Stranded on Ambrosia (Columbia)

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Mission Briefing

After a shore leave at STARBASE 118, the COLUMBIA is ready to depart towards her next mission: test a new propulsion system based on ICONIAN technology, which in theory shall be able to fold space to allow instant jump between two points in different galaxies. Because of the extremely dangerous conditions, Starfleet Command has decided USS COLUMBIA shall leave all civilian and surplus officers at the Starbase, and operate only with a skeleton crew of 70 crewmembers... Since energy requirements are great, only but a starship of a Nebula-Class size can generate enough power to run the experiment.

Chapter 1

The ship arrives to a remote desitination after six day of travel ready to begin the experiment. The Iconian artifact has been jury rigged to the Columbia by way of Orion technology. The experiment begins with sucess when a wormhole is created. The Columbia moves into the rupture, with the destination having been established as a point on the other side of the Romulan Empire.

In moments the crew of te Columbia realize some thing is not right. The Columbia shakes violently, threating to shack itself apart.

Chapter 2

The new propulsion system based on ICONIAN technology failed during a test because of a fatal interaction between unexpected chronitons generated from the artifact and the anti-chroniton shield placed for Lt.Cmdr. Anderson's safety, to prevent timeline incursions destined to end his life. As a result, the COLUMBIA's engineering and science crew aborted the experiment, bringing the ship prematurely out of the artificial wormhole to prevent the ship's destruction.

With structural integrity heavily taxed, the captain ordered all hands to abandon ship via escape pods and head towards AMBROSIA, the nearest M-class planet.

Lt. T'Lea managed to shield the escape pods from the wormhole with COLUMBIA while Lt.Cmdr. Moranta iniciated the computer's lock out. After abandoning ship, COLUMBIA was absorbed again back into the wormhole, with one exocomp unit attemting to disconnect the new engine. Due to Ambrosia's atmospheric ionic charge which renders inoperative all kind of self powered technology, all pods arrived to different coordinates of the same small continent. After finding some shelter to spend the night away from the unwelcoming planet, the crew is working in reuniting with the rest of the pod's personnel, and in the interim search for a way out of Ambrosia or send a distress signal.