The First Colony (Veritas)

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Veritas Mission History
Year 1 (2393-2394)
The Forgotten Land · Rag and Bone · Aftershock · The Mother Road
Year 2 (2395)
The Irresistible Prize · Kallo Ver & The Hunt for the Lost Romulan Treasure Fleet · The Omega Paradox · Hope Lost · Flashpoint
Year 3 (2396)
Limbo · Dawn · Home · Sentinel · Play the Part · The First Colony · Tour de Ketar V · Charybdis · Lost and Found
Year 4 (2397)
E Pluribus Unum · Nadira · Free Flight · Pirates of the Quantum Realms · Forever and Always · Heartbeat · Home Is Where the Heart Is · Wandering Star
Year 5 (2398)
Here Kitty Kitty · Reunion · Chasing Shadows · Endeavour · Loopy · Fissure
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The First Colony

• Stardate 239606

Veritas investigates the murder of a Starfleet officer on Ketar V, where tensions have been rising between the growing Romulan refugee population and the original Federation settlers of the colony.

Log Entries

Captain Roshanara Rahman Captain's Log, Stardate 239606.13 After departing Cait, we have returned to the Shoals and are on the Mother Road heading to Meridian, with a scheduled stop before then at Geelong Outpost. The crew seems well-rested and eager to resume their duties, and after my own... excursion with Lieutenant Teller and Commander Kinan, I'm quite ready to have a return to normalcy.

Captain Roshanara Rahman Captain's Log, Supplemental We've entered orbit of Ketar V to begin our investigation into the death of Lieutenant Commander Armin Illanos. Commander Illanos was assigned as the Starfleet liaison to one of the civilian shipyards on the planet that has a contract with Starfleet. CCMS has sent us their preliminary reports, but as this homicide case involves a Starfleet officer, the Starfleet Criminal Investigative Service has tasked us with completing the investigation. I've forwarded the initial reports to the senior staff, and I've gone down to the surface along with Commander Delano, Dr. MacKenzie, Lieutenant G'var, and Lt. Commander Moonsong to meet with Inspector Marshal Henning Hext.

Captain Roshanara Rahman Captain's Log, stardate 239606.19 Inspector Marshal Hext was able to supplement the preliminary reports we'd reviewed earlier with a list of "persons of interest." He stressed these were not all necessarily suspects in the case--at least not without more evidence--but that they held the most promise in determining *what* exactly happened. First, there is the man the marshals had detained for questioning: Lukaik, a Romulan who works at the Livernois Shipyards. Evidently, "Lukaik" is just the name he used to gain employment on Ketar. From what the marshals uncovered, he's actually Reya-Laialara and a former member of Lenik’s pirate-turned-terrorist group. Given the current political situation in the Shoals and Lenik's own recent death, there are many in the region who would have no qualms about putting one of the madman's associates on trial for their horrific crimes. Next, there is Raoul Livernois, owner of the Livernois Shipyards. The shipyards currently hold a contract with Starfleet that the victim Lt. Cmdr. Armin Illanos had been overseeing. From both the victim and Ensign Ch'chileth's duty reports, Mr. Livernois and Commander Illanos' working relationship had turned sour over the past few months. In addition to Mr. Livernois, Commander Illanos worked frequently with the owner's wife Cassandra Livernois, who works as the records keeper at the shipyards. Next, there is the yard supervisor, Roman Bojchuk. As the man who sees day-to-day operations, he too worked frequently with the victim in seeing to the Starfleet contract. Finally, two other workers were assigned to the section where Lukaik worked: Rama Suttirat and Arral. Like Lukaik, Arral is a Romulan refugee who was hired based on Starfleet's requirements that any shipyard taking on the contract provide employment to the refugees that the Federation Council and Starfleet had helped resettle in the wake of the Hobus supernova that had destroyed the Romulan and Reman homeworlds. Either of them might be able to provide more information about Lukaik or the general conditions at the shipyards. I feel fortunate to have Commander Delano by my side during this case. His connection to the Reya-Laialara could prove invaluable. Perhaps the community knows something more that could assist us. I've also sent a letter to Lt. Commander Sky Blake requesting her return to Veritas from her field assignment as a ranger. I could use her astute counsel and experience, but I don't expect a response for at least a few days. In the mean time, this mission will be an opportunity to have our junior officers complete some much needed cross-training experience in other departments and fields. A career in Starfleet frequently means being called to perform in areas outside of one's comfort or expertise. Thus, the crew have been assigned to the following teams: Interview Raoul Livernois, owner of the Livernois Shipyards Captain Roshanara Rahman, team leader Commander Kelrod Lt.JG Wil Ukinix Interview Cassandra Livernois, shipyards records keeper and wife of Raoul Livernois Lt. Cmdr. Raissa Moonsong, team leader Deputy Marshal Lucius Calbert, assisting from Colonial Coalition Marshals Service (CCMS) Ensign Andy Monroe Ensign Ghant Xerix Interview shipyard workers: Roman Bojchuk (yard supervisor), Rama Suttirat, and Arral Counselor Jansen Orrey, team leader Lt. G'var Ensign Charlena Vanlith Reconstruct the crime scene at Ketar medical center's holochamber Commander Evan Delano, team leader Inspector Marshal Henning Hext, assisting as CCMS Liaison Lt. Geoffrey Teller Ensign Nabihah El Sayid Examine the victim's body and review morgue findings Dr. Niccolò del Vedova, team leader Dr. Addison MacKenzie It feels like we've just opened a puzzle and laid out all the pieces. Now, we just need to see where they all fit.