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O'Neill and Sanok made some progress by visiting the Traveler's Hall, an establishment that was similar to a large lodge house for travelers. There was some confusion about how to acquire rooms although in the end it was finally arranged. Three rooms, each with a bed, which was uncommon, coast the crew 20 kip. | O'Neill and Sanok made some progress by visiting the Traveler's Hall, an establishment that was similar to a large lodge house for travelers. There was some confusion about how to acquire rooms although in the end it was finally arranged. Three rooms, each with a bed, which was uncommon, coast the crew 20 kip. | ||
== Through the Gates of Hell == | == Through the Gates of Hell == | ||
[[File: | [[File:Aowa Corridor.jpg|thumb|left|400px|The Corridor of the Terraforming Facility on Solyon]] | ||
While the away team on [[Asrai Prime]] continued with their mission to locate any sort of advanced technology that may prove the key to saving the inhabitants of that [[planet]], the [[USS Rosenante]] under the command of [[Rank|Commander]] [[T'Larah Sullivan]] has returned to the [[Rogue Planet]] [[Solyon]] in the hopes of conduting further investigation into the origins of that strange world. | While the away team on [[Asrai Prime]] continued with their mission to locate any sort of advanced technology that may prove the key to saving the inhabitants of that [[planet]], the [[USS Rosenante]] under the command of [[Rank|Commander]] [[T'Larah Sullivan]] has returned to the [[Rogue Planet]] [[Solyon]] in the hopes of conduting further investigation into the origins of that strange world. | ||
After conducting some advanced scans, a series of geometric underground structures were detected. As they were too deep to allow the investigation team to beam into them directly an alternate plan was formulated. | After conducting some advanced scans, a series of geometric underground structures were detected. As they were too deep to allow the investigation team to beam into them directly an alternate plan was formulated. | ||
[[File:HER-HUD.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The <strong>H</strong>azardous <strong>E</strong>nvironment <strong>R</strong>ebreather and <strong>HUD</strong> or HER-HUD]] | |||
[[File:P-CADD.jpg|thumb|right|300px|<strong>P</strong>olymer <strong>Ca</strong>psule <strong>D</strong>eployment <strong>D</strong>evice or P-CADD]] | |||
The plan involved rappelling down one of the Volcanic shafts found at Site Alpha on the planet. Due to the plasma discharges taking place inside those same chutes, the timing of the operation had to be very precise. The plasma discharges paused approximately every three hours and the pause only lasted for a short 25 minutes. Due to the hazardous nature of the operation, the team would need to rappel almost simultaneously down the same chute. In this manner they would gain access to the corridors below the shaft which in turn would allow them access to the greater complex. | |||
Due to the unusually high concentration of Ozone and other oxygen pockets inside the chute, the team was required to wear a special Starfleet <strong>H</strong>azardous <strong>E</strong>nvironment <strong>R</strong>ebreather and <strong>HUD</strong> or [[HER-HUD]]. In addition the team could not use phasers or torches to burn through the floor of the shaft. Instead they deployed using the a <strong>P</strong>olymer <strong>Ca</strong>psule <strong>D</strong>eployment <strong>D</strong>evice or [[P-CADD]]. The polymer, caused a rapid endothermic reaction which flash-froze alloyed metals and made them shatter as they contracted. These devices were carried by the [[Starfleet Rangers]] assigned to the team. | Due to the unusually high concentration of Ozone and other oxygen pockets inside the chute, the team was required to wear a special Starfleet <strong>H</strong>azardous <strong>E</strong>nvironment <strong>R</strong>ebreather and <strong>HUD</strong> or [[HER-HUD]]. In addition the team could not use phasers or torches to burn through the floor of the shaft. Instead they deployed using the a <strong>P</strong>olymer <strong>Ca</strong>psule <strong>D</strong>eployment <strong>D</strong>evice or [[P-CADD]]. The polymer, caused a rapid endothermic reaction which flash-froze alloyed metals and made them shatter as they contracted. These devices were carried by the [[Starfleet Rangers]] assigned to the team. | ||
Upon gaining entry to the lower facility, [[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Thomas Jackson]] set up Transport Enhancers, to allow the away team to beam out of the facility as an emergency counter measure. The teams them spread out to look for clues. | Upon gaining entry to the lower facility, [[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Thomas Jackson]] set up Transport Enhancers, to allow the away team to beam out of the facility as an emergency counter measure. The teams them spread out to look for clues. | ||
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To Boldly Go
After conducting a series of critical repairs following the conflict with the Borg on Dovek II, the USS Rosenante and the USS Boudicca finally part ways.
The Rosenante, is tasked with the a true exploration and survey mission, reminiscent of the original five year missions carried out by the Constitution Class starships of the 22nd century.
Salid, excited about the prospect of such a mission is pleased to find his enthusiasm shared by the crew, as morale seems to be at an all-time high with the announcement of the mission.
Their official Orders are to explore and survey Sector 6309 a massive uncharted are of space which is known to border upon the United Federation of Planets, the Romulan Star Empire and the Cardassian Union. The majority of this sector lies within the confines of the Beta Quadrant, and technically contains the Dovek System.
With the aid of the Darson Deep Space Array Captain Salid has decided to begin their investigation by charting and surveying a Rogue Planet named Solyon in the Asrai language. This world was originally named Rogue One, until it was discovered that the Asrai had already named it.
After some surveys on the planet's surface it was discovered that the rogue planet was on a path that would disrupt the orbital path of the planet Asrai Prime.
The Away Teams
Three away teams were assembled for the purpose of conducting scientific surveys on the rogue planet. The teams were assigned by Commander T'Larah Sullivan
Alpha Team
- Commander T'Larah Sullivan
- Lieutenant Eian O'Neill
- Ensign Jessica Signos
- Ensign David Spenser
- Crewman Andrew Maddox
Bravo Team
- Commander Jennifer Caskie
- Lieutenant Ben Soma
- Lieutenant David Tamblyn
- Lieutenant Chance Raschen
- Ensign Emma Leep
Delta Team
- Commander Steven Matrix
- Lieutenant Sanok
- Lieutenant Viskhard
- Ensign Pembrook Carter
- Master Chief Petty Officer Nathan Allen Fuller
Alpha Site
Alpha team determined a survey site that offered a glimpse at the potential volcanism and the proliferation of life on the Rogue Planet. The site was roughly a 20-kilometer area dominated by large ash spewing volcanic plumes. Around these plumes the temperature was more tolerable than in other locations, and a variety of life forms had developed.
The life forms included bacteria, protozoas, nematodes, insect-like analogs, algae analogs, crustaceans, and aerial jellyfish analogs. All of these life forms flourished within a few hundred meters of the smoke plumes and seemed bound to the immediate area as some of them did not seem well adapted for the colder climes that dominated the remainder of the world.
Ensign Spenser took several samples of the small semi-liquid pools in the area, as well as some of the insects and algae. While this was being undertaken, Maddox had reprogrammed some of the specialist nanites that he had brought and decided to deploy them into one of the Volcanic vents.
The plumes proved to be very carbon rich, and filled with basic amino acid chains.There were high concentrations of methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and o-zone. This was unusual because Ozone wasn't normally found in volcanic venting. in addition there was very little few sulfates and nitrates other than nitric oxides present in the plume's exhaust. Spenser theorized that there was a lightning storm taking place underground.
Maddox's nanites were able to collect data gave gave a strong indication that an artificial electrical discharge was ongoing deep below ground and that was in fact part of a Terraforming effort on the rogue planet.
The discovery by Lieutenant Eian O'Neill of an unidentified humanoid bone, immediately opened questions of the possibility of current or prior inhabitation by a sentient species. With the aid of Ensign Jessica Signos they secured the specimen and transported it back to the Medical Labs aboard the USS Rosenante.
Bravo Site
Bravo Team, commanded by Commander Jennifer Caskie selected a site that was dominated by a glacial boxed valley, and flanked on either side by steep sides. On one side of the valley the walls were capped in steep cliff faces and a small plateau.
Ensign Emma Leep, the teams primary geologist, went about collecting rock samples and performing chemical analysis of the site. The purpose was to determine general planetary composition, magnetic field variations and formative/destructive forces.
During these studies, while performing a tricorder scan, Leep detected an unexplained Gravimetric pulse that corresponded with a small ground tremor. As the planet had no tectonic plates or movement, it was quickly deduced that this pulse was responsible for keeping the molten iron core motive and at high temperature.
As gravimetric pulses can not exist as natural phenomenon, it was very apparent that this was an artificial means of maintaining a magnetosphere capable of fending off cosmic radiation.
Delta Site
Delta team's survey site was located on a frozen small ice covered sea. The team used a Crawler taken from the exploratory stores kept aboard the Rosenante. They also took a mobile ice core rig, and several emergency shelters.
Of all the teams, the Delta team, had the most distance to cover, as they were taking ice core samples over an area of several square kilometers. As a result they were also the most heavily equipped and carried the most survival equipment.
In addition to the ice core collection tasks, the teams also established mobile weather relay stations, and conducted sea floor soundings. It was during one of these soundings that the team discovered a refined alloyed object, constructed of tritanium. The object proved to e a heated liquid flow valve, and was seen to be refining water into life-sustaining ph levels and toxicity levels. This was the third indication that the Rogue Planet was being actively Terraformed.
Strange New Worlds
While the away teams were conducting geochemical and climactic studies on the surface of the Rogue Planet, the stellar Cartography teams aboard the USS Rosenante were conducting studies and surveys of their own.
They had mapped out the rough trajectory of the rogue planet and had determined that it would pass through a Binary star system within Sector 6309.
This system appeared to have a single planet orbiting it. That planet appeared to be inhabited. It appeared that the planet's inhabitants, the Asrai, were at a technological stage of development that was similar to the pre-industrial age of Earth. However, refinement of the trajectory data for the rogue planet indicated that the rogue would significantly disrupt the orbit of the planet, Asrai Prime. Due to their apparent technological development, the planet fell firmly into the confines of the Prime Directive. Unless the crew of the Rosenante could prove that the Asrai were already aware of life beyond their world, that they possessed advanced technology akin to warp drive, or that the rogue planet had been purposely deflected on this destructive path through artificial means, the crew would be forced to watch as the planet, and all it's inhabitants were destroyed.
Captain Salid asked for volunteers to lead an away mission to Asrai Prime with the hopes of collecting evidence that the Prime Directive did not apply, and that the Rosenante could therefore intervene. A good many of the ship's senior company joined the away team. They were Ahmed Ibn Salid, Ben Soma. Sanok, Viskhard, Steven Wade Matrix, Eian O'Neill, Jessica Signos, Jennifer Caskie, Mike Rosenbauer, Tayla Fraiser, Parker Davis, and David Michael Tamblyn.
The Rosenante, under the command of T'Larah Sullivan and Chance Raschen would continue to conduct studies of the Rogue planet in the hopes of uncovering some useful information about the small planetoid.
New Civilizations
Upon arrival at Asrai Prime Mike Rosenbauer was transported down to the surface to conduct intelligence on the inhabitants. He took medical scans, made cultural observations and determined the general political and cultural structure of the Asrai.
When he returned to the ship two hours later the medical team of Jennifer Caskie and Tayla Fraiser began the cosmetic alteration procedures on the away team that would allow them to infiltrate the population. The determined site of their excursion would be Celdebrai City, the planetary capital.
The away team would assume the cover story of a traveling merchant family. They would have a family structure, and a group of body guards that would provide them protection. This was consistent with Rosenbauer's observations during his time on the planet.
The crew would establish a rough base of operations, from which to conduct their studies. They would beam into the confines of the city, to avoid any unwanted attention along the roadway. One of the worries for the team was the fact that the Asrai communicated some portion of their language with physical gestures which the universal translator was unable to duplicate or translate. This would mean a greater than normal change of miscommunication. Despite this, the need to attempt to save the nearly two-billion inhabitants of the planet outweighed the worries.
When in Rome
The away team beamed down to the surface, arriving in a narrow alleyway near the western edge of the city. Upon arrival, Captain Salid dispersed his personnel to take a look around with the hopes of locating any information of use to the teams.
As there were various markets, three of the teams went there in an attempt to gather basic financial intelligence involving the use, value and body language and interactions that may be found in the market places.
The Markets proved to be very similar to a traditional Middle Eastern Style Bizarre found on Earth. There were a large variety of wares, ranging from exotic pets and foodstuffs, to refined textiles and works of art. The area proved exceptionally crowded and so there was a unique opportunity to observe the local culture in tight quarters.
During the time there, the Away teams discovered the three primary types of coins used by the Asrai. They are, in descending order of value; the Kip, Bancor and the Kenal.
At a nearby cafe, Salid and Caskie managed to successfully order two mugs of Chala, a hot caffeinated beverage which proved to be very tasty, and some Habi, which was a deep fried thick noodle-like pastry served with a local vegetable paste for dipping.
While Salid and Caskie were taking in the local cuisine in an attempt to observe people, Signos plied the crowd of the market place under the guise of their young daughter. She successfully managed to purchase a local flower called a Lun'ette.
This rare flower was beautiful enough that Signos adopted it's name as a cover for herself during their time on the planet.
Meanwhile Soma and Rosenbauer visited a local Shrine of the Sacred Light, which contained an artificial beam of light whose power source and means of operation were not readily apparent to them. They managed to speak with a member of the Scholars of the Reliquary that told them a very old story detailing the origins of the light. This was the first time that the term Solyon, the Destroyer was heard by the crew.
O'Neill and Sanok made some progress by visiting the Traveler's Hall, an establishment that was similar to a large lodge house for travelers. There was some confusion about how to acquire rooms although in the end it was finally arranged. Three rooms, each with a bed, which was uncommon, coast the crew 20 kip.
Through the Gates of Hell
While the away team on Asrai Prime continued with their mission to locate any sort of advanced technology that may prove the key to saving the inhabitants of that planet, the USS Rosenante under the command of Commander T'Larah Sullivan has returned to the Rogue Planet Solyon in the hopes of conduting further investigation into the origins of that strange world.
After conducting some advanced scans, a series of geometric underground structures were detected. As they were too deep to allow the investigation team to beam into them directly an alternate plan was formulated.
The plan involved rappelling down one of the Volcanic shafts found at Site Alpha on the planet. Due to the plasma discharges taking place inside those same chutes, the timing of the operation had to be very precise. The plasma discharges paused approximately every three hours and the pause only lasted for a short 25 minutes. Due to the hazardous nature of the operation, the team would need to rappel almost simultaneously down the same chute. In this manner they would gain access to the corridors below the shaft which in turn would allow them access to the greater complex.
Due to the unusually high concentration of Ozone and other oxygen pockets inside the chute, the team was required to wear a special Starfleet Hazardous Environment Rebreather and HUD or HER-HUD. In addition the team could not use phasers or torches to burn through the floor of the shaft. Instead they deployed using the a Polymer Capsule Deployment Device or P-CADD. The polymer, caused a rapid endothermic reaction which flash-froze alloyed metals and made them shatter as they contracted. These devices were carried by the Starfleet Rangers assigned to the team.
Upon gaining entry to the lower facility, Lieutenant Thomas Jackson set up Transport Enhancers, to allow the away team to beam out of the facility as an emergency counter measure. The teams them spread out to look for clues.
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