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In late 2394, the ''Veritas'' suddenly loses all its deuterium reserves and must be evacuated, prompting the crew to crash onto [[Limbo]]. He looks after young [[Ayden Blake]] until reuniting him with his mother. As Blake breaks down, Tristam consoles her but asks about Roshanara’s status and whether she made it off the ship. Blake confirms that she did, much to Tristam’s relief. He then urges Blake to take command of those assembled (as she is the ship’s second officer) until such time they reunite with the rest of the crew. Tristam dismantles the escape pods in case more equipment is needed and prioritises the creation of water reclamation units. A week later, Tristam’s search for other communications on Limbo proves successful, and Blake goes out in search of other members of the crew. | In late 2394, the ''Veritas'' suddenly loses all its deuterium reserves and must be evacuated, prompting the crew to crash onto [[Limbo]]. He looks after young [[Ayden Blake]] until reuniting him with his mother. As Blake breaks down, Tristam consoles her but asks about Roshanara’s status and whether she made it off the ship. Blake confirms that she did, much to Tristam’s relief. He then urges Blake to take command of those assembled (as she is the ship’s second officer) until such time they reunite with the rest of the crew. Tristam dismantles the escape pods in case more equipment is needed and prioritises the creation of water reclamation units. A week later, Tristam’s search for other communications on Limbo proves successful, and Blake goes out in search of other members of the crew. | ||
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As a celebration of the 'new year', Tristam brings a recovering [[Roshanara Rahman]] to a clearing on [[Limbo]]. He shows her the {{USS|Veritas}}, frozen in time in the sky. He believes its hull is intact, a reminder that though they've been stuck on Limbo for over two months, they will eventually return. | As a celebration of the 'new year', Tristam brings a recovering [[Roshanara Rahman]] to a clearing on [[Limbo]]. He shows her the {{USS|Veritas}}, frozen in time in the sky. He believes its hull is intact, a reminder that though they've been stuck on Limbo for over two months, they will eventually return. | ||
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Though hesitant about the project, Tristam works with ''Veritas'' engineers when upgrading the ship to a Warp XV engine. | Though hesitant about the project, Tristam works with ''Veritas'' engineers when upgrading the ship to a Warp XV engine. | ||
While in Main Engineering, Tristam is among the engineers caught in inverted gravity | While in Main Engineering, Tristam is among the engineers caught in inverted gravity and works with [[Buyisiwe Mncedisi]] to fix the problem. They both manage to walk away from the incident with minor injuries, having dropped almost two stories in the open-plan Main Engineering. | ||
Holidaying on Earth with Roshanara and her family, they are visited by [[Jatann]] claiming her to be the long-lost [[Nadira]]. After returning to ''Veritas'', they discuss going to Krios with [[Nic del Vedova]]. Tristam encourages Roshanara to hear out the Kriosians, in spite of the suspicious timing of their appearance but suggests he can come up with a starship-related emergency if necessary. He also expresses dismay when she suggests taking a Ferengi casino ship to travel there. | |||
Much to Tristam's disapproval, ''Veritas'' participates in a race. The ship moves up several positions before entering the pass, but disaster strikes as a subspace funnel opens almost directly in the path of the racers, swalloing Veritas and depositing the ship into a region of subspace the crew refer to as 'The Void.' During the panic, Tristam 'hears' [[Tasnim Shandres]] thoughts as she frets over a missing fifth-grader, but he is unable to alert anyone lest he violates her privacy. Regardless, Tristam informs [[Wil Ukinix]] ''Veritas'' is "dead in the water"—he works with [[Tahlin Alse]] to at least re-power the universal translator. He and Alse get later work on the ship's life-support systems. When he reunites with Blake and Ukinix, they discover the ship's power-drain is being caused by a massive organic being out in space siphoning the ship's electricity. Tristam calls it a "giant light thingy", prompting Blake's disapproval. Roshanara then has Tristam join [[Jansen Orrey]], Ukinix, Alse, and del Vedova on a space-walk to their rival racer ''Star of Corinth'', similarly in distress. He grows quickly tired when Ukinix trades insult with the ''Corinth''s ''technically''-Chief Engineer, Putrika. When they are unable to re-boot the ''Corinth'', Tristam suggests striping the ship for parts. They return to Orrey and del Vedova, stumbling upon the ''Corinth'''s second officer Grellin slipping Orrey's phaser from its holster. As Orrey dispatches Grellin by knocking her out cold, Tristam and Ukinix hit the deck (a mild over-reaction, but nothing unexpected from the Rodulan). He refers to Orrey's actions as "unnecessarily violent", and becomes frustrated with the attitude the crew displays from their rival racers. They are forced to escape from the ship, taking as many stripped parts as they can carry, and the giant light being crushes the vessel. | |||
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Now on shore leave, [[C'lem Phan'ta'Go]] interrupts Tristam's sleep (while on gamma shift) and asks him to join [[Wil Ukinix]] and [[Addison MacKenzie]] on the holodeck. He is greeted by the [[Sky Blake (hologram)|Sky Blake hologram]] and abruptly shuts it off. Shocked by her reactivation by Ukinix's hands, Trisatm explains to the officers she is akin to a computer virus, capable of controlling her own activation and movement. Happy to leave her in a permanent state of deactivation, Tristam and Ukinix argue over her status as a thinking, feeling life-form. MacKenzie decides to use the program's biometric information as a base to reconstruct the real [[Sky Blake]]'s spine. | |||
Finally packing for their trip to Krios Prime, [[Aron Kells]] arrives on ''Veritas'' to inform [[Roshanara Rahman]] about [[Nic del Vedova]]'s injury. A hesitant Kells discusses del Vedova's disability, Roshanara asks him to forward their well-wishes. The conversation changes to the issue of "[[Nadira]]" and [[Jatann]], and Roshanara asks Kells to join them on their trip. They depart ''Veritas'', leaving the ship under the command of LtCmdr [[Jansen Orrey]]. | |||
Tristam and Roshanara join Orrey and [[Raissa Moonsong]] for dinner in the latters quarters. Orrey and Moonsong announce their intention to marry and ask Roshanara to officiate. | |||
Though a few months behind schedule, Tristam finally activates the [[Shoals]] 3G network in late September as ''Veritas'' enjoys shore leave on [[Kidman I]]. He jokes to Ukinix and [[Charlena Vanlith]] that his work should earn him a promotion—but his luck would mean it only comes with being assgiend "on the opposite side of the galaxy to work on yet another stationary outpost with similar communications issues." The next day while still in bed, Roshanara muses she's getting old, and Tristam points out she's barely a quarter-way through her life-span. He uses the rest of shore leave to catch up his on sleep debt, but eventually celebrates the achievement with her. | |||
When the crew sends down Vanlith's robotic dog [[BAXTER]] to the SS ''Duncan Dunbar'', Tristam becomes concerned for Vanlith's command capability. As she is Assistant Chief Engineer, she is the ranking officer in Main Engineering. Tristam asks her to pull herself together, and that engineers "cannot afford to assume; we troubleshoot. Find the problem, fix the problem, get back online." Vanlith doesn't respond favourably to his advice. | |||
Later, with BAXTER and ''Veritas'' safe, Tristam goes to Roshanara with his concerns about Vanlith. He admits to her he is hesitant about 'dobbing' on Vanlith to Roshanara (going over Chief Engineer Ukinix's head), and that she is young and allowed to make mistakes—but he is also worried about her in a command position. Roshanara alleviates his concerns and thanks him for bringing them to her. Ukinix approaches Tristam about the issue afterwards, though the two end up in a minor misunderstanding regarding Ukinix's intended conversation with him. | |||
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Tristam attempts to locate Ensign [[Beylanesh Semu]] for an update on a suspected black market communicator known as a hexagon device. When he learns she is no longer aboard ''Veritas'', he beams down to [[Donova IV]] to find her... only to discover her remains scattered in fertilizer on a farm. He immediately notifies [[Roshanara Rahman]], who brings [[Kelrod]] and [[Tiria Hamasaki]] to investigate the incident. After significant scans, it's determined Semu was not in fact a real Starfleet officer at all, but a [[Chameloid]] posing as one to gain access to the hexagon device. | |||
In early April, Tristam is offered a command position of a station retrofit project that comes with a promotion to Commander. He discusses the idea with Roshanara, hesitant to take a position far from ''Veritas'' due to their previous attempts at a long-distance relationship. Roshanara tells him to take the assignment, and Tristam is officially reassigned to [[Copernicus Station]], promoted to the rank of Commander on stardate 239804.10. | |||
Tristam is working around the clock to prepare Copernicus Station when he is contacted by ''Veritas'' in the middle of his night, requiring his assistance. [[Wil Ukinix]] used the [[MST project]] to assist with rescuing a group of miners trapped in the collapsed Russel River Mine, but the experimental technology is putting significant strain on ''Veritas''. Due to the fluctuating quality of the 3G network, he is only able to maintain stable communication with ''Veritas'' for an hour—during which he works with [[Angeline Loupaz]] on a jury-rigged plan to power the MST without shorting the ship's EPS grid. The pair are successful, and ''Veritas''' engineers immediately put it to work. | |||
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