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Copernicus Mission 9: "Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained" - Stardate 20910.15 (view source)
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'''Stardate 20910.15'''
The [[USS Copernicus, GEC-9035|Copernicus]] is sent to a binary star system, [[Gamma Cephei]], that has recently been discovered as unexplored by the record keepers at Star Fleet Command. However, just as they arrive they are diverted to [[Tellar]] after a Fleetwide emergency with temporal anomalies appearing suddenly at the key Federation founding homeworlds. The Copernicus arrives to find the system changed beyond recognition, seemingly representing an alternate reality. The ship encounters an alternative to Star Fleet called the [[Terran Empire]]. After tense communications, the ship along with the Tallahassee and Poseidon use converging modulated subspace beams to close the temporal anomaly and the system returns to normal. Across the Federation the other anomalies are closed in similar fashion and the crisis is averted.
Returning to Gamma Cephei to resume their previous mission, the Copernicus finds a planet inhabited by a primitive but seemingly generous, good natured people. They discover that the natives are humans who had left behind their advanced technological society to live a simpler life several generations earlier. Some of the elder members of the community are concerned at the potential negative influence of the away team and kidnap two members of the team. They are eventually liberated and the team leaves behind the natives to their simple existence.
Acting First Officer’s Log, Stardate 21005.05, [[Monbrin, Danaris|Danaris Monbrin]] {Dys} Recording:<br />
Upon investigation of the Class O planet in the Gamma Ceheid A system, an aptly named ‘[[Aqua]]’ ‘Aqua’ by the human natives, the away team and I have been accepted by a culture similar to ancient Polynesia/Hawaii, Earth.
The humans appear to be from Earth, but their reference to time I believe indicates that the culture here has been on this planet for a well over a hundred years. When these humans arrived here is still an open question and hopefully one that can be answered.
Log supplemental
The cause of the temporal anomalies at Tellar and the other founding Federation homeworlds remains somewhat mysterious. However, news from the fleet implicates an aggressive species known as the '[[Grath]].' It also appears that the USS Gettysburg, thought hitherto destroyed in a battle during the Romulan war, was in some way involved. It emerged that, far from being destroyed, Gettysburg had instead been sucked into the alternate reality during their battle with the Romulans via a quantum rift of some sort.
Whether or not this intrusion into the alternate reality by Gettysburg alerted the Grath species to our presence in the Universe I can only speculate, but, using the anomaly at Alpha Centauri the Grath entered our spacetime and set a course for Earth. Fortunately they were defeated partly by a task force headed by Pulsar with the help of the 'Terran Empire,' an apparently benevolent organisation from the alternate reality and resembling something like our own Federation. This was not before some considerable loss of life however and USS Bismarck was one of two ships destroyed by the invaders en route to Sector 001.
And so I left the ship and crew behind at Gamma Cephei to pursue my own mission to retrieve Commander Dys.
It took us several weeks to reach Orion Syndicate Space. The team were disguised as 'flesh peddlers', traders of slaves. Helven VI itself is notorious for the trade, so this seemed an appropriate guise. Syndicate space is no place for Star Fleet, a lawless, nefarious part of the quadrant, where the most ruthless, wicked activities and proclivities are indulged. Sring, the petite young Vulcan, was disguised as a 'Lolita', and our 'merchandise' on the trip. Her appearance was meticulous, right down to polka-dot bikini top and a stuffed [[sehlat]] toy (which happened to conceal a phaser and tricorder).
I had got us a [[Ferengi]] shuttlepod to approach Helven VI, as the yacht was too conspicuous. I had cashed-in several years' salary of Federation Credits to purchase it and some non-Star Fleet weaponry on the way.
As soon as our shuttlepod 'The Lady Latinum' had landed on the accursed planet, we were approached by a [[Saurian]] 'facilitator' and his [[Klingon]] hybrid bodyguard Toq. Flashing a case of latinum I had acquired in exchange for Credits earlier, I showed him our merchandise, i.e. Sring in her 'little girl' guise. I promised him commission on any sale, indicating that I might have a ready supply of 'flesh' to send his way. From that period on, the Saurian, Gykko and the hybrid Toq were at my disposal. I left Crab and Sutherly at the spacedock in order to find a way to disable the minefield for our escape and I accompanied Gykko and Toq to a hotel base. Taking a room, Sring and I used our equipment to track the position of Commander Dys. Crab and Sutherly meanwhile spotted the arrival of a Cardassian shuttle at the space dock, and in it were two [[Cardassian|Cardassians]] and a [[Romulan]] woman.
Crab was able to get a tap on a conversation between the current Boss of [[Iklon City]] and Commander Dys. It confirmed that it was indeed our lost First Officer herself, she had been captured by the Syndicate and held there for some weeks, severely mistreated and degraded. It also confirmed that Boss Kodra, as he was called, was planning to sell Dys to the Romulan-Cardassian party that had just arrived on Helven VI.
I used my new 'associate' Gykko and his partner Toq the Klingon hybrid to get Sring and I into the Dys 'auction', which was in a seedy den of iniquity called Taboo. The place was a giant club-cum-brothel-cum-casino. The kind of place where you could buy anything or anyone.
