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Arlo's first assignment as a member of the Gorkon's crew was to assist in aiding a team of terraforming scientists at the Giáng Sinh colony deal with an unexpected winter, the after effects of an unexplained solar flare. Having grown up in a sub-tropical climate, she was initially unenthused by the the arctic conditions but grew to appreciate the beauty of the planet to the point where she remarked she would miss the planet when Gorkon was reassigned elsewhere. | Arlo's first assignment as a member of the Gorkon's crew was to assist in aiding a team of terraforming scientists at the Giáng Sinh colony deal with an unexpected winter, the after effects of an unexplained solar flare. Having grown up in a sub-tropical climate, she was initially unenthused by the the arctic conditions but grew to appreciate the beauty of the planet to the point where she remarked she would miss the planet when Gorkon was reassigned elsewhere. | ||
Shortly after Gorkon's assignment was complete, the ship was tasked with investigating a string of strange occurrences on the strategically important Romulan colony of Vaeron. Arlo was assigned to lead an away team to investigate a strange sensor 'dead zone' that had appeared at the lowest levels of a Federation-administrated mine known as Calrich's Overhang. It was during this mission that her childhood fear of the dark came back with a vengeance- which was only compounded by the presence of mutated Denebian Slime Devils and strange fungal aliens. Her team eventually discovered a secret 'duckblind' which appeared to link all the strange occurrences and encountered a kidnapped Starfleet officer- [[Rachel Flores]]- who had been subjected to alien experimentation. They identified that the aliens used a species of mycelia as a power source and shut down the duckblind by inducing a metre on cascade in the power systems which destroyed the mycelial spores. | Shortly after Gorkon's assignment was complete, the ship was tasked with investigating a string of strange occurrences on the strategically important Romulan colony of Vaeron. Arlo was assigned to lead an away team to investigate a strange sensor 'dead zone' that had appeared at the lowest levels of a Federation-administrated mine known as Calrich's Overhang. It was during this mission that her childhood fear of the dark came back with a vengeance- which was only compounded by the presence of mutated Denebian Slime Devils and strange fungal aliens. Her team eventually discovered a secret 'duckblind' which appeared to link all the strange occurrences and encountered a kidnapped Starfleet officer- [[Rachel Flores]]- who had been subjected to alien experimentation. They identified that the aliens used a species of mycelia as a power source and shut down the duckblind by inducing a metre on cascade in the power systems which destroyed the mycelial spores. ([[Serpent Heart, Flowering Face (Gorkon)|GORKON: Serpent Heart, Flowering Face]]). | ||
When the Gorkon crew were tasked with assessing the safety and viability of a privately owned palaeontological reserve/theme park, Arlo was assigned to assist in evaluating the scientific aspects of the endeavour, which used revolutionary but mysterious cloning technology to create a wide variety of dinosaurs. She was suspicious of the technology and believed that the park's Chief Scientist- Doctor Bertrand Hankins- was less interested in scientific progress and more in the acclaim that would come with his discoveries. Neverthless, she helped to save the life of an infant dinosaur by recognising that it had an extreme sensitivity to light and arranging for it's pen to be shrouded in darkness. During the tour, a series of malfunctions put everybody's lives in dangers as did an ion storm. After numerous encounters- and escapes- from carnivorous dinsoaurs, the away team plus Doctor Hankins fled from the science complex to the park's weather control centre where they discovered an infestation of GS54- a bioluminescent swarm that were preventing any changes to the asteroid's weather systems. Arlo's devised a backfeed to 'sour' the electromagnetic variance of the EPS system to, which forced GS54 out the electrical systems and into several battieries provided by Doctor Hankins. They were rescued a short time later by the USS Triumphant ([[Welcome to Dinosauria (Gorkon)|GORKON: Welcome to Dinosauria]]). | |||