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*'''''Stardate 239901.27 to 239904.22''''' | *'''''Stardate 239901.27 to 239904.22''''' | ||
'''''They hunt us and they hurt us, then they eat our souls. No one lasts long after that.''''' | '''''"They hunt us and they hurt us, then they eat our souls. No one lasts long after that."''''' | ||
The {{USS|Gorkon}} has picked up garbled distress signals from the {{USS|Triumphant}} with their last known location attached, located deep within a subspace bubble—possibly a [[ma:Tyken's Rift|Tyken's Rift]]. As sensors and communications reduce to a mess of echoes, and their power and drives are affected by the environment swirling around them, the Gorkon continues their rescue efforts and search for the Triumphant. | The {{USS|Gorkon}} has picked up garbled distress signals from the {{USS|Triumphant}} with their last known location attached, located deep within a subspace bubble—possibly a [[ma:Tyken's Rift|Tyken's Rift]]. As sensors and communications reduce to a mess of echoes, and their power and drives are affected by the environment swirling around them, the Gorkon continues their rescue efforts and search for the Triumphant. | ||
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** There is a suspicion the Warp XV drive is interacting with the Rift in an unusual way; | ** There is a suspicion the Warp XV drive is interacting with the Rift in an unusual way; | ||
** The warp coils hold an unusually high tachyon charge—they should have discharged by now, but something is preventing it/recharging them; | ** The warp coils hold an unusually high tachyon charge—they should have discharged by now, but something is preventing it/recharging them; | ||
** 34 crew disappeared during the first Blip | ** 34 crew disappeared during the first Blip. | ||
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** The Triumphant’s shuttlecraft, the Essington, is parked in the shuttlebay; | ** The Triumphant’s shuttlecraft, the Essington, is parked in the shuttlebay; | ||
** Minimal power, and not answering current attempts to hail; | ** Minimal power, and not answering current attempts to hail; | ||
** Intermittent lifesigns hint there are still people aboard | ** Intermittent lifesigns hint there are still people aboard. | ||
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** No escape pods have been launched, and its 2 Type IX shuttles are still docked; | ** No escape pods have been launched, and its 2 Type IX shuttles are still docked; | ||
** Minimal power, and not answering current attempts to hail; | ** Minimal power, and not answering current attempts to hail; | ||
** Intermittent lifesigns hint there are still people aboard | ** Intermittent lifesigns hint there are still people aboard. | ||
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** One survivor aboard (see below), sent to sickbay; | ** One survivor aboard (see below), sent to sickbay; | ||
** Passed through a debris field after leaving the Sasu Gol; | ** Passed through a debris field after leaving the Sasu Gol; | ||
** Seems to be the nexus of Rift activity on the Gorkon | ** Seems to be the nexus of Rift activity on the Gorkon. | ||
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{{SubHeading|Act One: Still, They Ride|#ffffff}}</div> | {{SubHeading|Act One: Still, They Ride|#ffffff}}</div> | ||
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====On the Bridge of the Gorkon==== | ====On the Bridge of the Gorkon==== | ||
* Learning more about the Rift and how to escape. | * Learning more about the Rift and how to escape. | ||
** '''Team:''' Vice Admiral [[Quinn Reynolds]], Lieutenant Commanders [[Ayiana Sevo]] and [[Jona ch'Ranni]], and Lieutenant [[Piravao sh’Qynallahr]] | ** '''Team:''' Vice Admiral [[Quinn Reynolds]], Lieutenant Commanders [[Ayiana Sevo]] and [[Jona ch'Ranni]], and Lieutenant [[Piravao sh’Qynallahr]] | ||
On the bridge, Reynolds, ch’Ranni, Sevo and sh’Qynallahr worked to uncover the nature of the Rift and a way to escape it. They launched probes and searched the computer for similar incidents; the probe data indicated the Rift itself is not responsible for the power gain and is a separate effect, while research failed to uncover any incidences of starships encountering the phenomenon in the past. Their attempts were frustrated in part by an interruption in the main computer network, which turned out to be one of a collection of random ship malfunctions (comms failing, a replicator turning off halfway through materialisation, a sonic shower playing music, gravity inverting in a cargo bay, etc). | On the bridge, Reynolds, ch’Ranni, Sevo and sh’Qynallahr worked to uncover the nature of the Rift and a way to escape it. They launched probes and searched the computer for similar incidents; the probe data indicated the Rift itself is not responsible for the power gain and is a separate effect, while research failed to uncover any incidences of starships encountering the phenomenon in the past. Their attempts were frustrated in part by an interruption in the main computer network, which turned out to be one of a collection of random ship malfunctions (comms failing, a replicator turning off halfway through materialisation, a sonic shower playing music, gravity inverting in a cargo bay, etc). | ||
Shortly thereafter, they experienced their first Blip, an out-of-body experience prompted by a superposition of subspace over normal space, characterised by an almost imperceptible dimming of light and a jump in tachyons. They also discovered the Blip had “stolen” 34 crew, and created a warning system for tricorders and internal sensors, by programming them to detect a preceding surge in polarised gravitons. | Shortly thereafter, they experienced their first Blip, an out-of-body experience prompted by a superposition of subspace over normal space, characterised by an almost imperceptible dimming of light and a jump in tachyons. They also discovered the Blip had “stolen” 34 crew, and created a warning system for tricorders and internal sensors, by programming them to detect a preceding surge in polarised gravitons. | ||
====Aboard the USS Kahnrah (Yellowstone-class Runabout)==== | ====Aboard the USS Kahnrah (Yellowstone-class Runabout)==== | ||
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* Investigating the recovered Escape Pod | * Investigating the recovered Escape Pod | ||
** '''Team:''' Lieutenant Commander [[Samira Neathler]], Lieutenant JGs [[Tahna Meru]], and [[Serren Tan]]. | ** '''Team:''' Lieutenant Commander [[Samira Neathler]], Lieutenant JGs [[Tahna Meru]], and [[Serren Tan]]. | ||
In a cargo bay, Neathler, Tahna and Tan inspected an escape pod from the Sasu Gol. Tricorders functioned intermittently, but despite that difficulty, they found a shard embedded in the slightly damaged hull, identified by Tahna as diamond, and later discovered most likely a result of the pod travelling through a debris field. | In a cargo bay, Neathler, Tahna and Tan inspected an escape pod from the Sasu Gol. Tricorders functioned intermittently, but despite that difficulty, they found a shard embedded in the slightly damaged hull, identified by Tahna as diamond, and later discovered most likely a result of the pod travelling through a debris field. | ||
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The strange effects continued, the temperature dropping throughout the cargo bay and the team now also being jostled and shoved by invisible forces, seemingly with the intent of preventing them from reading the logs. This escalated to a full physical assault, with the team being grabbed and thrown around. Attempts to communicate were unsuccessful, and finally, with a little help from the bridge, the team escaped the cargo bay. | The strange effects continued, the temperature dropping throughout the cargo bay and the team now also being jostled and shoved by invisible forces, seemingly with the intent of preventing them from reading the logs. This escalated to a full physical assault, with the team being grabbed and thrown around. Attempts to communicate were unsuccessful, and finally, with a little help from the bridge, the team escaped the cargo bay. | ||
====Sickbay==== | ====Sickbay==== | ||
* Dealing with the rescued survivor. | * Dealing with the rescued survivor. | ||
** '''Team:''' Lieutenant [[Corliss Fortune]], Lieutenant JG [[Loxley]], and Ensign [[Saralai]]. | ** '''Team:''' Lieutenant [[Corliss Fortune]], Lieutenant JG [[Loxley]], and Ensign [[Saralai]]. | ||
In sickbay, Fortune, Loxley and Taeval provided aid to the ensign rescued from the Sasu Gol’s escape pod. The young Denobulan man was covered in blood, though had no obvious wounds, and was in a state of extreme agitation, refusing to allow anyone close. The trio worked together to calm him down enough to get him onto a biobed for scans, and then sickbay experienced a Blip. With several members of the team experiencing aftereffects, it was Halat who had the worst reaction and collapsed into a coma immediately afterwards. Diagnostic tests showed no injury, infection, or other cause. All they could determine was that his brain activity did not show a clean transition from active to inert and that his lower brain functions were still intact. | In sickbay, Fortune, Loxley and [[Taeval Sienelis|Taeval]] provided aid to the ensign rescued from the Sasu Gol’s escape pod. The young Denobulan man was covered in blood, though had no obvious wounds, and was in a state of extreme agitation, refusing to allow anyone close. The trio worked together to calm him down enough to get him onto a biobed for scans, and then sickbay experienced a Blip. With several members of the team experiencing aftereffects, it was Halat, the Denobulan ensign, who had the worst reaction and collapsed into a coma immediately afterwards. Diagnostic tests showed no injury, infection, or other cause. All they could determine was that his brain activity did not show a clean transition from active to inert and that his lower brain functions were still intact. | ||
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The team fled to sickbay intending to use the force fields there for defence. The discovery of the battered doors and the lack of pursuit led them to theorise the ghosts are deliberately terrorising them. Just as the team linked the ghosts and the Taniwha together, they were caught in a subspace superposition, and like so many before them, vanished from real space. | The team fled to sickbay intending to use the force fields there for defence. The discovery of the battered doors and the lack of pursuit led them to theorise the ghosts are deliberately terrorising them. Just as the team linked the ghosts and the Taniwha together, they were caught in a subspace superposition, and like so many before them, vanished from real space. | ||
====Aboard the Triumphant: Mess Hall==== | ====Aboard the Triumphant: Mess Hall==== | ||
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Despite finding a lab coat and a prosthetic eye belonging to one of the crew, there were again no further signs of life. From there, they moved into sickbay, where they made the grim discovery of a dead crew member (later identified as Chief Petty Officer Toaxx), ominous writing, and continued to experience sensory hallucinations—though the startling attack on one set of sickbay doors was all too real. | Despite finding a lab coat and a prosthetic eye belonging to one of the crew, there were again no further signs of life. From there, they moved into sickbay, where they made the grim discovery of a dead crew member (later identified as Chief Petty Officer Toaxx), ominous writing, and continued to experience sensory hallucinations—though the startling attack on one set of sickbay doors was all too real. | ||
From there, they proceeded to the life support bay, where they discovered the current minimal settings had been entered and locked three hours ago by the ship’s captain. Though they could make no changes, they realised they could use the life support monitoring systems as a proxy for searching for the crew, looking for changes in heat, oxygen levels and so forth. They proceeded to the upper level of the shuttlebay and after battling to ignore the most intense hallucination yet | From there, they proceeded to the life support bay, where they discovered the current minimal settings had been entered and locked three hours ago by the ship’s captain. Though they could make no changes, they realised they could use the life support monitoring systems as a proxy for searching for the crew, looking for changes in heat, oxygen levels and so forth. They proceeded to the upper level of the shuttlebay and after battling to ignore the most intense hallucination yet. This revealed there was dream/nightmare-like activity in people’s brains, along with the unnerving discovery the creatures likely feed off the energy from living beings, as well as the ship’s energy sources. | ||
====Aboard the Sasu Gol==== | ====Aboard the Sasu Gol==== | ||
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Returning to sickbay, and met with the sound of screaming, Diir described the crew’s descent into madness and terror. Shortly afterwards, the team were attacked, much to Diir’s apparent delight, and he offered/sacrificed himself to the darkness. Shaken, the team decided their best course of action was to head for engineering and disconnect the umbilical to the Triumphant, then head to the shuttlebay to get off the ship, and hopefully find any survivors along the way. | Returning to sickbay, and met with the sound of screaming, Diir described the crew’s descent into madness and terror. Shortly afterwards, the team were attacked, much to Diir’s apparent delight, and he offered/sacrificed himself to the darkness. Shaken, the team decided their best course of action was to head for engineering and disconnect the umbilical to the Triumphant, then head to the shuttlebay to get off the ship, and hopefully find any survivors along the way. | ||
====Aboard the Gorkon: Engineering==== | ====Aboard the Gorkon: Engineering==== | ||
* Keep the ship running, find a way out of the Rift. | * Keep the ship running, find a way out of the Rift. | ||
** '''Team:''' Lieutenant Commander [[Jona ch'Ranni]], Lieutenant [[Lephi]], and Lieutenant JG [[Tahna Meru]]. | ** '''Team:''' Lieutenant Commander [[Jona ch'Ranni]], Lieutenant [[Lephi]], and Lieutenant JG [[Tahna Meru]]. Ensign [[Bryce Tagren-Quinn]] joined the party during the middle of this act. | ||
Initially assigned to investigate and stall the power drain, and find a way to bring the warp drive online, ch’Ranni, Lephi and Tahna worked on the problem from engineering. They discovered a trail of quantum particles moving between engineering and the cargo bay, theorising it was the path of the creature which had tormented Neathler’s team during their inspection of the Sasu Gol’s escape pod. They could not detect the creature itself, but linked the beginning of the Gorkon’s power drain to the arrival of the escape pod—and thus its invisible passenger. | Initially assigned to investigate and stall the power drain, and find a way to bring the warp drive online, ch’Ranni, Lephi and Tahna worked on the problem from engineering. They discovered a trail of quantum particles moving between engineering and the cargo bay, theorising it was the path of the creature which had tormented Neathler’s team during their inspection of the Sasu Gol’s escape pod. They could not detect the creature itself, but linked the beginning of the Gorkon’s power drain to the arrival of the escape pod—and thus its invisible passenger. | ||
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The group was soon drawn back to a memory of Cardassia Prime during the bombing raids at the end of the Dominion War. Frightened and in crisis, the group hid from the Jem'Hadar groups that plagued the city, murdering every civilian or Cardassian in sight. | The group was soon drawn back to a memory of Cardassia Prime during the bombing raids at the end of the Dominion War. Frightened and in crisis, the group hid from the Jem'Hadar groups that plagued the city, murdering every civilian or Cardassian in sight. | ||
While in hiding, they encountered [[Meidra Sirin]] who had been trapped in that No-Place when she travelled to join the crew of the Gorkon. As they were about to be trapped, their world mutated and transformed into the bridge of a starship during the events of Wolf 359. Searching for clues on how to flee the place and while avoiding the Borg drones, they came across Caedan Nkai, the owner of the flashback, embracing the dead body of a Vulcan crewman. | While in hiding, they encountered [[Meidra Sirin]] who had been trapped in that No-Place when she travelled to join the crew of the Gorkon. As they were about to be trapped, their world mutated and transformed into the bridge of a starship during the events of Wolf 359. Searching for clues on how to flee the place and while avoiding the Borg drones, they came across [[Caedan Nkai]], the owner of the flashback, embracing the dead body of a Vulcan crewman. | ||
They get the Rodulan to focus and use his telepathic abilities to contact [[Corliss Fortune]] who was acting as a beacon on the outside of No-Space. With this, the group manages to escape from the No-Space and join the group aboard the Triumphant. | They get the Rodulan to focus and use his telepathic abilities to contact [[Corliss Fortune]] who was acting as a beacon on the outside of No-Space. With this, the group manages to escape from the No-Space and join the group aboard the Triumphant. | ||
====Aboard the Triumphant==== | ====Aboard the Triumphant==== | ||
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With the warpcore back online they receive a new attack from the creatures, which they manage to avoid. | With the warpcore back online they receive a new attack from the creatures, which they manage to avoid. | ||
There they manage to create a hole to the dimension from which the creatures emerge, unfortunately, as [[Samira Neathler]] and [[Loxley]] | There they manage to create a hole to the dimension from which the creatures emerge, unfortunately, as the creatures appear, [[Samira Neathler]] and [[Loxley]] are dragged into the void. | ||
With the captain helping to assist the counsellor [[Corliss Fortune]] in playing as a telepathic beacon, they manage to use the hole to bring the crew back, with the admiral's team coming out last. | With the captain helping to assist the counsellor [[Corliss Fortune]] in playing as a telepathic beacon, they manage to use the hole to bring the crew back, with the admiral's team coming out last. | ||
With the entire crew safe, the starship free and powered up, the teams return to the Gorkon to leave the Rift once and for all. | With the entire crew safe, the starship free and powered up, the teams return to the Gorkon to leave the Rift once and for all. | ||
====Aboard the Sasu Gol==== | ====Aboard the Sasu Gol==== | ||
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After fleeing the madness unleashed by Diir, the team arrived at Engineering, finding it riddled with homemade traps that prevented them from easily reaching the warp core. As they carefully made their way towards it, they encountered the missing members of the Triumphant away team: Commander Jal Desoa and Lieutenant [[Petra Bjarnadottir]]. | After fleeing the madness unleashed by Diir, the team arrived at Engineering, finding it riddled with homemade traps that prevented them from easily reaching the warp core. As they carefully made their way towards it, they encountered the missing members of the Triumphant away team: Commander Jal Desoa and Lieutenant [[Petra Bjarnadottir]]. | ||
After some initial tensions, they teamed up to separate the umbilical and allow the triumphant to escape or be towed out of the Rift. No sooner had they accomplished their goal, however, | After some initial tensions, they teamed up to separate the umbilical and allow the triumphant to escape or be towed out of the Rift. No sooner had they accomplished their goal, however, the group was attacked by the mass of shadow that Diir had joined. | ||
The creature managed to trap both [[Alieth]] and [[Petra Bjarnadottir]] and, while Commander Jal Desoa managed to wrench the latter from the creature's arms, Lieutenant [[Cory Stoyer]] failed to restrain the Vulcan, who was apparently consumed by the creature. | The creature managed to trap both [[Alieth]] and [[Petra Bjarnadottir]] and, while Commander Jal Desoa managed to wrench the latter from the creature's arms, Lieutenant [[Cory Stoyer]] failed to restrain the Vulcan, who was apparently consumed by the creature. | ||
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Once there, the Vulcan hijacked an operating theatre to tend to Desoa while the rest of the group remained behind to catch up on more personal matters. | Once there, the Vulcan hijacked an operating theatre to tend to Desoa while the rest of the group remained behind to catch up on more personal matters. | ||
====Aboard the Gorkon: Deck Eight==== | ====Aboard the Gorkon: Deck Eight==== | ||
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** '''Team:''' Lieutenant Commander [[Jona ch'Ranni]], Lieutenant [[Lephi]], Lieutenant JG [[Tahna Meru]], and Ensign [[Bryce Tagren-Quinn]]. Lieutenant Commander [[Kero Rix]] assumed party lead about mid-way through this act. | ** '''Team:''' Lieutenant Commander [[Jona ch'Ranni]], Lieutenant [[Lephi]], Lieutenant JG [[Tahna Meru]], and Ensign [[Bryce Tagren-Quinn]]. Lieutenant Commander [[Kero Rix]] assumed party lead about mid-way through this act. | ||
The | The team, dressed in EVA suits, advance through the wreckage looking for survivors, but the structural integrity of the area and unreliable sensors make the advance dangerous and put both their lives and the lives of those they want to rescue at risk. | ||
After failing to find living survivors and having to make a decision on what to do with them, the team moved into the most damaged area of the deck. There, they find a Tellarite crewman, Ensign [[Tzim-Shah]]. The crewman's condition was critical, even more so considering there were others wounded in the area so, while discussing what to do and getting the other survivors to safety [[Lephi]], ignoring Dr. [[Bryce Tagren-Quinn]]'s advice and listening to the Tellarite's desperate plea, cut off his trapped arm with a plasma torch. This reckless and desperate act resulted in a great shock and put the ensign's life in danger. Concerned about the situation, it was determined to create a triage unit at the brig and Lieutenant Commander [[Jona ch'Ranni]] marched over there to organise it, taking the badly injured Tellarite with him. | |||
The team was now captained by Lieutenant Commander [[Kero Rix]], who pushed the team forward towards the most damaged section of the deck. | |||
Once there, they discovered signs that [[Valesha Sienelis]] and [[Vorin]] were trapped at ground zero of the explosion, behind a large wall of rubble in one of the labs. Once they were able to pry the lab door open, the ceiling of the lab collapsed, causing Sienelis and Vorin to essentially be buried and thought to be potentially deceased. With the transporters inoperative and the deck structure disintegrating beneath their feet, the team had to work against the clock to develop a plan to rescue them or press on for other survivors. Time and resources were at a minimum. This caused a great debate among the team's members, but eventually, they decided to give it a chance and resolved to work on the problem; to leave no man behind. | |||
Just as they were about to run out of ideas to save them, [[Robert Peek]] informed them that the transporters were back online. At first, they attempted to lock on to life signs, but sensors and interference made extraction by transport impossible. With limited power and time still in mind, they decided to transport the debris to the Rift instead, to clear the field, thus revealing the two Vulcanoids. They discovered that one of them was badly injured and the other was in late labour. | |||
The team quickly moved to the sickbay. As [[Christopher Johns]] followed them through, [[Bryce Tagren-Quinn]] and [[Tali Namura]] helped the little Human/Romulan girl into the world. | |||
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