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Vice President Prenn was charged with negotiations on the recently occupied Tellar Prime. The USS Intrepid was assigned as his escort. Battle Group Epsilon-1 was stationed nearby in case negotiations turned sour. Unofficially the Intrepid was meant to gather as much intelligence as possible on the enemy. Soon after the an away team was sent down, they requested to beam back up. Unfortunately a transport inhibitor had been set up, and so the ship crew attempted to contact the away team. The only response received was written, and did not suffice the crew. A second contact plea was met with an alleged response from the Vice President, although there was no way to verify. Fearful of a kidnapping, the Thomas Jefferson was deployed with Lieutenant Commander DeWitt. The plan was to drop below the transport prohibitor, deploy the marine platoon and place transport boosters to rescue the away team. The Intrepid signaled for the battle group, and retreated to enter formation. However, the Intrepid could not establish any kind of signal with the battle group. Cunningly; the crew of the Intrepid saw through the Krynar deception and instigated a fight between the deception shards and the Avenger-class cruiser. The Intrepid’s fight was getting worse--but before it worsened, the Vice President contacted the ship calling a ceasefire. The entire Star Fleet away team save Lieutenant Darmar was reported MIA. The Vice President and his security detail however, were all accounted for.

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Because the Krynar war had taken up the Intrepid’s time, exploration efforts had been ceased. Now however, the ship could continue to discovery systems and planets, and new sciences for the Federation. Telemetry had recorded a phenomom in the Gulanda system that had not studied due to the war. It turned out two planets in the system had developed life, one had only achieved Industrial Era technology, while the other had developed well into the space age. The Industrial Era species seemed to have developed a worldwide pandemic that resulted already in a thirty-percent loss of their population. Because of the Prime Directive, the Intrepid had to move on without any sort of additional investigation; Star Fleet Medical however seemed interested. The crew met with the space faring species who seemed to be in a monarchy. Talks were initiated and the Crown Prince appeared. However they were in the middle of a coup attempt and the General of their forces ended up blaming the Federation for the Crown Prince’s coup ordering their blockade fleet to attack the Intrepid. It seemed the General had been heavily blackmailed, and his son was killed on live feed when he allowed the Federation to cure the pandemic. The man who had killed the General’s son was called the Reaper, he appeared in a heavily equipped bird-of-prey looking vessel. It turned out that the Reaper had caused the virus as a showcase for possible buyers, he ended up being heavily connected within the Black Market. Several Intrepid high ranking officers were lost including the Chief Science Officer, but billions on the planet were saved.

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