AAR: Sons of Luwiya

Subspace Network Reports
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Stardate:
102463.0
Filed By:
CAPT Mirazuni, A.
Clearance:

LOCATION Deep Space, Beta-6740 Sector

MISSION Responding to a call for assistance from the U.S.S. Attar.

OUTCOME Non-Federation humans rescued from an attack by an unknown entity called the “Ashuri”.

KEY PERSONNEL

  • CAPT Leysak, W.
  • CAPT Mirazuni, A.
  • CAPT Timoreev, A.

BACKGROUND Upon the U.S.S. Attar, Captain Timoreev informed us that he was tracking a lost deep space probe (previously deployed as part of Operation Signal Capture). However, due to his ship’s inferior sensor suite, they were unable to detect a subspace anomaly which caused him to shut down his engines until they were able to be restarted safely. This meant that he was unable to continue tracking the probe, which he speculated had been taken by someone. With the U.S.S Endeavour as support, the U.S.S. Aspasia, carrying all three captains, was tasked with continuing the investigation.

NARRATIVE As we neared the location of the probe, the Endeavour remained back as support as the Aspasia entered the system. Upon arrival, we saw a star-shaped vessel, belonging to the Ashuri, and a smaller ship, later revealed to be the C.S.S. Warpalawas’ Dream. There was also wreckage from three other ships, with no lifeforms.

Ashuri Ship

CSS Warpalawas’ Dream

We were unable to convince either side to back down, with the crew of the Warpalawas’ Dream being too scared of the Ashuri to do so, and the Ashuri themselves not responding to any hails. I was unable to get a telepathic reading of the Ashuri, though this may have been due to the distance of the vessel.

With the Warpalawas’ Dream close to destruction, the Endeavour warped in to shield the Aspasia as she beamed the survivors of the ship onboard. The Endeavour was targeted by the Ashuri vessel and suffered shield and hull damage, but fortunately, there were no recorded hull breaches or fatalities.

After all the survivors were beamed aboard, we withdrew from the system. It is to be noted that, under advisement, neither the Endeavour nor the Aspasia discharged her weapons during this, maintaining neutrality throughout.

Questioning the Warpalawas’ Dream’s Captain Piyamaradu, we ascertained that these humans had not heard of the Federation, and that the Ashuri were the ancestral enemy of his people. Captain Lesyak wanted to begin First Contact procedures, but I advised that it would be more prudent to wait until the Captain recovered from the trauma.

RECOMMENDATION I recommend that Captain Piyamaradu be allowed to recover, and that the rescued crew be taken to their homeworld, where First Contact can be made with their government. Whilst I understand that there may be an intrinsic desire to find out how these humans arrived here, the physical and mental health of the survivors must be a priority, and questions can wait until meeting with their government.
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RECOGNITION Captain Lesyak led this mission exceptionally, ensuring the preservation of life without the use of force, and took advice from his colleagues effectively. However, I would advise the Captain to make withdrawal decisions slightly quicker, especially if another ship is providing cover.

OOC This is the AAR for the Sons of Luwiya. Captain Piyamaradu is xenophobic. Ayesha was offended.
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Stardate:
102463.8
Filed By:
CAPT Wanya Lesyak
Clearance:

ADDENDUM I have nothing to add to Captain Mirazuni’s account of the events up to our rescue of the crew fro CSS Warpalawas’ Dream. Once we left the region and certain that the Ashuri “Star Ship” (Star Vessel) was not in pursuit, my colleagues and I visited Aspasia’s main sickbay at the request of the supervising medical officer on the shift.

As Captain Mirazuni’s report has accounted, the rescued crew are biologically indistinguishable from Humans found throughout the Federation. If there are any genetic differences, they are within the measuring error of Aspasia’s medical equipment. However, I would recommend running a more detailed genetic marking analysis if Piyamaradu agrees. Scanning of the quantum resonance signature confirmed that they are of our quantum reality.

During our brief encounter with the leading officer, Captain Piyamaradu, he explained that they have been aware of Ashuri through cultural myths. According to Piyamaradu, his ancestors were pursued from the mythical homeland of Hatti by these Ashuri. His people currently live in Luwiyan Star Cluster. Piyamaradu also mentioned two locations, Leukothea and Arpad, leading me to suspect that this Luwiyan system or cluster has several worlds habitable for these Humans. As Captain Mirazuni pointed out, we are heading to their home system to establish official First Contact as any further disclosure.

Upon leaving the Luwiyan Humans and their leader back in sickbay for rest, I ran an analysis of the names that Piyamaradu mentioned. Assuming the Universal Translator picked up correctly all these names in the very beginning, these the correlating names found in Earth’s historical databases:

  • Hatti - Name of location “land of Hatti” in central Anatolia, Earth. Inhabited by Hattians, inhabitants of Earth’s Bronze Age. They were succeeded by a different ethnic, but unrelated group, the Hittites.
  • Luwiya - Corresponds to Luwians, a group of people also living in Anatolia, ruled by Hittites.
  • Ashuri - Corresponds to Asuri, which is roughly translated as “anything of Assyrian”, where Assyrians where an ethnic group in Earth’s region of Mesopotamia.
  • Leukothea - Corresponds to Leucothea, “the white goddess” in Greek mythology.
  • Warpalawas - Corresponds to the name of Luwian king.

Further reading led me to another discovery - all these names indicate a part of Earth’s Human history which occurred some 1000 to 3000 years ago in the Earth’s Gregorian calendar. Now, this in itself is not much of a surprise. We have been aware of Earth’s population (and of other planets) interstellar displacements since, at least, the time of Captain James Kirk’s report on the planet of Amerind. What is a bit surprising is that the time period is comparable to what Commander Katriel Sedai reported for the recently discovered colony of “Daleike” Bolians.

I will admit - I am very skeptical about these coincidences as they may be seen through the “bias filter” fueled by the fact we are dealing with seemingly non-Earth Humans.

On the other hand, I will “stick my neck out” and submit a hypothesis that we shall find a situation with Luwiyan Humans that is analogous to Daleike Bolians, as reported by Commander Sedai. Even Piyamaradu’s name corresponds to a name in Earth’s history.

I will continue cultural discussion with Captain Piyamaradu once he recovers sufficiently. As mentioned earlier, I would also advise we conduct genetic marking of Luwiyans to get more detailed genetic history of theirs, assuming they agree with the procedure.

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