Editing Into the Darkness, Go I (section)

===The Distress Signal===


While enroute to the [[Ikev Sector]] the [[USS Rosenante]] intercepted a distress communication from the Bardon Alpha Mining Facility. Captain Salid ordered an intercept course set and the Rosenante raced to respond to the signal. The signal itself was standard except for it's contents.  The signal claimed that they facility was under attack by a Federation starship, which was identified as the Rosenante. This was not possible as the Rosenante was several hours away when the attack took place.

When the ship arrived at the Bardon Alpha system, they detected no ships and received no replies to their hails.

Wishing to get to the bottom of the signals claim and to search for survivors, [[Rank|Captain]] Salid ordered an away team to the planet's surface to investigate.

The away team consisted of:

*[[Rank|Commander]] [[Jennifer Caskie]]
*[[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Jon Nayati]]
*[[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Thomas Jackson]]
*[[Rank|Ensign]] [[V'Shera]]
*[[Rank|Ensign]] [[Mitena Rixx]]
*[[Rank|Ensign]] [[Robert Smith]]
*[[Rank|Ensign]] [[Sam Lopez]]
*[[Rank|Ensign]] [[M'Epak]]
*[[Rank|Ensign]] [[Kimiko Ichijo]]
*[[Rank|Ensign]] [[Mike Rosenbauer]]

The away team beamed into the facility and immedately broke into two teams.  The first two teams began searching the area for survivors, these teams were comprised of Doctors Lopez and Ichijo as well as elements of the security team. The teams did not find any survivors on their assigned search areas but Doctor Ichijo did find a pair of bodies dressed in unusual uniforms, These two corpses were beamed back to the Rosenante for analysis. They were later discovered to belong to the two science officers from the [[ISS Rosenante]]. They had been executed by under orders from the Mirror Universe [[Jennifer Caskie]] once they had located the refined Boronite.

The second away team consisted of the operations and Engineering team. This group consisted of Lieutenant Jackson and ensigns Rixx and Smith. The team's orders were to recover tha facility's sensor logs for study. Because of the extent of the damage, this team was forced to work there way deeper into the facility until they reached the computer core. once there, they gained access to the core and began copying the data for transfer back to the ship.

The third team consisted of Commander Caskie, Lieutenant Nayati and Ensign Rosenbauer. They made thir way to the Administration center of the facility in the hiopes of accessing the facilities shipping manifests and security tapes. While there, they encountered the seriously wounded John Dallas. Dallas injured Rosenbauer, believing him to the be the same man who had assaulted him earlier.  in fact that person had been the [[Mirror Universe]] version of the same man. Dallas was subdued and beamed to the Rosenante for medical treatment.

Caskie and Nayati then uncovered the production manifests and the security logs for the facility. The former showed that the facility had been refining boronite to an exceptionally refined state while the latter uncovered a video image showing Rosenbauer, Caskie and Wyler complacent in the death of the administrator and the attack on the facility.

This information coupled with the mysterious appearance of a second Rosenante class starship, which could only have been built in secret, further convinced Captain Salid that there was indeed a high-level conspiracy ongoing.