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Episode 12: Holowe'en.
Following the long 6-month shore leave the crew had, it was finally time: On Stardate 2392.04.11, the Fleet Command Team and all the crews of the Frontier Fleet dutystations came together at Pandora Station, to celebrate the formation of this fleet. Speeches were held, crews of different dutystations met, and everybody was happy about the launch of this fleet. Well. . . not everybody. There were some protesters, who disliked Transwarp. . . but not a lot of people paid that much attention to them.
On Stardate 2392.04.25, the only transwarpships which were still docked at Pandora Station were the USS Solstice and the USS Epimetheus. Things seemed to be going well. . . there were no problems, no worries, and life was going on as usual. And even though the Station crew did receive extra reports, extra traffic and extra work, there was still time for Captains Janssens,Kane and Commander Jalando to relax in the holodeck. While their choice of program was by some considered quite silly, this pirate program they were in helped them relax. However. . . their relaxation didn't last long. Pretty soon, holographic pirates which weren't part of the original program, kidnapped both Captains. When the program ended, there was no sign of the Captains. . .
But these two Captains weren't the only ones to disappear. Admirals Barclay, Tir and Graag of the Frontier Fleet's Command Team had also been taken away. Where to, nobody on the Station knew. All they knew was that following their disappearances, subspace rifts appeared all around Pandora Station and the USS Epimetheus, which was docked at the station. These rifts didn't allow any communication to or from Pandora Station, or the Epimetheus. Even between the Station and the Prometheus class ship, there were problems with communications. Luckily, Ensign Gatto and Lieutenant Arquette had gone to the Epimetheus to make sure that the Station and the ship would be able to communicate with each other. . . Also, these two officers started scanning these subspace rifts, from the Epimetheus, in order to see if there was any form of communication going on *between* those rifts.
In the meantime, Lt. Vrass and Lt. Kingston were ordered to prepare and launch several probes. Lt. Vrass went to Stellar Cartography to work together with ACSO Ensign Greinlen, to stand by to receive the probe's data. Before any probe was launched though, these two discovered an object at drift nearby one of those subspace rifts. . . it seemed to be a Starfleet Probe! But Pandora hadn't launched any probes yet, and neither had the Epimetheus. . .
But this wasn't the only thing to happen on the Station. ACEO Morabulu had a rather unpleasant encounter with one of the protesters, who wanted Starfleet to abandon the Transwarp project. This person became unwell though, and was quickly transported to Sickbay, to Pandora Station's neurosurgeon, Dr. Carredeau.
Dr. Truesdale also had an unpleasant encounter, but of a different kind than Mr. Morabulu had. Yes, the 2O/CMO Lt.Cmdr. had actually been assaulted by a person who was presumed dead. In panic, she ran away. . . but when she looked back, this man was gone. . .
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