The crew of the Tiberius, after encountering pirates, Ferengi, and an organization only known as the XO, was tasked with a scientific exploration of a pair of M-Class planets that orbit the same star. Among other things that made these 2 planets unusual is the fact that both planets are in the final stages of a planet-wide extinction event. In orbit of the planets, which has been cleared away of asteroid debris, was a derelict space station and other space debris.The crew was given the task to collect data from these planets to learn what happened.
The crew first came into a stable orbit in between both planets and made some initial scans of the planets and the space station. Then, they decided to beam over to the derelict space station and investigate it. Onboard the station, the crew found the station completely without power and no artificial gravity. The space station was fully intact but did not show any signs of a crew or its things. The only thing the crew was able to salvage were a few discs that the crew presumes store data. They also discovered that this space station was hundreds of thousands of years old. They grabbed the discs and headed back to the Tiberius.
The crew then beamed down to the smaller of the two planets, which they eventually learned was named the Rl’lowo Shal. The planet was nearly fully dead. Just a few planets and fish were remaining alive. Buildings and cities were showing signs of being in ruined. The technology that they came across seemed to match the technology of the space station, leading the crew to draw the conclusion that the space station probably came from this planet.
The crew then proceeded to the other, larger planet in this system. This planet had a smaller population and only sparse technology. However, the technology matched that of the technology from the smaller planet, lending the crew to assume the technology was shared. This planet, the crew discovered, was called Five Turns and the inhabitants called themselves Us.
The crew also discovered that both world were covered in multiple asteroid craters, many of which were larger than the dinosaur killing impact on Earth from millions of years ago.
It was at this point the away team was recalled to the Tiberius as the ship was recalled in order to help search for a Federation runabout that had gone missing.
As the ship attempted to break orbit, 2 powerful tractor beams locked onto the ship. Both beams emanated from the planets: one from each. The ship was trap! As the crew scrambled to figure out what happened and to assess the damage, the ship took some significant damage. Shields were dropped along with taking a breach to both the sensors and the engines. The crew struggled to keep the ship together as the structural integrity fields was starting to fail. As engineering teams enacted repairs all over the ship, and medical teams tended to the wounded, the crew devised a plan to send a beam out through the deflector dish to negate the tractor beams. This plan worked and the ship, albeit beaten up pretty bad (the ship's top speed is now just warp 6), they were able to move away from the beams.
Just as they were starting to leave, more alarm bells started to go off as a Romulan Warbird decloaked off the port side of the ship. The commander of the Warbird claimed the Tiberius was in Romulan space (they claimed this system as theirs). A verbal confrontation occurred, but as the Tiberius was already leaving, they just agreed to leave and let the Admirals deal with this.
However, just as the Tiberius was finally starting to leave, they were hailed by the Warbird once again as the tractor beams locked onto the Warbird. The Commander claimed the Federation did this. Another verbal confrontation occurred, but eventually ended when the Tiberius agreed to transmit the same wave frequency that freed them from the tractor beams to the Warbird. Skeptical, but not seeing many other options, the Commander reluctantly took the data and was able to free themselves. Both ships went on their way without further interactions.
The Tiberius left the system and began the search for the missing runabout, the Susquehanna, to discover what had happened to it. Come back in 2 weeks to see if the Tiberius was able to locate the Susquehanna.
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