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====On the Bridge of the Gorkon====

* Learning more about the Rift and how to escape.

** '''Team:''' Vice Admiral [[Quinn Reynolds]], Lieutenant Commanders [[Ayiana Sevo]] and [[Jona ch'Ranni]], and Lieutenant [[Piravao sh’Qynallahr]]

On the bridge, Reynolds, ch’Ranni, Sevo and sh’Qynallahr worked to uncover the nature of the Rift and a way to escape it. They launched probes and searched the computer for similar incidents; the probe data indicated the Rift itself is not responsible for the power gain and is a separate effect, while research failed to uncover any incidences of starships encountering the phenomenon in the past. Their attempts were frustrated in part by an interruption in the main computer network, which turned out to be one of a collection of random ship malfunctions (comms failing, a replicator turning off halfway through materialisation, a sonic shower playing music, gravity inverting in a cargo bay, etc).  

Shortly thereafter, they experienced their first Blip, an out-of-body experience prompted by a superposition of subspace over normal space, characterised by an almost imperceptible dimming of light and a jump in tachyons. They also discovered the Blip had  “stolen” 34 crew, and created a warning system for tricorders and internal sensors, by programming them to detect a preceding surge in polarised gravitons.

====Aboard the USS Kahnrah (Yellowstone-class Runabout)====

* Investigating the recovered Escape Pod

** '''Team:''' Lieutenant Commander [[Samira Neathler]], Lieutenant JGs [[Tahna Meru]], and [[Serren Tan]].  

In a cargo bay, Neathler, Tahna and Tan inspected an escape pod from the Sasu Gol. Tricorders functioned intermittently, but despite that difficulty, they found a shard embedded in the slightly damaged hull, identified by Tahna as diamond, and later discovered most likely a result of the pod travelling through a debris field.  

The strange effects continued, the temperature dropping throughout the cargo bay and the team now also being jostled and shoved by invisible forces, seemingly with the intent of preventing them from reading the logs. This escalated to a full physical assault, with the team being grabbed and thrown around. Attempts to communicate were unsuccessful, and finally, with a little help from the bridge, the team escaped the cargo bay.

====Sickbay====

The team fled to sickbay intending to use the force fields there for defence. The discovery of the battered doors and the lack of pursuit led them to theorise the ghosts are deliberately terrorising them. Just as the team linked the ghosts and the Taniwha together, they were caught in a subspace superposition, and like so many before them, vanished from real space.

====Aboard the Triumphant: Mess Hall====

Returning to sickbay, and met with the sound of screaming, Diir described the crew’s descent into madness and terror. Shortly afterwards, the team were attacked, much to Diir’s apparent delight, and he offered/sacrificed himself to the darkness. Shaken, the team decided their best course of action was to head for engineering and disconnect the umbilical to the Triumphant, then head to the shuttlebay to get off the ship, and hopefully find any survivors along the way.

====Aboard the Gorkon: Engineering====

They get the Rodulan to focus and use his telepathic abilities to contact [[Corliss Fortune]] who was acting as a beacon on the outside of No-Space. With this, the group manages to escape from the No-Space and join the group aboard the Triumphant.

====Aboard the Triumphant====

With the entire crew safe, the starship free and powered up, the teams return to the Gorkon to leave the Rift once and for all.

====Aboard the Sasu Gol====

Once there, the Vulcan hijacked an operating theatre to tend to Desoa while the rest of the group remained behind to catch up on more personal matters.  

====Aboard the Gorkon: Deck Eight====