Editing The Third Law (section)

==Alpha Site==
[[File:Volcanic vent.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A volcanic vent on the Rogue Planet]]

Alpha team determined a survey site that offered a glimpse at the potential volcanism and the proliferation of life on the [[Rogue Planet]]. The site was roughly a 20-kilometer area dominated by large ash spewing volcanic plumes. Around these plumes the temperature was more tolerable than in other locations, and a variety of life forms had developed.

The life forms included bacteria, protozoas, nematodes, insect-like analogs, algae analogs, crustaceans, and aerial jellyfish analogs. All of these life forms flourished within a few hundred meters of the smoke plumes and seemed bound to the immediate area as some of them did not seem well adapted for the colder climes that dominated the remainder of the world.

Ensign Spenser took several samples of the small semi-liquid pools in the area, as well as some of the insects and algae. While this was being undertaken, Maddox had reprogrammed some of the specialist nanites that he had brought and decided to deploy them into one of the Volcanic vents.

The plumes proved to be very carbon rich, and filled with basic amino acid chains.There were high concentrations of methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and o-zone. This was unusual because Ozone wasn't normally found in volcanic venting. in addition there was very little few sulfates and nitrates other than nitric oxides present in the plume's exhaust. Spenser theorized that there was a lightning storm taking place underground.

Maddox's nanites were able to collect data gave gave a strong indication that an artificial electrical discharge was ongoing deep below ground and that was in fact part of a [[Terraforming]] effort on the rogue planet.

The discovery by [[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Eian O'Neill]] of an unidentified [[humanoid]] bone, immediately opened questions of the possibility of current or prior inhabitation by a sentient species. With the aid of [[Rank|Ensign]] [[Jessica Signos]] they secured the specimen and transported it back to the Medical Labs aboard the [[USS Rosenante]].