DS2 RPG General Status Report January 2007 General message to all DS2 RPG Players: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. You are watching ISN the Interstellar Network News, the Galaxy's Most Important Network. I am Ronald Jones and these are the headlines of today's news. There has been a press conference of the Vice President of the United Federation of Planets expressing the Federation concerns about the hostilities against the Romulans. There is also news on the deep space mission of the USS Walang, which has found an infinite source of resources in a nebula 12 thousand lightyears away. But first this. There has been a local storm above Starfleet Head Quarters and Starfleet Academy in San Francisco Earth. There was considerable damage to several buildings. Seventeen Academy Cadets were injured, but so far there are no other reports of injured. We go live to our correspondent Kana Mih. Kana, what is the situation at Starfleet Headquarters now? Can you hear me?" "Yes Ronald. I can hear you. The damage to the buildings is not as bad as feared before. Starfleet Admiral N'rok has explained that there is no interuption in Starfleet Operations. Although this storm was strangely unpredicted Starfleet personnel reacted fast. The seventeen cadets who werr injured had been holding a few of the walls up, long enough to get about 200 others into safety. The walls fell down, but the cadets only had minor injuries. No life was lost. Back to you Ronald." "Thanks for the report Kana. And now something totally different. On Risa the record for the high jump has been broken by Hlon Brask. Brask already had the record on his name, but today he jumped over 3 meters and 17 centimeters, which is an improvement of his former record by 2 centimeters. Brask still has hope to even break the new reord himself later this month. The high jump event on Risa is an interplanetary competition, which started exactly 75 years ago to bring peace and hope for the Federation through sport events. Speaking of hope... Several decades ago some planets of the Federation had a shortage of resources and their neighbours had to help them out. Now there is lots of hope for the future for members of the Federation to gain resources as much as they want. Could this be true or is there something else going on that we not yet know about? Through our channels we received news from the starship USS Walang which is exploring sector 99558, 12 thousand lightyears away. The USS Walang is under command of Captain Marja Hendriks. About three weeks ago the USS Walang has found a nebula called the Scaton Nebula. This nebula is not only growing it also contains all resources needed for any needs. The Scaton Federation who controls the nebula has allowed diplomatic relations with the Federation, which now has an embassy on the huge space station of the Scaton Federation. We have an interview with Professor June Lasten about this so very special nebula. Professor, welcome to the studio of ISN. Is there an explanation of how this Scaton Nebula can grow, while more than a few species have been mining resources in this nebula for some time now?" "One thing is sure. We have never seen this kind of nebula before. And we cannot explain why a nebula would grow, not only in size but in mass as well. The readings of the USS Walang are verified and confirmed. But it is like something is created out of nothing and that is against all the laws of physics. We hope to hear again soon from the USS Walang. But communications take about four weeks. So we will hear about this later, probably in a few weeks when the next report from the USS Walang is expected." "So we will follow that story. Thanks Professor for joining us. And then the top item that could change the balance of power in the Alpha Quadrant. While peace talks are conducted between the Federation, the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Empire, Klingon forces have been invading Romulan territory. But also more and more Federation ships have crossed the border. Apparently the Romulan fleet is assembling close to Romulus to make a last stand. About an hour ago the Vice president of the United Federation of Planets has held a closed press conference. We are going live to our reporter Finn Coldheart. Finn, has the press conference already ended?" "Yes indeed Ronald. Our Vice President has explained that the Federation cannot stand aside of this conflict as the Romulan forces have already been fighting in Federation space. Federation satrships have been able to prevent a total invasion. Together with the Klingon Empire the United Federation of Planets is making plans to end this conflict peaceful if possible or in battle if there are no other options. I have understood that the Federation is now in state of war... That is all there is said, but more conferences are already announced. Until then, back to you Ronald." "Thanks for the report Finn. I am sure we will hear from you soon. Ladies and gentlemen that was our evening newsflash. Thanks for watching ISN news the Galaxy's Most Important Network. We will be back in 45 minutes." ... USS Earth The entire Kstrama system is surrounded by all kind of Borg ships, spheres, cubes and even a few tactical cubes. Then the USS Recon and USS Thunderbolt, Commodore Mechels in command, arrive. These are two Federation ships, modified with future Borg technology. The Federation starship USS Earth is in the safe zone of the Kstrama System. Commodore Steichen in command of the USS Earth, has tecnology to stop the Borg. Commodore Steichen first wants to know what is going on. "We are just going to talk to them... We will ask Commodore Mechels what his intentions are?" Commodore Mechels tells Commodore Steichen that these are good Borg from the 29th century who help the other species. Commodore Steichen has to leave the Brontrordens defense technology in the Kstrama System. If she exports it, and uses it, the time line will be disrupted and these good Borg will most likely turn into bad ones and the entire Galaxy will be at risk. Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 The 369th fleet under command of Commodore Geert Van Nieuwenhove is a whitness to the battle between 9 Klingon ships which destroy three Romulan warbirds close to the uninhabited planet Gulok, which is used for resources for the 369th fleet. The Romulan ships did not have the genesis technology aboard... Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The entire Kstrama system is surrounded by all kind of Borg ships, spheres, cubes and even a few tactical cubes. Then the USS Recon and USS Thunderbolt, Commodore Mechels in command, arrive. These are two Federation ships, modified with future Borg technology. The Federation starship USS Earth is in the safe zone of the Kstrama System. Commodore Steichen in command of the USS Earth, has tecnology to stop the Borg. Commodore Steichen first wants to know what is going on. She is just going to talk and ask Commodore Mechels what his intentions are. Commodore Mechels tells the truth to Commodore Steichen that these are good Borg from the 29th century who help the other species. Commodore Steichen has to leave the Brontrordens defense technology in the Kstrama System. If she exports it, and uses it, the time line will be disrupted and these good Borg will most likely turn into bad ones and the entire Galaxy will be at risk. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Deep in the Scaton Nebula far away from Federation space the Federation now has an embassy. In the core of the nebula there is a very small singularity. It seems an opening to another universe. The matter of the Scaton Nebula is coming from that hole, so from that other universe... Captain Hendriks will not do anything. She thinks it is better to let the Scaton Federation handle this. She will approve whatever the Scaton Federation will do. "But we will keep observing all that happens. If possible stand by to close the hole if necessary." But after more observation and examination the Scaton Federation ships studying the singularity they make contact with the species at the other side of the hole. This species calls themselves Trsterts. They have made a hole in the barrier between their universe and ours to let the nebula go to our universe. The substances in the nebula are very toxic for the Trsterts, but they know the species in our universe can use the nebula for resources. BUt they still have not found a way to close the rupture between the two universes. They ask Captain Hendriks for help as the other species in the Scaton Nebula are not that advanced. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 65 18.00 The cloaked Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu under command of Captain K'Mada is on its way to capture an isolated Romulan ship. Aboard the Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu is half Klingon Starfleet officer Lieutenant Commander Matz. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The USS Iceberg is on its way to the Romulan-Federation border. Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Cinebow has joined the Sixth fleet at the border between the Federation and Romulan Empire. The sixth fleet under command of Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom is contacted by some Romulan ships in the Neutral zone by Romulans who claim to be refugies but could be spies... ---------------------------------------------- The USS Colorado patroling the border of the Federation-Romulan Neutral Zone intercepted a Romulan escape podd with Sub-Commander Vorax who claims he wants to defect. Vorax warns Captain Walker for the Romulan fleet at Romulus which is going to use the genesis technology to whipe out the Klingon and Federation fleets and then take over the Alpha Quadrant Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper There is peace again on Angel One. The USS Alice Cooper-B returns to Angel One to pick up Ambassador Jas Stevens... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) The Tok'ra and Hirogen fleet arrives at the planet Crion to find more ancient artifacts. Hirogen trackers find some sort of a warehouse. There are still a lot of unopened crates and the crates and barrels which are broken because of their age and the rough weather on Crion, reveal several unknown devices and artifacts. Horkan decides to keep all the articfacts but does not yet do anything with them. A new course is set to Adrata, a Goa'uld stronghold. Players: Thomas van Rhee USS Oregon A Drovandi ship is approaching Opal III. It is not clear yet what its intentions are. The Drovandi are accused for mass murder. Captain Adriano in command of the USS Oregon has little time to make a decision. He asks his officers for advice. Players: Cathy Edgington Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne Aboard the EAS Terradyne a Klingon delegation under leadership of Chancellor Dormek, a Federation delegation, under leadership of the President of the United Federation of Planets, Kime Nosugref, accompanied by the Starfleet C-in-C and Admiral Jaust, and a Romulan delegation, under leadership of Praetor D'Reven are negotiating some kind of peace. There is still hope of a peaceful sollution. Deep down on one of the Minbari heavy cruisers a creature, looking like a very big large spider kills two Minbari engineers tearing their bodies apart... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report February 2007 USS Earth The Kstrama System... The USS Earth is confronted with a fleet of Borg ships surrounding the sfae zone of the Kstrama System. When two Federations ships, USS Recon and USS Thunderbolt arrive and Commodore Mechels, in command of the USS Thunderbolt tells Commodore Steichen that he has three Borg aboard from the future. Mechels knows that Steichen has a weapon to neutralize the Borg and explains that if she is going to use that weapon the current timeline will change an that the good Borg will turn into bad... Commodore Steichen tries to convince Commodore Mechels to intervene in the Borg collective so that this so called future will indeed happen as Commodore Mechels has said. To prove his good intensions Commodore Mechels gets all the Borg ships surrounding the Kstrama System modified by the future Jedi Master Borgs aboard his vessel. So that all these Borg are seperated from the Borg collective and now on your side. Commodore Mechels now has a serious Borg fleet under his control. While the Borg fleet clearly follows the orders of Commodore Mechels, it seems to be safe around the Kstrama system. Just when everyone wants to start a party, disturbing news comes in. As well as the USS Earth, the USS Recon and USS Thunderbolt receive the same messages from Starfleet Command relayed by the Federation Trade Embassy on the Vlodian homeworld. The message contains battle reports of Klingon and Federation fleets against alien black ships. The Klingons and Federation ships are slaughtered. by only one or a few of these black ships. The Brontrordens, who have seen the messages as well, contact Commodore Steichen. It seems even the Brontrordens are in state of panic. Although they will not leave the Kstrama System unless it is absolutely necessary, they are preparing to leave. The Brontrordens let Commodore Steichen and Commodore Mechels know they have no defense against these aliens, who are called Shadows... Even the Future Jedi Borg have no defense against the Shadows. The Borg have to fight the Shadow ships first before they can addapt. Apparently this will not go without sacrifices. But Commodore Mechels has a large fleet now. The question is whether he will use it to fight the Shadows... Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 Commodore Geert Van Nieuwenhove has put his fleet in orbit of a planet called Gulak in romulan space. There are Federation 16 ships on their way to Gulok. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove is waiting for these reinforcements. Reports come in from Klingon as well as Federation fleets. Most of the Romulan fleet has gathered around Romulus. The Klingon and Federation fleets are regrouping for a last and final attack. But at the time the reinforcements arrive at Gulok, more reports come in, and they are not good. Apparently Klingon and Federation ships are blown to pieces. It is not clear whether the Romulans use their genesis weapons or not. It seems a bit of chaos... Just at the time Commodore van Nieuwenhove has to make a decision to go and help the Federation and Klingon fleet, sensors detect a strange kind of ship. It is a long black ship and it seems to have some kind of tentacles. The just arrived reinforment group has no battle experience in this war yet and they are not waiting for orders. The 16 ships move towards the strange alien ship, and try to make contact. But there is no contact. By getting closer the crews hear a horrible noise... The black alien ship fires a purple particle weapon cutting the approaching ships into pieces... literally. Some of the Federation ships are able to return fire with phasers and quantum torpedos, but apparently without a lot of effect. The fight took less than a minute... The black alien ship has only minimal damage. All but one ship, the USS Cardiff, are completely destroyed. The USS Cardiff is heavily damaged. Captain Danny Falk in command of the USS Cardiff reports. "Commodore. This is the Cardiff. We are helpless. These aliens apparently use us as bate. Do not approach. Get out of here. We are dead anyway. Get away. Assemble a bigger fleet. Retreat." But the alien ship does not stay with the USS Cardiff. Slowly it moves towards Gulok, where Commodore Van Nieuwenhove and his officers have been watching the fight in horror. But Commodore Van Nieuwenhove keeps his cool... "We will use a ship with cloaking technology to get past the black ship and rescue the persons of the USS Cardiff, meanwhile retreat to Starbase 369 and ask the klingons for assistance." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The Kstrama System... The USS Earth is confronted with a fleet of Borg ships surrounding the sfae zone of the Kstrama System. When two Federations ships, USS Recon and USS Thunderbolt arrive and Commodore Mechels, in command of the USS Thunderbolt tells Commodore Steichen that he has three Borg aboard from the future. Mechels knows that Steichen has a weapon to neutralize the Borg and explains that if she is going to use that weapon the current timeline will change an that the good Borg will turn into bad... Commodore Steichen tries to convince Commodore Mechels to intervene in the Borg collective so that this so called future will indeed happen as Commodore Mechels has said. To prove his good intensions Commodore Mechels gets all the Borg ships surrounding the Kstrama System modified by the future Jedi Master Borgs aboard his vessel. So that all these Borg are seperated from the Borg collective and now on your side. Commodore Mechels now has a serious Borg fleet under his control. While the Borg fleet clearly follows the orders of Commodore Mechels, it seems to be safe around the Kstrama system. Just when everyone wants to start a party, disturbing news comes in. As well as the USS Earth, the USS Recon and USS Thunderbolt receive the same messages from Starfleet Command relayed by the Federation Trade Embassy on the Vlodian homeworld. The message contains battle reports of Klingon and Federation fleets against alien black ships. The Klingons and Federation ships are slaughtered. by only one or a few of these black ships. The Brontrordens, who have seen the messages as well, contact Commodore Steichen. It seems even the Brontrordens are in state of panic. Although they will not leave the Kstrama System unless it is absolutely necessary, they are preparing to leave. The Brontrordens let Commodore Steichen and Commodore Mechels know they have no defense against these aliens, who are called Shadows... Even the Future Jedi Borg have no defense against the Shadows. The Borg have to fight the Shadow ships first before they can addapt. Apparently this will not go without sacrifices. But Commodore Mechels has a large fleet now. The question is whether he will use it to fight the Shadows... Commodore Mechels already has his orders ready. "If Commodore Steichen asks for Borg upgrades for her ship. We will give them to her. And then first things first. We will find a way to addapt to the Brontrordens technology, also in the hands of Commodore Steichen, so the Borg are safe from that technology. Second. We will go to the Unicomplex and "convince" the Borg Queen to help other species, instead of assimilating other species. So the timeline will continue like Master One wants it to happen. This will be a very slow process. It will take about 400 years before major changes in the Borg collective will take effect." Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Through a hole in the Scaton Nebula, the USS Walang crew has first contact with a species called Trsterts. The Trsterts live on the other side of the hole in a different universe. Matter is streaming from the Trsterts universe into the Scaton Nebula and therefore the Scaton nebula is growing. For the Trsterts the matter of this nebula is bad news. Transering the matter will take at least another 4 months. There is no need for concern for the Scaton Federation. They receive the same matter as in the Scaton Nebula itself. Captain Hendriks has asked the Trsterts all kinds of things as the Trsterts seem highly evolved in science. The Trsterts are very friendly and provide Captain Hendriks with several data crystals and a device to read and study the crystals. Most of the data concerns the Trsterts history, scientific developements, and finally also a way to close and open rifts in space. But the Trsterts also give Captain Hendriks a ship, very advanced, which can have a crew of 50 crewmen. The Trsterts have addapted the ship so it can be carried by the USS Walang. The USS Walang crew names the ship "Striker". But while the USS Walang crew is making plans on how to close the gap between the universes together with the Trsterts. Messages come in from the Federation about the war against the Romulans. The Federation and Klingon combined forces have encountered strange alien ships, black, with some kind of tentacles. These ships were not Romulan, but seem to fight on the Romulan side. These black ships are so powerful, they can whipe out ten ships in one attack. When Captain Hendriks shows the information about the unknown alien black ships, the Trsterts are shocked. Trsantr the Trsterts leader explains that these ships are ships of a species called Shadows. The Trsterts once had trouble with the Shadows, but were able to drive them away, but at a very high cost. the Shadows only want one thing: violence. As Trsantr explains. "Enter our galaxy they did through a rift in space. You must find this rift in your galaxy and close it. Then you have to destroy all Shadow ships in your universe. You must do this fast, before they build more. It took us almost ten years to drive them away. We were not able to destroy them. One day they were beaten in a huge battle and the few ships they had left escaped but were not seen again. That was about Seven thousand years ago. We learn this in our schools so nobody ever forget our worst enemy." Interesting. Captain Hendriks decides to think about the situation. "Send all the information to the Federation on how to destroy these Shadow ships and how to close the rift. Let them handle the war. We will continue to learn from the Trsterts and use the ship Striker they gave. This is the best option. How could we fight the shadows with so few resources and no back up from the Federation?" Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 65 22.16 The cloaked Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu under command of Captain K'Mada and with half Klingon Starfleet officer Lieutenant Commander Matz is cruising Romulan space. Sensors detect a battle and the Qui'Tu sets course to the battle. Day 65 22.34 The Qui'Tu arrives at the battle A big black alien ship is attacked by 16 Klingon and Federation ships. There are already at least 8 ships destroyed by the black ship. In another attack only two federation ships remain, but they take of and retreat. The Qui'Tu had no time to enter the battle. Day 66 04.13 Captain K'Mada has had contact with the Klingon high Council to report what he has seen. The Klingon fleet has already met more of these black ships and are regrouping together with Federation forces. But things do not look good. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg It is war. Most of the Federation starships are on their way to take strategic positions in the Federation. Part of them is at the Romulan border on patrol. Part of them have entered Romulan space. Colonel Crow has new orders. "We will go to Earth. Defend the planet Earth from possible cloaked Romulan ships on a suicide mission to destroy earth with a genesis weapon. We'll wait and see what will happen. Better save than sorry." On their voyage to the heart of the Federation nothing happens. No Romulan ships are seen. Although the USS Iceberg sensors have been upgraded to see cloaked ships, nothing is detected. The voyage passes without incidents and when the USS Iceberg is in orbit of Earth it is a surprise to the officers and crew of the USS Iceberg that they are the only defense close to Earth. Apparently the Federation Council has not find it necessary to defens Earth, not believing that any Romulan ship can get this far. But Colonel Crow resorts under the Starfleet Marine Corps and he does not take orders from Starfleet. Only General Fujimori can order Colonel crow where to go. General Fujimori refuses to send the USS Iceberg to Romulan space. The General has his own opinion. That is the defense of Earth is a good thing. You never know. So the USS Iceberg stays close to Earth. Furthermore, as some of the Federation Council members get scared, Earth's planetary defense grid is activated. And scared they should be. After only one day already the USS Iceberg sensors detect a cloaked Romulan ship entering the Sol System. Close to Pluto the Romulans are intercepted. A cloaked Romulan ship has no shields while cloaked so it is an easy job for a dozen marine platoons to take over the Romulan ship. But in order to do so, they had to kill all Romulans aboard. These Romulans were clearly not willing to surrender. All genesis technology is neutralised in a matter of seconds. But there is something else aboard the Romulan ship. A strange creature, about 2 meters high and 2 meters long, looking like a large black spider. The marines have managed to capture it between force fields. The creature seems to be intelligent... Colonel Crow needs answers quickly. "Try to interrogate it. This creature seems more important than the Romulans aboard the Romulan ship. If the Romulans have captured such a creature it is prudent to know why and how.What were their going to do with the creature? So far it seems harmless,but time will tell. We'll also resume are course to Earth to protect Earth." Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Colorado patroling the border of the Federation-Romulan Neutral Zone has rescued the Romulan Sub-Commander Vorax, who gives Captain Walker very useful information about the war. Captain Walker has a new plan. "Mr Sonak about the cloaking device can it be installed in engineering." "I believe so captain, it will take some time." Captain Walker's plan is unfolding. "Bridge to engineering." It is Chief engineer Torak who responds personally. "Engineering here captain, Lt Torak." "Mr Torak how long would it take to install a cloaking device." "About halve an hour captain." "Keep me informed, bridge out." The information coming from Sub-Commander Vorax has been checked. As Chief of Security Lieutenant Jeffrey Wayne reports. "Captain, Much of what Sub-Commander Vorax is true. We found an encrypted section." "And!" "I un-crypted the section. You should a look at it." "Show me. Thank you, see what else you can find. And send this immediately to Starfleet and other ships." The USS Colorado crew makes some progress now, even in engineering they are optimistic. "Engineering to Bridge." "This is the captain." "Torak here captain, the cloak is installed." "Thank you." And so the USS Colorado , cloaked has a better view on things. BUt more information is needed. The USS Colorado is sent into Romulan space to investigate. Cloaked the ship cannot be seen. So the Colorado can move fast without interuption. After a full day without any events, Lieutenant Jeffrey Wayne has a new report. "Captain, There are twelve Klingon battlecruisers attacking a ship sir. That ship is of unknown origin. It is not Romulan. From the communications I have intercepted from the Klingons this is an alien ship, but it is fighting on the Romulan side. Sir ! sir !" The Bridge crew of the USS Colorado cannot believe what they see. The black ship is now close enough to have a look at it. It looks like nothing they have seen before. It is black and seems to have twenty tentacles like an octopus. The Klinogn ships fire all their weapons on the black ship, but there is no significant damage. The Black ship returns fire on the Klingon ships with some kind of polaron beam weapon, cutting the Klingon ships into pieces. It happens in only a few seconds. The Klingons had no chance at all. then the black ship sets a course. Apparently it has not seen the cloaked USS Colorado. Lieutenant Jeffrey Wayne is the first to speak. "Captain. That ship had more power than twenty Borg cubes. And it seems to addapt to weapons fired upon it. I strongly suggest that we do not attack this ship. That would be suicide." ---------------------------------------------- The USS Cinebow has joined the Sixth Fleet under command of Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom. Refugees of the war contact the Sixth Fleet for help. Lieutenant Jones has come up with an idea to pickup the real fugitives and not the Romulans who could be spies. "Captain, why not transport all none Romulan crew onboard." "Can that be done." "Yes through dna. Scan for Romulan dna, and transport all none!" It sounds like a good idea. The Captain gives his orders. "Lt. Danto see if you locate all none Romulans and transport them to the cargo bay." "That could be a lot. I will put two security teams on standby." And so all non-Romulans are transported aboard several ships of the sixth fleet. But aboard the USS Cinebow the cargobays where the fugitives are brought together, are guarded, but the medical staff tries to help the fugitives as much as they can. Doctor Lieutenant Commander Laura Wayne is the first who hears about the strange stories. The fugitives did not run from the Romulans, but from another alien species they had never seen before. These were black creatures, 2 meter high and they looked like giant spiders. And they had a ship, black, apparently with tentacles. The defenses of their home planet Medolok were useless. Their weapons didn't make a scratch on that black ship. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Not that far away from Angel one a very small ship is lurking in the shadows of a small moon. It is as if it is waiting to do something, but it is not clear yet what its intentions are. Silent as a predator, waiting for its prey. But it is not clear what its prey is. The USS Alice Cooper-B, the USS Lyon and USS Doorway are still closeby to Angel One. In case the Romulans return. The threat is not over yet. Within a few weeks maybe. It is like the little ship just waits until the Federation ships leave. But it has to be patient The Federation ships are not going anywhere soon. On Angel One Ambassador Jas Stevens is still celebrating the peace. One step has been made to give men and women equal rights... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) While the few Tok'ra in this mission examine the artifacts and devices of the Crion finding place, the Hirogen fleet is on its way to Adrata, a Goa'uld stronghold. The plan is to take the planet and add it to the free Tok'ra planets. But the Goa'uld who is controling Adrata, goes by the name of Damophet. Damophet has gathered a large army of Jaffa, who serve him well. In fact he is planning to do an attack on one of the system lords to take over his territory. Damophet has not yet decided which system lord he wants to attack. But his attempt is interupted. First Prime of Damophet enters the hall and reports. "My Lord. There seems to be a disturbance around our planet. We do not know what it is my lord." "Then find out." "Yes my lord." But it is to late already. 40 Hirogen battleships decloak and start their attack runs on the twelve Ha'tak vessels, defending the planet. The surprise is complete. Although Damophet has a huge army of Jaffa, the Jaffa have to retreat. Only two Ha'tak vessels can escape the attack. But just before they can jump to hyperspace, another 20 Hirogen ships decloak almost on top of them. Space is filled with weaponsfire, followed by the exploding of the Ha'tak ships. All but about ten Hirogen ships cloak again. The Hirogen fleet moves to the planet and starts the first bombing runs. It is time for Damophet to leave. He gathers his most loyal Jaffa and takes off in a Ha'tak mothership. The Ha'tak jumps to hyperspace almost immediately and escapes. The main army of Damophet knows their lord could escape. They try everything to stop the invaders, loyal as they are. But they are quickly outnumbered due to the bombardments and a new group of Hirogen ships who joins the hunt. Apparently the word is spreading among the Hirogen community that a new prey has been found and the hunt is on. Ground troops land on the surface. The Hirogen hunters surprise the Jaffa. The transporters and the stealthy Hirogen are unstoppable.The Jaffa are crushed and completely whiped out. Adrata is clear. The Tok'ra have discovered what one of the Ancient artifacts does. It is a portable database. Players: Thomas van Rhee USS Oregon The USS Oregon is in orbit of Opall III. Opal III has been hit with a serious war. After a strange contact with Cratona of the Kstra, who accuses the government of Opal III and the Drovandi to have conspired to extermiante the Opal III population, a Drovandi ship is detected. And then two more are detected. The small Drovandi fleet is under command of Scipper Gstlo. Aboard the Drovandi ships there is trouble. The crews have not been payed by the Drovandi government. Scipper Gstlo has trouble to keep things under control. He aggrees that only one job will be done and then they will return to Drovandi Prime, the Drovandi capital planet. A mutiny is avoided, but there is already a new problem. A strange alien ship is detected in orbit of Opal III. The Drovandi do not recognize the USS Oregon or any other Federation ship as this is the first time they see a Federation ship. But the Drovandi are a peaceful trading tribe in these parts of the Gamma Quadrant. Let's hope Captain Roberto Adriano sees that in time... Players: Cathy Edgington Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne ::Onboard the EAS Terradyne:: Draan Marr, C-in-C of Earth Force Special Forces, pushes a button on his link and says, "Draan to Security, please report to the briefing room. Fully armed detail with PPGs set for maximum. Escort our Romulan Preator guest to Omega Sector and make him "comfortable". Have an agent of the Psi Corps present with a P rating of 12." As Draan was talking to his Security Chief, he was smiling at the Romulan Preator who had no idea what was about to happen to him. "Preator" Draan spoke, "This is your last chance to cooperate with me. After you leave this room the odds of you surviving this ordeal are not too good." The Romulan just smiled as Security took him to Omega Sector. "Chief, IF, by some chance he cooperates please let me know." "Aye, sir.", said the Chief smiling as he forcefully moved his prisoner. "Marshall Drann, incoming Gold Channel transmission from the Minbari War Cruiser, Tri' Sa' Nor." Draan moves quickly back to the Command Deck of the Flagship of the Special Forces. "Communications, please feed the signal to my office." Draan spoke his security clearance for the Comms Officer to begin. "Marshall, this is Captain Shi' Gon. Just a short time ago, on a routine security patrol of our Engine Room, we discovered the remains of what we think are the senior Engineering Staff. What was left was not much. Sir, this looks like the work of the Ancient Darkness. It is returning again!" "Captain, the Shadow Home World was destroyed by President Sheridan 6 years ago, and you were with him when that happened. I know the Shadows have allies, but they are not in this Sector." Just then a klaxon sounded on the EAS Terradyne. INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! "Captain, I'll be in touch, Draan OUT!" "Commander Sullivan, report!" Shouted Draan. "Sir intruder alert in Engineering. All Engineering Staff were evacuated and all are accounted for. Containment Security Shields are in place and Shock Troops are surrounding the area. Should the troops use our new detection grid?" "Excellent suggestion Commander. Make it happen." The First Officer sent the message to switch to the "alternate" scan mode for Shadows. ::Meanwhile closer to the Romulan boarder. Onboard the EAS Interceptor, a Warlock class Destroyer:: "Captain, Signal from the Terradyne." "Go ahead Commander Ryan." "From Fleet Command, all ships go to Intruder Alert. More to follow." "Ryan, open a fleet channel." "Sir, we are 2 hours from Romulan space. They are not aware of our presence. If we open a channel they will know we are here." "Ryan, our presence here is only one for show. Marshall, Draan Marr has not given the attack order yet. He is letting Psi Corps deal with the Romulan Preator right and has already sent a message to their Home World with a very detailed description of what will happen to him if the Romulans do not stand down. Now, open a Fleet Channel, Commander." "Channel open, sir." "This is Captain Mark Hansen to all ships. All ships are to go to Intruder Alert. This order comes from Field Marshall Draan Marr. All Ships acknowledge." ::Onboard the EAS Terradyne engineering:: "There he is. Can you see it too? There is only one of them. No there is another one. There are only two of them." "Are you sure?" "Yes yes. We have scanned the entire section. Fire ! Fire !" A few moments later two shadow creatures are destroyed... In the Terradyne detention block the Romulan Praetor is scanned by a specialist P-12 telepath. The Romulan Praetor cannot help revealing everything that has to be known. But the inevitable happens. The Romulan Praetor is dead after the telepath scan. But the information he gave is astonishing to say the least. About a year ago the Romulans, weakened by the war with the Dominion and their internal fights and struggles, were approached by someone who offered help. First this man, called Morden, gave the Romulans the genesis technology. Then a few large ships came. Mister Morden had explained these ships belonged to his associates and were only coming to Romulus to protect Romulus and the Romulans. They received permission to land on Romulus and stay there. After a second verification Terradyne security can only come to the conclusion this Mister Morden had been killed on Centauri Prime long ago. Apparently this had to be about another Mister Morden or a clone. Whoever this Mister Morden was, the Shadows had come to Romulus. Maybe they wanted to help the Romulans evolve in the strongest society in this galaxy. The Romulans were eliminating the weak which could be conform the Shadow philosophy. The Shadow fleet in this galaxy was not big. Apparently the Shadows had not been able yet to build or bring any planet killers in this galaxy. So they used the Romulans to execute attacks with the genesis weapons... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report March 2007 USS Earth A message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerfull, able to addapt, like the Borg. Commodore Steichen decides there is nothing the USS Earth can do in this new war. "There is nothing we can do to help. One ship will not matter. We will stay in the Kstrama system, Try to find a way to stop the Shadows. Maybe the Brontrordens can help." In the mean time, Commodore Mechels might fight the Shadows, let the Borg addapt and then let the Borg destroy the Shadow ships. Of course this would make the Borg the dominant species in the Galaxy... But to some surprise, the USS Thunderbolt, under command of Commodore Mechels and USS Recon leave the Kstrama System, taking all 192 Borg ships with them. A transwarp conduit is opened and the entire fleet jumps in. It is not clear where they went. The Federation could be in much trouble with these Shadow ships. So there is work to be done. But even the Brontrordens are afraid of the Shadows. They call the Shadows evil itself. the Kstrama System is not safe for the Shadows. If the Shadows come... Evacuation... And that hasn't happened in a thousand years. Whatever database search is done, even the crashed Borg ships are not helpful. Apparently the Borg have not met the Shadows. THen suddenly one of the Brontrordens has found something in a secret library database. He reports to his superior who reports to Commodore Steichen. "Commodore Steichen, maybe we have something which can help us all against the Shadows. In this ancient book there is talk of a species called Vorlons. Apparently these Vorlons are the mortal enemy of the Shadows..." Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 A black ship close to planet Gulak in Romulan space seems to be invincible. The Black ship has just eliminated a large fleet apparently without being damaged. The USS Cardiff is very heavily damaged, but not destroyed. There is reason to believe that the black is using the USS Cardiff as bate. As Commodore Van Nieuwenhove retreats with his fleet to Starbase 369, one ship, the USS Sunrise engages its cloak and stays behind. Apparently the black ship doesn't see the cloaked USS Sunrise. It sets a pursuit course of the 369th fleet under command of Commodore Van Nieuwenhove. The USS Sunrise has no trouble to get to the USS Cardiff and rescue the crew. The USS Cardiff is not to be repaired and being in hostile space, the Cardiff is autodestructed. The USS Sunrise sets course to Starbase 369 as well. But it seems now that the 369th fleet is retreating, the black ship is in pursuit and the USS Sunrise is in pursuit of the black ship. A message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerfull, able to addapt, like the Borg. At the time the 369th fleet has assmebled and regrouped at Starbase 369, the Shadow ship has halted. It seems to have stopped to decide whether it will attack or not. The huge massive Starbase 369 is heavily shielded and heavily armed. It gives the cloaked USS Sunrise the time to get to Starbase 369 as well and transfer the survivors of the USS Cardiff to the starbase. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove takes a dramatic decision. "We will wait for the Shadow ship with our fleet. We can destroy it, but it will be at a high cost..." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt At the Kstrama system the defenses Brontrordens against any technology has been assimilated by the three Borg Jedi masters. But only they are able to use it, not the other Borg... Commodore Mechels now has 192 Borg ships under his command. Commodore Mechels' fleet leaves the Kstrama System. "Open a transwarp conduit to the Queen's Unicomplex." "Aye sir, opening conduit. Conduit is established sir." The entire fleet jumps into the transwarp conduit to arrive only 20 minutes later in the heart of the Borg Collective. There is no opposition as Mechels' fleet are all Borg, even the USS Thunderbolt and USS Recon have lots of Borg upgrades. The two Federation ships seem to the Borg as being assimilated ships. It is Lieutenant Malory at the helm of the USS Thunderbolt who still has a question. "Sir, while we are here. Why don't we just destroy all this and the Borg Queen. Than the Collective is finished." But Master One explains. "If we do destroy the Queen and her unicomplex, there will be another different Queen in a matter of minutes. A unicomplex is build by the Borg in a matter of days. Destroying the Queen or unicomplex will not make much difference. Making changes to the Borg Queen and the entire Collective has to be a slow process. If any Borg finds out it has been tampered with, this mission will have failed. This process takes 397 years and 8 months. You will have to be patient." Lieutenant Malory shakes his head. "I will be long dead by then..." "Probably, but the future generations of your species will remember you as one of the heroes who started all of this." Lieutenant Malory smiles. He has no further questions. Master One is silent for a moment. "There. It is done. We can leave now..." A message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerfull, able to addapt, like the Borg. And for the Federation and the Klingons, maybe even the entire Alpha Quadrant help is on its way. Commodore Mechels has decided to intervene... "Set all these people free first. We can use the Borg ships on remote control. We will go to Romulan space and start destroying some Shadow ships and every Romulan who walks in our way... Kill them." Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Far away from Federation space, in the Scaton Nebula, the USS Walang crew has met the Trsterts through a hole in space, a spacial rift in the Scaton Nebula. A message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerfull, able to addapt, like the Borg. But this was already known to Captain Hendriks and her crew. The information they received from Trsantr the Trsterts leader on how to defeat these Shadows has already been sent. But even with the new advanced communication systems aboard the USS Striker, it will take a week until the message reaches Earth. At this moment that is the only thing Captain Hendriks can do to help the Federation. Mining continues in the Scaton Nebula and the members of the Scaton Federation start having a certain degree of prosperety. But also the technology used to mine improves. Better and more advanced technology is also given by the Trsterts make life in the Scaton Federation more comfortable. In a short time the different species in the Scaton Federation work closely together. All species close enough to send an ambassador have done so. After a month it seems that all these species have been living together for centuries. But then strangely enough a message comes in from a very remote planet. But even the Trsterts cannot translate it. The source is a planet three months away for the USS Walang at maximum speed. For the USS Striker it will ony take 6 hours. But the message cannot be translated. So it could be a declaration of war, but it could also be a request to joing the Scaton Federation. At the next meeting all Scaton Federation members look at Captain Hendriks and Ambassador Z'qo. The USS Walang is the biggest and best ship in the neighbourhood and although all members of the Scaton Federation received a ship from the Trsterts, those ships do not have weapons... Captain Hendriks sends the new Trsterts ship USS Striker out to investigate. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 66 12.00 A message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerfull, able to addapt, like the Borg. Day 66 12.08 The cloaked Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu under command of Captain K'Mada and with half Klingon Starfleet officer Lieutenant Commander Matz aboard, sets course to investigate these black ships. Lieutenant Commander Matz could have transfered to the USS Vertigo, but she wants to stay aboard the Qui'Tu. Day 68 14.58 The Qui'Tu detects a black Shadow ship on long range sensors. Apparently the Shadow ship has not detected the Klingon ship as it does not change course to intercept... Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The crew of the USS Iceberg has captured a black creature which was aboard a Romulan ship. The marines are surprised to see that the creature is suddenly gone. It has disappeared. The forcefields are still in place and holding. Apparently this creature can render itself invisable. The marines do not panic. They adjust their tricorders and scanning equipment until they have visual confirmation of the creature again. After a few minutes of trial and error the creature becomes visual again. "Colonel Crow sir. The creature has tried to fool us by becoming invisible, but we have found a way to make it visible again with tachyon emissions. We cannot see it with our eyes sir, so we will have to carry an emitter all the time. There could be more of these creatures." "Make a full search of the Romulan ship." "Yes sir." After the search with tachyon emitters, no other creature is found. A message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerfull, able to addapt, like the Borg. Although Colonel Crow and his marines do not resort under Starfleet directly it is good advice. Pictures of those black ships are already available in the Starfleet database. The 369th fleet has encountered one of those black Shadow ships and saw that it destroyed a small fleet of Federation and Klingon ships. Th black Shadow ship had almost no damage. Attempts to interrogate the creature fail at first, but all creatures need some kind of air to breath. So the air is pumped out of the section. And apparently that helps. The creature speaks. "...Let us see... Who is the stronger... The strongest will survive... and evolve..." It is the last thing the creatures say. Then, apparently with some kind of suicide device it destroys itself, leaving only some dust on the floor... Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Colorado has a cloaking device activated. On route into Romulan space the USS Colorado crew dtetcts a battle between a black alien ship and a group of Klingon ships. The Klingons don't have a chance and are destroyed. Captain Walker decides to follow the black ship. "Thank Lt. keep our distance out scanning range." "Aye Captain." "Mr Sonak, see if you can find something of the ship, in Vorax ship. I want to know more about this, and why they destroyed the Klingons. Lt. Doran lets have another talk with our guest." A message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerfull, able to addapt, like the Borg. The black ships are ships of a species called Shadows... But the USS Colorado crew already seen the Shadow ship in action. But the scanning of the black Shadow ship seems to be impossible. Sensors cannot penetrate the Shadow ship's hull. No information is gained. The Romulan guest aboard the USS Colorado, Romulan Sub-Commander Vorax, is questioned about the Shadow ship. Romulan Sub-Commander Vorax is a bit surprised. "So they do exsist. I have heard rumors about these Shadows. They say these Shadows are in control of the Romulan Praetor and Romulan Senate, or even more Romulan high placed industrials, but I never believed any of it. It must be true. You have seen one of these Shadow ships. It must be true. We are all doomed. They say these Shadows come from another universe. They are going to help the Romulan Empire to become the most powerful in this galaxy. But the Romulan Senate is divided. And with en upcoming war lots of my people have tried to flee and escape from war." Chief of Security Lieutenant Jeffrey Wayne has a new report. "Captain. The Shadow ship has changed course. It is on a direct course to Romulus." ---------------------------------------------- The USS Cinebow has joined the 6th Fleet under command of Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom. When the 6th fleet encounters a fleet of Romulan fugitives, all non-Romulans are transported aboard several ships of the sixth fleet. The fugitives did not run from the Romulans, but from another alien species. A message from Starfleet Command explains some of this. A message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerfull, able to addapt, like the Borg. The black ships are ships of a species called Shadows... Captain T'Gor needs an update on the fugities in his cargo bay soon. It is Lieutenant Ally Jones who reports. "Captain, most of the people are in shock. From what I could make out they are the last of their race." "Thank you Lt. See what else you can find out." "Aye Captain." There is some news from Sickbay as well. Chief Medical officer Doctor Lieutenant Commander Toby Blad reports "Sickbay to Captain." "Captain here. What can I do for you doctor?" "Captain I have someone here who wishes to speak with you. His name is Vorak, a Vulcan!" "Thank you, I am on my way. Commander Kelley you have the bridge." "Yes Captain." Captain T'Gor goes to sickbay where he meets with Doctor Blad and Chief of Sciences Lieutenant Jones. Vorak only has a minor injury. "Captain T'Gor. It is... good to see another Vulcan again. I have been in Romulan space for three years... to long... and there was no chance to get back. I am a member of the Vulcan secret army V'Shar. I have data for the Vulcan Council. Please bring me to Vulcan. I can only deliver the data myself." Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper While far away from Angel One the war between the Romualans on one side and the Klingons and the Federation on the other side continues, Angel One is celebrating the good ending of a social conflict between Men and Women. While Ambassador Jas Stevens, who helped during the negotiations for peace, is preparing to return to the USS Alice Cooper-B, Aboard the USS Alice Cooper-B two Betazoid officers approach Captain Raz Kalee. "Captain, there is something out there. Not far from our fleet, not far from Angel One. There is an entity. We both feel it's presence. But we cannot locate this entity. We both feel it is evil. We should destroy it..." A few moments later the Captains of the USS Lyon and USS Doorway report to Captain Kalee that all Betazoids on their ships also feel some kind of entity in the neighbourhood... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) More than 100 Hirogen ships are on their way to Gundrota, the new home planet of the Hirogen and Tok'ra. During the few days of voyage an ancient artifact is activated. The artifact projects a three dimensional database in front of the Tok'ra and Jotarn who has decided to have a closer look and have his symbiont Verti also active in the process of investigating this artifact. The database shows several ancient outposts, several strange life forms, but no designs of ships or weapons. When the fleet arrives at Gundrata the three ancient outposts are known by name: Litania, Lutosia, Tinania. The ancients outposts are very important as they may not fall into the hands of anyone else. The Tok'ra believe these outposts can hold much more artifacts or even heavy ancient weapons... Players: Thomas van Rhee USS Oregon The USS Oregon is in orbit of Opall III. Opal III has been hit with a serious war. Cratona of the Kstra has accused the Drovandi of the massive destuction of Opal III. A small Drovandi fleet is on its way to Opal III, but unknown to the USS Oregon crew the Drovandi are peaceful traders, and they have nothing to do with the destruction of Opal III. Also unknown to the USS Oregon crew is that Cratona of the Kstra is a spy of the nearby planet Rendra II, who want to eliminate the people of Opal III by putting them into war with the Drovandi... Players: Cathy Edgington Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne Strange things from the past seem to reveal itself in this universe. The new arrival of the shadows, who have taken the side of the Romulans to make war again. The person who mediates between the Romulans and the Shadows seem to be a certain Mister Morden. Someone has to stop the shadows. It is not clear whether Mister Morden is the same as in an earlier conflict. Maybe he is a brother... In FMAR Draan Marr's fleet several of the minbari ships have already reported shadows aboard, buth the Minbari warrior class aboard was able to destroy them all. But the only good news is that the Shadows are not yet fully in control of everything. There are only a few Shadow ships detected by the Federation and Klingon ships. There are no planet killers seen yet. And apparently the Romulans use genesis technology to destroy planets, so it is clear the Shadows still have to get into the open. Maybe they are afraid that the Vorlons could come... Then on one of the Narn ships a shadow creature is isolated. A report comes in at the EAS Terradyne... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report April 2007 USS Earth With Commodore Mechels getting the Borg out of the way and make it safe again around the Kstrama system, nothing is holding Commodore Steichen back to try to find the Vorlons. "Try to contact these Vorlons the Brontrordens talk about. Maybe they can help." With the help of the Brontrordens, who don't want to have any trouble with any Shadows, the Federation crew starts to send out messages in all directions on all frequencies. The Brontrordens are pessimistic though. "Commodore Steichen, it is not certain that the Vorlons will answer. It is not even certain the Vorlons are in this Galaxy. Some of us think that the Vorlons will show up when the Shadows do. But that has not happened yet, so we fear the worst. We are not in a position to battle the Shadows. There are to few of us. We can only survive if we leave this Galaxy. When the time comes, you are welcome to join us of course. But we have to make sure that that time never comes. We have found some more data in our library, but this new data doesn't reveal where the Vorlons could be. I am sure something will come up. It has to." For a moment the Brontrordens spokesman seems to get emotional. But he regains his confidence really quick. "We have activated all our receivers, even those we shouldn't, but there is nothing else we can do. We have to find the Vorlons. They are our only hope." Several messages come in from Starfleet Command about battles against Shadow ships. All but one battle was lost with heavy losses, except one. Apparently Commodore Van Nieuwenhove in command of Starbase 369 has been able to lure one of the Shadow ships in firing range of the huge starbase. Thousands of quantum torpedoes had to be fired on the Shadow ship before it was destroyed. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove lost a lot of ships in that battle... A few days pass... "Commodore ! Commodore ! I think we have a reply. It is from a planet the inhabitants call Dhardama. The Dhardama claim to know where the Vorlons are. But they find it dangerous to search for the Vorlons so they will guide us to them. They do not have a spaceship, so we have to pick them up on our way. The message took two days to reach us." First Officer Commander T'Lok has a thought. "I find it not logical that a species, apparently with limited technology has knowledge of the Vorlons, especially when we, with the most advanced database of the galaxy, of the Brontrordens, cannot find the location of the Vorlons. The Vorlons should have a home planet in this Galaxy. It sounds only logical they have." But Chief of Security Lieutenant Commander Ulo Hung seems to have the last word. "Yeah, but why aren't they showing themselves?" "Answer the mesage and proceed at maximum speed to the planet called Dhardama. There is no longer a threat of the Borg." Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 The 369th fleet has assmebled and regrouped at Starbase 369, the Shadow ship on its way to the huge starbase has halted. It just waits. In this time the Federation fleet has more time to prepare for battle... Apparently at some moment the Shadow ship lost patience and moved forward. But the Federation fleet was prepared following all the recent wars. As an oiled machine the ships looked like parts of that machine flying around the shadowship firing evrything they had. But it did little damage to the Shadow ship. And it seemed as this Shadow ship repairs itself. The USS Pillar is the first ship hit by the Shadow ship. A purple beam comes from the Shadow ship hitting the USS Pillar and splitting it in two, after which the USS Pillar explodes. The end of this battle is obvious when five other Federation ships are destroyed the same way. There is only one tactic which could be successful. Slowly the fleet lures the shadow ship towards the starbase, but not without more losses. But slowly the tactic starts working. As soon as the Shadow ship is in firing range of the starbase it opens fire. A thousand quantum torpedoes leave there launch tubes on their way to the Shadow ship. They all hit with precision and brutal force... A second salvo of the same destruction is already on its way at the moment the first wave of torpedoes hits. Even the Shadow ship cannot repair itself fast enough or evade the explosive threat... A third salvo is not necessary. With what seems to be a terrifying scream the Shadow ship explodes in a million pieces. The battle is over, the loss is large. 15 Federation ships are completely destroyed, one took som much damage it is not salvable. To many lives have been lost, but the first step has been set to counter the threat... "We will stay at Starbase 369 and make repairs to the ships which have been damaged." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt A large Borg fleet is traveling through the Delta Quadrant, releasing all assimilated Borg drones back to their home planets. This is not to the liking of the Borg Queen but strangely enough she does not intervene. Apparently it has something to do with the three Borg Jedi Masters aboard the USS Thunderbolt. In a few days all the assimilated drones are returned to their home planets. Several messages come in from Starfleet Command about battles against Shadow ships. All but one battle was lost with heavy losses, except one. Apparently Commodore Van Nieuwenhove in command of Starbase 369 has been able to lure one of the Shadow ships in firing range of the huge starbase. Thousands of quantum torpedoes had to be fired on the Shadow ship before it was destroyed. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove lost a lot of ships in that battle... But Commodore Mechels has an advantage. He has 192 Drone free automated Borg ships accompany him to the Alpha Quadrant. The Borg fleet seems to be unstoppable, but there is still work to do. First of all the Borg ships have to learn and addapt. The Shadow weapons are unknown to the Borg. But a first chance to prove themselves is already at hand. After arriving in Romulan space a first Shadow ship is detected. The Borg fleet makes the turn and a few minutes later all these Borg ships exit the transwarp conduit very close to the Shadow ship. Weapons are fired, some of the Borg cubes are destroyed, but the few lost ships give the Borg the chance to addapt. Weapons are tested and fired on the Shadow ship. Apparently the Shadow ship also has the ability to addapt, but the Borg fleet addapts faster... The Shadow ship is kept in a tractor beam and a few pieces are cut out of the shadow ship for analysation. The Borg cutting beams slice up the Shadow ship. The Borg addapt to the new information: weapons, shields, propulsion... Just before the Borg can assimilate the Shadow creatures aboard the Shadow ship, these Shadow creatures commit suicide by blowing themselves up... "Ask the Shadows what they want... We have drawn their attention so there could be an answer." Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Far away from Federation space, in the Scaton Nebula, the USS Walang crew has met the Trsterts through a hole in space, a spacial rift in the Scaton Nebula. When a message comes in from a distant planet which cannot be translated Captain Hendriks sends out the USS Striker to investigate. The USS Striker will arrive at this uncharted planet in 6 hours. The planet is designated as Hypherion. One of the member species of the Scaton Federation knows about this planet, but only that it exsists. Several messages come in from Starfleet Command about battles against Shadow ships. All but one battle was lost with heavy losses, except one. Apparently Commodore Van Nieuwenhove in command of Starbase 369 has been able to lure one of the Shadow ships in firing range of the huge starbase. Thousands of quantum torpedoes had to be fired on the Shadow ship before it was destroyed. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove lost a lot of ships in that battle... But the war is far far away from the USS Walang. There are more urgent matters to attend. If the mysterious call from the remote planet called Hypherion, is a declaration of war, then there will be another war here at the USS Walang doorstep. 6 hours pass and in the Scaton Federation tension rises, people getting more nervous... Then the call from the USS Striker comes in. "Captain, this is Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Calhoun aboard the USS Striker. We are in orbit of the planet called Hypherion. But there is no sign of civilization. This planet is dead. We do not detect any life signs, no animals, not even plants. We cannot explain this Captain. But my guess is that it was some kind of distress call and that we are to late to help. But the strange thing is that whatever happened here happened at least a few centuries ago. I think this is one of those mysteries we will never solve. There is a possibility that we find something but we have to go to the planet surface for that. There is no atmosphere, so in our life suits, we can only stay for a few hours. If you want I can assemble several teams which will releave eachother on the surface to look for clues. What are your orders Captain?" Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 68 22.35 The cloaked Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu under command of Captain K'Mada and with half Klingon Starfleet officer Lieutenant Commander Matz aboard is in pursuit of a black Shadow ship. The Shadow ship is on course to a Romulan planet called Krotarak. Day 70 06.29 De Shadow ship arrives at the planet Krotarak, a desert planet with a Romulan colony 1000 meters under the surface. In orbit just above the colony the Shadow ship holds position. There is no communication Between the Shadow ship and the Romulan colony. It is as if the Shadow ship is waiting for something. Day 71 14.21 The Romulans on the planet Krotarak must have detected the Shadow ship in orbit right above the colony. It is strange why the Romulan colonists have waited to contact the Shadow ship. Even more strange is why the Shadow ship did no attempts to contact the Romulan colony. The Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu intercepts the communications. It seems the Romulans on Krotarak are not prepared to help the Shadows. A genesis weapon is fired from beneath the surface. On advice of Lieutenant Commander Matz who knows the destructive force of the genesis weapon, Captain K'Mada turns his ship around and gets away at maximum speed. Long range sensors detect the Shadow ship is destroyed by the genesis weapon. Now it is clear why the Romulans built their colony 1000 meters below the surface... Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg Now that the threat of the Shadows become real, Colonel Crow doesn't want to sit at the sideline as a spectator. "We will leave Earth and find those black ships. We will try to destroy them." Several messages come in from Starfleet Command about battles against black Shadow ships. All but one battle was lost with heavy losses, except one. Apparently Commodore Van Nieuwenhove in command of Starbase 369 has been able to lure one of the Shadow ships in firing range of the huge starbase. Thousands of quantum torpedoes had to be fired on the Shadow ship before it was destroyed. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove lost a lot of ships in that battle... The Federation and Klingon ships in Romulan space have found some more Shadow ships in Romulan space and everyone understands that some kind of invasion has started but the Shadow fleet is not yet ready to participate on a full scale. Perhaps the main forces of the Shadow fleet still have to arrive in the Galaxy. So if these few Shadow ships are destroyed, it will scare the Shadows and they will return as this galaxy is not an easy target. But at least one Shadow ship has been detected in Federation space. That is the target of the USS Iceberg. "Engage Cloak! Red Alert ! Battle stations! Intercept course ! Maximum warp !" Only a few hours later the USS Iceberg is in pursuit of the Black Shadow ship. It is a big ship, spreading the tentacles as if it is on the search of a prey. The Shadow ship does not detect the cloaked USS Iceberg. "Colonel sir. We are in firing range sir. We can open fire anytime you want sir." ...Deep down on the lowest deck of the ship Corporal Ben Hicks is on his short 5 minute break and listens to some lost and forgotten 20th century music... The final Countdown... Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Colorado has a cloaking device activated. On route into Romulan space the USS Colorado crew detects a black Shadow ship. Sonak is already on it. "Captain, I accidentally find an incryteped section in Sub_commander Vorax ships databanks. If I, may recommend captain to keep a clear distance from the Shadow ship." "Specify!" "For our safety." "Understood. Helm keep a larger distance between us and alien vessel." At hte helm is Ensign Garland. "Aye captain. Distance at 50.000 mile's." "Engineering this is the bridge, what your status on the cloak." "Lt Torak here, cloak functioning normally." "Thank you Lt." On the bridge Captain Walker waits for a report. "Let's have Mr Sonak." "If I may captain. Computer show data on alien vessel known as the shadow vessel. As you can see the shape of the vessel is like nothing we have seen or incountered before. Send this to the Federation." Several messages come in from Starfleet Command about battles against Shadow ships. All but one battle was lost with heavy losses, except one. Apparently Commodore Van Nieuwenhove in command of Starbase 369 has been able to lure one of the Shadow ships in firing range of the huge starbase. Thousands of quantum torpedoes had to be fired on the Shadow ship before it was destroyed. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove lost a lot of ships in that battle... So it is clear that attacking this Shadow ship is not very wise. The USS Colorado keeps following the Shadow ship. Until a distress call is received from the USS Holdfast. The USS Holdfast has severe damage to the warp engine. The USS Colorado is the only ship closeby. This is a dangerous region. If the USS Holdfast is attacked by the Romulans or a Shadow ship, they cannot escape... --------------------------------------- The USS Cinebow crew has picked up some fugitives among who the Vulcan Vorak who says he is from the Vulcan secret army V'Shar. he ncalaims to have data for the Vulcan Council, which he has to deliver to the Vulcan council personally. Several messages come in from Starfleet Command about battles against Shadow ships. All but one battle was lost with heavy losses, except one. Apparently Commodore Van Nieuwenhove in command of Starbase 369 has been able to lure one of the Shadow ships in firing range of the huge starbase. Thousands of quantum torpedoes had to be fired on the Shadow ship before it was destroyed. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove lost a lot of ships in that battle... But the USS Cinebow has duties in the 6th fleet. A large battle could be at hand. Captain T'Gor wants to help the Vulcans, but he also doesn't want to leave the 6th fleet without good cause. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper While Ambassador Jas Stevens is on Angel One helping with the new peace, aboard three Federation starships in orbit, USS Alice Cooper-B, USS Lyon and USS Doorway the Betazoid telepaths sense an entity closeby. But sensors do not detect anything. Behind the star of the system a small ship is hiding. A Shadow creature is watching. The Federation ships send out probes to all directions. The search will take some time... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) A Tok'ra-Hirogen fleet is send to Litania. Ancient artifacts are to important to have anyone else have them. Ancient technology can save the universe if it is in the right hands or destroy the universe if it is in the wrong hands. Even Jotarn understands. And aside of that, the hunt is on and more and more Hirogen join up with the now mighty Hirogen fleet. As they don't know what to expect a large fleet is sent to Litania. The Ancient technology is even superior to the Hirogen technology. Several days later when the fleet arrives at Litania, it is clear that someone else was first. A large Jaffa fleet seems to be waiting for the Hirogens to arrive. But the Hirogen ships are cloaked... Hirogen soldiers paint their faces with colorful lines. The hunt has begun. Decloaking the ships the attack begins and the element of surprise again gives the Hirogen an advantage. The battle is short. The Hirogen technology is superior. Shields are holding. The enemy is hunted down and eliminated. Strange thing is that the Jaffa were first at Litania and the only way to get the artifacts was to get them out of the hands of the Jaffa. These Jaffa belonged to the army of the Goa'uld Damophet... Players: Thomas van Rhee USS Oregon The USS Oregon is in orbit of Opall III. Opal III has been hit with a serious war. Cratona of the Kstra has accused the Drovandi of the massive destuction of Opal III. A small Drovandi fleet is on its way to Opal III, but unknown to the USS Oregon crew the Drovandi are peaceful traders, and they have nothing to do with the destruction of Opal III. Also unknown to the USS Oregon crew is that Cratona of the Kstra is a spy of the nearby planet Rendra II, who want to eliminate the people of Opal III by putting them into war with the Drovandi... But the Drovandi already have a new problem. While approaching Opall III a few ships of their fleet show several main system malfunctions. As the Drovandi traders have not been payed for some time by their government, spare parts or replacements have not been ordered. The Drovandi fleet comes to a stop. Players: Cathy Edgington Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne More ships in FMAR Draan Marr's fleet seem to have Shadow creatures aboard, but as soon as they are caught, they kill themselves. Even the Narn who have caught a few already are surprised. Several messages come in from Starfleet Command about battles against Shadow ships. All but one battle was lost with heavy losses, except one. Apparently Commodore Van Nieuwenhove in command of Starbase 369 has been able to lure one of the Shadow ships in firing range of the huge starbase. Thousands of quantum torpedoes had to be fired on the Shadow ship before it was destroyed. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove lost a lot of ships in that battle... But htere is no full scale attack yet and it seems the Shadows still need the Romulans to do most of the dirty work for them. With the word of a certain Mister Mordon, presumed to be killed long ago, things get more strange. The big question remains... What will the Vorlons do? Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report May 2007 USS Earth The USS Earth has left the Kstrama System on route to a planet called Dhardama. The people of Dhardama claim to know more about the Vorlons, but they are rather primitive and have no way to travel through space. The Brontrordens have assigned one of their own as an ambassador aboard the USS Earth. Ambassador Yt of the Brontrordens will serve as a liaison between the Federation and the Brontrordens. It is clear that even the technological advanced Brontrordens are afraid of the Shadows. Ambassador Yt explains. "When our species was still young, there was a huge war between a few other species nearby. We did not want to be involved as we are a peaceful species. But we had no choice to build strong defenses in case one of those violent species would attack us. But apparently nobody cared about us. Even when 6 species were getting involved in this war, we were left alone. We did not understand, but we were happy that we were not attacked. We were able to build defenses so strong, the others probably did not want to risk extreme losses by attacking us. We did not know why the other species were fighting. Then we had an outside visitor. It was a humanoid man called Morden. He wanted to trade and help us to become a strong species..." There is nothing found in the Federation database about this Morden. The Federation has not yet been this far into the Beta Quadrant. Apparently this Morden is not from the Federation or from Earth. "... but you must know that our species, the Brontrordens are a very closed community. Although we do not have any problems with outsiders, we do not share technology and we do not want to receive technology from outsiders. We don't want to be depending on strange technology. Anyway, this Morden was a spy of this species called the Shadows. But we found out to late. Most of our neighbouring species were at war, destroying eachother. By the time we had found out that these Shadows were behind this war, it was to late. This region of the galaxy was invaded by Shadow ships. Our history books and the data of the early days, mention a species called the Vorlons, who drove the Shadows away. But the damage was already to severe. Of the 9 species involved in the war, only one survived... barely. The last remaining survivors of that species left this region to make a new start. We don't know where they went. We don't know where the Shadows went. We don't know where the Vorlons went." After a few days the USS Earth arrives at the designated coordinates, but the planet Dhardama is a Y-class planet. There is no life on Dhardama... Commodore Steichen decides to ask Brontrordens Ambassador Yt for ideas. And she will do what he says. Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 During the last battle between the 369th fleet and a Shadow vessel 15 ships were lost. Repair crews are dispatched to repair the damage on Starbase 369 and the remaining ships. As an hour after the battle the freighter USS Carry, under command of Commander Jeffrey Dunn arrives with 12000 quantum torpedoes. It is a welcome surprise. The USS Carry has been able to slip through everything that might be dangerous in this war. Without weapons of any power, the freighter of Commander Dunn has made it from the planet Yordonana to the front line three times, before returning to Starbase 369. Dunn and his crew seem to be doing their jobs, but they feel bad about the fact they weren't there when the Shadow ship attacked. Not that they would be able to do anything... The 369th fleet only has 6 ships left and although they are damaged and under repair they are put in a defensive screen around Starbase 369 to secure the starbase. While Commodore Van Nieuwenhove is reviewing the latest damage and repair reports, behind him a flash of light appears. Before the Commodore can say or do anyting, the white creature starts to speak. "You must go to the planet called Ztolada. Alone..." Commodore Van Nieuwenhove trusts the white creature, takes a runabout and goes alone to this planet called Ztolada. Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt Three Shadow creatures are captured in a forcefield and just before they can destroy themselves one of them is stopped by Master One, using the force. "You will not destroy yourself." The will of the Shadow creature is broken. "I will not destroy myself." "You will tell me who you are and what your intentions are." "I will tell you who I am and what my intentions are. I am Shadow. I am creating evolution. The strongest will survice. All the rest will be destroyed." "What side are you on. What about the Romulans?" "We are on our side. War, struggle, battle... leads to the strongest species, who will survive and become stronger. The weaker will be destroyed. It is our purpose." But Master One does not agree. "Violence, war, battle lead to the dark side." "We will do what we must do. What we always have done. The stronger species will evolve and the weaker will be whiped out." It is clear the Shadow creature will not say much more... The creatures is transported of the Shadow ship intoa holding cell. It seems the Shadow ship is alive, or partly alive. It can addapt but not as fast as the Borg Jedi. But there is more bad news. Master One explains to Commodore Mechels.... "This captured Shadow ship is only a cruiser. There are Shadow battleships and even Shadow planet killers. The Shadows come from another universe. They have to be stopped before their bigger ships arrive. If we can stop them, they will give up coming here and threaten this galaxy." But apparently Commodore Mechels has run out of options. "Contact the Federation and ask the Federation what we should do." Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang In the Scaton Nebula is the USS Walang crew still trying to find out what a message from the planet Hypherion means. Even the technological advanced Trsterts and no Scaton Federation member can translate the message. And then more disturbing messages come in from the Federation and the Klingons. Apparently there are already 6 shadow ships gathered close to Romulus. And there are at least 2 more on their way. Apparently the Shadows are putting together their fleet for a strike... But the war is far away, and there is probably nothing one ship can do to make a difference. The war is not going good for the Federation and most of the crew aboard the USS Walang are happy to be so far away, more or less safe. The USS Striker is in orbit of the planet called Hypherion. But there is no sign of civilization. Not even life. It seems Hypherion is a dead planet. Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Calhoun in command of the USS Striker asks for new orders. "USS Striker, you will wait in orbit of the planet Hypherion and wait until something happens. You will wait one day and then go down. We will ask the Scaton Federation to help." Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 71 14.21 The Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu is close to the Romulan planet Krotarak and witnesses the destruction of a Shadow ship by a genesis weapon fired from the Romulan colony. apparently not all Romulans welcome the Shadows. Day 71 14.29 General staff meeting aboard the Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu to discuss the situation. Klingons hate Romulans. That is a fact, but maybe something good can come from this. Although none of the Klingons aboard wants to open communications with the Romulans on Krotarak. Day 71 14.47 Federation officer Lieutenant Commander Matz, serving aboard the Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu, has a suggestions. Matz will have the ships doctor change her appearance into a romulan female. She will then try to infiltrate the Romulan colony on Krotarak to find out what these Romulans are planning and what their intentions are. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The USS Iceberg is in pursuit of a black Shadow ship. "We will just follow the Shadow ship and study it more." Indeed a study is needed. It is already clear that these Shadow ships are very powerful. If the Federation or Klingons do not find a weakness of these ships, an invasion of the Federation and Klingon Empire will be on the agenda of the Romulans who are now very powerful with the Shadows on their side. ...Deep down on the lowest deck of the ship Corporal Ben Hicks is watching the lateral sensor display. His Sergeant already has analysed most of the data, but they could not find a weakness in the Shadow ship. There doesn't seem to be any opening in the shielding or hull. The hull of the Shadow ship seems to be changing all the time. It is like the Shadow ship is alive. But Corporal Ben Hicks and his Sergeant do not have a final report yet. The same goes for the other teams studying the sensor logs and data. There doesn't seem to be a weakness. But while studying the sensor logs suddenly Corporal Ben Hicks finds something very disturbing. Just within long range sensor range a ship is moving towards the Shadow ship and the USS Iceberg. It is a small Borg Sphere... "Sir! Sir! Look!" "Excellent work Corporal. Sergeant Hacksor to Colonel Crow. A Borg Sphere has just entered sensor range. It is on an intercept course to us and the Shadow ship." And then more disturbing messages come in from the Federation and the Klingons. Apparently there are already 6 shadow ships gathered close to Romulus. And there are at least 2 more on their way. Apparently the Shadows are putting together their fleet for a strike... Colonel Crow has no plans for immediate action. "We'll see what happens when the borg sphere gets in contact with the shadow ship. This could be interresting to see what happens." Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Cinebow crew has picked up some fugitives among who the Vulcan Vorak who says he is from the Vulcan secret army V'Shar. He claims to have data for the Vulcan Council, which he has to deliver to the Vulcan council personally. But the USS Cinebow has duties in the 6th fleet and Vorak has to wait. The database of Vorak's ship is spread among all Starfleet ships, including the USS Colorado far away from the USS Cinebow. ---------------------------- The USS Colorado is still in pursuit of a Shadow vessel. Aboard the USS Colorado Vorak's database is very useful. "Sonak to Bridge. Captain, I accidentally find an incrypted section in Sub commander Vorak's ships databanks. If I, may recommend captain to keep a clear distance from the Shadow ship." "Specify!" "For our safety." "Other stood. Helm keep a larger distance between us and alien vessel." At the helm sits Ensign Garland. "Aye captain. Distance at 50.000 kilometers." "Engineering this is the bridge, what your status on the cloak." "Lt Torak here. Cloak functioning normally." "Thank you Lt." On the bridge Captain Walker needs some answers. "Let's have it Mr Sonak." "If I may captain. Computer show data on alien vessel know as the shadow vessel. As you can see the shape of the vessel is like nothing we have seen or incountered before. Send this to the Federation." "Captain message coming through from star fleet: Message is coming in from Starfleet Command, informing all Federation ships and facilities. The black ships apparently are helping the Romulans. They are identified as ships from a species called Shadows. The Shadow ships are very powerful, able to adapt, like the Borg." At least there is one answer to many questions. "There you have it people." "If I may captain, I don't believe that are helping the Romulans. According to data found, The Shadows ship are looking for a way back. What realy happen is hard to explane, but they found Romulan space through a time portal of some sort." "Is there anything that have a affect of the Shadows. Weapons of some short." "Weapons no Captain. Telepaths. There's incounter mentioned with a vessel with romulans aboard, including humans. And one Vulcan named Vorak." "Thank you!" RED ALERT RED ALERT "What is it Lt." It is Lieutenant Saunders who has detected an anomaly. "Captain a rift opening about 100.000 kilometers from our position." Sonak comes to the aid. "Scanning captain, they do not appear to be Shadows." "Captain recieveing a distress call from Holdfast." "Inform the Holdfast we are in emergency, of our our own." While the bridge crew is watching the main viewer the rift closes again. A few seconds later it is as if nothing has happened. The Shadow ship did not change course. And it did not chance speed. Lieutenant Saunders reports. "The rift is gone sir. I don't know what happened. But it is gone. "Captain. There is another distress call from the USS Holdfast. They are under attack of two Romulan warbirds. If we don't help them, sir, they will not make it." But Sonak with his Vulcan logic also has something to say. "If I may Captain. If we help the USS Holdfast, we will lose the opportunity to keep following this Shadow ship." The question is: will Captain Walker sacrifice the USS Holdfast and her crew so the USS Colorado can stay undetected and follow the Shadow vessel which is on it's way to Romulus? Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper While Ambassador Jas Stevens is on Angel One helping with the new peace, aboard three Federation starships in orbit, USS Alice Cooper-B, USS Lyon and USS Doorway the Betazoid telepaths sense an entity closeby. Federation probes from the three ships gather information. Slowly the search for the unknown entity is going to be concluded. Grid by grid the search continues until the operations officer of the USS Doorway confirms the search has ended. The small Shadow fighter comes out of hiding. It destroyes the probe which detected it, but it is to late. The three Federation starships, USS Alice Cooper-B in the lead have already made their move. A few moments later the Shadow fighter is destroyed. With the destruction of the Shadow fighter the telepaths abaord the Federation ships seem to hear a loud scream... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) The Hirogen - Tok'ra fleet is in orbit of Litania. All resistance from the Jaffa of the Goa'uld Damophet had to be killed. It was a great day for the hunt. The prey was active and fought a good battle. Some of the Hirogen are lightly wounded, but are recovering fast. But no Hirogen are killed. While the Tok'ra are investigating the ancient artifacts, a Hirogen scout is sent to Lutosia... A few days later the scout at Lutosia reports there is a Jaffa army and a Goa'uld stronghold. The local population is enslaved. The Tok'ra want to do something about it. Will the Hirogen agree with those plans? Players: Thomas van Rhee USS Oregon The USS Oregon is in orbit of Opall III. Opal III has been hit with a serious war. Cratona of the Kstra has accused the Drovandi of the massive destuction of Opal III. But the Drovandi have nothing to do with the devestating explosions on Opal III. It was just an accident in the main powergrids of the planet that lead to a disaster. But Cratona of the Kstra wants to take this oportunity to overthrow the government. Cratona wants the Federation to help him do that. Most of his rebel group were killed in the power grid explosions. The Drovandi themselves also have their problems. They didn't get payed for a long time and a major strike on the Drovandi trade ships is at hand... Players: Cathy Edgington Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne More ships in FMAR Draan Marr's fleet seem to have Shadow creatures aboard, but as soon as they are caught, they kill themselves. Even the Narn who have caught a few already are surprised. "Clean all ships of the Shadows." The order is clear. Before anything else the Shadow infiltrators have to be caught or killed. All ships are scanned and cleaned. It takes almost 14 hours to get all Shadows and kill them. But eventually the fleet is clear. The mystery of the man named Morden is still unsolved. It is presumed this Mister Morden is either a clone, or an imposter. The Centauri confirm the death of Morden, long ago. And then more disturbing messages come in from the Federation and the Klingons. Apparently there are already 6 shadow ships gathered close to Romulus. And there are at least 2 more on their way. Apparently the Shadows are assembling their fleet to strike... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report June 2007 USS Earth The USS Earth is in orbit of a planet called Dhardama, a liflessplanet so it seems. The Brontrordens Ambassador Yt is also aboard with two of his aids. On advice of the Brontrordens Ambassador Yt Commodore Steichen assembles an away team and despite the protest of her first officer she accompanies Brontrordens Ambassador Yt to a location 900 meters below the surface with a small security detail. It is some kind of cave. But there doesn't seem any life in the cave. After an inspection and several scans, it is confirmed that the group is in a complex of caves, connected to eachother. In the group of course is Chief of Security Lieutenant Commander Ulo Hung. And he finds it strange that Brontrordens Ambassador Yt apparently knows where to go. "Ambassador, with respect, I am just curious how you know where to go. Do you expect the people of Dhardama to be here?" "It seemed the only place where they could be. We have had contact with them, so they must be around. But they said their technology is limited, so i do not expect highly advanced technology, no power sources which we can detect, or something like that. Maybe we shouold try to contact them again." Without waiting for an answer Brontrordens Ambassador Yt takes his transmitter and starts to speak. "Attention people of Dhardama. This is Brontrordens Ambassador Yt. We have arrived and we are looking for you. Please respond." The group enters another room. Just when Brontrordens Ambassador Yt wants to call the people of Dhardama again a light white energy being appears in the room, coming out of another tunnel... Commodore Steichen decides to wait until the white energy creature does something. Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 A runabout launches from the launchpadd of Starbase 369. Aboard are a mysterious white energy creature and Commodore Geert Van Nieuwenhove. As soon as the runabout is clear to navigate, it jumps to warp on a course to a planet called Ztolada. Not really sure where this planet is Coomodore Van Nieuwenhove has no other choice than to follow the creature's instructions. After a short conversation the creature explaines his name is Kosh, but all what Kosh says is in some kind of riddle. "Our neighbours think the other way." "When we arrive you are alone." What Kosh says is not really clear, but the Commodore has started on this path and he realises there is no way back. He has to find out anything he can about what this is about and if it has something to do with the current threat of the Romulans and Shadows. When the runabout leaves Federation space, the planet Ztolada is not even close. Five days later the runabout arrives at Ztolada sensors indicate there is a large population, large cities, satellites in orbit, but no space sips. At the moment Commodore Van Nieuwenhove wants to ask Kosh a question, Kosh has disappeared. He is gone... Commodore Van Nieuwenhove has an idea. He will transport to the planet into the city and try to find out what this is about. If necessary he will ask the local population. Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt On starbase 888 Admiral Enrico Alvarez is busy looking at the latest battle reports. Admiral Alvarez is in command of the Federation fleet which is at the point of a major battle with the Klingons against the Romulans. Alvarez has no idea what he has to think about these Shadows who pop up at the most unexpected places. The Shadow ships are extremely powerful. Lower ranking officers come and go in the huge starbase operations, where all of the 59 stations are occupied by specialists in communication, tactics, weapons, intelligence,... It is Starbase 888 First Officer Commodore Leo Schaver who personally hands over the padd to Admiral Alvarez with the most important messages of the moment. There is only one message. A certain Commodore Mechels in command of the USS Thunderbolt asks the Federation how he can help. Admiral Alvarez turns to Commodore Schaver. "I have heard some things about this Commodore Mechels. They aren't all good things." "No sir, but in the last major confrontation with an alien enemy, he saved the galaxy and us sir." "And now he has control over a large Borg fleet and he asks how he can help. I don't know whether this man can be trusted. What if he is just an asimmilated drone who acts like he is one of us?" "I don't know sir. But maybe we can give him some kind of order that will prove on which side he is on..." "Yes yes, but that would also include bringing a huge Borg fleet to the Alpha Quadrant. I don't like that at all." "But the Shadow ships sir. They are very powerful. And if I may speak frankly sir, I don't think that we are going to make it if there are more of those." "That has crossed my mind as well Leo. OK let's have the Thunderbolt doing something that really helps. I have heard that these Shadows come from another universe or so. This is only possible if there is a rift between their universe and ours. Send Commodore Mechels new orders. He has to find out how those Shadow got here and then stop them at all costs. All Shadow ships he encounters... No mercy." The message is sent only a few moments later. Commodore Mechels has new orders. Commodore Mechels has already understood that Shadow prisoners do not help much. These prisoners do not talk. He has to find a new tactic. Something probably has gone wrong with the universe and the space and time continuum. These Shadows clearly do not belong here. Commodore Mechels will go back in time and try to discover how these Shadows got into our universe. he has to be careful. If the future changes by his actions, the Borg future could also change, and we all know the concequences of that. This is not according the orders of the Federation. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang A ship from the Scaton Federation is dispatched to arrive at the planet Hypherion after 6 hours. The Scaton ship also uses the high advanced Trsterts technology. A Scaton team is sent to the planet surface and joins the Starfleet away team. A few hours after landing on the planet the teams find a few old and almost destroyed buildings. Apparently the message is sent out from here. Shortly after a search in the buildings an installation is found. It is a transmitter which sends out the strange message. On the planet Hypherion Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Calhoun in command of the USS Striker has a new report. "Captain. Whatever happened here, I am afraid we missed it. The species which lived here has been in a planetary catastrophic event, probably a few hundred years ago. If you want we can continue our search, but I am not sure we will find more clues. The away team of the Scaton Federation agrees with us." "Don't touch anything Commander. Search for more installations like this. Maybe there are still survivors, hidden somewhere. One never knows. We might find something interesting." Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 71 19.22 Lieutenant Commander Matz, aboard the Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu, under command of Captain K'Mada in orbit of the planet Krotarak has been changed into a Romulan female. She is transported to the planet. Day 71 20.22 The first report of Lieutenant Commander Matz. The Romulan colony which has destroyed a Shadow ship with a genesis weapon a few hours before, does not seem to want any intruders, not even the the Romulan Praetor himself. The Romulans on the planet Krotarak do not even want anything to do with the Romulan Senate since one of the Romulan Senators has tried to use the genesis technology on the planet Krotarak. Day 72 07.47 Lieutenant Commander Matz has discovered that the leader of the Romulan community is Commander Ratomek. Apparently these Romulans still have at least two hundred genesis weapons stored in several armories. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg While in pursuit of a black Shadow ship the USS Iceberg crew sees a Borg sphere coming towards the Shadow ship on an intercept course. While the Borg sphere is coming closer it is not clear yet whether it is on an intercept course to the USS Iceberg or to the Shadow ship. The Shadow ship does not change course as if it has not seen the Borg sphere. But the sphere comes closer and closer. until at a certain point it is clear the Borg sphere takes a short turn and it is clear now that it is after the Shadow ship. "Colonel sir. It is heading to the Shadow ship. I have no indication it has seen us. Our cloak must be working perfectly. The Shadow ship does not seem to react on the Borg shpere sir. I don't understand. The Borg sphere is in firing range in 10 seconds sir. The Shadow whip has not yet done anything. Maybe it cannot see Borg ships... The Shadow ship is turning sir. It is opening fire." The mighty polaron beam of the Shadow ship hits the Borg sphere. But only a small part of the sphere is blown of of the sphere. And the Borg adapt quickly. While the automated repair systems are doing their work already the Borg sphere fires on the Shadow ship, causing minimal damage. The Shadow ship comes about and fires it's main weapon again. But it doesn't do any damage. The Borg have adapted. The next tactic of the Borg has been expected. A tractor beam is holding the Shadow ship, and while the Shadow ship fires weapons on the Borg sphere the Borg are unharmed and have time to completely analyse the Shadow ship. But just before the Borg is planning to send over drones to the Shadow ship, the Shadows have decided to seldestruct. A large ball of fire is the end of the Shadow ship. The USS Iceberg is far enough and is save. The Borg do not have damage either although they were very close. Before waiting the Borg sphere powers up the engines and leaves. A moment later it jumps to warp speed. Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Cinebow crew has picked up some fugitives among who the Vulcan Vorak who says he is from the Vulcan secret army V'Shar, who has asked to be brought to Vulcan to deliver secret information. But the USS Cinebow has duties in the 6th Fleet and Vorak has to wait. Captain T'Gor has contacted the Vulcan ship T'Vora to pick up Vorak. The Vulcan ship T'Vora is still a weeek away. A Shadow ship is detected much closer, but it is not clear yet whether the Shadow ship is on an intercept course to the 6th Fleet. ---------------------------- While the USS Colorado is still in pursuit of a Shadow vessel, a rift opens and closes again. It is not clear why or whether a cloaked ship has come through or not. But there is not much time to think. The USS Holdfast is under attack by two Romulan warbirds. If the USS Colorado does not intervene, the USS Holdfast could be lost. But if the USS Colorado helps the USS Holdfast, it will lose the chance to follow the Shadow ship... Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Now that the Shadow and the Romulan threat to Angel One is gone Ambassador Jas Stevens finds it a good time to reveal the truth about the Romulans and their intentions. The Angel One populations could be shocked if he lets them know the Romulans were planning to take over Angel One. Marco Danno, leader of the male group "The Rising Sons" confesses he had help from Romulan agents. it is a shock for Leader Beatta III to hear this but Marco Danno can only apologize. "We needed help from outside. We did not have the materials and weapons we thought we should have to reach our goals. I am happy the Romulans have been taken care of by the Federation. We were mislead and I am prepared to accept any punishment that is appropriate for my actions. But please take notice that we have refused the Romulan help. We knew that this could backfire, but we took the risk as peace between our people is more important than anything else. We were wrong. I was wrong. If I could do it all over again, I would never asked for help from anyone. We had our prejudice opinions about females and we were caught in a web of a conspiracy much bigger than ourselves." But Leader Beatta III forgives Marco Danno. Peace between males and females on Angel One is more important. And it is clear to everyone that not all males on Angel one share Marco Danno's opinion... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) While the Tok'ra are making plans to free Lutosia from the Jaffa in service of the Goa'uld Damophet, the Hirogen army makes plans to hunt down the Goa'uld Damophet himself. It will be a glorius hunt as it is expected that Lord Damophet has a large loyal army of Jaffa and a large fleet. Scouts are sent out to all corners of the region. The damaged ships at Litania are searched for clues of the whereabouts of the Goa'uld Damophet. A few scouts have gotten their hands information that a large part of Lord Damophet's fleet is assembling at the Gunasatomar star. It is not clear what is so important about this star, but it looks like the first step to hit Lord Damophet hard and destroy a large part of his fleet. Within a few hours the Hirogen fleet is on its way to Gunasatomar. Unknown to the Jaffa fleet the HIrogen are coming fast... A day later, suddenly appearing out of nowhere a fleet of 120 Hirogen battleships decloak close to the Jaffa fleet at Gunasatomar. There is no escape for the Jaffa, but they do not fear the Hirogen and attack as good as they can. But the Hirogen ships are by far superior. One by one the Jaffa Ha'tak ships are destroyed. It is already clear to the Tok'ra that these Jaffa have to create a diversion. They probably have had orders from the Go'uld Damophet to lure the Tok'ra and Hirogen away from him and sacrifice themselves to give Damophet time to regroup. And the Hirogen are not invincible. At the time the Jaffa fleet is almost completely destroyed, two Hirogen ships have been lost. But that is not the worst part... Three Jaffa Ha'tak ships are able to escape and jump to hyperspace. Players: Thomas van Rhee USS Oregon The USS Oregon is in orbit of Opall III. Opal III has been hit with a serious war. Cratona of the Kstra has accused the Drovandi of the massive destuction of Opal III. But this is not true. In fact Cratona of the Kstra wants to take this oportunity to overthrow the government and he wants the Federation to help him do that. A small Drovandi fleet is on its way to Opal III. Underpayed crews, bad working conditions and Captains who are also angry to say the least because they feel they are ignored by the Drovandi government. The Drovandi fleet is on its way to Opal III to make a last business transaction. The Droavndi Captains meet on the lead ship to discuss the situation. They agree that any profit they make will be split among the crew and that will be the end of it. After that, they will take their ships, pick up their families and leave the Drovandi to start a colony on a nearby habitable planet called Drosnani. From this moment on they will work only for themselves and no longer for their government. The Drovandi know that the powergrid of Opal III has malfunctioned and that the entire planet almost was destroyed. They want to deal with Opal III and help them that way, but help themselves at the same time. To the Drovandi surprise there is an alien ship in orbit of Opal III. Immediately the Drovandi Captains become optimistic again. Maybe this could be the start of a new trade agreement with these aliens... Players: Cathy Edgington Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne Close to Romulus the Shadow fleet is getting bigger. It seems that the Klingon and Federation fleets will have a hard time to beat this already dangerous Shadow fleet. More different types of Shadow ships are assembling nearby Romulus. The Shadow fleet is now about 40 ships. But there still are no planet killers. After the death of the Romulan Praetor a new Praetor has been elected by the Romulan Senate, Praetor Senak, but it is clear that Senak is the instrument of the Shadows. When the news is send out, the Terradyne bridge crew watches the broadcast. To their surprise a human is standing next to Romulan Praetor Senak. The database computer identifies the man as Mister Mordon... Nobody understands what is going on. The Shadows... They all should be gone... It is as if history repeats itself, but then in this Alpha Quadrant. It is as if these Shadows are coming from the past, or from an alternate reality... And what will the Vorlons do? And what about the First Ones. Maybe there is a First One in this Alpha Quadrant as well... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report July 2007 USS Earth The USS Earth is in orbit of a planet called Dhardama, a lifless planet so it seems. The Brontrordens Ambassador Yt is also aboard with two of his aids. In one of the cave-ruins a white energy like creature is met and Commodore Steichen and her team wait for the creature to do something. The creature introduces itself as Kosh. "It is time. You are the one. You will bring me." It is not exactly clear what Kosh wants. It is not clear whether he wants something from Brontrordens Ambassador Yt or Commodore Steichen. Ambassador Yt wants to know. "Kosh... Can you tell us what do you want from us? And where do you want to go or where do you want us to take you?" It is silent for a moment. It is as if Kosh is not going to say more and expects the USS Earth away team to understand what he just said. But it seems Kosh only has little to add. "Z'ha'dum." Clearly the Starfleet offciers do not understand what this word means. They all look at Brontrordens Ambassador Yt, hoping he knows more. But Ambassador Yt is clearly shocked. "Z'ha'dum? This must be a mistake. Z'ha'dum is the dark Shadow place, destroyed a long time ago. This can't be. If we go to Z'ha'dum we will die." But Kosh does not seem to be impressed. "Z'ha'dum. We must go now." Commodore Steichen does as Kosh asks and will bring him to Z'ha'dum, wherever that is. While they are in transit, she will ask Ambassador Yt for ideas and background. Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 Commodore Van Nieuwenhove has traveled to a planet called Ztolada in a runabout accompanied by a creature called Kosh. But Kosh disapears when the runabout arrives at Ztolada. The population of Ztolada is evolved to the beginning of space travel. Just before Commodore Van Nieuwenhove beams down to the planet he is contacted through a Ztolada satellite. The Commodore receives coordinates to land. Much to the surprise of the Ztolada officials who welcome the Commodore, he materializes right in front of them. Apparently the people of Ztolada have not yet the use of transporters. It is Senior Lospat who welcomes Commodore Van Nieuwenhove. "Welcome to our planet. We do not ahve many visitors from other planets. We are not interesting enough to visit," Lospat smiles. "But let me show you part of our city, our people and let me invite you to a dinner in your honor." After the tour and the excellent dinner Senior Lospat takes Commodore Van Nieuwenhove to a large building. "What we have here could interest you. We show this to all people who visit our planet. What you are about to see is not a secret." The two men pass the guards guarding the building and Senior Lospat leads the way to a small tunnel ending in a large hall. It is a shock for Commodore Van Nieuwenhove to see what is in front of him. It is a Shadow battleship... "We will do nothing. The creature Kosh has brought you here for a reason. Kosh might turn up again." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt Commodore Mechels in command of the USS Thunderbolt and Commander Carl Summer in command of the USS Recon are preparing their ships and a large fleet of Borg ships loyal to them to travel back in time to try to find out where the Shadows come from and how they got in this universe. It is clear there must be a rift of some kind that connects the universe with the universe of the Shadows. As it is unknown when this rift opened for the first time, it will be a search in time. At first Master One initiate a travel back in time of exactly one year. Upon successful arrival scans are executed. There are already to much Shadow ships detected in Romulan space. This could not be the beginning of the invasion of the Shadows. Back one year... Still to much Shadow ships and they are spready all over Romulan space. Back one year... The fleet of Commodore Mechels has to travel back 8 years, 4 months, 12 days and 3 hours to have only one Shadow ship detected by the sensors. Master One has calculated that there is only one rift so this rift should be close to where this one Shadow ship is located. Master One also has calculated that there is only one rift and that this rift is not open all the time. That is why the Shadows could not send a large fleet at once... "It is not clear where this Shadow ship came from. We will follow it and it may leed us to the rift." Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Players: Marianne Loogen After a strange message from the planet Hypherion, a USS Striker away team accompanied by a team of the Scaton Federation has arrived on Hypherion where they find destroyed cities, probably caused by a planet wide disaster. Even the highly advanced Trsterts cannot make anything of the message. It seems a random serie of letters. Before shutting off the transmitter, the away team continues the search in the ruined city on Hypherion. Everything they see seems decayed. Although it is clear the Hypherion civilization was advanced, there seem to be nothing left of it. While the away team is looking for more clues, Captain Hendriks has assigned a team to decipher what the strange message is all about. It could be a distress call, but it also could be a warning. The Scaton Federation has assigned several scientists to the project as well. And even the Trsterts in their own universe are working on it. But it will be a slow process. A conclusion might be farther away than expected. On the planet Hypherion Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Calhoun in command has a new report. "Captain. We have found a creature. It is alive, but it is locked up. It asks to be set free. But that is all the creatures says. I cannot understand how this creature has lived for the last hundred years. Apparently it does not need food. Or we could be it's next meal. Strange thing is that this creature does not show on any of our sensors or scanners. It is as if it is not there at all. What should we do with it Captain?" USS Vertigo Day 72 08.00 Lieutenant Commander Matz reports to Captain K'Mada in command of Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu in orbit of the planet Krotarak that the leader of the Romulan community on the planet is Commander Ratomek and that these Romulans do not want any visitors. They have just destroyed a Shadow ship with one of their hundreds of genesis weapons. Day 74 17.22 Lieutenant Commander Matz has integrated in the Romulan colony on Krotarak for a few days. Just when she has finished a simple meal, an alarm sounds. She runs outside and listens to a small crowd on the street. Two Shadow ships are coming to Krotarak. They will arrive within the hour. Day 74 18.19 One genesis weapon is launched from a small base on rotarak. A few minutes later the two Shadow ships are completely destroyed... Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg "Follow the Borg sphere." The orders of Colonel Crow are very clear. The Borg sphere which has just destroyed a Shadow ship is already moving again. Even Atad is amazed that the Borg sphere could easily destroy a Shadow ship, while the Klingon and federation fleet near Romulus have so much difficulties with that. According the latest reports and calculations, it takes about 30 starships to destroy a Shadow ship. Only if that Shadow ship is alone. A Shadow fleet could be a totally different story. According the latest information the Shadow fleet at Romulus is getting larger. The Borg sphere doesn't seem to be interested in the Federation starship. Even being in sensor range of the Borg sphere does not make it change course. The Borg seem to have other plans. After 3 days of pursuit the Borg sphere changes course towards the third planet of a system called Nopelan. The planet is an M-class planet, but only with plant life and primitive animals. There is no indication of a society or complex structures like buildings. The scans conducted aboard the USS Iceberg show there are no humanoid life forms on the planet. About twenty Borg drones are transported to the planet. Major Bell has something to say about that. "That is strange behaviour for the Borg. There is nothing to assimilate on this planet. There is no technology, not even humanoid life. What are they searching for here. There must be something. The Borg don't do something without purpose. There must be something. I surely would like to know what their plan is..." Colonel Crow gives his orders. "We will investigate why the Borg are at this planet. There is nothing of interest here. We will sent an away team to the Borg ship and let the away team download the Borg database. Adjust weapons to have a few shots, before the Borg adapt. As soon as the Borg adapt to our weapons we will call our away team back to the ship." Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Colorado is following a Shadow vessel. A rift in space opens and closes again. It is not clear why or whether a cloaked ship has come through or not. At the same time closeby the USS Holdfast is under attack by two Romulan warbirds. If the USS Colorado does not intervene, the USS Holdfast could be lost. It is Saunders who reports about the rift. "The ship is gone." "What do you mean it's gone? Either its there or is gone. Do we still have the Shadows vessel!" "The ship is gone, but we still have the shadows." Then Sonak aks the Captain's attention. "Captain please look at the main view screen." "What in god's name?" But Saunders has a new report. "Multiple rifts opening, at least 30." "Thank you. Put the ship on red alert." RED ALERT RED ALERT "All hands battle stations." "Engineering to bridge." "This is the captain, is there a problem." "Torak here captain we lost the cloaking. And all power the the ship." But Torak is not the only one who notices problems. The helm officer also has no control anymore. "Captain, we just lost all power!!!" "What about life support." Saunders checks his display. "We have life support on all decks!" "Torak see what you can do. Sonak what can you tell me." "Captain, they are the same vessels as the one who disappeared." "What just happened." "They just destroyed the Shadow vessel." "Captain receiving a message from the leading vessel." "On screen." "Voice only." The message from the aliens is short but clear. "Don not interfare!" "Hail the ship. This is the USS Colorado, I'm captain Tom Walker. What do you mean? "No reply captain." "Anything!" "No." "They are heading for Federation space." Things inmprove. Saunders reports. "We have power back online." Captain Walker gives his orders. "Engineering we need maximum warp." "A few moments captain." "We don't have moments. Helm lay in intercept course." "Aye captain." Then Torak is ready in engineering. "Captain you have maximum warp." But this is not over yet and everything that happened here has to be reported. "Send all data to the fleet, there in for surprise." Then Torak reports the cloak is back on line. This is the perfect oportunity to cloak and follow the alien ships. When the USS Colorado is ready to follow this new arrived alien fleet, more rifts are opening. There doesn't seem to be an end to it. Saunders reports. "There must be hundreds Captain. There are ships coming through." "On screen." The bridge crew watches hundreds of ships coming through the rifts. It all are Shadow ships. One bigger than the other. And with this huge fleet of Shadow ships there is one very big ship. It is bigger than a Starfleet starbase. The Shadow fleet immediately attacks the 30 alien ships. Abaord the USS Colorado there is no time to do something. The Shadow fleet whipes the alien fleet away. In a few minutes there is nothing left of the alien fleet. The alien fleet is totally vaporized. All the rifts have closed and 123 Shadow ships have come through. Without paying attention to the USS Colorado the Shadow fleet flies away after the destruction of the alien fleet. Saunders reports. "Captain, there is nothing left of the alien fleet. I think these aliens are at war with the Shadows as well. But that did not help us much. The alien fleet is vaporized sir. No life forms, not even pieces of ships. They are just vaporized... It is horrible... and it happened so fast. How can we win against that power?" But Lieutenant Doran also has a new report. "Sir the two Romulan warbirds which were attacking the USS Holdfast are joining the Shadow fleet sir. The USS Holdfast is destroyed. There are no survivors sir. Captain, this large Shadow fleet has set course to... Romulus." ---------------------------- The USS Cinebow has a Vulkan named Vorak of the Vulcan secret army V'Shar aboard. But the USS Cinebow has to stay with the 6th fleet A Vulcan ship is called to come and get Vorak. Chief of Operations Lieutenant Ipsus Luda is the first officer to break routine abaord the USS Cinebow. "Captain receiving multiple data from the Colorado. Message has federation coding." "Thank you. Send it to my ready room." Moments later... The Captain returns to the bridge. "Helm get us of here maximum warp." Chief of Security Lieutenant Nethor Danto interupts his Captain. "Captain there are 30 vessels approaching the USS Colorado, alien origin. We receiving a message, audio only. "Do not interfere." Captain T'gor has understood. "Partly the same massage as the Colorado. Lt. Jones what do scans say?" "Receiving no data what so ever." "Anything!" "No sir, all scans are reflected back!" Then Chief of Operations Lieutenant Ipsus Luda has a new report. "Captain, a new report from the USS Colorado. The alien fleet of 30 ships has been vaporized by more than a hundred Shadow ships. There is one very big Shadow ship among that fleet sir. The Shadow fleet is on its way to Romulus." Vulcan Captain T'Gor does not lose his logic way. "Lieutenant Jones, I need to know all weaknesses of those Shadow ships. Work together with Chief of Security Lieutenant Nethor Danto and Chief of Operations Lieutenant Ipsus Luda. I want answers within an hour. Then I will report to Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom. The Admiral will decide what the 6th fleet will have to do." Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper There is peace again on Angel One. The threat of the Romulans and the Shadows is gone, at least for some time. The USS Alice Cooper-B satys in orbit, but the USS Lyon and USS Doorway leave to the Romulan border and probably to war with the Romulans and Shadows. New reports indicate that several larger Shadow fleets are assembling close to Romulus. But at this time the Federation and their allies the Klingons have not yet found a way to destroy such a Shadow armada. Different news comes from a totally different sector. At least one Borg ship has been detected. It is said that this Borg ship has destroyed a Shadow ship without to much trouble... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) After the battle at Gunasatomar, the Tok'ra and the Hirogen make new plans to hunt the Goa'uld System Lord Damophet. Damophet has been able to escape and keep one or two steps in front of the Tok'ra and Hirogen. Damophet does not understand where these super warriors come from, but one thing he knows is that if can get one of these alien worriers and get a goa'uld in that worrier, he will be in a better position to battle these aliens. There is only one problem. He has sacrificed a great deal of his Jaffa fleet to escape. He is not in a posiiton to attack. Damophet has tried to have his agents infiltrate the Tok'ra but that did not work either. At that moment Damophet has no choice than to try to get away. He only has seventy ships left and nine planets. He has the choice to divide his forces, or to concentrate them at one planet. But he has another option to escape... Unknown to the Tok'ra and the Hirogen Damophet has a great trick, and he has not played all his cards yet... Players: Thomas van Rhee USS Oregon The USS Oregon is in orbit of Opall III. Opal III has been hit with a serious war. Cratona of the Kstra has accused the Drovandi of the massive destuction of Opal III. But in fact Cratona of the Kstra wants to take this oportunity to overthrow the government and he wants the Federation to help him do that. The approaching Drovandi have detected the USS Oregon, but they are not yet in communication range. But their fleet is small and they realise that if this alien ship does not want to trade with the Drovandi, if these aliens are out here to fight or start a war, the Drovandi will not have a chance. The Drovandi Captains do not dare to do the first step in contacting the alien ship. The Drovandi do not know that the USS Oregon is on an exploration mission of peace. At the same time new reports from the Alpha Quadrant reach the USS Oregon. New reports indicate that several larger Shadow fleets are assembling close to Romulus. But at this time the Federation and their allies the Klingons have not yet found a way to destroy such a Shadow armada. Different news comes from a totally different sector. At least one Borg ship has been detected. It is said that this Borg ship has destroyed a Shadow ship without to much trouble... It seems a war is at hand in the Alpha Quadrant... Players: Cathy Edgington Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne ::On the EAS Dominator, a Warlock Class Destroyer:: "Captain Baber to the Bridge!" came the order from the Bridge. Captain Baber makes his way to the Bridge and walks with his First Officer into his Ready Room. Within one hour Babar and his First Officer walk on the Command Deck. The Captain looks around at all of the stations and says, "Communicatios, open a channel to the Terradyne. I need to talk to FMAR Draan. The First Officer and I will take it in my Ready Room." The Comms Officer opens the channel. Over an hour has gone by and still no one has come out of the Captain's Room. ::Meanwhile on the Terradyne:: Draan walks onto the Command Deck, pauses, and then walks over to the Communications Station. "Lt. Chase, I relieve you." Lt. Chase looks at the Special Forces Commander, rises from his station and nods. Draan pushes a few buttons, and with in a few minutes The Red Alert Klaxxon sounds signaling Battlestations. Officers scramble to their Combat Stations, and Star Fury Pilots are loading in their fighters awaiting a drop from the Cobra Bays. "Marshal Draan, all ships report Combat ready status.",?A nervous Operations Officer said. While Draan was at the communications station he?opened the fleet wide channel. "Attention all ships, and commands, this is FMAR Draan. This is no drill. We are faced once again with the threat of Shadows, and a new threat, The Romulans who support the Shadow cause with the New Preator in power. After a long conversation with Captain Baber, I am sending a Special Task Force to invistigate an odd finding in Grid Omega, Sector 5, Quadrant 43. This is a short trip with hopefully no incidents. The rest of the fleet will move at half speed to Grid Zeta Sector 6 Quadrant 12. Uopn reaching our destination only Warlock Destroyers will Jump and hopefully catch the Romulans by surprise by launching all Star Furys and opening frie once in Normal Space. The Fleet will Jump at 1930 hours. Draan Out." "Sir, that is in 2 hours" said his First Officer. As the Fleet goes their seperate ways Draan smiles. He knows that this plan and what is about to happen will turn the tides of this war. New reports are coming in from the Federation. New reports indicate that several larger Shadow fleets are assembling close to Romulus. But at this time the Federation and their allies the Klingons have not yet found a way to destroy such a Shadow armada. Different news comes from a totally different sector. At least one Borg ship has been detected. It is said that this Borg ship has destroyed a Shadow ship without to much trouble... It seems a war is at hand in the Alpha Quadrant... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report August 2007 USS Earth The USS Earth is on its way to Z'ha'dum, following the instructions of Kosh, who came aboard at Dhardama. From the start it is clear that Kosh does not have a sense of humor. It is as if his life depends on getting to Z'ha'dum. Although the voyage will take at least 17 days, every day the USS Earth comes closer to Z'ha'dum, Brontrordens Ambassador Yt gets more nervous. He addresses Commodore Steichen with his concerns. "Commodore, I know you want to find out what is going to pass now. I am a fierce man and I am not afraid of anything, but Z'ha'dum is a place of death. Of course I have not been there, but we have many manuscripts that tell us the stories of the Shadows and how our people barely escaped from the Shadow wrath. But if you want to continue with this, I will support you. I am probably as curious as you about what we will find at Z'ha'dum." As there is time for preparation, First Officer, Commander T'Lok, makes sure that the crew and ship perform excellent. The Vulcan efficiency displayed by the USS Earth First Officer is no luxuary. So by the time the USS Earth arrives at Z'ha'dum, the ship and crew are in optimal condition. Yellow alert is initiated as the Federation starship executes its first scans of Z'ha'dum. But there is nothing on the planet. No life forms, no Shadows. Everyone looks at Kosh waiting for an answer. But Kosh doesn't say anything. Just as Commodore Steichen wants to give the order to leave, Chief of Operations Lieutenant Harry Dankers has new sensor data. "Commodore, we have detected two Shadow scout ships. they are on their way to Z'ha'dum. They don't seem to take any notice of us. They are just going straight to the planet." Before Commodore Steichen can reply, Kosh speaks. "They have arrived." Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 Senior Lospat has welcomed Commodore Van Nieuwenhove on the planet Ztolada. Lospat has showed the Commodore a Shadow battleship in the secret caves under the city. As Commodore Van Nieuwenhove waits for the return of the creature Kosh, he tries to enter the Shadow ship, but Lospat already explains his people have tried for many years and have not succeeded. It is as if the ship is alive. "We have no idea where this ship came from or who it belongs to." Commodore Van Nieuwenhove explains to Senior Lospat that this is a Shadow ship and Shadows are evil. "That could be a matter of opinion Commodore. Maybe these Shadows you talk about are bad for you, but maybe they are good for us. This ship has done nothing, so nothing wrong. This ship is to big to escape from these caves. If ever a Shadow comes here, this ship cannot be used. It can go nowhere." Commodore Van Nieuwenhove has no choice. He is alone, far away from home. Senior Lospat offers the Commodore a hotelroom to stay for the night. But during the night a disturbance wakes up Commodore Van Nieuwenhove. It is like there is a war outside the hotel. When he looks through the window he sees the Shadow ship has managed to free itself. There is a huge noise and it seems like the Shadow ship is screaming when it breaks through the thirty meters rock above it. Rocks and pieces of rock are thrown on buildings in the city, almost destroying half the city. Then the Shadow ship moves towards space, to disappear. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove has to make up his mind fast. He will stay at Ztolada and he orders his fleet to come. Then he will help the people of Ztolada. One more Shadow ship will not make any difference. Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt Commodore Mechels in command of the USS Thunderbolt and Commander Carl Summer in command of the USS Recon have traveled back in time with a large fleet of Borg ships loyal to them. In the past they find a Shadow ship. The fleet is in pursuit of the Shadow ship. Master One is trying to get through to the Shadow ship, but so far there is nothing new to report. There is nothing else to do than to follow the Shadow ship. At the same time the Borg are scanning for more Shadow ships, but there is no Shadow activity in the entire Quadrant. After almost a full day, the Shadow ship slows down. After a few minutes it comes to a full stop. Only a moment after that a rift is detected by the Borg. Commodore Mechels is informed about the rift, but it is decided to wait. Five minutes later a second Shadow ship comes through the rift. The Borg sensors detect an entire Shadow fleet on the other side of the rift. Chief of Operations Lieutenant Commander Leeloo Brussels reports. "Sir, it was only for two seconds, but we have detected a fleet of at least 34 Shadow vessels on the other side of this rift." Tactical Chief Lieutenant Commander Tomar has something to add. "Sir, we can take them easily. But sir, we could destroy this rift. Then we will change our future. I think that could solve the Shadow problem in our universe once and for all." But Master One does not agree. "It is not certain that destroying this rift will stop the Shadows. There is a 83 percent chance that it does, but there is still 17 percent chance it does not. I recommend to enter the rift and investigate why the Shadows are doing this and why they are coming to our universe." "We will wait to see what happens. This could be important. We will study and follow the Shadows and try to find out how the Romulans got involved with the Shadows." Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang In orbit of the planet Hypherion, the USS Striker under command of Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Calhoun has sent an away team to the planet. The away team finds a creature locked up in a old structure. When Calhoun asks for orders, Captain Hendriks makes up her mind. "Talk to the creature first to see what you are dealing with. If it does not answer your questions, let it be in his cell and move on." Captain Hendriks' orders are clear. If communications with this creature do not work out the away team can always return later. And the creature starts explaining. "I am Kosh. Free me. Go to war. Shadows have to be destroyed." It is all he says. But Lieutenant Commander Calhoun remembers the latest reports about the war between the Federation and the Shadows. And she also remembers reading the name Kosh. She dowloads the information from the USS Striker database. The war against the Shadows is not going well. The Federation is in trouble. But the USS Walang and USS Striker are thousands of lightyears away from that war. But maybe Kosh can help in some way to fight these Shadows. Calhoun reports to Captain Hendriks. "Captain, according my information this creature called Kosh is an enemy of the Shadows for hundreds of years. If we set him free, he might be a help for the Federation in the war. As you know Captain, the war against the Shadows is not going well for us. I think we should set him free, and if there are anymore of his species, we should free them too or let Kosh free them." But Kosh intervenes. "Alone." Captain Hendriks realises that this creature is known as a fighter against the Shadows. Far away in the war between the Shadows and the Federation, the Federation can use any help they can get. She sets Kosh free. "Take him aboard, but keep him under survailance continuously. He might give us good advice concerning the war which we could send to the Federation." Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 74 19.04 Lieutenant Commander Matz has reported the actions of the Romulans on the planet Krotarak. But Captain K'Mada in command of Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu in orbit of the planet Krotarak has already seen that the two Shadow ships were destroyed by genesis weapons launched from Krotarak. Day 75 12.34 Life on Krotarak doesn't seem to be affected by the threat of the Shadows. It is still strange that the Romulans on Krotarak do not seem to have connections with the rest of the Romulan Empire. Lieutenant Commander Matz has started a search to find the supply of the genesis weapons on Krotarak. The search takes several days. Day 79 02.35 Lieutenant Commander Matz enters a cave where she believes the genesis weapons are stocked. But she has been followed by four Romulan security guards from the moment she set foot on Krotarak. At the door of the cave, she is arrested. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The USS Iceberg has followed a Borg sphere to the planet Nopelan III. This particular Borg sphere has destroyed a Shadow ship without to much trouble, but this ship does not seem to behave like Borg at all. When 20 Borg drones are transported to the planet surface, Colonel Crow sends an away team to the Borg sphere, using the gap in sensor sweaps. The away team is under comand of Major Bell, who reports as soon as the team has arrived on the Borg ship. "Colonel. This seems just a regular Borg ship. We are going to a data node to download the database. So far there is no hostility." While the away team walks to the nearest data node, the Borg sphere seems to wake up. Drones are acticated and start moving. Some are transported to the planet surface with a lot of equipment. The Starfleet Marines are not seen as a threat. As soon as the connection is made with the data node, the data is dowloaded. There is no time to analyse the data. The USS Iceberg away team has to move fast. More and more Borg drones are moving and even passing the marines. But they do not seem to be violent. On the Bridge of the USS Iceberg the officers can only wait. The away team is monitored very accurate. Sensors indicate that almost all Borg drones have been activated. Almost 2600 drones have already been transported to the surface of Nopelan III. It is very strange behaviour for Borg. Suddenly one Borg drone seems to come directly towards the away team. The drone stops a few meters away from the away team. He starts to speak. "Starfleet personnel. Wow, I never thought I would see this again." It is silent for a moment. "I am Captain Shean McGuire, in command of this vessel. We have no intention to use violence against you or your ship. If you need any help to download any data, please let me know and I will send two of my officers to help you. We have taken over this ship three days ago. We have come to an individual state. The collective does not have control over us anymore. We have been able to remove our personal transponders. There are a lot of people here who are not willing to go home. They will not be accepted by their own people. So we are planning to start a new life here on this planet Nopelan III. My entire crew of the USS Spain is running the ship itself. We were assimilated at Wolf 359. If you need any help, please let me know." Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Colorado crew has just seen a large Shadow fleet destroy a smaller fleet of alien ships. As the USS Colorado was cloaked, the Shadows could not detect it. The Colorado is on its way to the 6th fleet now. Captain Walker is on the bridge. "Inform the fleet that the Colorado is arriving in Federation space." Lieutenant Jeffrey Wayne is at tactical. "Aye captain." ---------------------------- THe USS Cinebow is in the 6th fleet at the Federation-Romulan border. Tactical chief Lieutenantn Danto jumps to his feet. "Captain ship decloacking. RED ALERT RED ALERT" Captain T’gor keeps calm. "Identify!" "It’s the Colorado sir!" T’gor still is calm as a Vulcan should. "Stand down red alert." Danto is releaved. "Standing down red lert" And Lieutenant Ally Jones seems to be happy to see her old crew and ship again. "The Colorado!" Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Angel One has come to peace now. Although males and females had a short violent conflict, Beatta III, seems to have forgiven the actions of Marco Danno, leader of the male rebel group "The Rising Sons". With the Shadow ship gone and the treacherous Romulans gone this is the end of the Romulan threat to Angel One. Ambassador Stevens stays on Angel One to help the men and women rebuild their relations. The first days there is indeed an improvement ion the relations between men and women. Ambassadro Stevens is able to use his experience to make both groups come together. There are no huge parties yet, but males and females are rebuilding the buildings which were destroyed during the terrorist attacks of "The Rising Sons". At the end of the week Beatta III invites Ambassador Jas Stevens to come to dinner. When Stevens arrives he notices that Beatta III also has invited some other people, males and females. When the dinner is served Ambassador Stevens can only come to the conclusion that the relations between males and females has never been this good. After the dinner Beatta III offers her guests a room for the night as it is already late. All guests accept the invitation as it is indeed late. Ambassador Stevens retreats to his room because he is really tired. To his own surprise he has a little headache too. When he arrives in his room, he falls on the bed and falls asleep almost immediately. The next morning Ambasador Stevens wakes up. But he wakes up, not where he thinks he would be. He is in his own room at home... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) Hirogen and Tok'ra leaders are planning to capture or kill Goa'uld System Lord Damophet, the most powerful Goa'uld in the region. The Tok'ra do not have undercover agents in the forces of Damophet, So they have to make a serious plan. The plan is rather simple. Some of the Tok'ra will pretend they are Goa'uld system lords who have been attacked by unknown aliens and they will try to lure Damophet to come to a meeting to do something about these aliens. Of course when Damophet does not come or doesn't want to take any chances, the plan is lost. But it is worth a try. The Hirogen prefer a straight hunt, but if they cannot find Damophet, the hunt will be lost. So the plan is set in motion. The invitations are sent, the rumors are spread. A few days later Goa'uld System Lord Damophet receives news about this meeting with other system lords who have been attacked by aliens. At first Damophet is happy that he is not the only one who has been attacked by aliens. But then he suspects a trap. After some research he finds out that some of the system lords mentioned are from far away. That would indicate that these Aliens are indeed spread out over a large region of space. Damophet fears that even if several system lords meet and make a plan to counter these aliens, it won't have any use. These aliens are to powerful. But on the other hand every opportunity to eliminate the alien threat should be taken as positive. But to be sure this is not a trap or that he is in any danger, he sends his First Prime, Dionar to the meeting. A few days later a group of Tok'ra is waiting at the stargate of a planet called Slondara. They are waiting for Damophet to come through the stargate to meet with them. It is a trap of course. But instead of Damophet, it is his First Prime Dionar who steps through the stargate. As soon as the starget disconnects, Dionar is captured by a group of Hirogen. Almost two hours after the capture of Dionar, Damophet realises that this was a trap and that he has to make plans for defense and possible escape... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne FMAR Draan Marr Does not have to think long before he decides what to do about the Shadows in this universe. "We will try to find out how the Shadows came here. If there is some kind of portal we might find it and close it, ending this threat." And so the fleet is on its way, ready for anything. Reports from the Federation and Klingon forces indicate that time is getting short. Even the Klingons are thinking about regrouping. Minbari scout ships are sent out, but the first days, there is nothing to report. The Alpha Quadrant is big and it is not certain there is a rift where the Shadows came through in the Alpha Quadrant. So the search is expanded to the Beta Quadrant as well, even behind Romulan territory. But there doesn't seem to be anything. Just as everyone in FMAR Draan's fleet is convinced there will be no more Shadows coming to this universe only one lightyear away of FMAR Draan's fleet a spacial rift opens. It seems everyone holds his breath for five full seconds. A Shadow ship comes out of the rift... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report September 2007 USS Earth The USS Earth has arrived at Z'ha'dum. Two Shadow scout ships are also on their way to Z'ha'dum, but they have not noticed the USS Earth. Commodore Steichen gives her orders. "Apparently the Shadows do not care about the us. We will stay and observe the Shadows to find out more about their intentions." And so it happens. The two Shadow scoutships are on a direct course to Z'ha'dum, not caring about anything else. Red alert is initiated. All crewmembers hurry to their battlestations, but it is not necessary. On the bridge Brontrordens Ambassador Yt is getting a bit nervous, but Kosh calms him down as the Shadow scoutships do not alter course although they must have seen the USS Earth by now. Kosh looks at the main vieuwer. "Strange." Chief of Security Lieutenant Commander Ulo Hung reports. "2 million kilometers to orbit, 1 million kilomters, 5 hundred thousand kilometers, the two Shadow scoutships are now in orbit." At the moment Lieutenant Commander Ulo Hung says the word "orbit", a strange energy beam is fired from the planet Z'ha'dum destroying the two Shadow scoutships immediately. Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 Commodore Van Nieuwenhove has arrived on the planet Ztolada where he is welcomed by Senior Lospat. A Shadow ship escapes from Ztolada and Commodore Van Nieuwenhove orders his fleet to come to Ztolada. But before his fleet arrives two Shadow scout ships are detected by the runabout. The Shadow scout ships are to close to hide from them. When the two Shadow scout ships are entreing orbit a strange energy beam is fired from the planet and destroys the two Shadow ships in a blink of an eye. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove goes to the city hall and finds Senior Lospat. When he asks Lospat about the weapon, Lospat does not know the asnwer. But he knows a legend about the protection of his planet Ztolada. "The legend goes that a thousand years ago, or at least very long ago, a treaty was made between our people and an alien species. It was a strange treaty as this alien species only would protect us against evil. And that alien species did not want anything in return. Up to now our planet has been attacked maybe five times and everytime the attackers were destroyed. We don't know how this weapon works or where it is. We don't ask to many questions about it, as we believe that if we mess up that weapon, the treaty with the alien species could be broken and we would not be protected any more. So we live in peace and we let things as they are. For us, it is not clear why the weapon fires on attackers or space ships. We trust it. You were not destroyed when you came here in your spaceship. So we know you are not evil. That is also why you are welcome here." Commodore Van Nieuwenhove only has one answer. "I will Stay on Ztolada and try to find out what kind of weapon was used to destroy the two Shadow scout ships. When my fleet arrives my officers and crews can help me in the search for these weapons." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt Commodore Mechels in command of the USS Thunderbolt and Commander Carl Summer in command of the USS Recon have traveled back in time with a large fleet of Borg ships loyal to them. The fleet of Commodore Mechels follows two Shadow ships to investigate how the Romulans got involved with the Shadows. Behind the rift a small Shadow fleet was clearly waiting. The large fleet is in stealth and cloaked mode as the two Shadow ships. After two days it is clear. The two Shadow ships are on a direct course to Romulus. But in this time frame the Romulans do not seem to be happy with the Shadows. A small Romulan fleet is meeting the two Shadow ships in battle, but the Romulans do not have a chance. One by one their ships are destroyed and only 20 minutes later there is nothing left to stop the Shadow ships. It is very strange, even for Master One to see that the Shadow ships are welcomed by the Romulan Senate. "First they battle and then they are best friends. Something must have happened on Romulus that we cannot see. Commodore Mechels, I would like to go to Romulus and investigate why the Romulan Senate is friends with the Shadows. What do you think?" Commodore Mechels gives the order. "Transport a Romulan senator aboard and assimilate him, so you can find out what is going on." There is of course a chance this will change the future. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang In orbit of the planet Hypherion, the USS Striker under command of Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Calhoun a creature called Kosh has been taken aboard. The USS Striker sets course to the Scaton Nebula where Captain Hendriks is waiting aboard the USS Walang. While Kosh aboard the USS Striker helps the Federation with technical data of Shadow ships, it becomes clear that the Federation is not really ready to take a head to head battle with a large Shadow fleet. Even with help from allies it is not certain that the Federation will survive. The information received from Kosh about the Shadows is also given to the Trsterts. Contact with the Trsterts is even improving. The rift in the Scaton Nebula seems to be a blessing, for the Trsterts and for the Scaton Federation. As time passes, the Scaton Nebula and Captain Hendriks receive technology beyond their imagination. Portable holographic technology, advanced sensor equipment, shielding technology, propulsion and deflector systems, transporter technology and much more. The only thing they do not receive from the Trsterts are weapons. But with all that technology the Trsterts still have problems. The contamination of the elements of the Scaton Nebula is only one of those. It will still take about 500 years to get all those elements out of their universe. Of course the Scaton Federation is very happy about that, because those elements are excellent resources. Wealth is already increasing rapidly. Peace between the members is a fact. Nobody has to worry about anything. But the Trsterts have another problem. There are not many Trsterts left. A population of 300 million in a huge universe is not much especially because all Trsterts are scattered all over that universe. The Trsterts invite the Scaton Federation and Captain Hendriks to explore their universe. There is plenty of room, even for all kinds of colonies. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 79 02.36 Lieutenant Commander Matz has been arrested on the planet Krotarak where Romulan guards are interrogating her. But she does not tell them anything. Instead she is planning to escape. Day 80 12.08 After more than a day without contact with Captain K'Mada in command of Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu in orbit of the planet Krotarak, Captain K'Mada decides to transport Lieutenant Commander Matz back aboard his ship. Day 80 12.09 Lieutenant Commander Matz materializes aboard the Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu where she meets Captain K'Mada himself. Captain K'Mada listens to Matz' report and she advices Captain K'Mada to talk to the Romulans on Krotarak. The Rompulans killed the most wanted enemy of the Klingons. Maybe they can help the Klingons. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Captain K'Mada makes a decision, strange for a Klingon. He contacts the Romulan colony on Krotarak. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The USS Iceberg has followed a Borg sphere to the planet Nopelan III. This particular Borg sphere has destroyed a Shadow ship without to much trouble. When an away team is sent aboard a Borg drone presents himself as Starfleet Captain Shean McGuire. Colonel Crow makes it clear what he wants. "First the captain has to tell me how he could break from the collective. Maybe we can use that information on other Borg ship. Secondly , I will recuest that we may use the Borg sphere against the shadowships. In return we will help as many Borg we can rescue and bring or send them here." When Colonel Crow reports to General Fujimori about the new situation, the Borg sphere and Captain Shean McGuire, he receives new orders. "Colonel Crow, wel done indeed. Good work. You are the one in the field who knows most about this situation and how to proceed. I will leave it in your capable hands. but as you will now command more ships than one, you need something to help you doing that. Therefore I promote you to the rank of Brigadier General. Let Captain Shean McGuire report to you. Congratulations General Crow. Good hunting." Captain Shean McGuire who has been listening contacts General Crow immediately. "Congratulations General. At this time there are only volonteers aboard my ship. Most of them are Starfleet personnel, but not all of them. If we can help the Federation with destroying the threat of the Shadows, we are all waiting for your orders. Just say what we have to do. You must wonder why we are not connected with the Borg collective. Some of us were in Unimatrix Zero. We have made ourselves free, thanks to Captain Janeway and USS Voyager. We have taken counter measures against the Collective. We are immune to the Collective and cannot be assimilated." The explanation of Captain Shean McGuire has to do. As Major Bell already has a new report. "Sir, we detect a Shadow battleship bearing 265 mark 25, heading 157 mark 73. It seems it has not seen us yet or maybe we are not interesting enough." Captain Shean McGuire has an idea. "Let's make us interesting enough." It is strange to see a Federation ship side by side with a Borg ship on their way to intercept a Shadow ship. It only takes an hour to catch up with the Shadow ship. The battle is short. Captain Shean McGuire's Borg sphere destroys the Shadow ship as if it was made of paper... Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Cinebow and USS Colorado are reunited in the 6th fleet. But there is not much time for a celebration. Some crewmembers are reassigned to other ships. Starfleet needs every man and woman. The Federation is preparing for war with the evil and feared Shadows. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Ambassador Jas Stevens woke up in his own room at home. He doesn't know how he got here and doesn't understand how he got from Angel One to his home so fast. First he thinks it is a dream, but this is so real. Then he tries to end a holographic program, but apparently that is not working either. He walks to his desk and activates his terminal. As he tries to find data on Angel One, there is nothing there, as Angel One never exsisted... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) With the Goa'uld system lord Damophet still free with part of his army, the hunt is still open. More and more planets join the Tok'ra and are free. While the base at Gundrota has become an undetectable, undestructable fortress, more planets begin working on their defenses in case Damophet or any other Goa'uld will come and try to take over their planet again. Damophet himself is not planning to attack or conquer. He has to regroup. While he is doing that he also has to appoint a news First Prime. And it isn't his lucky week as he recieves reports from his Jaffa that part of his fleet is destroyed. A day later half of his remaining fleet is gone. And this time the Tok'ra had nothing to do with it. There are three alien ships, black and they did this. Damophet is not pleased at all. In a furious mood he assembles his entire fleet and travels to the last known location of these alien black ships... A day later one of the Tok'ra spies among Damophet's Jaffa reports the entire fleet of Damophet is destroyed except for two ships. Damophet survived. Damophet's fleet was destroyed by alien black ships. The Tok'ra are happy Damophet's fleet is destroyed and Damophet is no longer a threat, but it worries them that there is a new power in the region. the Tok'ra Tar asks the Hirogen Horkan for help. Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne FMAR Draan Marr's fleet is at full alert. Out of a rift comes a Shadow battleship and another one and another. FMAR Marr does not lose his nerve. He gives his orders. "This is clearly what we are looking for. Close this rift at all cost. The Shadows have to be stopped. Destroy the rift." But the Shadows have come for a reason. And they do not want to get slaughtered. But there is not much choice for both sides. Part of the Minbari fleet concentrates on closing the rift. the rest of the fleet concentrates on the Shadow ships which already have come through the rift. The Shadows are very much outnumbered and by the time the rift has been closed all the Shadow ships have been destroyed. FMAR Marr did not lose any ship thanks to the battle readyness of his fleet. There are some ships which needs repairs, but they can fly. During an urgent meeting the Narn Commander has an idea. "Why don't we try to send some White Star ships of yours into hyperspace and scout for Shadow ships, not to attack, but to see their movements. The White Star ships can create a jumpgate themselves and can escape in case of emergency. The Narn do not have that technology. I know this sounds like we want you to look for danger while we are doing nothing, but we can do other missions in return." Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report October 2007 USS Earth Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message Commodore Steichen sends an away team to Z'ha'dum. Apparently the species living there is against the Shadows. They don't seem to be afraid of the Shadows and they can kill the Shadows... Commodore Steichen also invites Kosh to join the away team...of course this means Commodore Steichen herself gets to join in the explore. But the first hours the away team does not find anything. There isn't even an energy reading. Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message The 369th fleet has arrived at Ztolada. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove has taken command of his fleet. Lots of away teams are assmebled. The away teams transport to the planet and will search for the weapons which destroyed Shadow ships threatening the planet earlier. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove will stay on Ztolada and try to find out what kind of weapon was used to destroy the two Shadow scout ships. He will not go anywhere until he finds them. Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The USS Thunderbolt is traveling in the past. But the Borg aboard can receive messages from the future... Message from Starfleet Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council (from the future/you are in the past). Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message The USS Thunderbolt has traveled back in time with the USS recon and a Borg fleet to find out where the Shadows came from and how to destroy them. The Borg abaord the USS Thunderbolt have assimilated a Romulan Senator. But apparently this Senator does not know anything about the Shadows. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Captain Hendriks sends an away team through the rift to the Trsterts universe. The team will investigate the Trsterts universe. But there is another problem... Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 80 12.10 Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Day 80 12.11 Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message Day 80 12.16 Captain K'Mada in command of Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu in orbit of the planet Krotarak has opened a channel to the Romulan colony. He is open and tells the truth to the leader of the colony R'varek. R'varek already knows there is a Klingon ship in orbit of Krotarak, but these Romulans only use violence if they have to defend themselves. R'varek is extremely surprised to receive information about the Shadows and their intensions from a Klingon. He had expected the Klingons to attack soon. But Captain K'Mada asures R'varek that he has no violent intensions. R'varek asks Captain K'Mada to stand by as he and the colony elders will meet and talk about the situation. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message Colonel Crow and his crew have made contact with Captain Shean McGuire who has been able to disconnect from the Borg Collective and he and his crew are now in control of a Borg sphere. This Borg ship is simply fanatstic. The USS Iceberg sets course to Romulus where the two ships will attack the Shadow fleet there. Of course it is possible they will not win... "I will ask the captain what ne thinks about the idea to go to Romulus and attack the Shadow ships, if we can destroy enough maybe they will leave and the Borg sphere can go back to their planet and begin a new life." Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message The USS Cinebow and USS Colorado are reunited in the 6th fleet under command of Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom. Starfleet needs every man and woman. The Federation is preparing for war with the evil and feared Shadows. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper At the time Ambassador Stevens woke up and found himself in a totally different environment where Angel One never seemed to have exsisted, the USS Alice Cooper-B receives some very important messages. Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) The entire fleet of Goa'uld system lord Damophet is destroyed by alien black ships, except for two ships. Damophet survived. The Tok'ra at the base on Gundrota are happy Damophet's fleet is destroyed and Damophet is no longer a threat, but it worries them that there is a new power in the region. The Tok'ra Tar asks the Hirogen Horkan for help. The Hirogen fleet is already on its way to the last known coordinates of these black alien vessels. Horkan and Alpha Hirogen Donar do not take any chances and cloaked they continue their search. After almost a day sensors detect a black alien ship. On an intercept course some strange communications come is. Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne :: On the EAS Terradyne :: "Battle stations!" shouts Draan. "Launch all White Star?Nova, Omega, Minbari, and Narn ships. Captain Barber to the Command Deck" continued Draan Alarms are sounding, officers are scrambling and ships are being launched. Captain Barber runs onto the Command Deck and meets with FMAR Draan in a closed door meeting. Draan walks on the Command Deck from his office as Captain Barber races to his Victory Class Destroyer, the EAS Zeus. Draan pushes a few buttons on his Command Chair which is to the Launch bay, "Launch Bay, Commander Vance." says a very low voice. "Commander, emergency launch procedures for the EAS Zeus." "Aye, Emergency launch!" The Victory Class Destroyer launches out of the Command ship and then opens a Jump Point and then vanishes into the vortex on its special mission only known to 2 people. FMAR Draan turns his attention to the main view screen after saying to himself, "Good luck Captain." "Communications, fleet channel." "Channel open." "Attack fleet, proceed to the Vortex in grid Epsilon and engage the Shadows. Good luck to all of you. Draan out." Draan walks over to the Communications station and relieves the young officer. Draan is working quickly to complete a special transmission to only a few in Command crew. But to Draan's surprise there are some messages coming in from the Federation. Message from Starfleet: Attention all Commanding Officers of the fleet. A large battle is at hand between the feared Shadows and the Federation and Klingon foreces. We have been able to defeat the Borg and any other enemy of the Federation. The fleet will assemble in sector 23918 in seven days. We must stop these Shadows and the intentions of the Romulan Star Empire which has taken advantage of their new friends, the Shadows. We call upon every single one of you to focus, stay sharp and be ready for anything. Good luck. End Message Message from the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council. Dearest friends in the Alpha Quadrant. It is no secret that there is a new threat in the Alpha Quadrant. The Shadows. We must put aside all our differences and work together to blow this new enemy away. We have no choice. All species which are not part of the Federation are called to stand with us. We must say there is no reward, but if we do not work and fight together, we might not prevail. End Message Another battle with the Shadows is at hand. Will the secret mission of the EAS Zeus be successful. Hope is high, but it seems time is running out... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report November 2007 USS Earth Z'ha'dum... Commodore Steichen transports to the planet with Kosh. She has decided to look for something or someone. First Officer, Commander T'Lok wouldn't let Steichen go without a serious security force. It is Chief of Security Lieutenant Commander Ulo Hung who will personally see to it this mission will be safe. He has chosen 4 of his best security offciers to join the away team. Also with the away team is Brontrordens Ambassador Yt. He insisted on going, even if Hung didn't want to guarantee his safety. The small group, security up front moves through cave like corridors. The first hour nothing happens and nothing is detected on any tricorder. But suddenly Lieutenant Freken holds his fist in the air. Everyone stops and tries not to make a sound. Lieutenant Freken whispers. "One humanoid... He is coming this way." Kosh steps forward. "Family will always help." Nobody understands what it means, but Kosh doesn't wait. Without hesitation he walks forward, followed by the entire away team. A few moments later Kosh meets the humanoid who is nothing more than an old man, walking with a stick. Kosh and the old man talk for a moment and then the old man turns to Commodore Steichen. "You have trouble with a few of my children. Take me with you. I will send them back home." Commodore Steichen gives a short order. "We will do as the first one asks." Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 The 369th fleet is at Ztolada. The planet Ztolada hides weapons which can destroy Shadow ships with only one shot. The 59 away teams are spread out all over the planet searching in grids to be as eficient as possible. But while the Federation and Klingon fleets are moving to their final battle against the Romulans and Shadows, the away teams on Ztolada need Almost three days to find some huge canons which must be the ones they are looking for. These cannons cannot be approached as they are protected by a shield. So the idea of taking these weapons to the ships is impossible. Hope is almost gone until the moment one of the engineers presents a plan to replicate the weapons. Scanning begins immediately and slowly the parts of the weapons are replicated aboard the ships of the 369th fleet. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove can only be pleased. But time is now really running out. The final battle against the Shadows and Romulans will start within a few days. Recon reports are coming in from all over Romulan space. The Federation and Klingon fleet are closing the net around Romulus where the main enemy fleet is standing by, waiting for new orders. The technology of the weapons is spread among the Federation and Klingon fleets. The works start immediately. With this new weapons technology there is a good chance the Federation and Klingon Empire will win this fight. The last scans have been completed. While the construction of the weapons is not yet completed, Commodore Van Nieuwenhove gives the order to set course for the nearest rendez-vous point of the Federation fleet. The new weapons have to be ready by the time the battle begins. There doesn't seem much of a choice Commodore Van Nieuwenhove realises that. "We will join the Federation and Klingon fleet to go to war against the Romulan and Shadows alliance. We will start our attack with the new weapons immediately when we detect the enemy." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The USS Thunderbolt has traveled back in time with the USS Recon and a Borg fleet to find out where the Shadows came from and how to destroy them. assimilateing a Romulan Senator did not help very much. Commodore Mechels definitively needs a new plan. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang But Captain Hendriks puts Kosh to work to help the Federation from a distance. "The war with these Shadows is to far away. It would not be fair to ask the Trsterts and Scaton Federation to go to war because of your internal problems. We will just continue what we are doing. Kosh can advice the Federation on technological issues of this war as well." So Captain Hendriks concentrates on the away team sent through the rift into the Trsterts universe. A few hours later the USS Striker returnsfrom its mission and Kosh tries to help the federation as much as he can. The Federation away team is under command of First Officer, Commander Belafonte. Aboard one of the runabouts the team of four, including a representative of the Scaton federation, travels into the Trsterts universe. Where the Trsterts live, their planets, their universe is nothing like ever seen before by anyone of the Federation. It is so pure. But the Trsterts do not live on planets. There are no stars. The Trsterts make their own energy and live in so called clusters. Among the Trsterts there are scientists, phylosphers, administrators, artists, soldiers, transporters and all kinds of other occupations. It almost seems to be a perfect society. One thing they have not is hostiles. The Trsterts universe is completely sealed of, except for that one rift in the Scaton Nebula. That rift is a natural phenomena. A star that was once there on the other side of the Trsterts universe went supernova and made the rift. Since then all matter of that star that came into the Trsterts universe has been blown back to where it came from, namely the regular universe Captain Hendriks knows so well. It will take a long time to clean the Trsterts universe from the star dust. The voyage of Commander Belafonte and his team is one of cultural exchange. Books, music, art, it is all given freely. Kosh has something to talk about with Captain Hendriks. Kosh talks in riddles and metaphores, but Captain Hendriks understands that Kosh wants to be with his people now that the final battle with the Shadows is at hand. He asks to let him go. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 81 10.15 Captain K'Mada in command of Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu in orbit of the planet Krotarak has talked to the leader of the Romulan colony R'varek. After almost a day R'varek contacts Captain K'Mada. K'Mada does not tell R'varek that Lieutenant Commander Matz is a Federation Starfleet officer. He does not want to complicate things. Day 81 11.20 Captain K'Mada meets with his sebior officers and informs them about his talks with R'varek of the Romulan colony on Krotarak. The Romulans on Krotarak will not help the Romulans and they will oppose the Shadows. The extreme powerful weapons on Krotarak were already there when the Romulans landed on the planet several decades ago. R'varek has no idea who put these weapons there on the planet. Day 81 13.28 Lieutenant Commander Matz has informed Commodore Slater, her commanding offcier aboard the USS Vertigo. Slater informs Starfleet Command. Around the same time plans of similar weapons technology is spread around Starfleet by Commodore Geert Van Nieuwenhove. The Klingon fleet and also Captain K'Mada receive this information. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg Captain Shean McGuire who has been able to disconnect from the Borg Collective and he and his crew are now in control of a Borg sphere. He has been informed by Colonel Crow in command of the USS Iceberg that war is at hand with the Romulans and Shadows. Captain McGuire asks the Colonel for orders. "We will join the Federation and Klingon fleets. They will be surprised to see a Borg ship at our side of course. It will be a surprise for the fleet to see the borg sphere but when we explain to the fleet what happened they will understand. Now all we can do is fight to the death and hope we'll be victorious. Like a wise man once said: "It's a good day to die." But maybe that day is still far away. The USS Iceberg hurries to the rendez-vous point where Federation ships and Klingon ships are waiting side by side, waiting for the order to launch the attack. When they see the Borg sphere coming towards them, they are of course worried, but when Colonel Crow has explained the situation, the situation is clear. The USS Icberg and the Borg sphere take their positions and like everyone else they wait for the order to attack... This is what the marines have trained for. The waiting is over. The new promoted General Crow knows what he has to do. "We will attack immediately when the order is given to attack. Offence is the best defence, so we'll attack as soon as the enemy engages hostile towards us we'll see of we can win." Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The USS Cinebow and USS Colorado are reunited in the 6th fleet under command of Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom. Starfleet needs every man and woman. The Federation is preparing for war with the evil and feared Shadows. Aboard the ships of the sixth fleet all hands are running around to their stations securing what they have to. Of course everyone is nervous, but the senior officers who have been in the war with the Dominion share their experience and give instructions and teach the younger crewmembers aboard how they can win against an enemy of any kind. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper While war is at hand with the Romulan Shadow alliance, the USS Alice Cooper-B has stayed in orbit of Angel One. One reason is that Ambassadro Jas Stevens is still on the planet, but if the USS Alice Cooper-B leaves, Angel One will be unprotected. With the latest Romulan plot to invade Angel One and Romulan plans to use Angel One as base of operations, Captain Kalee decides to wait for the very last moment to leave to the front lines at the border of the Romulan Neutral Zone. And then a disturbing report is coming in from Chief of Security Lieutenant Commander Gav Tiral. "Captain... We lost contact with Ambassador Stevens. According my readings he... shifted in and out our time space continuum." And when Ambassador Stevens wakes up... He has no clue where he is... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) A large Hirogen fleet is hunting down Shadow ships. Unknown to these Hirogen is the fact that these Shadows are the biggest threat the galaxy has ever faced. But according intercepted messages from other species, like this Federation in the Alpha Quadrant, these Shadows are spread all over the galaxy. The system lord Damophet is not important at this time. More and more Hirogen prepare for a large scale hunt on these Shadows. They put on the colors on their faces, do some extra physical training, and for the first time they practice fleet operations. apparently the word is going around in the Delta Quadrant as on their way to the last known position of these Shadows, more Hirogen join up with the Hirogen fleet. Old Hirogen friends meet eachother again. Even Horkan and Jotarn aboard their vessel Ovion meet some friends again who they haven't seen for a long time. Five to be exact. Giotar, Linor, Grotor, Vortar and Frinor come aboard the Ovion where there is a small feast where old stories of the great hunts are told... At the moment the Hirogen fleet has 245 battleships and 3613 soldier hunters. It is only a few days later that four Shadow ships are detected... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne FMAR Draan Marr has sent Captain Barber in command of a Victory Class Destroyer, the EAS Zeus, on a secret mission. there is nobody more qualified to know what kind of threat the Shadows can be. But he is also the most qualified to deal with the Shadows. As the fleet has engaged a few isolated Shadow ships, FMAR Draan Marr knows that a large battle is at hand at Romulus, where the Shadow and Romulan fleets will be engaged by the Federation and Klingon fleets. The Federation and Klingon fleets will need all the help they can get. There can only be one winner... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report December 2007 USS Earth Z'ha'dum... The entire away team has returned to the USS Earth, including the First One. Apparently the First One feels guilty about what is happening in the galaxy. Apparently the Shadows are his creation in some way as well as the Vorlons. Kosh is a Vorlon. The USS Earth speeds up towards the Alpha Quadrant. With the help of the Brontrordens, the First One and Kosh maximum speed has no meaning anymore. Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Sora Mil presumes it has to do with folding space. But time is not on Commodore Steichen's side. The Fleets of the Klingons and Federation have already had their first encounters with small groups of Romulans and an occasional fight with an isolated Shadow ship. On the lower decks junior officers discuss the situation and prepare their shift mates to use the best of their abilities. One drill folows another, carefully evaluated by the senior staff. Aboard the USS Earth is a Brontrordens device that can be deployed to shut down all technology. It worked against the Borg, but it is not certain it will work against the Shadows. One thing is learned from Kosh. The Shadows are defensless against powerful telepaths. In the short time they have some of the Betazed telepaths volonteer to learn from Kosh how to defeat or slow down the Shadows. And then without warning the USS Earth appears in the Alpha Qudrant close to the Federation-Romulan Neutral Zone. All aboard the USS Earth are amazed their flight from deep in the Beta Quadrant to their current location has been that fast. The First One asks Commodore Steichen to bring him to Romulus. There he can talk to the Shadows. Players: Christine Steichen Starbase 369 The Federation and Klingon fleet have assembled for a last battle. It is not certain how many Romulan ships there are, as most of them can be cloaked. Klingon scouts report that the Shadow fleet at Romulus is much larger than thought at first. But the Klingons are brave and it is a good day to die. The battle is inevitable. But nobody seems to be ready to do the first step. Federation diplomats are still trying to contact the Romulan Senate, but there is no asnwer. It is not clear who is in charge at Romulus. Some think the Shadows are the ones who now rule the Romulan Star Empire... But there is good news. A large Ferengi fleet is on its way to help the Klingons and the Federation against the Romulans and Shadows. The 369th fleet under command of Commodore Geert Van Nieuwenhove moves slowly towards Romulus. All ships in the 369th fleet are equiped with new powerful weapons, which were found on a planet called Ztolada. Apparently the Shadows use the Romulans as bait. As long range sensors of the USS Harbour, at point of the 369th fleet, detect six Romulan warbirds on an intercept course. It seems a good time to test the new weapons. Twelve minutes later the six Romulan warbirds are in firing range. Without hesitation the Romulans attack. Just at that moment 24 more Romulan warbirds decloak and attack immediately. Commodore Van Nieuwenhove had expected something like this and calls for attack pattern Commodore one. The 369th fleet regroups in a star formation where all ships cover eachother. Then the new weapons fire their deadly charges. All Romulan ships are destroyed... massacred... Only the USS Napoli and USS Mexico have some moderate damage. Just when everyone thinks the battle is over a rift opens and twenty Shadow battleships suddenly appear in front of the 369th fleet. They do not wait. Six ships which have joined the 369th fleet on its way to Romulus are immediately destroyed. New weapons is an advantage but shields of the same technology would be even better. But the 369th fleet does not have shields like that. When the Federation ships return fire every shot destroys a Shadow ship, but the 369th fleet does not have that many ships left. Another attack from the Shadow ships could be fatal... There is a short meeting where Commodore Van Nieuwenhove reviews the situation. "All is going well. The new weapons are great, but our ships are not invulnerable. They can be destroyed and the Romulan-Shadow fleet outnumbers the Federation-Klingon fleet. Most Federation and Klingon ships do not have these new weapons. We will be brave and continue the battle. All Shadow ships we can destroy cannot be a threat for the Federation." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The USS Thunderbolt has traveled back in time with the USS Recon and a Borg fleet to find out where the Shadows came from and how to destroy them. Assimilating a Romulan Senator of this time period has not worked. Commodore Mechels lets Master One go to Romulus. He lets him report as needed. Commodore Mechels remembers all to well this could change the future. Master One is transported to Romulus by the subspace transporter. It doesn't take long before he is integrated on Romulus. With the Jedi Force he can even convince the Romulan guards to let him in into the Romulan Senate. But he doesn't find anymore evidence of the Shadow influence. Leaving the Romulan Senate he overhears two Senators. "...but I will not have anyone threaten me. Do you understand. Tell this Mister Morden I will have his head if he threatens me again. Do you understand Farek?" "I understand Molek. But you have to understand Mister Morden has very powerful friends. Much more powerful than the Federation. They can whipe out the Federation for us if they want. Maybe we should keep Mister Morden on our side." "All right, all right. You know Farek. We are to deep into this. This was a mistake, but there is no way back." "I agree with you Molek. Maybe we can make something out of this. I will talk to Mister Morden. There must be sollution." Farek leaves, followed by Master One. After an hour walk through the city, Farek enters a small building. It seems to be some kind of hotel. From outside the hotel Master One follows Farek. After all, he is Borg... Following the conversation between Farek and Mister Morden it becomes clear Mister Moren is a bit more than a travel agent for the Shadows. After the meeting Farek leaves the building... Master One contacts Master Two and informs him of the situation. Master Two reports to Commodore Mechels... Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang The USS Walang is in the Scaton Nebula about 20000 lightyears away from the Federation. Through a samll rift in space a highly advanced species called Trsterts shares information and technology with the Scaton Federation and Captain Hendriks sends her First Officer with a team into the Trsterts universe to exchange all kinds of information. At the same thime the Federation and Klingon fleets have gathered to start a final battle against the treacherous Romulans and superior Shadows. Aboard the USS Walang is Kosh, a Vorlon, enemy of the Shadows. Kosh asks Captain Hendriks to let him go to join the battle against the Shadows. Captain Hendriks meets with her senior staff. "Kosh is the only one who knows how to handle the Shadows. What if the Shadows came here... We can't let him go. Kosh can help the Federation first and then go back to his people. If he agrees of course. Otherwise we'll have to keep contact in some other way so he can advice us from a distance." Kosh has indeed a way to do that. He asks the telepathic Lieutenant Sharon Vlui to join him in a great experience. Vlui is from Betazed and has empathic and telepathic abilities. When she arrives in the breefing room she agrees to Kosh proposal. Kosh is a white energy being. A small part of that energy is let go to enter Vlui's body. She shivers for a moment. Then it is over. Kosh explains that part of him is now with Lieutenant Vlui. She knows what he knows. "Good-bye", Kosh sais and without waiting he disappears. "He is going back," explains Lieutenant Vlui. "He will call on his people, the Vorlons, to help the Federation and Klingons to defeat the Romulans and Shadows. We can only hope the Vorlons will be in time. Shadows can be defeated by telepaths. You are safe..." It is as if Kosh speaks through Lieutenant Vlui. The news is send out to Station Kirie and First Officer Bellafonte in Trsterts. It seems peace will remain in the Scaton Federation. Lieutenant Vlui suggests that she would be assigned to travel around the Scaton Federation and teach the telepaths of the different species how to defeat the Shadows in case they will come here. All of the species of the Scaton Federation, but also the Trsterts have telepaths... Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 81 17.00 After a short meeting with the engineers, Captain K'Mada in command of Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu decides to modify the weapons to these new weapons as well. The work has to be completed before the next battle. Day 81 17.02 The Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu breaks orbit of Krotarak and sets course towards the Klingon fleet to join the fleet for the upcoming battle. Day 84 13.29 Lieutenant Commander Matz returns to the USS Vertigo, after saying good bye to the Klingon crew of the Klingon Battlecruiser Qui'Tu and Captain K'Mada. She feels that with the biggest battle in Federation history it is her duty to serve on a Federation ship as she is a Starfleet officer. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The Federation and Klingon fleet have assembled for a last battle. It is not certain how many Romulan ships there are, as most of them can be cloaked. Klingon scouts report that the Shadow fleet at Romulus is much larger than thought at first. But the Klingons are brave and it is a good day to die. The battle is inevitable. But nobody seems to be ready to do the first step. Federation diplomats are still trying to contact the Romulan Senate, but there is no asnwer. It is not clear who is in charge at Romulus. Some think the Shadows are the ones who now rule the Romulan Star Empire... But there is good news. A large Ferengi fleet is on its way to help the Klingons and the Federation against the Romulans and Shadows. The USS Iceberg and the Borg Sphere under command of Captain Shean McGuire joins the 2nd Starfleet Marine fleet under command of General Fujimori. General Fujimori aggrees to let Captain McGuire can join the 2nd Starfleet Marine fleet. And he was lucky to do so. When long range sensors detect five Romulan warbirds Atad abaord the USS Iceberg reports there are 17 cloaked warbirds as well. Captain McGuire aboard the Borg sphere reports the same thing. Some other Marine vessels also detect the Romulan cloaked ships. When Captain McGuire asks permission to engage these approaching Romulans alone to prove that his ship is worthy, General Fujimori gives that permission. The Borg Sphere jumps to warp and in a few minutes it is already engaging the Romulans. Before the cloaked ships can decloak half of them is already destroyed. The Romulans cannot understand where this Borg ship has come from. By the time the Romulans realise that their treacherous trickery has not worked, the last one of them is destroyed. The Borg Sphere has not even a scratch... Players: Jan Theys USS Colorado/USS Cinebow The 6th fleet under command of Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom. Aboard the USS Colorado everyone is preparing... Captain Walker gives his orders. "Mr Sonak transfer all data to Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom. Inform him of our status. Inform the admiral that we leaving for sector 23918 to patrol the area being clocked." "Anything else Captain!" "Yes, unless the admiral wants to patrol another sector, we will leave within the hour." Rear Admiral Geoff McTrom gives permission for the USS Colorado to go. Captain Walker gets permission for one other ship to join. "All hands this the captain. For many time's we have proven and tested ourselves in my battles, for most of you this old news. There for once more I ask of you all, let's stand together as shipmates ans defend our ground on which stand. We are leaving within the hour for what can be the last standoff for us all. There for I ask of you as captain of this vessel prepare youreselves, suport the person standing next to you. And with gods help we will prevail and overcome our fears. Thank you." And then reality looks around the corner. "Engineering this is the captain." "Lt Torak here." "Chief, what's the engine status and the cloaks." "All systems are fully functioning." "Thank you, bridge out." ------------------------------------------------------------------- Abaord the USS Cinebow is Captain T'Gor with new information. "Lt Ipsus inform admiral that we still have surivivors onboard inclucding a Vulcan who might vital information." "Understood captain." But then something starnge happens. Andrews reports. "Captain, the Colorado is moving away from!" "Contact the admiral ask him if we should join the colorado." ------------------------------------------------------------------- The USS Colorado and USS Cinebow are side by side on route to patrol the region. It doesn't take long before the two ships detect a Romulan patrol. With the tachyon equipment aboard the two Federation ships can see that there are no cloaked ships. The four Romulan warbirds have also detected the two Federation ships. The Romulans want to take this chance to destroy a few Federation ships and set course to intercept. But aboard the USS Cinebow Lieutenant Ally Jones has found a weakness in the Romulan defensive shields. But although the Federation ships have this advantage, the Romulans probably will fire their weapons as well... Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Aboard the USS Alice Cooper-B the entoire crew is mobilized to search for Ambassador Jas Stevens, deck by deck, corridor by corridor, room by room, even the smallest room and the Jefferies tubes are not forgotten. Shuttles are launched and extend the sensor range of the mighty starship. Captain Raz Kalee gives orders to scan the planet below, Angel One. Every square meter is scanned. The scanning can take a month... At the same time Ambassador Stevens still has no idea where he is. He doesn't know whether he is abducted, or whether he is home... He walks around in the room... Waiting... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen Hunting Vessel) 245 Hirogen ships are on an intercept course with four Shadow ships, which apparently lost their way in the Delta Quadrant. In the Hirogen view these Shadows are nice prey. But apparently the Hirogen are to powerful for the Shadows. 16 Hirogen ships have minor damage after a very short battle. The Shadow ships are destroyed. It is now that the Hirogen realise a huge hunt can be part of their time. Scouts are sent out to search for more of these Shadow ships. But by sending out these scouts, more Hirogen are found. The word is spread and more and more Hirogen show up at the rendez-vous coordinates. It looks like this hunt has brought together the entire Hirogen hunter species. The Hirogen fleet moves faster than realised. On their way to Alpha Quadrant only two more Shadow ships are detected and destroyed. At the time the Hirogen fleet crosses the border with the Alpha Quadrant there are more Shadow ships, but they are moving away from the Hirogen. Those Shadow ships seem to be the last of a very large fleet at a planet called Romulus. Not far from Romulus two different fleets are gathered. Apparently those two fleets are preparing to attack the Shadows and the Romulans. The Hirogen recognise the Federation ships from the database some of them stole from a Federation ship called Voyager. Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne FMAR Draan Marr has sent Captain Barber in command of a Victory Class Destroyer, the EAS Zeus, on a secret mission. But nothing has been heard from Captain Barber or anyone else of the EAS Zeus... FMAR Draan Marr gives his orders to the fleet. "Keep Attacking Shadow fleets wherever they are." The huge fleet of Earth, Narn, Minbari and other allies starts to move in the direction of Romulus. Romulus is still far, but it is known through the Federation channels that the majority of the Shadow fleet is there. Strange is that everytime a Shadow ship is detected the Shadow ship makes a jump and disappears. At this time there is no word yet about planet killers. So it seems the Shadows are still gathering their forces. It all seems like a deja-vu. But the joined fleet knows how to handle Shadows. All telepaths are already standing by. Apparently the Shadows seem to know as they avoid any contact. Without any incidents the fleet arrives at the border of Romulan space. There is nothing at this border. No ships, no signs of jumpgates. When the frontline of the Klingon fleet is detected, contact is made and even the fierce warrior Klingons are glad to get help. When the Federation fleet is also welcoming FMAR Draan Marr and his fleet, the FMAR is brought up to date. Most of the news is not really important, but one message makes Marr curious. Apparently a ship called USS Earth, under command of Commodore Steichen is on its way to join the Federation fleet and they have two passengers. One of those passengers is called Kosh, the other is designated as First One... Players: Steve Elliot