Ghost in the Machine (Khitomer)

			Episode 3 - Ghost in the Machine

USS Khitomer
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Characters

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Officers taking part in the Mission
Name	Position	Notes
Randal Shayne	Commanding Officer
Nolen Hobart	Executive Officer
Ash MacKenna	Intelligence Chief	Transferred out in Act 3
Connor Dewitt	Chief Engineer
Lera Michaels	Engineering Officer
Ezra Zerva	Security Officer
Talia Ohnari	Chief Medical Officer
Jacin Ayemet	Councilor
Ras El'Heem	Medical Officer
Richard Matthews	Science Officer
Amelia Semara	Science Officer	Returned from LOA Act 2
Vada	Journalist	Stepping Back After Act 1

MSNPCs
Name	Position	Author
Eridani / "Junior"	???	Talia Ohnari

NPCs & PNPCs
Name	Position	Author
Jenna Prix	Helm, USS Khitomer	Connor Dewitt
Ginny Lacy	Engineer, USS Khitomer	Nolen Hobart
Vanta Nebir	Security	NPNPC, KIA

Prologue

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Shayne is briefing the crew on their new mission, to explore a void in space, when Khitomer receives a distress call inside the void and he orders the ship after the signal.. Meanwhile, Jacin escaped from a Sheliak internment camp, and found her way back Khitomer via rescue from an unknown agent. When all hope seems nearly lost, Khitomer rescues the wayward Lieutenant from her stolen Sheliak shuttle just in time.

Act 1

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After a heartfelt reunion, Lieutenant Jacin receives medical care and a great deal of concern from her shipmates. No examination is needed to see that the woman has been traumatized by her experiences: her head's been shaved, and implanted with several cranial plates with unclear purpose. Its clear she suffered other injuries, but those have been mysteriously healed. For the moment, Doctors Ohnari and El'Heem deem it safe enough to remove all but one of the plates (leaving one at the base of her brain, considering it too dangerous to surgically remove without starbase facilities), and Ohanri convinces Jacin to stimulate the re-growth of her hair after the procedure.

Meanwhile, upon reaching the edge of the void, Khitomer's bridge crew narrows in on the distress call, and quickly recognizes it as an old Federation code. A brief investigation reveals that the source is in fact much closer than first thought, and closing the gap reveals Constellation class USS Eridani to be the source of the call. The ship is the source of a great deal of speculation, hanging suspended in a slow, three-axis spin. When the questions start to add up with no answers in sight, Shayne orders Nolen Hobart to lead an away team onto the ship.

Hobart takes bridge officers Connor Dewitt, Ezra Zerva, Ras El'Heem, and Richard Matthews as well as engineer Ginny Lacy and security team leader Vanta Nebir aboard USS Eridani, and the team prepares to find anything aboard the derelict ship packing no small amount of security and engineering equipment. The team beams aboard, and makes their way to the engineering section of ship where they force their way in with a crowbar. Once inside, they begin powering up subsystems and trying determine what happened to the drifting ship, only for the ship to begin righting itself seemingly of its own volition. Moments later, the ship powers its shields and impulse engines, jamming communications as it darts off into the void without any inertial dampers to protect the away team from the harsh acceleration...

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Act 3

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