Event #4 report
An act of sabotage aboard the USS Sally Ride turned a routine transwarp jump into a disastrous plunge to the far side of Klingon space. The ship was crippled and her captain put in a coma, and now the remaining crew must find their way back to Federation space, pursued by a mysterious flotilla of heavily modified warships.
Orenn, Seven, Yenzoc, and Benton met in the conference room to discuss their latest findings. Commander Sev, who had been poring over the sensor logs of the ships that fought the Sally Ride, reported that the ships' modifications made extensive use of adapted Borg technology in addition to the Horta-like energy signatures detected by Yenzoc previously. This finding may link the technology used to modify the mystery ships and the technology used to sabotage the Sally Ride.
In the process of plotting a stealthy course back to friendly territory, Mr. Benton scanned for naturally occurring energy anomalies that might help disguise the ship's warp signature. By chance, he noticed that the warp signature itself contained an anomaly: a regular pulse of tetryon particles emitted from the right nacelle that could be used to trace the ship.
Unwilling to risk being tracked and suspicious of foul play, Mr. Orenn reluctantly agreed that the ship had to stop and let an engineering crew inspect the replacement coils. While Ms. Yenzoc returned to the science labs to continue analyzing the technical readings of the mystery ships, the rest of the group joined Eris 8 aboard the bridge. The ship dropped to impulse in the middle of a sensor-scattering nebula and an engineering crew began searching for the faulty warp coil.
While hiding, the Sally Ride was indeed passed by a group of ships who had been following her at warp, picking up the trail of tetryon bread crumbs. The bridge crew modified a probe to create a false trail and mislead their pursuers. The faulty coil was located and replaced, and the ship warped out of the area before the tracker ships could double back. It should seem that the Sally Ride warped into the nebula and did a quick course correction to throw off any pursuit.
When the group inspected the faulty coil, it quickly became apparent that the tetryon pulse was no accident: it was the result of an ingenious modification incorporating elements of borg technology and Tholian design, but built mainly from equipment scavenged aboard the Sally Ride itself. There's no question now: someone aboard is still working against the rest of the crew, trying to get the ship captured.
Orenn, Seven, Yenzoc, and Benton met in the conference room to discuss their latest findings. Commander Sev, who had been poring over the sensor logs of the ships that fought the Sally Ride, reported that the ships' modifications made extensive use of adapted Borg technology in addition to the Horta-like energy signatures detected by Yenzoc previously. This finding may link the technology used to modify the mystery ships and the technology used to sabotage the Sally Ride.
In the process of plotting a stealthy course back to friendly territory, Mr. Benton scanned for naturally occurring energy anomalies that might help disguise the ship's warp signature. By chance, he noticed that the warp signature itself contained an anomaly: a regular pulse of tetryon particles emitted from the right nacelle that could be used to trace the ship.
Unwilling to risk being tracked and suspicious of foul play, Mr. Orenn reluctantly agreed that the ship had to stop and let an engineering crew inspect the replacement coils. While Ms. Yenzoc returned to the science labs to continue analyzing the technical readings of the mystery ships, the rest of the group joined Eris 8 aboard the bridge. The ship dropped to impulse in the middle of a sensor-scattering nebula and an engineering crew began searching for the faulty warp coil.
While hiding, the Sally Ride was indeed passed by a group of ships who had been following her at warp, picking up the trail of tetryon bread crumbs. The bridge crew modified a probe to create a false trail and mislead their pursuers. The faulty coil was located and replaced, and the ship warped out of the area before the tracker ships could double back. It should seem that the Sally Ride warped into the nebula and did a quick course correction to throw off any pursuit.
When the group inspected the faulty coil, it quickly became apparent that the tetryon pulse was no accident: it was the result of an ingenious modification incorporating elements of borg technology and Tholian design, but built mainly from equipment scavenged aboard the Sally Ride itself. There's no question now: someone aboard is still working against the rest of the crew, trying to get the ship captured.