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Mission Logs for the first mission of the [[USS Artemis, EX-11000|USS Artemis]], entitled "Rogue Planet".
 
 
 
==Mission Summary==
 
==Mission Summary==
 
Mission dates:  2419-- through 241911.11
 
Mission dates:  2419-- through 241911.11

Revision as of 01:35, 7 May 2020

Rogue Planet
Ship:
USS Artemis, EX-11000
Commanding Officer:
Captain Tyra Crawford
Stardate:
2419 - 241911.11
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Mission Summary

Mission dates: 2419-- through 241911.11

Captain's Log

Captain Tyra Crawford

Stardate 21905.20

Well, it is official. I am the new commanding officer of Starfleet's newest ship in its newest line of ships, the USS Artemis. She's designed to essentially be an exploration vessel with enough firepower to hold her own if needed -- a perfect compromise on many levels.

And we already have received our first assignment, courtesy of Aunt Liz's research program. We will be assisting with the researching of a Rogue planet that seems to have come from Breen space. An expedition is being dispatched slightly ahead of us but should merely be setting up base until we arrive with the big guns and equipment.

To be honest, I'm not particularly fond of this project's direct manager, a scientist with little regard for some of the non-scientific considerations needed when planning a large scale expedition, but I think that's partially why we were sought out. I think Liz's hope is that we will be able to minimize some of the problems out of sheer hardheadedness, a speciality of mine as she pointed out. Personally, my tolerance for arguing with scientists is minimal but perhaps that works to our benefit in the long run.

Regardless, it should be a good test run for the Artemis and her crew. I look forward to see what tweaks need to be made.

Personal Log

Bryan and I attended Jamie and McKenzie's graduation ahead of the Artemis' launch. Both girls are very excited for their first big assignments, though I doubt Jamie was super thrilled when she found out that the expedition she was being assigned to would be chaperoned by yours truly.

Mac, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be upset that her first assignment is aboard Starbase Alpha. She's doing well on routine patrols from what I've heard and Lieutenant Daris is attempting to get her assigned to Alpha permanently. I don't think that's something Mac wants but there is something to be said for having officers wanting you in their rosters.

Hopefully, the twins find their footing sooner rsther than later. I know it took Bryan and I both a long time to wiggle out from under the shadow, for better or worse.

End log.

Stardate 21906.01

Well... we are off to a wonderful start.

Instead of doing the coordination meeting to get all ground components on the same sheet as to what Artemis' is offering in terms od support, we're launching an S&R for a research team that launched prematurely and hasn't reported back in.

If my faith was limited in the project manager, my faith in the expedition's commander is near zero. She's indecisive and unsure of where her people are or general capabilities. There are likely jello mixes with more spine than she has.

To make matters more complicated, one of the base's tactical officers, a Midshipman Frost, picked up a telepathic communication of some sort. She described it as pleading or desperate. Not something I'm overly excited about but hopefully, it's whispers of a dead race or something inert.

Either way, we're splitting in into three teams to tackle the issue. The ball busters will be looking for a way in from a more creative stand point while Jenny and I each will be leading a team to search the two possible tunnels the research team went down. For better or worse, I've got a younger, more inexperienced team as to allow each team equal department dispersion and an equal amount of department heads. Hopefully, that doesn't present an issue.

Personal Log

Jamie is on the missing team.

End Log.


Stardate 2109.27

I think this is it... for real this time.

And while I never imagined I would be chased through a tunnel system, in the galaxy's slowest footchase, by a Borg drone, I feel like I've faced far more insurmountable odds before. I've been trapped behind enemy lines, I've been betrayed and handed over to the enemy, I've come moments away from being skinned alive and yet, I have managed to claw my way through each of those. Even in those bleakest of moments, I have never felt the feeling of hopeless inevitability that I feel coiling around my heart.

Here though... there is nowhere for my hope to rest. My team is a group of officers that apparently shouldn't have graduated the Academy, headlined by a security officer that ran from a fight and left half the team behind and a doctor that refused a direct order to treat two patients, preferring a nice foot injury over a suffering soul.

Yes, Briggs has been more than loyal and capable as has the security officer we inherited from the research team. Jamie and Ben'Soon are as capable as science officers can be in this situation but a team is only as good as their weakeat link and ours is almost inevitably fatal. Elias... well, the verdict is out but guilt by association is definitely at work here.

But all those times I managed to survive... it was because I had a team at my back that I didn't question for a second. Even the weakest link, I would trust my six to any day in any situation. I would die for the man next to me without hesitation, knowing he would do the same. Right now... I can't even trust that they'll carry out a damn order and I have little doubt left that it will be our undoing.

And I'm just... mad. Mad that officers are coming into the field woefully unprepared and it is going to get people killed. Mad that my life may very well end due to no wrong doing on my part but the stupidity of the person next to me. And the fact that they're my crew still makes their stupidity my fault...

And I'm mad that I'll likely end up laying it all down for people that don't deserve it and won't appreciate it but that's what I signed up for, to the bloody, bitter end.

At this point, I don't think survival is an option or can be the main goal. Someone needs to get to the surface to warn the others, someone capable like Briggs. And I need to make every effort to ensure that Jamie makes it out in one piece. Beyond that, everything else is in Fate's hands... maybe he'll shine some mercy down on us but mercy is more than what is deserved.

With that said...

Thomas, I'm sorry. I should have listened because you were right. I love you and I am sorry about so many things.

Evie, you are the best thing that happened to me. I love you immensely and I wish I was going to be there to teach you everything you need to know to face this world. I have no doubt that you'll move mountains...

'Til Valhalla because I will not be assimilated, one way or another.

End log.

Crew Logs

Commander Jennifer Braggins, First Officer