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0302. When Science and Fantasy Mix
After the extensive repairs, needed from the last
mission, were completed, Starfleet Command deemed the
PROPHECY fit to embark on another mission. The
Federation’s only trans-dimensional ship was sent to
find and bring back an inter-dimensional probe that
went missing. Why, Starfleet sent us on a simple and
quite tedious expedition like this, was not exactly
clear, until later on in the mission. Our only lead on
the probe’s whereabouts was its last known position.
With the dimension coordinates known, we jumped to
that particular dimension.
We set course for the planet, where the probe was last
found to have been in orbit, before vanishing. After
having reached the planet, we encountered a space
faring vessel, resembling that of an old fashioned
bubble-like horse-drawn carriage, except it was not
drawn by horses. The other craft hailed the PROPEHCY
and we were greeted by four individuals, who
introduced themselves to be Valuyon of the Elves,
Olum- a master in the school of magic, Halia of the
Tenth Sisterhood and a dwarf, Jimjim. Valuyon, Halia
and Jimjim belonged to the ‘Council of Unity’. Valuyon
was also the council Chairperson and ILUMNA was the
name of the planet we arrived at.
At the request of Valuyon and his fellow Ilumnans to
talk further, we decided to send an away team
comprising of Lt. Xana Bonviva- ExO, Lt. Mad’hron
Zanders- Cns, Lt. JG Katlina Potter- Sec/Tac, Ensign
Jesse Turner- DCL and Ensign AJ O’Malley to the other
ship. In the meantime, Lt. Jeffrey Gorman- CMO and
Ensign Avar Dacil- aCns were assigned to create a
profile of the Ilumnans in general, while Lt. JG
Raycii Jones- CEO and Ensign Griffin O’Neil- aCSciO
were to work on locating the probe.
During the meeting on the ‘Carriage’, the away team
found out that the Ilumnans were having trouble with
an unknown and dangerous enemy known as the ‘Evil
Ones’. The Council members, feeling the ‘Carriage’
unsafe for further discussion, invited the away team
down to the planet to attend one of their meetings.
The team discovered that the Ilumnans were pre-warp
and believed that the Federation was just another
guild. So, the Prime Directive came in effect here and
the away team had to keep with that pretence.
After the away team beamed down to the planet, they
headed to a village, where the council held their
meetings. Upon arrival at their destination, the team
found the architectural structures and lifestyle of
the Ilumnans resembled that of the medieval Earth.
During the ‘Council of Unity’ meeting, the away team
discovered the council had members who were elf,
humans, dwarfs and a tiny winged creature, known as a
fairy. After the meeting, the away team went to search
for a place to stay for the night, and eventually
found an inn. The away team discovered from the locals
that the ‘Evil Ones’ were believed to have abducted
several Ilumnans, who encountered them.
Meanwhile, back on the PROPHECY, Jones and O’Neil
detected energy spikes originating from the planet.
Jones and Dacil were sent down to the planet to
further investigate those spikes. However, as soon as
they arrived at the planet, the spikes rose so high
that they managed to hit the PROPHECY, thereby cutting
off communications with the away teams, as well as
causing some damage to the ship. We later found out
that the energy spikes formed into a large firebird,
which was also responsible for preventing us from
communicating with our officers down on the planet.
The firebird then attacked the ship, resulting in
further damages and many injured crewmembers. We fired
phasers at the firebird, thereby destroying it.
However, the firebird managed to reform itself and
prepared for its next attack, when all of a sudden, it
disappeared back into the planet, for reasons unknown.
Communications with the away teams were
re-established.
As the events on the ship were taking place, the first
away team was dealing with their own set of problems.
The energy spikes had also caused a tremor, which they
later found out from the inn’s barmaid to be a sky
quake, believed to be caused by some wizards’ spells
in an attempt to ward off the ‘Evil Ones’. O’Malley
volunteered to work on extracting more information
from the barmaid, which he eventually managed to get.
The barmaid told him about a ‘shooting star’, deduced
to be the probe, of having crashed into the town of
Tanallisburg.
Around the same time, Bonviva, Potter and Zanders paid
a visit to a wizard’s school. Unfortunately, Lt.
Potter ended up becoming amnesiac during the wizard’s
attempt to link her telepathically with another
officer on the ship. Zanders then took Potter to a
healer, who was unable to treat Kat’s amnesia, while
Bonviva returned back to the inn, where she gathered
Turner and O’Malley. They met up with Potter and
Zanders and then began their journey to Tanallisburg.
The path involved going through a mountain pass that
would take several days on horseback.
During the trip, Bonviva’s team met up with Jones and
Dacil, who were travelling in a caravan to
Tanallisburg. The away team, now reunited, encountered
dragons, trolls and a group of soldiers, who called
themselves knights. When the group camped out for a
short rest, one of the knights got in trouble.
Bonviva, O’Malley, Zanders and Potter went to rescue
him and to their great shock, they came face to face
with a Species 8472 creature. The creature was about
to grab the knight, when Zanders managed to distract
it, thereby allowing the Ilumnan to escape. Bonviva
contacted us to report their latest discovery and
because of the danger posed by Species 8472 on the
planet, the away team was recalled back.
The presence of Species 8472 brought forth many
questions in our minds, like what was their purpose on
ILUMNA, did they know of the probe, why did they
abduct Ilumnans and so on. But it was safe to assume,
the 8472 were the feared ‘Evil Ones’. This was also
the time that Ensign O’Malley revealed to me that what
we were looking for was no simple inter-dimensional
probe, but a special probe sent to this dimension to
gather intelligence on Species 8472.
After discussions with the crew, new away teams were
dispatched to the planet, this time more prepared to
deal with the 8472. Lt. Cmdr. Aspinall, Ensigns O’Neil
and O’Malley were sent to Tanallisburg to search for
the probe. Lt. Lawrence, Potter, Jones and Dr. Gorman
beamed down to the site, where the 8472 creature was
last seen. Lt. Zanders, Ensigns Turner and Dacil
headed to the ‘Council of Unity’.
The situation became more complicated than ever, when
Lawrence’s team encountered an 8472 creature, which
took the form of an Ilumnan wizard. The creature gave
an ultimatum, which was to take the probe and leave.
In order to ensure the safety of the ship and crew, I
decided to follow the ultimatum and recalled
Lawrence’s team back. I then reassigned Potter and
Jones to Aspinall’s team, while assigning Lawrence and
Gorman to look out for any 8472 bioship.
While one problem was taken care of, another one crept
up. When I was informed of Lt. Zander’s team having
offered an invitation to one of the ‘Council of Unity’
members to come aboard the ship, I had to order them
back to the ship. The team was close to breaching the
Prime Directive, by nearly exposing the ship to a
species not even close to our technological level. The
solution to the problem was we sent the team back to
the council to provide Species 8472’s limited
biological and cultural information that would not
break the Prime Directive. After completing their
task, the team returned back to the ship.
While all this was happening, the away team at
Tanallisburg detected readings of Thomicron radiation.
Believing it to be a possible lead to the probe,
O’Malley and Jones were beamed closer to the source,
which was at the top of a mountain. When Jones and
O’Malley reached their destination, they discovered
the radiation did not come from the probe, but an
unknown Borg device. They then returned back to the
ship, to further study the device.
Lt. Bonviva and Zanders were then sent to join up with
the away team on Tanallisburg to help in the search
for the probe. The team encountered the same 8472
creature, who gave the ultimatum earlier and was found
to be ill. Gorman was called down to the planet to
treat the creature and further scanning revealed the
illness to be caused by the radiation emitted by the
probe.
The creature provided information about the probe
having crashed into the centre of the town, which was
confirmed by O’Neil’s tricorder. Aspinall, O’Neil and
Potter followed up on the lead and located the probe,
which unfortunately was surrounded by a crowd of
Ilumnans, who were worshipping it.
It was decided that the probe could be taken only at
night and therefore a plan was formulated. The plan
was to replace the probe with a replicated ‘dummy’, so
as to prevent the Ilumnans from noticing it missing.
The plan was successful and the probe was brought to
the ship. We then set course away from ILUMNA and
returned back to our dimension. Further study on the
Borg device was halted, and we decided to just hand it
over to Starfleet Command.
(End Log)
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