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 The Thama Scientific Sovereignty, a people of science and exploration want the planet Vionus IV for medicinal and scientific research. Meanwhile, the Nascaik Defense Coalition wants rights to the planet for mining related to their military agenda. Lieutenant Commander [[Addison MacKenzie]] has been given temporary command of the Resolution and tasked with mediating the negotiations.
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+=== Act I ===
+After briefing the senior officers, Commander MacKenzie works with Counselor [[Meidra Sirin]] and Ensign [[Etan Iljor]] to determine a plan of action and the motivations of the Thama and Nascaik. Commander [[Genkos Adea]], likewise, teams up with Commander [[Rune Jolara]], Lieutenant [[Yogan Yalu]], and Ensign [[Hallia Yellir]] to determine what each side wants with Vionus IV and if there is a way for the planet to be shared. Meanwhile, Commander [[Chandra Amari]], Commander [[Tai Ilsam]], Lieutenant [[Aine Sherlock]], and Doctor [[T'Suran]] try to figure out a way to get everyone in the same room to talk with the low gravity needs of the Thama and the methane breathing needs of the Nascaik, in addition to security needs of a tense diplomatic negotiation.
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+=== Act II ===
+The Thama and Nascaik have arrived and some of the senior staff have been assigned as tour guides before the negotiations begin. The Nascaik seem less than enthused at the idea, but go along nonetheless. Meanwhile, a team led by Doctor Adea, consisting of Commander Jolara and Ensigns Yellir and Etan, will be beaming down to the surface of Vionus IV to see if they can find out exactly what either species is seeking to gain from the planet.
+Thama delegate Niran has come down with a mysterious "illness" and sent her aide, Ashal Koas in her place to the negotiations. During which it is revealed that the Nascaik want the planet to stem a "humanitarian crisis." Commander MacKenzie calls into question the motives of both sides. Meanwhile, the officers gathered on the bridge are attempting to root out minor system failures that are cropping up around the ship.
+The away team on Vionus IV, now joined by Ensign Nox, is finding little in the way of leads given the limited information from the delegates. Astatine ore in high deposits seems to be the only valuable mineral they've found. Until coming across a probe with a yet to be determined origin, that appears to have been shot down.
+During a livening debate over Viouns IV, Ashal Koas hatched her plan. Leaving the Resolution drifting and without power, she chemically paralyzed Ar-Dev. Blowing out a viewport in the Briefing Room, she stole away with the now paralyzed Ar-Dev into a programed shuttle to make her escape.
+=== Act III ===
+Ashal Koas has taken Rossk Shes Ar-Dev to the lost colony of Aspiration. The Thama and Nascaik have agreed to allow the Resolution to attempt a rescue of Ar-Dev and apprehend the, now, terrorist Koas. The Resolution limps towards Aspiration running on partial power and the crew make their plans for the rescue.
+While a small away team heads down to Aspiration to retrieve Rossk Ar-Dev, and hopefully his captor, alive. Commander MacKenzie lays down the law to the delegates after Ensign Etan's research reveals the truth behind the Nascaik's desire for Vionus IV.
+Scientists, Engineers, and Doctors work out a treatment for the Resolutions allergic reaction after the rescue team returns with Ar-Dev alive. Ashal Koas, now a victim of her own weapon of terror used to threaten Ar-Dev on Aspiration. The negotiations continue when the truth behind the Nascaik's need for vital minerals is revealed to not only be the expansion of Hypermales, but that the reduction in Hypermales is also causing a recordable decline in the general population.
+The Thama and Nascaik tentatively agree to a joint program for research into the plights of both of their worlds with a non-aggression agreement from the Nascaik and an transitional offering of two worlds taken by them from the Thama, back to the original settlers.<ref>https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-resolution/c/eudcfVn5dxs</ref>
+[[File:Diplomatic_Negotiations.png|300px|Negotiating Team]]
 == MSPNPCs ==
-'''Thama Scientific Sovereignty'''
+==='''Thama Scientific Sovereignty'''===
 === Soaha Niran ===
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 Ashal shifted her academic focus immediately, pursuing topics like xeno-sociology and interspecies diplomacy with an almost fanatical zeal.  She holds five advanced degrees but turned down several prominent academic and research opportunities to join the Thama Diplomatic Corp, where she intends to work diligently on the contentious relationship between the Thama & Nascaik.
-'''Nascaik Defense Coalition'''
+==='''Nascaik Defense Coalition'''===
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 == What we've learned ==
 : ''Note:  Information in this section has been stated IC.
+* The Thama are passive yet cunning race dedicated to science and exploration. Their home world is small and has less gravity than Earth. They are tall with light grey skin, iridescent blue hair, and orange eyes. Another distinctive feature is their hands with 12-14 fingers.<ref>https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/sb118-resolution/c/cYz9AbwVb7k</ref>
+* The Nascaik are a militaristic and industrial species. More human-like in appearance, though most are bald. Their atmosphere is methane based. They have a third sex, Hypermales. Hypermales are considered superior in genes and are separated at birth from their parents and fostered into a dedicated military family where they are raised and trained to further the needs of their species through military mean.<ref>https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/sb118-resolution/c/CScrU9AA0qk</ref>
+* The diplomatic negotiations will take place aboard the [[USS Resolution]].
-<!--* The gravimetric distortion turns out to actually be a temporal distortion which sent both the Andalucia and the Resolution 200,000-300,000 years into the future. <ref>((Determining Time Travel))(https://astronomy.com/news/2018/03/all-galaxies-rotate-once-every-billion-years#:~:text=Astronomers%20discovered%20that%20all%20disk,years%2C%20no%20matter%20their%20size.)</ref><ref> (https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/sb118-resolution/c/kIq9KZsoJNc)</ref>-->
+* Ashal Koas disabled the Resolution with a pollen like substance. In essence creating an "allergic attack" to the ships bio-neural systems.
+* Koas has fled, with Ar-Dev, to the colony Aspiration. An once thriving Thama settlement destroyed by a reactor failure.
 == Just for your knowledge ==
 : ''Note:  Information in this section may not necessarily be commonly known IC.
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+* The Nascaik Hypermale's are a dying breed. The mineral needed by them on Vionus IV is to be used for gene therapy to breed Hypermales. <ref>https://groups.google.com/u/0/g/sb118-resolution/c/Yt-c4SmT-xE</ref>
+* Thama Diplomatic Aide Koas is spreading bits of bark and branches throughout the ship. Cuttings as a gift to the crew even, for reasons yet known. UPDATE: plant material is causing "minor system failures."<ref>https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-resolution/c/XdsJYwawths</ref>
+* Unbeknownst to all but Ar-Dev, the destruction of Aspiration was a complete accident. <ref>https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-resolution/c/ArgeGMtOpU4</ref>
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