Ashes to Ashes (Ronin)
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Opening
The USS Ronin responds to an urgent distress call from the planet Grus Beta Three, where a large, high-intensity wildfire has broken out, to help evacuate the planet's unaligned colony and investigate the mysterious fire itself. With no one quite sure how it started, it is proving to be more dangerous than originally anticipated and even stranger still.
Locations
Alpha Isles
Deep Space 33
Setting here
Setting here
Grus Beta Three
Grus Beta Three is a planet with mines of maleconite, and an atmosphere that makes it difficult to communicate over comms. Chosen on purpose by the inhabitants so as to have as few dealings with Starfleet and the federation as they can get away with. But recently some mysterious and intense wildfires have sprung up and Starfleet answered the call for help.
Captain's Log, Stardate 240101.10
Responding to an urgent distress call from the unaligned colony on Grus Beta Three, the Ronin has been presented with a humanitarian crisis and a bizarre mystery all in one. Approximately four days ago a large and high intensity wildfire broke out on this planet's southern continent and has been making it's way steadily outwards in all directions ever since. All local attempts to contain or extinguish the blaze have failed and projections currently show the firewall will begin consuming the outer edges of the colony in a matter of days. The local government has asked for help fighting the fire and to begin evacuating civilians, efforts which have been significantly stymied by unusual atmospheric interference created by the dustclouds being kicked up by the fires.
Notable Characters
Primary Characters
| Senior officers taking part in the mission | |||
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| Name | Position | Notes | |
| Karrod Niac | Commanding Officer | ||
| Toryn Raga | First Officer | ||
| Ian O'Connor | HCO Officer | ||
| Kirsty Lee Carpenter | Chief of Security & Tactical | ||
| Marty Tucker | Acting Chief of Engineering | ||
| Is’Kah | Engineer | Joining the mission on 240101.17 | |
| Alieth | Chief Science officer & 2O | ||
| Luxa Lorana | Science officer | ||
| V'Len Kel | Chief Medical Officer | ||
| Quentin Beck | Medical Officer | ||
| Dekas | Chief Counselor | ||
| Hiro Jones | Counselor/Medical Officer | Joining the mission on 240101.01 | |
NPCs
| PNPCs | |||
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| Name | Position | Notes | |
| Rox | Nurse from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by V'Len Kel | |
| Vailani Zoyara | Flight Ops Officer from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by Luxa Lorana | |
| Clara Quinn | Engineer from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by Luxa Lorana | |
| Gra'vel | Pilot from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by Karrod Niac | |
| Simon Vomek | HCO from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by V'Len Kel | |
| Kiran Rork | Engineer from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by Marty Tucker | |
| Tzim-Shah | Security from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by Alieth | |
| Poagie | Science Officer from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by Ian O'Connor | |
| k'Oar-€l | Science Officer from the USS Ronin | PNPC written by Ian O'Connor | |
MSNPCs
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| Name | Position | Notes | |
| F'red | Lattice Alliance High Command, LAS Refraction | As written by Karrod Niac | |
| V'iolet | Lattice Alliance Territorial Reclaminator, CO of the LATF Scourge | As written by Dekas | |
| Emzai | Colony Administrator of Grus Beta Three | As written by Luxa Lorana | |
| V't'r'us B'ek | Terraforming Specialist on the LATF Scourge | As written by Quentin Beck | |
| B'hab | Sheliak Lattice Alliance Captain on the LATF Scourge | As written by Marty Tucker | |
| Teryn Lo | Refugee and Orphan from Grus Beta Three | As written by Luxa Lorana | |
Mission Summary
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Act One: We didn't start the fire!
Evacuation team
The team made up of Karrod Niac, Kirsty Lee Carpenter, V'Len Kel, and Quentin Beck assist with evacuations and medical attention before making their way to talk with the Colony's Administrator Emzai.
Science team
The team made up of Alieth, Luxa Lorana, and Hiro Jones head to the outskirts of Kite Springs, up close and fairly personal, near the edge of the fire itself in hopes of gathering more information about it, preferably without getting hurt in the process.
Lorana is separated from the group when a wild animal attempting to escape the fires runs through them. When a burning tree crashes through the ground, she falls into an underground network of tunnels below the planets surface.
Ronin Team
The team made up of Toryn Raga, Ian O'Connor, Marty Tucker, Dekas, and joined fairly early in by Is’Kah are in orbit above Grus Beta Three, coordinating with the ship's Marines, the Valkyries, and med teams to help with the evacuation. They are also waiting for communications with the other teams on the planet, as they haven't been heard from in hours. Eventually they are updated that even those on the planet cannot get ahold of Alieth's team near the Kite Springs.
The Ronin has to dip into the atmosphere and smoke, with flames that seem almost appear hundreds of meters high, to phaser a trench to hold off the flames a little longer so they can hopefully get word from them, and get them out of there safely.
They do eventually get contact with Niac and co (which includes Doctor Kel, Alieth, Luxa Lorana, and Hiro Jones by this point) as communications are easier in the lower atmosphere. But there is something strange. Some communications in the atmosphere from somewhere they have yet to locate or fully translate are otherwise part of what's keeping them from being able to communicate with everyone else a lot easier, even with the natural difficulties.
The Evil Windchimes, (and B'hab)
Act Two: But we tried to fight it
Teams TBD
Act Three: It was always burning since the world's been turning
Teams TBD
Notable SIMs
- JP: Prologue: Supreme Commander F'red & Command Master V'iolet - That Burning Sensation - Written by Commander Karrod Niac and Lt. Commander Dekas. - Introduction to Tholian antagonists, and prologue to the mission
- Cmdr. Karrod Niac - Out of the Frying Pan - Mission Start for the Evacuation team.
- Lt. Cmdr. Alieth - A Blazing Forge - Mission Start for the Science team.
- Lieutenant Commander Toryn Raga - Heatwave - Mission Start for the Ronin team.
Mission Reports
* Stardate 240102.23: [hhttps://www.starbase118.net/2024/uss-ronin-evacuates-a-non-federation-colony-under-threat-of-prolific-and-unnatural-firestorm/ USS Ronin evacuates a non-Federation colony under threat of prolific and unnatural firestorm]
| REV SD 240103.31 |
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