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However, they soon had bigger problems. Like the discovery of the saboteur and the looming structure they found themselves running upon. A massive, but friendly seeming station that projected to them an automated welcome beacon. Teams were soon divided amongst the remaining crew. Quentin would lead a team to the station, comprised of Officers Jacin Ayemet, Connor Dewitt, and Dr. Ar'Gorvalei along with a Security escort officer. Hopefully to ascertain where they were exactly. While the remaining ship bound officers would track down the person or persons responsible for their unexpected jump. | However, they soon had bigger problems. Like the discovery of the saboteur and the looming structure they found themselves running upon. A massive, but friendly seeming station that projected to them an automated welcome beacon. Teams were soon divided amongst the remaining crew. Quentin would lead a team to the station, comprised of Officers Jacin Ayemet, Connor Dewitt, and Dr. Ar'Gorvalei along with a Security escort officer. Hopefully to ascertain where they were exactly. While the remaining ship bound officers would track down the person or persons responsible for their unexpected jump. | ||
Fortunately, Odyssey Station, a station known to Starfleet, proved helpful. If a bit frustration and obtuse along the way. | Fortunately, Odyssey Station, a station known to Starfleet, proved helpful. If a bit frustration and obtuse along the way. After a short, but slightly blockheaded conversation with the Station AI, the Away Team was recognized as "guests" of the Station. A contact that only deepened after Collins dropped the name of Commander David Cody, another name from Starfleet the Station had "interfaced" with in the past. The AI then guided the team further into the interior of the Station, but as they traveled trouble brewed in the mind of one of their Security escorts. | ||
As the Station's main interface was psionic in nature, NCO Hitchcock started to buckle under the pressure of the constant noise. Tensions rose quickly and Hitchcock moved to attack the Away Team, but before he could, The Station once more helped. Just not in the way one would expect it to. Hitchcock was then "bubbled" in a soft, but firm bubble. Thus neutralized away from the Away Team. From there, the mission would only get stranger. | |||
Finally, the AI brought them to a massive Control Room. A circular, bowl like structure dominated by cylindrical doorways. But as the team explored the room, another feature built itself up from the middle of the flooring. Seemingly by the force of their imagination alone. A "Control Console", pockmarked with various entry points for the crew to manipulate. As the team started to study the console, it became the flashpoint for a heated debate. | |||
Jacin Ayemet was anxious to interface with the console, arguing that it was likely a way to control the mysterious Way Corridors that the AI had been describing on the way to the Control Room. However, Quentin Collins wished to study the wonderous technology before subjecting their minds and bodies to the effects. Unfortunately, neither would really get their wish. As the same psychic song that had taken out Hitchcock had taken over Connor Dewitt. Causing him to interface momentarily with the Console. | |||
Jacin's theory was proven half-correct. As Connor interfaced with the console, a Way Corridor was opened. Directly back to Earth local space. But as Dr. Ar'Gorvalei finally disconnected Connor from the Console, the Corridor was closed. A brand new impasse was introduced. One the AI grimly confirmed. Someone would have to stay behind and act as a sort of Keeper for the Station. Traversing the Way Corridors and proving as a Sherpa more travelers on the path for the rest of time. The situation had most assuredly changed. | |||
New, and newly heated debate erupted across the team. Collins arguing that he couldn't condemn a member of the crew, especially not now, in the face of a potentially decades-long trek back to Federation space. But Jacin held her ground, arguing back that the only way to get anywhere was with a Way Corridor, that all of them together could have enough energy and willpower to keep the Way open for them all to get through it. But still too many questions and unknowns remained for Quentin. He resolved none of them would touch the Console until they knew more. | |||
But still the signal remained. And even rose in pitch across the minds of the whole team. Tempers flared. Words were exchanged. And ultimately, Jacin Ayemet disobeyed a direct order from Quentin. But had she not, they might not have gotten back home. Crossing confidently, the young officer drove her hands into the Console unit, opening up the Way Corridor once more just a sliver. Expressing himself in a slightly terse manner, Quentin Collins and the rest of the team had to act quickly. As the doctor stated that she was stable, but in a slight fugue state, Quentin once more weighed his options. He would take the mantle of this "Keeper" to keep his peers from it, but they had to get the whole ship home. | |||
They were left with little recourse. They would have to interface along with Jacin into the Console. So they did so, fully opening the Way Corridors. Unknown to the team however, was that the powerful psychic waves of the Station had been affecting the ship and it's action as well. Sweeping up a wayward saboteur that had kicked off this whole mis-adventure in the first place. As they were replaced in the Away Team's spot, the team was miraculously transported back to the ship and the ship itself back into local space. A very confused reception party still awaiting them at [[Starbase 821]]. | |||
'''Mission #10: The Peril of Pankot III''' | '''Mission #10: The Peril of Pankot III''' | ||