Jackford Kolk/Mission Summaries: Difference between revisions

** Temporarily under the command of Captain [[Morgan, Robert|Morgan]], the ''[[USS Ronin|Ronin]]'' is assigned to a shakedown cruise to a protostar 45 lightyears from [[Earth]] that is projected to begin stellar fusion within the next three weeks. Some of the crew, most notably the First Officer, Cmdr. [[Walker, Benjamin J.|Walker]], struggle to accept the new Captain's assignment but manage to keep it from adversely affecting the mission. During the approach to the system, the ''[[USS Ronin|Ronin]]''’s crew discover that the ''[[USS Calippus]]'', observing the stellar ignition on the far side of the protoplanetary disk, is in danger of being destroyed by a projected solar flare from the unstable proto-star; with most forms of communication down due to the massive amounts of interference in the system, Lt. [[Kolk, Jackford|Kolk]] sends a flight of fighters to relay the warning to the other ship. At the same time, a civilian vessel arrives, carrying a religious sect bent on worshiping the newly-formed star despite the danger. The vessel promptly issues a distress call as her engines mysteriously go offline and her warp core threatens to breach. LtCmdr. [[Thelev, Jhen|Thelev]] captains a runabout to investigate and soon realizes that the religious ship has been attacked by an invisible assailant. Meanwhile, a fighter on approach to the ship’s shuttlebay impacts with an invisible object. A short while afterward, a Romulan shuttle de-cloaks inside the bay, and the crew enters negotiations with the shuttle's occupants, who turn out to be the Commander of the Romulan warbird that attacked the religious transport and a Tal-Shiar agent who claims to be Cmdr. [[Walker, Benjamin J.|Walker]]'s fiancee. As talks progress, the new Hammerhead fighters perform extremely well and successfully warn the ''[[USS Calippus]]'' in time to avert disaster. Back on the ship, the Romulan Commander takes a tour and discusses the situation with Capt. [[Morgan, Robert|Morgan]] and then returns to his ship. Shortly afterwards their Chief Engineer (one of the defectors) causes a serious drive malfunction which brings them out of cloak and their crew abandons ship. Rather than allow the crippled ship to be captured and analyzed by Starfleet, the senior officers send it into the sun to scuttle it, but secretly turn it around under cloak at the last minute. The hull is scorched, but the cloaking device is recovered by the ''[[USS Ronin|Ronin]]'' crew, allowing the balance of power between the Empire and the Federation to remain intact  and insuring that no more cloaked shuttles drop into Federation shuttle-bays unannounced.