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DSX had come fully online while the senior staff was in absentia, and many of them used the opportunity to explore, meet the new residents, and acquaint themselves with the officers who had recently been assigned there. Events of note during shore leave included an experimental surgery upon Lieutenant Commander {{n|Roshanara|Rahman}} and the reappearance of the [[Ring]], last encountered by the {{USS|Drake}} years before, around a planet in the [[Omicron Geminorum]] system. Meanwhile, some of the new junior lieutenants bonded; Captain {{n|Quinn|Reynolds}} discovered an old friend; and Lieutenant Commander {{n|Isaac|Bale}} and Major {{n|Jacen|Fanel}}, the ''Mercury''’s two hardened warriors, discussed the noble art of fatherhood. | DSX had come fully online while the senior staff was in absentia, and many of them used the opportunity to explore, meet the new residents, and acquaint themselves with the officers who had recently been assigned there. Events of note during shore leave included an experimental surgery upon Lieutenant Commander {{n|Roshanara|Rahman}} and the reappearance of the [[Ring]], last encountered by the {{USS|Drake}} years before, around a planet in the [[Omicron Geminorum]] system. Meanwhile, some of the new junior lieutenants bonded; Captain {{n|Quinn|Reynolds}} discovered an old friend; and Lieutenant Commander {{n|Isaac|Bale}} and Major {{n|Jacen|Fanel}}, the ''Mercury''’s two hardened warriors, discussed the noble art of fatherhood. | ||
===SD 239005: Journey to the Lost Library=== | |||
As the ''Mercury''s shore leave at DSX came to a close, the crew was stunned when Captain {{n|Aron|Kells}}'s accident of years prior aboard the [[Ring]] was repeated, and three different versions of Kells were combined into one: his sixty-year-old self. Though the crew, Starfleet Intelligence, and {{ma|Temporal Investigations}} wanted to investigate further, the matter was put aside in favor of a larger mission: An installation had been discovered on an uninhabited M-class planet in the [[Beta Scuti]] system, some three weeks into the Menthar Corridor at maximum warp, that long-range probes believe to be a library of some sort, and one that may hold ancient knowledge about the dominions of races that once called the Corridor home — and, perhaps more relevantly, what happened to them. After their journey to the planet, second officer {{n|Isaac|Bale}} took down an away team and discovered quickly that they weren't the only interested party. Aboard the ''Mercury'', Lieutenants {{n|Alexander|Richards}} and [[Mei'konda]] searched for patterns in the relics left behind by the Menthar and the other ancient races in the corridor. | |||
Meanwhile, on DSX, Commander {{n|Melitta|Herodion}} had newly assigned-investigator Lt. Cmdr. {{n|Msafiri|Bakari}} look into some strange (and perhaps related) comm traffic while the ''Mercury''s chief engineer {{n|Roshanara|Rahman}} stayed behind by medical order and used the time to get the station’s systems fully online with the unexpected assistance of her attending physician {{n|Niccolò|del Vedova}}. | |||
===SD 239006: Political Maneuvering=== | |||
The mission to excavate and explore the ancient library at Beta Scuti proceeded smoothly right up until the away team discovered that they weren't the only party interested in the information the library had to offer: an independent group of mercenaries had also taken an interest. Meanwhile, back on the ''Mercury'', the crew discovered the independents' ship when both ships suffered catastrophic power losses and the other required the ''Mercury'''s assistance to maintain her orbit. | |||
However, the ''Mercury'' crew's efforts to save the other ship were in vain and, with the crew evacuated, the planet's manufactured interference cut through, and the away team returned, the ''Mercury'' returned to Deep Space 10 with a wealth of data regarding the history of the region to sort through. The crew took some leave time upon their return to DSX, though upon that return, ''Mercury'' and DSX COs Aron Kells and Melitta Herodion discovered that they would soon be joined by Federation Ambassador {{n|Lily|Ventu}}, who had recently left [[StarBase 118]] to begin her campaign for a seat on the Federation Council — though why she chose to stop over at the small and removed DSX was, as yet, unknown. | |||
===SD 239007: End of Days=== | |||
After extensive questioning by ''Mercury'' CO Aron Kells and DSX CO Melitta Herodion, Ambassador Lily Ventu admitted that she had been asked to venture out into the Menthar Corridor with a modified troopship to “assist” with the incipient eruption of a supervolcano on [[83 Leonis II]]. The planet was home to an agrarian pre-warp civilization, and while it seemed clear to the crew of the ''Mercury'' to what use the troopship was to be put, Captain Kells made the decision that an evacuation of a portion of the population would not take place as it would be a violation of the {{ma|prime directive}} | |||
However, two away teams were sent down to the planet. The first, led by executive officer Commander {{n|Harrison|Ross}}, and including Herodion, Dr. [[Saveron]], and Lieutenant {{n|Tato|Zeme}}, was to examine the blind observation post of the Starfleet team that Ventu revealed had been assigned to the world, though Ross's team found no sign of the team upon first inspection and added their potential disappearance to the list of mysteries. The second team, led by Captain Kells and including Lieutenant Commander Roshanara Rahman, Lieutenant Mei'konda, Lieutenant (JG) [[Trel'lis]], and Ensign [[Kotir Arith]], landed the shuttlecraft ''Valentina Tereshkova'' within the volcano itself and beamed out to the planet’s surface to determine if any mitigation might make the eruption less severe. | |||
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