SB118Ops Mission Logs/Leo Handley-Page
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Starbase 118: Ops Mission Archive Database
Mission I: "The Crash of the Cerberas"
- Location: StarBase 118 Ops
- Stardates: 239112.30-
- Mission Summary:
Shortly after Commander Leo Handley-Page took command of StarBase 118 Ops, the crew found themselves weathering an ion storm. The storm disabled the base's transporters and sent minor disruptions throughout the computer systems. But disaster struck when the SS Cerberas, a civilian freighter coming in to dock, lost control and crashed into the special ops tower of the station. The Cerberas suffered heavy damage, embedding a nacelle into the side of the station and suffering major hull breeches.
Commander Handley-Page immediately mobilized a rescue team led by Dr. Velana to evacuate injured crew and civilians from the damaged Special Ops tower, and another team led by Lt. Commander Taybrim to evacuate any survivors from the Cerberas and investigate what caused the ship to lose control in such a drastic way. Meanwhile the Ops control officers assess the situation and try to find a way to protect the other ships trying to dock from both the ion storm and the dangerous debris from the Cerberas accident.
Dr. Velana's team finds many injured, including several civilian reporters trapped in a fire-damaged section, and a group of crewmembers that have been overwhelmed by the fire suppression system. In Ops, the control room crew postulates that the Cerberas might have been sabotaged, or it might be a distraction for some sort of attack against the Starbase. This theory is supported when the crew finds evidence that the Cerberas sustained weapons damage before it crashed into StarBase 118.
Meanwhile Lt. Commander Taybrim's team head over using the runabout Aramis. They confirm that the Cerberas was badly damaged by weapons fire, including damage to its engines. They also find that the Cerberas is carrying an unusually large amount of antimatter. Only faint life signs can be read onboard, and the life support is failing. So the away team suits up in EVA suits and heads onboard the Cerberas. They find the cargo area empty, and work their way to the bridge where the team find that the original Barzan crew has been murdered by someone several days before the crash. With some investigation they find that not only is there a device emitting false life signs, but there is a bomb onboard the Cerberas that threatens the entire station!
The medical teams evacuate the special ops tower when they find an unexploded torpedo has lodged into the station from the Cerberas. The wounded are taken to sickbay for treatment while Ensign D'yer Rix calls in a bomb squad and gets the torpedo diffused.
The Ops team find that there are terrorists on board StarBase 118 and they intercept several coded communications. They learn that the civilian transport ship the Daybreaker is acting as a relay, passing the messages to a coded ship. There is a terrorist on the Daybreaker, along with security officer Mikk Toral's young daughter. Meanwhile one of the terrorists, Ry'van Alstred, cuts a path of sorrow across deck 1313 and deck 1159, leaving three crew dead and one seriously injured in his attempt to escape.
The Aramis team heads back to the shuttle, leaving Major tr'Khellian onboard the Cerberas to coordinate a slingshot maneuver that will pull the Cerberas away from the starbase. But as soon as the Cerberas is moved, the bomb activates. The Aramis is in a race against time, just barely clearing the Cerberas out of range of Starbase 118 before it blows. They enact a daring rescue of tr'Khellian and start flee the explosion but are caught at the end range of the shockwave. The damaged Aramis starts onboard repairs to get back to StarBase 118 when they are attacked by a Romulan stryker that was cloaked - the terrorist ship communicating with the Daybreaker!