The Collectors (USS Eagle)
Stardate 240201.21 - 240203.26
| USS Eagle | ||
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USS Eagle is setting course towards an unexplored region of the Beta Quadrant, named Atrian Reaches.
Little is known about the area and Starfleet never found the sector remarkable enough to warrant inspection, until now. A weak radio signal was picked up and identified it as a simple SOS, but it sounds like a military message from 1940's Earth.
Characters
| Officers taking part in the mission | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Position | Team | Notes |
| Kali Nicholotti | Commodore | SOS track team 1 | |
| Tomas Falt | First Officer | Communication Center | |
| Alexander Williams | Chief Sec. Ofc. | SOS track team 1 | |
| Alora DeVeau | Second Officer - Chief Sci Ofc. | SOS track team 2 | |
| Kettick | Chief Engineer | Cave exploration | |
| Drex | Science Officer | Cave exploration | |
| Jackson Tanner | Engineer | SOS track team 1 | |
| Tholin ch'Clex | Tactical Officer | SOS track team 2 | |
| Noemi Lim | Medical Officer | Cave exploration | |
| Elor Letek | Medical Officer | SOS track team 2 | |
| Oscar Armitage | Counsellor | Communication Center | LoA 240203.10 |
| PNPCs & MSNPCs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Position | Team | Notes |
| Longfoot | Firecamp, planet surface | Primitive Hominid Survival | Alexander Williams |
| Edward Dickson | Broken Will Inn, planet surface | Innkeeper Routine | Jackson Tanner |
| Private Luca Diamant | Military Camp, planet surface | 20th Century Conflict | Drex |
| Lt. Edward Davies | HMS Resolution, planet surface | 1600s Maritime Expedition | Kali Nicholotti |
| Cornelia Du Bois Moten | Du Bois Moten house, planet surface | Late 1900s Correspondence | Noemi Lim |
| The Keeper | Unknown location | Alora DeVeau | |
| Flight Lieutenant Phillip Richardson | Military Camp, planet surface | 20th Century Conflict | Tomas Falt |
| Kherys Harper | USS Eagle | Alora DeVeau | |
| Taisa Ayala | Du Bois Moten house, planet surface | Late 1900s Correspondence | Alora DeVeau |
| Eyna Tes | Du Bois Moten house, planet surface | Late 1900s Correspondence | Drex |
Mission
Act 1
Commodore Nicholotti informes the senior officers about the SOS signal picked up in the Atrian Reaches region and splits them up into teams.
Commander Kettick and Lieutenant JG Tanner are in charge to run some extra checks on the ship's status and make sure everything is operating at full capacity and prepare probes to scan the destination stellar system.
Commander Williams and Ensign ch'Clex must take care of keeping the crew safe and avoiding them from falling into a trap. They organize a special training on the Holodeck where they simulate different kind of dangerous situations for the crew.
Meanwhile Commander DeVeau, Lieutenant Drex and Ensign Lim prepare the medical supplies for the away teams and soon move to the SOS Lab to collect data. As the ship approach the system at Warp 12, long range sensors become more and more accurate. The unknown system is composed of a class G star, eight planets and several moons. The fourth and fifth planet can sustain life, but the analysis focused on the fourth planet, the source of the distress call. On the surface several energetic fields are isolating groups of humans.
On the bridge, Lieutenant Commander Williams tries to identify the source that power those fields but with no results and Commodore Nicholotti orders Commander Falt to land the USS Eagle on the planet, while several probes are fired in the atmosphere. The blue alarm sounds on the ship as Commander Falt identifies a good place for the landing.
Act 2
As the USS Eagle reached the ground, all the systems suddenly turn off and the ship is surrounded with a invisible barrier, similar to the others on the planet.
Commodore Nicholotti orders the crew to evacuate the ship. The different groups leave the ship after having recovered what they can and what is needed on the surface. When everyone is gathered in front of the Commodore, she assigns new teams and tasks to analyze the planet, the barrier and find a solution that will free them.
Everyone prepares for the new activities, but when the Commodore asks if there are any questions, Lieutenant Drex steps forward demanding an explanation for the landing order. His tone is anything but polite and respectful, but the intervention of Lieutenant Commander Williams, Commander Falt and above all the Commodore's response, silence the Denobulan who is then taken aside by Lieutenant JG Tanner.
Communications Center
Commander Falt and Ensign Armitage are left near the USS Eagle with the order to work on restoring power and to serve as a communications center. The young ensign is able to get in touch with almost all the away teams, except the Chief Engineer.
Lieutenant Harper reaches Commander Falt explaing him that she had been contacted by Ensign Lim telepatically and informes him that Kettic's group is trapped inside a tunnel and requires support.
Falt sends both the officers to help the trapped team while he keeps working on a solution to restore some of the systems of the ship.
SOS track team 1
Commodore Nicholotti, Lieutenant Commander Williams and Lieutenant JG Tanner scout the surface to track down the distress signal.
Nicholotti leads her team along the beach and toward the barrier. When they reach it, they begin to look for a way to get past it, and discover that it does not extend underground. As they keep walking they discover a rock formation with a gap below the barrier that they are able to squeeze through.
Once past the barrier, the team continues down the beach until they spot a large wooden ship that Williams identified as an ancient ship-of-the-line from Earth. As they observe it a small wooden boat row towards land. Suddely a storm hits the beach and the officers are forced to seek shelter inland. where they meet the sailors from the boat.
They present themselves as representatives of the HMS Resolution and they claim the ownership of the new discovered land.
Nicholotti agrees with the sailors, as she is more interesting in the tunnel they just discovered.
They walked in, heading more deeply underground until they find an artificial space, a room and some corridors with closed doors.
As they investigate the room, Tanner finds a dead body. Answers will not come from him, so they keep searching until they hear a small explosion.
They rush down the corridor and find another room and some known faces.
Nicholotti's and Kettick's team reunite.
SOS track team 2
Commander De Veau, Ensign Letek and Ensign ch'Clex head in the opposite direction with the same aim, to identify and discover the origin of the SOS. After DeVeau almost ran into the barrier, they followed the invisible force field until they uncovered a gap in it. They slipped through and continued their trek to the SOS signal. On the way, however, they suddenly came under fire from strangers and had to take cover. They were overrun by six soldiers and taken prisoner. Initial attempts to convince the soldiers that they were not part of the enemy army were unsuccessful and the soldiers decided to take their prisoners back to their camp. Once there, the team tried again to convince them of their peaceful intentions. Arriving at the camp, the team tried to convince the soldiers that they were not a danger and wanted to help, when three more strangers joined them. They presented themselves as part of the Norwegian Olympic team from the 2014 Olympics.
Commander DeVeau manages to convince one of the soldiers, Richardson, to hear them out and they walk away from the group together as Ensign Letek tries to convince the soldier named Diamond to lower his weapon and stop threatening them so directly. At that moment, a shot rings out and Ensign Letek takes a bullet in the shoulder.
The fact that Ensign Letek had been shot, as macabre as it seemed, seemed to improve their situation considerably. Flight Lieutenant Phillip Richardson, who was apparently in control of the soldiers in the camp, began to give the team the trust they had been courting all along. Commander DeVeau, with the help of Ensign ch'Clex, tended to Ensign Letek's wound so that he was quickly back on his feet. Now in an alliance with the soldiers, Flight Lieutenant Phillip Richardson and Commander DeVeau contacted the Communication Center with Commander Falt and informed them of their current status and that they would now be making their way back to the ship, a few more people than had originally departed.
The team, accompanied by Richardson and Diamant, found their way to the barrier. The passage was still there, so they were able to cross the energy field and, after a short debate, make their way back to the ship. After another walk, they get closer to the Eagle and finally reach the makeshift camp that the remaining crew had set up.
After a brief refreshment, they followed Commander Falt's call to the shuttle bay, where he presented them with a daring plan.
He planned to lift the Eagle into the air using an antiquated means of propulsion until they broke through the barrier and then, no longer hindered by the dampening field, restore the energy and bring the Eagle into orbit.
After a good hour, everyone was involved and everything was ready. The team had gathered on the bridge and provisionally manned the necessary stations, ready for the launch.
It was a bumpy flight and it was uncertain whether they would manage to leave the barrier behind them in time, but at the last moment the warp core was restarted and power was restored.
Cave exploration
Lieutenant Commander Kettick, Lieutenant Drex and Ensign Lim are sent to explore a cave.
The crack in the rock hides a long tunnel. As the three officers go deeper, only the light of the flashlights allows them to notice that the surface of the walls changes, becoming more and more artificial.
After a couple of turns, the three feel unwell, a slight headache accompanied by nausea and their electronic devices stop working.
Left in complete darkness, while the feeling of discomfort vanishes, Dr. Lim remembers the glow sticks and activates one, allowing the three to see.
After a brief consultation, they decide not to use explosives, but to leave the cave to recover new devices from the ship.
At the exit, however, an annoying surprise awaits them. A transparent barrier prevents them from proceeding further.
It is Ensign Lim again who finds a solution to communicate and ask for help. Using her Betazoid abilities, she manages to telepathically contact Harper, who immediately takes action to bring the news to Commander Falt and provides support to the three unfortunate officers.
While waiting for help, Kettick, Drex, and Lim make an interesting accidental discovery. A handful of earth and pebbles thrown against the hated barrier is only partially blocked.
The barrier can be overcome, and Commander Kettick spits out a bolus of a substance contained in his body to try to create a passage. The rope, made of only organic material, confirms the Remmilian's theory. As they test the stability of the experiment, Lieutenant Harper and Ensign Armitage arrive from base camp to help, bearing very welcome gifts, such as working tricorders and phasers.
As the group decides what to do, the entrance suddenly disappears and the group finds themselves trapped in the tunnel once again.
Left with only one direction to go, the group ventures deeper into the cavern.
Soon they hear someone speaking, but they cannot understand the words. A man, clearly human, emerges from around a bend, addressing them as gods.
Due to the primitive language, the universal translator takes several minutes before allowing easy communication.
Longfoot agrees to help them find the exit, but suddenly a new pulse hits them, turning off whatever devices were on, and causing a new wave of nausea.
Recovering, they locate a room in a secondary branch. Inside they find consoles and racks full of memories and batteries.
Late 1900s Correspondence
Lieutenant Ayala and Ensign Eyna are working on setting up the camp infirmary when the doctor's tricoder signals the presence of a human life form not far from the USS Eagle.
Arriving at the barrier that isolates the area where the ship landed, a distortion of the same detected by Eyna's engineering scanner, allows the two to find a small gap and pass the obstacle.
They spot an isolated house and decide to knock on the door.
A young woman comes to answer the door and is shocked by the presence of the two officers, who claim that her house is not really her home and that she is there alone, when only a few hours before she had had dinner with her husband.
Act 3
Tunnel complex
Nicholotti's team and Kettick's group met together in the KEEPER room.
After a short briefing the Commodore approve Kettick's plan to force the KEEPER to start the evacuation procedure. The Remmilian, Drex, Tanner and Williams remain in the room working on the software and trying to collect the data archive. Meanwhile Longfoot leads Nicholotti, Lim and Harper outside. As the barrier started to collapse and the system registers many failures, the teleport of the Eagle lock on the crew members and beam them up onboard.
USS Eagle Bridge
After DeVeau arrival to the camp, Falt meet with her team and two refugees, Richardson and Diamant. The latter seems very doubtful and skeptical about the ability of the commanding officer of the Eagle but accept to resign his weapons, while the English pilot seemes greedy to collaborate with the Starfleet officers.
Articles
SOS from the past spurs an investigation of the Atrian Reaches