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Much-needed updating to the Gorkon missions
(Major update to mission history, encompassing Annus Horribilis 1 & 2, and A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.) |
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On Stardate 239311.1, the Gorkon arrived at it's new base of operations in the [[Tyrellian system]], near the borders of Klingon and Romulan space. Their first order of business - to root out corruption throughout the Tyrellian government, suspected to be the Orion Syndicate. Ayiana first led a team to a shipping warehouse to see if they could find clues as to what the Syndicate was doing on Palanon, the Tyrellian's adopted homeworld. Her team managed to capture a low-level thug, and discovered crates of currencies from Klingon, Romulan, and Federation economies; as well as encrypted data chips. | On Stardate 239311.1, the Gorkon arrived at it's new base of operations in the [[Tyrellian system]], near the borders of Klingon and Romulan space. Their first order of business - to root out corruption throughout the Tyrellian government, suspected to be the Orion Syndicate. Ayiana first led a team to a shipping warehouse to see if they could find clues as to what the Syndicate was doing on Palanon, the Tyrellian's adopted homeworld. Her team managed to capture a low-level thug, and discovered crates of currencies from Klingon, Romulan, and Federation economies; as well as encrypted data chips. | ||
They followed up on a lead by the captured Syndicate goon, as well as partially decrypted information from the recovered chips. Ayiana soon found herself leading a team to the great Perlonian Swamp near the capital city Yarista. There, they found what appeared to be a Syndicate safe house. Attempting to investigate the structure led to a fail safe being tripped, destroying the house and most of the content therein, including a few Orions. One survivor was an Orion slavegirl named [[ | They followed up on a lead by the captured Syndicate goon, as well as partially decrypted information from the recovered chips. Ayiana soon found herself leading a team to the great Perlonian Swamp near the capital city Yarista. There, they found what appeared to be a Syndicate safe house. Attempting to investigate the structure led to a fail safe being tripped, destroying the house and most of the content therein, including a few Orions. One survivor was an Orion slavegirl named [[Leelou]], who tried to escape, but quickly surrendered when she was cornered. It was soon discovered that Leelou had an implanted tracking device and the Syndicate would soon be sending troops to investigate the destroyed safe house. Ayiana and her team took cover in the surrounding swamp while a shuttle containing Syndicate shock troops landed. While her team was distracted, Leelou stole a phaser from {{nrank|Lt. JG|Dassa Alexander}} and shot them from behind. Leelou had actually been the boss for the Tyrellian operation and escaped with the troops. | ||
After recovering in sickbay, Ayiana joined her crewmates on Palanon in the Mindirra mountain range for some shore leave. | After recovering in sickbay, Ayiana joined her crewmates on Palanon in the Mindirra mountain range for some shore leave. | ||
The next mission saw Ayiana serving as acting First Officer to Commander Vess, commanding the Triumphant in a war games scenario against the Resolute. Their team concocted a bold plan to incapacitate the Resolute, but they were unknowingly being listened to by the Resolute's captain, T'Vei. She had quickly shut down the Triumphant in one second, irritating Ayiana and Vess to no end. Fortunately, she didn't have time to gloat, as a ''real'' distress call came from the Shavar. They were under attack by a Breen dreadnought. The Resolute and Triumphant quickly raced to it's location to assist. After the battle, Ayiana realized they had lost contact with the Gorkon. Due to their damage, it took several days to return to Palanon, where they found Commander Brunsig in command and Fleet Captain Reynolds severely injured from an attempted assassination. During the next few weeks she spent in recovery, Vess had taken ''de facto'' command of the Gorkon, while Ayiana took over XO duties. | |||
Eventually, the Gorkon found themselves at Risa for some much-needed shore leave. Ayiana was just about to head down to the planet when she got a surprise - in the form of her sister, [[Aleesia Yorval|Aleesia]], visiting on vacation from Trill. During shore leave, the pair participated in a volleyball game, swimming, and socializing. | |||
Their next mission found the Gorkon exploring a mysterious planet - Leutra IV. It was a seemingly impossible place; a habitable planet orbiting a magnetar, an extremely powerful type of pulsar. By all accounts, it should have been sterilized of life and atmosphere. Once on the surface, the reason for it's safety quickly became apparent. A massive shield encircled the planet, protecting it from the frequent bursts of radiation emitted by the magnetar. It blocked enough of the radiation to save their lives, but had caused irreparable damage to the teams' equipment. The only thing they had to go on was a mysterious region of electromagnetic signals they had detected from orbit. Ayiana led the team towards what she remembered to be the direction of the EM signal. | |||
During a night of camping, Ayiana and her team witnessed a ship crash near their location. Once they reconnoitered the site, they realized it was a shuttle of Federation design, yet Ayiana did not know of any other ships in the area. It turned out it was filled with a contingent of Starfleet Rangers from the 451st platoon on a covert mission to destroy an Orion base on the planet; of which Ayiana didn't know about either. There was only one survivor - Ensign [[Grace Freeman]]. They managed to pull her from the wreck and carry her back to their camp where she rested through the rest of the night. | |||
The next morning, Freeman had immediately clashed with Ayiana over concerns of secrecy and confidentiality regarding her mission; going so far as to refuse Ayiana and her team entry to her ship. Considering their survival above all other concerns, Ayiana decided to "pull rank" and overrule Freeman, ordering her team to search the ship for supplies. At one point, Freeman rigged the ship's cockpit to explode, destroying the main computer core, and any information it may have contained. The explosion also knocked everyone off their feet. Furious, Ayiana ran to Freeman and slammed the armored woman against the shuttle. Things were about to come to blows when the impact crater the ship had created began to crumble and collapse from the explosion. Surprisingly, they fell only a few meters into a clearly artificial cave system just below the surface. Ayiana ordered Freeman held in custody until they could return to the Gorkon. Fortunately, Ayiana soon regrouped with the other away teams and they recounted their story. The planet was filled with artificially-intelligent robots; acting as "caretakers" of the planet. They were unable to ascertain the true purpose of the planet before returning to the Gorkon. | |||
Unfortunately, the fallout of the mission to Leutra IV followed Ayiana back to the ship. A formal inquiry was held to determine what transpired between Ayiana and Freeman. Captain Reynolds presided, along with Commander Vess, who was First Officer at the time. Ayiana felt ashamed, thinking she may have permanetnly hurt her relationships with Reynolds and Vess for acting inappropriately. After the hearing, Reynolds rendered her verdict - the 451st Ranger Platoon was to be reformed and put under her command onboard the Gorkon. As for Ayiana, she was stripped of her Second Officer status. Further, Reynolds ordered Ayiana and Freeman to room together for no less than six months. The pair were practically speechless. They came to blows a few hours after meeting each other; how would they be able to ''live'' together?! | |||
The Gorkon soon returned to Earth, where a lavish awards ceremony took place at the ancient Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Reynolds had been promoted to Rear Admiral during the festivities. | |||
On their return to the Tyrellian system, the Gorkon's slipstream malfunctioned and collapsed, dropping the ship in the dangerous Roman Nebula. Dozens of ships had been lost there over the centuries, and the place remained uncharted. Shortly after being trapped in the nebula, strange faceless, shapeshifting aliens appeared around the ship. They took on the appearance of various crew members for unknown reasons; except they had blank faces. Further, the ship itself became "stuck" in something, unable to move and all power being drained. Eventually it was determined an enormous subspace creature had trapped the Gorkon in it's feeding tendrils, attempting to sap the energy from the ship as food. | |||
Ayiana managed to corner one of the Faceless, as the crew had begun to call them, and tried to communicate with it. She was unsuccessful, but another team managed some rudimentary telepathic contact with the Faceless. They discovered that the Faceless had been acting as "zookeepers" for the creature for millions of years. Every time a ship became trapped in the nebula, they tried to warn them off, but the communication barrier was too great. Eventually, the Gorkon managed to find a way to free themselves from the creature and escape the nebula. | |||
While the Gorkon underwent repairs, the crew once again received some much-needed shore leave at Iana Station, orbiting Palanon. Ayiana spent much of her time on the station, shopping it's promenades. She met up with Lieutenant [[Cory Stoyer]], helping him shop for his wife, [[Petra Bjarnadottir]]. It was during this shore leave that an impromptu "reunion" took place between Ayiana, [[Alucard Vess|Vess]], [[Eerie]], and [[Nugra]]; all of whom served together on the {{USS|Victory}}. | |||
The next mission saw the Gorkon investigate Starbase 173, which had gone mysteriously silent. Ayiana found it interesting to learn that it was the station where the famous {{ma|The_Measure_Of_A_Man_(episode)|Sentience Hearing}} regarding Commander Data took place over thirty years before. Upon transporting aboard, Ayiana quickly found the station in a sort of "hibernation" mode. The life support was at a bare minimum and computers were offline. The entire population of more than 100,000 people were missing. | |||
Ayiana's team was tasked with scouting the science facilities of the station. Once there, they found the body of a [[Benzite]] Commander. They also discovered unusual and quasi-illegal science experiments taking place on the station. Their investigation was interrupted by the appearance of powerful but brief subspace rifts throughout the station. Upon communicating with the other teams, along with the Gorkon, it was theorized that some sort of technology was at work. It turned out to be three pieces of an ancient pre-Awakening Vulcan artifact known as the Iapegi Stones. They had the ability to be "programmed" to open rifts to different realms of subspace. Unfortunately, the one it was "tuned" to was inhabited by dangerous aliens. They seemed to defy the laws of physics. They moved in an unnatural way, as if looking at a stop-motion animation. Their bodies registered intense cold, yet their touch ignited flames hotter than a sun. | |||
The aliens were not the only contenders the Gorkon teams had to deal with. [[Leelou]] had returned with a contingent of Orion Syndicate troops. They had been hired to find the stones as well. After threatening the lives of one of the Gorkon teams, Admiral Reynolds managed to trap Leelou with one of the aliens. Eventually, the crew managed to shut down the stones, rendering them inert. This also forced the aliens back into their subspace realm, and returning the starbase's population. Though mostly unharmed, they were suffering from frostbite, as if they had been in some very cold environment. | |||
Returning to Palanon, the Gorkon's crew took some much-needed shore leave. Soon after arriving back at Palanon, Admiral Reynolds extended an offer to make Ayiana First Officer of the Gorkon; which she accepted, but not without some reluctance. She thought her past actions on Leutra IV pretty much sealed any possibility of command for her, but apparently Admiral Reynolds thought otherwise. | |||
Meanwhile, the Captain of the luxury skyliner ''Cloud Skipper'' extended an invitation to them, which many of the crew graciously accepted. | |||
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