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(Stardate 2414.11.23) With the [[USS Starfire]] recalled to [[Starbase 989]] for problems with the last series of Defiant-class ships build at that shipyard, and with the tragic faith of the [[USS Dakota]] crew during a mission on Anohesia, | (Stardate 2414.11.23) With the [[USS Starfire]] recalled to [[Starbase 989]] for problems with the last series of Defiant-class ships build at that shipyard, and with the tragic faith of the [[USS Dakota]] crew during a mission on Anohesia, the two crew are merged under the command of Captain [[Syuvik]]. With two crews and one ship, two group identity exist that need to be broken into a single crew. The USS Dakota has lost many senior officers during the last mission, but there are still more than 400 crew members and officers healthy and alive. The small crew complement of the [[USS Starfire]] can't compare in numbers, but they do compare in quality with all the senior officers alive. [[Syuvik]] is therefore forced to name most of the senior officers from the [[USS Starfire]] to senior positions on the ship he has renamed the [[USS Soval]]. | ||
Hoping to use their recent experience as a constructive situation, [[Commodore Larsson]], the new commander of [[Starbase 989]] and admiral in command of the task force which the [[USS Soval]] is part, request the ship service for a mission on [[Quezal]], where the [[Quezalth]] just lived a tragedy, going from millions to only a few hundred thousands after an explosion ravaged the entire planet. | Hoping to use their recent experience as a constructive situation, [[Commodore Larsson]], the new commander of [[Starbase 989]] and admiral in command of the task force which the [[USS Soval]] is part, request the ship service for a mission on [[Quezal]], where the [[Quezalth]] just lived a tragedy, going from millions to only a few hundred thousands after an explosion ravaged the entire planet. | ||
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| align="left" style="font-size: 90%; background:black" colspan=3|'' | | align="left" style="font-size: 90%; background:black" colspan=3|'''The USS Soval is given the mission to lead an undercover investigation of the explosion that led to the almost annihilation of the Quezalth people. While they expect to find a tragedy caused by lack of proper maintenance, some people prefer to point the finger at Starfleet. However, as the investigation goes on, what they discover is even more surprising. The investigators discover their own DNA trace at the site of the explosion. As they realize they have been framed (but by whom?), Starfleet security is already there to arrest them. With no way to prove their innocence, they panic and flee, with Starfleet in pursuit. But will they find a way to prove their innocence before it is too late?"" | ||
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Arriving in orbit of the planet, the senior staff is invited to visit the installation within the Medical Station in orbit of Quezal. They experience first hand the suffering and despair of the Quezalth survivors | Arriving in orbit of the planet, the senior staff is invited to visit the installation within the Medical Station in orbit of Quezal. They experience first hand the suffering and despair of the Quezalth survivors. | ||
While their CO, Captain [[Syuvik]] is in a briefing with the admiralty, the First Officer, Commander [[Steven Wade Matrix]] organize a senior staff meeting to explain what is going to be done on the surface during the first few days. | While their CO, Captain [[Syuvik]] is in a briefing with the admiralty, the First Officer, Commander [[Steven Wade Matrix]] organize a senior staff meeting to explain what is going to be done on the surface during the first few days. | ||
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[[File:space_rift.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Spacetime anomaly]] | [[File:space_rift.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Spacetime anomaly]] | ||
As the crew members watch, powerless, the ship get engulfed in what could be their end, the ship is violently shaken. Inertial dampeners are offline and the crews projected on the floor. As they try to stand up, alarms are ringing. In engineering, it suddenly become a crisis. Structural integrity is weakening, and the warpcore is about to overload and it won't jettison. There is no time left to react. | As the crew members watch, powerless, the ship get engulfed in what could be their end, the ship is violently shaken. Inertial dampeners are offline and the crews projected on the floor. As they try to stand up, alarms are ringing. In engineering, it suddenly become a crisis. Structural integrity is weakening, and the warpcore is about to overload and it won't jettison. There is no time left to react. With the engineers already preparing for their final seconds, they heard and feel the explosion, but not the one they expected. As they are still alive and very what happened, they realize an explosion caused a rupture in one of the main power conduits, causing the plasmas to vent out which was just enough to prevent a complete overload. Many circuits are fried and engineering is a mess, but at least they are alive...miraculously. | ||
Meanwhile, on the bridge, the science staff discover the USS Soval has travelled back in times, a little more than 6 months. They are only a few days before the actual | Meanwhile, on the bridge, the science staff discover the USS Soval has travelled back in times, a little more than 6 months. They are only a few days before the actual Quezalth explosion. A coincidence or faith? But as they try to replace everything in perspective of this new event, the anomally has more effect than anticipated. The captain and many other crew members have disappeared, leaving the crew to wonder what happened. | ||
With their bodies having taken their strole of fear, stress and exhaustion, the damage to the ship, the missing crew members and the travel back in time make for a hell of a day. In a context of low crew moral, taking over command, Commander Matrix order the ship to leave the anomally and start preparing plan to find and rescue their crew members. | With their bodies having taken their strole of fear, stress and exhaustion, the damage to the ship, the missing crew members and the travel back in time make for a hell of a day. In a context of low crew moral, taking over command, Commander Matrix order the ship to leave the anomally and start preparing plan to find and rescue their crew members. | ||
Meanwhile, Capitain Syuvik found himself in the future, talking to someone declaring himself to be a Temporal Agent. He explains the USS Soval is caught in a Temporal Crossroad. | Meanwhile, Capitain Syuvik found himself in the future, talking to someone declaring himself to be a Temporal Agent. He explains the USS Soval is caught in a Temporal Crossroad, a term from the 30th century. There are in a point in time and space where many possible realities intersects. Like a river about to flood out of its river bed, they are already altering the future and there is simply no way to prevent it. Each intervention has undesired effects and collateral damages that are too great to keep that way. As the Temporal commission had been unable to control and prevent any variation to the timeline without intervening, they have come to accept that only a direct approach of someone with his faith in his hands can perhaps see clarity where none of them had and help restore the timeline. This is why they have brought Captain Syuvik to their observatory to inform him of the situation. But all they told him is they are in a temporal crossroad and every decision they are going to make could have huge impact on the future. But with no knowledge of the future and what is the right actions or the right chains of events, Syuvik is returned back to the USS Soval with mostly only question and no answer...and learning he had been gone for days. | ||
With the Captain back, a senior staff meeting is held where the situation is explained. However, timetravelling being so rare, no crewmember has any knowledge of what must be done or what can happen. Are they in a temporal loop? What is the right chains of events... they are left in the dark with the burden of knowing they could change everything (for the better or the worst?). The only knowledge they have is the fact in their own timeline, they had found their own bodies at the site of the explosion, suggesting that in the right chains of events, they are going to die in the vicinity of a reactor that exploded and killed millions of Quezalth. But the real question is, what where they doing there? They have no idea, but it would suggest they were meant to be in the past and they will have to play a role on Quezalth. | |||
While they prepare to return to Quezalth, Syuvik ordered the USS Soval back in the vicinity of the anomaly. They needed to better understand the anomaly, what could have caused the disappearance of their crew members and, hopefully, find their missings crew members. But as they returns, surprise is once more at the rendez-vous. This time, new crew members appears on the ship, including the USS Dakota previous Chief Engineer and First Officer who died in the USS Dakota last missions. Other crew members such as Ensign Yeates have lost all memories of the event between their time on Quezalth and now. As they come to realize, the Temporal Agent didn't say everything. The Crossroad is not just about the possibility to change the future. But what is it exactly? |