Editing Starfleet Academy (section)

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During his Senior year, Starfleet requested Cadet [[Maraht the Horta|Maraht]]'s help with the search and rescue of some children that had been reported missing and suspected of becoming trapped in one of the old mine shafts in the hills around the old historic ghost mining town of Leadville in the Rocky Mountains on Earth on the North American continent.

Though the tourists had been warned repeatedly to not wonder into the mines, three children disobeyed their parents and dared each other to enter the mine at dusk and remain there until dawn. When part of the mine collapsed and trapped two of the three children, the third was able to escape to get help. [[Maraht the Horta|Maraht]] was asked to help in the search and rescue efforts to find the children due to his natural expertise in sensing underground vibration and detecting underground structural weakness. 

[[Maraht the Horta|Maraht]] was able to get oxygen, limited light, and water to the children in time and then protected them from further harm in the dark by guiding them to safer passages before helping them out of the honeycomb of shafts and dangerous ledges and drop offs. Because of him, they did not panic and were able to survive their two day ordeal without injury. 

The entire incident brought a reluctant Cadet [[Maraht the Horta|Maraht]] into the attention of the media. Though publicly touted as a hero, he found himself the object of hate mail from the often violent group called [[Humans for Humanity]]. They later made an attempt to kidnap him from the campus, possibly to make an example of him, and were unsuccessful due to the fact that they had underestimated Cadet [[Maraht the Horta|Maraht]]'s voracity, speed and size. Most of the local cell group were captured.

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