Garuda Mission History: Difference between revisions

The USS ''Garuda'' returned to Deep Space Ten for some much-needed shore leave, and the crew enjoyed their time relaxing and recovering from the previous mission. However, their time to recuperate was cut short when, without warning, alarms blasted and quarantine containment doors sealed across the station. The crew were stranged in small groups throughout the station and needed to deal with the rising panic among the civilians -- a process made much more difficult by the recent Federation/Cardassian treaty that put the station under the join control of Starfleet and the Cardassian Union's space navy. After the idea that the crisis was just a malfunction was ruled out, a number of the Cardassians on the station started becoming sick -- showing symptoms such as bleeding from the mouth and nose, accompanied with violent coughing. Some of them even needed emergency resuscitation. To make matters worse, Captain Egan Manno and the ''Garuda'' were summoned away just minutes after the crisis began on an urgent mission for Starfleet, leaving the remaining crew under acting-CO Lieutenant Commander Nia Calderan to find out what had caused the quarantine systems to engage and to keep the station's population from falling victim to whatever the pathogen might be. Things seemed to have stabilised when Doctor Chythar Skyfire isolated a virus from an early patient and began working on a cure, and a team under command advocate Lieutenant Commander Msafiri Bakari tried to get the station's systems back online; but this was ended when a chilling video message was broadcast across all monitors in the station. Terrorists calling themselves the Maquis Reborn announced their connection with the release of the virus, and to prove their seriousness, murdered the Cardassian CO of the station live on air.

Following the bombing of Deep Space 10's main medical center by Nikael Kalre and the Maquis Reborn, the Garuda crew worked quickly to regain control of the situation before Kalre's imposed time limit for his demands -- that the Federation release all remaining Maquis prisoners -- ran out.