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 | Pandora Station Status Report by Bram Peeters, Merijn Donders and Wes
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Around 1015 a crewman detected a weird energy reading near the sixth planet of the Sitol system. Rachell Delari tried to analyze this reading, but it had already disappeared. As both the alien species in the Sitol system are pre-warp, Naragona and Delari were dazzled by this clearly artificial phenomenon.
Naragona went to report this to the CO and FO, who in turn decided that an away team would be send out to investigate. Commander Sarin would lead the away team and he chose Lieutenants Ryaanax and Naragona and Ensign Roberts to join him on that mission.
While the members of away team were preparing themselves for their mission, a new officer arrived at Pandora Station: ACEO Ensign Menk Shulti.
At 1400 Commander Sarin, Lieutenants Ryaanax and Naragona and Ensign Roberts went on their way to investigate the weird energy reading. The trip towards the Sitol system was uneventful and went smoothly, though some tension evolved between the two Science officers. Just before their arrival though, Roberts came up with the idea that the energy reading could have been a cloaked vessel. But as this was just a hypothesis and not proven, Sarin chose to continue the mission.
Unfortunately, Roberts appeared to be correct and as soon as the Flyer approached Sitol VI, the away team got placed into a strange white room, on the alien's base on a moon of Sitol VI, by some sort of transporting device that went straight through their shielding. After a little time in the white room, a strange alien appeared before them, though it was only a projection. The alien was Sub-General Selar and from what the away team could hear and see, they had no real hostile intentions... so far. After talking for a while, the alien agreed to release the away team from the containment room and give them a tour of their ship. Even though the alien's mission was still remaining a mystery, small parts were being disclosed from time to time.
The aliens, members of an ancient race, were monitoring certain races in the universe. They are strongly telepathic and control the whole ship by thought. They however kept skeptic about the away team and are, of course, not telling them everything. By a single thought, the away team could be placed back into the containment room on the moon base. The situation is under control for the moment, but could get out of hand at any time... when the aliens have had enough of the away team... or when the away team finds out more then it should...
Meanwhile on the station, the disappearance of the away team and their Delta Flyer was detected, and Captain Janssens instructed Commander Holmes to prepare the USS Epimetheus for a rescue mission. This could be done quite fast because the Engineering department had already started preparations for the normal warp test flight of the ship.
That test flight proved to be necessary when the Epimetheus should go to warp: the warp-engine failed. The engineering department was unable to find the cause or a fix for the problem, so the Epimetheus saucer section was prepared for separation. Commander Holmes would lead the rescue mission, while Captain Janssens and ACEO Ensign Johnson returned the remaining sections of the Epimetheus back to Pandora Station.
While the Epimetheus was flying towards the Sitol system, the crew analyzed the sensor data collected by the Delta Flyer, and the long-range sensors of the station, and they came to the conclusion that there might be a cloaked ship waiting for them in the Sitol system.
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