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 ==Summary==
-The Artemis, a cargo-variant of the Starfleet’s Odyssey class, was abandoned during a firefight with Tholians shortly after the fall of Astrofori One. Though Captain Felicia Nickson activated the ship’s autodestruct system after ordering abandon ship, the system apparently failed. Starfleet officials feared that both the ship and its classified cargo, which anonymous sources indicate was of a particularly sensitive nature, had been captured by the Tholians.
+After the Tholians suddenly attack and destroy the space station Astrofori One, Starfleet is on high alert, with ships being moved to prepare for further hostilities. Yet back in the Shoals, far from the rest of the fleet, the USS Veritas and USS Montreal are ordered to locate a lost Starfleet cargo ship, the USS Artemis, and secure its top-secret cargo before the Tholians are able to find and retrieve it, which could result in a full scale, devastating war.
-As the nearest ships to the incident, the Veritas and the USS Montreal were called upon to locate the Artemis. The complex search process was interrupted by a trio of hostile Tholian vessels, which the Veritas and Montreal engaged and destroyed – a further sign of escalating conflict between the Federation and the enigmatic race.
+After an early battle with three Tholian vessels, the USS Veritas finds the Artemis within Tholian territory thanks to the aid of a time traveler known as Jhalib Ekal. He is a temporal agent from the late 25th century who has come to the present to warn Captain Rahman that temporal agents have sabotaged Veritas, believing the sacrifice of the ship will prevent that costly war with the Tholians. Arriving at the Artemis, her captain Felicia Nickson reveals the secret cargo is a powerful subspace surveillance array. Captain Rahman ordered first officer Commander Evan Delano to lead an away team to the Artemis to assess the state of the ship and the cargo. Meanwhile, she ordered Engineering to prepare a back up demolition plan in case they must scuttle the Artemis before the Tholians discover her.
-Upon locating the Artemis, damaged and adrift, but still in tact, Captain Roshanara Rahman ordered an away team to board the vessel to determine the status of its cargo while the rest of the crew explore options for scuttling or recovering the vessel, if possible. Veritas was then intercepted by a small fleet of Tholian vessels that demanded Artemis be abandoned.
+Now, an engineering team is aboard Artemis to begin implementing the plan, while Delano's team apprehended a pirate from the Artemis whose comrades had stolen some of the cargo. Still within Tholian territory, the crew hope to finish their mission without issue, but three Tholian ships dropped out of warp and demand that Veritas forfeit the Artemis.
 While the crew navigated the standoff, an engineering team led by Ensigns Geoffrey Teller and Wil Ukinix successfully scuttled the Artemis by intentionally overloading the ship’s slipstream drive. The engineering team escaped via an Orion vessel in the Artemis shuttle bay, while Veritas extended its warp field around the Tholian fleet to ensure they escaped the resulting explosion.