Arcadia Plot Summary: Jan 2012-Present

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After repairs are completed at a Federation civilian base, Arcadia heads back to deep space to investigate a "heavy gas nebula" scanned to have an oxygen-nitrogen (class M) atmosphere.

 

The only other Federation presence in the area was a 23rd century ship that was lost in the area after having been dumped there by a moving wormhole (theorized by us to be related to the Icarus wormholes).

 

After arriving near the nebula and launching probes, Arcadia scans a oddly-shaped, foundering ship just near the edge of the nebula. The ship resembles a cylinder with a set of sails and some exhaust ports that resemble scramjets pointed in the wrong direction. The probe detects lifesigns aboard, but cannot get any more details because of the sensor interference inside the nebula.

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Science determines that the captain's yacht can make it to the outer edge of the nebula. A rescue team takes the yacht to the ship and beams aboard its 14 lifesigns -- 1 man and 13 chickens. The ship is towed toward Arcadia.

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The yacht crew tows the ship to Arcadia, which engages its tractor beam and holds it in place.

 

The man, named Ariom - the ship's cook and surgeon - is rescued. He tells the Arcadia crew that the remainder of his ship's cargo and crew were "taken" by Barrett (a pirate?) but he, the chickens, and the ship were left because they were not useful to the captors. He is taken to the ready room to meet the captain and (new) XO.

 

The chickens are temporarily placed in a cell in the brig.

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Ariom is debriefed in the ready room. After finally being convinced that the Arcadia crew does not want to take him and ransom him, he tells them where he comes from (Eshborke, just beyond Landia). The crew learns about the dangers in the nebula and that Ariom's ship may have navigational charts.

 

Two away teams are formed:

Cmdrs Hegan and Daena go in the captain's yacht to try to do recon further into the nebula.

 

Cmdr Marx and Ens Arizhel beam to the Flying Trapeeze (in EVA suits, given that it does not have atmosphere) to find the astrogation charts and other information.

 

Ariom is given guest quarters.

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The team on the Flying Trapeeze returns to Arcadia with the charts they got from the ship's bridge.

 

The team in the yacht begins recon inside the nebula, but is unable to go too far because of electrical system failures. They are unable to get their bearings back to Arcadia. Cmdr Daena uses the yacht's phasers to send pulsed messages back to Arcadia and receives a response from Arcadia's phaser array. However, the phaser beams become incoherent and unfocused inside the nebula, limiting their usefulness as a weapon.

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The charts from the Trapeeze are digitized and the crew begins trying to decipher them.

 

The yacht emerges from the nebula. Unable to navigate on its own, and with barely functioning comm systems, the yacht is tractored back to Arcadia.

 

With the yacht unable to navigate inside the nebula, the captain and crew begin to make plans to take the Trapeeze back into the nebula to return Ariom to his home.

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With all the away teams back home, science uses scanners to get a detailed map of the Flying Trapeze while security and engineering fashion period-appropriate weapons so they won't go into the nebula unarmed.

 

Counselor Sema'J tries to get information from Ariom, but first teaches him how to use a replicator.

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The Arcadia crew prepares to enter the nebula in the Trapeze.

 

Captain Lo'Ami and Cmdr Daena continue to figure out how to fly the ship and how to read the paper charts that were on it.

 

Security and engineering design and field test new projectile weapons systems that will be usable inside the nebula.

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The Arcadia crew and Ariom board the Trapeze and continue preparations to go into the nebula, working in 0G and in EVA suits.