USS Excalibur, 11/19/23, 10:00 PM ET

November 20, 2023

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USS Excalibur - Sundays 10 ET - Command Staff: Cptn Swain, CdrMirandaHawthorne

Between 11/19/2023 9:15 PM and 11/19/2023 10:13 PM

Mission Brief: In pursuit of missing mining equipment, Excalibur followed a tip to a remote system near the borders of Federation, Breen, and Romulan space. There they found evidence of wildcatting activity, but also a massacre aboard an abandoned research station that was being used as a transport hub. Having found all the information they were likely to find on the station (including evidence that indicated the attackers used type 3 disruptors and a number of system logs) Excalibur moved on to the mine site itself where they found similar evidence of an attack, and pieces of broken mine equipment that matched the missing pieces, but no concrete evidence of who attacked the place.

9:15 PM

(Yes we’re jumping a bit ahead, probably a day or so)

9:16 PM

In the science labs where the various pieces of evidence are gathered, Captain Swain is holding an impromptu staff meeting with the relevant team (y’all)

9:16 PM

Questions?

Nope

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William is sitting in the lab they’re using as a meeting room.

Frowns, looking over the pile of various items marked as exhibits

Irene> Finishing a presentation. "...and that's what we've found so far."

“It’s not a good look.”

Cdr Jalen Stanton> ::Offers Mincine a nod.::

Rex> Standing to the side, leaning against a console. He'd said almost nothing the entire time.

9:24 PM

So, we're left with what -- 23 dead people on the surface or the station. Some ruined mine equipment and more questions than we started with?

“Indeed.”

Sitting back down in her seat, looking resigned that they don't really know anything. "That's the big and small of it. Lots of bodies, no answers."

Starfleet has agreed to allow us to explore further, though they certainly were less than happy with me about it.

9:26 PM

So, theories?

"Well, that they found something that didn't want to be found would be the most obvious analysis."

But why attack a group of unarmed miners in Federation space.

“Something you want is possibly the on the station? Revenge?”

Rex> Frowns They didn't take any of the mining equipment or anything of note on the station.

“Just because you think something is there, doesn’t mean it actually is.”

Jalen?

"The equipment wasn't their goal, then, it was just to get rid of the wildcat miners.” (edited)

Cdr Jalen Stanton> ::Shakes his head.:: Getting rid of the competition, maybe? Dead men tell no tales?

Rex> I am not sure about competition. These looked like military grade weapons.

"It's overkill to just get rid of competition, and other wildcats aren't going to have type-3 disruptors."

“That’s a good point.”

But Jalen's right. Dead men tell no tales.

9:36 PM

What were they mining again?

"The equipment is for mining rare earths for industrial replicators. Nothing worth slaughtering an entire station over."

Frowns pensively Give me the actual list again.

:: looking over her scans::

Rex> Any luck in identifying the dead?

She hands over a padd. "This contains a list cross-referencing the mining equipment we found with what's on the planet.*

Takes the PADD and looks over it

Cdr Jalen Stanton> ::Tilts his head at Swain.:: You've got a theory?

Merkocite.

Cdr Jalen Stanton> Bless you.

“Merkocite?”

Rex> Merkocite? Scratches a clean chin.

:: listening:

"What about it?"

It's not ordinarily a very important ore, but they were clearly mining it here.

9:50 PM

Certainly not important enough to kill someone over. Normally.

"You don't need to steal 40 year old equipment and hijack an observatory to mine that."

Right. And yet here we are.

“Hm, interesting indeed.”

Clears his throat. Merkocite, like I said, isn't normally all that valuable. But when its subjected to high levels of gamma radiation, it can be used as a component in energy transfer matrixes when adapting power sourced from Romulan AQS units.

"So... Romulans?"

“Huh…”

They have plenty of merkocite, though. (edited)

Cdr Jalen Stanton> Which means someone has gotten their hands on a warbird. ::Frowns.::

Or at least an AQS unit.

“That’s not good. If they have a warbird.”

Cdr Jalen Stanton> And amateurs fooling about with quantum singularities smells like an accident waiting to happen.

Irene> "Can you translate for those not versed in Romulan power circuitry?"

“Yes.”

Rex> Extremely curious why Asher knew that little tid bid of information, but tucks it away.

10:03 PM

The Romulans don't use standard matter/anti-matter power generation, they instead use a micro singularity. The power it produces requires a converter for most other systems used by Federation and Klingon technology.

"Everyone knows that. I meant about the AQS unit."

Cdr Jalen Stanton> A minature black hole powering their starships. I've seen one lose integrity... it wasn't pretty.

"Oh. Quantum... yeah. OK. It's a power transformer."

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Fun stuff.

10:09 PM

Next week we'll take off for the Holiday if thats okay with everyone?

Fine with me. I've got family coming in early December and could use the extra time to clea.

Haha

Night, everyone. Have a good holiday.

10:12 PM

See you back on the 3rd.

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