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''Stardate 238708.25''<br> | ''Stardate 238708.25''<br> | ||
Finally having stabilized the situation and marked the area with a warning beacon for the science team Starfleet was sending to the location, the Victory turns towards home. Within hours, however, of reaching Starbase 118, Admiral Rocar is found missing. Blood and a knife at the scene were investigated, as well as a box found at the scene that was emitting the Admiral's life signs. The box later blows up, nearly killing the chief engineer. With Rocar gone, Lieutenant Commander [[Jaxx, Andrus|Andrus Jaxx]] assumes command of the ship and Lieutenant Commander [[Webb, Cyrus|Cyrus Webb]] steps in as acting First Officer. The Victory pulls into port, where the crew enjoy a dinner set up by Ensign Cooper before reporting back to the ship to be redeployed. | Finally having stabilized the situation and marked the area with a warning beacon for the science team Starfleet was sending to the location, the Victory turns towards home. Within hours, however, of reaching Starbase 118, Admiral Rocar is found missing. Blood and a knife at the scene were investigated, as well as a box found at the scene that was emitting the Admiral's life signs. The box later blows up, nearly killing the chief engineer. With Rocar gone, Lieutenant Commander [[Jaxx, Andrus|Andrus Jaxx]] assumes command of the ship and Lieutenant Commander [[Webb, Cyrus|Cyrus Webb]] steps in as acting First Officer. The Victory pulls into port, where the crew enjoy a dinner set up by Ensign Cooper before reporting back to the ship to be redeployed. | ||
''Stardate 238709.05''<br> | |||
When a strange turn of events leaves the Victory's computer in chaos, the crew is recalled early from their already shortened shore leave. A full crew compliment is brought aboard, just in time to help with a total sensor overhaul which needs to be completed in less than 36 hours. [[MacKenna, Ash|Lt. MacKenna]] puts every available hand to work on the project, keeping everyone awake throughout the night. Finally finishing just over the deadline, she makes her way to the bridge to report. Meanwhile, a remotely controlled agent is found to be working aboard the Victory. Guided by waves of energy originating from an unknown source, the agent not only tries to kill at least one officer, but puts the entire ship in danger as well. The threat is neutralized before it can grow, but the remote transmissions continue. [[Tali, Elya|Ensign Tali]], the chief engineer, finds a way to target the origin of the energy waves using the holoemitters from the [[Mark|EMH]] in sickbay. Without as many redundancies built in as other computer components and systems aboard, the EMH has suffered severe damage, causing it to act very uncharacteristically and even rude. When a torpedo is fired on the station, and a blast rocks the Victory, the crew must act fast to locate the source of the transmissions, as well as the agents still on the ship. | |||
''Stardate 238709.23''<br> | |||
At least one traitor is located aboard the Victory, but before he can be questioned, he ends up on the wrong side of the shuttle bay forcefield. Pieces of the mystery start to fall together as the crew tries to find the source of the halted energy waves, but before they can go any further, two major things happen. First, two ships appear out of nowhere and begin to attack the station. Second, Admiral Rocar is located in the executive tower of the station. The crew of the Victory is able to beam him away as the station's shields are brought down and a new defensive grid is put up to resist the attacks, however the Victory is made to escape the situation. While the starbase seemed to have known something about the creatures and their attack, the Victory is still in the dark and unable to effectively defend themselves. The Admiral's return is quickly diminished as he falls into unconsciousness shortly after arriving in the ready room. Sickbay is called, and Commander Jaxx, along with the help of Commander Webb, retains command for the moment. Jumping to warp and heading towards the Azure Nebula, the crew and ship prepare for what might prove to be a rocky future. | |||
''Stardate 238710.02''<br> | |||
The Victory heads into the Azure nebula as the crew attempts to find answers to their growing number of questions. More traitors are found on board as the crew struggles with internal sensor errors. The Chief Engineer is attacked, and ends up in sickbay next to the still unconscious Admiral Rocar. Though her wounds are easily healed, they bring up an important question; how was a phaser fired on the ship without triggering the warnings that would otherwise let the senior staff know about such a weapons discharge. As the Chief of Security begins her search for the answer, the science department begins searching for something to give them an edge against the creatures if the Victory should run into them again. With the help of Engineering, and some overly general information from the new Intel officer, Lieutenant Commander Webb, the crew begins to unravel the mystery of the insect aliens and the strange occurrences aboard the ship. | |||
''Stardate 238711.17''<br> | |||
Within the nebula, the Victory never encounters the insect creatures that attacked the Starbase, but they did run into a Romulan freighter with two Valdore class escorts. Though they tried to run silent and avoid confrontation, the Romulans detected a shuttle sent from the Victory to recover the freighter, which it was discovered, was transporting cloaking devices to the instectoids. The Victory's mission was to recover the devices at all costs to keep the insectoids from becoming nearly impossible to beat. The Romulans, however, would stop at nothing to make sure that their cargo was not taken. The ensuing firefight left one officer critically wounded, and another in a coma. While the ship limps back to the Starbase, Ensign Tressa fights to recover from physical wounds and possible brain damage, while the rest of the crew holds the ship together until they can make it back for repairs. Shore leave looms on the horizon, and the crew begins the break that they so much need. | |||
Stardate 238711.15 | |||
The USS Aztec, a runabout modified for high-security prison transport, was scheduled to transfer two Romulan criminals to the USS Iowa. Unfortunately, engineers had reported that the Aztec was having difficulty achieving faster speeds than warp 2. A small crew from the USS Victory (which was under repair at SB118) was tasked with making repairs enroute. | |||
Before repairs could be made, a malfunction in the mass compensator left the Aztec stranded in subspace with damaged life support systems. An emergency landing was made at a planet inside subspace for repairs, where the Aztec's crew encountered a large metallic life form, presumably a robot. This creature was surprised at the crew's biological origins, indicating that intelligent biological life on their planet had extinguished long ago. With the help of another similar creature, the Aztec was repaired and sent back into normal space. | |||
Stardate 238712.13 | |||
Commander Andrus Jaxx gets new orders that send the USS Victory deep into Romulan space. Their destination is to be Romulus itself. With word that the Hobus star at the center of the Romulus solar system is unstable and heading towards supernova, the Victory and any other available Federations ships have been dispatched to help with the planetary evacuation of Romulus and the surrounding colonies. Because the Hobus star is so unstable, on top of a real scientific enigma, the new First Officer, Ash MacKenna has trouble trying to pinpoint just how much time they have before the planet is lost. The senior staff get to work on contingency plans, as well as plans that will allow the maximum amount of refugees to be beamed aboard the ship. | |||
Meanwhile, the ship prepares to host their own version of the officer's ball aboard the ship, since they would be missing the official one on the Starbase. It is a bittersweet addition to the mission they will soon find themselves entrenched in. | |||
Stardate 238712.31 | |||
While the officer's ball was a success, word is received that the Hobus star had gone supernova and Romulus was lost. Commander Andrus Jaxx confers with the First Officer and they agree to keep the information to themselves until the morning, when a briefing has been called. No time is wasted in reassigning the Victory, which had already crossed the border of Romulan space. The Captain broke the news to the senior staff and then redirected their energy towards their new goal. | |||
With the Romulan Senate presumed dead, various sects of Romulan society begin to exert independence and the claim that they are the rightful leaders of what is left of their people. The Star Empire falls, segmenting into various smaller areas of controlled space. The Federation is contacted by a Federation friendly member of the Romulan senate, Senator Kaitak, who has been taken to a remote planet set up to provide safety in such circumstances. Thus, the Victory is dispatched to rescue the senator, who is also being pursued by remnants of the Tal Shiar. | |||
Stardate 238801.21 | |||
An away team led by Lieutenant Commander Ash MacKenna is sent to the surface to find the senator. Because the atmosphere is hazardous, being comprised of gasses and metallic particles, the team cannot transport down. Instead, they start towards their destination on a shuttle. After a really bumpy ride, Ensign Liam Frost manages to make a controlled crash landing close to their desired landing point. Gearing up, the team heads out towards their objective. | |||
After their first communication with the ship, Chief Petty Officer Radi Rais is sent out on another shuttle to locate and pick up the team once they had located the senator. Conditions in the atmosphere worsen, and though the shuttle avoids the problems that had plagued the first one, they were unable to locate the team at first. | |||
Meanwhile, the away team entered the edge of the city and was met with a rather friendly holographic security guard. Moments later, lights of a transporter beam appear close by. The Senator and his aide appear just moments before a very angry Tal Shiar agent. The shuttle locates the crew as they realize who the Senator is and move to protect him. Speeding closer, the Tal Shiar agent begins firing at the group as they fold into the open shuttle door. Things become chaotic and shots are fired from both sides. As the final officers stepped up into the shuttle, one lucky shot found home. | |||
Stardate 238802.28 | |||
With the Senator in tow, the shuttle returns to the Victory, but not without its share of problems. Shock takes hold of certain officers as the realization that May was dead seemed to hit home. As soon as they were in range, Lieutenant Commander Ash MacKenna beams the doctor, nurse, Senator, and Security Chief to sickbay. The remaining officers bring the shuttle into the bay and return to the bridge to find that a decloaked warbird was seemingly seconds away from causing problems. Using some daring moves, the Victory is able to slingshot around the planet and into warp without any shots being fired. | |||
Enroute to the Starbase, the Victory crew begins to deal with the ghosts that would haunt them. Meanwhile, the ship gets word that Betazed was under attack and that one of their crewmen's family's had been killed. | |||
Stardate: 238804.27 | |||
With plenty of upgrades to brag about, the USS Victory is about to set out towards their next mission. Unbeknownst to most of the crew, Captain Jaxx has been offered, and has accepted, command of the station Starbase 118. The Victory is to make her best speed to the new assignment, where she will be docked and kept as a support vessel. | |||
As the ship begins to move away from Earth spacedock, however, the ship encounters a rift in space and time. There is a bright flash, and suddenly the crew sees that they are on a collision course with a small object. Seconds later the object is identified, but only after the occupants are beamed over to the Victory following a collision that destroyed the vessel. The craft that was destroyed was the Apollo 11 command service module on it's way to make history on the moon in the Earth year 1969. | |||
The realization that the ship now contains three living and breathing members of Earth history begins to settle in and the crew scrambles for a way to make a replacement craft so the astronauts can continue on with the mission that changed spaceflight forever on the human world... | |||
Stardate: 238805.12 | |||
Two away teams are sent to the surface of 1969 Earth. The first team is tasked with retrieving the blueprints and plans for the actual craft, that would fill in the gaps that existed in historical documents existing in the Victory's computers, from a remote file location on Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Lt. Commander Kalianna Nicholotti, Lieutenant Guy Hunt, and Lieutenant Commander Julio Vannini make their way into the base disguised as Naval Officers of the time. They are successful in their task, but Lieutenant Hunt suffers a gunshot wound as the team escaped. | |||
The second team was tasked with retrieving the manifest for everything that was included on the craft when it left Earth. Since each thing would have to be replicated, they needed a list. Lieutenant Commander Ash MacKenna, Lieutenant Eliaan Deron, and Lieutenant Liam Frost make their way to a bar known for its astronaut clientele. After making contact with the head of the astronaut office, they find they are able to get what was needed. | |||
In the meantime, Ash is left alone with a shady man of the time, and finds herself eating candy that he gives her. The candy, a form of LSD, sends Ash on a drugged trip where she has trouble focusing and completing simple tasks. Frost returns to the ship with her while Dr. Deron continues in search of the manifest, which he finds a short time later after following the instructions of Deke Slayton. He returns to find sickbay full, and chaos mounting. | |||
Stardate: 238806.09 | |||
With the craft built, the crew sets the three astronauts out into space just before a Q appears on the bridge. Splitting into multiple entities, the Q tries to tempt each officer on the bridge with something that they might really like. Some officers are taken to other places to get their offer, while others remain on the bridge. All decline the offers, and the Q suddenly poofs them and their ship in front of their destination, Starbase 118. Everything appears as it should have been in history and the crew wonders if they really did 'run into' the three historical figures from the past. Shocked, but okay, the crew puts the events behind them and begins the transition to their new home | |||