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I mean it's not like it's an obscure quote or anything...
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
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- USoA
Pinkie Pie as Captain of the HMS
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- alphen aan den rijn
talking about the ship called party boat or whatever it is that the risians are going too call that ship.
i really want too see some logs from that ship or at least from them some more because
who knows what kind of insane things they get up too on a given day
i really want too see some logs from that ship or at least from them some more because
who knows what kind of insane things they get up too on a given day
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- Germany
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- He/Him
Dancing ballet with our new cosmozoan friends. For example.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Enterprise:
"Oh, I was shipping Uhura and Spock well before you were in diapers, sonny."
[Seriously, there is some tension/chemistry there in TOS, and it shows up on several occasions]
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- Australia
Well, perhaps I could have stood to be a little more original
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
Hell No! It fits the quest perfectly boss. Don't start doubting yourself now boss,Well, perhaps I could have stood to be a little more original
- Location
- being near locations is my passion.
Well, perhaps I could have stood to be a little more original
There's no nice way to say this*, but I think you did that thing where knock-off brands make their toy product names very similar to the orignal item to confuse grandparents into buying the wrong toy with regards to the MLP fanfic and this quest.
Fairly... Not-cool, leeching off their popularity and brand recognition like that, man. Not cool at all.
*there is a nice way. I just wanted to be mean. And now Stesk is looking at me in what would be sad dissapointment in anything that isn't Vulcan. *hides from "not" dissapointed Vulcan*
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- Southampton, Great Britain
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- He/Him
You speak as if that quote is original to Star Trek itself.
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- Infraspace
It really wasn't meant as a criticism; as indicated above, it fits the theme of the work perfectly!
Besides, anything other than 'Starfleet Command Quest' is the height of originality, to judge by some of the other quest titles I've seen...
Besides, anything other than 'Starfleet Command Quest' is the height of originality, to judge by some of the other quest titles I've seen...
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- being near locations is my passion.
What, "To Boldly Go" as in the phrase? I've never thought about it. In my mind, it's said by William Shatner in Star Trek, and that is where it comes from. If you have a source saying otherwise... Well I'm not disintersted in learing more... But I'm not interested in googling it myself, which is horribly lazy. To be honest, my comment was for maximum silly for comedic purposes and should be in no way considered reflective of my actual beliefs or opinions.
Demonstrative example:
Actual feelings:
"This quest rules and I am grateful for the time and effort of Onerios and also his co GMs. Furthermore, as a non-playing lurker who only comes out to say silly shoite, I am also grateful to the actual players who put in their mental effort to judge various options and weigh them against eachother and vote. This game is very much a form of "collaborative art" and should be praised as such"
Actually here's a question: @OneirosTheWriter, are you going to put votes up regarding AI rights in Starfleet, or skip that due to the (at least, as I measure it, strong concensus) "Mipek is people!" in thread? Or do you have plans for that whole systemistic oppression of our synthetic cousins in sophonce that you don't want to go into just yet?
#MipekForCaptain2323
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BeepSmile, I think you're being quite unfair about the naming thing. There are a limited number of strongly Star Trek associated phrases that can be used to capture the flavor and associations of Star Trek, and they've ALL been used repeatedly, I suspect.
Actually here's a question: @OneirosTheWriter, are you going to put votes up regarding AI rights in Starfleet, or skip that due to the (at least, as I measure it, strong concensus) "Mipek is people!" in thread? Or do you have plans for that whole systemistic oppression of our synthetic cousins in sophonce that you don't want to go into just yet?
#MipekIsToaster2323
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- being near locations is my passion.
I was attempting this thing humans call "comedy"
@Briefvoice: #SomeToastersArePeople
Edit: also, I meant "strong" more in terms of "relative passion regarding topic" more than in terms of "number of people who hold this view". Furthermore, I may be doing that thing where people discount those that disagree with them, in terms of amount of people, and validity of disagreeing stance. *blushes*
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UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
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I like the title as is. It's the spirit of the quest and of Star Trek.Well, perhaps I could have stood to be a little more original
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
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- Liberl Zemuria.
This. Precisely this OneirosTheWriter is why you should NOT change the title at all if that is what you are planning on doing. The title perfectly explains the quest to anyone reading both the title and the story for the first time.I like the title as is. It's the spirit of the quest and of Star Trek.
lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
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- USA
Unless I also misread, you guys are misreading what BeepSmile was saying. That "To Boldly Go" the quest was unfairly profiting off the popularity of the "To Boldly Go" MLP fanfic. Which is, you know, a joke...
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- Mid-Atlantic
Sorry, @BeepSmile , I failed to register that you were joking.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
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- Liberl Zemuria.
Someone (NOT ME!) needs to make a To Boldly Go tropes page about this thread. if only to get it out there to the broader Star Trek Fandom groups that are unaware that it exists.I have to say, my initial reaction when I clicked the link was "oh neat, finally" and then this when I read the first sentence on the page.
Night
Widow Null
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- Hoff
I'm trying to reference an '80s cartoon for this but I can't pick the right one? Centurions maybe...
I think this plan is headed for Cetacean Ops though.
Captain's Logs, 2322.Q1.M3
AKuz
Been Better
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27830.2, USS Opportunity, Captain Huth fop Makpol,
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
Well this is a fine damn day. As part of our survey of this sector, I sent a team to Theta Eridon, an M-Class world, to conduct a survey. We've received a distress call. Several of them have been grabbed by wildlife and taken deep into the forest.
Wildlife isn't quite the correct term, though. On arrival in the Theta Eridon system, we detected the presence of a Gorn vessel registered as 'research cruiser' - read, private yacht for rich jerks. While we recovered the survivors, I made contact with the captain of the cruiser, a Baron Gargasha. He told me the 'wildlife' was actually a genetically engineered killing machine that he had cooked up in some nightmare dungeon and unleashed onto the planet to hunt. It's resistant to phaser fire, masked to sensors due to integrated cybernetics, and oh yeah, it paralyses its victims and leaves them as live food for its young when they hatch.
This nobleman is the only person within 10 light years who can plausibly track the animal, but he's showing zip, zero concern for the lives of my people. Instead, he wants to hunt down The Beast While I am a great diplomat in the vein of Jonathan Archer, I recognize that there are members of my crew who will be more effective than I at convincing Gargasha to lead us to the monster's den. I have generously extended an offer for Mitche Peh, Robert Yang, and Tisana Bessle to join his hunting party. All of them have been given special instructions as to how they are to behave.
I am going to crack this asshole's brain like an egg into a pan.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27830.4, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
Our ship and the Kir'shara are closing on the small Caldonian colony of Fairth, which is currently in distress. A biological outbreak from an outlying research facility that's moved into a populated area.
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Away Team Transcript, Stardate 27831.3, USS Opportunity
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
[Baron Gargasha] Welcome, esteemed members of the hunt! I am honoured to be your host and guide as we face--
[explosive percussion]
[Lt. Mitchie Peh] Woo hoo! I can't wait to turn this hunting party into a hunting PARTY!
[Baron Gargasha] Please do not detonate fireworks and alert the beast!
[Lt. Mitchie Peh] Oh! Ha, sorry! I'm just so excited for this party! We are hunting down this nasty creature to study it right? One of my friends would be very sad if-- oh! That is a HUGE disruptor rifle. We're uh… going to have to keep this our little secret.
[Baron Gargasha] Could you please. Keep your voice low. Perhaps you could even… stay here at the beam in site? Keep it secure and all that.
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessle] Excuse me, your high born, but you have extended the invitation and we have accepted it in the belief you will keep us safe in good faith. Respectfully, leaving Peh alone would violate that trust! And also be quite rude.
[Baron Gargasha] *quiet hissing noise*
[Baron Gargasha] Very well. Come with me. But stay--
[Lt. Mitchie Peh] SUPER QUIET!
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27831.5, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
The colonists are safe for now, but unable to safely leave their urban perimeter. Governor Janam has filled us in; organized packs of molluscoid predators, undetectable on sensors, have begun expanding from a privately owned research institute just after it went dark.
The facility at the center can't be reached; there's forcefields active preventing transporters from penetrating the lower levels, and there seems to be sensor-dampening technology active as well.
After conferring with Captain Ko, we've decided to put the Kir'shara's people on keeping the colonists safe while we investigate the source.
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Away Team Transcript, Stardate 27832.4, USS Opportunity
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
[Dr. Robert Yang] Baron! See here how the branches break? I bet our quarry has been through here.
[Barond Gargasha] Good Doctor, I respect your contributions. But I am the master tracker here. Surely you must see that the impressions in the wood here indicate a much smaller creature must have been the cause of this!
[Dr. Robert Yang] That was my initial thought as well. But look here, in the mud. A deep track, matching that of the monster. I believe that it leapt into the treetops, and the smaller marks are where it lightly dug in to stabilize.
[Baron Gargasha] Well, Well! Good work, man! This is a new behaviour from the animal, one quite unforeseen! Now perhaps you understand the true THRILL of the HUNT------"
[Dr. Robert Yang] Tracking its path through the upper branches means it is no doubt hiding-- RIGHT IN THAT TREE!
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessel] Peh, my sword! HAVE AT YOU, VILE DEMON!
*Shouts, screaming, wild phaser fire. Yang's phaser pistol records 18 shots, Peh's a pair of high powered beam sweeps, and audio analysis indicates Bessel made a flurry of blows onto wood*
[Dr. Robert Yang] ...or it could just be an empty treetop.
[Baron Gargasha] I… think… you should keep all such rash decisions to yourself, Doctor--
[Dr. Robert Yang] Aha! Another clue, revealed by the disintegrations!
[Baron Gargasha, softly] Why.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27832.4, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
We planned an away mission, but never sent it. My science officer has isolated the facility's generator from among the decoy heat signatures; its outside of the force fields. An EMP emitter beamed beside it shut the facility's other systems down, and allowed us to detect and extricate the four living Caldonians from the sublevel. I'll be speaking to them as soon as the doctor is done examining them.
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Away Team Transcript, Stardate 27833.0, USS Opportunity
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
[Throughout this Log, Lt. Peh can be heard in the background delivering a breathless lecture on the possibility of naked singularities to destroy the past of those who cross a certain threshold, and the meta-philosophical implications of this mathematical theorem.]
[Dr. Robert Yang] Across this--
[Baron Gargasha] Yes! Across the River! Doctor! I can see very well the tracks of the beast I wish to slay very quickly! But the monster can also hear you quite well, LIEUTENANT PEH!
[Lt. Mitchie Peh] Ooh! Good point! Maybe I can draw it in by banging these skillets together!
*Lt. Peh's lecture is only mildly muffled by metallic clanging*
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessel] A reminder, your high born, that eternal devouring by the Nameless One is the punishment for those who kill guests or invitees to a hunting party! As well as social ostracism of course.
[Baron Gorgasha] Yes. Of course. Now we cross the river…
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessel] I am afraid I cannot.
[Baron Gorgasha] Why.
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessle] Come now, my high born, surely you are familiar with The Honorable Looking-Glass of Immortality, or a Guide to Social Conduct Gathered from Various Authors! I have memorized it.
[Baron Gorgasha] Of course you have.
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessle] And it is simply improper to have a lady cross a river in a manner which will see her boots or hunting pants become soaked to a level of 'indecency', which crossing this river would do. Besides, under the old traditions of the people of the Yalgarra province, from whence you hail, I have not properly purified myself before entering any waters moving through a land of life. You did bring the sacred oils, right?
[Baron Gargasha] That only applies to highborn ladies, Lieutenant Commander!
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessle] Excusez-moi, Monsieur! I will have you know I have been inducted into at least one knightly order, and also that my family comes from a line of Amarki nobility. Probably. Also, my rank would have bestowed upon me personal nobility if converted to your Table of Ranks.
Such an insult I cannot stand anymore than crossing this river.
[Lt. Peh's lecture and skillet-music continues in the silence that follows]
[Baron Gargasha] What have I done, oh Egg-Bringer, to deserve this?
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessel] I think you know how to end this, your high bornness.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27833.2, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
A rogue bioengineering group. They claim they were hired by a Gorn aristocrat to create some sort of game animal. To do so, they in turn purchased some genetic data from an ashidi trader who was arrested two weeks ago for dealing in stolen Imelak bioweaponry.
With the creatures' complete genome and physiology known, we're working with another research group on the planet to devise a viral agent that can incapacitate them without interacting with any of the planet's native or introduced life.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27833.7, USS Opportunity, Captain Huth fop Makpol,
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
Cracked like a cheap Andorian ice egg. My team did exactly what I instructed, annoying Gargasha until he broke and decided that his sanity was worth more than the monster. He quickly led our teams to the den, and we recovered the crews. While doing so, the monster ran into one of our search parties, and was vaporized by phaser fire.
Baron Gargasha was simultaneously disappointed and impressed. He said that while overall the hunt was a failure for him, he was proud of our effort. He mentioned he had murderous, phaser-resistant targs to look forward to hunting on Fairth. Which, come to think of it, is in Federation borders…
[+10 relations with Gorn]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27833.9, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
The infestation has been removed from Fairth. The rogues' parent university on Caldonia has informed us that they will be sending a generous contribution to both the colonists and to starfleet by way of apology.
I also have an angry message from Gorn space. Maybe I'll read it after I've had another coffee.
[Gain +20 BR, +12 pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27835.3, USS Enterprise, Captain Jennifer Zhang
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
Enterprise has arrived in the Harmony Border Zone on our mission to conduct diplomacy with the unaligned border polities between Federation friendly space and the Harmony of Horizon.
It's not exactly the great unknown, but I'm happy to be back among the Star-kin, and even happier to be back aboard Enterprise herself. And the Honiani are just as pleased to welcome me back and to meet Enterprise.
I almost suspect this visit has spurred something of an interest in Federation membership, if only get a chance to put their own spin on Enterprise's younger sisters.
And while Commander Deva and Lieutenant's T'sen and Cindre are on Okatha impressing Honiani dignitaries, Commander M'hrana and I are taking the time to go over all recent information of ship movements in the HBZ.
I'm certain that it won't take too long to determine our next move.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27835.3, USS Courageous, Captain Zara Ka'Athnon
(EC Excelsior-A)
Courageous is spending some more time with our new Dreamer friends! A younger Dreamer travelling medical professional who's let us nickname them "Doc" is giving us a tour of Dreamer territory to introduce ourselves, and learn more about Dreamer society.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27840.1, USS Enterprise, Captain Jennifer Zhang
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
I think Captain Mannigan's interaction with SEV Clearsight on stardates 27821 - 27826 is going to be key to getting back in the Felis' good graces.
And if I organize things right we should be able to win points with the Honiani at the same time.
The Honiani have lost three major expeditions into the Eye of Chaos nebula over the last century, as well as a half dozen ships from smaller Obar, Laio, and Yan-Ros expeditions.
Not all their expeditions ended in failure, or failed immediately, and the Starkin have a sizable body of data on the area. By combining that data with the observations conducted by Frontier, Justice, and Clearsight, and running that data through the algorithms developed by Starfleet Intelligence to navigate the Badlands I've been able to put together a plan to chart the outermost layers of the Eye in relative safety.
Once I've finished working with Commander M'hrana and Lieutenants sh'Rinboq and Cindre to chart our course I'm going to extend an official offer of co-operation to Clearsight's Captain Swiftpad. I'm also going to be extending that invitation to the Honiani through an old friend of mine who is now commanding the Honiani frigate Clarity.
It's taken a bit of effort but we now have a plan to: one, explore a previously unexplored region of space safely. Two, continue to impress the Honiani in the lead up to their admission, and Three, endear us to the influential exploration arm of Felis spacer culture.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27841.2, USS Courageous, Captain Zara Ka'Athnon
(EC Excelsior-A)
We've gotten the chance to help Doc treat Dreamer patients suffering from an outbreak of cosmozoan parasites in an outlying part of their territory!
Mostly we did the interstellar equivalent of holding Doc's tools while they worked, but we did get to watch as they used a variety of specialised radiation treatments to kill non-sapient radiation based cosmozoa which had infiltrated the circulatory system of the afflicted Dreamers!
Afterwards the local group paid us in some semi purified duratainium alloys because the Dreamers are very generous and wouldn't take my insistence that we didn't want compensation for an answer.
[Gain +10br, +5rp from assisting Doc provide medical care on his rounds]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27842.2, USS Enterprise, Captain Jennifer Zhang
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
We've had something of a development in the last two hours.
The HPSDV Playwright, under the command of the Horizonian Intendant Karyn nas Azhlee, along with her attendant Dancer corvettes arrived at our rally point before us and have been talking with Clearsight's captain for the last two hours.
It seems that the good Intendant was coincidentally planning her own expedition into the Eye of Chaos along with some other Harmony vessels from their Science Directorate.
Captain Swiftpad has thanked me for my own offer to enter the Eye, but she is more impressed with the Intendant's, clearly spontaneous, offer to her which comes with more ships and a less strict timetable.
Enterprise is, obviously, capable of keeping up with any ship in the Harmony's inventory, but Singer nas Azhlee regrets to inform me that it would be an unacceptable danger to allow more than one foreign ship into a Harmony expedition to such a dangerous area of space.
As the Intendant has carefully explained to me and Captain Swiftpad, Harmony datanets are precision instruments that are finely tuned to cooperate in tandem with highly trained sensor crews and purpose built instruments. One foreign ship, maybe two smaller ones could be safely integrated into the expeditionary group, but she could never guarantee Enterprise's safety.
As the Intendant is concerned for our safety, It wouldn't be prudent to allow Enterprise to join them on their journey.
Captain Swiftpad has thanked me for all of my effort, but she could never allow me to risk myself and my crew. She has promised to forward the data they gather to Starfleet once they return from the Eye of Chaos.
Personal Log, Jennifer Zhang
My only consolation is that I'm not the only officer that's lost to Intendant Azhlee.
I know that I'm not the only one that underestimated that woman.
But I'm still disappointed in myself.
She must have tracked Clearsight's movements and made her own deductions of what would win Captain Swiftpad's favour.
I know when I've been outplayed. I don't like it, but all I can do now is use this wake up call to do better in the future. Enterprise and her crew are certainly up to the task. Her captain must be too.
[-20 relations to the Felis' [Harmony Influence] Tag]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27844.4, USS Concord, Captain Quentin Raleigh
(Renaissance, SBZ)
We're responding to a distress call from the minor UE colony of Croatan on the third planet of the TXA-331 system.
The colonists are reporting worrisome shifts in the colony world's magnetic field. Neither the original survey data, nor the data gathered since give any indication of what could possibly be the cause of these field shifts.
Hopefully Concord will be able to sort these problems put before they disrupt the colonists' lives.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27844.9, USS Exeter, Captain Xansad Lalen
(Constitution-B, Apinae)
We have been sent to investigate a trio of unusual tracks approaching Corvadia, a minor Indorian colony near the Themis Border Zone, at low warp. Is it possible we've missed a new warp-capable civilization in the Straits of Themis?
I can't say the possibility is likely - this is well-trafficked space, with no less than four starbases in close proximity. Odds are that we would have detected signs of warp tests by now.
Still, I suppose it can't be dismissed out of hand. Stranger things have happened. And in any case, three unidentified warp signatures are still three unidentified warp signatures. We need to know what they are.
USS Enkindle will be joining us after picking up a Federation Ambassador, in case this is a First Contact.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27845.0, USS Enlightenment, Captain Demari Iekn
(Renaissance, SBZ)
Concord has abruptly dropped off of our sensors while transiting nearby space.
Neither we nor Starfleet Command have been able to contact Concord in the last three days.
We are proceeding with all due caution and haste to their last reported position and will conduct search operations.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27846.1, USS Exeter, Captain Xansad Lalen
(Constitution-B, Apinae)
We have met the Ur'razzi. Short, squat bipeds, resembling Tellarites but with reddish skin tones, they're just as hostile, if not even more so. They were enraged that we had 'stolen' their language (by being able to communicate using the UT), their people (apparently, people resembling me had been abducting Ur'razzi as recently as three decades ago, likely Syndicate members), and their 'patrimony' (by settling Corvadia, the nearest habitable world to their space). They refused to meet me in person, and were on the verge of leaving outright, but when I notified them that an ambassador would be here tomorrow, they agreed to stay the day.
Technologically, they appear to be a bit behind NX-era Earth.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27846.8, USS Concord, Captain Quentin Raleigh
(Renaissance, SBZ)
Croatan's colonists are gone.
The entire system is bare of any trace of them or any indication where they went.
All we have are the half disassembled remains of the colony site. At the very least whatever happened to the colonists doesn't seem to have happened in a panic. It almost looks like an orderly evacuation.
Curious.
We'll continue our search of the system and I am considering bringing in additional ships for a widened search as well as rechecking recent Sydraxian raiding activities..
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27847.1, USS Exeter, Captain Xansad Lalen
(Constitution-B, Apinae)
Ambassador Darras has been kidnapped! She beamed aboard the Ur'razzi flagship six hours ago with an aide, as the Ur'razzi had requested; shortly after, the Ur'razzi flagship went into warp, the others warning us not to pursue or we'd risk the lives of the Ambassador and her aide. They will apparently be held as hostages until we evacuate Corvadia and return the abductees.
Corvadia isn't exactly the most populous colony around; had the Ur'razzi not resorted to threats, I'm sure we could have negotiated an agreement to share the planet or give it to them. As it is, I suspect the Indorians won't be in an agreeable mood. As for the abductees ... well, the life expectancy of a Syndicate slave was often quite short. I can't help but suspect that they're, unfortunately, dead.
In the meantime, we need to get our ambassador back. Exeter will jam communications, while we go to warp, intercept the flagship, and force it out of warp. Hopefully, they don't have transporter inhibitors. If they do ... we'll figure something out.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27847.6, USS Enlightenment, Captain Demari Iekn
(Renaissance, SBZ)
We've offloaded the Croatan colonists from Hersque.
I've given my thanks to Conductor Xovexi for her timely rescue of our colonists from the Croatan colony.
While it is embarrassing that Starfleet itself was unable to reach the colony in time, it's good to know that the member fleets can carry off such daring rescues with such aplomb.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27848.5, Ensign Anna St. James
(Exeter, Constitution-B, Apinae)
Today was an interesting reminder that just because someone seems hostile, that doesn't make them your enemy.
The Ur'razzi had taken our ambassador hostage. They were lurking in the system, transporter inhibitors up throughout the ship. The Captain apparently worried that they'd shoot the ambassador the moment they saw shuttles, so a shuttle assault was out. Which, he seems to have assumed, left an assault in vacsuits. I'm not a security officer, but I'm apparently Enkindle's best-rated crewer in zero-G, so I got picked to join the assault.
We beamed near the hull, jetpacked onto it, cut our way into an access shaft, sealed the breach, and immediately discovered that the Ur'razzi didn't have gravity plating or any other artificial gravity systems aboard. Good thing we had the jetpacks. Our initial plan was to disperse knockout gas through the ship's ventilation systems, but when we dropped a gas grenade into engineering, we discovered that anesthezine doesn't work on Ur'razzi. We'd have to do this the hard way.
At least we knew exactly where the Ambassador and her aide were being held. On the bridge, of course, which meant fighting our way through the entire ship to get there. And we assumed we had to get there without anyone aboard knowing, or they'd kill the hostages rather than let us free them. So we quickly cut our way up the ship, stunning everyone in sight.
When we got to the bridge, two things were immediately apparent. One, Ambassador Darras and her aide weren't hostages; two, they hadn't realized Starfleet had boarded the ship, rather than some pirate group.
There had apparently been a serious misunderstanding; the Ur'razzi had presumed that we were the same people who had abducted members of their species. When Ambassador Darras had explained that her people had purged themselves of the Syndicate, the Ur'razzi had realized their mistake - but were unable to communicate with the rest of their fleet. Not long after, they'd run into our subspace trap and been forcibly dropped out of warp, and shortly after that, we boarded them.
Everyone involved had assumed the worst of each other. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed.
[10 pp for 'rescuing' Ambassador Darras and her aide.
First Contact with the Ur'razzi (located coreward side of -4f): 15/100.]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27849.0, USS Concord, Captain Quentin Raleigh
(Renaissance, SBZ)
We've linked up with Enlightenment. It seems that Captain Iekn was able to reach the colony first and conduct an evacuation of the Croatan colonists before the magnetic subversion took place.
Concord will be returning to patrol while Iekn delivers the colonists to Starbase 2.
[SI NOTE: As you may not be aware, sir, there are no habitable worlds in the TXA-331 system. Nor has the UE or any Federation member ever founded a colony named "Croatan".
Nor have the Sydraxians ever commissioned a vessel called "Hersque" or currently have an officer named "Conductor Xovexi" in service with their fleet. And obviously they have never been a Federation member.
Subsequent follow up with Captain Raleigh on Concord shows that they have been busy updating our charts of the TXA-331 system and other nearby ones over the last month and have no knowledge of the "Croatan" Colonists. Captain Iekn similarly has no knowledge of Coatan colony as Enlightenment has been on patrol. Starbase 2 also reports that they have never received colonists from Captain Iekn.
Nevertheless we have a number of verified genuine logs, each with accompanying data, all of which conflict with each other and our own timeline of events.
On the other hand Office 0 has been delighted to receive the data and have informed us that everything is fine... and DTI assures us that the Croatan colonists are being well looked after.]
[Gained 15 rp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27849.2, USS Ambassador, Captain Zolani Volanen
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
This is it. We're two weeks out from our stop over at Terminus Station and Ambassador has officially left Gabriel and the borders of the Federation behind us.
My current planned course will take us out to the Shans system and then out into deep space loosely following the trail blazed by Stargazer and Tarrak.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27849.5, USS Pathfinder, Captain Nora Chandrasekhar
(Excelsior-A, CBZ)
Another day, another accidental Prime Directive violation for me to clean up.
It seems that a decade ago an ancient derelict drifted into the orbit of Bothana VI and made atmospheric entry onto the smallest inhabited Bothanan continent.
Which is usually not really our problem, as bits of derelict and meteors are often indistinguishable to bronze age natives.
What is our problem is when enough of the ship has survived that it's main computer is able to give orders to the locals as if they were it's crew.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27850, USS Ambassador, Captain Zolani Volanen
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
We've found one of the Atemporal Waves that Tarrak reported in the area.
It's… different from the Atemporal waves that we saw in the other Sol.
It's sweeping around the Star Morgana-1321 in an arc. Not simply in orbit, one end is anchored almost directly on the Star itself, and the rest of the wave stretches out in a radius of over sixty AUs and takes just over twelve hours to make a complete sweep of the system and emitting unusual forms of radiation.
We're going to keep a respectable distance and launch probes in.
Captain's Log, Stardate 27850.5, USS Pathfinder, Captain Nora Chandrasekhar
(Excelsior-A, CBZ)
Fluffy-Puffy has arrived to help. I appreciate the extra set of eyes, though I think we're already on the verge of solving the problem.
The computer doesn't seem to deliberately giving orders to the natives. It simply thinks they are its crew. They don't understand any of the technical directives, so they haven't learned anything technological, but a mystery religion with frankly unsettling authoritarian mores is forming around the hulk of the derelict and I'm not happy about it.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27851.1, USS Ambassador, Captain Zolani Volanen
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
First thing is first: this particular Atemporal wave only seems to transmit in one direction, matter and electromagnetic signals that approach the wave are rapidly turned into a mix of what we think are Chroniton particles and Cyanoacrylatic radiation which is reradiated back towards their point of origin via a process that we are simply utterly unable to understand.
The radiation that seems to be naturally transmitted bears a chronometric signature of over Sixty seven Trillion years in the future. I suspect this wave is somehow a small window into the end of the universe.
We're going to approach slightly closer and inspect the wave's wake as it sweeps around the star.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27852.1, USS Pathfinder, Captain Nora Chandrasekhar
(Excelsior-A, CBZ)
Problem dealt with. Well, as much as we can. The religion is still in place, but we were able to send a shut off signal to the computer and swoop in to retrieve all of the functional components.
Thankfully the mystery religion had kept the site a mostly restricted location and the application of chemical somnulants and weather seeding covered our operations.
I'm praying that without an obvious supernatural inspiration and a constant stream of hard to interpret orders from a god the religion will begin to lose it's traction and harmful impact. It's a vain hope, but we can't get involved past this. And I can't even think of way that we could helpfully intervene even if we wanted to.
Sometimes all you can do is harm reduction.
[Gained +12rp]
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Bridge Transcript, USS Ambassador, Stardate 27852.2
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
[Cpt Volanen] I've got a bad feeling about this.
[Lt-Cmdr Nixa] Ma'am? Did you say something?
[Cpt Volanen] Nothing important Commander.
[Lt-Cmdr Nguyen] Captain, we are recording what I believe are trace amounts of Vynyr particles.
[Lt-Cmdr Nixa] Vynyr Particles?
[Lt-Cmdr Nguyen] First theorised in 10976HE, by the famed Orion physicist Shyzyli Vynyr; these particles were the first seriously considered answer to Ican's paradox. Dr Vynyr claimed that the idea of the particl-
[Cpt Volanen] Commander. It's radiation produced when Antichronitons decay in contact with any form of quantum phen-
[Cpt Volanen] Back us off! BACK US OFF!
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27852.2, USS Sommerfield
(Centaur-B, Vulcan)
Sommerfield has been detailed to provide security to the diplomatic conference currently scheduled to get underway on Vulcan between the Romulan Star Empire and the Federation with regards to the future status of the jointly administered colony located on Athos V.
Though the Athos V colony has been a beacon of interstellar cooperation and stability for nearly two decades there are a number of legal and administrative issues that built up during the war years and are now finally being attended too.
The Romulan Star Empire will be represented by Propraetor Caevis and the Federation is being represented by Ambassadors Lux and Eristiss.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27852.4, USS Ambassador, Captain Zolani Volanen
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
That could have ended badly. Ambassador almost ran into a quantum filament that seems to be gravitationally tied to the Atemporal wave's wake.
As this is impossible for the obvious reasons we were unable to predict the filament's presence until we were almost on top of the filament.
Even if we had survived the impact, we would have almost certainly been destroyed by the Atemporal wave when it swept back around Morgana-1321.
This phenomenon is an utterly fascinating bit of impossibility sitting just outside of Federation space. Due to the regularity and permanence of such an interesting phenomenon I am recommending that Starfleet set up a permanent science station in the Morgana-1321 system to study this system's… everything, even if Ambassador can't process and understand ninety-nine percent of what we're seeing here.
[Morgana-1321 rp Colony located at (Coreward region of f,3) +5(8) RP per month]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27852.6, USS Whale, Captain Toressa Lalen
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
We're picking up an unidentified warp wake on a meandering course towards Federation space.
Whale will be moving to intercept this new contact, and as its course has taken it loosely from the direction of Lecarre space we will be taking all appropriate precautions.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27855.1, USS Sommerfield
(Centaur-B, Vulcan)
I am officially stating, on record, that I believe the conference is being sabotaged by interests hostile to the Federation.
Multiple incidents have occurred over the past three days which lead me to this conclusion. The following is a curated list of the most serious incidents:
One: Starfleet security staff were transferred away from their posts by legitimate looking orders whose origin is completely obscured.
Two: Propraetor Caevis's allergy notifications to the catering staff were misplaced, resulting in a minor medical incident which, though dealt with quickly and efficiently, still make the diplomatic service and Starfleet look incompetent.
Three: the conference facility's translation matrix was wiped and a half day of effort was lost to technical maintenance.
In addition are a large number of other smaller incidents such as the Propraetor's luggage being misplaced, environmental control misets, and scheduling errors that seem innocuous enough but added together create a pattern of mischief aimed at disrupting the talks.
Most worryingly, many of these attacks could only have been engineered with information and access provided by the security clearances provided to the conference's lower level Starfleet and Diplomatic Service participants.
I will be taking my concerns directly to Ambassadors Lux and Eristiss.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27855.7, USS Whale, Captain Toressa Lalen
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
We have identified the contact as an Imperial Orion light cruiser design of indeterminate age and design with no IFF identifier and sensor dampening technology in place across the main hull.
Long distance communications have failed to make contact and Eclipse is joining us in an intercept in case this vessel is another potentially hostile Eternal Empire remnant.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27856.1, USS Korolev, Captain T'lav
(Constitution-B, Vulcan)
Korolev has been called in to provide additional security to a diplomatic conference currently underway on Vulcan.
Sommerfield's captain and both FDS Ambassadors believe that the talks are being undermined by an agent placed within the conference's junior staff and Korolev is being called in to provide additional uncompromised staff who will operate on a separate network for security purposes with only both Captains and both Ambassadors having access to both networks.
Though these measures will reduce efficiency, these losses will be more than compensates for by decreased potential for the conference to end in failure.
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Bridge Transcript, USS Whale, Stardate 27856.3
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
[Cpt Lalen] Hail them.
[Lt Aishel] Aye ma'am, hailing the cruiser. No response to subspace comms. Moving to other methods… Connection on Laser arrays. Light lag of one second. Go ahead ma'am.
[Cpt Lalen] This is Captain Toressa Lalen of the Federa-
[Lt-Cmdr Leif] The ship is increasing power generation by 142%. We're being hit with high intensity scans!
[Cpt Lalen] BACK US OFF-
[???] Ship to Ship communications frequencies open. Communications established with Whale. Message to Mistress Lalen: Contact from Maiden of Dawn. Attempting transmission… Failure. Attempting transmission… Failure. Attempting database access… Failure. Attempting repairs… Failure. Diverting resources to main computer core...
[Cmdr Velx] I'm seeing power surges across the ship... She's falling apart!
[Maiden of Dawn] Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Main computer at sixty percent efficiency and falling.
Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Mothers, I want to come home.
Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Computer efficiency at fifty-nine point nine percent and falling.
Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Mothers, I'm scared.
Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Computer efficiency at fifty-nine point eight percent and falling.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27856.5, USS Sommerfield
(Centaur-B, Vulcan)
That seems to have taken care of things. The sabotage has stopped and the conference is proceeding smoothly.
All that remains now is to keep things humming along and to narrow down our lost of subjects until we have our saboteur.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27857.7, USS Whale, Captain Toressa Lalen
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
Maiden of Dawn was a long range exploratory ship launched at the height of the Orion Empire.
One of twenty such ships, Maiden of Dawn and her sisters were built to the same standards the we require from Exploration Corps vessels. She had a crew of two hundred and sixty of the finest officers and crew that the Imperial Navy could produce backed up by an additional two hundred of the most capable contractors from across the Empire.
Ten of those vessels returned home to great acclaim and fanfare. Five were confirmed lost and their crews recovered. Five, including Maiden of Dawn, went missing in action and a memorial to them still exists on the airless rock that is Orion. Their fates remained unknown for over a millennium.
Until today.
Maiden of Dawn is unable to tell us where she has been and what happened to her crew as the ship's ancient duotronic databanks are half destroyed.
But the ship is. Well. How to- I don't know how to… No one on either Whale or Eclipse is qualified to make the determination, but Maiden of Dawn's computer seems to have become sapient and sentient over the course of her journey.
The ship is a mess of Imperial Orion tech equivalent to that of our old Constitution class vessels and a hodgepodge of alien tech and hasty repairs from a variety of sources.
We're doing our best, but Maiden of Dawn is… dying
When the ship woke up from low powered mode her damaged systems were unable to compensate for the increased power and resource consumption of general operations. And we can't put the ship back into low power mode without almost certainly killing Maiden of Dawn's AI.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27858.8, USS Korolev, Captain T'lav
(Constitution-B, Vulcan)
We've narrowly avoided a negative outcome event.
One of the random system checks that I had ordered detected a backdoor into Korolev's systems that had been placed there by a Trojan horse network virus.
Initially, our analysis of the intrusion program led us to believe that this had been a Tal Shiar attempt to infiltrate the local defence network and lay the groundwork for future expansions of access into our systems.
However, acting under information obtained by Starfleet Intelligence I was able to determine that this particular virus had been tailor developed to access our embassy facilities in the Arcadian Empire, and that several aspects related to this made it unlikely to be a virus intended for use on Vulcan. Including the fact that the virus possessed all the hallmarks of being programmed by the notorious Tal Shiar hacker "Jade Raptor" who had been killed during the intense back and forth of the Fyriae Purge.
I realized that this virus must have been planted by either Sommerfield's captain or one of the Ambassadors.
Taking Korolev to Sol for a direct face to face contact with FDS High Ambassador revealed that Ambassador Lux did not, and never had existed. All documentation and communications to and from Vulcan had been manipulated to ensure that the infiltrator playing the part of Ambassador Lux was involved in the talks.
On our return to Vulcan we determined that Ambassador Lux had disappeared and all references to his existence in local databases had been scrubbed.
Subsequent investigations reveal that "Ambassador Lux" had worked his way into his position through a complex series of hacks that began with an unsecured network governing Vulcan waste disposal scheduling.
At the moment, the only remaining references to the man's existence are in the permanent logs of Korolev and Sommerfield as well as the memories of the conference's attendees.
I am recommending to Starfleet Intelligence that Federation network security protocols see a major review.
[Gain+ 20pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27859.0, USS Whale, Captain Toressa Lalen
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
We've had a breakthrough and managed to halt Maiden of Dawn's death spiral. Or at least slow it to a manageable rate.
We were able to use the systems from Whale's shuttle complement to tie into the main computer and reduce the strain on Maiden's ancient systems, and around the clock assistance from the engineering crews of both Eclipse and Whale have kept the worst of the decay in check.
At the insistence of Maiden herself I will be remaining aboard her while we set a course to repair facilities at Alukk. In the meantime USS Bulwark has been dispatched to help us keep Maiden functional while we finally bring her home.
[Gain 12rp. Maiden of Dawn returned to Orion space. Onboard AI is cooperative if traumatized, specialists en route to Alukk]
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
Well this is a fine damn day. As part of our survey of this sector, I sent a team to Theta Eridon, an M-Class world, to conduct a survey. We've received a distress call. Several of them have been grabbed by wildlife and taken deep into the forest.
Wildlife isn't quite the correct term, though. On arrival in the Theta Eridon system, we detected the presence of a Gorn vessel registered as 'research cruiser' - read, private yacht for rich jerks. While we recovered the survivors, I made contact with the captain of the cruiser, a Baron Gargasha. He told me the 'wildlife' was actually a genetically engineered killing machine that he had cooked up in some nightmare dungeon and unleashed onto the planet to hunt. It's resistant to phaser fire, masked to sensors due to integrated cybernetics, and oh yeah, it paralyses its victims and leaves them as live food for its young when they hatch.
This nobleman is the only person within 10 light years who can plausibly track the animal, but he's showing zip, zero concern for the lives of my people. Instead, he wants to hunt down The Beast While I am a great diplomat in the vein of Jonathan Archer, I recognize that there are members of my crew who will be more effective than I at convincing Gargasha to lead us to the monster's den. I have generously extended an offer for Mitche Peh, Robert Yang, and Tisana Bessle to join his hunting party. All of them have been given special instructions as to how they are to behave.
I am going to crack this asshole's brain like an egg into a pan.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27830.4, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
Our ship and the Kir'shara are closing on the small Caldonian colony of Fairth, which is currently in distress. A biological outbreak from an outlying research facility that's moved into a populated area.
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Away Team Transcript, Stardate 27831.3, USS Opportunity
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
[Baron Gargasha] Welcome, esteemed members of the hunt! I am honoured to be your host and guide as we face--
[explosive percussion]
[Lt. Mitchie Peh] Woo hoo! I can't wait to turn this hunting party into a hunting PARTY!
[Baron Gargasha] Please do not detonate fireworks and alert the beast!
[Lt. Mitchie Peh] Oh! Ha, sorry! I'm just so excited for this party! We are hunting down this nasty creature to study it right? One of my friends would be very sad if-- oh! That is a HUGE disruptor rifle. We're uh… going to have to keep this our little secret.
[Baron Gargasha] Could you please. Keep your voice low. Perhaps you could even… stay here at the beam in site? Keep it secure and all that.
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessle] Excuse me, your high born, but you have extended the invitation and we have accepted it in the belief you will keep us safe in good faith. Respectfully, leaving Peh alone would violate that trust! And also be quite rude.
[Baron Gargasha] *quiet hissing noise*
[Baron Gargasha] Very well. Come with me. But stay--
[Lt. Mitchie Peh] SUPER QUIET!
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27831.5, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
The colonists are safe for now, but unable to safely leave their urban perimeter. Governor Janam has filled us in; organized packs of molluscoid predators, undetectable on sensors, have begun expanding from a privately owned research institute just after it went dark.
The facility at the center can't be reached; there's forcefields active preventing transporters from penetrating the lower levels, and there seems to be sensor-dampening technology active as well.
After conferring with Captain Ko, we've decided to put the Kir'shara's people on keeping the colonists safe while we investigate the source.
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Away Team Transcript, Stardate 27832.4, USS Opportunity
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
[Dr. Robert Yang] Baron! See here how the branches break? I bet our quarry has been through here.
[Barond Gargasha] Good Doctor, I respect your contributions. But I am the master tracker here. Surely you must see that the impressions in the wood here indicate a much smaller creature must have been the cause of this!
[Dr. Robert Yang] That was my initial thought as well. But look here, in the mud. A deep track, matching that of the monster. I believe that it leapt into the treetops, and the smaller marks are where it lightly dug in to stabilize.
[Baron Gargasha] Well, Well! Good work, man! This is a new behaviour from the animal, one quite unforeseen! Now perhaps you understand the true THRILL of the HUNT------"
[Dr. Robert Yang] Tracking its path through the upper branches means it is no doubt hiding-- RIGHT IN THAT TREE!
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessel] Peh, my sword! HAVE AT YOU, VILE DEMON!
*Shouts, screaming, wild phaser fire. Yang's phaser pistol records 18 shots, Peh's a pair of high powered beam sweeps, and audio analysis indicates Bessel made a flurry of blows onto wood*
[Dr. Robert Yang] ...or it could just be an empty treetop.
[Baron Gargasha] I… think… you should keep all such rash decisions to yourself, Doctor--
[Dr. Robert Yang] Aha! Another clue, revealed by the disintegrations!
[Baron Gargasha, softly] Why.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27832.4, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
We planned an away mission, but never sent it. My science officer has isolated the facility's generator from among the decoy heat signatures; its outside of the force fields. An EMP emitter beamed beside it shut the facility's other systems down, and allowed us to detect and extricate the four living Caldonians from the sublevel. I'll be speaking to them as soon as the doctor is done examining them.
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Away Team Transcript, Stardate 27833.0, USS Opportunity
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
[Throughout this Log, Lt. Peh can be heard in the background delivering a breathless lecture on the possibility of naked singularities to destroy the past of those who cross a certain threshold, and the meta-philosophical implications of this mathematical theorem.]
[Dr. Robert Yang] Across this--
[Baron Gargasha] Yes! Across the River! Doctor! I can see very well the tracks of the beast I wish to slay very quickly! But the monster can also hear you quite well, LIEUTENANT PEH!
[Lt. Mitchie Peh] Ooh! Good point! Maybe I can draw it in by banging these skillets together!
*Lt. Peh's lecture is only mildly muffled by metallic clanging*
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessel] A reminder, your high born, that eternal devouring by the Nameless One is the punishment for those who kill guests or invitees to a hunting party! As well as social ostracism of course.
[Baron Gorgasha] Yes. Of course. Now we cross the river…
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessel] I am afraid I cannot.
[Baron Gorgasha] Why.
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessle] Come now, my high born, surely you are familiar with The Honorable Looking-Glass of Immortality, or a Guide to Social Conduct Gathered from Various Authors! I have memorized it.
[Baron Gorgasha] Of course you have.
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessle] And it is simply improper to have a lady cross a river in a manner which will see her boots or hunting pants become soaked to a level of 'indecency', which crossing this river would do. Besides, under the old traditions of the people of the Yalgarra province, from whence you hail, I have not properly purified myself before entering any waters moving through a land of life. You did bring the sacred oils, right?
[Baron Gargasha] That only applies to highborn ladies, Lieutenant Commander!
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessle] Excusez-moi, Monsieur! I will have you know I have been inducted into at least one knightly order, and also that my family comes from a line of Amarki nobility. Probably. Also, my rank would have bestowed upon me personal nobility if converted to your Table of Ranks.
Such an insult I cannot stand anymore than crossing this river.
[Lt. Peh's lecture and skillet-music continues in the silence that follows]
[Baron Gargasha] What have I done, oh Egg-Bringer, to deserve this?
[Lt-Cmdr. Tisana Bessel] I think you know how to end this, your high bornness.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27833.2, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
A rogue bioengineering group. They claim they were hired by a Gorn aristocrat to create some sort of game animal. To do so, they in turn purchased some genetic data from an ashidi trader who was arrested two weeks ago for dealing in stolen Imelak bioweaponry.
With the creatures' complete genome and physiology known, we're working with another research group on the planet to devise a viral agent that can incapacitate them without interacting with any of the planet's native or introduced life.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27833.7, USS Opportunity, Captain Huth fop Makpol,
(Excelsior-A, Explorer Corps)
Cracked like a cheap Andorian ice egg. My team did exactly what I instructed, annoying Gargasha until he broke and decided that his sanity was worth more than the monster. He quickly led our teams to the den, and we recovered the crews. While doing so, the monster ran into one of our search parties, and was vaporized by phaser fire.
Baron Gargasha was simultaneously disappointed and impressed. He said that while overall the hunt was a failure for him, he was proud of our effort. He mentioned he had murderous, phaser-resistant targs to look forward to hunting on Fairth. Which, come to think of it, is in Federation borders…
[+10 relations with Gorn]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27833.9, USS Epiphany, Captain Hugo Church
(Renaissance, KBZ)
The infestation has been removed from Fairth. The rogues' parent university on Caldonia has informed us that they will be sending a generous contribution to both the colonists and to starfleet by way of apology.
I also have an angry message from Gorn space. Maybe I'll read it after I've had another coffee.
[Gain +20 BR, +12 pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27835.3, USS Enterprise, Captain Jennifer Zhang
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
Enterprise has arrived in the Harmony Border Zone on our mission to conduct diplomacy with the unaligned border polities between Federation friendly space and the Harmony of Horizon.
It's not exactly the great unknown, but I'm happy to be back among the Star-kin, and even happier to be back aboard Enterprise herself. And the Honiani are just as pleased to welcome me back and to meet Enterprise.
I almost suspect this visit has spurred something of an interest in Federation membership, if only get a chance to put their own spin on Enterprise's younger sisters.
And while Commander Deva and Lieutenant's T'sen and Cindre are on Okatha impressing Honiani dignitaries, Commander M'hrana and I are taking the time to go over all recent information of ship movements in the HBZ.
I'm certain that it won't take too long to determine our next move.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27835.3, USS Courageous, Captain Zara Ka'Athnon
(EC Excelsior-A)
Courageous is spending some more time with our new Dreamer friends! A younger Dreamer travelling medical professional who's let us nickname them "Doc" is giving us a tour of Dreamer territory to introduce ourselves, and learn more about Dreamer society.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27840.1, USS Enterprise, Captain Jennifer Zhang
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
I think Captain Mannigan's interaction with SEV Clearsight on stardates 27821 - 27826 is going to be key to getting back in the Felis' good graces.
And if I organize things right we should be able to win points with the Honiani at the same time.
The Honiani have lost three major expeditions into the Eye of Chaos nebula over the last century, as well as a half dozen ships from smaller Obar, Laio, and Yan-Ros expeditions.
Not all their expeditions ended in failure, or failed immediately, and the Starkin have a sizable body of data on the area. By combining that data with the observations conducted by Frontier, Justice, and Clearsight, and running that data through the algorithms developed by Starfleet Intelligence to navigate the Badlands I've been able to put together a plan to chart the outermost layers of the Eye in relative safety.
Once I've finished working with Commander M'hrana and Lieutenants sh'Rinboq and Cindre to chart our course I'm going to extend an official offer of co-operation to Clearsight's Captain Swiftpad. I'm also going to be extending that invitation to the Honiani through an old friend of mine who is now commanding the Honiani frigate Clarity.
It's taken a bit of effort but we now have a plan to: one, explore a previously unexplored region of space safely. Two, continue to impress the Honiani in the lead up to their admission, and Three, endear us to the influential exploration arm of Felis spacer culture.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27841.2, USS Courageous, Captain Zara Ka'Athnon
(EC Excelsior-A)
We've gotten the chance to help Doc treat Dreamer patients suffering from an outbreak of cosmozoan parasites in an outlying part of their territory!
Mostly we did the interstellar equivalent of holding Doc's tools while they worked, but we did get to watch as they used a variety of specialised radiation treatments to kill non-sapient radiation based cosmozoa which had infiltrated the circulatory system of the afflicted Dreamers!
Afterwards the local group paid us in some semi purified duratainium alloys because the Dreamers are very generous and wouldn't take my insistence that we didn't want compensation for an answer.
[Gain +10br, +5rp from assisting Doc provide medical care on his rounds]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27842.2, USS Enterprise, Captain Jennifer Zhang
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
We've had something of a development in the last two hours.
The HPSDV Playwright, under the command of the Horizonian Intendant Karyn nas Azhlee, along with her attendant Dancer corvettes arrived at our rally point before us and have been talking with Clearsight's captain for the last two hours.
It seems that the good Intendant was coincidentally planning her own expedition into the Eye of Chaos along with some other Harmony vessels from their Science Directorate.
Captain Swiftpad has thanked me for my own offer to enter the Eye, but she is more impressed with the Intendant's, clearly spontaneous, offer to her which comes with more ships and a less strict timetable.
Enterprise is, obviously, capable of keeping up with any ship in the Harmony's inventory, but Singer nas Azhlee regrets to inform me that it would be an unacceptable danger to allow more than one foreign ship into a Harmony expedition to such a dangerous area of space.
As the Intendant has carefully explained to me and Captain Swiftpad, Harmony datanets are precision instruments that are finely tuned to cooperate in tandem with highly trained sensor crews and purpose built instruments. One foreign ship, maybe two smaller ones could be safely integrated into the expeditionary group, but she could never guarantee Enterprise's safety.
As the Intendant is concerned for our safety, It wouldn't be prudent to allow Enterprise to join them on their journey.
Captain Swiftpad has thanked me for all of my effort, but she could never allow me to risk myself and my crew. She has promised to forward the data they gather to Starfleet once they return from the Eye of Chaos.
Personal Log, Jennifer Zhang
My only consolation is that I'm not the only officer that's lost to Intendant Azhlee.
I know that I'm not the only one that underestimated that woman.
But I'm still disappointed in myself.
She must have tracked Clearsight's movements and made her own deductions of what would win Captain Swiftpad's favour.
I know when I've been outplayed. I don't like it, but all I can do now is use this wake up call to do better in the future. Enterprise and her crew are certainly up to the task. Her captain must be too.
[-20 relations to the Felis' [Harmony Influence] Tag]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27844.4, USS Concord, Captain Quentin Raleigh
(Renaissance, SBZ)
We're responding to a distress call from the minor UE colony of Croatan on the third planet of the TXA-331 system.
The colonists are reporting worrisome shifts in the colony world's magnetic field. Neither the original survey data, nor the data gathered since give any indication of what could possibly be the cause of these field shifts.
Hopefully Concord will be able to sort these problems put before they disrupt the colonists' lives.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27844.9, USS Exeter, Captain Xansad Lalen
(Constitution-B, Apinae)
We have been sent to investigate a trio of unusual tracks approaching Corvadia, a minor Indorian colony near the Themis Border Zone, at low warp. Is it possible we've missed a new warp-capable civilization in the Straits of Themis?
I can't say the possibility is likely - this is well-trafficked space, with no less than four starbases in close proximity. Odds are that we would have detected signs of warp tests by now.
Still, I suppose it can't be dismissed out of hand. Stranger things have happened. And in any case, three unidentified warp signatures are still three unidentified warp signatures. We need to know what they are.
USS Enkindle will be joining us after picking up a Federation Ambassador, in case this is a First Contact.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27845.0, USS Enlightenment, Captain Demari Iekn
(Renaissance, SBZ)
Concord has abruptly dropped off of our sensors while transiting nearby space.
Neither we nor Starfleet Command have been able to contact Concord in the last three days.
We are proceeding with all due caution and haste to their last reported position and will conduct search operations.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27846.1, USS Exeter, Captain Xansad Lalen
(Constitution-B, Apinae)
We have met the Ur'razzi. Short, squat bipeds, resembling Tellarites but with reddish skin tones, they're just as hostile, if not even more so. They were enraged that we had 'stolen' their language (by being able to communicate using the UT), their people (apparently, people resembling me had been abducting Ur'razzi as recently as three decades ago, likely Syndicate members), and their 'patrimony' (by settling Corvadia, the nearest habitable world to their space). They refused to meet me in person, and were on the verge of leaving outright, but when I notified them that an ambassador would be here tomorrow, they agreed to stay the day.
Technologically, they appear to be a bit behind NX-era Earth.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27846.8, USS Concord, Captain Quentin Raleigh
(Renaissance, SBZ)
Croatan's colonists are gone.
The entire system is bare of any trace of them or any indication where they went.
All we have are the half disassembled remains of the colony site. At the very least whatever happened to the colonists doesn't seem to have happened in a panic. It almost looks like an orderly evacuation.
Curious.
We'll continue our search of the system and I am considering bringing in additional ships for a widened search as well as rechecking recent Sydraxian raiding activities..
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27847.1, USS Exeter, Captain Xansad Lalen
(Constitution-B, Apinae)
Ambassador Darras has been kidnapped! She beamed aboard the Ur'razzi flagship six hours ago with an aide, as the Ur'razzi had requested; shortly after, the Ur'razzi flagship went into warp, the others warning us not to pursue or we'd risk the lives of the Ambassador and her aide. They will apparently be held as hostages until we evacuate Corvadia and return the abductees.
Corvadia isn't exactly the most populous colony around; had the Ur'razzi not resorted to threats, I'm sure we could have negotiated an agreement to share the planet or give it to them. As it is, I suspect the Indorians won't be in an agreeable mood. As for the abductees ... well, the life expectancy of a Syndicate slave was often quite short. I can't help but suspect that they're, unfortunately, dead.
In the meantime, we need to get our ambassador back. Exeter will jam communications, while we go to warp, intercept the flagship, and force it out of warp. Hopefully, they don't have transporter inhibitors. If they do ... we'll figure something out.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27847.6, USS Enlightenment, Captain Demari Iekn
(Renaissance, SBZ)
We've offloaded the Croatan colonists from Hersque.
I've given my thanks to Conductor Xovexi for her timely rescue of our colonists from the Croatan colony.
While it is embarrassing that Starfleet itself was unable to reach the colony in time, it's good to know that the member fleets can carry off such daring rescues with such aplomb.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27848.5, Ensign Anna St. James
(Exeter, Constitution-B, Apinae)
Today was an interesting reminder that just because someone seems hostile, that doesn't make them your enemy.
The Ur'razzi had taken our ambassador hostage. They were lurking in the system, transporter inhibitors up throughout the ship. The Captain apparently worried that they'd shoot the ambassador the moment they saw shuttles, so a shuttle assault was out. Which, he seems to have assumed, left an assault in vacsuits. I'm not a security officer, but I'm apparently Enkindle's best-rated crewer in zero-G, so I got picked to join the assault.
We beamed near the hull, jetpacked onto it, cut our way into an access shaft, sealed the breach, and immediately discovered that the Ur'razzi didn't have gravity plating or any other artificial gravity systems aboard. Good thing we had the jetpacks. Our initial plan was to disperse knockout gas through the ship's ventilation systems, but when we dropped a gas grenade into engineering, we discovered that anesthezine doesn't work on Ur'razzi. We'd have to do this the hard way.
At least we knew exactly where the Ambassador and her aide were being held. On the bridge, of course, which meant fighting our way through the entire ship to get there. And we assumed we had to get there without anyone aboard knowing, or they'd kill the hostages rather than let us free them. So we quickly cut our way up the ship, stunning everyone in sight.
When we got to the bridge, two things were immediately apparent. One, Ambassador Darras and her aide weren't hostages; two, they hadn't realized Starfleet had boarded the ship, rather than some pirate group.
There had apparently been a serious misunderstanding; the Ur'razzi had presumed that we were the same people who had abducted members of their species. When Ambassador Darras had explained that her people had purged themselves of the Syndicate, the Ur'razzi had realized their mistake - but were unable to communicate with the rest of their fleet. Not long after, they'd run into our subspace trap and been forcibly dropped out of warp, and shortly after that, we boarded them.
Everyone involved had assumed the worst of each other. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed.
[10 pp for 'rescuing' Ambassador Darras and her aide.
First Contact with the Ur'razzi (located coreward side of -4f): 15/100.]
Off to a Bad Start: 0/100
Aggressive: 0/100
Obsolete Technology: 0/300
Aggressive: 0/100
Obsolete Technology: 0/300
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27849.0, USS Concord, Captain Quentin Raleigh
(Renaissance, SBZ)
We've linked up with Enlightenment. It seems that Captain Iekn was able to reach the colony first and conduct an evacuation of the Croatan colonists before the magnetic subversion took place.
Concord will be returning to patrol while Iekn delivers the colonists to Starbase 2.
[SI NOTE: As you may not be aware, sir, there are no habitable worlds in the TXA-331 system. Nor has the UE or any Federation member ever founded a colony named "Croatan".
Nor have the Sydraxians ever commissioned a vessel called "Hersque" or currently have an officer named "Conductor Xovexi" in service with their fleet. And obviously they have never been a Federation member.
Subsequent follow up with Captain Raleigh on Concord shows that they have been busy updating our charts of the TXA-331 system and other nearby ones over the last month and have no knowledge of the "Croatan" Colonists. Captain Iekn similarly has no knowledge of Coatan colony as Enlightenment has been on patrol. Starbase 2 also reports that they have never received colonists from Captain Iekn.
Nevertheless we have a number of verified genuine logs, each with accompanying data, all of which conflict with each other and our own timeline of events.
On the other hand Office 0 has been delighted to receive the data and have informed us that everything is fine... and DTI assures us that the Croatan colonists are being well looked after.]
[Gained 15 rp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27849.2, USS Ambassador, Captain Zolani Volanen
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
This is it. We're two weeks out from our stop over at Terminus Station and Ambassador has officially left Gabriel and the borders of the Federation behind us.
My current planned course will take us out to the Shans system and then out into deep space loosely following the trail blazed by Stargazer and Tarrak.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27849.5, USS Pathfinder, Captain Nora Chandrasekhar
(Excelsior-A, CBZ)
Another day, another accidental Prime Directive violation for me to clean up.
It seems that a decade ago an ancient derelict drifted into the orbit of Bothana VI and made atmospheric entry onto the smallest inhabited Bothanan continent.
Which is usually not really our problem, as bits of derelict and meteors are often indistinguishable to bronze age natives.
What is our problem is when enough of the ship has survived that it's main computer is able to give orders to the locals as if they were it's crew.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27850, USS Ambassador, Captain Zolani Volanen
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
We've found one of the Atemporal Waves that Tarrak reported in the area.
It's… different from the Atemporal waves that we saw in the other Sol.
It's sweeping around the Star Morgana-1321 in an arc. Not simply in orbit, one end is anchored almost directly on the Star itself, and the rest of the wave stretches out in a radius of over sixty AUs and takes just over twelve hours to make a complete sweep of the system and emitting unusual forms of radiation.
We're going to keep a respectable distance and launch probes in.
Captain's Log, Stardate 27850.5, USS Pathfinder, Captain Nora Chandrasekhar
(Excelsior-A, CBZ)
Fluffy-Puffy has arrived to help. I appreciate the extra set of eyes, though I think we're already on the verge of solving the problem.
The computer doesn't seem to deliberately giving orders to the natives. It simply thinks they are its crew. They don't understand any of the technical directives, so they haven't learned anything technological, but a mystery religion with frankly unsettling authoritarian mores is forming around the hulk of the derelict and I'm not happy about it.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27851.1, USS Ambassador, Captain Zolani Volanen
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
First thing is first: this particular Atemporal wave only seems to transmit in one direction, matter and electromagnetic signals that approach the wave are rapidly turned into a mix of what we think are Chroniton particles and Cyanoacrylatic radiation which is reradiated back towards their point of origin via a process that we are simply utterly unable to understand.
The radiation that seems to be naturally transmitted bears a chronometric signature of over Sixty seven Trillion years in the future. I suspect this wave is somehow a small window into the end of the universe.
We're going to approach slightly closer and inspect the wave's wake as it sweeps around the star.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27852.1, USS Pathfinder, Captain Nora Chandrasekhar
(Excelsior-A, CBZ)
Problem dealt with. Well, as much as we can. The religion is still in place, but we were able to send a shut off signal to the computer and swoop in to retrieve all of the functional components.
Thankfully the mystery religion had kept the site a mostly restricted location and the application of chemical somnulants and weather seeding covered our operations.
I'm praying that without an obvious supernatural inspiration and a constant stream of hard to interpret orders from a god the religion will begin to lose it's traction and harmful impact. It's a vain hope, but we can't get involved past this. And I can't even think of way that we could helpfully intervene even if we wanted to.
Sometimes all you can do is harm reduction.
[Gained +12rp]
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Bridge Transcript, USS Ambassador, Stardate 27852.2
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
[Cpt Volanen] I've got a bad feeling about this.
[Lt-Cmdr Nixa] Ma'am? Did you say something?
[Cpt Volanen] Nothing important Commander.
[Lt-Cmdr Nguyen] Captain, we are recording what I believe are trace amounts of Vynyr particles.
[Lt-Cmdr Nixa] Vynyr Particles?
[Lt-Cmdr Nguyen] First theorised in 10976HE, by the famed Orion physicist Shyzyli Vynyr; these particles were the first seriously considered answer to Ican's paradox. Dr Vynyr claimed that the idea of the particl-
[Cpt Volanen] Commander. It's radiation produced when Antichronitons decay in contact with any form of quantum phen-
[Cpt Volanen] Back us off! BACK US OFF!
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27852.2, USS Sommerfield
(Centaur-B, Vulcan)
Sommerfield has been detailed to provide security to the diplomatic conference currently scheduled to get underway on Vulcan between the Romulan Star Empire and the Federation with regards to the future status of the jointly administered colony located on Athos V.
Though the Athos V colony has been a beacon of interstellar cooperation and stability for nearly two decades there are a number of legal and administrative issues that built up during the war years and are now finally being attended too.
The Romulan Star Empire will be represented by Propraetor Caevis and the Federation is being represented by Ambassadors Lux and Eristiss.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27852.4, USS Ambassador, Captain Zolani Volanen
(Explorer Corps, Ambassador)
That could have ended badly. Ambassador almost ran into a quantum filament that seems to be gravitationally tied to the Atemporal wave's wake.
As this is impossible for the obvious reasons we were unable to predict the filament's presence until we were almost on top of the filament.
Even if we had survived the impact, we would have almost certainly been destroyed by the Atemporal wave when it swept back around Morgana-1321.
This phenomenon is an utterly fascinating bit of impossibility sitting just outside of Federation space. Due to the regularity and permanence of such an interesting phenomenon I am recommending that Starfleet set up a permanent science station in the Morgana-1321 system to study this system's… everything, even if Ambassador can't process and understand ninety-nine percent of what we're seeing here.
[Morgana-1321 rp Colony located at (Coreward region of f,3) +5(8) RP per month]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27852.6, USS Whale, Captain Toressa Lalen
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
We're picking up an unidentified warp wake on a meandering course towards Federation space.
Whale will be moving to intercept this new contact, and as its course has taken it loosely from the direction of Lecarre space we will be taking all appropriate precautions.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27855.1, USS Sommerfield
(Centaur-B, Vulcan)
I am officially stating, on record, that I believe the conference is being sabotaged by interests hostile to the Federation.
Multiple incidents have occurred over the past three days which lead me to this conclusion. The following is a curated list of the most serious incidents:
One: Starfleet security staff were transferred away from their posts by legitimate looking orders whose origin is completely obscured.
Two: Propraetor Caevis's allergy notifications to the catering staff were misplaced, resulting in a minor medical incident which, though dealt with quickly and efficiently, still make the diplomatic service and Starfleet look incompetent.
Three: the conference facility's translation matrix was wiped and a half day of effort was lost to technical maintenance.
In addition are a large number of other smaller incidents such as the Propraetor's luggage being misplaced, environmental control misets, and scheduling errors that seem innocuous enough but added together create a pattern of mischief aimed at disrupting the talks.
Most worryingly, many of these attacks could only have been engineered with information and access provided by the security clearances provided to the conference's lower level Starfleet and Diplomatic Service participants.
I will be taking my concerns directly to Ambassadors Lux and Eristiss.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27855.7, USS Whale, Captain Toressa Lalen
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
We have identified the contact as an Imperial Orion light cruiser design of indeterminate age and design with no IFF identifier and sensor dampening technology in place across the main hull.
Long distance communications have failed to make contact and Eclipse is joining us in an intercept in case this vessel is another potentially hostile Eternal Empire remnant.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27856.1, USS Korolev, Captain T'lav
(Constitution-B, Vulcan)
Korolev has been called in to provide additional security to a diplomatic conference currently underway on Vulcan.
Sommerfield's captain and both FDS Ambassadors believe that the talks are being undermined by an agent placed within the conference's junior staff and Korolev is being called in to provide additional uncompromised staff who will operate on a separate network for security purposes with only both Captains and both Ambassadors having access to both networks.
Though these measures will reduce efficiency, these losses will be more than compensates for by decreased potential for the conference to end in failure.
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Bridge Transcript, USS Whale, Stardate 27856.3
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
[Cpt Lalen] Hail them.
[Lt Aishel] Aye ma'am, hailing the cruiser. No response to subspace comms. Moving to other methods… Connection on Laser arrays. Light lag of one second. Go ahead ma'am.
[Cpt Lalen] This is Captain Toressa Lalen of the Federa-
[Lt-Cmdr Leif] The ship is increasing power generation by 142%. We're being hit with high intensity scans!
[Cpt Lalen] BACK US OFF-
[???] Ship to Ship communications frequencies open. Communications established with Whale. Message to Mistress Lalen: Contact from Maiden of Dawn. Attempting transmission… Failure. Attempting transmission… Failure. Attempting database access… Failure. Attempting repairs… Failure. Diverting resources to main computer core...
[Cmdr Velx] I'm seeing power surges across the ship... She's falling apart!
[Maiden of Dawn] Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Main computer at sixty percent efficiency and falling.
Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Mothers, I want to come home.
Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Computer efficiency at fifty-nine point nine percent and falling.
Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Mothers, I'm scared.
Message to Whale from Maiden of Dawn: Computer efficiency at fifty-nine point eight percent and falling.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27856.5, USS Sommerfield
(Centaur-B, Vulcan)
That seems to have taken care of things. The sabotage has stopped and the conference is proceeding smoothly.
All that remains now is to keep things humming along and to narrow down our lost of subjects until we have our saboteur.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27857.7, USS Whale, Captain Toressa Lalen
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
Maiden of Dawn was a long range exploratory ship launched at the height of the Orion Empire.
One of twenty such ships, Maiden of Dawn and her sisters were built to the same standards the we require from Exploration Corps vessels. She had a crew of two hundred and sixty of the finest officers and crew that the Imperial Navy could produce backed up by an additional two hundred of the most capable contractors from across the Empire.
Ten of those vessels returned home to great acclaim and fanfare. Five were confirmed lost and their crews recovered. Five, including Maiden of Dawn, went missing in action and a memorial to them still exists on the airless rock that is Orion. Their fates remained unknown for over a millennium.
Until today.
Maiden of Dawn is unable to tell us where she has been and what happened to her crew as the ship's ancient duotronic databanks are half destroyed.
But the ship is. Well. How to- I don't know how to… No one on either Whale or Eclipse is qualified to make the determination, but Maiden of Dawn's computer seems to have become sapient and sentient over the course of her journey.
The ship is a mess of Imperial Orion tech equivalent to that of our old Constitution class vessels and a hodgepodge of alien tech and hasty repairs from a variety of sources.
We're doing our best, but Maiden of Dawn is… dying
When the ship woke up from low powered mode her damaged systems were unable to compensate for the increased power and resource consumption of general operations. And we can't put the ship back into low power mode without almost certainly killing Maiden of Dawn's AI.
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27858.8, USS Korolev, Captain T'lav
(Constitution-B, Vulcan)
We've narrowly avoided a negative outcome event.
One of the random system checks that I had ordered detected a backdoor into Korolev's systems that had been placed there by a Trojan horse network virus.
Initially, our analysis of the intrusion program led us to believe that this had been a Tal Shiar attempt to infiltrate the local defence network and lay the groundwork for future expansions of access into our systems.
However, acting under information obtained by Starfleet Intelligence I was able to determine that this particular virus had been tailor developed to access our embassy facilities in the Arcadian Empire, and that several aspects related to this made it unlikely to be a virus intended for use on Vulcan. Including the fact that the virus possessed all the hallmarks of being programmed by the notorious Tal Shiar hacker "Jade Raptor" who had been killed during the intense back and forth of the Fyriae Purge.
I realized that this virus must have been planted by either Sommerfield's captain or one of the Ambassadors.
Taking Korolev to Sol for a direct face to face contact with FDS High Ambassador revealed that Ambassador Lux did not, and never had existed. All documentation and communications to and from Vulcan had been manipulated to ensure that the infiltrator playing the part of Ambassador Lux was involved in the talks.
On our return to Vulcan we determined that Ambassador Lux had disappeared and all references to his existence in local databases had been scrubbed.
Subsequent investigations reveal that "Ambassador Lux" had worked his way into his position through a complex series of hacks that began with an unsecured network governing Vulcan waste disposal scheduling.
At the moment, the only remaining references to the man's existence are in the permanent logs of Korolev and Sommerfield as well as the memories of the conference's attendees.
I am recommending to Starfleet Intelligence that Federation network security protocols see a major review.
[Gain+ 20pp]
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27859.0, USS Whale, Captain Toressa Lalen
(Centaur-B, Rethelia)
We've had a breakthrough and managed to halt Maiden of Dawn's death spiral. Or at least slow it to a manageable rate.
We were able to use the systems from Whale's shuttle complement to tie into the main computer and reduce the strain on Maiden's ancient systems, and around the clock assistance from the engineering crews of both Eclipse and Whale have kept the worst of the decay in check.
At the insistence of Maiden herself I will be remaining aboard her while we set a course to repair facilities at Alukk. In the meantime USS Bulwark has been dispatched to help us keep Maiden functional while we finally bring her home.
[Gain 12rp. Maiden of Dawn returned to Orion space. Onboard AI is cooperative if traumatized, specialists en route to Alukk]
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Tried to take concerns about log formatting onboard.
Due to power limitations, I didnt get many eyes on this other than myself before post. If anything particulatirly enrages you because I missed something obvious, that's all on me.
Good night e'rebody!
Due to power limitations, I didnt get many eyes on this other than myself before post. If anything particulatirly enrages you because I missed something obvious, that's all on me.
Good night e'rebody!