Long-time readers of this newswire will remember the extensive coverage we provided months back on the discovery of the extragalactic solar system, October-1a, now formally known as the Pariah System, and the development of a research colony on the M-class moon of Krikaya. Our last reports on the joint efforts of the Federation and Romulan Republic showed that everything was going swimmingly, with several waves of colonist-researchers settled on the surface of the snowy moon, with several notable discoveries already, including a foreign mineral not known to the Milky Way galaxy, as well as an almost entirely intact alien derelict vessel for the archaeologists to pour over.
But today the colony is now facing an uncertain future after an unexpected turn of events when the 'Pariah Borg', as they're known for their slightly anomalous behavior compared to the standard Collective, managed to get their cybernetically-enhanced digits on some highly volatile contraband: omega molecules, stolen from Dyson Joint Command over half a year ago. In a confused engagement, the molecules destabilized and an enormous region of subspace was ruptured as a result. The affected area contains the entirety of the Pariah System and then some.
Though the colony site itself was selected for its potential self-sustainability, up until now it has still been fairly reliant on regular imports from Milky Way suppliers. We were unable to reach Starfleet Colonial Command for a comment on this turn of events and what likely future courses of action will be, but it's not hard to imagine the furor behind those closed doors as Starfleet's and the Republic's best and brightest start working on solutions.
The Krikaya moon colony is currently home to some eight to ten thousand people, made up of both Starfleet and Romulan Republic officers and supplanted with civilians from both the Federation and the Republic. Also stranded within the system is the U.S.S. Pelagia, a Nebula-class research vessel assigned to support the colony, and the U.S.S. Providence, which had been en route to Krikaya to pick up personnel for an unrelated assignment.
But today the colony is now facing an uncertain future after an unexpected turn of events when the 'Pariah Borg', as they're known for their slightly anomalous behavior compared to the standard Collective, managed to get their cybernetically-enhanced digits on some highly volatile contraband: omega molecules, stolen from Dyson Joint Command over half a year ago. In a confused engagement, the molecules destabilized and an enormous region of subspace was ruptured as a result. The affected area contains the entirety of the Pariah System and then some.
Though the colony site itself was selected for its potential self-sustainability, up until now it has still been fairly reliant on regular imports from Milky Way suppliers. We were unable to reach Starfleet Colonial Command for a comment on this turn of events and what likely future courses of action will be, but it's not hard to imagine the furor behind those closed doors as Starfleet's and the Republic's best and brightest start working on solutions.
The Krikaya moon colony is currently home to some eight to ten thousand people, made up of both Starfleet and Romulan Republic officers and supplanted with civilians from both the Federation and the Republic. Also stranded within the system is the U.S.S. Pelagia, a Nebula-class research vessel assigned to support the colony, and the U.S.S. Providence, which had been en route to Krikaya to pick up personnel for an unrelated assignment.
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To make everything a bit more convenient for people, we have added a section on the fleet LCARS roster to help players find other stranded players for RP. Please feel free to post to this thread to note if your character is there with the 'stranded' group.
This means that if you were there for the U.S.S. Providence RP, your character is part of the stranded group, but you have an opportunity here to retcon if you like. Similarly, if your character was NOT there for the RP, you may now state (for the record) that they are stranded with the rest and, if you like, perhaps some detail on how your character ended up there.
Here are some options:
- character was on the U.S.S. Providence to attend an observation expedition of some astronomical phenomena (default)
- character was already on the Pariah Colony for reasons
- if you are working on a VESSEL and want to strand the entire ship in Pariah, please talk to Katriel first