DS2 RPG General Status Report January 2012 USS Earth Commodore Christine Steichen has been promoted to Rear Admiral. She has taken the command of Starbase 44, and now has 50 ships under her command, including her flagship USS Earth. Upon arrival it seems Starbase 44 is a brand new starbase, heavily armored and heavily armed. Not all of the 50 ships have checked in yet and most of them are still on their way to Starbase 44. Admiral Steichen is escorted to starbase operations, the center of the huge starbase. There she meets Commodore Lars Finny, who is in command of the engineering team that build Starbase 44. Finny has taken command of the starbase until Admiral Steichen arrived. "Admiral. I stand releaved. I have not appointed anyone in some kind of senior staff. Most of the engineers of my team will leave tomorrow and the day after. The work is done and we have to build another starbase. That is one thing I used to have a problem with. I build something, give it to someone else and then leave to build somthing else... I guess you get the picture. Some starbase commanders have the impression that I will stay as their chief engineer. To be clear... I am not. I will leave in about 50 minutes with a part of my team. We have been assigned to build another starbase in sector 46632. Oh, I am just talking and talking. I am going to pack." Commodore Finny walks to the door, but turns around justy before it opens. "Oh before I forget... Starfleet has assigned a chief engineer to Starbase 44, Commander Luke Stell. He was not on my building team, but I recommend him. He is perfect for the job. I have to go now. My ride is waiting. I will send Commzander Stell. I am sure you will have a great time here Admiral." Both say good-bye and Commodore Finny leaves half an hour later with the USS Perron. There seems to be not time to rest for the new commanding officer of STarbase 44. Chief Engineer Commander Luke STella introduces himself a few minutes later and brings the Admiral up to date about what still has to be done. There should not be more work than one or two days. After Commander Stell's update, a new issue is on the table already. The senior staff, and especially a first officer... When Admiral Steichen reviews the files of the candidates, behind her, through the window she sees a flash of licht. Was that a ship jumping to warp? Players: Christine Steichen DS2 RPG General Status Report November 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 When a Borg tactical cube enters federation space the first line of defense is alerted. Fleets are mobilized. Aboard Starbase 44, Rear Admiral Christine Steichen in Command, sensors have already detected the borg ship almost the moment it entered Federation space. The Borg cube seems to be on a course to Starbase 41, very close to Starbase 44. But Admiral Steichen has a little trick... She calls Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo and sends them to stop the Borg if they can. Both confirm they will do everything they can to stop the Borg. They get their gear and board the USS Calamity which will bring them as close to the Borg tactical cube as possible. Even if it means the destruction of the USS Calamity the first priority is to get Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo aboard the Borg ship. Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. The USS Calamity has to be fast and take advantage of the Borg Delay. But when the USS Calamity comes closer to the huge Borg cube sensors detect something unusual. "Sir, I am not sure, but I think Iour sensors detected transporter energy. It was not Borg sir. Still checking. It is not Federation sir. i don't know sir, but I think someone beamed aboard that Borg cube. But I cannot find from where." Captain John Wainis looks at the display. "We will try to find out when we are there." Just before the USS Calamity is in transporter range of the Borg tactical cube a new transporter signal aboard the Borg ship is detected. "Guess whoever it was sir? They beamed off." A few moments later Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo are transported aboard the Borg tactical cube. The USS Calamity jumps to warp to get away from the cube as fast as possible. The drones do not react. Both officers have masked themselves. They will not easily be detected. After some research Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo are ready to upload a computer program into the Borg vinculum that will have the Borg cube self destruct. But just before they actually make the upload they can see on the Borg displays, 30 more Borg ships are approaching. Captain John Wainis contacts Admiral Steichen on an undetectable communication channel. "Admiral. We can take this cube out now. But we can also wait for the other Borg ships to arrive here and try to destroy them all at once." Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet All personnel of Starbase 369 has been evacuated while the huge starbase is pulled into a rift caused by the changes in gravitational forces. Admiral Geert van Nieuwenhove has decided to stay onboard Starbase 369 with the engineers to help find a way to safe the starbase. They have not unlimited time... While the starbase is slowly pulled into the rift, plans are being made, plans are being canceled... Then the final plan has the most promise. An antimatter explosion will have to push the starbase out of the rift. The starbase will be damaged, but calculations and simmulations indicate that damage can be repaired. At this time it seems the only way to save the Starbase. Just when the engineers want to execute the plan, there is a message from Captain Jeffrey Dunn in command of the USS Carry. "Admiral, whatever plan you have, we don't think the Starbase will..." Captain Dunn stops talking. The tractor beams of the USS Carry cannot hold the starbase out of the rift. The huge starbase is pulled into the rift where it is torn apart by the gravitational forces. It only takes a few seconds. Then Starbase 369 is completely destroyed... Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The Borg watch their tactical cube from the Delta Quadrant while it travels in Federation space. But the borg also decide one ship is not enough. There are two starbases 41 and 44... Many ships... One Borg ship could not be enough. To be sure the Borg King has new orders. "We will send 30 more ships to take over the Starbases and ships if necessary. But first we will get professor Dalen and assimilate him." Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. A transport signal is detected aboard the tactical cube. Apparently someone or more people have transported aboard the Borg tactical cube. Before the drones aboard the tactical cube can intervene, the intruders are already gone. The Borg do not detect any ship in transporter range. A few moments later a Starfleet vessel, USS Calamity, approaches the Borg tactical cube. But the USS Calamity returns apparently without doing anything important. At that time the USS Iceberg delivers Professor Dalen at Starbase 41... Players: Family Keuleers USS Walang An enemy Borg ship has entered Federation territory, close to Starbase 41. Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. Professor Dalen is aboard a Federation ship, USS Iceberg. A transport signal is detected aboard the tactical cube. Apparently someone or more people have transported aboard the Borg tactical cube. Before the drones aboard the tactical cube can intervene, the intruders are already gone. The Borg do not detect any ship in transporter range. A few moments later a Starfleet vessel, USS Calamity, approaches the Borg tactical cube. But the USS Calamity returns apparently without doing anything important. At that time the USS Iceberg delivers Professor Dalen at Starbase 41... Thousands of lightyears away from Starbase 41, Captain Hendriks has asked the extremely advanced Kirie, Scaton Federation, Trsterts, Zolo, Hunanan, Musks, Yu, for help against the Borg. If they are motivated and willing to help. The Borg cannot be reasoned with. They know only one thing. Take what they want and conquer everything else. Even the Kirie and the Trsterts have heard about the evil Borg who enslave entire populations of planets. It only takes a minute to decide that the Borg have to be stopped. A small fleet is assembled of all kinds of ships. Even with the huge distance of thousands of lightyears, the small fleet under command of the Trsterts General Fruktra will arrive at Starbase 41 within an hour. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 297 16.00 Senior staff meeting aboard the USS Vertigo. The 91 colonists on Ribonorum have suceeded to take care of themselves. The USS Vertigo departs from Ribonorum. Day 302 13.46 What seemed to become a daily routine deep space exploration, changes suddenly for the crew of the USS Vertigo when a Borg ship is detected. Now the USS vertigo crew realises that they are getting closer to the Delta Quadrant, home of the Borg... Day 302 16.12 There are no life signs on the Borg ship. There is only limited power as well. Security Chief Lieutenant Commander Matz suggest to go aboard the Borg ship with a team and investigate what has happened to the ship. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg General Crow and his officers look at the Borg tactical cube on the main viewer. The Borg will not catch the USS Iceberg before it arrives at Starbase 41. But General Crow is curious. "We will try to communicate with the Borg to try to find out what they want." A channel is opened. But there is only the usual answer. "We are Borg. Lower your shields and prepare to be borded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is futile. You will..." Then Atad looks at his displays. Colonel Bell cannot believe it. "Sir. The Borg have closed the channel sir." Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. "Sir There are 30 more Borg ships on their way here. They will be at the position of that tactical cube in about 40 minutes. They must have used transwarp technology to get here this fast." The USS Iceberg arrives at Starbase 41 and transports Professor Dalen aboard. Professor Dalen is no longer a problem of General Crow and his crew. A few moments later a Starfleet vessel, USS Calamity, approaches the Borg tactical cube. But the USS Calamity returns apparently without doing anything important. But then the USS Calamity informs the fleet around Starbase 41, not to attack the Borg yet. There are some of their people aboard the Borg tactical cube ready to destroy the Borg. Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis The USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington have traveled through a stable wormhole, after which nobody had heard from them again. But then the brave Captain and crew of the USS Paladin made contact with one of the vanished ships. The USS Paladin traveled through the wormhole as well to assist the three missing ships who were in trouble. But the USS Paladin left some communicaion arrays to keep in touch with three science ships at the Federation side of the wormhole. Although damage caused by the changes in gravitational forces, the three science ships stayed at their positions. They will stay as long as needed. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper An enemy Borg ship has entered Federation territory, close to Starbase 41. Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. Professor Dalen is aboard a Federation ship, USS Iceberg. A transport signal is detected aboard the tactical cube. Apparently someone or more people have transported aboard the Borg tactical cube. Before the drones aboard the tactical cube can intervene, the intruders are already gone. The Borg do not detect any ship in transporter range. A few moments later a Starfleet vessel, USS Calamity, approaches the Borg tactical cube. But the USS Calamity returns apparently without doing anything important. At that time the USS Iceberg delivers Professor Dalen at Starbase 41... The USS Alice Cooper-B is ready to assist, but rather far away from Starbase 41. Even further away Ambassador Jas Stevens is still in the care of the Kraken. The invasion of the Borg in Federation space, gives the Kraken inspiration to help Ambassador Stevens. Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) Horkan the last Ori prior has constructed a plan to steal technology from the Borg. When a Borg ship enters Federation Space, Horkan assembles a crew for one of his ships. This is a chance he just has to take. Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. This is indeed Horkan's chance. His cloaked ship enters transporter range of the cube. With what little Ori technology left Horkan sends an away team on the Borg tactical cube. The away team of Ori soldiers has about 30 minutes to steal all Borg technology they can get their hands on. The Borg do not seem to consider the Ori soldiers a threat in the beginning. They act a few minutes to late. Just before the first Ori Soldier is caught the entire team is transported back on board Horkan's ship. Horkan's ship disapears almost immediately... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne The new supplies were dropped but 1 kilometer from the post where unit 12 was already standing ready to receive the supplies. "Sir we are ready to move out to get everything back here." "Understood Lieutenant. Move out. We will cover you in case the enemy decides to take advantage of the situation." "Sir we haven't seen an enemy in weeks." "I am not going to take any chances. This could be the moment they are waiting for. We will keep scaning the area for any unusual activity." "Yes sir." The Lieutenant calls his soldiers, waves and starts his march towards the dropped supplies. After about 12 minutes the group arrives at the dropped supplies. Some of them stand guard. Suddenly one of the soldiers fires his weapon. All of them are on the ground taking cover. When they look around they see in the distance some movement. The Lieutenant contacts the base. "Sir. They are closing in on us. We will stop them here." But the unit commander has already given his orders. Some light artillary has opened fire... A few moments later it is over. 15 minutes later all supplies are brought in. "Those Shadows were just waiting there. Don't they ever rest?" Players: Steve Elliot 369th Fleet Rear Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove has found his ready room next to starbase operations. It is time to issue his first orders. "Military issues first. Start patroling. Everyone has to be ready for another invasion. Especially because there seems to be one Ori prior left, who has not been caught yet." The fleet of 1059 ships has been dismissed and the Admiral still has 61 ships under his command incuding the USS Mexico but also the old USS Carry, the freighter under command of Commander Jeffrey Dunn, that made it through an Ori blockade to resupply some S Carry crew took the risk, but unseen to the Ori they managed to get the job done saving hundreds of lives. For his heroic actions COmmander Dunn was promoted to Captain. Strangely enough Captain Jeffrey Dunn wanted to stay aboard the old freighter. He explained to the admirality he has a special crew. The Admirality confirmd this. It is the USS Carry on route to Starbase 369 detects a change in gravitational forces half way between STarbase 78 and Starbase 369. The only officer aboard the USS Carry who has a little idea about astrophisics is the ship's chief medical officer, but she only had a basic course. Due to the changes in the gravitational forces the USS Carry has to make a significant course correction. After studying the maps of the area, Captain Dunn and his crew do not find a clue of what might have happened. A more detailed investigation is necessary, but the USS Carry has no equipment to study the phenomena, so Captain Dunn makes a call to Starbase 369 to suggest to send a science ship to investigate this further. The USS Carry resumes course to Starbase 369 after leaving a buoy just in case any more of these gravitational forces happen. Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt There is a large Borg fleet in the Ori realm searching for the remaining Ori, if there are any of them left. BUt even for the mighty Borg with three Borg Jedi from the 29th century, The Borg realise they have to assimilate a lot more to find those Ori. Commodore Mechels, King of the Borg, seems to be determined to continue the search. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Representatives of the Kirie, Scaton Federation, Trsterts, Zolo, Hunanan and Musks support the motion of Federation Captain Hendriks to let the Zolo search for any other Ori activity in the galaxy and if they find Ori or one of their priors, they should try to interrogate them. But the search also begins for the technology of the Yu. It is believed that the Yu are exstinct. But Captain Hendriks is determined to find traces of the Yu. "New technologies are always interesting. Maybe we'll find something more about the histroy of the Yu." THe last location of the Yu home planet is well known to the Kirie and Hunanan. So an expedition to this planet is set up. Kirie do not need anything and can travel through space by themselves, but all the others need a fast ship, supplies and especially emergency resources. A ship constructed by the Zolo will take the expedition team, including Captain Hendriks to the last known home planet of the Yu. The last anyone has heard of the Yu, is thousands of years ago. The Yu are a species that could not survive because of a failing cloning program. The Zolo ship only needs six days to arrive at the planet designated by the Federation as GG-22. If Captain Hendriks would have used her own ship, the USS Walang, she would have needed at least 2 years to get to GG-22. The planet is a habitable planet with lots of woods and forrests, two large oceans and two completely frozen poles. There do not seem to be intelligent life, and only small plant eating animals live on the planet. It is time to have look... Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 262 6.42 There is still no contact with the home planet of the Ginugagapa. The Ginugagapa archaeologists who were picked up by the USS Vertigo, are getting really worried. But there is nothing Commodore Slater can do. Day 263 12.17 A gravitational phenomena does Commodore Slater come to a full stop. Day 264 14.00 Senior staff meeting. The science officers aboard the USS Vertigo have ot found anything that could cause the change in gravitational forces. They need more time to investigate the phenomena. Commodore Slater agrees. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg First order of business aboard the USS Iceberg are the well deserved promotions. Lieutenant Burak is promoted to Captain, the Majors Bell to Lieutenant-Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel Hawk to full Colonel. But there are also new orders from General Crow. THese orders also stand for two ships escorting the USS Iceberg, the USS Highway, Colonel Catson in command and the USS Enable, Colonel Huron in command. "Military issues first. Start patroling. Everyone has to be ready for another invasion. Especially because there seems to be one Ori prior left, who has not been caught yet. Keep searching for Ori prior Horkan." It is easier said then done, but Atad already has plotted a course to the planets where the Ori have been seen last, before the went to Earth. There might wtill be some traces of the Ori there, or Ori soldiers. After visiting two planets and a federation colony on a small moon, the USS Iceberg is on its way to a planet called Giunaran. BUt when the USS Iceberg is still one week way from Giunaran, an Ori ship is detected. But the Ori ship is damaged. And there is a small ship close to the Ori ship. "Yellow alert!" Before General Crow can make a decision what to do the USS Iceberg is contacted from within the Ori ship. "Help us please. I am Nogam. We were just curious. But we cannot get of this ship. PLease help us to get of this ship. Life support is failing. We surely can negotiate about our salvage fee. Please help us. We will split fifty fifty..." Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis The USS Atlantis has encountered the Moadib. But the leader of the Moadib, Damarr has not been heard from for some time. The the USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin have not yet arrived. At the same time at the entrance of the wormhole the three science ships are still waiting for news from the ships on the other side. None of the scientists are willing to take the risk to enter the wormhole. But the wormhole is being studied and the first observations indicate that it is an artificial wormhole. But who made it and wy remain important questions. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper The Kraken who take care of Ambassador Jas Stevens are making little progress. Stevens is still in some kind of coma. But the Kraken have managed to follow the dreams of the Ambassador. Those dreams do not make any sense, but they are real to the Ambassador... THe USS Alice Cooper-B is completely repaired and on route to an unexplored sector. Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) Despite their advanced technology the Ori have taken a beating by the Federation who had help from the Zolo, a very advanced species who made first contact with the Federation by Captain Marja Hendriks, in command of the USS Walang. All the Ori priors have been killed, except one, Horkan, who has been able to flee to the Ori realm. His exact whereabouts are unknown. But one thing is sure. The Ori can recruit more priors at any time. The Borg are also in the Ori realm, but have not found the last of the Ori yet. Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne Unknown to the Humans, Minbary and Narn, a secret war between the Shadows and a group of military organised species has lead to heavy casualties on both sides. Except for a very small extreme specialized group, which has not yet lost one single soldier... Unit One Thousand. The question is; can these military rebels stop the Shadows? Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report February 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 For Admiral Christine Steichen selecting personnel and a senior staff is to important to have someone else do it. She does this herself. While she is studying the files to assign a new chief of security, she notices a very strange file. At least ten percent of the carreer of this particular officer seemed to be erased. Entire mission reports, are missing. The period during which this officer has had the rank of Lieutenant Commander are not to be found. They are not classified records. The records simply don't exist. This officer has no medals, no awards, no special achievements... he is just an ordinary officer. Still he has the rank of Commander. But Admiral Steichen cannot even imagine how this officer has deserved that rank. And his name is so strange: Scooby-Doo... But after cross reference with some officers Scooby-Doo served with, only a few actually did. Some are easy to contact, and they all tell the same thing. Scooby-Doo saved their lives on more than a few occasions. It was as if he always was a step ahead of time. One of the officers Scooby-Doo served with is now Captain Al Drake. who was a Lieutenant at the time. "Admiral? About Scooby-Doo? Yes, it is his real name. I have served with him almost ten years ago. He was my security department head when we were assigned to the USS Malifold..." While Captain Drake continues to tell about Scooby-Doo, Admiral Steichen understands that Drake served with Scooby-Doo during the time Scooby-Doo was a Lieutenant Commander, but as all the files about tht period are missing, she tries to gain more information about Scooby-Doo. At the time the USS Malifold was commanded by Captain Henry Derooter, but Captan Derooter was killed during the war with the dominion. ""... And the Jem'Hadar even destroyed life pods. So Scooby-Doo took us to the flight deck and we escaped with a shuttle. We were the only survivors. I know that most of the missions we did were not recorded. Don't ask me why, but we received orders not to file reports, not even a log entry about what we were doing. Still I didn't find anything strange about the missions we did. Just the regular Starfleet missions I am still doing now. But I was a young Lieutenant and ambitious too, so who was I to question the orders of the C-in-C himself. So you understand that I cannot tell you much more." When Admiral Steichen contacts the C-in-C himself to ask about Scooby-Doo, the C-in-C is very clear. "I will not discus this matter and maybe you should not look into this. If you want Commander Scooby-Doo to be assigned to Starbase 44, that is fine with me. Actullay Scooby-Doo is an excellent officer. I have to go now. Think about what I have said." The channel is closed... Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove orders one of his ships in the 369th fleet to investigate some changes in gravitational forces, discovered by the USS Carry. As the USS Ensemble is very closeby the region it will have the first reports by the end of the day. The USS Ensemble has not detected these changes in gravitational forces, but on route to the area, scientists have already started studying the sensor logs of the USS Carry. When the first reports comes in, it sounds a little strange. "Admiral, we cannot find anything wrong here, but there are indeed fluctuations in the gravitational forces. We have the impression that our ship is suddenly moved a few hundred meters, by unknown gravitational forces, but I don't think we are in any danger. We have not sustained any damage. Please advice." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The Borg are still n the Ori realm. they have found a planet... This planet is clearly Ori in origin. Thye Borg assimilate all technology on this planet to find out if there is still Ori activity in the Ori realm. And there is... Withon a few hours The Borg found the Ori. But the Ori themselves cannot be assimilated. The ori are hiding within a core of a star. There are several Ori ships in orbit around the star. But these ships do not seem to be eager to attack the Borg fleet. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang The Zolo ship has arrived at the last location of the Yu home planet is well known to the Kirie and Hunanan. Bu there is no trace of an intelligent life form. Together with the representatives of the Kirie, Scaton Federation, Trsterts, Zolo, Hunanan and Musks, Captain HEndriks has to decide what to do next. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 265 22.00 The Chief of Sciences has a first report on the change in gravitational forces in the region. The changes are the results of something that happened on planetary scale, maybe even a star. Day 266 07.26 Computer simulations indicate that the change in gravitational forces in the region are caused by the disapearance of an entire planet. The Ginugagapa archaeologists aboard the USS Vertigo still have not been able to contact their home planet. Day 267 13.14 The USS Vertigo sets course to the location where according the computer simulations should be a planet... Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The USS Iceberg has discovered an Ori ship, but to the surprise of the crew a group of people with a certain Nogam as leader apparently have boarded the empty Ori ship to get it for themselves, but it seems they have fallen into some kind of trap. They cannot leave the Ori ship. After contacting General Fujimori for orders it becomes clear what General Crow can do. "Crow, it is good to see you again. Life support of that ori ship is failing? These people are trapped? You knwo what we stand for. These are people in need and they need to be rescued. Get hem of that Ori ship and drop them of at the nearest inhabited planet. I would take precautions though. They could be priates of some kind." The people aboard the Ori ship are transported to cargo bay 6. Of course their leader named Nogam does not agree. "I demand you set us free. This is abduction. I will file a complaint at the federation Council myself. Who do you think you are? And don't you dare to get the ship we found first. It is ours now. Do you hear me?" But nobody aboard the USS Iceberg seems to be interested in what Nogam has to say. Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis The USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin have not yet arrived at the location of the USS Atlantis who has encountered the Moadib and their leader Damarr. At the other side of the wormhole all three science vessels detect some changes in gravitational forces. But the scientists aboard, don't think it is caused by the wormhole. Actually they have no explanation. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper The Kraken who take care of Ambassador Jas Stevens are making little progress. Stevens is still in some kind of coma. The USS Alice Cooper-B has set course to Alorius Sector. It is a region where there have been not much explorers of the Federation and there are chances to make first contact. Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) With almost the entire Borg collective in the Ori realm, Ori prior Horkan decides to leave the Ori realm. He returns to normal space abaord an Ori ship... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne Regional meeting... "Listen up. This is going to be a heavy night for most of us. The good news is that we are in the offensive and pushing the enemy back. But this is far from over. Does someone have new intel?" "Yes I have. I have just received word that units 9 and 16 have had a little success by clearing sector 265." Optimistic cheering... "I had a question actually." "What is it?" "Is it true Unit One Thousand is coming to our sector?" "I cannot answer that, because I do not know. But if they do let's show them we can fight too." All agreed and returned to their duties. Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report March 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 After Rear Admiral Christine Steichen had several talks about a certain Commander Scooby-Doo with other officers she doesn't get any wiser. The only way to really get to know this officer is to invite him and have a talk with him personally. The only problem is that someone has to find him. "Sorry Admiral, he left about a month ago. I have no information of where his next mission is. it is possible..." "I am afraid you are to late Admiral. We dropped him off about three weeks ago at Starbase 16. I have no further information. Maybe the..." "Admiral, I will patch you through to our Chief of personnel, Commander..." "Yes Admiral, he was here, but he left with his runabout. I can't tell you where he is now, but I believe I heard him say that he would be picked up again by the..." "This is Captain Daphne Blake in command of the USS Shaggy. My first officer tells me that you are looking for Commander Scooby-Doo. I am afraid you just missed him. We picked him up yesterday morning, but later that day he left with his runabout. I have no idea where he was heading to. The only thing I can add is that I asked the shuttle bay duty officers and they are sure the Commander went to a starbase, but they didn't know which one. I am sorry I cannot tell you more. At the time he disembarked we were only 5 lightyears from your starbase. Even with a runabout he could be there in a day. It is possible he was heading your way. Your starbase was the closest starbase. Maybe you are lucky Admiral. You never know." The channel closes. Exactly 15 minutes after her last inquiry, Admiral Steichen is called. Apparently another new officer has come aboard and is waiting for a meeting with the commanding officer of Starbase 44. A few moments later an older officer enters the Admiral's office. "I am Commander Scooby-Doo. You have been looking for me? First of all Admiral, I am under direct orders from the C-in-C. If the C-in-C calls, I have to go. I can do some things for you the next few weeks. Then i have a mission. That mission will take four days. After that I will be back if you still want me aboard this starbase. Yes I know there are not much files about me. I cannot tell you what kind of job I do in Starfleet. But In my spare time I can help you out if I am assigned a position on this starbase. You have to realize I am a carreer professional Starfleet officer. I do not make to many friends. Missions I do, I do alone. Even you will not ask questions. In return I will keep your starbase safe." Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet The USS Ensemble is under orders of Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove to investigate the changes in gravitational forces which happened a few days ago. An entire team aboard Starbase 369 is also searching the Starfleet database to see if there were more reports about changes in gravitational forces. And there are. "Sir we have found another one in sector 33366. That makes a list of 29 events like this one sir. The reason is still unknown." "Sir a team of science ships is at the mouth of a wormhole. They have detected the same kind of changes in gravitational forces, but it is not coming from the other side of the wormhole. There are several ships on the other side of the wormhole and they did not detect any disturbance in the space time continuuum." "Sir there is a new report from the USS Ensemble." "On Screen." "This is Captain Lorkadam. We have not found a cause of the the changes in gravitational forces yet, but we have found one of the devestating results. One of the moons of the planet called F-4998 has been split in two halves. We think it is a risk to investigate this further, but we also think we have to to take a closer look at this split moon. We could be under some kind of attack." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The word is given... "Destroy the Ori and their Ori priors and Ori ships." A huge Borg fleet opens fire on the hiding place of the last Ori... It takes a few minutes for the Borg to addapt, but the Ori and their Ori priors and Ori ships are destroyed. It is time to leave the Ori realm before it collapses. Several Borg probes and Borg spheres set course to designated coordinates where a large gate is build to exit the Ori realm. the entire Borg fleet leaves the Ori Realm through the gateway. Only a few minutes later the Ori realm collapses, leaving nothing behind. Back in regular space duties, maintenance and training become routine again. Until there is a report of changes in gravitational forces... Even a few planets have been destroyed by the phenomena... Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang The Zolo ship has arrived at the last location of the Yu home planet where the Kirie, Scaton Federation, Trsterts, Zolo, Hunanan, Musks and Captain Hendriks have to decide who is going to have a look on the planet. There are of course some unknown elements like dangerous animals, extreme unpredictable weather, old structures which could fall apart any moment, magnetic disturbances... USS Walang Chief Science Officer Lieutenant Commander M'rdak advices Captain Hendriks that if she would send a human to the Yu planet that human should wear an environmental protection suit. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 268 03.14 When the USS vertigo arrives at the homeplanet of the Ginugagapa archaeologists, there is no planet. Only a few satellites, some small space craft and a small space station are left. Day 268 03.42 The planet is destroyed, apparently by the change in gravitational forces detected earlier. The USS vertigo is transporting the survivors of the Ginugagapa disaster aboard. Day 268 04.57 The USS Vertigo has set course to New Ginugagapa which is a planet colonized by the Ginugagapa 4 lightyears away... Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The USS Iceberg has discovered an Ori ship, but pirates with their leader Nogam who wanted to have the ship for themselves have been transported aboard the USS Iceberg and locked up in a cargobay. The orders of general Crow are clear. "We will investigate that ship from top to bottom and when were finished we will bring it to the nearest Starbase and drop of our passengers and they can go from there." General Crow's orders are executed. The teams aboard the Ori ship do not find anything new. Nogam and his pirates are dropped on the nearest inhabitable planet and althogh Nolam threatens the marines, curses them and insults them, the marines leave them alone on the planet. When the USS Icberg delivers the Ori ship at Starbase 8, engineeers and scientists of the starbase are already standing by to swarm over the Ori ship. At Starbaase 8, General Crow first hears about several changes in gravitational forces all over Federation space. Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis After some navigational errors and strange phenomena did the USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin not yet arrive at the location of the USS Atlantis. The ships do not have had any readings of a changes in gravitational forces. The three science ships at the other side of the wormhole still have not found a reason for the change in changes in gravitational forces in the region. When Starfleet Command is contacted it appears these kind of changes in gravitational forces have happened at least 17 times in different sectors the last 24 hours... Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Strange things happen to Ambassador Jas Stevens. But he seems to be at ease. The Kraken doctors are taking good care of him. The USS Alice Cooper-B has finished its first tour of exploration buty not much has happened. Some spacial phenomena have been studied, new plant life has been discovered on three planets, but there was no sign yet of intelligent life. One time the helm officer had to make a course correction due to a gravitational shift, but it did not seem to be to serious. Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) At this time with the entire Federation, Klingon Empire and some rogue Ferengi bounty hunters, Ori prior Horkan has no choice than to hide for a while. Horkan has not heard from the Ori since he has left the Ori realm. He had to leave. The Borg were coming... A few days later The last Ori prior Horkan finds a completely deserted space station in the middle of nowhere. there is no star system, not even an asteroid or comet within sensor range. the Ori ship docks with the station after which the crew of the ship starts exploring the station. The station is fully operational, including life support, weapons, and a cloaking device... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne A junior officer and his team had just arrived on the planet. Most of the twelve team members, including their Lieutenant only had a few weeks of field experience. And during those weeks they hadn't seen an enemy. But things were about to change. Behind a large building Shadow creatures were just waiting for their prey to walk into their trap. Only an hour after they had arrived the entire team was already surrounded and fighting the Shadows like never before, but they were outnumbered. the team retreated into a smaller building to make a stand. Just when things began to look really bad, a different kind of shadow appeared out of nowhere. This shadow moved so fast, that the rookies, hiding in the building, had trouble to follow the action outside. Only a few moments the shadow had destroyed all other shadows. He stopped. "Hey you in the building. The area is clear. You can come out." Slowly the rookies came out of the building. they looked up to the man in black. They saw his insignia... Unit One Thousand. The rookies didn't speak and saluted. The lieutenant bowed... The Unit One Thousand officer saluted, moved and vanished between the buildings... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report April 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 Rear Admiral Christine Steichen has apointed Commander Scooby-Doo as her chief of security. There are more senior staff officers to be assigned. Starfleet Command has sent Commander Nostaret to be assigned as Chief of Operations and Doctor P'Dem to fill in the position of Chief Medical Officer. But the most important position, that of first officer, has still an empty seat. Steichen has to review lots of files of candidates. So she starts early. But as there are still constructors on Starbase 44, there is a lot of noise and disturbances. The search for a new first officer is not going very well. Suddenly right in front of her office, Steichen hears several people screaming. She opens the door and looks outside into the corridor where she sees two Ferengi constructors running through the corridor. They are clearly terrified. When they are about 30 meters from Admiral Steichen's office, a door opens and a huge man steps out his room. "What is going on here?" The mans voice sounds like a roar of a wild animal. But the two Ferengi seem to be more scared of what is coming after them than the big man standing in their way. The man grabs the two much smaller Ferengi and lifts them up. "Don't hurt us. We are only trying to make some profit here." "We didn't do anything wrong. And then that monster began hunting us with no reason. Let us go." Chief of Security Commander Scooby-Doo appears at the end of the corridor. He was already in pursuit of the Ferengi. The man who is holding the Ferengi doesn't seem to be in a good mood. While he shakes the two unfortunate Ferengi some Starfleet equipment fall on the floor. It is clear what is going on here. Only two seconds later the brand new Chief of Security Commander Scooby-Doo arrives at the scene. When the Ferengi see him they look terrified. "I am sorry sir. Did these two Ferengi bother you? If you don't mind I will take them to their next luxury hotel called the Brig." Before the Ferengi can say a word, the man hands them over to Commander Scooby-Doo. "Nice catch sir." The man's mood has suddenly changed. "It is good to see you in action again Scooby-Doo. Why don't you visit me after your shift." Commander Scooby-Doo smiles. "I would like that very much sir. See you later then." Scooby-Doo taps his badge and gives an order. He is transported to the brig with the two Ferengi thieves. The huge man turns around to enter his room again. Then he sees Admiral Steichen. "Admiral." Admiral Steichen sees the four pips on the man's uniform. He is a Starfleet Captain. He nodds but just before he enters his room, he addresses the Admiral again. "I am Captain John Wainis. If you need me, I am your neighbour." He nodds again and enters his room. Admiral Steichen enters her office. She now has seen Commander Scooby-Doo in action. He is only half a day on the job and he already has discovered two thiefs. She also opens the file on Captain John Wainis. Captain John Wainis is one of those few captains who has no ship. There are some clssified items which she cannot open. But there are some more remarkable records. nobody has served for a longer time with Commander Scooby-Doo than Captain Wainis. And Captain John Wainis has rceived more awards than anyone Admiral Steichen knows in Starfleet. And the most strange thing is that currently Captain John Wainis has no assignment... Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet With all the recent changes in gravitational forces in Federation space Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove thinks this must be some kind of scientific experiment that got out of hand. His orders are therefore very specific. "Try to find scientists who are capable of doing such a thing." Scientists all over Starbase 369 are receiving the order. The search begins. Databases are opened, closed again. The search takes longer than expected. Even on the starships under Admiral Van Nieuwenhove's command the search gets priority. Several names are presented, but those mad scientists passed away a long time ago. But also species like the Borg and species 8472 are mentioned, but there has not been activity of those in Federation space for a long time. Just when the search begins to become futile, there is a message from Starfleet Command. To Rear Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove Commanding Officer Starbase 369 Priority 1 There is a Borg fleet of around 200 ships detected in your region. Please take the necessary precautions. Admiral Lesley Rinoir Starfleet Defence Force Starfleet Command Head Quarters Earth. End of Message Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The Borg fleet under command of Commodore Mechels has destroyed the Ori and there realm. Now they have a new mission. "We will return to Federation space. These starfleet guys must be in shock when they see a Borg fleet on their doorstep." Transwarp conduits are opened. The fleet starts to move and disappears to only appear At the border of Federation space an hour later. While the Borg fleet enters federation space unannounced, Commodore Mechels has a visit from Master One. "There is something wrong with the force. There are planets in Federation space which are completely destroyed. We only know a few who can do this. The Sith Lords, but there are none left. Species 8472, but they would be detected immediately by the Federation. And then there is Reman Professor Dalen. We don't know where he is, but he is not in Romulan space. He is last seen in sector 11645. That is in Federation space. We believe that if Dalen is behind the changes in gravitational forces in this region of space, he is doing it on his own. He has no support from the Romulans nor the Remans. There is a 0.002 percent chance these changes in gravitational forces will have any influence in the Delta Quadrant. I advice against a total war against the Federation. These changes in gravitational forces will also destroy us. We cannot addapt to such a phenomena." The jedi master Borg has explained the situation. He now waits for new orders. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Captain Hendriks has decided to participate in the exploration of this world of the Yu. "There is always something to be learned." A team of the USS Walang finest scientists in environmental protection suits accompanies a team of the Scaton Federation, Trsterts, Zolo, Hunanan and Musks to the last known home planet of the Yu. The biologists have the time of their lives studying all the undiscovered animal species. In extreme old documents the scientists learn that the animal life on the planet used to be the pets of the Yu. When the Yu left the planet they had to leave some of their pets behind. A small team of engineers finds a structure in which a power source draws their attention. But the power source is about 20 meters below the surface. The structure does not look safe. It is old and almost a complete ruin. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 269 19.13 The USS Vertigo arrives at New Ginugagapa. The rescued Ginugagapa people are transfered to New Ginugagapa. Day 270 6.00 Senior staff meeting aboard the USS vertigo. Commodore Slater has received new orders. Apparently the change in gravitational forces detected by the USS Vertigo have appeared on much more locations. The USS Vertigo has to investigate these changes in gravitational forces. Day 270 6.12 The USS Vertigo is on its way to system YT-23. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg With all the recent changes in gravitational forces in Federation space General Crow makes a decision. "We will investigate these changes in gravitational forces." Atad, faster than anyone else makes a fast search in the Federation database. Some planets are completely destroyed by these changes in gravitational forces. Who or what could have done this? Several names are listed in the database, but those mad scientists passed away a long time ago. But also species like the Borg and species 8472 are mentioned, but there has not been activity of those in Federation space for a long time. Just when the search begins to become futile, there is a message from Starfleet Command. To Lieutenant General Crow Commanding Officer USS Iceberg To Colonel Catson Commanding Officer USS Highway To Colonel Huron Commanding Officer USS Enable Priority 1 There is a Borg fleet of around 200 ships detected in the region of Starbase 369. Please take the necessary precautions. General Fujimori Starfleet Marines Defence Force Starfleet Marines Head Quarters Earth. End of Message Then Atad reports. "Sir we have a another name from the database sir. There is a Reman Professor Dalen. He is last seen in sector 11645. That is in Federation space. This Reman Professor Dalen has blown up several small moons in Romulan space with only a small device. The Romulans hunted him down, but couldn't get him. It seems he was always a few steps ahead of the Romulan Tal Shiar." Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis Aboard the USS Atlantis... Day 101 Sonak reports. "Captain message coming through from Damarr." Captain Walker was waiting for that. "About time, let's have it." "Audio only!" Damarr's message is rather short. "Captain Walker, it is clear to you do not belong here. The elders have decided to modify your ship with an F T L device to help you on your way, and locate the communication array. We will add a new crew member, who will help on your way. The route to Xcerses space is beyond on space realm, the array can be found on the fith planet of the Antares sector. We will also help you to locate the three other Federation ships, so you can re-united. The co-ordinates are being transmitted to your ships computer, and the route can be found in your stellar cartography." Sonak looks at the display. "That is the last of the message." Commander Jones confirms that help has arrived. "Captain you have visitor in your ready room." Walker invites Anakaa. "Anakaa join me!" Anakaa follows the Captain. "Captain!!!" In the Captain's ready room the two meet the visitor. Captain Walker has to know a few things. "You are!" "My name is Essel, I am here to help you. The moadib assigned to your ship to guide you. I am a guide." Anakaa adresses Essel. "You have also another function." Essel confirms. "I work with the ftl." ___________________________________________________________ Aboard the USS Arlington Yorlan reports. "Captain T'Pau a void is opening!" "On screem." Yorlan looks at the main screen. "A ship is coming through, transmitting a message. The message says standby to be re-united with federation starship Atlantis." T'lan informs the others. "Transmit the same message to the Paladin" Aboard the USS Paladin the message is received. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper While Ambassador Stevens is not aware of a new major threat to the Federation, the Alice Cooper-B is still studying changes in gravitational forces in Federation space. Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) The last ori prior going by the name of Horkan has taken his residence on a space station. First thing to do is cloak the station. Then Horkan has new orders for his soldiers. "We take over the galaxy, starting with an ambush on the borg while they are busy with somthing entirely different." It is already known to Horkan that the Borg have arrived in Federation space. The Borg have destroyed the Ori realm. It is clear what has to be done. And things get better for Horkan when one of his officers has good news. "My lord. We have found two huge ships of the same technolgy of this station in spacedock. These seem to be carriers. They have at least 100 fighter ships aboard." More and more this station seems to be a fortress with huge military possibilities. It doesn't take much time to learn to operate the ships and the station. Everything is mind contorled. An hour later the two carriers leave the station, cloak and set course to the Borg fleet in Federation space... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne "Run Now!" They all ran for their lives. They jumped over the wall and took cover. The explosion made the ground shake. A few seconds later one of them had the courage to look over the wall. "We did it sir. We got them." He looked around. They were all there. Another Shadow stronghold destroyed. Slowly they were gaining some... A few lightyears away, staff members discussed the situation. "We now know where they are. The only thing is to get there and destroy them." "Indeed. We need a few new plans." Plans are being made... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report May 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 Aboard Starbase 44 Admiral Steichen is working on the last of her duty roster and senior staff officers. An hour ago she has met Captain John Wainis. Apparently Captain Wainis has served with Commander Scooby-Doo before and is very capable. Therefore Admiral Steichen decides to assign Captain Wainis as her first officer. A few minutes later Captain John Wainis enters the Admiral's office. "You called Admiral? What can I do for you?" Admiral Steichen offers Captain Wainis the position of first officer. The giant Captain Wainis accepts. He is clearly very happy with the oportunity. But after the regular officer talk between commanding officer and her XO she has a special assignment for him... "I want you to follow Commander Scooby-Doo on his next mission to see what he has to do for the C-in-C..." Without any hesitation Captain Wainis nodds. "It will be done Admiral." Ten minutes later the XO of Starbase 44 enters his own office. An hour later he welcomes Commander Scooby-Doo. Apparently the two are really good old friends... Three weeks later the last of the construction crews have left Starbase 44. And just when everything seems to become a routine Admiral Steichen is called to main operations. "Admiral, I think you see this." When Christine Steichen enters operation she can see a Defiant-class ship on the main viewer. It is the USS Leverage under command of Captain Jako Drieman. But this is not a regular ship. "Admiral, let me present you the USS Leverage, Captain Jako Drieman in command. Eight torpedo launchers, four aft, six pulse phaser cannons, four aft, polarized double hull, boosted shield generators up to 140 percent. This ship only has one purpose Admiral." The USS Leverage has come to Starbase 44 to pick up Commander Scooby-Doo for a special mission. Admiral Steichen asks Captain Drieman to take her first officer Captain John Wainis as well on this mission. "John Wainis is your first officer? Wow. Of course Admiral. It will be an honor." Everyone can see that Captain Jako Drieman is a very proud man. But nobody knows why... Exactly two hours later the USS Leverage departs and sets course to the Federation colony on Torryan II. Three days later when the USS Leverage arrives at Torryan II the ship cloaks. Captain Drieman in command of the USS Leverage reports to Admiral Steichen on a secured channel. "We have arrived Admiral. We have transported Captain Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo to the surface. They did not take any equipment, not even weapons. They said they didn't need it. I don't know what their mission is and I didn't ask any questions. But you have seen my ship. If this was a peaceful diplomatic mission Starfleet would send a different ship, not us. The people of the colony seem to be scared. They say their life is in danger. But they didn't say what kind of danger. They said they couldn't talk about it." Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet A Borg fleet of at least 200 ships has arrived in Federation space close to Starbase 369. Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove gives new orders. "We will send one ship and have the captain of that ship talk to the Borg. Let's see what they want. That ship will only have volonteers for that mission..." ...Perhaps they will not come back... It is a thought on everyone's mind. The USS Ontario, in command of Captain Jean Liberon, leaves spacedock only twenty minutes later. The closer the USS Ontario gets to the Borg, the more the volonteers aboard are getting nervous. The plan is that if the Borg attack the Ontraio will ram a Borg ship that is nearby doing as much damage as possible. A day later the USS Ontarion intercepts the Borg fleet. the Ontario crew is ready for anything. But then contact with the Ontario is lost. "USS Ontario. This is Starbase 369 report." There is no answer. "USS Ontario do you read. USS Ontario please respond." There is no answer. "Admiral we can't reach the Ontario. The ship is still there. But it is unclear in what condition." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt A Borg fleet of at least 200 ships has arrived in Federation space close to Starbase 369. Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove sends the USS Ontario, in command of Captain Jean Liberon to the Borg fleet. The crew off the USS Ontario are all volonteers. The closer the USS Ontario gets to the Borg, the more the volonteers aboard are getting nervous. The plan is that if the Borg attack the Ontraio will ram a Borg ship that is nearby doing as much damage as possible. A day later the USS Ontarion intercepts the Borg fleet. the Ontario crew is ready for anything. But then Starbase 44 loses all contact with the Ontario. At the moment Starbase 44 loses contact with the USS Ontario, two huge carriers of unknown design decloak. Fighters are launched. But the Borg already have made the decision to return to the Delta Quadrant. "Let the Federation solve their own problems." So the Borg are already gone. They have returned to the Delta Quadrant. The fighters return to their motherships. The two carriers cloak and are also gone. When the Borg return home, they find more than a few changes in gravitational forces. There are no reports yet of lost planets, but the situation seems to get worse. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang Before going into the structure Captain Hendriks shares her thoughts. "I would go in with my team bit by bit and strengthen the structure where necessary. It takes longer but we can enter it. I am always curious." The engineering team from the USS Walang starts building. The sturcture becomes more strong every hour. After six hours the corridor leading to the power source is safe. Still only two engineers enter the corridor. They scan de power source, do some tests, but nothing happens. The power source is active, but it is not yet clear where the power is used for. Scanning further in the area power transfer is detected. The power source supplies power to another device. But this device cannot be reached as it is completely burried. While the engineers try to find a way to get to the device, something strange happens... Not far from the structure the ground seems to open. Two engineers from the Scaton Federation who are working there run backwards to safety. In a few seconds there is a deep hole. Out of the hole slowly comes a missile like device. Somebody shouts. "It is a Halicon Vault!" A Trsterts scientist and a Zolo engineer run towards the Halicon Vault. They are shouting. "Don't let it leave!" Apparently they are just in time. They open a panel on the Halicon Vault and push a few buttons. The missile stops moving. The Halicon Vault is saved. The Trsterts scientist explains to Captain Hendriks that a Halicon Vault contains a collection of all DNA of a planets population, including plant life. This must be a Yu Halicon Vault. This means that all dna of the Yu and whatever lived on their planet is kept in this Halicon Vault. If the Halicon Vault is activated the Dna inside will be rebuild. Most of the time after the process the rebuilded life forms have the memory of those who gave their DNA to be kept in the Halicon Vault. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 271 00.03 The USS vertigo is on its way to investigate change in gravitational forces in system YT-23. Day 279 09.34 The USS Vertigo has arrived in system YT-23. All three planets are desroyed. Some of the Larger parts could provide with more data on what happened here. Chief of Security Lieutenant Commander Matz volonteers to take a runabout to fly through the pieces of the destroyed planets to gather more data. Matz will be accompanied by two eager, curious and probably completely crazy scientists. Day 280 08.00 A runabout is launched from the shuttle deck. The flight will not be without danger. The pieces left over from the destruction of the planets are still moving. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg Whatever the cause for all the recent changes in gravitational forces in Federation space, General Crow is determined to find out who and what is behind this. His first lead is the name of a Reman Professor Dalen. The General gives his orders. "We will go to Sector 11645 to search for this Reman Professor Dalen. We must find this man so we can understand what we can do about these gravitational forces." The USS Iceberg sets course to Sector 11645. The journey is uneventful except for some course changes due to some minor changes in gravitational forces which are not mapped yet. After a few days the USS Iceberg meets with the USS Carry, a freighter of the 369th fleet on its way to Starbase 369, in command of Rear-Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove. Captain Jeffrey Dunn, in command of the USS Carry shares information about more changes in gravitational forces. But in this region no planets or moons are destroyed. A few days later the USS arrives in Sector 11645. After visiting the two inhabited planets in the sector, the Starfleet Marines can only come to one conclusion. The Reman Professor Dalen has already left this sector, but he probably went home. Home is planet RM-51. Another day later the USS Iceberg arrives in the system. After several scans it is clear that RM-51 is a Reman planet. And that is strange as it is not located in Romulan space... Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis Deep in unexplored territory the USS Atlantis is getting help. Moadib has assigned Essel to help as a guide but also to help with the FTL drive. It doesn't take long before the USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin are united. But there is still a lot to do. At the other side of the wormhole the three science vessels which monitor the wormhole are also detecting more changes in gravitational forces. But at this time they are not in any danger. But there is no way to tell or even calculate what the consequences will be for the wormhole if it is hit by such a change in gravitational forces. If the wormhole collapses, the four ships could be trapped... Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Alice Cooper-B is still studying changes in gravitational forces in Federation space. At the same time the first changes in gravitational forces were detected, the condition of Ambassador Jas Stevens has changed a bit. The Kraken who treat the ambassador don't know whether this is a positive or negative evolution... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) A Borg fleet of at least 200 ships has arrived in Federation space close to Starbase 369. Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove sends the USS Ontario, in command of Captain Jean Liberon to the Borg fleet. The crew off the USS Ontario are all volonteers. The closer the USS Ontario gets to the Borg, the more the volonteers aboard are getting nervous. The plan is that if the Borg attack the Ontraio will ram a Borg ship that is nearby doing as much damage as possible. A day later the USS Ontarion intercepts the Borg fleet. the Ontario crew is ready for anything. But then Starbase 44 loses all contact with the Ontario. At the moment Starbase 44 loses contact with the USS Ontario, two huge carriers of unknown design decloak. Fighters are launched. But the Borg are already gone. They have returned to the Delta Quadrant. The fighters return to their motherships. The two carriers cloak and are also gone. Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne "Lieutenant where are you? Lieutenant!" "Over here sir. I only have to connect the power supply. That should do the trick. Here we go. Fire in the hole!" But nothing happens... "Do it again Lieutenant!" "I did sir. No effect." "We are completely surrounded Lieutenant. This is our last chance." "Nothing sir. Sorry. There is nothing more I can do. Sir there are two craft at high speed coming directly to us." Two craft fly over the small group firing their weapons. The mines explode, clearing a path for the soldiers who do not hesitate to break through the enemy lines. "Rendez-vous point! Go!" The two craft land just long enough to pick up the soldiers before the enemy recovers. A minute later the pilot activates the intercom and speaks to the soldiers. "Let's call this a draw." Then the two craft drop a massive explosive... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report June 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 USS Leverage under command of Captain Jako Drieman is still in orbit above the Federation colony on Torryan II. Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo ar on the planet without equipment or weapons. They are on a mission on orders of the C-in-C himself. At the same time in the Federation colony people have locked themselves up in their container homes. They are scared, but are not yet at the point that they want to be evacuated. Some of them are on Torryan II for more than five years. Nothing dramatic like this has ever happened. Apparently not many people know what is going on on Torryan II, not even Captain Drieman, in command of the USS Leverage, in orbit of the planet. But the crew of the USS Leverage is ready for anything. The ship is cloaked. But Admiral Christine Steichen has a little trick. She calls her friends of the Lorem. Once a Lorem, always a Lorem. And so it happens that one of the prominent Lorem appears in Christine's office. "Many greetings from the Lorem people Christine. I am your personal ambassador liaison with our people. I already know why you called. You want to know what is going on on Torryan II. Please understand the Lorem cannot intervene in what is happening. But I can show you what is going on." The Lorem ambassador waves his hand. Christine suddenly finds herself on Toryan II. But it is like being on a holodeck. The life forms do not take notice of her presence. At her left side, the Lorem ambassador waits for her questions. They enter the colony, walk right through the walls of the container homes and listen to the people who live there. "We will be saved Ron. They are already here. They will take care of it." "I know Laen. But still, it makes me nervous." The two Lorem move on to the next container, and the next. Because there is nothing new here, Christine asks to move to Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo. In a flash the two move through the woods to stop under a huge tree. A huge man is standing there. His clothes are not familiar, but Christine recognises him as Captain Wainis, her first officer. Next to Captain Wainis walks a large dog. The dog lifts his head into the air and tries to pickup a trail or a smell. It is clear the dog has found something. With a heavy voice he says. "I got it." "Excellent Scooby. Let's go." The dog growls. "Yes I know Scooby. There is little time." The dog starts running, followed by Captain Wainis who has no trouble following the dog through the wood. Unknown to them they are followed by Christine Steichen and her Lorem ambassador. The two arrive at a large canyon. Without hesitation Captain Wainis and the dog jump down into the canyon. No man can survive such a fall, but apparently Captain Wainis and the dog are not ordinairy men. They jump from one ridge to another without any trouble. At the bottom of the canyon the dog leads the way. After a run of a few minutes they arrive at a cave. Then they stop. Their presence is noticed. A black glowing creature comes out of the cave. The dog changes into Commander Scooby-Doo. The creature stops and starts to speak with a clear voice. "Why are you here? I didn't do anything wrong. This is my territory." Captain Wainis is the senior officer and replies. "We know. But our people living in the colony are a bit scared. They don't know you like we do." "I don't mean them any harm. Some of them saw me. That is regrettable. But it was not my fault." "Maybe you should come with us and introduce yourself to them. They will see that they don't have to be afraid." "That would be nice, but is that allowed?" "We have authorisation to grant permission." "That would be great. I will follow you then." The Lorem Ambassador explains to Admiral Steichen that the creature is a Dorment. Dorments only eat plants. They are no danger to other creatures. The Dorment follows Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo to the colony. At first the colonists are still a bit afraid, but when Captain Wainis has explained about the Dorment, some of the scientists become very curious. The Dorment can stay as long as he wants to talk about his species or talk about anything else. The next day Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo say their good-bye. They beam back aboard the USS Leverage and start their way home. Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove has sent the USS Ontario, in command of Captain Jean Liberon to an approaching Borg fleet of at least 200 ships. But Starbase 369 has lost contact with the USS Ontario just at the moment the USS Ontario made contact with the Borg. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove has new simple orders. "We will send a ship with cloaking device. The orders are simple; check for the Ontario, check lifsigns, and determine if the ship can be rescued otherwise use the destruction codes of the Ontario." But unknown to the crew of Starbase 369, at the moment Starbase 369 lost contact with the USS Ontario, two huge carriers of unknown design decloak. Fighters are launched. But the Borg are already gone. They have returned to the Delta Quadrant. The fighters return to their motherships. The two carriers cloak and are also gone. About ten minutes later Captain Jean Liberon of the USS Ontario contacts Starbase 369 to report. "I am sorry but the Borg blocked our communications. The ship and crew are allright. We saw two huge ships appear out of nowhere. We think they had some kind of cloak sir. I have never seen that design of ship before. They launched smaller ships, probably fighters. But only a second later the Borg opened a transwarp conduit. They left in a hurry. My guess is that they are afraid of those aliens. We were not able to scan those ships sir. Our sensors could not penetrate their hull. We didn't have a chance to talk to them either. I hope we will meet again some day. there are to many questions. The USS Ontario will return to Starbase 369. We will see you there." The Borg threat is gone. It is time to return to regular duties... And there are still the changes in gravitational forces to investigate... Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The Borg have returned to the Delta Quadrant. But even in the Delta Quadrant there are changes in gravitational forces. It doesn't take long for the Borg to figure out that the only one who can cause this, is professor Dalen. It doesn't take the Borg very long to find this professor Dalen. He lives in sector 11645. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang On a very old Yu home planet a Halicon Vault is found. A Halicon Vault contains a collection of all DNA of a planets population, including plant life. This is a Yu Halicon Vault. This means that all DNA of the Yu and whatever lived on their planet is kept in this Halicon Vault. If the Halicon Vault is activated the DNA inside will be rebuild. Most of the time after the process the rebuilded life forms have the memory of those who gave their DNA to be kept in the Halicon Vault. But the question remains. How can the Halicon Vault be activated without doing any damage to the fragile Yu DNA... Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 280 9.23 The runabout approaches a large piece of one of the destroyed planets in system YT-23 where three planets are destroyed by changes in gravitational forces. Day 280 10.12 Lieutenant Commander Matz in command of the runabout contacts the USS vertigo. She asks permission to land on the large piece of planet. Day 280 10.34 The runabout lands on the large rocky piece of planet. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg In the search for the Reman Professor Dalen, the USS Iceberg is in orbit of a Reman planet designated as RM-51. But the planet is not located in Romulan space. General Crow Gives his orders. "RM-51 is a Reman planet outside Romulan space. We will enter orbit and contact the leaders on the planet to ask about Reman Professor Dalen. It's a long shot but maybe we get lucky." After several attempts to contact the Reman leaders, there is an answer. "Federation ships. General Crow. We are peaceful miners. The last time we have seen Professor Dalen here was almost a month ago. He comes here every two months or so, but he does not have a lab here. We alxays get his announcement before he arrives. Last time he was here, he was dropped of by a Reman battleship. He had not sent word that he was coming. He was clearly in shock, but he has not told us why. He was picked up two days later by a Romulan cargo ship by the name of T'Veer. And that was about a month ago. I don't know why the professor came here unannounced, but I think it was the only way for him to travel further. This planet is on a Romulan trade route. According the flight plan of Romulan cargo ship T'Veer indicates it had to travel to the Grast system. I must warn you though. The Grast system is in Romulan space. I don't know if you are welcome there. You could wait here of course until Professor Dalen returns, but I am not sure that he will be back soon." Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis With the help of Moadib and Essel and the elemental Anakaa it doesn't take long before the USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin are united. But all three ships are stil on the other side of the wormhole. At the entrance of the wormhole the three science ships are stil waiting. the scientists are trying to find answers to their questions like why is this a stable wormhole? How long will this wormhole last? Wil the ships which passed through the wormhole be able to get back? Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Apparently the changes in gravitational forces seem to have a positive influence on the condition of Ambassador Jas Stevens. It even seems he is awake for a short moment, but then he slips away again. The Kraken who take care of the ambassador see that as a way to help him. The USS Alice Cooper-B is mapping the changes in gravitational forces in Federation space. until now the crew has not yet found a pattern. Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) Horkan has called his two ships back. His plan was to attack the Borg, but his plan failed, because the Borg did not wait for the attack to be completed. New plans are made. Horkan sends a ship to the Delta Quadrant to see what the Borg are up to. But it will take some time to get there. Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne "We have to bring the package to the north station sir." "Sure. And don't remind me that the Shadows are crawling all over the place." "Sir, may I suggest to have us picked up and drop the package from the air or even from orbit." "I have asked for that three hours ago already. There is nothing available for us." "What about a high level explosion?" "That would whipe us out as well you idiot." "Silence. There is someone coming." "Or something." A man steps into the building. "They are eliminated. Sorry you had to wait a few hours, but that was the best we could do. Your path is clear now." The man turns around. In a flash they see the logo on his sleeve... Unit One Thousand... The man is gone... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report July 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 On Starbase 44 daily routine has replaced the building. The Starbase is now fully operational. Some of the ships of the 44th fleet are investigating the changes in gravitational forces which seem to happen in the entire galaxy at random. Several moons and even planets are already destroyed... Rear Admiral Christine Steichen has her thoughts about Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo and their secret missions... "I will not do anything. Captain Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo will get on another mission ordered by the C-in-C. Then I can have a look again." The rest of the week nothing special happens, except that Chief of Security Commander Scooby-Doo does an extensive test of the internal force fields. But then te moment comes when Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo are again called away for a special mission under orders of the C-in-C. It is the Souvereign-class USS Zavahari under command of Vulcan Captain T'vok who picks up the two officers. With the help of the lorem ambassador, Christine Steichen can follow every move the two make. The USS Zavahari travels to the Narasomi system, breaking every speed record. There is a Starfleet outpost on the main planet with permission of the local government. the outpost contains 200 starfleet personnel, but is almost as large as a small city. A distress call from the outpost under command of Commander Crasd, indicates the outpost is under attack by aliens. the local people are hiding or fighting the aliens, but a lot of them have taken refuge in the Starfleet outpost that is protected by force fields. When the USS Zavahari arrives at the only planet of the Narasomi system there is no sign of any ships close to the planet. Apparently the aliens have dropped their troops and moved on to a next system. Maybe they thought Narasomi Prime would be an easy target. Captain Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo are beamed down. Commander Crasd and young Lieutenant Guon do the briefing. But the young Lieutenant does not hide his frustration. "Did Starfleet only sent two men?" But outpost commander Crasd puts his hand on the lieutenant's shoulder. "Lieutenant Guon, these are Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo. They are sent by the C-in-C himself." "I am sorry sir, but... I didn't mean any disrespect sir." Captain Wainis tries to calm down the young Lieutenant Guon. "We will take care of this Lieutenant. We are very good in what we do. Commander Crasd, it is good to see you again. I whish the circomstaces were different. What is the situation?" "The aliens are setting up artillery to bombard our shields and force fields. We can hold them outside for a while, but not for very long. We have at least three thousand Narasomi refugees here in the outpost. There are still a few thousand outside fighting the aliens but they are completely outnumbered. But they sacrifice themself so the others can hide or escape... more than half of my officers have joined them... The situation is bad sir. I had no choice than to call for special help." Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet With the Borg threat gone Rear Admiral Geert van Nieuwenhove continues where he has left off. His orders are forwarded by his First Officer Captain Sigrid Johansson. "Have the USS Ensemble investigate that moon to find the cause of the changes in gravitational forces." The USS Ensemble is already close to the destroyed moon. the first scans indicate that the moon has been ripped apart by a force unknown. The strange thing is that the planet itself and two other moons are still completely intact. There is no population in the system, so there are no records of what happened exactly. The USS ensemble reports. "Admiral. there is to much interference. our ship's sensors do not give us an acurate result. This moon is destroyed by some kind of energy. every form of energy leaves a signature. To find this signature we have to land on one of the pieces of this destroyed moon. But such a landing will take some organising and some time." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt Even in the Delta Quadrant there are changes in gravitational forces. the Borg already have lost three planets. Although the Borg know the only one who can cause this, is professor Dalen last located in sector 11645 the seem to set another priority. If the Borg could be able to adapt to the energy wave that destroyed their planets, it could be possible that the Borg will no longer be a victim of these changes in gravitational forces... Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang It is decided to activate the Yu Halicon Vault. Captain Hendriks agrees. "Risky? We'll see what will happen." The Yu Halicon Vault is activated by one of the Trsterts scientists. The vault opens without any problems. The Yu DNA is now ready for reactivation. But there are no instructions no data. The DNA could be anything from a plant to a Yu. Maybe these Yu have been criminals. To understand more about the Yu DNA an extensive reasearch is necessary. But the Zolo, Kirie and the Musks are getting impatient. They want to activate at least a few of the DNA strings... Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 280 10.35 Lieutenant Commander Matz has set her runabout on a large piece of what once was a planet. But the planet was destroyed by changes in gravitational forces which seem to happen in the entire galaxy at random. Sensors do not registrate much due to interference. Day 280 10.47 Lieutenant Commander Matz is ready to make her first steps on the rock in her EV suit. She steps out of the airlock. Her mission is to gather samples of the soil and find traces of the origin of the changes in gravitational forces. Day 280 11.03 Lieutenant Commander Matz makes good progress. But then her tricorder show signs of life forms. Matz does not hesitate and proceeds towards the life signs. They are humanoid and only a hundred meters away... Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg The USS Iceberg is searching for Reman Professor Dalen who may be the cause of the changes in gravitational forces which seem to happen in the entire galaxy at random. The search brings General Crow and his crew to a Reman planet RM-51 outside Romulan space. General Crow is very specific. "RM-51 is a Reman planet outside Romulan space. To find Reman Professor Dalen we have to go to the Grast system, which is in Romulan space. We will ask the Remans of RM-51 for a Reman ship to go to the Grast system, which is in Romulan space. That way we have more chance not to be detected." And so the USS Iceberg, USS Highway and USS Enable stay in orbit of RM-51, under command of Colonel Hawk. The reman ship Nadarak receives a crew of General Crow himself, Atad but for the most part Vulcan officers, who can easily disguise themselves as Romulans. The trip to the Grast system only takes a few days. Several Romulan ships pass by, but there is no problem at all. The Grast system only has one planet and so the search for Reman Professor Dalen is much easier than expected. The Reman ship Nadark follows the Romulan orders and stays in orbit as instructed. There are no further questions from the Romulan authorities. Several vulcan away teams are sent to the planet to find Reman Professor Dalen and it doesn't take them to long to find him. Apparently Reman Professor Dalen has a house and a lab on Grast... And he is at home... Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis Although the USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin are united, and although they have help from Moadib and Essel and the elemental Anakaa, their problems are not yet over. At the other side of the wormhole three science ships monitor a change in gravitational forces very closeby. The change in gravitational forces just appeared, apparently without any warning. There are no planets or moons hit. But all three ships sustain some damage... Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper The USS Alice Cooper-B is investigating the the changes in gravitational forces, but with little result. The Kraken who take care of Ambassador Jas Stevens see that the changes in gravitational forces are doing som good to the ambasador, but a second wave forces them to move to another location... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) Horkan's huge carrier ships are still on their way to the Delta Quadrant to learn more about the Borg. But the voyage is longer than expected. Finally when the first Borg planet comes into sensor range, it appears to be a very remote Borg planet, far away from the omnicomplex. Horkan takes the oportunity to go to the planet and steal the transwarp technology of the Borg. The Borg who consider horkan not as a threat are to late as horkan's ships cloak and disappear... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne "We cannot stay in this hole for ever. We have been here for two weeks now." "Were would you want us to go Lieutenant?" "Besides our orders are to hold this stronghold." "But there is nothing here sir." "Maybe they are on their way. You don't know that." "Stop speculating. the orders are clear. We will hold this position until otherwise ordered." Two days later... "Sir, we are contacted from orbit. They ask what we are still doing here." "Tell them our orders are to hold this position." "I have told them that, but they say this planet is already secured for ten days..." Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report August 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 The Federation colony on Narasomi system is under attack by unknwon aliens. The locl population is seeking refuge in the shielded Federation outpost, but the shields and forcefields will not hold much longer. Admiral Steichen is watching how Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo are beamed down to help the outpost. It is not certain what the two can do against a huge army of aliens. It is even unknown what kind of technology they have. Why doesn't Starfleet send a fleet and the Marines? Admiral Steichen decides to let Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo do their job. She trusts them. They know what they are doing. Captain John Wainis nodds to Commander Scooby-Doo. While Wainis takes some weapons to help whith the defence of the outpost, Scooby-Doo disappears into the crowd of Narasomi refugess. As Wainis doesn't seem to be doing anything special, Christine Steichen focuses her attention on her chief of security Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo passes the forcefields, enters the warzone, camouflages, changes in an animal Christine Steichen has never seen. It is a bird like animal. And apparently this bird can fly. It flies high over the battlefield. In a short time it has found the command camp of the aliens who do not look up. Extremely easy the bird enters one of the bigger constructs. Before there is any reaction of the alien soldiers, the bird lands on the tactical table, changes into Starfleet commander Scooby-Doo and points a weapon at the commander of the alien troops. "Maybe you should stop your attack on Federation citizens." The surprise attack has not missed its effect. The alien commander seems to be stunned. No that is not it. He is terrified. "I will count to three. One... two..." "Wait!" The Alien commander is shivering while he shouts some orders. A few moments later the alien weapons stop firing. Only a few moments after that one of the alien officers runs in. "Commander why do we have to stop our attack. We have..." Then he stops talking. Still his mouth stays open in horror. He only has eyes for Scooby-Doo who just stands there. He holds his breath. He drops his weapons. No more than two minutes later all alien troops have surrendered. The battle is over. There is only one more thing to do for outpost commander Crasd. He thanks Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo. They shake hands. A mmoment later the two are gone and back aboard the USS Zavahari, Captain T'vok in command. Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet The USS Ensemble is in a perfect position to do a survey of a destroyed moon. The moon is destroyed by the changes in gravitational forces. Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove gives his orders from his comfortable seat on Starbase 44. "Let them land on a big piece of the moon that still has some gravity." A team is ready. A shuttlecraft is launched. The shuttlecraft lands on a large part of the destroyed moon. A few minutes later a team has agthered enough samples to come to a conclusion. "Sir. We found evidence of a very specific energy signature. There is only one person who knows about these kind of energy waves. It is a Reman professor called Dalen. His last location we have found is in the Grast system in Romulan space." Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt Even in the Delta Quadrant there are changes in gravitational forces. the Borg already have lost five planets. Borg research shows that there can only be one person responsible for this disaster: Reman professor called Dalen. His last location: the Grast system in Romulan space. Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang The Yu Halicon Vault has been activated by one of the Trsterts scientists. Now a vote has come to order whether to activate the Yu DNA or not. Captain Hendriks has something to say before the vote begins. "Do not bring all the Yu DNA back to live, but only two or three. If you don't activate any of the DNA you'll never know more." And so the process begins. From a distance three Yu cells are placed. It is decided they will be activated one by one. If the first is successful, the others will follow. All present move towards a spot under cover. Only one Kirie remains to greet the Yu if the process is successful. The Yu cell is activated by remote control. The cell opens. First there is nothing to see, but sensors detect the Yu DNA, which is growing and growing. After twenty seconds a Yu male is clearly forming. Another twenty seconds later the process is complete. A Yu stands before his cell looking around. then the Yu sees the Kirie. The Yu smiles. "Hey Kirie. How are you?" "Hello Yu. My name is Sgder of the Kirie. You have been recontstructed." "Interesting. I seem to be in perfect health. Oh my name is Dast. Did you reconstruct others?" "No we did not. You are the first." "Hmm There must be millions of us here. To many. There is not enough food for all of us. I will give you a list of who to reconstruct. Can you do that?" Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 280 11.09 It takes Lieutenant Commander Matz 6 minutes to get to the life signs. There are six people sitting together around a device. The device creates a forcefield around them. Day 280 11.13 Lieutenant Commander Matz makes contact with the survivors of the destroyed moon. They can only communicate through sign language. It is impossible to transport the survivors through the forcefield to the USS Vertigo. Day 280 12.06 USS Vertigo engineers construct a tunnel with compartments. Through the tunnel they get EV suits to the survivors. As soon as the survivors have put on the EV suits they shut down the forcefield. They are beamed out safely aboard the USS vertigo. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg General Crow and his offciers have traveled to the Grast system in a Reman ship where they find Reman Professor Dalen who is possibly the one who causes the changes in gravitational forces. The plan is simple as General Crow explains. "We will knock on his door and try to get our answers in a civilized manner. If that doesnt work we'll do it the marine way." One of the Vulcans in disguise as a Romulan knocks on the door of the house of Reman Professor Dalen. It is the Reman Dalen himself who opens the door. "Yes. How can I help you?" Before Dalen realises what is happening several men bust into his house and close the door behind them. Dalen is tied up really fast. The house is searched. There is no one else. The Reman Professor is not exactly a brave man. After a few questions he confesses he had to conduct an experiment creating changes in gravitational forces around a planet. It should be a good way of defending a planet without seeing any threat. An invader or enemy would be destroyed without knowing what hit him. But the experiment had some unforeseen side effects. But these side effects turned out to be good for the Romulans so the Romulans left Dalen alone. The planet where the experiment was held, is called Smidder. Dalen explains that there is a facitlity there. The only thing he has to do to stop the experiment is cut the power. Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis The USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin are still safe from the changes in gravitational forces happening all over the galaxy. Even the Borg in the Delta Quadrant are confronted by something they cannot stop in a short time. But in regular space the three science ships waiting at the mouth of the wormhole for the USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin to come out of the wormhole the changes in gravitational forces have become seriously real. All three ships have sustained damage. Repairs have begun, but warp travel will be limited. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Ambassador Jas Stevens is moved again. Still unkown to the Kraken who treat the Ambassador is what kind of treatment they need to cure the Ambassador. The Alice Cooper-B is on its way to Romulan space. Aparently a Reman has something to do with the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) Horkan has stolen the transwarp technology from the Borg. But now he has to integrate that technology in the ships he has. Horkan retreats to his uncharted planet and starts the tests on transwarp drive. The tests are not very promissing. The Borg technology is not compatible with the technology Horkan is using now. But Horkan is not giving up easily... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne The soldier steps out of the vehicle. He looks around. He looks again. The soldier in the vehicle looks worried. "What is it? Have you seen something or not. Come on. This place gives me the kreeps." But the soldier outside is still looking. Not far from there a small shadow seems to move behind some rocks. The cannon on the vehicle fires. "We got it. Clear." But then all kinds of movement approaches the vehicle. It is black... Some shouting... some weapons firing... Then there is silence... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report September 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 After the return of Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo Admiral Christine Steichen wants to know everything. "I will call Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo after they return in my office, confront them with what I know and ask them who they are and what is going on with them. It might be necessary to reveal something about the Lorem..." Ten minutes later Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo enter the Admiral's office. Both of them are sitting down. Only after 5 seconds Captain Commander Scooby-Doo is getting nervous. The Admiral has not yet said anything. He gets even more nervous when Admiral Steichen asks both officers what their missions have been like. It is clear Admiral Steichen wants to know everything. Captain Wainis looks surprised. It is as if he doesn't know anything. But Commander Scooby-Doo is extremely nervous. He sits on his chair, moving foreward, to the right, to the left. Captain Wainis looks at him. "Are you all right Commander?" But there is no answer. The Commander's tongue is coming out of his mouth. Admiral Steichen is waiting. Captain Wainis looks at the table. There is a large bowl filled with what seems to be some kind of candy. Then he understands. He shakes his head. Captain John Wainis tries to ease Commander Scooby-Doo. "Scooby snacks... Apparently Admiral you know more about us than I could ever imagine. I wonder how you know all these things, you shouldn't know at all." But there is no answer. Captain Wainis looks at Commander Scooby-Doo. It is clear the Commander has lost all control. His body starts to change into a dog. Once the change is complete he jumps on the table and grabs a few Sooby snacks from the bowl. He starts eating immediately. Captain John Wainis stands up and pets Commander Scooby-Doo. "It's all right. It's all right. Go ahead, eat them all. You deserved it anyway." Then the Captain turns to Admiral Steichen. "Admiral. Commander Scooby-Doo and I are Linderins. We are not all shape shifters, but we all have abilities you humans do not have. We are recruted into Starfleet by the C-in-C. Once during a mission, long time ago, we rescued our C-in-C. He saw our abilities and he offered us a job. We accepted. We made it through the academy and became officer. The missions we receive from the C-in-C are often missions which we can solve swiftly. We did many of these missions. We do not know if the C-in-C has personal interests in the places we have been, or the people. We don't really ask any questions about that." Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet In search for the cause of the changes in gravitational forces an away team has found evidence that a certain Reman professor called Dalen could be the only one who could be behind all this. But this Reman professor is last seen in Romulan space. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove has new orders. "We will not go to Romulan space. Let the Federation diplomats contact the Romulans to catch Reman professor Dalen. If you do this we put the destiny of the Federation in Romulan hands... It is not sure whether the Romulans will help..." But apparently this is the only coice. The fleet is sent out to assist all who need help as a result of the changes in gravitational forces. Some ship captains have already begun evacuations of colonies, close to one of the areas hit by changes in gravitational forces. Although the size of the rifts is not increasing, the risk is to high. Even the freighter USS Carry is involved with assisting a science outpost. With the fleet spread out all over several sectors, life on Starbase 369 resumes. But then suddenly without warning, in the middle of the night, Admiral Van Nieuwenhove is woken up by the sound of red alert. When he asks what is going on, he gets an answer he might not like. "Admiral, there is a rift forming due to the changes in gravitational forces. Our starbase is drawn into this rift. The nearest ship to help us is the USS Carry, but it can only be here in 14 hours. We will be drawn into the rift in 2 hours. I have already ordeed evacuation of non essential personnel. We have 12 runabouts. They could use their tractor beams to taw some lifepods, but that will only be enough to evacuate one third of the crew. Calculations indicate that our shields will collapse after being 48 minutes in the rift. We have an experiment running to make a solar sail. It could help us to gain some time, but we are not sure it will save us. It takes at least an hour to deploy the solar sail. What are your orders sir?" Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The changes in gravitational forces are caused by an installation built by Reman professor called Dalen. It becomes known to the Borg, the Federation has been able to catch this Reman professor called Dalen... Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang The Yu Halicon Vault has been activated by one of the Trsterts scientists. The first Yu who is reconstructed is Dast. Dast recognizes the Kirie and the greeting is warm. Dast gives a list of most important Yu to be reconstructed. The reconstruction of the DNA of the people of Yu can begin. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 280 15.12 Six people have been saved from a piece of rock of what once was an inhabited moon. Commodore Slater decides to sent out every shuttle and runabout to scan the entire area for more people. Day 284 18.00 Senior staff meeting. Nine more people have been saved. They were working under ground when the changes in gravitational forces hit the moon. Scanning continues. Day 287 14.00 Senior staff meeting. In total fourty people have been saved. More than half of the area has been scanned. Hope is increasing more people will be found. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg General Crow is on its way to the planet Smidder where Reman Professor Dalen has started the experiment which resulted in the changes in gravitational forces. The General has a last staff meeting. "We will take Reman Professor Dalen to the planet Smidder, force him to shut down the experiment. If this is not a trap of course..." Everyone knows what to do. The Reman ship given to General Crow by the Remans of RM-51 proves to be very useful. Crow and his team do not have any trouble reaching the planet Smidders. Thanks to Professor Dalen they can even land very close to the facility. And then... Surprise attack. 60 Starfleet marines bust out of the Reman ship eliminating everything on their way. The resistance is small. The 12 Romulan guards surrender really fast and are taken prisoner. The facility is not very large. The search for hidden traps and hidden Romulan guards only takes ten minutes. "The facility is ours sir." Professor Dalen is escorted to the core of the insallation. There he shuts down the installation. He looks at General Crow. "I am a scientist, not a monster. If I had known the results of this experiment, I would never have started this. I will accept any punishment you have for me." He bows his head. But Atad has a new report. "General, I strongly suggest we blow this place up. Or... It is not that large. We can take it apart and tale it with us. Our ship is big enough. But we have intercepted Romulan messages saying they are under attack, so I don't know if we have time enough to take all this apart. The Romulans will send troops. There is no doubt about that." Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis But in regular space the three science ships waiting at the mouth of the wormhole for the USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin to come out of the wormhole are conducting repairs after some changes in gravitational forces. Messages are coming in on secured channels that these changes in gravitational forces have been caused by an installation built by Reman professor called Dalen. This Reman professor Dalen has been captured by Starfleet Marines. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Messages are coming in on secured channels that these changes in gravitational forces have been caused by an installation built by Reman professor called Dalen. This Reman professor Dalen has been captured by Starfleet Marines. The USS Alice Cooper-B returns to regular patrol duty. It is unknown what the effect is on the condition of Ambassador Jas Stevens... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) Horkan is still trying to find a way to make the Borg transwarp technology compatible with his own ships. But every test turns out negative. Horkan has no help from the Ori anymore as they were destroyed by the Borg. So he realises how important this Borg technology really is. But if it doesn't work he has to make a new plan... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne It has been three days since they had heard something from head quarters. Some of them were getting a little nervous. "Why don't they answer Lieutenant? Sir? Why don't they answer sir?" "There must be a good reason Corporal. Don't worry. There are no enemies here anyway. In war you have to set your priorities. There is enough food and equipment for us here. The order is to keep this region of the planet under our control. Before we left HQ, I have heard that this planet was already cleared, but someone should stay here to keep an eye on things. That's us Corporal." "I know that sir, but it is frustrating. Knowing that my friends have the time of their life killing Shadows... And I am sitting here sir. Although I must confess it is very comfortable here." The Lieutenant looks around. He must admit his Corporal is right. And he also thinks he has to do something to boost up morale. He calls his Sergeant. "Sergeant Malfolly. We have to do something here before we turn into statues." "I agree sir. What about a competition?" The 26 men and women are split up into two groups. The game is very simple... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report October 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 Admiral Steichen has come to a conclusion. Officers like Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo have special abilities. She can make good use of those. She welcomes them again and let them do their missions for the C-in-C. The first two days nothing really important happens on Starbase 44. The ships of the fleet continue their exploration of the region. But in the middle of the night the entire starbase is woken up by the sound of red alert. Admiral Steichen, still at work, steps into central operations where she receives the first report. The USS Iceberg escorted by the USS Highway and USS Enable is on course to Starbase 41. That is the nearest starbase for them but also very close to Starbase 44. "There is a Borg ship entering Federation space. They seem to ignore everything. It is as if they are just passing trhough. But they are on a direct intercept course to the USS Iceberg. They are still one day away Admiral. The USS Iceberg can reach Starbase 41 in time. They have the Reman Professor Dalen aboard. That is the scientist who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in our galaxy. Admiral, may I remind you that Starbase 41 is rather close to Starbase 44." Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet A rift forming due to the changes in gravitational forces. Starbase 369 is drawn into this rift. Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove only has a few orders. "Evacuate the starbase and we hope we will be saved later, although chances are small that we will be saved. We have twelve runabouts. This is not enough to evacuate the entire crew. I will stay onboard Starbase 369 with the rest of the crew hoping we will be saved later." One third of the crew cannot be evacuated in time. There is 2 hours left before total destruction... Then as a real miracle worker Chief Engineer Commander George Senden reports his solar sail is ready. And suddenly there is hope. The solar sail is deployed. Starbase 369 is starting to move away from the rift. There is some time gained... But not enough. Aboard the USS Carry, Captain Jeffrey Dunn also gives new orders. "If we want to save our people on Starbase 369, we will have to push it." But a young Ensign has done his calculations. "Captain. Our maximum speed is warp 8.1. We can be there in 13 hours. Even with the solar sail Starbase 369 will not hold out for more than 6 hours." Captain Dunn looks at his First Officer and smiles. "Go Number one. It is time to show what this ship can do." Then he adresses the Ensign. "Ensign, I know you are only three months with us now. There are some things about this ship you don't know yet. But I am sure you will learn fast." Aboard the USS Carry a secondary system is activated. Speed increases rapidly. The young Ensign looks at his display in amazement. "Captain... Our speed... Warp 9, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4,... This class of freighter should not be able to do that. 9.7... I don't understand." Captain Dunn has a grin on his face. "Ensign. The USS Carry is not the regualar freighter as you know it from the Starfleet database. It is a long story. Now we have more important things to do. ETA Ensign?" "We will reach Starbase 369 in 17 minutes sir." "Helm get us to a safe place close to the starbase. We don't want to end up in that rift as well. As soon as we can we will engage our two tractor beams to get us more time. It is not sure we can drag the starbase out of the rift, but it least it will give us more time. Cargobays stand ready to receive a lot of people. Any questions?" There are no questions. 17 minutes later the USS Carry engages its tractor beams and tries to pull starbase 369 out of the rift. But even the USS Carry has not enough power to pull the huge starbase away from the rift. But it does delay the destruction of the starbase. The starbase engineers are working on a plan to save the starbase, while all other personnel is evacuated to the USS Carry. Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The Borg have sent one ship to get this professor Dalen. Dalen is the key figure in this problem of the changes in gravitational forces. The Borg plan is simple. "Assimilate him so you have his knowledge how to cause changes in gravitational forces all over the galaxy. Ignore all the rest." The USS Iceberg escorted by the USS Highway and USS Enable is on course to Starbase 41. That is the nearest starbase for them but also very close to Starbase 44. Aboard the USS Iceberg is professor Dalen. The Borg Tactical cube has entered Federation space. But the USS Iceberg will be in time to reach Starbase 41. Close to Starbase 41 is Starbase 44. Both starbases have rather large fleets... Players: Helena Straetman,Caroline Keuleers,Willem Keuleers, Lieselotte Keuleers, Wouter Keuleers USS Walang The reconstruction of the DNA of the people of Yu has begun with a small list of Yu put together by the Yu called Dast. Captain Hendriks agrees. "Only bring the Yu DNA back to live of the list we have received from the Yu called Dast. Only some and then consider how many of them will be needed in the immediate future. See what happens and go on from there." But also the Kirie have a request to revive a Yu called Merost who has been serving as ambassador and has been the main link between the Kirie and the Yu thousands of years ago. This seems to be an excellent idea. The Zolo, Hunanan, Musks have the same request. And so it is done. A few hours later the ambassadors are reunited with the people with who the Yu had diplomatic relations thousands of years ago. Thousands of years of history are caught up in a few hours of talks. But in the middle of the reunion Captain hendriks receives a message from Starfleet Command Head Quarters on Earth. The message is about the Borg, the worst enemiy of humans and their allies of the United Federation of Planets. A borg ship has entered Federation space. One Borg ship could damage or destroy a large part of the entire Federation. Last time the Borg invaded Federation space it was almost the human species almost became extinct... Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 288 01.24 The moon which was destroyed by the changes in gravitational forces has a total of 91 survivors. Day 288 06.12 The USS Vertigo performs a final scan of the area. Commodore Jeffrey Slater, in command of the USS vertigo, gives orders to bring the 91 survivers to the M-class planet Ribinorom. That planet is uninhabited. The 91 new colonists have to start a new society. They will receive help from the USS Vertigo. Day 288 8.03 After a week the 91 and the crew of the Vertigo have build a small town, set up a satellite network around the planet and three small space ships based on the known technology of the colonists. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg Reman Professor Dalen has cut off the power of the facility on the planet Smidder. The changes in gravitational forces should stop now. The Romulans of course can start it up again. Therefore General Crow has only one sollution. "We will blow the entire facility up with antimatter bombs. We will not kill Reman Professor Dalen. He has been very helpful. we will take him to the nearest Federation starbase." On its way to Starbase 41 General Crow delivers the Reman ship he has used in Romulan space back to the Remans of RM-51. There he is reunited with his crew. There is no time to lose. The USS Iceberg escorted by the USS Highway and USS Enable set course to Starbase 41, the nearest starbase. Just as daily routine is taking over the lives aboard the marine starships, Atad has a new report which is very disturbing. "General sir. There is a Borg ship entering Federation space. They seem to ignore everything. It is as if they are just passing trhough. But they are... On a direct intercept course to... us... sir. They are still one day away sir. We can reach Starbase 41 in time to drop of Reman Professor Dalen. Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis Aboard the USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington and USS Paladin Captains and their crews have their own problems. If they new waht kind of dangers outside the wormhole were waiting for them, they might decide to sta on the other side for a bit longer. But the Captains and crews of three science ships who are monitoring the wormhole in regular space, do see the danger is coming. A borg vessel has entered Federation space. It is not very clear what the Borg's intentions are... Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper Ambassador Jas Stevens finds himself in a beautiful garden; The colors of the flowers are exceptional. Could this be real? The USS Alice Cooper-B has returned to regular patrol duty. But that doesn't take long. A borg vessel has entered Federation space. It is not very clear what the Borg's intentions are... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) As Horakan the last Ori prior still has trouble to integrate or study the Borg technology he has gotten his hands on, a new opportunity arises. A borg vessel has entered Federation space. It is not very clear what the Borg's intentions are... This could be a good time for Horkan to attack the Borg again and learn more about their technology. Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne The young Lieutenant busts into the control center. "Captain! Captain!" "Calm down Lieutenant. What is it?" The Lieutenant tries to take a deep breath. "They are coming sir." The Captain looks up. "I see. Where are they coming from Lieutenant?" "They are coming from... every sir." "How many are there Lieutenant?" "At least twenty sir." "Don't panic Lieutenant. There are over a thousand of us here. Are they in firing range Lieutenant?" The Lieutenant takes another deep breath. "No sir. They are a day away sir." The Captain sighs... Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report November 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 When a Borg tactical cube enters Federation space the first line of defense is alerted. Fleets are mobilized. Aboard Starbase 44, Rear Admiral Christine Steichen in Command, sensors have already detected the borg ship almost the moment it entered Federation space. The Borg cube seems to be on a course to Starbase 41, very close to Starbase 44. But Admiral Steichen has a little trick... She calls Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo and sends them to stop the Borg if they can. Both confirm they will do everything they can to stop the Borg. They get their gear and board the USS Calamity which will bring them as close to the Borg tactical cube as possible. Even if it means the destruction of the USS Calamity the first priority is to get Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo aboard the Borg ship. Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. The USS Calamity has to be fast and take advantage of the Borg Delay. But when the USS Calamity comes closer to the huge Borg cube sensors detect something unusual. "Sir, I am not sure, but I think Iour sensors detected transporter energy. It was not Borg sir. Still checking. It is not Federation sir. i don't know sir, but I think someone beamed aboard that Borg cube. But I cannot find from where." Captain John Wainis looks at the display. "We will try to find out when we are there." Just before the USS Calamity is in transporter range of the Borg tactical cube a new transporter signal aboard the Borg ship is detected. "Guess whoever it was sir? They beamed off." A few moments later Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo are transported aboard the Borg tactical cube. The USS Calamity jumps to warp to get away from the cube as fast as possible. The drones do not react. Both officers have masked themselves. They will not easily be detected. After some research Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo are ready to upload a computer program into the Borg vinculum that will have the Borg cube self destruct. But just before they actually make the upload they can see on the Borg displays, 30 more Borg ships are approaching. Captain John Wainis contacts Admiral Steichen on an undetectable communication channel. "Admiral. We can take this cube out now. But we can also wait for the other Borg ships to arrive here and try to destroy them all at once." Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet All personnel of Starbase 369 has been evacuated while the huge starbase is pulled into a rift caused by the changes in gravitational forces. Admiral Geert van Nieuwenhove has decided to stay onboard Starbase 369 with the engineers to help find a way to safe the starbase. They have not unlimited time... While the starbase is slowly pulled into the rift, plans are being made, plans are being canceled... Then the final plan has the most promise. An antimatter explosion will have to push the starbase out of the rift. The starbase will be damaged, but calculations and simmulations indicate that damage can be repaired. At this time it seems the only way to save the Starbase. Just when the engineers want to execute the plan, there is a message from Captain Jeffrey Dunn in command of the USS Carry. "Admiral, whatever plan you have, we don't think the Starbase will..." Captain Dunn stops talking. The tractor beams of the USS Carry cannot hold the starbase out of the rift. The huge starbase is pulled into the rift where it is torn apart by the gravitational forces. It only takes a few seconds. Then Starbase 369 is completely destroyed... Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt The Borg watch their tactical cube from the Delta Quadrant while it travels in Federation space. But the borg also decide one ship is not enough. There are two starbases 41 and 44... Many ships... One Borg ship could not be enough. To be sure the Borg King has new orders. "We will send 30 more ships to take over the Starbases and ships if necessary. But first we will get professor Dalen and assimilate him." Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. A transport signal is detected aboard the tactical cube. Apparently someone or more people have transported aboard the Borg tactical cube. Before the drones aboard the tactical cube can intervene, the intruders are already gone. The Borg do not detect any ship in transporter range. A few moments later a Starfleet vessel, USS Calamity, approaches the Borg tactical cube. But the USS Calamity returns apparently without doing anything important. At that time the USS Iceberg delivers Professor Dalen at Starbase 41... Players: Family Keuleers USS Walang An enemy Borg ship has entered Federation territory, close to Starbase 41. Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. Professor Dalen is aboard a Federation ship, USS Iceberg. A transport signal is detected aboard the tactical cube. Apparently someone or more people have transported aboard the Borg tactical cube. Before the drones aboard the tactical cube can intervene, the intruders are already gone. The Borg do not detect any ship in transporter range. A few moments later a Starfleet vessel, USS Calamity, approaches the Borg tactical cube. But the USS Calamity returns apparently without doing anything important. At that time the USS Iceberg delivers Professor Dalen at Starbase 41... Thousands of lightyears away from Starbase 41, Captain Hendriks has asked the extremely advanced Kirie, Scaton Federation, Trsterts, Zolo, Hunanan, Musks, Yu, for help against the Borg. If they are motivated and willing to help. The Borg cannot be reasoned with. They know only one thing. Take what they want and conquer everything else. Even the Kirie and the Trsterts have heard about the evil Borg who enslave entire populations of planets. It only takes a minute to decide that the Borg have to be stopped. A small fleet is assembled of all kinds of ships. Even with the huge distance of thousands of lightyears, the small fleet under command of the Trsterts General Fruktra will arrive at Starbase 41 within an hour. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 297 16.00 Senior staff meeting aboard the USS Vertigo. The 91 colonists on Ribonorum have suceeded to take care of themselves. The USS Vertigo departs from Ribonorum. Day 302 13.46 What seemed to become a daily routine deep space exploration, changes suddenly for the crew of the USS Vertigo when a Borg ship is detected. Now the USS vertigo crew realises that they are getting closer to the Delta Quadrant, home of the Borg... Day 302 16.12 There are no life signs on the Borg ship. There is only limited power as well. Security Chief Lieutenant Commander Matz suggest to go aboard the Borg ship with a team and investigate what has happened to the ship. Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg General Crow and his officers look at the Borg tactical cube on the main viewer. The Borg will not catch the USS Iceberg before it arrives at Starbase 41. But General Crow is curious. "We will try to communicate with the Borg to try to find out what they want." A channel is opened. But there is only the usual answer. "We are Borg. Lower your shields and prepare to be borded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is futile. You will..." Then Atad looks at his displays. Colonel Bell cannot believe it. "Sir. The Borg have closed the channel sir." Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. "Sir There are 30 more Borg ships on their way here. They will be at the position of that tactical cube in about 40 minutes. They must have used transwarp technology to get here this fast." The USS Iceberg arrives at Starbase 41 and transports Professor Dalen aboard. Professor Dalen is no longer a problem of General Crow and his crew. A few moments later a Starfleet vessel, USS Calamity, approaches the Borg tactical cube. But the USS Calamity returns apparently without doing anything important. But then the USS Calamity informs the fleet around Starbase 41, not to attack the Borg yet. There are some of their people aboard the Borg tactical cube ready to destroy the Borg. Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis The USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington have traveled through a stable wormhole, after which nobody had heard from them again. But then the brave Captain and crew of the USS Paladin made contact with one of the vanished ships. The USS Paladin traveled through the wormhole as well to assist the three missing ships who were in trouble. But the USS Paladin left some communicaion arrays to keep in touch with three science ships at the Federation side of the wormhole. Although damage caused by the changes in gravitational forces, the three science ships stayed at their positions. They will stay as long as needed. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper An enemy Borg ship has entered Federation territory, close to Starbase 41. Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. Professor Dalen is aboard a Federation ship, USS Iceberg. A transport signal is detected aboard the tactical cube. Apparently someone or more people have transported aboard the Borg tactical cube. Before the drones aboard the tactical cube can intervene, the intruders are already gone. The Borg do not detect any ship in transporter range. A few moments later a Starfleet vessel, USS Calamity, approaches the Borg tactical cube. But the USS Calamity returns apparently without doing anything important. At that time the USS Iceberg delivers Professor Dalen at Starbase 41... The USS Alice Cooper-B is ready to assist, but rather far away from Starbase 41. Even further away Ambassador Jas Stevens is still in the care of the Kraken. The invasion of the Borg in Federation space, gives the Kraken inspiration to help Ambassador Stevens. Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) Horkan the last Ori prior has constructed a plan to steal technology from the Borg. When a Borg ship enters Federation Space, Horkan assembles a crew for one of his ships. This is a chance he just has to take. Aboard the Borg tactical cube in Federation Space the command is given to look for the already famous Reman Professor Dalen who is responsible for the changes in gravitational forces in the galaxy. But then the cube suddenly stops. Apparently 30 more Borg ships are on a course to unite with the cube. This is indeed Horkan's chance. His cloaked ship enters transporter range of the cube. With what little Ori technology left Horkan sends an away team on the Borg tactical cube. The away team of Ori soldiers has about 30 minutes to steal all Borg technology they can get their hands on. The Borg do not seem to consider the Ori soldiers a threat in the beginning. They act a few minutes to late. Just before the first Ori Soldier is caught the entire team is transported back on board Horkan's ship. Horkan's ship disapears almost immediately... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne The new supplies were dropped but 1 kilometer from the post where unit 12 was already standing ready to receive the supplies. "Sir we are ready to move out to get everything back here." "Understood Lieutenant. Move out. We will cover you in case the enemy decides to take advantage of the situation." "Sir we haven't seen an enemy in weeks." "I am not going to take any chances. This could be the moment they are waiting for. We will keep scaning the area for any unusual activity." "Yes sir." The Lieutenant calls his soldiers, waves and starts his march towards the dropped supplies. After about 12 minutes the group arrives at the dropped supplies. Some of them stand guard. Suddenly one of the soldiers fires his weapon. All of them are on the ground taking cover. When they look around they see in the distance some movement. The Lieutenant contacts the base. "Sir. They are closing in on us. We will stop them here." But the unit commander has already given his orders. Some light artillary has opened fire... A few moments later it is over. 15 minutes later all supplies are brought in. "Those Shadows were just waiting there. Don't they ever rest?" Players: Steve Elliot DS2 RPG General Status Report December 2012 USS Earth/Starbase 44 With a Borg threat at the doorstep, the Federation must act. Admiral Steichen orders Captain John Wainis and Commander Scooby-Doo to wait to install their computer program until the other 30 Borg ships are close enough so they may be infected too. But if they wait it is possible the USS Calamity will not be able to pick them up. The Borg will most likely destroy the USS Calamity if such an attempt is made. Thirty Borg ships are approaching Starbase 41. A Federation fleet is blocking the way of the Borg. But aboard a Borg tactical cube two individuals have planted a virus into the Borg vinculum. The virus is spreading already... A very small vehicle appears out of nowhere next to the Borg tactical cube. The officers in Starbase 41 operations are looking in amazement at the small vehicle. One of the tactical officers reports. "Sir. It is a vehicle of about one and a half meters wide, five meters long and two meters high. It is brightly colored with red flowers on the side. Wait... There are words on the side sir... The Mystery Machine..." The Mystery Machine doesn't seem to be a threat to the Borg as the Borg do not engage it. But aboard the tactical cube there seems to begin a chaotic behaviour of Borg drones. They walk around like they have lost all control. Some of them seem to be laughing like they are crazy... "Sir there is a transporter signal. This Mystery Machine has transported someone of the Borg tactical cube sir. It jumps to warp sir. It is gone sir..." A few ships appears out of nowhere. They are of unknown design. Someone on one of the ship opens a channel. "This is Starfleet Captain Hendriks. This fleet is under command of Trsterts General Fruktra, a very advanced species living in a region of space me and my crew are exploring. We are here to help." But the Borg do not like the new visitors. "Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is... Before the implanted virus can affect the Borg fleet General Fruktra gives the order to attack. It only takes General Fruktra's small fleet twenty seconds to destroy 29 Borg ships. One Borg ship is disabled and is boarded. It is not clear what General Fruktra's soldiers have done. But a fewmoments later they transport of the Borg ship and leave to where they came from. Players: Christine Steichen 369th Fleet Just before Starbase 369 is destroyed by the changes in gravitational forces the remaining crew is transported aboard the USS Carry. Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove has to give new orders. "Take us to the USS Mexico, our flag ship." And so it is done. Half an hour later the two ships meet. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove and a few other officers come aboard the USS Mexico where they are brought up to date by Captain Sigrid Johansson. "Sir, thirty Borg ships are on a course to Earth. We have set course to the fleet which will try to stop those Borg. Our entire fleet is on its way. I don't know if we can make it in time..." With a Borg threat at the doorstep, the Federation must act. Thirty Borg ships are approaching Starbase 41. A Federation fleet is blocking the way of the Borg. But aboard a Borg tactical cube two individuals have planted a virus into the Borg vinculum. The virus is spreading already... A very small vehicle appears out of nowhere next to the Borg tactical cube. The officers in Starbase 41 operations are looking in amazement at the small vehicle. One of the tactical officers reports. "Sir. It is a vehicle of about one and a half meters wide, five meters long and two meters high. It is brightly colored with red flowers on the side. Wait... There are words on the side sir... The Mystery Machine..." The Mystery Machine doesn't seem to be a threat to the Borg as the Borg do not engage it. But aboard the tactical cube there seems to begin a chaotic behaviour of Borg drones. They walk around like they have lost all control. Some of them seem to be laughing like they are crazy... "Sir there is a transporter signal. This Mystery Machine has transported someone of the Borg tactical cube sir. It jumps to warp sir. It is gone sir..." A few ships appears out of nowhere. They are of unknown design. Someone on one of the ship opens a channel. "This is Starfleet Captain Hendriks. This fleet is under command of Trsterts General Fruktra, a very advanced species living in a region of space me and my crew are exploring. We are here to help." But the Borg do not like the new visitors. "Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is... Before the implanted virus can affect the Borg fleet General Fruktra gives the order to attack. It only takes General Fruktra's small fleet twenty seconds to destroy 29 Borg ships. One Borg ship is disabled and is boarded. It is not clear what General Fruktra's soldiers have done. But a fewmoments later they transport of the Borg ship and leave to where they came from. Players: Geert Van Nieuwenhove USS Thunderbolt With a Borg threat at the doorstep, the Federation must act. Thirty Borg ships are approaching Starbase 41. A Federation fleet is blocking the way of the Borg. But aboard a Borg tactical cube two individuals have planted a virus into the Borg vinculum. The virus is spreading already... A very small vehicle appears out of nowhere next to the Borg tactical cube. The officers in Starbase 41 operations are looking in amazement at the small vehicle. One of the tactical officers reports. "Sir. It is a vehicle of about one and a half meters wide, five meters long and two meters high. It is brightly colored with red flowers on the side. Wait... There are words on the side sir... The Mystery Machine..." The Mystery Machine doesn't seem to be a threat to the Borg as the Borg do not engage it. But aboard the tactical cube there seems to begin a chaotic behaviour of Borg drones. They walk around like they have lost all control. Some of them seem to be laughing like they are crazy... "Sir there is a transporter signal. This Mystery Machine has transported someone of the Borg tactical cube sir. It jumps to warp sir. It is gone sir..." A few ships appears out of nowhere. They are of unknown design. Someone on one of the ship opens a channel. "This is Starfleet Captain Hendriks. This fleet is under command of Trsterts General Fruktra, a very advanced species living in a region of space me and my crew are exploring. We are here to help." But the Borg do not like the new visitors. "Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is... Before the implanted virus can affect the Borg fleet General Fruktra gives the order to attack. It only takes General Fruktra's small fleet twenty seconds to destroy 29 Borg ships. One Borg ship is disabled and is boarded. It is not clear what General Fruktra's soldiers have done. But a fewmoments later they transport of the Borg ship and leave to where they came from. Unknown to the Federation a small group of Borg drones have transported aboard Starbase 41, to Reman Professor Dalen's quarters. It only takes a moment for one drone to extend his assimilation tubes. A few moments later Reman Professor Dalen is assimilated. The knowledge of how to produce changes in gravitational forces is now known to the Borg... Although the technology is not yet perfect... But that is not all. The Borg do not stop with a certain professor... The assimilation of Starbase 41 has begun... Players: Family Keuleers USS Walang With a Borg threat at the doorstep, the Federation must act. Trsterts General Fruktra's plan is simple. Get to the that one Borg ship, get some prisoners and find out what the Borg are up to. But Trsterts General Fruktra's fleet takes a little more time than expected. When the Trsterts fleet arrives at the battle, the thirty other Borg ships have already caught up with that one ship. Trsterts General Fruktra has no choice... Thirty Borg ships are approaching Starbase 41. A Federation fleet is blocking the way of the Borg. But aboard a Borg tactical cube two individuals have planted a virus into the Borg vinculum. The virus is spreading already... A very small vehicle appears out of nowhere next to the Borg tactical cube. The officers in Starbase 41 operations are looking in amazement at the small vehicle. One of the tactical officers reports. "Sir. It is a vehicle of about one and a half meters wide, five meters long and two meters high. It is brightly colored with red flowers on the side. Wait... There are words on the side sir... The Mystery Machine..." The Mystery Machine doesn't seem to be a threat to the Borg as the Borg do not engage it. But aboard the tactical cube there seems to begin a chaotic behaviour of Borg drones. They walk around like they have lost all control. Some of them seem to be laughing like they are crazy... "Sir there is a transporter signal. This Mystery Machine has transported someone of the Borg tactical cube sir. It jumps to warp sir. It is gone sir..." A few ships appears out of nowhere. They are of unknown design. Someone on one of the ship opens a channel. "This is Starfleet Captain Hendriks. This fleet is under command of Trsterts General Fruktra, a very advanced species living in a region of space me and my crew are exploring. We are here to help." But the Borg do not like the new visitors. "Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is... Before the implanted virus can affect the Borg fleet General Fruktra gives the order to attack. It only takes General Fruktra's small fleet twenty seconds to destroy 29 Borg ships. One Borg ship is disabled and is boarded. It is not clear what General Fruktra's soldiers have done. But a few moments later they transport of the Borg ship and leave to where they came from. Players: Marianne Loogen USS Vertigo Day 303 01.26 An away team of the USS Vertigo, now close to the Delta Quadrant and home of the Borg, is send to the lifeless Borg cube to investigate what happened to the Borg on that ship. Day 303 02.34 Aboard the Borg ship Lieutenant Commander Matz has been able to hack into the Borg communications array. To everyone's fear the Borg have invaded sector 001, close to Earth. But the USS Vertigo is to far away to have any influence on the upcoming battle. With combined efforts the Borg invasion fleet is stopped before it reaches Earth and is mostly destroyed. Day 303 06.19 Close to the Delta Quadrant, the investigation of the away team on the non-active Borg cube continues. There are no drones active and there is only limited power. Commodore Slater in command of the USS Vertigo, asks Lieutenant Commander Matz if it is possible to take over the cube and let the drones free or get them back to their homes... Players: Nadine Peeters USS Iceberg With a Borg threat at the doorstep, the Federation must act. So is General Crow as he gives his orders. "We will join the fleet which will try to stop the Borg. We have new weapons and shields now, so with a fleet like this we can have a chance. Reinforcements are already on their way. We will not attack as the USS Calamity has askded." Thirty Borg ships are approaching Starbase 41. A Federation fleet is blocking the way of the Borg. But aboard a Borg tactical cube two individuals have planted a virus into the Borg vinculum. The virus is spreading already... A very small vehicle appears out of nowhere next to the Borg tactical cube. The officers in Starbase 41 operations are looking in amazement at the small vehicle. One of the tactical officers reports. "Sir. It is a vehicle of about one and a half meters wide, five meters long and two meters high. It is brightly colored with red flowers on the side. Wait... There are words on the side sir... The Mystery Machine..." The Mystery Machine doesn't seem to be a threat to the Borg as the Borg do not engage it. But aboard the tactical cube there seems to begin a chaotic behaviour of Borg drones. They walk around like they have lost all control. Some of them seem to be laughing like they are crazy... "Sir there is a transporter signal. This Mystery Machine has transported someone of the Borg tactical cube sir. It jumps to warp sir. It is gone sir..." A few ships appears out of nowhere. They are of unknown design. Someone on one of the ship opens a channel. "This is Starfleet Captain Hendriks. This fleet is under command of Trsterts General Fruktra, a very advanced species living in a region of space me and my crew are exploring. We are here to help." But the Borg do not like the new visitors. "Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is... Before the implanted virus can affect the Borg fleet General Fruktra gives the order to attack. It only takes General Fruktra's small fleet twenty seconds to destroy 29 Borg ships. One Borg ship is disabled and is boarded. It is not clear what General Fruktra's soldiers have done. But a fewmoments later they transport of the Borg ship and leave to where they came from. Players: Jan Theys USS Atlantis With a Borg threat at the doorstep, the Federation must act. Thirty Borg ships are approaching Starbase 41. A Federation fleet is blocking the way of the Borg. But aboard a Borg tactical cube two individuals have planted a virus into the Borg vinculum. The virus is spreading already... A very small vehicle appears out of nowhere next to the Borg tactical cube. The officers in Starbase 41 operations are looking in amazement at the small vehicle. One of the tactical officers reports. "Sir. It is a vehicle of about one and a half meters wide, five meters long and two meters high. It is brightly colored with red flowers on the side. Wait... There are words on the side sir... The Mystery Machine..." The Mystery Machine doesn't seem to be a threat to the Borg as the Borg do not engage it. But aboard the tactical cube there seems to begin a chaotic behaviour of Borg drones. They walk around like they have lost all control. Some of them seem to be laughing like they are crazy... "Sir there is a transporter signal. This Mystery Machine has transported someone of the Borg tactical cube sir. It jumps to warp sir. It is gone sir..." A few ships appears out of nowhere. They are of unknown design. Someone on one of the ship opens a channel. "This is Starfleet Captain Hendriks. This fleet is under command of Trsterts General Fruktra, a very advanced species living in a region of space me and my crew are exploring. We are here to help." But the Borg do not like the new visitors. "Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is... Before the implanted virus can affect the Borg fleet General Fruktra gives the order to attack. It only takes General Fruktra's small fleet twenty seconds to destroy 29 Borg ships. One Borg ship is disabled and is boarded. It is not clear what General Fruktra's soldiers have done. But a fewmoments later they transport of the Borg ship and leave to where they came from. For the USS Atlantis, USS Elpaso, USS Arlington which have traveled through a stable wormhole, The Borg activity is not their main concern. Even the three science ships which are monitoring the wormhole at the Federation side, do not leave their post. When the scientists hear the Borg are beaten, they can only be happy about it. Players: Johan Michielsens, Conny Parmentier USS Alice Cooper With a Borg threat at the doorstep, the Federation must act. Thirty Borg ships are approaching Starbase 41. A Federation fleet is blocking the way of the Borg. But aboard a Borg tactical cube two individuals have planted a virus into the Borg vinculum. The virus is spreading already... A very small vehicle appears out of nowhere next to the Borg tactical cube. The officers in Starbase 41 operations are looking in amazement at the small vehicle. One of the tactical officers reports. "Sir. It is a vehicle of about one and a half meters wide, five meters long and two meters high. It is brightly colored with red flowers on the side. Wait... There are words on the side sir... The Mystery Machine..." The Mystery Machine doesn't seem to be a threat to the Borg as the Borg do not engage it. But aboard the tactical cube there seems to begin a chaotic behaviour of Borg drones. They walk around like they have lost all control. Some of them seem to be laughing like they are crazy... "Sir there is a transporter signal. This Mystery Machine has transported someone of the Borg tactical cube sir. It jumps to warp sir. It is gone sir..." A few ships appears out of nowhere. They are of unknown design. Someone on one of the ship opens a channel. "This is Starfleet Captain Hendriks. This fleet is under command of Trsterts General Fruktra, a very advanced species living in a region of space me and my crew are exploring. We are here to help." But the Borg do not like the new visitors. "Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is... Before the implanted virus can affect the Borg fleet General Fruktra gives the order to attack. It only takes General Fruktra's small fleet twenty seconds to destroy 29 Borg ships. One Borg ship is disabled and is boarded. It is not clear what General Fruktra's soldiers have done. But a fewmoments later they transport of the Borg ship and leave to where they came from. But the Borg threat does not seem to have any effect on Ambassador Jas Stevens. With his mind he is at a different place... Players: Crew of the USS Alice Cooper Ovion (Hirogen/Ori Hunting Vessel) With a Borg threat at the doorstep, the Federation must act. Thirty Borg ships are approaching Starbase 41. A Federation fleet is blocking the way of the Borg. But aboard a Borg tactical cube two individuals have planted a virus into the Borg vinculum. The virus is spreading already... A very small vehicle appears out of nowhere next to the Borg tactical cube. The officers in Starbase 41 operations are looking in amazement at the small vehicle. One of the tactical officers reports. "Sir. It is a vehicle of about one and a half meters wide, five meters long and two meters high. It is brightly colored with red flowers on the side. Wait... There are words on the side sir... The Mystery Machine..." The Mystery Machine doesn't seem to be a threat to the Borg as the Borg do not engage it. But aboard the tactical cube there seems to begin a chaotic behaviour of Borg drones. They walk around like they have lost all control. Some of them seem to be laughing like they are crazy... "Sir there is a transporter signal. This Mystery Machine has transported someone of the Borg tactical cube sir. It jumps to warp sir. It is gone sir..." A few ships appears out of nowhere. They are of unknown design. Someone on one of the ship opens a channel. "This is Starfleet Captain Hendriks. This fleet is under command of Trsterts General Fruktra, a very advanced species living in a region of space me and my crew are exploring. We are here to help." But the Borg do not like the new visitors. "Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. You will be assimilated. You will service us. Resistance is... Before the implanted virus can affect the Borg fleet General Fruktra gives the order to attack. It only takes General Fruktra's small fleet twenty seconds to destroy 29 Borg ships. One Borg ship is disabled and is boarded. It is not clear what General Fruktra's soldiers have done. But a fewmoments later they transport of the Borg ship and leave to where they came from. Many lightyears away Horkan has followed the Battle between the Federation and the Borg. The research on the Borg technology Horkan has stolen continues. His scientists are making progress... Players: Thomas van Rhee Earth Alliance Starship (EAS) Terradyne Far far away... Where the Humans, the Narn, the Centauri, the Minbari, the Vorlons and a few others live almost peacefully, the Earth President and the Centauri Emperor are the victims of the Drakh, companions of the evil Shadows. Unknown to many an almost secret war is going on. It is not certain whether the Earth President and the Centauri Emperor can be saved... Some of the hidden battles are located on planets which have no meaning, no resources, but are important to gain a tactical advantage. On one of those planets it is still not decided who will take it. The Shadows seem to be winning... "Sir! Sir! They are closing in on us sir. From all sides." "Get ready then. Let them come closer, but give them a great show." "Yes sir." Ten minutes later. "We are completely surrounded sir. They are exactly where we want them sir." "Activate the system." Around the compound huge explosions make the ground shake. Huge fireballs are filling the air. A few moments later it is silent. "It worked sir. Those Shadows won't bother us anymore sir. There are a few small groups... Wait a minute sir. Somebody is firing on them sir. And the Shadows don't return fire. I don't understand. There... Sir! Sir! There sir. Do you see them? Those are Markab sir. I am very sure of it." "That would be close to impossible Lieutenant. The Markab Became extinct due to the Drafa Plague more than a thousand years ago. Only some survived. Would it be possible we are on one of their planets? Players: Steve Elliot