Avandar Mission Archive
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This page records mission summaries for the past adventures of the USS Avandar. Data relating to previous missions is posted here, as well as a synopsis of what happened. For information on the USS Avandar's current mission, go to the Current Mission page.
Mission 2: Dark Shadows
After returning to Starbase 23 to give the crew a chance to recover from their ordeal on Eden, the USS Avandar returned through the Rabbit Hole to continue it's efforts to explore the new region of space on the other side.
The events of the last mission left their mark on the crew of the USS Avandar, and a stop at Starbase 23 gave them a chance to let off a little steam and take the chance to get to grips with what had happened to them. The layover didn't last all that long, however, and the crew were soon back through the Rabbit Hole, with the intention of getting the region of space they were to explore to yield up more secrets than trouble.
At first, things were pretty mundane, with a few somewhat interesting stellar features located for possible further study, but the real prize came in the form of a beacon that led the Avandar to their first planet-side contact on the far side of the Rabbit Hole.
The beacon which contained a message about being taken by a hostile ship to a star system with the Werent Colony. It also gave warning about a nebula in the system.
With an invitation offered to pay a visit, an away team led by LtCmdr. T'Lea shuttled down to the colony to take a look around, whilst the Avandar itself began the job of investigating the possible mysteries of the nebula that lay only a short distance away, and seemed the destination of at least one other ship - quite possibly the source of the beacon they had investigated.
After the Away team's departure to the Werent outpost, the USS Avandar headed the short distance to the nearby nebula. Looking for signs of the transport ship that had dropped the beacon they had followed here, the Avandar was still taken somewhat by surprise when the ship responsible for the disappearance - an old Romulan Warbird commanded by what turned out to be a renegade officer - attacked from out of the nebula. The resulting conflict was rough, with both the Avandar and the Warbird having to fight the turbulence of the nebula itself as well as the other vessel. Eventually, creative use of the erratic terrain allowed the Avandar to prevail, with the Warbird's crew abandoning ship.
On the planet, things went equally roughly, with an initially warm and welcoming beginning soon turning into something from a nightmare. Whilst questions still exist as to the exact nature of the creatures that attacked the colony, two things became abundantly clear - Count Iblie, the colony's ruler, knew all about them... and the closest thing any of the away team could use to describe them was "zombies".
At LtCmdr T'Lea's command, the away team made a break for their shuttle, only to find themselves having to fight the monstrosities the whole way. Two of the team were seriously injured in the fighting and for Lt Blackwood, her encounter with the attackers proved fatal.
Now, with the Away Team back on the Avandar, the crew are faced with the decision of just how to proceed after their loss.
Mission 1: All that Remains
On it's maiden voyage, the USS Avandar set out to explore the far side of Romulan space by way of the recently discovered "Rabbit Hole" anomaly. On the other side of the anomaly, the crew picked up a faint signal, which they tracked to a dead world that none the less showed signs of ruins from an old culture. That was about as far as the crew got in their investigation before an unknown force struck the ship, forcing it into a very uncomfortable, and highly destructive, descent.
In the wake of the crash, the surviving crew discovered the world to be a rather tropical environment, with plenty of jungle life - and intelligent tribal natives that reacted poorly to the Avandar's violent arrival on their lands. Amid occasional raids by the natives trying to evict them, the crew worked to survive as best they could, which required some drastic decisions as to priorities to be made.
Over the months that followed, a number of the crew, led by LtCmdr Umas, grew increasingly dissatisfied with Capt. Vetri's lack of "at all costs" commitment to getting the crew rescued and her seemingly weak stance with regards to the natives. This finally erupted into open conflict when Umas attempted to murder the Captain whilst his followers provoked a major assault from the natives before making their escape in the only operational shuttle that remained.
Their attempt to get away from the planet failed due partly to sabotage to the shuttle, and they ended up making a forced landing some distance from the Avandar's remains. Now cut off, they are struggling to make their way whilst the rest of the crew - still under Captain Vetri's command - have brokered a truce with the natives, which shows signs of being the beginning of a true peace between the two groups...
For nearly ten years, the survivors of the USS Avandar's crash on the world they had dubbed Eden worked to adapt to their new home. After a very rough beginning, they had even managed to reach an accommodation with the natives, the crew and the nearest tribe coming to live in, if not harmony, then at least amicable enough proximity.
The relative peace wasn't to last, however, as LtCmdr Umas and his small band of rebels, tired of eking out an existence in the wilderness, found a way to capitalise on what they saw as their chance for revenge on those that had cast them out.
The beacon, the one hope the crew had for eventual rescue, was found to be having a detrimental effect on the atmosphere. Slow, subtle, but significant, this effect was enough for Captain Vetri to order it to be shut down whilst an attempt to fix the issue was made. There was no chance for that to happen, though, as Umas managed to get his hands on the device, modifying it for a more powerful transmission burst - a burst that, within minutes, had burned Eden's atmosphere into oblivion.
In the wake of the planet's destruction, the Avandar's crew were left to find answers to a number of questions - including what had just happened, and why where they back on the ship - which was parked neatly in orbit around the dead world they had approached only ten hours before...