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As supply distribution stations were being finalized, a crowd of Da'al civilians began moving toward the away team, clearly agitated. Kleebohn, already growing impatient with the team, was nearing the tipping point. When she'd just about lost control of the situation, Silveira steps forward, gathers the attention of the crowd<ref>https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/JZu-5L-UhDg/m/mdeGZULVAgAJ</ref> in order to assert some kind of order to the distribution of supplies. Once this is moving, Kleebohn pulled Commander Adea aside and accused him and the team of everything from negligence to deliberate interference in relief efforts. | As supply distribution stations were being finalized, a crowd of Da'al civilians began moving toward the away team, clearly agitated. Kleebohn, already growing impatient with the team, was nearing the tipping point. When she'd just about lost control of the situation, Silveira steps forward, gathers the attention of the crowd<ref>https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/JZu-5L-UhDg/m/mdeGZULVAgAJ</ref> in order to assert some kind of order to the distribution of supplies. Once this is moving, Kleebohn pulled Commander Adea aside and accused him and the team of everything from negligence to deliberate interference in relief efforts. | ||
Things escalated quickly, and as the amassed Da'al looked on, Kleebohn flew into a rage, which triggered Adea into a reciprocal one. Lieutenant Silveira did his best to stop the situation from getting completely out of hand, eventually tackling the Commander, but losing his phaser in the process. Kleebohn picked up the weapon, unaware it was a stun-only device, and fired on the two support crew who were just returning, then upon Adea himself. Ensign Jovenan acted quickly, and called for an emergency beam-out, erecting a quarantine and containment forcefield around the transporter alcove as soon as the team arrived. | |||
Now aboard the ''Artemis'', Commander Adea's mindless rage was turned upon Silveira. In their impromptu wrestling match, Genkos managed to draw a hidden blade and stab Silveira in the shoulder. Jovenan let herself out of the confinement, ran to the controls, and reasserted the field. After contacting sickbay, she beamed Silveira directly there, leaving Adea trapped but unable to cause more harm to others. Jovenan then called a security detachment to the transporter room to subdue the XO and bring him to sickbay as well. | |||
When he came to, Adea found himself strapped to a biobed where Lieutenant Morgan had patched up Silveira and was now trying to get to the bottom of Adea's erratic behavior. After scans and some deliberation, he administered a drug to the Betazoid, which seemed to have the desired effect. | |||
=== Team Yalu: === | === Team Yalu: === | ||
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After about an hour's work setting up a forcefield safety barrier, a Da'al man appeared: bedraggled and in search of his family. The man introduced himself as Dusan Tornahd. The team went with Tornahd to Ertas Square - the only location Tornahd could think to look for his family. While there, Tornahd's partner was found dead, partially buried under the rubble of a shop, but no trace was found of his two children. | After about an hour's work setting up a forcefield safety barrier, a Da'al man appeared: bedraggled and in search of his family. The man introduced himself as Dusan Tornahd. The team went with Tornahd to Ertas Square - the only location Tornahd could think to look for his family. While there, Tornahd's partner was found dead, partially buried under the rubble of a shop, but no trace was found of his two children. | ||
In the near distance, the team saw a small but growing knot of people. Their growing agitation had kicked up a cloud of dust, which rather than dissipating in the breeze, was coalescing and beginning to pulsate with increased frequency, mirroring energy signatures detected by Lieutenant Yellir. | In the near distance, the team saw a small but growing knot of people. Their growing agitation had kicked up a cloud of dust, which rather than dissipating in the breeze, was coalescing and beginning to pulsate with increased frequency, mirroring energy signatures detected by Lieutenant Yellir. As the crowd grew closer, Tornahd grew more and more unsettled. After reaching a frenzied tipping point, the Da'al man picked up a length of pipe and began smashing everything he could reach. As he ran off to join the mindless hoard, Lieutenant Yellir had a moment of panic, and ran down a side street into a residential section of Tecra. | ||
Yalu's team pursued the Lieutenant, knowing to give chase to Tornahd was a fool's errand. When they caught up with her, she'd come to her senses, and they began to find a suitable location to "hunker down" for the night where they could be relatively safe from the still-approaching mob. They found a residence in which the windows and doors appeared to still be in tact, and walking in, discovered the air to be nearly free of the otherwise ever-present dust. As the team set about various tasks to improve the situation (establishing power and running water, chief among the tasks), Ensign Jones detected life signs from the floor above them. When they investigated, they found a young Da'al boy named Teolin trapped under fallen furniture. He had a few injuries to his ankle, but appeared to be unaffected by the Da'allium in the dust outside. This solidified the theory Jones and Jovenan had been working on, connecting the Da'al telepathic/telekinetic ability to the presence of the unnatural molecular compound. It was becoming apparent the Da'al ability prevented the compound from breaking apart as it should have, but in turn, the compound was causing erratic, aggressive behavior in the Da'al. | |||
With a stasis device stabilizing Teolin's leg, the boy was freed, provisions made, and Lieutenant Yellir had restored limited power. This power was enough for the team to pick up a search ping from Commander MacKenzie's team. (This is continued in that mission sub-section) | |||
=== Team MacKenzie: === | === Team MacKenzie: === | ||
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After Lt Sydin transported back to the ''Artemis'', MacKenzie and Dakora remained to continue discussions with Erbil. After a short time, Lt Dakora picked up on a shift in the conversational tone. What had started as a simple request for help post-catastrophe had turned to a request to intervene/interfere with internal politics, but was rapidly growing more hostile than was warranted. When the tension had reached a tipping point, Dakora sought to restore calm with a bracing slap. This was responded to by a double slap from Erbil. Calm now ''somewhat'' restored, the trio heard phaser fire from outside. After investigating, it looked as though the Gendarmerie was firing on a civilian mob - both unprecedented in Da'al society. | After Lt Sydin transported back to the ''Artemis'', MacKenzie and Dakora remained to continue discussions with Erbil. After a short time, Lt Dakora picked up on a shift in the conversational tone. What had started as a simple request for help post-catastrophe had turned to a request to intervene/interfere with internal politics, but was rapidly growing more hostile than was warranted. When the tension had reached a tipping point, Dakora sought to restore calm with a bracing slap. This was responded to by a double slap from Erbil. Calm now ''somewhat'' restored, the trio heard phaser fire from outside. After investigating, it looked as though the Gendarmerie was firing on a civilian mob - both unprecedented in Da'al society. | ||
Lieutenant Dakora was beginning to feel the effects of ... something at this point, and feeling his restraint slipping, handed his phaser to the Commander, not wanting to become a liability. Minister Erbil grew ever more agitated, but as the mob outside crashed through the outer walls of the building, self preservation overrode any animosity, and he fled, leading MacKenzie and Dakora through a hidden doorway and down into a dungeon-like series of hallways. For a short time, the ruse of prisoners taken seemed like a good idea, but quickly proved too little. The trio raced toward an exit where a Hopper (non-orbital planetary transport) stood waiting. In this vessel, they quickly left the peril behind. | |||
After several hops, the computer aboard the hopper detected a Federation signal coming from a residential sector. Erbil carefully landed on the roof of the building with a thud. As Commander Yalu's team emerged from the lower levels, Erbil was surprised to be reunited with his grandson Teolin. The arrival of the hopper however, was enough to alert the nearby mob of senseless Da'al to their presence. In a rush the now significantly larger group hopped away from the shelter, heading toward the Government Center in hopes of finding something that could be of use there. | |||
En route, Ensign Jones explained his theory to Commander MacKenzie, then with Lieutenant Yellir's help, began modifying the stasis device from the medkit MacKenzie's team had brought. This couldn't have happened sooner, for just as final adjustments were being made, Lieutenant Dakora took a turn for the worse. Whether because of higher concentrations of Da'allium in the dust here or Erbil's increased agitation, it was unclear, but soon, the Intel officer was locked in a wrestling match with Lieutenant Osuna. Dakora, not having his phaser but being physically stronger than the Chief Security Officer, put up an astounding fight, but was eventually stunned by Osuna's weaponry. With Dakora incapacitated and now that Yellir and Jones had finished modifying the device, they tested it on Dakora. While there is always some risk in testing new/unconventional technology, this test worked, and though still unconscious, Dakora's brain waves were returning to early-mission state. | |||
Now with their destination at hand, they had to determine a way to broadcast the same signal at a level that would effect all the currently-mad Da'al. Lieutenant Yellir suggested connecting the device to the hopper's engine, which once attuned to the proper modulation, would upon overload cause a massive shockwave, essentially permeating everything and everyone within the affected area. The medical ramifications would be disorientation, possible nausea, and a headache for the history records, but would also disrupt the Da'al's influence over the Da'allium, which would allow the compounds molecular bonds to break apart naturally, rendering the substance inert. Once the Da'allium was gone, the theory was its effects would vanish as well. MacKenzie gave the go-ahead, and the duo got to work as soon as they landed. | |||
But because a day in Starfleet isn't complete without an immediate and particularly perilous deadline, no sooner had the hopper settled than a new mob was seen - this one accompanied by large construction vehicles - moving slowly but surely in their direction. | |||
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