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==Mission Nineteen: [[The Third Law]]==

While continuing on their mission to explore [[Sector 6309]], the crew of the  Rosenante discovered a rogue planet, which they later discovered was named [[Solyon]]. 

Excited about the possible history-making discovery, Captain Salid ordered three teams down to conduct scientific, geological and biological exploration of the unusual planetary body.

While the away teams were on the planet's surface, Salid ordered the Stellar cartography department to attempt to project Solyon's course as well as extrapolate it's path of travel prior to discovery.

Within hours, it was determined that the [[Rogue Planet]] would be passing through a [[Binary stars|binary star system]] which contained an inhabited planet, known as [[Asrai Prime]]. With the planet's inhabitants, the [[Asrai]], only at a pre-industrial level of technology, a bit of a moral issue arose. Technically, if the Asrai were unaware of other species or if they had not developed any technology akin to warp drive, then they would, under the auspices of the [[Prime Directive]] be left to their extinction.

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To further complicate things somewhat, the survey teams returned to the ship with evidence that Solyon had at one point been [[terraforming|terraformed]]. This caused Captain salid to order two separate missions to be undertaken. The first would travel to Asrai Prime to see if there was any evidence that would make the Asrai exempt to the conditions of the Prime Directive. The second would remain on the rogue planet in an attempt to find a means to deviate or destroy the rogue world if a means could not be found to alter it's course.

Due to the gravity of the situation, Captain Salid led the away team to Asrai Prime while [[T'Larah Sullivan]] led the mission on the rogue planet.

On Asrai Prime the mission began to develop in a turbulent and difficult atmosphere. The inhabitants communicated as much with body postures and gestures as they did with words. because of this, the Universal translator couldn't assist them with this type of communication.

[[File:Asrai Prime.jpg|thumb|left|500px|Asrai Prime]]

A misunderstanding saw Salid and Fraiser imprisoned, but in so doing, it allowed the remaining members of the away team to uncover a group of outcasts that seemed to possess advanced technology. The situation quickly became clear. The leadership of the planet had created an enforced reversion in technology while maintaining their own technological advantage to make them the rulers of the world.

This was complicated when the Survey teams from the rosenante on the Rogue planets discovered that the planet was actually an ancient colony ship that had narrowly escaped the destruction of their home world. They were headed for Asrai Prime, the last remaining colony of their ancient civilization. 

However the massive ship was badly damaged and required extensive repairs to allow it to adjust it's mass and avoid disrupting the delicate balance of Asrai Prime.  With the engineering teams working hard on that problem, Salid and Fraiser faced execution.

However, with the discovery of the outcasts and the situation clearly no longer constrained by the Prime Directive, [[Ben Soma]] led a rescue operation and they successfully rescued Fraiser and Salid.

meanwhile Salid and Fraiser had learned of an ancient planetary defense weapon once designed to destroy possible asteroid strikes, that was being prepared to destroy the Rogue Planet. As it was now apparent that the leader of the Asrai was aware that Solyon was actually a colony ship, and with the new information given to Salid, it was decided to prevent the destruction of the colony ship.

In a last-ditch effort, Salid and his away team prevented the destruction of the colony ship and helped re-establish the technological society that had been stripped from the Asrai. the Diplomatic Corps opened an embassy on Asrai prime to help the new Asrai leadership re-integrate the long-neglected masses of the planet, in effect preventing the extinction of the Asrai people.