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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. | 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. | ||
===SD 239008: Duty and Futility=== | |||
The supervolcano on 83 Leonis II erupted ahead of its predicted time. Away teams from the ''Mercury'' determined, before this eruption, that Starfleet’s presence on the world had not been limited to secret observation but had instead been much more involved: Captain Kells’s team discovered evidence of biotampering, while Commander Ross’s found a remaining researcher who admitted that the rest of his team had geoengineered the eruption, apparently to eradicate the pre-warp population. Captain Kells determined that this degree of tampering nullified the Prime Directive’s order of non-involvement, and the crew of the ''Mercury'' and the ''Aquitania'' began beaming up refugees. However, the civilian Dr. Saveron also beamed down without authorization, ostensibly to expedite the evacuation, but the distress call he sent from the surface attracted the attention of a Cardassian warship, which arrived and chased away the two Starfleet vessels despite their pleas of humanitarian assistance. As the ships left, the ''Mercury'' crew gathered on the bridge to pay respect and tribute to the unknown race that was likely to perish thanks to the eruption and the climactic changes it would cause. | |||
The ''Aquitania'', with Ambassador Ventu and all the alien refugees, departed Deep Space 10 after it and the ''Mercury'' had returned, and the ''Mercury'' crew turned its attention to recreation and the remaining problems of the previous mission: Dr. Saveron was arrested for his unauthorized beam-down, Ensign Alora DeVeau continued to search for the DNA fingerprints of the missing researchers, and Captain Reynolds and Dr. Hawkeye revealed that the last researcher had been intentionally poisoned — and genetically manipulated. | |||
===SD 239009: Through Open Gates=== | |||
With the [[Gateway Crisis of 2390]] affecting nearly every corner of the galaxy, the ''Mercury'' is sent by Starfleet from its usual haven at DSX to the thoroughly unreputable [[Menthar Anchorage]]. Tol, the Ferengi owner of the Anchorage, has invited all manner of bidders and potential buyers to an auction he’s intending to hold for an Iconian gateway. | |||
Cmdr. Melitta Herodion, Dr. Saveron, Lt. Jacen Fanel, Lt.(JG) Trel’lis, and Cmdr. Ari Capronne headed to the Menthar Anchorage to take part in the auction. On the ship, other teams attempted to discover where the gateway might be, and indeed if Tol possesses knowledge of a gateway at all. Ensign Alora DeVeau placed a call to her father, a galactic shipping magnate, and discovered that while theirs might not be, the Gateway Crisis itself was very real, and there was certainly more to the proceedings than meets the eye. | |||
Meanwhile, Cmdr. Harry Ross was given command of the ''Mercury'' and promoted Lt. Cmdr. Roshanara Rahman to acting first officer as Captain Kells had been arrested on DSX during shore leave for his responsibility for the actions at 83 Leonis II and the potential violation of Starfleet General Order One. | |||
===SD 239010: End of Days=== | |||
Dr. Saveron, with the assistance of Lt.(JG) Trel’lis and Cmdr. Ari Capronne turned from attending the auction announcement from Tol, the Ferengi owner of the Menthar Anchorage, to the monumental task of obtaining enough latinum to make a serious wager on the coordinates of the alleged Iconian gateway. Though an offer came by way of one Trayden Jora, the team was extremely apprehensive about taking the offer, as it came with a corollary: a message, from Jora, delivered to Lt. Cmdr. Isaac Bale. | |||
Meanwhile, on the ''Mercury'', Lt. Cmdr. Bale was himself overseeing methods for searching for the gateway under acting-XO Lt. Cmdr. Roshanara Rahman. Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Breeman, recently arrived R&D specialist from the {{USS|Excalibur|A}}, assisted in the modification of several probes to search, while Ensigns Alora DeVeau and Kotir Arith attempted to trace the ship that had discovered the gateway in the first place. | |||
On Deep Space 10, Captain Aron Kells attended his hearing over the incident at 83 Leonis II. Examinations were limited to only a few individuals, including Kells’s XO and the ''Mercury''’s acting CO, Cmdr. Harrison Ross, who appeared via hologram. At the same time that Ross, back aboard the ''Mercury'', ordered the auction team to return when it became clear they would not raise the necessary funds, Lt. Cmdr. Damos, Starfleet’s JAG prosecutor, abruptly dropped the charges against Captain Kells moments before Shyn, the presiding judge, offered her verdict. Kells was left to return to his ship, now seeking the gateway, as he attempted to seek his own answers. | |||
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