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One of the first steps that the team took, after Gnai joined it, was to determine how to properly disguise themselves. A [[Betazoid]], an [[Edo]], a [[Mizarian]], and a Galadoran would raise eyebrows - and likely alarms - if spotted milling about the capital city of Ki Baratan. As soon as it had proposed disguising itself as some sort of robot, the group was interrupted by a Romulan civilian, who promptly fled as soon as he had laid eyes upon the gathered officers <ref name="A Very Warm Welcome">{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://sims.starbase118.net/single/Artemis/-NrlrPoAD-LmeNtXxH14 A Very Warm Welcome], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240102.28</ref>. The team gave chase, and Lt. JG. Sadar managed to block the Romulan's escape long enough for Cmdr. Adea to knock him out with his cane. Now burdened with an unconscious Romulan, Lt. Jovenan and Gnai hid the body back in a very convenient locker in the room they had first met in. It was during this trip that Gnai learned the reason why they were back in 2374 - the others had just come from an alternate timeline in which [[Betazed]] had remained occupied by the [[Dominion]] far longer than it should have <ref name="Please Sir, I Studied Klingon at the Academy">{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://sims.starbase118.net/single/Artemis/-NrxT-qEiQZgQNJDLB-1 Please Sir, I Studied Klingon at the Academy], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240103.01</ref>. Confused, it continued to try and work at accessing the {{ma|PADD}} that the Romulan had dropped, before asking what their mission was exactly - a tall order, given that it was unable to read the {{ma|Romulan language}} that the PADD was written in <ref name="Out Of Its Depth">{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://sims.starbase118.net/single/Artemis/-Ns9Ky5VF9iMtrUnX9Rl Out Of Its Depth], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240103.04</ref>.

The next morning, after brief conversation with Lt. Cmdr. Salkath and the other officers, Overseer Drox woke the rest of the cell block up and announced that they were all behind schedule. Somehow, she was worse than the previous jailer (as promised). After informing the other prisoners that their mealtime was being cancelled due to the presence of the Starfleet officers - a clear attempt to foster division between the prisoners - they were marched outside to begin the work for the day. The officers were tasked, alongside a few of the other prisoners, with extraction and sent down deep into a cave nearby to the prison, watched from above by guards and the sadistic overseer <ref name="Somehow, Even Worse!">{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://sims.starbase118.net/single/Artemis/-NuHZEY1R42Dx2mx82vx Somehow, Even Worse!], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240103.30</ref>. Deep inside the cave, the officers were confronted with the harsh reality of the prison's labor force, watching as another group of exhausted and grimy prisoners made their way back up the same tunnel they were descending, after having worked through the night. As they reached where they would be working, the other prisoners started immediately, giving the occasional glare back to the Starfleet officers who were decidedly not. Gnai wanted to push ahead on the plans to interact with the others, offering to go as a representative of a non-Federation species, but this was quickly overshadowed by Ens. Savel's plan to start a fight and get sent to the Overseer. This sounded like a horrible plan to Gnai, the proud coward that it was, and instead Gnai looked to the captain for some semblance of reason <ref name="I Do Not Understand The Desire To Get Sent To The Overseer's Office Thank You VERY Much">{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://sims.starbase118.net/single/Artemis/-NuRXp2gC0dfITfmteJP I Do Not Understand The Desire To Get Sent To The Overseer's Office Thank You VERY Much], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240104.01</ref>. As soon as it set off to meet with the Caitian that the captain pointed out for it to make contact with, everything vanished again. Much to Gnai's delight though, the crew was back on the ship, and set to dock at {{ma|Deep Space 9}} for shore leave, with CloQ vanishing into thin air before their very eyes. Everyone was back in one piece and it could finally get started with its time on the {{USS|Artemis-A}} <ref name="Does This Count As Escaping From Prison?">{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://sims.starbase118.net/single/Artemis/-NufVf7u6PubA1onr72e Does This Count As Escaping From Prison?], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240104.04</ref>.

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During the mission, it ended up paired off with Lt. JG. Sadar, mostly as the two least-disguisable in the team. They both were stationed at the bottom of the Romulan turret as everything went wrong...

Cmdr. Adea was quite kind when Gnai went in for a physical, and let the whole thing be conducted telepathically. Gnai appreciated that, as it finds expressing itself somewhat better through telepathy, rather than through its speakers. After the physical, at the Commander's suggestion, Gnai met with him and his dog Toto in the Arboretum on DS9.

During shore leave, she welcomed Gnai to the ship formally. What started as a very standard welcome soon turned into a bit of an interrogation, as Gnai was ''properly'' introduced to the Captain. It's not certain how to feel about any of this.

Gnai's luck around Ens. Savel only continued to get worse as they went on shore leave. Not only did it end up trapped on a cruise ship in the Gamma Quadrant with him, trying to outfox pirates who had taken it over, but Ens. Savel was also in attendance at the ''disastrous'' tricorder training session on Bajor. Both Gnai and Ens. Savel made it out unharmed, but the same could not be said for their crewmates. Gnai hates to be superstitious... but the facts don't lie. Whenever it's on a team with Ens. Savel, ''someone'' is getting hurt. Or captured. Or both.

It's a shame, because Gnai has found him to be very pleasant to be around. If it ignores all the chaos, that is.

When the mission was over, and the crew was set loose on DS9 for their shore leave, Gnai reached out to Lt. Cmdr. Salkath to see if he would make good on his promise to look over Gnai's suit. He was interested, and the two of them got to work. After Gnai had ensured that its suit was in good condition still, it asked him a very personal question - if he could take a baseline, and be what Lt. Cmdr. Salkath later dubbed its "mechanical counselor". The Vulcan agreed, and Gnai considers him a confidante - someone who knows all the details about its suit that it was wary to share widely. And perhaps, someday: a friend.

Then everything went horribly wrong. Gnai was not anticipating seeing its roommate's severed leg across his lap the same day that it met him, but their tricorder training session on Bajor went even worse than it could have imagined. Who expects ''mines'' on a training mission?<!-- HERES HOW TO ADD QUOTES <hr> <small> "quote part 1" <br>

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That was a mistake, and Gnai feels now like it was the reason why Renirs got so injured when stepping on a mine. It tried its best to act as a medic for her, staying by her side and assisting the tense beam-out process. On the shuttle ''Kerynitis'', it was able to diagnose her with multiple burns and a concussion, so it tried to keep her talking while they made haste to the province's hospital. It still feels horrid for what happened to her, even though she made a full recovery.

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