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| [[Image:Talvath.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Mission Section Of The Zeta Gelis Region]] After enjoying a much deserved shore leave on [[Deep Space 6]], the ''Darwin's'' senior staff were called to the Conference Room where Commander {{n|Greir|Reinard}} announced to the crew that Commander {{n|Karynn Ehlanii|Brice}} would be joining them as Counsellor and that Lt. {{n|Jansen|Orrey}} would be transferring to science to act as the new assistant chief of science.

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Quickly, the crew caught up to the ''Tenacity'', the Antares-class freighter and hailed them, which was promptly ignored and returned with weapons fire. The aged weapons of the ''Tenacity'', however, where far from a match for the ''Darwin'' which quickly shrugged it off and disabled the ship. The ship was then seized, the ships itself being towed into the ''Darwin'''s containment sphere and the ship's crew being directly beamed to the Brig.

At the same time, Team two where busy conducting their own interview of Inala. After leading him to the separate section of the conference room, Brice started the interview in a similar manner as Team one, however they started by asking Inala how long he had known Abel. Inala replied that he had only known him for a maximum of four months, making the freighter business quite young. As a result their "clients dictate quite a lot" to them which was his explanation why they had left the base in such a rush. After that, they settled into the business of determining his identity, once again asking for him for his Name, Date of Birth and Federation Membership Code. Inala was not able to remember his Membership Code, however he did provide enough information to positively identify himself. Brice then moved onto trying to determine their mission, which Inala perceived as an attempt at verbal trickery and instead responded, quite forcibly, that they had no 'mission' and that the job was to run an assortment of goods to Vega. When asked what this 'assortment of goods' was, he responded with "Fabrics, wines, that kind of thing. High end goods with far too low margins". Brice then responded by plainly asking him what he had concealed. Despite their expectations of outrage, Inala instead appeared to breakdown admitting that he had personally 'cut a few corners' by violating some minor tax and safety guidelines, a explanation that the team was not particularly convinced by as, in the words of Orrey, "why answer [The ''Darwin'''s] hails with weapons fire"?

Finally, Team four had made their way down to the Bridge where they had started their investigation of the area. After a few minutes of finding nothing, Baker contacted James to tell him about the dampening field on Deck Three. Due to their need to disable that field if they where going to complete their investigation, and James deciding that he himself would be stretched too thin trying to investigate the bay and work on the field himself, James called up too Main Engineering to ask for reinforcements before heading down to the bay itself. After arriving at the bay, Saroa took little time to beam down and be assigned to track down and shut down the damping field, while the others began their search through the more mundane goods. This search ended quickly, however, with Saroa calling the team over as she had spotted something moving near the shield. Shortly after, a massive Orion (who it would be later revealed was called Bo'Sun) stepped out of the shadow and immediately informed them of the ship's status as private property, which lead James to notify them of its status as impounded under the Federation Shipping Act of 2165 and requested his name and position on the vessel's crew. After informing them that he was, in fact, a passenger James noticed that there was a strange looking metallic object poking out of one of the ship's walls. In fact, it was just recognisable as the end barrel of a Type II Phaser Pistol, which caused James to ask him if he was aware that the ''Tenacity'' had been implicated in weapons smuggling and that there was a damning field behind him. Bo'Sun replied that he was not, then tried to prevent James from pushing past him to investigate which gave James all the legal standing he needed to order Carter to detain him. Before stepping aside to investigate, James very explicitly recommended that Carter way want to use Heavy Stun, before stepping into the field into a massive haul of crates - most full of weaponry - however the most fact was that some where filled with some kind of pharmaceutical... Confused by the discovery, James felt it time to report back to Thomas with his find - as well as to have Bo'Sun beamed up to the Brig.

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|[[Image:Darwin in orbit.png|150px|thumb|left|In Orbit]] Back in the Ready Room, Reinard had decided that a reorganisation was in order as well as some new tasks. Falcon, Carter, Necessity James, Thomas and Reinard where to head up to the ready room to interview the two Laudians again as well as "wave" a sample of the unknown drug and one of the weapons found "under their [noses]". Corbin, Baker, Orrey, Malcom, James and Brice, however, were to head for Chemistry Lab 1 to work on discovering exactly what the drug was.

The Research team left no time go to waste, immediately getting stuck into how they where going to analyse the sample the away team brought them. James began by suggesting the, what turned out to be a rather outdated, practise of Mass Spectrometry. While the practise itself was outmoded, the core idea stood and the discussion soon turned to where to begin. Corbin suggested that they should begin by finding out the general make up of the drug, which was generally accepted by the group, while James suggested that it may be possible to simulate the biologies of several species for in vetro drug testing. Soon it was decided that Corbin, Baker and James would work on developing the simulation, using a portable hologram emitter, and that Orrey, Malcom and Brice would work directly on evaluating the drug's biochemistry. Shortly all of their work was disrupted however, when Baker made the announcement that it seemed that the Warp Core had been powered down...

Meanwhile, the interview of Abel and Inala with the new evidence had began. At first Reinard mentioned them finding the damning field and Bo'Sun, however the discussion soon turned to the weapons - a discussion that sent Inala in particular reeling. While Reinard was distracted with a call from the Brig - reporting that Bo'Sun wanted to talk to him - Inala let a long, thin, blade fall from where he had concealed it in his clothing. Before the Captain had finished, Inala started to break into hysterics, Abel trying to calm him down. Before long, Inala had tackled Reinard and while everyone was distracted spiked his hand with the blade, which was coated with the drug they had found in the hold. Inala quickly dropped the blade (which was subsequently lost) and put up minimal resistance. That didn't stop Falcon from reacting quite violently to him, however, pushing the man hard into the wall. After that the scene soon devolved into chaos with Thomas shouting at Falcon, Falcon shouting at Inala and very quickly Reinard started to act... unusual. He ordered that the Containment Sphere shields be brought down and the Warp Core powered off, and when his orders where questioned he reacted quite violently, throwing parts of a plastic display all around the room. This behaviour lead Thomas to seal the Ready Room and order Brice beamed up to it.

Back in Chemistry Lab 1, the groups was still reeling from the announcement made by Baker. James checked the Engineering status himself and confirmed Baker's findings. At that point, Baker wanted to head down to Engineering himself however James, feeling that the drug research was still important, denied the request stating that it was his duty as Chief Engineer to deal with the situation. James then headed to somewhere quieter in order to contact the Captain. Very quickly he found out about the situation with the Captain (His first clue being when he suggested an investigation, him replying "You'll do nothing. The energy fields they kick off are irritating me! So those are my orders."). Very concerned James headed straight for Brice, relaying his concerns. Before she had a chance to respond however, she was beamed away. Upon checking the logs, it was revealed that she, Reinard and Thomas where all in the ready room which lead James to believe that there was a possibility that the most senior staff may have been compromised. Believing that it may be connected with the Drug, James ordered the continuation of research. At this point, they where also joined by a new Science Officer, Ensign {{n|Alana|Larson}}, who was quickly set to work with Orrey.

In the Ready Room, Reinard had become quite convinced that Thomas was launching a Coup d'état against him, particularly with the arrival of Brice. After asking some general questions about how he was feeling and if he knew why the Warp Core was suddenly bothering him, Reinard became quite distressed indeed and started to throw the rooms furniture about. At that point it was decided to transport Reinard and Brice to sickbay, where Corbin and Ensign {{n|Todd|Manius}} were sent to care for him. The rest of the group then unsealed the doors and walked out onto the Bridge. There Thomas was informed that there was a energy build up in the Freighter and he wasted no time in contacting Saroa, Baker and Larson to have them beam over to stop it. Finishing with these tasks, he then took the reminder of the group down to the Brig to interrogate Bo'Sun. Shortly after, Ensign [[HoS'elth]] the new Sec/Tac officer arrived on the ''Darwin'''s Bridge and was sent down to join them.

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|[[Image:Darwin in orbit.png|150px|thumb|left|In Orbit]] Back in the Chemistry Lab, the latest from the bridge had made its way down with Larson, Baker and Corbin all preparing to leave for their respective tasks. Before Corbin and Baker left, however, James did ask them for their progress with the simulation. Fortunately it was almost done, so their departure did little to slow the effort down. Quickly they started the simulated investigation finding that while the drug had little effect on Terran physiology (a mild stimulation, the equivalent of a strong cup of coffee) it had an extraordinary effect on Laudian physiology, causing increase in heart rate, increased sensitivity in regards to their Fielding and the possibility of emotional changes. The next program testing Haiilian physiology found much of the same, if a little less violent. With this new data, James felt it prudent for the group to re-locate to Sickbay in order to present their findings to the medical team.

Meanwhile, Thomas, Falcon and HoS'etlh had made their way to the Brig where Abel, Inala and Bo'Sun where being held. The group decided to interview Bo'Sun this time, to see if his story corroborates the Laudians. While being let out to be taken to the interview room, Bo'Sun expressed the hope that they will be "more prepared to listen than [the] other officers" and expressed the sentiments that Starfleet was "a group of racists who've already decided [him]guilty as a result of [his] species" which was rather ignored. In the room, he started to tell a story that he was a passenger aboard the ship, attempting to get home to attend a funeral ceremony and that he knew nothing about the illegal cargo. The group was not impressed with this explanation, particularly after the way he had blocked the investigation earlier and told him as much. Shortly thereafter, the interview ended and the team retired to discuss what they had learned from that. After deciding to re-interview the Captain, Thomas was contacted by Ensign {{n|Graham|Block}} and informed that he was needed on the Bridge as though the freighter may not be fixed in time...

In Sickbay, it had become apparent that Reinard was not the only one affected. Shortly after he had been subdued by Manius and a hypospray, Brice announced that she may have been affected - possibly while clearing a sample in the Chemistry Lab - and while she retained more control then Reinard, it was somewhat tenuous. A few minutes later, the Research Team also made its arrival where James informed them of the drugs affects. After some discussion, it was decided that Sickbay was not the best place to preform research and that they still needed to know more about the drug, particularly if there was a cure for the Captain and Brice. It was also suggested that a cortical inhibitor may help both officers.

Over on the ''Tenacity'' things where going far less well. It became quickly apparent that flying the ship out on autopilot would be impossible, due to the system being locked out. Larson had also identified that the overload was defiantly happening in the ship's impulse engines, with low level thoron radiation blocking the scanners from finding any more information. Baker then made the decision that they should go down to Impulse Control. When there they soon found that the thoron radiation was being emitted by a broken cylinder and Larson modified her tricorder to generate anti-thorons to deal with them, however as it would take too long Saroa instead suggested modifying a tricorder to emit a low-level subspace transmission, which could be detected by the ''Darwin'' to have it beam it into space. As soon as they could get access, Baker suggested that Larson head back to the Bridge so she could pilot the ship away from the Darwin and dump the excess plasma from the drive coils through the vectored exhaust director. After quicklly mveing the ship out of the ''Darwin'' (with only a slight scratch on the ''Darwin'''s hull) and with just 30 seconds to spare, Baker was able to dump the excess plasma and prevent the buildup!

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