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This page records mission summaries for the current adventure of the USS Avandar. Data relating to the current mission is posted here, as well as a synopsis of what has happened so far. Once the mission is completed, this information will be transferred to the Mission Archive.
Hell's Gate
Another day, another unusual sensor reading - this time relayed to the Avandar by one of the long-range probes that have been launched to roam the Sector. At first glance the readings appeared to be some sort of energy fluctuation, but as the Avandar closed in on the area to investigate it became clear there was more to it than that.
The source of the readings was traced to beneath the surface of a large chunk of rock, a chunk that appeared to once have been a significant part of a moon. Also present, landed on the surface, was a small craft broadcasting a radio signal that proved very hard to get any sort of translation on - and no life signs. Something about the composition of the rock, perhaps with artificial help, made scans largely ineffective, but it was possible to discover that the energy readings showed significant similarities to the signature given off by Iconian technology.
With no intention of leaving something like that laying about, an Away Team was deployed by shuttle to the planetoid's surface, but almost immediately ran into trouble. Communications began to fail very quickly, and a storm began moving in on them - a storm that appeared seemingly from nowhere, and bore all the signs of being artificially generated.
As the Away Team moved to find shelter, the Avandar searched for some way to both disrupt the storm and regain contact with the team. Unfortunately, the best solution for both of those seemed to be to break up the storm directly - and hope that the crew on the planetoid were not caught in the backlash...
Regrettably, this appeared to prove a vain hope. Whilst the disruption of the storm was expected to cause some chaos, an energy release that left a crater where a mountain used to be, and even managed to propel debris far and hard enough to hit the Avandar's shields, was not foreseen. Subsequent scans of the area revealed no trace at all of the Away Team, and it was not hard to draw a rather dire conclusion about what had happened.
For the Away Team, there had been no concern about the blast since they had made a discovery all of their own: an intact, and operational, Iconian gateway. Travelling through it may not have been intentional, but it did keep them safe from harm when the storm - and the area they had been in - practically disintegrated. The downside was that they found themselves somewhere completely unknown - which, when they learned where they were, was perhaps not the best news they could have received.
Whilst the Away Team took what steps they could to stay out of trouble, having just found themselves on the Breen homeworld, the Avandar set about looking for any sort of clue as to what had happened on the planetoid. With much, if not all, of the sensor disruption now gone, they were able to get a much better look at the surface... but it was only when LtCmdr T'Lea disobeyed orders and beamed herself down to investigate that the best evidence began to come to light.
With the aid of a remote-piloted Workbee, she managed to locate the gateway - or rather the remains of it, since it had been badly damaged in the blast. At Captain Vetri's instruction, she salvaged the most promising of the components so that the crew stood some chance of being able to isolate where their colleagues had been sent.