The Mother Road (Veritas)
| USS Veritas | ||
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| Veritas Mission History |
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| 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 Mother Road
- Stardate 239410 to 239411
As two Veritas teams prepare for a friendly competition to test their new retrofitted shuttles on the proving grounds of the Mother Road, an investigation begins on a derelict way station when stores of the addictive narcotic felicium are found hidden behind its bulkheads.
Setting
- The Mother Road: A historic route through the Shoals mapped out at the turn of the 24th century to make travel through the region safer. Unlike the rest of the Shoals where warp travel is restricted to a maximum of warp 5, ships traveling along the Mother Road are able to achieve warp speeds up to factor 6, effectively cutting travel times in half.
- Outpost 3: Also known as Coalition Outpost Loa, Outpost 3 is a small survey station approximately seven lightyears away from Antor II. No larger than a Saber class vessel, Outpost 3 was attacked by a band of Klingon pirates in mid-2394, leaving the station practically destroyed and only one survivor. The Starfleet Corps of Engineers began to commit officers and resources to rebuild the station, with the assistance of civilian construction workers from Ketar V. Led by Lt. Cmdr. Tristam Core, its scientific focus shifted to circumventing the area's tetryon fields in hopes of improving long-range communications.
Plot Elements
- Felicium: A highly addictive narcotic originally developed as a vaccine and produced on the planet Brekka. Introduced to the Federation in 2364, the underground spread of felicium into the Shoals began in earnest only in the last several years once Klingon drug cartels and the Orion Syndicate became involved in the trade of the drug.
Mission Summary
The USS Veritas departed the capital of the Colonial Coalition to assist in the repair of a badly damaged Shoals outpost, Outpost 3. Meanwhile, the starship’s crew also poured resources into an experimental shuttle refit project. The project was centered on the development of modular attachments for two of the Veritas’ type-10 shuttlepods. If successful, the redesigns ships would have access to a variety of interchangeable loadouts that would allow for extreme versatility when dealing with the region’s unique physical properties and challenging political situations.
While conducting space worthiness trials in the shuttle modification project, the crew of the Veritas happened upon the wreck of an old prospector vessel adrift amidst a field of strong electrostatic radiation. The derelict was an ancient Claim Jumper class prospector vessel, the S.S. Rockhound, discovered in a region of the Shoals near the Mother Road. While the Veritas’ crew continued to investigate how much the radiation field had to do with the Rockhound’s loss, they were able to confirm that there were no survivors among the prospector’s crew. Suspicions are that the Orion syndicate may be involved.