Ronin Mission Archive
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Stardate 237910.28
The USS Ronin has just been ordered out of port at Starbase 222 by James. We are off to contact Captain Skyfire. Our mission? We do not yet know. A meeting has been called for all senior officers.
Phoenix Treja was founded murdered on the gym floor. An investigation is underway involving Ships Defenses, Science, and Medical officers. The truth will be found, and justice will be ours.
New crew has been picked up: Ensigns Rohmer, Borodin, and Talan. They are welcome on board, taken in at such a time.
And so we push off for deep space with mysterious orders once again.
Stardate 237912.08
The USS Ronin is on its way to the last known location of Skyfire. The death toll has moved up to three, and now the killer has his eye on Lt Cmdr Au. She's on the run, and he is not far behind in pursuit. Another killer has shown up, this time one moving to assassinate James, sent by Black Gate. James escapes with a stab, but the killer is torn open by the XO. Both James and his assailant are doing fine.
One another note, Sheriden and Lt Cmdr Au are going to be married, though only Fire-Claw knows it as of yet. Lt Cmdr Au is being pursued and Sheriden is out to save his fiancee from the clutches of the unknown murderer.
Stardate 238312.19
The USS Ronin, now under the command of Idril Mar has been chartered to the Lememda System in the Ithassa Sector. The Federation has been contacted by a diplomatic representative of the One Kingdom to in a matter of some urgency to them as well as us. The Constellationites have been interested in some Grendellai activity that has taken place in that region.
The Ronin are to investigate the Grendellai activity and find out what the artifact known only as the 'Eye of the Sun' is. Considered very valuable, the Ronin is to take caution when approaching the sector and the Grendellai.
In addition to the new command, there has been significant change to the crew roster and the ship has been reactivated into the fleet.
Stardate 238403.01
The Ronin was assigned to find and more importantly keep the Grendellai from finding an ancient Gorn artifact known as the Eye of the Sun. After entering the system at least somewhat surreptitiously, the Ronin landed an away team on the planet, Lamemda IV, where we though the artifact had the best chance of being. At that point, the ship was engaged by a Grendellai-scavenged Gorn ship and had to move out of orbit.
The away team found a Ktarian bounty hunter and a Grendellai search party, the latter of which attacked them and the former of which joined them, then subsequently tried to steal the Eye for herself.
The ship itself was having a hard time with the Grendellai, as her tactical scanners had been sabotaged. Finally getting the scanners back online, two approaching Grendellai ships saw an opportunity to survive, sold out their former compatriots on the first, now-derelict ship, and lived to tell the tale.
When the Ronin returned to the planet, they managed to accidentally intercept the escaping Ktarian, who had something of a history with both Mar and the ship’s CoS, Danny Wilde. The Eye, knocked out of the transporter field by one of the Ronin’s officers, was lost and presumed destroyed in a cave-in.
Now back at DS17, the Ronin is undergoing a major refit that will repair some extensive damage from the battle in the Lamemda system and strip a couple of decks in favor of the more traditional through-deck Akira configuration. Her crew is currently on leave.
Stardate 238404.01
The Ronin is in for a refit following her first mission. The crew is currently at Deep Space 17, technically on leave, though we are wrapped up in finding a solution to a inter-dimensional rift which has manifested in and around the station. In this alternate world, the point of divergence is the death of then LtCmdr Mar almost 3 years before. It seems that more than simple coincidence has brought these worlds together.
Stardate 238405.01
After a rough encounter with an alternate reality, the crew of the Ronin settled into the spacious confines of Deep Space 17 while their ship was finishing refits. A joint leave was had with the crew of the Triumphant, with one of their crew getting married, much to the delight of all.
With her refit nearing completion, the ship is welcoming aboard it’s fighter wing and 3 pairs of prototype fighters for field testing. Each has its own quirks that need to be worked out. A test range has been decided on, a rocky system designated 7AE38, that has a single M-class world that supports an industrial-age sentient species. The ship plans to use the asteroid field for its test runs of the fighters, choosing the actual location of the tests based on where the M-class world is in its orbit so as to put the maximum distance and the system’s star in between them. With a little planning and luck, the inhabitants of the world will not see a thing.
Stardate 238406.16
The Ronin has, after a small delay, received her new fighters and has launched for the appointed test range. The crew has been split into teams to analyze the problems plaguing the prototypes. Commander Walker and a small group has just returned after a ‘test run’ of a Maul that happened to pick up a missing officer and lead to some pretty severe damage to the vessel as well. The last pre-test meetings are underway and the crew is anxious to get on with the field experiments.
Stardate 238407.10
The USS Ronin, recently recommissioned after a refit of her primary systems was tasked with the mission of conducting operational flight tests for three experimental new Federation prototye fighters. The fighters, designated the XF-353 “Boomerang”, XF-352 “Hammerhead” and the XF-354 “Gremlin” are each plagued by unique design problems.
In an effort to work out the final problems before productions, the Ronin’s senior staff officers were divided into three groups, each assigned to study and if possible identify possible solutions to the issues plaguing the fighter prototypes to which they are assigned. A semi isolated region of space, designated as system 7AE38, was picked as the testing grounds. The region was adjacent to an inhabited planet that was known to have achieved industrial technology. Due to the presence of a thick asteroid field, however, it was determined that the tests could proceed without worry of discovery.
Test zones were mapped and the flight operations and testing teams began their tests. During the first stage of the tests, there was a mishap with the tactical system aboard one of the two Gremlins, which fired on and damaged a Hammerhead’s drive systems. Almost simultaneously, a sudden subspace ripple disabled all three test flight wings and severely damages the USS Ronin. The source of this ripple is discovered to be from the Starship Sya, which has just conducted their first warp drive tests. This proves that the technical advancement of the species inhabiting the M-Class planet in the 7AE38 System has been significantly underestimated.
The Natives have attempted to establish contact with the USS Ronin, either unaware of the damage that their subspace ripple has wreaked on the Federation vessels, or uncaring of those results. While the Natives seem genuine enough, there was a healthy amount of hesitation on the part of the Ronin’s Commander, due especially to the unexpected nature of the encounter.
Stardate 238408.08
After detecting a new warp-capable species where one shouldn’t have been, the Ronin started piecing things together. Faint Cardassian warp signatures were detected in a nearby system and a recon mission was organized. Meanwhile, meeting the aliens under First Contact protocols was undertaken, with an away team visiting the alien vessel first, then the senior staff of the Sya-Negan vessel visiting the Ronin. Meanwhile, the crew was still investigating something affecting crewmembers aboard by heightening their negative emotions.
The mission wrapped up with the alien ship towed back to its homeworld and a Starfleet engineering team left on the planet to help resolve the issues with the subspace pulse that the alien warp drive created. They also have instructions to subtly try to figure out where and how this culture made such a huge jump technologically and if there was any sort of outside influence on them.
The Ronin, on the other hand, is heading back to Deep Space 17 for some much deserved shore leave.
Stardate 238409.01
The Ronin, returned from a surprise First Contact mission, is undergoing minor repairs while the crew is on a short shore leave. An engineering team was left behind on the planet of the Sya-Negan to foster communication and hopefully help the aliens develop their warp drive away from the damaging subspace surges that it currently causes. A recon flight is in process currently to investigate some odd signatures in a nearby system, but they should be reporting in soon as well. This leave's party theme is a Masquerade Ball.
Stardate 238410.03
The Ronin has interrupted her leave and left DS17 in a rush, headed to the rescue of a recon fighter flight that may have run afoul of Cardassians. Soon after launch, the engines were disabled by an infestation of energy creatures. An away team was sent, with a squadron of fighters escorting the team's runabout, to investigate. On the way, they were caught by a booby-trapped fighter from the recon flight, allowing a Galor-class cruiser to get the drop on them. The Ronin herself, having solved her engine problems, is still too far away to intervene directly in the situation. The Captain made a not-so-veiled threat to the Cardassian Gul, but another ship, a Keldon, lies between the Ronin and her away team.
Stardate 238412.01
The Ronin, largely through the brandishing of her torpedo arsenal, was able to bully her way past a pair of Cardassian ships to a rescue of her downed flyers and recover her away team as well. The subsequent leave was raucous and busy, with a wedding and various other events happening nearly simultaneously. However, new orders soon came and the ship is prepping for a long lonely run along the Gorn border, surveying the sensor buoys laid there at the end of the brief war a year and a half ago. During the briefing, Admiral Anassasi made a surprise visit, transferring Lt. Adair-Walker off the ship and promoting Cmdr. Mar to full Captain.
Stardate 238501.04
The USS Ronin, on a routine examination of monitoring buoys along the Gorn treaty line, ran into two issues: A distress beacon on low power, and a FTU convoy under attack by Gorn.
The Captain split the crew, taking four crewmembers with her to investigate the beacon, thought to be a trap. One of the crewmembers, Lt.Cmdr Amber Wilde, a claustrophobe, “freaked out,” doing an active scan. The small group shut down the sensors on the runabout to hopefully avoid detection.
Meanwhile the First Officer and majority of crew met the convoy. Initially a ceasefire was drawn by the Ronin’s superior firepower. As the crew works to come to some peaceful, or at least non-violent, solution, another alien race has been detected, and is suspected of instigating the FTU and Gorn into a war. The crew is now working to prove that there was a setup, while preparing a nice diplomatic dinner with the Gorn captain.
Stardate 238502.04
Following the beacon's signal, the Captain and her team were contacted by a pirate captain and escorted into a small station. The pirate used the Ronin's officers as an excuse to board the station in order to exact revenge on its owner by blowing him and the station to bits. While the Captain's team and various pirates were escaping, a relative of one of the Ronin's crewmembers turned up and asked for assylum from the pirates.
Back on the battlefield, Lt. Commander Walker and the rest of the crew exposed the evil scheme of the unidentified hostile aliens and explained the situation to the Gorn, thus resolving the conflict peacefully. Once the Captain's team returned to the ship, the Ronin was called away to Wheeler Colony, where the USS Independence and USS Ursa Major awaited. After a night of awards, promotions, and celebrations, the three ships are back to investigating the highly unstable situation on the surface.
Stardate 238504.06
The Ronin sat in a squadron with the Independence and the Ursa Major, stranded near the Galactic Barrier by an unexpected wormhole. The USS Phoenix, staffed by the COs and some officers of all three ships, attempted to reopen the wormhole to allow the ships to return to Wheeler Colony. However, a fleet of small ships put the small Federation fleet in their sights. The Akira-class ship took a defensive position while the other two deal with problems of their own. After being sent back to Wheeler by an energy being, the three ships reunited with their commanding officers.
The Ronin spent much of its leave time trying to shore up repairs so that it could make the journey back to DS17 to use the station's now-extensive shipyard facilities. A decision by the command staff to not bypass a nebula on the way back to the station turned disastrous, as the nebula overloaded key systems and forced an evacuation of the crew to a nearby Class-L planet, with little hope of getting a good distress signal out through the interference.
Stardate 238505.02
The Ronin, its systems crippled due to a cascade failure brought on by nebular radiation, managed to evacuate most of its crew to a nearby Class-L desert world (later dubbed Rakis). Scattered across the surface, however, the crew found themselves struggling to survive against the harsh climate and an indigenous predatory lifeform, able to ’swim’ through the sands by using soundwaves to change the consistency of the soil in front of it. These creatures, called ’sand worms,’ ’sand sharks,’ or ‘land sharks’ by the crew, took several of the Ronin’s crew before a way to combat them effectively was found, combining a sound disruption device, effectively preventing the use of sound to ’swim’ through the sand, and a large water cannon, re-hydrating the sharks’ rough and dehydrated outer skin and effectively tearing it apart.
On the Ronin herself, a number of crew members were stranded by the failing power systems. This was a blessing in disguise, however, as a Ferengi scout ship arrived soon after the ship was evacuated to ’salvage’ the stricken Federation vessel. After a brief fire-fight, the remaining crew managed to barter help from the DaiMon, Nekil, allowing them to alert the Federation to the Ronin’s whereabouts.
The Ronin is currently under tow, thanks to the USS Wellington, heading for DS17. There, her power systems will be shored up and she will be transported on to | Utopia Planetia, Mars, for more extensive repairs.
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