtracking the voyage of the Queen, and comparing that to the somewhat limited sensor data, plus Starbase 12's long range track, our astrophysics lab has created a model for backtracking the source of the time dilation. Which has led us to the Sigma Delphi binary white dwarf system's innermost planet. An ice world with methane oceans and a great deposit of woznium - a super-dense element used principally in warp core reaction chambers - its eccentric orbit periodically takes it between the binary stars' orbit. The materials interact with the tremendous gravitational forces and generate a spur of space-time curvature that that extends out into passing space lanes.
[New Colony Option - Sigma Delphi, 20 (30) br/yr, located at C2]
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Away Team Log, Stardate 27784, Captain Mark Jameson
I have uncovered startling evidence of past settlement of this system!
I led my team on an investigation of the ruins underneath the unusual rock formation on the smaller continent of Ko-109 II. Deftly avoiding multiple TRAPS and MEGAFAUNA, I have discovered evidence of a T'Kon settlement - remnants of a security perimeter around the settlement, of an ancient sewage system, and of possible religious sites.
Unfortunately, an AVALANCHE has blocked off our entry point. I expect to re-establish communications with Kearsage soon, at which point, my ship should be able to clear the blockage.
[Gain 5 rp, 5 pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27785, Runabout USS Flash
We are carrying a Starfleet JAG investigatory team from Starbase 17 to Hassonus Station, where yesterday USS Incorruptible near-missed a Fiiral in-system craft carrying schoolchildren on a sightseeing trip to Hassonus's larger moon. Six kids were injured in the incident, one of them the planetary governor's niece; needless to say, the Fiiral are livid. Charges of negligent handling of a starship are expected to be filed against Incorruptible's captain.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27790, USS Voshov - Captain Iliae Rurliss
We are conveying the new Trill Ambassador to the Federation, and his pet. 'Fluffy' is a 2-meter tall quadruped, is surprisingly skittish for her size, and can run at speeds of upwards of 50 km/h when scared, as we have discovered. Ambassador Kinan claims she's normally quite calm. Other than 'Fluffy' - and Kinan promises she'll adjust soon - this should hopefully be an uneventful trip.
I say that, and yet we are crossing through space known to be occasionally frequented by Hishmeri. They should remember Salnas, but there may be some ambitious enough to try to start something. Still, taking on Voshov is a tall order.
At the Ambassador's request, we are taking a brief detour to view an upcoming solar superstorm in the CKC-101 system.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27990.1, USS Agile - Captain Prawat Chulanont
We are responding to disturbing reports of a plague outbreak on Lerso V, a colony of the Laio 18ly from Laian itself. A third of the colony is already infected, merely three weeks after the first reported case. The plague itself hasn't been clearly identified; unfortunately, the colony's medical staff were among the first victims. Symptoms reportedly include compromised immune systems, crystalline growths, and behavioral changes, and the condition appears to ultimately be fatal, at least if left untreated.
Right now, they're implementing a strict quarantine, but they're hoping we can identify the bug and develop an antidote, fast, before colonists start dying. Agile's doctor is beaming down into the quarantine zone to conduct an investigation.
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Incident Report, Stardate 27791, Hassonus Traffic Control
On Stardate 27784, USS INCORRUPTIBLE (NCC-2624) and SS STELLAR SOLSTICE (SIS-3385) passed within 500m of each other. STELLAR SOLSTICE was pulled out of the way by INCORRUPTIBLE's tractor beam, resulting in injury to six passengers aboard the in-system craft who were not securely seated when STELLAR SOLSTICE was jolted by the beam.
Factors:
- USS INCORRUPTIBLE DISREGARDING ORBIT TRACK ASSIGNMENT: Starting two minutes before the near-miss, INCORRUPTIBLE assumed an orbit track intersecting STELLAR SOLSTICE's track, disregarding orders from Traffic Control. INCORRUPTIBLE claimed to be investigating an unknown contact; no such contact was reported by Hassonus Station.
- SENSOR FAILURE ABOARD USS INCORRUPTIBLE: INCORRUPTIBLE crew report not spotting STELLAR SOLSTICE on sensors until the near-miss. Sensor logs pulled from INCORRUPTIBLE's computer banks do not show STELLAR SOLSTICE for a period of three minutes, up until about twenty seconds before the near miss. During that time of sensor blindness, STELLAR SOLSTICE had shifted orbit track in accordance with pre-filed flight plan. It is believed that INCORRUPTIBLE crew mistook STELLAR SOLSTICE for their alleged unknown contact.
- ERRATIC MANEUVERS BY SS STELLAR SOLSTICE: INCORRUPTIBLE crew claim that STELLAR SOLSTICE's maneuvering in the seconds prior to the near-miss was distracting and confusing. STELLAR SOLSTICE crew report their maneuvers were an attempt to warn INCORRUPTIBLE, as communications seemed to not be working properly.
[Lose 15 pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27993.2, USS Agile
Events have gone ... not according to plan: My chief medical officer is infected. My medical staff, such as it is, now consists of the ship's nurse, my science officer (who did train in exobiology, at least), and a local medical student.
At least we have a lead. Lieutenant Soi believes this may be connected to Phobee Syndrome, a normally mild hive-mind virus endemic to Onos. One of the early victims apparently arrived here on a ship that had previously stopped at Onos, and some symptoms appear similar (if obviously much more severe here). Most notably, Soi reports that the minds of the victims seem 'connected.'
The colonial authorities have had to expand the quarantine zone yet again. If we cannot come up with an antidote soon ...
We'll have it. I'm confident in my team. In the meantime, I've notified Starfleet about the Wayfarer's Light; hopefully nobody else aboard is infected.
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Bridge Transcript, Stardate 27794, USS Voshov
[Cpt. Rurliss]: Status?
[Cmdr. Llyhua]: We've got a little armada dropping out of warp: four thoroughbreds, three andalusians. They're coming in weapons hot.
[Rurliss]: Shields up, yellow alert. And let's see what they want. Hail the lead ship.
[???]: This is Majestic Silver Claw of Sept Argent Whispers. I come seeking - you are not Sorek.
[Rurliss]: Disappointed?
[Silver Claw]: No, you'll do. It has been too long since we last had a true fight, and this time, we are more than prepared. We will tear through your ship's precious shields, board her, strip her for parts and food, and then return to the Perfect to sing of our glorious victory. Are you looking forward to this fight as much as we are?
[Rurliss]: Eh, I'm not really feeling it.
[Silver Claw]: Ha! Are you afraid to die?
[Rurliss]: No, just... this isn't really the right backdrop for a good fight. Sorry. See you at Celesipos? End transmission.
[Ambassador Kinan]: So much for the superstorm. Unless you could've stalled them for two more hours?
[Rurliss]: Sorry, sir. We're faster, we have a chance to lose them. Alright, maximum warp, intercept course with Celesipos, avoiding Ashalla Pact space.
[Llyhua]: Ma'am, the Hishmeri can get ahead of us by crossing through Lecarre space and ambush us en route.
[Rurliss]: I have no intention of traveling to Celesipos. But yes, we should still send a warning. To the Cardassians; the Lecarre won't believe us.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27996.2, USS Agile
Success!
We've cured my CMO, and proven that the antidote Lt. Soi's team worked up works. We're preparing for mass distribution to the colony.
As for Wayfarer's Light, there have been no other reported infections, either aboard ship or at other stops. Perhaps species plays a part? The other crew and passengers were all Betazoids. In any case, I've transmitted them the details of our antidote, so if they do see any infections, they'll be ready.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27796.5, USS Voshov
My little ploy was partially successful. T'Kel put together a probe that could fake Voshov's sensor readings quite fast on short notice; it's been eighteen hours since its launch and our course change, and we've split our pursuers into two groups. Three of the thoroughbreds and one of the andalusians are pursuing our false Voshov, which still leaves two andalusians and one thoroughbred (which must've been modified with a faster warp drive, given her speed) on our tail. Rethelia Sector Command notified us that the Cardassians and Lecarre are moving to intercept the incoming Hishmeri ships, so that's good to know.
Unfortunately, we can't sustain Warp 14 much longer. Pretty soon, I'm going to have to choose a system to fight it out in, before they overtake me and choose for me.
Llyhua and T'Kel have a system in mind. There's no nebulas, let alone dark matter ones, to take advantage of anywhere nearby... but they think that fighting in the Cenessen System should help us even the odds.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27997.2, Lieutenant Commander Igor Tesfaye - USS Agile
That disease ... it wasn't just any ordinary disease. It was trying to build something, and it was using our bodies as tools, our minds as processing power. I wonder what it wanted, but I guess we'll never know.
It's strange. I've never felt so connected to anyone as I did while I was under. Never felt such a sense of purpose, though I can't remember what it was now. In a way, I've never felt so alive.
But it was going to use me up, like it was using up the others. So I'm glad we cured it.
[Gain 15 rp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27798, USS Voshov
Well, that was interesting.
The Cenessen System has a few things going for it: a gas giant we could have lurked inside, a few dense asteroid belts that we could have turned into makeshift minefields... but more importantly than either of those, an energy dampening effect that makes operating shields difficult systemwide.
When the Hishmeri showed up and found their shields inoperable, they were hesitant about engaging us. Hishmeri ships are poorly armored, relying heavily on their high firepower and good shields; fighting in this system took away one part of that equation. Still, they outnumbered me three-to-one, and I appeared just as vulnerable. So, after some posturing on their part, they finally talked themselves into charging.
I led them on a chase for a bit, buying my engineers the last few minutes they needed to finish their work. Then I let them close into weapons range... only for their first volley to impact my shields.
Technically, they weren't shields so much as modified tractor beams, and they wouldn't have lasted long in a prolonged fight. But a graviton field is a graviton field, and this wasn't a prolonged fight. I engaged long enough to disable their warp drives, then left the system.
I'm still not sure what emboldened these Hishmeri enough to brazenly attack a Starfleet explorer. But I'm sure they're regretting their decision.
[Threat Level +1. Gain 20 relations with the Trill.]
Challorn, Lexington, Odyssey and Sarek logs written by @OneirosTheWriter
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Hismeri feeling their oats today, it seems.
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Some intriguing events, as is often the case. Crystalline hive-mind disease trying to do... what? Time dilation... was that all there was to that 
-p)? And so forth.
Hishmeri continue to be an issue. I suspect Harmony in that near-miss of the schoolchildren for some reason.
Threat going up... well, there's no Militarization danger anyway. But that does suggest to me that the next crisis might be coming from Hishmeri. I don't think the Hishmeri will work in tandem with the Ashalla Pact - or, if they start, then a bit of communication regarding the Imelak might defuse that. But perhaps they're thinking to stick around here in the long-term...
Bleh.
-p)? And so forth.Hishmeri continue to be an issue. I suspect Harmony in that near-miss of the schoolchildren for some reason.
Threat going up... well, there's no Militarization danger anyway. But that does suggest to me that the next crisis might be coming from Hishmeri. I don't think the Hishmeri will work in tandem with the Ashalla Pact - or, if they start, then a bit of communication regarding the Imelak might defuse that. But perhaps they're thinking to stick around here in the long-term...
Bleh.
It really is still impressive. That's faster than the Galaxy-class when Q isn't casually tossing it across space and time.
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Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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The CONTINUING ADVENTURES of Mark Jameson, CAPITALIZER!
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
We never redid the warp factor scale to make Warp 10 the point where transwarp starts, so I'm not sure what Warp 14 translates to in TNG/DS9/VOY terms.
According to the Memory Alpha page on Warp Factors, which in turn cites pages 13 and 14 of the Voyager Technical Manual, we know the following:
Warp 9.6 = 1,909c
Warp 9.9 = <2,637c
Warp 9.99 = 7,912c
The Galaxy-class is theoretically capable of up to Warp 9.8 but faces extreme risk in doing so.Warp 9.9 = <2,637c
Warp 9.99 = 7,912c
Meanwhile under the TOS formula of:
Velocity (in multiples of c) = Warp Factor ^ 3
we get:Warp 10 = 1,000C
Warp 11 = 1,331
Warp 12 = 1,728
Warp 13 = 2,197
Warp 14 = 2,744
So TOS Warp 14 is faster then even TNG Warp 9.9 which the Galaxy-class isn't even capable of reaching.Warp 11 = 1,331
Warp 12 = 1,728
Warp 13 = 2,197
Warp 14 = 2,744
I was going off this here:
Ex Astris Scientia - Warp Propulsion - 6 Warp Speed Measurement
Just scroll down to the table with the TOS & TNG Scales side by side. I'm pretty sure the numbers match what UberJJK posted.
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Do we have some kind of long term plan for the Space!Mongols or are we just hoping they go away?
10ebbor10
DON'T PANIC
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- Present
Now I'm curious.
Sadly, we're not an evil empire, so we don't get to sacrifice a colony to see what it does.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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- Murica
We have a Task Force trying to dissuade them from raiding via a combination of force and diplomacy already. Mixed results so far. We're adding a few more ships this year so hopefully things go better.
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
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- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
That's why Section 31 will deliver a sample to a Cardassian colony instead.
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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- She/Her
*scribbles Rihannsu language notes in notebook labelled "Not the Property of the Tal Shiar"*
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- Mid-Atlantic
Leslie:
"See? THIS IS WHY WE MAKE YOU LOONIES DOCUMENT EVERYTHING!"
Leslie:
"Meh, you've got four of 'em, you can afford to lose one if..."
"Hahaaha, no. Did you actually think I was serious!?"
Leslie:
"Son, I like your style, but you're a bit too EXCITABLE to last in this BUSINESS. Besides, unless your PADD is a rugged, raggedy old beast like mine, the simulated keypad shouldn't even have a caps lock key."
Okay, this really sounds like some sabotage or fuckery... probably something hacking our ship's main computer.
I wonder if we just ran into something that is to the Biophage as a lemur is to a human being...
Pretty sure that's how you end up with a proto-Biophage that evolves into real Biophage. A mind control disease that realizes self-"improvement" is the name of the game, and starts hijacking minds to build itself a lab capable of enhancing its properties.
I do appreciate Captain Rurliss being able to shrug off the giant fuzzy panicmonster.
Leslie:
"I'm starting to like her. So help me, I'm starting to like her."
Leslie:
"Okay, missed a trick there. Warn the Lecarre too, that way they'll regret not believing us, and the Cardies'll be pissed at the Lecarre for not believing them either. Sometimes the best thing you can do is let someone stupid themselves in the foot, hard."
Leslie:
"Aaand sometimes the best thing you can do is trick the enemy into playing Irish stand-down, then gimmick a way to stop the first punch dead in its tracks. Throws the bastards off their game."
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Ship Berths graphic has been updated - 2322 Q2
Now with federalised founding member yards.
If anyone knows what system the Vulcan 82E yards are in please let me know.
Now with federalised founding member yards.
If anyone knows what system the Vulcan 82E yards are in please let me know.
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Delta Vega is the second major planet in 40 Eridani after Vulcan, not a separate system and 82 Eridani is the name of that system, no need to go looking for that one.
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