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==Mission 6: The Nomad Pursuit == | ==Mission 6: The Nomad Pursuit == | ||
Back out beyond the [[Romulan|Romulan Empire]] once again, under the temporary command of the First Officer since [[Vetri, Della|Captain Vetri]] had been summoned to a conference on [[Deep Space 6]], the USS Avandar soon found itself receiving an automated distress call from an unidentified ship. When they investigated, the crew found the source of the signal to be inside an asteroid field, a field who’s chemical composition made attempts to scan less than effective. | |||
With caution, the Avandar began getting closer, and was eventually able to detect a pair of ships – one little more than wreckage, whilst the other was very much active. Before much could be done to react to this discovery, the Avandar began suffering massive power drain, quickly identified as coming from something among the asteroids. To add to the trouble, the active one of the ships they’d found moved to attack. | |||
Within minutes, the Avandar’s crew had some major problems of their own on their hands – not least of which was the fact that the power drain had effectively stripped the ship of it’s shields and allowed boarders to infiltrate and begin grabbing anything they could. The intruders were repelled, but not without the loss of a fair amount of hardware, and their ship broke away. In the wake of this raid, the crew left with deciding what to do about the attack, and also how best to deal with their first contact with a species that they had only ever really encountered in old second-hand Romulan reports. | |||
With creative use of the asteroid field they were otherwise stuck in, the crew managed to drive off the alien raiders, even managing to land significant, though not crippling, hits on the attacking vessel despite the Avandar’s tactical systems being compromised by electronic attack. Fortunately, the fact they were fighting back, plus the arrival of two new ships in the area, drove the raiders to retreat. | |||
The newcomers introduced themselves as an independent military force, a form of freelance law enforcement. Their commander, a Xomite by the name of Challno, agreed to join efforts with the Avandar crew in the pursuit of the Alr’n raiders, who he had apparently been chasing for some time after being ‘requested’ to hunt them down by a number of worlds who accused the Alr’n of piracy and other similar activities. | |||
Meeting with [[Dickens, Marcus|Lieutenant Commander Dickens]] and a number of other officers, Challno put forward a trio of possible locations the raiders could be trying to use to fence their stolen goods. Deciding to go along with the idea, despite some doubts about just how truthful Challno was being, the Avandar crew agreed to investigate one of the possibilities, the trading world of Shalin. | |||
Once main systems were fixed, the Avandar got underway with only a few minor issues still plaguing the ship, such as virus-infected replicators spewing large amounts of gagh into any number of places throughout the vessel, much to the annoyance of the crew, and managed to track at least some of their stolen equipment. The next step was reclaiming it, and the Away Team sent to try and achieve this quietly almost managed to do just that – but almost was not quite good enough. It took some fast talking and a timely beam out to avoid them being arrested for, of all things, theft. | |||
In the meantime, Captain Vetri’s undesired conference trip to Deep Space 6 ended with the arrival of a number of new transfers to the ship’s crew, giving her a great deal more company on the trip back home - a trip that was to prove far more eventful than the last one. | |||
Safe and secure back on the ship, with part of the haul recovered, the crew set course for their next objective to finish the job. This time, things went more smoothly, with smaller teams spreading out to search and recover, and the thieves themselves successfully tracked down. With the crew back together again - after a rather hair-raising confrontation with the Romulans still living in their old D7 near the Rabbit Hole for the Captain and her companions - the Avandar coordinated with the local authorities to close the net on the raiders once and for all, leading to the successful retrieval of the stolen equipment... though the thieves themselves managed to escape. | |||
==Mission 5: Rift Dancing == | ==Mission 5: Rift Dancing == | ||