Tangent (Arrow)
| Episode 16 |
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| USS Arrow | ||
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 LOST | ||
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Characters
| Officers taking part in the mission | |||
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| Name | Position | Notes | |
| Randal Shayne | Commanding Officer | ||
| Cayden Adyr | First Officer | ||
| Chloe Waters | Mission Specialist | ||
| Heinrich Brenner | Helm Officer | ||
| Connor Dewitt | Chief Engineer | ||
| Nolen Hobart | Engineering Officer | ||
| Ezra Zerva | Security Officer | ||
| Zenno | Acting Security Chief | ||
| Talia Ohnari | Chief Medical Officer | ||
| Piweh | Medical Officer | ||
| Jacin Ayemet | Science Officer | ||
| Mission Specific NPCs | |||
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| Name | Position | Notes | |
| Voren Kellen | Director of Moon Colony | ||
| Colonel Nokell | Chief Minister of Defense | ||
| Senna Kor | Clan Leader of the Kurmishoi | ||
| Sullustis | War Captain of the Kurmishoi | Written under Senna Kor | |
| NPC's & PNPC's | |||
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| Name | Position | Notes | |
| Commander Ash MacKenna | Chief Intelligence Officer | ||
| Eliza Tull | Civilian Observer | ||
| Ensign Imogen Lacy | Engineering Officer | ||
Tangent
Starfleet Intelligence has detected warp signatures in the Emisa System. Suspecting an advance by the Lattice Alliance, the Arrow has been dispatched to investigate. Upon arrival in Emisa, a residual subspace imprint of a warp field are detected near Emisa III, and the Arrow discerns no sign of Sheliak or Tholian activity. The Arrow does find a research station built upon Emisa III’s moon.
Act 1
Starfleet picked up small-scale warp distortions in the Emisa systems. Due to the threat posed by the Lattice Alliance, the Arrow was dispatched to investigate these irregularities. After arriving in the system, the crew quickly discovered a colony on the moon of Emisa III, a planet within the system. While sensors picked up a lot of irregular readings for a previously ordinary system, the remains of a Sheliak vessel stood out.
After being hailed by the moon colony and greeted into the system, the Arrow was informed of a self-defense system of the colonists called the grid. It had been shut down for the Arrow and allowed the ship to converge on the moon.
Captain Shayne dispatched an away team (Hobart, Zerva, Ohnari, Brenner) to investigate the remains of the Sheliak vessel. In the meantime, he followed an invitation from the colonists to visit the moon base. He was accompanied by Lieutenants Jacin and Zenno as well as Commander Waters.
While the away teams conduct their investigations, the crew on the Arrow tries to make sense of the sensor readings of the system, trying to understand the grid and the missing data from the planet Emisa III.
Act 2
As a nuclear explosion shows up on sensors, minor malfunctions start to occur aboard the USS Arrow. The explosion originates from the planet and is also registered by the moon colony and both away teams.
Commander Adyr decides to send the away team, which is occupied with investigating the Sheliak ship's remains, to investigate the planetside explosion and rule out any further Sheliak threats. After landing, the away team is taken by surprise when a party of Emisans who live on the surface of the planet shows up. The Emisans force the away team to accompany them to their underground base, and contact with the ship breaks.
Meanwhile, Captain Shayne and his team also hear the explosion as they are having a reception on the moon colony. The Director and Chief of Security play the importance of the explosion down and invite the away team on a tour of the base - first showing off a communications hub. Captain Shayne and Lieutenant Jacin discover a graphical map of nuclear radiation near the explosion site. The colonists reassure the Starfleet officers that they are still investigating its origins and strengthen their own narrative of this being a natural occurrence of a dying planet. Events like these are what forced them to live on the moon colony for centuries and what eradicated the Emisans on the planet.
Act 3
On the surface of Emisa III, the away team—consisting of Lieutenant Ohnari and Ensign Zerva, led by Lieutenant Hobart—follows the cave-dwelling force that ambushed them to a large underground settlement. They are informed of the people's perilous existence, and are taken to meet the clan's leader, Senna Kor. Kor at first entreats with the away team, explaining that the "Death Towers" (the Lunar Emisan's remote drill sites) cause widespread death and destruction and will likely bring their cave down on top of them. When Lieutenant Hobart defers to his superiors, Kor orders that they be tranquilized, and a hail of poison darts knocks the team unconscious.
On the moon over Emisa III, Captain Shayne's team continues to press for information on the Emisan development project. Director Kellen gets more specific in their request for aid, and asks for a great number of materials. Lieutenant Jacin suggests, and the Captain agrees, that Arrow could provide significant resources through the Forge. The Captain orders Commander Adyr to get to work, acknowledging that so long as the Forge is active, Arrow will be vulnerable.
Meanwhile, on the ship, Lieutenant Dewitt and Ensign Lacy have developed a plan to cut through the natural interference around Emisa III. A probe is launched, just as the order to go to Orange Alert is given.
Act 4
Lieutenant Hobart's team awakens, stripped of their gear and their uniforms, and suspended in iron cages. None too happy, they confront their captors, who subject them to lengthy explanation of the reasons for their actions. Lieutenant Hobart offers to give his EV suit to Senna Kor, if she agrees to release the others. Together, he suggests, they can return to the shuttle on the surface and fly back to Arrow. Kor refuses, saying that she cannot leave her people in their final days. She urges Hobart to advocate for them to the "Moon People." When Hobart refuses, citing the Prime Directive, she lets them all go, accepting defeat. As the away team prepares to return to the surface, Kor consults her clan elders, who urge her to leave and join the Away Team. She relents, and catches up to them on their way out. With a rebreather seemed sufficient to protect her biology, they return to the surface and the waiting shuttle.
On the moon, Captain Shayne's team determines that the most likely explanation for the explosion is that there are still people alive on the surface. Lieutenant Zenno fakes gastroenterological distress, allowing the away team to apply diplomatic pressure on the Emisans to be forthright. Eventually Colonel Nokell concedes the truth, but insists they have no way of helping the "barbarians" on the surface, and that the mining is necessary to gather the resources to build upon their warp ship technology, to create a colony ship. The moon's resources are stretched thin, and draconian measures like limits on reproduction have been needed.
The Arrow reports to the Captain that Hobart's team is returning, and that the production in the Forge is under way.
Conclusion
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