Jackford Kolk/Mission Summaries: Difference between revisions

** Endowed with the turmoil of an almost completely reshuffled crew roster, the ''[[USS Ronin]]'' departs [[Deep Space 17]] with half of her senior staff replaced with that of the ''[[USS Independence-A]]'' and sets off for the pre-warp world of [[Layte]] to attempt to undo the damage recently done there by [[Shepard, Jack|Lt.J.G. Shepard]] whose shuttle had crashed there almost a year before. En route, the crew bickers during two painfully tumultuous staff meetings but somehow manages to come up with a plan to remove the Federation technology still on the planet without being caught by the locals. Before arriving in the system, they are notified of the shuttle's self-destruct mechanism activating, presumably due to [[Shepard, Jack|Shepard's]] attempting to arm it prior to its crashing on the planet. Arriving in the system, they deceive the locals' primitive satellite defense grid, bolster a storm on the surface, and sneak in aboard another shuttle. Meanwhile on the ''[[USS Ronin|Ronin]]'', something unleashes Trellium into the life-support systems, causing most of the Vulcan population to lose emotional control. The crew isolates and sedates them rapidly, while continuing to monitor the situation on the surface. Due to the fact that [[Layte]] is apparently constantly within a temporal distortion that causes their world to experience time at a rate 7 times faster than the rest of the universe, the ship is faced with the problem of conflicting temporal fields in orbit. One of which passes through Lt. Kolk and knocks him unconscious. On the surface, [[Shepard, Jack|Lt.J.G. Shepard]] infiltrates the government compound where his downed shuttle is being held only to be struck down by a local illness about which he neglected to inform the rest of the crew. [[Wood, Daniel|Lt. Wood]] disables the shuttle's self destruct and wipes its memory banks while [[Shepard, Jack|Shepard's]] Laytean wife is called in to tend to her husband. [[Wilde, Danny|LtCmdr. Wilde]] removes both Shepards from the government medical facility, leaving evidence that they were killed in the explosion that he soon causes, and the away team retreats to their shuttle. Inside the compound, international tensions lead to a suicide bombing of [[Shepard, Jack|Shepard's]] shuttle, which finally removes the last bit of Federation technology on the planet surface. Both the [[USS Ronin|Ronin]] and the away team discover some vague evidence that [[Tholian|Tholians]] might've crashed on the planet prior to [[Shepard, Jack|Shepard's]] arrival, but when or where is unclear. Satisfied that all that can be done has been done, [[Walker, Benjamin J.|Cmdr. Walker]] returns the ship to [[Deep Space 17|DS17]] for shoreleave.

*Stardates 238602.13 to 238606.15

**As the ''[[USS Ronin|Ronin]]'' flies toward Wheeler Colony in response to its Chief Administrator's request for an audience, an asteroid nearly destroys the ship in what later turns out to be a deliberate attack by mysterious forces. LtCmdr. [[Kolk, Jackford|Kolk]] beams down to the capital with Captain [[Walker, Benjamin J.|Walker]], LtCmdr. [[Cruise, Allen|Cruise]], Lts. [[Adair-Walker, Ronan Tully|Adair-Walker]] & [[Wood, Daniel]], and Ens. [[Javinx]]. The captain's wife suddenly falls ill immediately upon arrival and is instantly returned to the ship and placed in stasis.