Wanting a chance to put the Artemis through its paces and give the crew a chance to test their own mettle, Commander MacKenzie split the senior crew into two teams, assigning half to the borrowed USS Berlin for a training exercise in a nearby nebula.
The Artemis was dispatched to the Da'al homeworld to assist with relief efforts following a meteor impact, which left approximately 10,000 Da'al dead and thousands more wounded and/or unhomed.