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Heading for the Communication Array, what meets them is an utter mess. [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] orders standard repair efforts - if expedient - but the sabotage is thorough. [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] - struck by a moment of brilliance - realizes that communications could be piggybacked onto the external sensors, allowing them to get a message out to Starfleet Command after all, when an explosion rocks the Artemis. After gathering her senses, [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] realizes that internal comms have died as well. Debating on how to proceed now, the two officers agree that getting a thorough idea of the current state of the ''Artemis''' systems would be easier from Main Engineering, and they could pick up some spare parts to start fixing the issues as well. With that in mind, they start to access the Jeffries' Tubes leading towards Deck 14 - and Main Engineering - but they are not alone...<br> | Heading for the Communication Array, what meets them is an utter mess. [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] orders standard repair efforts - if expedient - but the sabotage is thorough. [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] - struck by a moment of brilliance - realizes that communications could be piggybacked onto the external sensors, allowing them to get a message out to Starfleet Command after all, when an explosion rocks the Artemis. After gathering her senses, [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] realizes that internal comms have died as well. Debating on how to proceed now, the two officers agree that getting a thorough idea of the current state of the ''Artemis''' systems would be easier from Main Engineering, and they could pick up some spare parts to start fixing the issues as well. With that in mind, they start to access the Jeffries' Tubes leading towards Deck 14 - and Main Engineering - but they are not alone...<br> | ||
Coming around the corner, Cdr. Adea announces his intent to join their group, but between [[Jaseb Chevalier|Ensign Chevalier]]'s loyal faith in the importance of the Wildfire Protocol and the other Adea's confusion at [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]]'s query about the state of his leg, it soon becomes apparent that this Adea is not - in fact - their Betazoid CMO, and a desperate struggle ensues between the two Officers and what reveals itself to be a Changeling. | Coming around the corner, Cdr. Adea announces his intent to join their group, but between [[Jaseb Chevalier|Ensign Chevalier]]'s loyal faith in the importance of the Wildfire Protocol and the other Adea's confusion at [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]]'s query about the state of his leg, it soon becomes apparent that this Adea is not - in fact - their Betazoid CMO, and a desperate struggle ensues between the two Officers and what reveals itself to be a Changeling. The conflict is broken off as the Changeling escapes out of sight, but when the two officers finally catch up to it, they are faced with two Adeas staring each other down in the corridor, both claiming to be the real one. Thankfully, [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] has known the Commander for a while, and manages to trick the Changeling into revealing itself by posing questions to the pair. The Changeling, unfortunately, manages to escape once more, just as [[Genkos Adea|Cdr. Adea]] makes a startling observation: He just sent a pair of Ensigns to the Shuttlebay alongside a Lt.Cdr. Dakora who was behaving suspiciously. The trio debate what to do now, but between repairing the vessel and saving the lives of two Ensigns potentially at the mercy of a hostile Changeling, they opt for the latter and take off running towards the Shuttlebay. | ||
====Locating the Saboteur==== | ====Locating the Saboteur==== | ||
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In charge of locating the saboteur, [[Genkos Adea|Cdr. Adea]] and his team head into the bowls of the ship, the Betazoid fatigued with concern about the danger they're in. While they still have no evidence beyond the saboteur's handiwork, [[Kel Solas|Ens. Kel]] carefully voices the theory that either the saboteur has access to very advanced technology or has intimate knowledge of the ship's systems. Either option is distressing, but not so much as the third voiced theory. This close to DS9 and the main staging area of the Dominion War of years past, the questions poses itself: What if the saboteur is a shapeshifter? Elsewhere on the ''Artemis'', an Internal Security Sensor register PO3 Domingo Martinez, Ens. Marcus Li and Crewman Toro Nubar in the Secondary Sensor Control Room, performing their designated tasks. Ens. Li relieves PO3 Martinez, before producing an unknown object from his bag and going with Crewman Nubar into the restricted area with the sensitive sensor equipment. Moments later, an explosion sounds, and only Crewman Nubar exit the room again, disappearing out-of-view of the Security Sensors. The explosion knocks the turbolift temporarily out of service, and triggers emergency lights on the surrounding decks. Heading to Deck 13, the trio of officers arm themselves and head towards the site of the sabotage.<br><br> | In charge of locating the saboteur, [[Genkos Adea|Cdr. Adea]] and his team head into the bowls of the ship, the Betazoid fatigued with concern about the danger they're in. While they still have no evidence beyond the saboteur's handiwork, [[Kel Solas|Ens. Kel]] carefully voices the theory that either the saboteur has access to very advanced technology or has intimate knowledge of the ship's systems. Either option is distressing, but not so much as the third voiced theory. This close to DS9 and the main staging area of the Dominion War of years past, the questions poses itself: What if the saboteur is a shapeshifter? Elsewhere on the ''Artemis'', an Internal Security Sensor register PO3 Domingo Martinez, Ens. Marcus Li and Crewman Toro Nubar in the Secondary Sensor Control Room, performing their designated tasks. Ens. Li relieves PO3 Martinez, before producing an unknown object from his bag and going with Crewman Nubar into the restricted area with the sensitive sensor equipment. Moments later, an explosion sounds, and only Crewman Nubar exit the room again, disappearing out-of-view of the Security Sensors. The explosion knocks the turbolift temporarily out of service, and triggers emergency lights on the surrounding decks. Heading to Deck 13, the trio of officers arm themselves and head towards the site of the sabotage.<br><br> | ||
Arriving at the place in question, the team realizes that the damage to the comm relays will impede the Ship's internal communications, so as [[Gnai|Ens. Gnai]] beings taking scans to find any trace of the saboteur, or indeed the cause of the explosion itself, [[Kel Solas|Ens. Kel]] is instructed to move away from the sabotage in an attempt to get contact to the Bridge. Unfortunately, all attempts are met with silence. As the team deliberates on how to proceed, they are met with Lt.Cdr. Talos Dakora, who claims he's been trying to reach them since the comms went down. He attempts to lead the group towards the Shuttle Bay where a situation is unfolding. [[Genkos Adea|Cdr. Adea]] finds the situation curious, but allows the two Ensigns to follow the Betazoid First Officer with the telepathic message to keep each other safe. Barely has the trio rounded the corner, before [[Genkos Adea|Cdr. Adea]] is knocked unconscious by an unseen assailant...<br><br> | Arriving at the place in question, the team realizes that the damage to the comm relays will impede the Ship's internal communications, so as [[Gnai|Ens. Gnai]] beings taking scans to find any trace of the saboteur, or indeed the cause of the explosion itself, [[Kel Solas|Ens. Kel]] is instructed to move away from the sabotage in an attempt to get contact to the Bridge. Unfortunately, all attempts are met with silence. As the team deliberates on how to proceed, they are met with Lt.Cdr. Talos Dakora, who claims he's been trying to reach them since the comms went down. He attempts to lead the group towards the Shuttle Bay where a situation is unfolding. [[Genkos Adea|Cdr. Adea]] finds the situation curious, but allows the two Ensigns to follow the Betazoid First Officer with the telepathic message to keep each other safe. Barely has the trio rounded the corner, before [[Genkos Adea|Cdr. Adea]] is knocked unconscious by an unseen assailant...<br><br> | ||
In the Shuttle Bay, Lt.Cdr. Dakora orders the two Ensigns to commence their investigations of the shuttles to ascertain whether they have been sabotaged, as he himself goes to the Flight Controller's office. There, he reveals himself to be Ravicz - a Changeling infiltrator - and sets to his diabolical plan. The two Ensigns - suspicious of the circumstances - opt to stay together while investigating the ''Griffin'', when a cacophonous sound ruptures the air and the Shuttle Bay enters rapid decompression. Ensign | In the Shuttle Bay, Lt.Cdr. Dakora orders the two Ensigns to commence their investigations of the shuttles to ascertain whether they have been sabotaged, as he himself goes to the Flight Controller's office. There, he reveals himself to be Ravicz - a Changeling infiltrator - and sets to his diabolical plan. The two Ensigns - suspicious of the circumstances - opt to stay together while investigating the ''Griffin'', when a cacophonous sound ruptures the air and the Shuttle Bay enters rapid decompression. [[Kel Solas|Ensign Solas]] barely manages to get the shuttle ramp sealed before they are both sucked into the now accessible vacuum of space, and the two of them are now sealed into the shuttle, safe... For the moment.<br><br> | ||
Soon Ravicz realizes that his cunning trap has not ended the lives of the two Ensigns, and he comes running - still in his disguise - to lure them outside the shuttle so he can finish the job in person. The Officers are at this point rightfully wary of their supposed First Officer, and discuss what might be a reasonable way to handle his aberrant behavior, at which point the increasingly unhinged Changeling starts to physically beat at the Shuttle to get at the two Ensigns. [[Kel Solas|Ensign Solas]] - at this point certain in his observation that the Lt.Cdr. is ''not'' who he seems - suggests that they depressurize the Shuttlebay from within the shuttle. [[Gnai|Ensign Gnai]] still harbors doubts, concerned that they might be killing a mentally compromised or perhaps drugged colleague, but as Ravicz loses grip on his disguise, all doubts are dismissed and the depressurization is started. The Changeling is sucked into space, and ghastly green beams light up the outside of the shuttle, as the Ensigns make a concerning observation.<br><br> | |||
The Cube is firing at the ''Artemis''. | |||
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|quote =''We need our weapons online, A-flippin’-SAP. ::He pointed.:: If that Cube wakes up and decides it’s time to party, I want to have something more than rude gestures to throw at them.''|source = [https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/60zYeFrTMRA Lt.Cdr. Talos Dakora - Prove The Theory] - SD 240106.10}}While the idea itself is a massive leap considering the limited evidence available, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] decides it worth acting on. After confirming the location of either Ensign Li or Crewman Nubar - the two identities reflected in the security log - the internal sensors locate Nubar in a Jeffries' Tube near Deck 13 where [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] and [[Jaseb Chevalier|Ens Chevalier]]. Deciding to mind the bridge on his own, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] sends the two lieutenants on a manhunt.<br><br> | |quote =''We need our weapons online, A-flippin’-SAP. ::He pointed.:: If that Cube wakes up and decides it’s time to party, I want to have something more than rude gestures to throw at them.''|source = [https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/60zYeFrTMRA Lt.Cdr. Talos Dakora - Prove The Theory] - SD 240106.10}}While the idea itself is a massive leap considering the limited evidence available, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] decides it worth acting on. After confirming the location of either Ensign Li or Crewman Nubar - the two identities reflected in the security log - the internal sensors locate Nubar in a Jeffries' Tube near Deck 13 where [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] and [[Jaseb Chevalier|Ens Chevalier]]. Deciding to mind the bridge on his own, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] sends the two lieutenants on a manhunt.<br><br> | ||
The two goldshirts travel downwards through the vessel on a hunt for Nubar, but soon discover his comm badge discarded on the floor. Utilizing [[Vitor Silveira|LT Silveira]]'s understanding of the layout of the ''Artemis'', the two of them realize that the Changeling infiltrator is dangerously close to Main Engineering, and decide to head in that direction. Some idle flirting is passed between the two, when a long, reddish-pink tentacle lashes out to grab [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]]'s ankle. Inconvenienced by the tight fit in the crawlspace, [[Vitor Silveira|LT Silveira]] fires his phaser to make the Changeling release her, but in response to his hostility, the Changeling changes tactic and turns into a Gorn. | The two goldshirts travel downwards through the vessel on a hunt for Nubar, but soon discover his comm badge discarded on the floor. Utilizing [[Vitor Silveira|LT Silveira]]'s understanding of the layout of the ''Artemis'', the two of them realize that the Changeling infiltrator is dangerously close to Main Engineering, and decide to head in that direction. Some idle flirting is passed between the two, when a long, reddish-pink tentacle lashes out to grab [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]]'s ankle. Inconvenienced by the tight fit in the crawlspace, [[Vitor Silveira|LT Silveira]] fires his phaser to make the Changeling release her, but in response to his hostility, the Changeling changes tactic and turns into a Gorn. Deploying the tried-and-true tactic of kicking a Gorn in the face, [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]] manages to knock the Changeling out, and the two officers manage to drag the Changeling out of the Jefferies' Tubes before it can liquefy. In a stroke of mad genius, [[Vitor Silveira|LT Silveira]] and [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]] seal the rapidly deconstructing Changeling in a tupperware container, just as [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] resummons them to the Bridge. The Cube is powering up.<br><br> | ||
While combat against the Cube goes about as well as could be expected - considering that the weapons systems have been repaired - it is painfully clear that the ''Artemis'' is outgunned in a major way. As a couple of attacks from the Cube hits the ''Artemis'' hard, the tuppered Changeling, brought along by [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]] starts to break out of its containment, making matters worse for the already tense bridge crew. | |||
===Into the Cube=== | ===Into the Cube=== | ||
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* ''' Stardate 240106.19:''' [https://www.starbase118.net/2024/awards-and-mixed-emotions-as-uss-artemis-wraps-up-shoreleave/ Awards andd Mixed Emotions as USS ''Artemis'' Wraps Up Shoreleave] | |||
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