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The crew of the [[USS Pacifica]] help with the colonising of the [[Typhon System]].   
The crew of the [[USS Pacifica]] help with the colonising of the [[Typhon System]].   
== Summary ==  
== Summary ==  
Whilst the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] made her way from the [[Archerian System]] to the [[Typhon System]] to help with the colonising efforts [[James Harris|Lieutenant James Harris]] detected some unusual readings emanating from the [[Aroshi System]]. Realising that he could not delay the delivery of supplies to the [[Typhon System]] by another day [[Daniel Butterworth|Commodore Daniel Butterworth]] decided against tracking down the origin of the signal, but allowed [[James Harris|Lieutenant James Harris]], [[L’Verrem|Lieutenant Junior Grade L’Verrem and [[Owen Banks|Ensign Owen Banks]] to take the [[USS Columbia]] and trace the signal. Concerned for the away team’s safety whilst they were away from the ship [[Marcus Cesarian|Lieutenant Junior Grade Marcus Cesarian]] monitored their progress from engineering whilst he also prepared for the arrival at Typhon. Before the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] moved out of communications range with the runabout [[Marcus Cesarian|Ceasarian]] released a subspace probe to allow any communications to cover the vast distance between them.  
The [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] finally arrived in the [[Typhon System]] after an extensive delay to find the terra-forming and colonisation efforts of the two planets in the system to be in full swing. After beaming down the supplies to the planet [[Buzz Polaris|Commander Buzz Polaris]] led a team consisting of [[Connie Butterworth|Doctor Connie Morgan]], [[Francine Hart|Lieutenant Francine Hart and [[Marcus Cesarian|Lieutenant Junior Grade Marcus Cesarian down to the surface along with an Engineering detail to assist in the setting up of the colony’s new medical facility and the atmospheric generators. Meanwhile back on the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] the [[USS Columbia]] returned to the ship following it's mission to the [[Aroshi System]] and [[Daniel Butterworth|Commodore Daniel Butterworth]] welcomed 3 new crewmembers onto the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]]. After meeting the new crew [[Daniel Butterworth|Butterworth]] debriefed the away team from the [[USS Columbia|Columbia]] and[[James Harris|Lieutenant James Harris]]and [[Owen Banks|Ensign Owen Banks]] drew up some plans to throw a party to welcome the ship's newest members aboard.


After receiving approval from [[Daniel Butterworth|Commodore Butterworth]] the two officers decided to hold a traditional luau, which would give the crew the chance to dress up and enjoy themselves after a busy couple of weeks. Final arrangements were made and the party was planned for the upcoming evening, the crew responded enthusiastically to the luau by getting into the full spirit of things by dressing up for the occasion. The luau was a great success was everybody having a good time especially with the limbo later in the evening, while the luau proceeded through the night some of the crew couldn't get their minds off of the work that lay ahead of them with the mission at hand. Deciding to leave early [[James Harris|Harris]] and [[Marcus Cesarian|Cesarian]] proceeded to Main Engineering to carry out some scans. The two discovered an ancient structure on the surface that had been missed by the earlier scans done by Starfleet before the planet was chosen for colonisation. Bboth officers agreed that it needed to be looked at with further detail but both officers chose to leave it for the morning as it was getting late.


During their journey towards the [[Aroshi System]] the three officers tried to find out as much as they could, however it seemed few ships every traversed that area of space and their scanners revealed very little. It wasn’t until they entered the system that they discovered the origin of the signal was Aroshi III, unfortunately scanning from orbit proved useless as something was throwing off the scanners and making it appear as if the signal was coming from every point on the planet’s surface at once. Deciding that the search would have to continue on foot [[L’Verrem]] selected a suitable beam down point that put them between the desert and the jungle, both hard territories but both potential locations of the signal. The team were cautious upon arrival as they had already agreed that this system was the perfect place to hide, it had no tactical or commercial use and was totally uninhabited. With the [[USS Columbia|Columbia]] remaining in orbit in case the team needed an emergency beam out the three officers headed down to the surface of Aroshi III. Since they had no more luck pinpointing the source of the signal when they arrived it was decided to use the three officer’s tricorders along with the [[USS Columbia|Columbia’s]] sensors from orbit in order to detect the direction of the signal by each walking almost out of eye contact with each other and then initiating their scans. It was possible to deduce the most positive direction to move in based upon the strength of the signal.  
With the start of the new day [[James Harris|Lieutenant Harris]] presented his findings to [[Daniel Butterworth|Commodore Butterworth]] and suggested that the ruins be further investigated. With the colonisation effort already behind schedule [[Daniel Butterworth|Butterworth]] was reluctant to agree to the investigation, however he couldn't over look the possibility of a new discovery so he gave [[James Harris|Lieutenant Harris]] the go ahead to commence with the investigation. With assistance from [[Marcus Cesarian|Cesarian]], [[Owen Banks|Banks]] and the new recruits of [[Robert Johansen]] and Yamaguchi they were able to complete the task and confirm that there was indeed an ancient structure on the surface. While being an amazing discovery the ancient structure brought a standstill to the terra-forming efforts, as work could not proceed because of the location of the building. With no other option available to him [[Daniel Butterworth|Butterworth]] informed Starfleet of their discovery, after discussing the options Starfleet decided to suspend the whole operation and move the colonists to the neighbouring planet, where they would start again. With their task brought to a quick end the crew of the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] prepared for departure as they were assigned to replace the [[USS Honolulu]] on it's patrol of the neutral zone with Starfleet deciding to assign a science ship to carry out further investigations of the ruins.
 
 
Once their scans were complete [[James Harris|Harris]], [[L’Verrem]] and [[Owen Banks]] set off into the jungle. After about ten to fifteen minutes of walking the signal suddenly cut out and [[James Harris|Harris]] tried desperately to get it back. [[L’Verrem]] suggested backtracking their steps and they soon located the signal however they also discovered that there were many dampening field generators buried beneath the ground cutting off the signal from specific areas. They considered the possibility that somebody or something had wanted them to end up in that exact location and this suspicion was proven correct within seconds as they all ended up hanging from a tree in a large net trapped. From out of nowhere a stranger appeared fortunately they had not been forgotten [[Marcus Cesarian|Cesarian]] was still monitoring their progress from the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] and had realised that they were late with their last report.
 
 
It appeared that the stranger was simply trying to sell the away team armaments and soon introduced himself as the representative of the Aroshi weapons development facility, before he introduced himself however he rendered the team’s weapons inoperable. He then went on to explain after several angry questions from the officers that the signal they had traced was sent out by the facility to lure customers to the planet. The dampening field that then rendered their tricorders useless earlier on was a demonstration of one of the facilities products which the team soon discovered was vast indeed. The cheerful salesman explained that they had not long ago supplied a race of people with large shipments of their finest weapons that race was the Vorta shocked by this revelation the team were lost for words and unknown to them the communications from [[Marcus Cesarian|Cesarian]] to the runabout were being intentionally blocked the whole time cutting them off from the others onboard the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]]. It seemed the salesman would not let them leave without making a sale the salesman was eager to demonstrate the facility’s newest creation orbital gravitic mines, much like those released by Klingon Birds of Prey. However in doing so the runabout would be destroyed and so [[James Harris|Harris]] quickly thought of a better idea. He requested to see a demonstration of a larger weapon something capable of large geographical destruction. He intended to destroy the facility itself with their own weapons although [[L’Verrem|L’Verrem]] did not understand the plan [[Owen Banks|Banks]] went along with it and helped persuade the not too smart salesman to allow them to return to the runabout to view the capabilities of the weapon from orbit. [[James Harris|Harris]] had deduced that the weapon would be tested upon the planet itself  a loophole within the automated salesman’s programming it seemed determined to wipe out the facility and blinded by his desire to get back at them for helping the Dominion Harris didn’t stop to think about the possibility that the facility was manned. [[l’Verrem]] and [[Owen Banks|Banks]] then discussed the whole situation through from the beginning calming [[James Harris|Lieutenant Harris]] and highlighting the various options they had. It seemed that none of them were in the position to make the call, they couldn’t justify what they had planned.  
 
The three officers were interrupted by a coded transmission from the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] [[Marcus Cesarian|Cesarian]] had managed to break though the jamming signal and contact the [[USS Columbia|Columbia]] but the signal was not stable. Realising that they needed [[Daniel Butterworth|Commodore Butterworth’s]] go-ahead [[James Harris|Harris]] summoned the salesman and requested they be allowed to contact their ship to discuss the purchase of the weapon with their Commanding Officer. Since the ship was disabled due to the planets lockdown satellites the salesman agreed, but he also insisted that he monitor their conversation. By keeping the conversation ‘above board’ [[Daniel Butterworth|Butterworth]] and [[James Harris|Harris]] discussed the situation without letting the salesman realise what was actually being discussed. [[Daniel Butterworth|Butterworth]] suggested that [[James Harris|Harris]] ensure that no lives were lost and used a false Starfleet regulation to cover this up, he really wanted [[James Harris|Harris]] to get the salesman to tell to them whether or not the facility was manned. With a little persuasion [[James Harris|Harris]] got the salesman to reveal that the facility was empty as the whole place was automated, so with the salesman allowing them to target the weapon for demonstration the team targeted the heart of the facility and fired wiping out the entire area and destroying every last trace of the Aroshi Weapons Facility.
 
With the orbital defences now offline the away team were free to leave. During the journey back to the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] [[James Harris|Harris wrote his report, he suggested that Starfleet issue a general warning about the sector and suggested that the Commodore contacted the Federation and requested that the system be inspected for dismantling and the possibility that other systems like this may exist.  
 


==Other Characters==
==Other Characters==

Revision as of 08:00, 8 July 2010

"Operation Typhon"
USS Pacifica NCC-72545
Mission No. PAC-14
Total Posts 202
Start Date Saturday, May 15th, 2004
Finish Date Monday, August 9th, 2004
Story Daniel Butterworth
Guest Star(s)
Previous Mission
"Excursions"
Year 2380
Next Mission
"The Zone"

Introduction

The crew of the USS Pacifica help with the colonising of the Typhon System.

Summary

The Pacifica finally arrived in the Typhon System after an extensive delay to find the terra-forming and colonisation efforts of the two planets in the system to be in full swing. After beaming down the supplies to the planet Commander Buzz Polaris led a team consisting of Doctor Connie Morgan, [[Francine Hart|Lieutenant Francine Hart and [[Marcus Cesarian|Lieutenant Junior Grade Marcus Cesarian down to the surface along with an Engineering detail to assist in the setting up of the colony’s new medical facility and the atmospheric generators. Meanwhile back on the Pacifica the USS Columbia returned to the ship following it's mission to the Aroshi System and Commodore Daniel Butterworth welcomed 3 new crewmembers onto the Pacifica. After meeting the new crew Butterworth debriefed the away team from the Columbia andLieutenant James Harrisand Ensign Owen Banks drew up some plans to throw a party to welcome the ship's newest members aboard.

After receiving approval from Commodore Butterworth the two officers decided to hold a traditional luau, which would give the crew the chance to dress up and enjoy themselves after a busy couple of weeks. Final arrangements were made and the party was planned for the upcoming evening, the crew responded enthusiastically to the luau by getting into the full spirit of things by dressing up for the occasion. The luau was a great success was everybody having a good time especially with the limbo later in the evening, while the luau proceeded through the night some of the crew couldn't get their minds off of the work that lay ahead of them with the mission at hand. Deciding to leave early Harris and Cesarian proceeded to Main Engineering to carry out some scans. The two discovered an ancient structure on the surface that had been missed by the earlier scans done by Starfleet before the planet was chosen for colonisation. Bboth officers agreed that it needed to be looked at with further detail but both officers chose to leave it for the morning as it was getting late.

With the start of the new day Lieutenant Harris presented his findings to Commodore Butterworth and suggested that the ruins be further investigated. With the colonisation effort already behind schedule Butterworth was reluctant to agree to the investigation, however he couldn't over look the possibility of a new discovery so he gave Lieutenant Harris the go ahead to commence with the investigation. With assistance from Cesarian, Banks and the new recruits of Robert Johansen and Yamaguchi they were able to complete the task and confirm that there was indeed an ancient structure on the surface. While being an amazing discovery the ancient structure brought a standstill to the terra-forming efforts, as work could not proceed because of the location of the building. With no other option available to him Butterworth informed Starfleet of their discovery, after discussing the options Starfleet decided to suspend the whole operation and move the colonists to the neighbouring planet, where they would start again. With their task brought to a quick end the crew of the Pacifica prepared for departure as they were assigned to replace the USS Honolulu on it's patrol of the neutral zone with Starfleet deciding to assign a science ship to carry out further investigations of the ruins.

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