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Noted Ship & Starbase Appearances

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	==Noted Ship & Starbase Appearances==		==Noted Ship & Starbase Appearances==
	* [[USS Wilson]]		* [[USS Wilson]] NCC-47332
	* [[USS Columbia]]		* [[USS Columbia]] NCC-79399

	==Memorable Moments==		==Memorable Moments==

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{{Mission |
name = Excursions |
image = |
ms_num = PAC-13 |
posts = 24 |
sdate = Monday, May 3rd, 2004 |
fdate = Tuesday, May 25th, 2004 |
guest = |
story = James Harris |
year = 2380
prev = [[Shattering Diplomacy]]
next = [[Operation Typhon]]
}}

== Introduction ==
An away teams explors an uncharted M class world while the [[USS Pacifica|Pacifica]] heads for the [[Typhon System]].
== 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.

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.

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==
None.

==Noted Ship & Starbase Appearances==
* [[USS Wilson]]
* [[USS Columbia]]

==Memorable Moments==

==Out of Character Information==
None.

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