Quarantine (Garuda): Difference between revisions

The [[USS Garuda]] returned to [[Deep Space 10]] for some much-needed shore leave, and the crew enjoyed their time relaxing and recovering from the previous mission. However, their time to recuperate was cut short when, without warning, alarms blasted and quarantine containment doors sealed across the station. The crew were stranded in small groups throughout the station and needed to deal with the rising panic among the civilians -- a process made much more difficult by the recent Federation/[[Cardassian]] treaty that put the station under the join control of Starfleet and the [[Cardassian Union]]'s space navy. After the idea that the crisis was just a malfunction was ruled out, a number of the Cardassians on the station started becoming sick -- showing symptoms such as bleeding from the mouth and nose, accompanied with violent coughing. Some of them even needed emergency resuscitation. To make matters worse, Captain [[Egan Manno, Cassandra|Egan Manno]] and the ''Garuda'' were summoned away just minutes after the crisis began on an urgent mission for Starfleet, leaving the remaining crew under acting-CO Lieutenant Commander [[Calderan, Nia|Nia Calderan]] to find out what had caused the quarantine systems to engage and to keep the station's population from falling victim to whatever the pathogen might be. Things seemed to have stabilized when Doctor [[Skyfire, Chythar|Chythar Skyfire]] isolated a virus from an early patient and began working on a cure, and a team under command advocate Lieutenant Commander [[Bakari, Msafiri|Msafiri Bakari]] tried to get the station's systems back online; but this was ended when a chilling video message was broadcast across all monitors in the station. Terrorists calling themselves the [[Maquis Reborn]] announced their connection with the release of the virus, and to prove their seriousness, murdered the Cardassian commanding officer of the station live on air.