Current situation
Mission 8 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little War
Stardate 2391.05.02,
The Solstice investigates the high solar activity, and finds an object in the star's orbit. When they come back to Pandora, an Alien race (The Venoghrians) arrived, explaining that this object is one of their probes, designed to seek out habitable planets. The Venoghrians and the crew of the Solstice once again go to the star, to deactivate that probe.
Mission Summary
By Rob Versteegt
Stardate 2391.05.02
When the Solar Storm, caused by the Pandora Star, really starts interfering with the normal sensor efficiency, it is decided that the Solstice will go towards the sun, and check out what causes this abnormal long solar storm.When the Solstice, under command of Commander Jalando, finally got close enough to even run a scan, the crew discovered that some sort of
asteroid is in orbit around the sun. That object didn't seem to be affected by the Solar Storm...
Puzzled, and unable to scan any further, the Solstice returned to the Station. There, a Delta Flyer was being modified with metaphasic shielding, to be able to further enter the star's corona, and thus able to learn more about this object.
However, when the Solstice returned, a small fleet of alien ships arrived near Pandora Station. Their lead ship requested permission to dock. Captain Kane granted the request, and, together with Commander Jalando and Lt. Keening, went down to the Lower Docking Bay.
When the lizard-like, greyskinned aliens came out of their ships, their leader, Rhan M'ell, explained the situation to the 3 officers. It seemed as if this race, the Venoghrians, had send out a probe, to find suitable, unpopulated planets to colonise. When this probe had detected a suitable world, (Pandora II), it send out a pulse into the star, causing a solar storm, which attracted the attention of the Venoghrians. This was only supposed to last for one week... but the probe seemed to have malfunctioned, and it had already been active for more than 2 weeks!
Apparently, the Venoghrians, who already seemed to know the Federation, had another species living on the same planet as they were. The Dholari seemed to have had certain conflicts with the Venoghrians, claiming one of the Venoghrian's probes as theirs. So there was a chance that the Dholari fleet would show up..
The shutting-down signal for the probe didn't work, unfortunately, so it was decided that the Solstice would go out again, towards the star. This time though, the modified Flyer would be with them, which would let them get close to the probe, even in the star's corona.
So... the Solstice left towards the star, and, when she arrived there, the Delta Flyer, with the Rhan, his Science officer, Commander Jalando, Ltjg Keening and Ensign Morabulu on board, exited the Solstice's shuttlebay, ready to shut down the probe. They did, of course, know that the Dholari fleet could approach Pandora Station any moment, which would make the return trip, with the probe probably, a bit more difficult...
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