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CAPT Tungsten, D.
LOCATION Itrin System, Itrin Sector
MISSION Determine the state of the Itrin System, offer assistance to any Itrin survivors, and bring them to DS13 if they are agreeable.
OUTCOME Success. No survivors to assist or bring back, but status of planet as lifeless, and Itrin station destroyed, confirmed. Group comprised of many Federation and other species found scavenging, and attempting to build a “new Itrin Station” and locate it elsewhere.
KEY PERSONNEL
- CAPT Tungsten, D.
- CMDR LaSalle, E.
- LCDR Reese, V.
- LCDR Wind-People, A.
- LCDR T’Evoryn
- LT Fra’seer, K.
- LT Gha’Kahrr
- ENS Ipeia
NARRATIVE Upon entering the system, a massive debris field was detected around Itrin I. As we advanced inward, it was clear this was debris from the station and some various ships, as expected.
USS Dragon began detailed scans of the planet and debris field for any signs of life, or salvageable technology, specifically anything of information storage. The hope with the latter was to recover any Itrin historical or cultural data to preserve and analyze.
Some scavengers were detected, performing normal salvage operations on some larger pieces of the station debris as we moved deeper into the debris field. Two ships, one in very bad shape, leaking plasma. USS Dragon hailed the ship in disrepair, and offered assistance, which was declined by the Captain of the vessel. Not long after, the ship exploded, but we were able to save all but 5 of the crew by beaming them out as the ship went critical. The 5 lost were mortally wounded before the beamout, and several others were in critical condition, but we were able to save them.
Talking to the surviving ship next, they seemed happy that we saved their co-workers, but refused to take them on, preferring to let us bring them to DS13. It wasn’t clear if this was due to space constraints on their ship, or the great hurry they seemed to be in, maybe both. We intercepted some communications between them and someone on the far side of the planet, who were indeed telling them to hurry up.
A deal was struck however to purchase a data device from their salvage. The price was an absurd 15 bars of latinum, but as the rescued crew gave us 40 in grattitude for saving them, this wasn’t really much of a concern. We have begun to analyze the device, and see if it carries anything more useful than docking or maintenance logs from the station.
Probes had been launched around the planet, and we determined that there were another 13 similar scavenger vessels in formation to tow an empty space station, that was definitely not of Itrin design.
LT. Fra’seer did question our survivors in sickbay, who freely and openly explained that they were making a “New Itrin Station”, but the towing formation was determined to be taking it by warp elsewhere. Their trajectory was pointed in the direction roughly of the Yuhop system, and a message was sent to Talos Junction to see if they could learn more.
Our scans determined that there were no lifesigns, Itrin or otherwise, on the planet, hiding in any part of the station debris maintaining life support, or in any other ships.
RECOMMENDATION I do not believe the scavenger activity or their new station pose any threat to Federation interests directly, however, I do believe that we should determine the final location of that station, and monitor it. It is possible it may get used as a hub for black market activity like Itrin station was, in addition to just scavenging operations.
RECOGNITION All crew performed to our high standards on this mission, with creative suggestions and solutions given, and their tasks expertly completed.
OOC Thank you Kermit for DMing this one, and to everyone who joined!