The Mystery deepens

Posted on Tue Oct 7th, 2025 @ 7:24pm by Captain Jason Elliot & Lieutenant JG Annika Wiseman & Commander Zera Tirado & Lieutenant Commander Jorel Torin II & Lieutenant Commander Johanna Lyngstad & Lieutenant Daniel Martin

1,400 words; about a 7 minute read

Mission: Into the unknown
Location: Main Briefing Room / USS Lancaster
Timeline: Day 2 1115

OOC: Jorel and Annika are on the Lancaster participating via Subspace

On:

Jason took his seat at the head of the table, the briefing display was on stand by as the senior officers made their way too the meeting, Jason had been keeping parts of this mission between himself and the first officer, he was going to have to face the fact the crew were going to have to be read into the file pertaining too the meeting, he'd been half dreading this moment for a couple of days now, he waited as the senior staff arrived.

Johanna walked in, still eating a breakfast sandwich. She finished it and got herself a cup of coffee. She smiled at Jason and sat down. "Morning."

Jorel had gotten with Annika and opened the channel to the Columbia. Once the channel was open and active, Jorel smiled and said, "Sorry if we're late to the party."

"It's all good everyone, it's been a crazy twenty-four hours, hopefully the other will show quickly." Jason said with a smile.

Dr Daniel Martin arrived to the party dressed in his old fashioned white coat. " Just point me to the java."

"Sorry Doc just replicator for now, the Steward is on her way up with the real thing shortly." Jason said with a smile.

"At least the replicators are back up and running. I think they were still working on them when we left the ship," Jorel replied, thinking back to when Annika and him had left the ship for their mission.

"I think the last of the power issues are now fixed." Jason commented.

"At least we'll have some hot showers when we come back from our little mission," Jorel replied with a small chuckle.

Annika chimed in "We found one of your old friends, a T'kor class."

"That's facinating, so the wreckage is pre twenty three sixty." Jason commented as he awaited the remainder of his senior staff.

"I think from Annika and the technican said, it appears that it came from about 2355 or so. If the data pans out," Jorel reported in, reminded by the fact that Jason had seen one of these vessels up close and personal.

"That lines up, any specifics on who they were fighting?" Jason asked.

"I don't believe so. There's some stuff from the database that came up. But, we had some trouble deciphering it and we'll need to have someone onboard translate it for us," Jorel replied to Jason's question.

" If you take a team over I would like to go too sir." Dr Martin volunteered.

Jason looked too the Doctor "I agree doc, Jorel or Annika you said there was a largely intact ship from the unidentified race?"

Annika took this question "Yes, at bearing zero three three from us, there's a hull breach in what is visibly the engineering section, but it appears to be abandoned."

"Would you like us to explore it after the staff meeting?" Jorel asked, wanting to see if they could help out some more.

"We'll discuss it all when the remaining staff arrive." Jason said

Daniel Martin smiled at going on an adventure.

Zera arrived after handing over command of the bridge. She took her spot next to Elliot.

Jason looked too the XO, "Commander, the away team was just filling us in on what they've found, looks like we should take a look." Jason said tapping his fingers on the table top.

"Sounds interesting," Zera said in response. "What are we facing then?"

Johanna leaned in. She was interested in what they were facing as well.

Jason decided to speak in a frank terms "The preliminary telemetry you've sent Jorel and Annika confirms what was detected by USS Jacksonville when they got pulled through the event horizon of the same phenomena we went through bit also needs to be explained," Jason paused "Our getting pulled here by the what is essentially thought to be an exclusive thing in the Delta quadrant, and before you all do react we are on the extreme far edge of the beta quadrant in an area that isn't very well mapped excluding a few acquired Romulan maps, the dominant power in this area was at one time the Interstellar Concordium, although based on this debris field it's possible they aren't anymore..." he paused for effect "Possibly."

" Possibly means there is a good chance they still are." Dr Daniel Martin poked.

Jason looked too the doctor, "According to a few Romulan officers that were willing to speak they haven't had contact with the ISC in forty plus years, far as Operations and Intel are concerned we're done with this mission, if you are satisfied with that we can depart or we can fire off a few probes and do some digging around maybe salvage some artifacts." hoping there would be some interest.

"I'd like to get some probes out there. Just to take a look at what we're up against. I know that Annika and I did our little space walk, but I'd like to see what else is out there," Jorel said after listening to everything.

Looking too the screen Jason didn't hesitate "We'll launch a quartet of type six probes for the debris field, the question is did you recover anything of consequence during your initial examinations?"

"I think we gathered quite a bit of information, including some inscriptions, if I remember everything correctly. It was quite interesting and I think we sent everything back to the ship to be analyzed," Jorel replied, thinking back to the space walk that him and Annika did.

"Sounds good. Type six probes should work just fine." added Johanna.

Jason looked back to Johanna, "Based on their data could you plot the search patter Johanna?" he asked the adding "I think we'll hang around for a few passes and then head back, we will be expected to check in."

"Aye aye sir. I'll get right on it once we get back to the bridge." answered Johanna.

Jason paused looking at the senior staff, "I should come clean here, Starfleet has known about these gateways since the late twenty three sixties, the ones that were known were labelled as navigation hazards..." Jason paused keying some commands into the key pad "Back in twenty three sixty two much too the annoyance of the Romulans a science ship sent a probe into the neutral zone to study what they thought was a black hole, it turned out to be what was called initially as a hyperspace gateway, the probe would return six hours later due too it's programmed flight path with data." he stood up, "Until I was able to finally read the files from Voyager, intelligence thought this was something left over faster than light experiment that went oops..." he paused standing next too the image "These gates are known to be artificial and until our little ride through one my suspicions were just that, someone is trying to reactivate them."

"Well, what if the Romulans are truly trying to reactive these gateways? Especially since the Romulan sun exploded and scattered the Romulans amongst the stars, could this mean that someone like the Tal'Shiar might still be out there?" Jorel asked, curiously.

Jason looked too to the other screen, "We're not certain who is, Romulans, Gorn, Tholians, breen, or unknown, let's collect the data we should and report back."

"Well, if it's alright with you, I'd like to stay on the Bridge. I'd like to see what comes back from the probes as they come in. Call it diplomatic curiosity," Jorel replied with a smile.

Jason looked too the XO, "When you get back I'd like to talk with you about some things."

===Ships log Stardate: 78851.28===
After further survey of the Wreckage field we recovered three computer cores from what were determined to be ships from the Interstellar Concordium while there aren't many records of this alliance there was clearly a conflict with the Romulans at this time that ended abruptly, further study may be required, I'd also like to commend Lieutenant Commander Torrin for his exemplary work during this time.

===End log entry===

===Ships log supplementary===
After returning too our last known location we struck an Ion storm, the ship has been heavily damaged and we are unable too make an attempt too get help for at least twenty hours while the storm passes.

End

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