Leviathan (USS Thor)
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Doing a favor for the new crew of Amity Outpost, the USS Thor gets underway to survey a massive debris field known only to the locals as The Graveyard.
Mission Summary
Act One
After the Thor delivers the new crew of Amity Outpost, Ambassador Rivi Vataix shares information about a sector called ‘The Graveyard’. So named for the thousands of ships in various degrees of destruction that haunt the area. Little is known about what had occurred and why so many vessels, and pieces of vessels, were abandoned. Located a mere dozen light years from the new outpost, the crew of the Thor are tasked with surveying the Graveyard and checking for scavengers, pirates, and other unsavouries to ‘flex’ Starfleet’s muscles and deter future incidents.
Within the system itself the main point of interest is one of the largest and oldest derelicts in the sector, a ship nicknamed “Proud Mary”. Commodore Kells assigns Lieutenant Commander Ben Garcia, Lieutenant JG Dar Elandra, Lieutenant JG Kizanna Reid, and Ensign Kammus Corelli to launch with the Tigris, and beginning from the Proud Mary, survey the system. Watching the sensors, Corelli notes high magnetometric readouts coming from the star and recommends they keep their distance. After setting off, a strange signal is detected, and as more data comes in, Reid discovers what looks to be the remains of a Talaxian vessel with damage from Hirogen weapons. A moment later, they are struck from behind by debris, then the group catches sight of an actual Hirogen vessel - or rather part of one - and questions arise as to why the Talaxians might have come to the area in the first place.
The crew finds scans difficult as interference from the star along with the sheer number of objects in the surrounding area interfere, but they continue to attempt to determine where the signal is originating. As the team considers what to do, including whether or not they should attempt to interface with one of the vessels, they are briefly contacted by Commander Brodie from the Thor who cautions them that there are strange things afoot. As Dar suggests they keep their distance from Proud Mary while still investigating the area, Corelli picks up the readings of the verteron particles, but they quickly dissipate. They decide to continue exploring, but, of course, with constant monitoring.
As they move onward, Corelli registers another wave of particles, antichroniton along with an image of something huge, but it disappears, leaving nothing but questions in its wake. Then, sensors detect a ship’s signature, but interference makes it difficult to distinguish where. Garcia shifted the Tigris to a different angle in hopes of getting a better signal and Reid detects a ship and energy signature. The crew receives communication from Commander Rouiancet on the Thor, but the signal is degraded. While Corelli tries to improve the fidelity of it, a bright flash floods the shuttle with light which seemed to cause a short out of the communications panel. When questioned, Corelli indicates it was some sort of highly charged beacon that seemed to carry anti-tachyons and elevated antineutrino levels from the strange vessel. While the ship remains outside, Corelli attempts to establish another comm line with the Thor and manages to get a signal, albeit somewhat garbled, to Rouiancet who understands enough to initiate the suggestions Corelli makes.
Reid indicates that the shuttle has somehow moved into the past and the ship is in the past as well. The shuttle attempts to contact the Thor once more and Corelli suggests they too initiate a scan though there is concern the other ship might consider it a hostile move. They find the ship is a Type II, a sear frigate class, as opposed to the Proud Mary which is a Type IV battleship. Without knowledge of how to get back into the present, Corelli wonders if they can use the anti chronitons present to go back while Garcia decides to order hailing frequencies open in the hopes of establishing a link. Another flash of white light appeared, more focused the second time, and held onto the Tigris before lurching it forward. Losing control of the helm. Garcia was unable to shape the shuttle free of its grip and the group was brought alongside the frigate at a terrible speed. They were then brought aboard the frigate itself and the shuttle crew found themselves in a compartment of the ship. Corelli spied a figure clad in some sort of armour as the faint sounds of Major Greaves crackled through the comms. As Reid watches it, the form flickers and she suspects it is merely a hologram of some sort and confirms that it is merely a projection after running a scan. Garcia decides the team should try to initiate contact even though it is merely an image.
On the bridge, Commodore Kells is joined by Lieutenant Commander Alexander Brodie and Ensign Jaxon Fargo to monitor both teams as well as the vicinity immediately surrounding the vessel. The Thor, also beginning at the Proud Mary, is to survey the system in an opposite direction of the Tigris. Preliminary scans are taken, though limited in scope, and sent to both teams, when suddenly, an alarm sounds from one of the consoles. Ensign Fargo notes the approach of an abnormal amount of verterons as well as a high level of anti chroniton particles from the center of the anomaly. Then, as suddenly as it appeared, the anomaly disappears. Kells orders probes to be sent out to investigate. At first, they transmit information without a problem, but suddenly, they stop and sensors pick up only debris in their locations, and their transmissions indicate a Stardate of 1191.
Brodie contacts Garcia and his team. Reid reports that they have picked up a strange signal and Brodie encourages them to be cautious as there seem to be strange things happening in the area. The team commiserates for a moment, but decide to remain and continue investigating while keeping a safe distance from Proud Mary. Just after they end communications, power on the Thor flickers, the lights flicker on and off, and the entire power grid seems to ‘hiccup’. The brief event is followed by another hair raising round of alarms screaming through the bridge. Sensors seem to indicate something out there is alive - alive and even larger than the Thor. Fargo notes a diamond shape, and wonders if the entity is crystalline. The probes chronometers then register the time to be Stardate 1191, though somehow the Thor remains in 2398.
Strangely enough, a new Ensign by the name of V’Len Kel is brought aboard about that time and he enters the bridge and reports to Kells. Jumping right in, he confirms that there are no giant life forms outside of the Thor, but rather there are somewhere between 100-250 smaller life forms outside of it and they could beam some aboard for analysis. Ensign Fargo suggested they send more probes and get more information. Commodore Kells approves both plans, though he orders the probes launched and information gathered first. Suddenly, alarms begin to sound and the Thor discovers an enormous entity, either a ship or a life form, one vastly larger than Proud Mary, has come into view. Fargo notes that it seems like it consumes wormhole particles and expels temporal ones, somehow bleeding through the dimensional veil and its body grew larger and larger at an alarming rate. Commodore Kells calls for a red alert, Fargo warns to brace for impact and hits his head in the subsequent collision just before the entire bridge goes dark.After receiving communication from the shuttle, Rouiancet had made the changes and was going to re-establish communication with the results just as the power failed.
Meanwhile, Major Greaves plans an away team to explore the inside of Proud Mary along with Lieutenant JG Anton Richards, and Lieutenant JG Katsim Peri. Due to the projected lack of gravity as well as breathable air, the group anticipates the need for EV suits. A brief conversation about what little is known of the abandoned vessel is followed by preparations from a scientific, engineering, as well as defensive standpoint before beaming over. Upon arrival, the group finds themselves indeed without gravity and discover they are in a corridor with a door leading further into the ship. Moreso, a slight but unmistakable power source is detected deeper in the ship, a signal that the ancient ship shouldn’t be able to produce. Investigating, the team drives onward through the only open path to them.
Once there, they find themselves in a giant room that looks like it could be the vessel’s version of Engineering. A moment later, Peri notes that the air is actually breathable. Suddenly, the scene around them changes and they are surrounded by strange aliens with the ship at full power. As the strange eyes turn toward them, the scene suddenly disappears and the team finds themselves in the dark and airless room once again. From readings on their tricorders, the teams determined that they experienced a wave of chronitons accompanied by veterans which was subsequently followed by a burst of anti chronitons. The sudden appearance of power and life was actually the team momentarily being transported back in time. It is not long before a second wave strikes and they find themselves thrust into the past once more. This time however the team is sent to an hour after their first arrival and faced with only three of the same aliens. The alien crew members had sketched rough images of the team, confirming that their time jump before had impacts. Rather than aggressive, the group now seems cowed by their sudden reappearance. Moments later, it all disappears as they find themselves back in their own time.
Returning to the present, tricorder readings detect the strange energy signature again, faint, but present. Katsim hypothesizes that the chroniton bursts that send them back in time are only in small localized areas, similar to a time sinkhole. In an effort to prevent further time jumps and to continue exploration, Greaves and his team continue on, making their way out of the engineering section and into a corridor. As they do so, another wave hits them and they find themselves in the past again in a dim and deserted corridor. Katsim hears something that sounds like a child and enters a room that has a door slightly ajar to find a little boy on a bed, crying. Greaves follows and discovers they have jumped even further back into the past than before. He then approaches the child to question him. The child shares that his people are heading to take back their First Home as their Second Home is now dead and they have been preparing for this for ‘a long time’. Veloen also divulges that he is to begin his training the next day, but before he can explain further, the group find themselves once more in their actual present. They are not there for long when Greaves realises they have traveled back once again, only to have something collide with the ship, knocking him over. As the trio make it out into the hallway, they are overwhelmed by a throng of bodies as people rush to and fro, evidently in response to what seems like an attack. After a moment, it all disappears, and Greaves tries to contact the Thor but no connection can be established. Richards notes that every time they try to get out of the situation they’re in, they are thrust back in time and prevented from doing so - and that there may be something keeping them there. Almost as soon as he makes this statement, a bright light blinds the group briefly and a humanoid form glides through the corridor. It caresses Greaves and Katsim, flicks Richards’ nose, then disappears as Katsim calls out an exclamation to the prophets and Richards wonders whether or not he’s a chosen one - only to find himself without super powers.
Act Two
On the Thor, emergency lights come on after the ship has lost power and Commodore Kells orders a full diagnostics. While the crew set about searching for answers, Kells makes a log, and should something happen to the Thor, anyone who listens should avoid the area of space called the Graveyard. Turning back to his crew, he inquires as to their whereabouts exactly and whether or not they can reestablish communications with the teams on the Tigris and Proud Mary. Brodie indicates the comms. array is offline and suggests a repair, but to take care before sending any transmissions that might seem hostile to unknowns. He also notes that the internal chronometer seems to try to calibrate only to fail, then begins to run a full operations and damage report. Fargo initiates a level five diagnostics sweep and finds that phasers and torpedoes are offline until main power can be restored. Kel checks on crewmembers who were injured and then notes that sensors can’t detect beyond the boundaries of the creature they seemed to be inside of. Rouiancet arrives on the Bridge and offers to help treat injuries. She informs Kel that she was in contact with the Tigris when the power suddenly cut off. The Thor gives a shudder and the crew find themselves with partial power, though only at twelve percent. The group find themselves not just inside any ship, but a ship that is *alive*, a cosmozoan life form. Fargo silently theorizes that, perhaps, the lifeform is feeding on temporal anomalies.
As the crew ponders what happened and how they’re not affected, Brodie theorizes that the wave that hit them was a projection ahead of the ship and might not have cause to project it internally and would thus put them in a null spot at the centre of that field. Kells calls everyone to action, to try and think of how they can get out, and whether or not any temporal anomalies can be detected. Fargo is able to confirm they are at a full stop but are still somehow still moving. Brodie has no luck with the chronometer and wonders if they are not only in a null spot but also in a null space.
On the Proud Mary, Greaves attempts to jury rig a phaser to provide some power to an ancient alien computer panel in order to give them something of an advantage. After rewiring, they have some success, and Katsim uses her tricorder to translate the strange writing and help her navigate the controls. The scientist discovers there is a stash of stable trilithium resin aboard which could possibly be used as a power source. Greaves points out a particular section of the control area that could be a generator of some sort, which they could then use to power up the ship. Despite a bad mood brought on by the events, Richards moves over to assist Greaves . WIth no way to really get into the panel, Katsim looks for something useful, finds a long strip of metal and offers it as a possible way to pry open the section. With the effort of the two men, they are successful. Greaves realises the area is indeed a fission generator. He asks about splitting the Trilithium at an atomic level, but Katsim advises against attempting that. The next question is, how to get it as it is located two decks above them.
On the Tigris, Corelli watches the hologram. As it opens its mouth, supposedly to speak, alarms suddenly ring out and then it all vanishes, and all they can see is the debris field. Corelli wonders if they move position whether or not the ship would move away, and if a static warp shell might prevent them from doing so. Reid tries to find the Thor, but without success and wonders if they, too, went back in time. Attempts to contact their mother ship and the away are unsuccessful, but they manage to make brief contact with Greaves and corroborate their time traveling. Garcia suggests they amplify the signal and gives them a scope in which to try again, hoping for a more positive outcome and asks for more information on the warp field. Corelli indicates they can shield themselves from jumping time by using an inverse tachyon pulse in conjunction with the static warp field. After setting everything up, Garcia asks for a scan to see if they can find the Thor, but with only a few seconds before the field collapses, Corelli initiates the static warp field, cutting off the chance. The inverse tachyon pulse blasted from the ship and the field circled the Tigris in a perfect sphere, lighting up their vision as verterons and chroniton particles reacted to the field.
Officers
- Commanding Officer, Commodore Aron Kells
- Acting Executive Officer, Major Wes Greaves
- Chief of Operations, Lt. Commander Ben Garcia
- Chief Counselor, Lt. Commander Alexander Brodie
- Security Officer, Lieutenant JG Dar Elandra
- Security Officer, Lieutenant JG Anton Richards
- Tactical Officer, Ensign Jaxon Fargo
- Acting Chief Engineer, Ensign Kammus Corelli
- Science Officer, Lieutenant JG Peri Katsim
- Science Officer, Lieutenant JG Kizanna Reid
- Medical Officer, Ensign V'Len Kel