Dead or Alive

Color II

After the successful first command mission of Captain Calvin Capps, it was at the discretion of Starfleet that the crew of the USS Boudicca be assigned a mission that would prove less involved than previous assignments. The crew was tasked with inspecting Color II, a planet recently accepted into the United Federation of Planets. The crew was to make sure that the planet adhered to all aspects of the Federation Charter. The mission seemed to be a degree less stressful than dealing with pirates and was a welcomed mission to the crew.

A Deafening Silence

The inhabitants of Color II

Upon arrival at Color II the crew received no response to their attempts to hail the planet. It almost seemed as if the entire population had abandoned the planet's surface. However, that proved to be false, when initial scans indicated that the planet's population had been greatly reduced in comparison to information transmitted only days prior. For a better grasps of the situation Captain Calvin Capps ordered three away teams down to find out what had happened to the inhabitants of Color II.

The first team to beam down comprised of security officers to secure the landing site before the other departments beamed down. Once everyone was present Captain Capps ordered a radial scan of the surrounding area and in pairs everyone moved out in a dedicated cardinal direction. Lieutenant Mia Saryn and Lieutenant Ryko Skylynx traveled north with the Captain, Lieutenant Detron Trei and Ensign Elizabeth Caspian traveled west, and Lieutenant Henry Jacobs and Ensign Stephan Getman were ordered to the east. This left lieutenant Deynyk Rinn to explore the area immediately surrounding the transport site.

To the north the Captain and his team entered an abandoned store only to find dismembered bodies in a blood - soaked room prompting them to return back to the rendezvous point. Whatever had taken place on the planet had decidedly been very violent in nature.

The mysterious Beast of Color II

While traveling to the west Dr. Caspian underwent a mental attack from an unknown assailant. This required Trei to assist her back to the transport site. The full force of the attack was very debilitating, and only later would the away team realize that this was their first encounter with the creature known as the Beast.

Meanwhile, while exploring what seemed to be the surface storage unit for the power harvested from the planet's core, byt the Geothermal power planet deep beneath the city's surface, Jacobs was assaulted and temporarily captured by two local inhabitants. He was rescued within minutes by Getman and a small security detail.

As they all headed back to their initial transport point, members of the away team became aware of a mob of shambling inhabitants headed their direction. Upon inspection, from a distance, it quickly became obvious that many of the inhabitants of Color II had somehow become overcome and were now in a zombified state. The horde of the zombies chased the away team into the power warehouse from which Getman had just rescued Jacobs from his captors.

Rinn, in the subterranean tunnels had also encountered a similar mob of Zombies and had retreated back to the surface. unable to link up with the rest of the away team, he was forced to seek shelter in a nearby deli.

The location chosen by the main body of the away team proved a difficult one. The building seemed to be magnetically shielded to such a high degree that the latent fields significantly interfered with the away teams communicators. While Getman, Skylynx and the security detail held the door to the building against zombie attack, Capps led the remainder of his away team upwards to the upper floor. The team them proceeded to cut a hole into the roof to better facilitate communication with the USS Boudicca.

Across the street, Rinn had made spotty contact with the captain, and as a result he had determined that a distraction needed to be made in an attempt to draw off some of the attacking zombies. He jury-rigged an explosive device in the deli and headed for the street.

Big Bada-Boom!

The deli explosion

The resultant explosion did, indeed catch the attention of the Zombie horde, which abandoned their efforts to get at the away team fortified within the building, and instead began chasing Rinn.

The respite was short lived, however, when a storage mysterious beast appeared and assaulted the members of the away team with some sort of Telepathic attack. This did not prevent the away team's escape, though as Nickolas Romanoff, managed to have the majority of the away team beamed off the planet.

Those stuck in the lower level of the building were not able to be retrieved and as a result took to a series of underground tunnels associated with the Geothermal tap power plant that powered the city. They collapsed the main tunnel behind them, preventing any immediate pursuit by the Zombie hordes.

First Contact

Aboard the Boudicca, finally cleared by sickbay of potential contagions, Detron Trei made his way to the holodeck, where he activated the Telepathic Interface Device and attempted to track the beast that the away team had glimpsed on the surface of the planet. There was an attack, but the device prevented any real injury to either party. It was now confirmed however that the Beast was, in fact telepathic.

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