Flashpoint (Veritas)
| USS Veritas | ||
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| Veritas Mission History |
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| Year 1 (2393-2394) |
| The Forgotten Land · Rag and Bone · Aftershock · The Mother Road |
| Year 2 (2395) |
| The Irresistible Prize · Kallo Ver & The Hunt for the Lost Romulan Treasure Fleet · The Omega Paradox · Hope Lost · Flashpoint |
| Year 3 (2396) |
| Limbo · Dawn · Home · Sentinel · Play the Part · The First Colony · Tour de Ketar V · Charybdis · Lost and Found |
| Year 4 (2397) |
| E Pluribus Unum · Nadira · Free Flight · Pirates of the Quantum Realms · Forever and Always · Heartbeat · Home Is Where the Heart Is · Wandering Star |
| Year 5 (2398) |
| Here Kitty Kitty · Reunion · Chasing Shadows · Endeavour · Loopy · Fissure |
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Prologue
In 2491, Jhalib Ekal returns to the Temporal Integrity Commission upon learning that Captain Roshanara Rahman believed, after experiencing a temporal phenomenon and witnessing a future event in which the Veritas encounters a Tholian vessel, that the Veritas fires a quantum torpedo and initiates conflict with the Tholian Assembly. Deciding that their organization was out of options, Narm'ei Constable dismisses Ekal from TIC service and opts to implement their "final resort" - but Ekal learns of these measures, and fearing for his own life and that of his family, steals his CRI brace and travels back in time to 2395 to warn the Veritas of what's to come, even if that means changing his own future.
Meanwhile, in 2395, Commander Zhou Tai-Sheng of the USS Montreal rescues a group of survivors before they were taken by Tholians, made up of crewmembers from the USS Artemis, commanded by Felicia Nickson. The Artemis, tasked with transporting a subspace telescope along the border of the Shoals and the Tholian Assembly, encountered a subspace eddy - when it's crew was forced to abandon ship, the Artemis fails to self-destruct. With Zhou seriously injured by Tholian forces, command of the Montreal is handed to Commander Mei'konda, and the crews of the Veritas and the Montreal are tasked by Nickson to locate the Artemis and it's cargo - but if all else fails, to destroy the vessel.
Flashpoint
- Stardate 239511
MSNPCs
- Commander Zhou Tai-Sheng
- Captain Felicia Nickson
- Jhalib Ekal
Summary
The Artemis, a cargo-variant of the Starfleet’s Odyssey class, was abandoned during a firefight with Tholians shortly after the fall of Astrofori One. Though Captain Felicia Nickson activated the ship’s autodestruct system after ordering abandon ship, the system apparently failed. Starfleet officials feared that both the ship and its classified cargo, which anonymous sources indicate was of a particularly sensitive nature, had been captured by the Tholians.
As the nearest ships to the incident, the Veritas and the USS Montreal were called upon to locate the Artemis. The complex search process was interrupted by a trio of hostile Tholian vessels, which the Veritas and Montreal engaged and destroyed – a further sign of escalating conflict between the Federation and the enigmatic race.
Upon locating the Artemis, damaged and adrift, but still in tact, Captain Roshanara Rahman ordered an away team to board the vessel to determine the status of its cargo while the rest of the crew explore options for scuttling or recovering the vessel, if possible. Veritas was then intercepted by a small fleet of Tholian vessels that demanded Artemis be abandoned.
While the crew navigated the standoff, an engineering team led by Ensigns Geoffrey Teller and Wil Ukinix successfully scuttled the Artemis by intentionally overloading the ship’s slipstream drive. The engineering team escaped via an Orion vessel in the Artemis shuttle bay, while Veritas extended its warp field around the Tholian fleet to ensure they escaped the resulting explosion.
Meanwhile, a man named Jhalib Ekal was recovered by Veritas shortly after the mission to find the Artemis began. The man later identified himself as a 25th Century time traveler affiliated with a group known as the Temporal Integrity Commission (TIC). TIC apparently intended to sabotage Veritas in an attempt to prevent a war they believed we would start at some future date. While the crew had thought the sabotage was thwarted thanks to their efforts, a series of unexplained and catastrophic power losses resulting in failures of multiple systems occured shortly after they'd returned from Tholian space and were in orbit of an M-class moon of a gas giant. With life support threatened, Captain Roshonara Rahman gave the order to abandon ship.