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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 [[Avandar Current Mission|Current Mission]] page.
+==Mission 4: The Klingon Invasion==
+With tensions high due to the conflict between the Klingon and Romulan Empires, the USS Avandar arrived at its designated patrol area with the intent of trying to keep as good an eye on what was going on across the border as possible without landing itself in undue trouble. This did not go entirely according to plan.
+Just as they were getting settled in to their new assignment, the Avandar’s crew received an emergency distress call from another Starfleet vessel – the [[USS Drake]] – which reported itself under attack by a Klingon ship. Making best speed to Gateway Station and the Drake’s location, the Avandar was able to make a sufficiently dramatic entrance that the Klingon ship withdrew, leaving the Drake and Avandar to establish just how serious the impact of the attack had been.
+It turned out that the impact was quite serious, though not for the reasons first thought. When the alien beacon the Drake’s crew had been working on Gateway Station gave off a significant energy surge, disrupting local subspace, it also uncovered a swarm of gravitic mines the Klingon ship had left behind as it withdrew – mines that immediately began homing in on both the beacon and the civilian station it was aboard…
+In an attempt to prevent the loss of civilian lives, the USS Avandar focussed it's efforts on trying to stop the swarm of gravimetric mines heading for Gateway Station, it's tactical crews working hard to shoot the attacking drones down. In the meantime the USS Drake, along with an ad-hoc fighter wing piloted by members of their own crew, as well as volunteers from the Avandar and Gateway Station itself, ran interference to try and make sure the Klingon ships still in the area kept their distance.
+The arrival Klingon reinforcements, including a carrier, turned the situation for the worse as far as the Starfleet ships are concerned. In a rather desperate attempt to keep things under control, Captain Vetri tried a diplomatic approach to buy some time. Unfortunately, the attempt didn't pay off to well - both Starfleet ships found themselves boarded.
+In an unexpected turn of luck, relief arrived in the form of another group of KDF vessels - who promptly engaged the Klingons already closing and inflicted a number of casualties. Taking advantage of the distraction, both Starfleet crews began evacuating as many of the station's population as possible before recovering their pilots and breaking off as fast as they could.
+With a large hole in the hull from the boarding craft and cargo bays overflowing with refugees, the Avandar parted ways with the Drake and began making it's way toward somewhere safe they could make repairs and pass the passengers on to those best able to help them.
+==Mission 3: Dancing in the Void==
+With the arrival of the USS Halo in the area, which took over dealing with the conditions on the Werent Outpost, and after bidding farewell to their fallen comrade, the crew of the USS Avandar got back to the business of seeing what mysteries waited for them. Things were not totally smooth sailing, however, as two of the crew still needed further treatment for injuries sustained on the last Away Mission, and the tension it had aroused among the crew caused a number of incidents, including a confrontation between one of the Engineering staff and a Marine that left the CPO Valaine in sickbay (again) and LtCmdr. Eerie and others investigating just what had happened - and why the ship's internal sensors had failed to record anything at all in the area the incident occurred.
+Things settled down quite quickly, however, and the Avandar's new Chief Science Officer, [[Sorani, Luran|LtCmdr Sorani]], was welcomed aboard, though with perhaps a little less enthusiasm from some quarters as might have been preferred. The crew have something new to focus on now, however, with the discovery of a previously unknown form of apparently space-dwelling life. Eager to get to grips with this new discovery, the Avandar's officers have begun trying to piece together just why these creatures seem so interested in an apparently utterly mundane comet in deep space...
+The creatures were not the only puzzle, however. The comet itself gave off some interesting readings, suggesting something beneath the surface, something that strongly resembled a masked chamber of some kind. Despite the potential hazards of going walkabout on the surface of a comet, the selected away team was eager to get going – an eagerness that lasted right up until they encountered an entity of some kind on the comet and things took a turn for the the strange.
+With the away team completely off sensors and experiencing some very vivid hallucinations apparently caused by the entity, the Avandar's crew had to deal with a gas sample from the comet’s corona totally ignoring containment methods after being beamed aboard for study. Finally, the entire area of the ship had to be vented into space, but with a little creativity the crew managed to locate the Away Team was found once more and return them to the ship – though not totally unscathed by their experiences with the entity they encountered inside the comet.
+Even with some relatively minor injuries to deal with, there was a great deal of interest in digging deeper - unfortunately, there was no chance to study what it’s custodian considered an archive of experiences from a number of species as urgent orders came through from Starfleet Command for the Avandar to return to Federation space. A far bigger problem was beginning to rear it's head...
 ==Mission 2: Dark Shadows==