The Gilded Man

Prologue

The USS Champlain

In late 2406, during the Federation Civil War, the USS Champlain entered the Irlix system to investigate the anomolous sensor readings that had detected a Federation Warp signature in this otherwise unexplored system.

The Champlain entered the system only to discover that the local inhabitants, the Irlixians had somehow developed a Federation style Warp drive despite the fact that the records did not indicate that the United Federation of Planets had made contact with this species, nor had they explored this region of space.

The USS Wyvern

In an attempt to gather some intelligence, and make some sense of their readings, the Champlain's operations team attempted to hack into the Irlixian starship's computer system. However, before they could gather any useful information, their attack was detected and stopped.

To make matters worse, A Doenitz Loyalist starship, the USS Wyvern, decloaked and attacked the Champlain. In the attack, the Captain of the Champlain was killed and the First officer incapacitated. The end result, however, was that the Wyvern was captured and both Federation starships left the system without investigating the sensor readings further.

The USS Bohrs

The USS Bohrs

In 2314, nearly a decade after the Champlain's initial sensor readings of a Federation- style warp signature, the USS Bohrs, a Mission Scout vessel, (NCC-369477) was dispatched to follow-up on those inital findings.

The Bohrs proceeded to the Irlix system and utilizing her Cloaking device began to collect cultural and military data in an attempt to isolate the original source of the initial Federation warp signature.

The Bohrs was on station for only a few weeks, when a computer attack shut down her cloaking device and left her vulnerable to attack by military starships belonging to the Rhone Union.

The Bohr's was captured and forced down on the planet Irlix, where it was stored in the Seliya Facility.

Khoda Rhone

Elsewhere on Irlix, in Khoda City, the Supreme Commander of the Rhone Union's military forces Khoda Rhone summons the Commanding Officer of the USS Bohrs, Captain Sarah Brightman for a meeting. He advises Brightman of his intentions with her crew, which is to use them to further their technological development. He then indicates that he has no need of a Federation Starship Captain, he then orders her executed there in his office.

Rhone, seems uneasy with the appearance of the Federation vessel, and this is most likely due to his past. He orders all units to be placed on alert as he anticipates a federation rescue effort to free the remaining federation prisoners held at the Seliya Facility.

The Rosenante

A few days after the capture of the Bohrs, the USS Rosenante was tasked with the rescue of the crew of the Bohrs as well as the recovery and/or destruction of the starship. As a secondary objective, they were tasked with the discovery of the sudden technological boost found in Irlixian society which was inconsistent with the rest of their technological development.

The Away Team

Because of a significant threat to the Rosenante, in light of the events leading up to the capture of the Bohrs, Captain Ahmed Ibn Salid decided to drop a cosmetically altered away team on the surface of the planet.

The away team consisted of:

• Lt. Cmdr. T'Larah Sullivan, aFO
• Lt. Chance Raschen, CSEC/CTAC
• Lt. Tom Jackson, COPs
• Ens. Mike Rosenbauer, SO
• Ens. Sanok, SO
• Ens. Kimiko Ichijo|aCMO
• Ens. Sam Lopez, ACMO
• Lt. Steven Wade Matrix, ACEO
• Ens. Mitena Rixx, aCEO
• Ens. Louis Remey, ACSO
• Ens. Robert Smith, AOPs

The Hotel Votul

After arriving in the Irlix system, the USS Rosenante approaches the planet from a polar orbit acheived by following a very broad hyperbolic course. Once in position, the Away Team is sent down to the planet's surface, specifically to Khoda City, in pairs, to minimize the chance of detection.

The Away Team made their way to the Hotel Votul, a buisness known locally for allowing Gab males and Mol females to mingle in a social setting where they would not normally be permitted to do so. The meeting place at the hotel is marked by an interplexing communications beacon set up by Chance Raschen. The final meeting spot was a public restroom on the first floor of the hotel.

Things get interesting when Mike Rosenbauer shows up with Ios Malinae, an Irlixian female, that he had 'rescued' earlier from an assault and attempted rape. Ios apparently recognized Mike's blood, seeping from a broken lip as belonging to a Human rather than an Irlixian. She then revealed through an encounter with her mother, Sola Malinae that she was associated with the secret Seliya Facility where the research and development of the Alien (Federation) technology was being studied and retro-engineered.

Taking a risk, Mike brought her to the meeting to allow Lieutenant Commander Sullivan a chance to question her and determine if she possessed any knowledge that may aid the Away Team in their mission.

She was not, however, the only visitor to arrive at the Hotel Votul.

Senior Detective Vilox Nigo, a member of the Special Police responsible for dealing with espionage inside the Rhine Union, detected the beacon and set into motion police resources in an attempt to capture the away team, which he believed were spies from one of the other major political powers on Irlix.

When the raid began, the away team put up more of a resistance than Vilox had anticipated and managed to escape although Sullivan, Louis Remey, Steve Matrix and others were injured in the fighting to some degree.

Thanks to the hard efforts of Sanok, the Away Team managed to escape the premises, narrowly dodging a perimeter of Police Snipers and pursuing law enforcement forces.