A Sinking Ship (Gorkon)
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Mission Summary
Part 1
- Stardate 239208
The new crew of the USS Gorkon, concluded their leave on Starbase 118 with an awards ceremony, set in an idyllic holodeck simulation of an old English summer fete. With R&R over, the USS Gorkon left Starbase 118 to return to its theatre of operations, the Menthar Corridor.
En route, the vessel received a distress call from the Oberth class science vessel, the USS Tharsis -- part of Astrofori One's standing fleet, Peaceforce Five. Approaching the Tharsis' location, the Gorkon discovered that the ship was trapped in an unknown gravity anomaly, communications unresponsive.
Three away teams beamed over the stricken ship; Commander Alucard Vess lead a team to sickbay in order to organise medical relief, Commander Chen's team beamed to engineering to determine how restore power and repair the vessel, and Captain Quinn Reynolds beamed to the bridge with a team to assess the need to evacuate the crew. Upon arrival, the the away teams found the ship running on emergency power, dispersion fields and smaller gravity anomalies throughout the ship, and the crew nowhere to be found.
Events swiftly descended into chaos. Communications were severed, and the Tharsis shields were raised, preventing a return to the Gorkon. A deliberate overload of the electro-plasma systems forced the bridge team to escape into a powerless turbolift, and from there into the Jefferies tubes. The tubes turned out to be trapped, flooding with water and it was only through the heroics of Lieutenant Ayiana Sevo that the team were able to escape drowning.
It's an impossible situation. How do you rescue a crew when that the same crew is trying their hardest to hunt and kill you?
Commander Vess' team found sickbay damaged and in disarray. A search turned up a dead Bolian crewmen, infected with sarpedionital gondii -- a parasite known for burrowing into the skin and fusing with the nervous system, causing paranoia, irrationality and violent tendencies in its hosts. Discovering the Tharsis' Chief Medical Officer in hiding, the team find out that the parasites had infected the crew as a result of his negligence, and are forced to evacuate the area after the corridors are filled with an unknown toxic gas and a wildfire protocol is activated in sickbay.
The engineering team were the first to encounter a member of the Tharsis' crew, a badly injured crewman who collapsed shortly afterwards. A warp core breach drill was activated, and the team escaped through the Jefferies tubes before engineering was entirely locked down. The team came under fire after exiting the tubes, and reluctantly had to abandon the dying crewman in order to save themselves.