1.1 Entropy's Demise (mission)

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## Mission

The *Tempest* investigates a strange temporal phenomenon affecting a Federation colony and posing a threat to the colonists.

## Summary

### Part 1

After being briefed on the situation by Admiral T'Lara, the *Tempest* proceeded to the Carina VII colony and beamed down to the colony's capital, Morgan's Hope. There they were greeted by Syreeta Sebastian, the human governor of the colony, who provided them with more information about the nature of the anomalies and introduced them to the Mackley family, a husband and wife with a two month old son, Efren, who had somehow prematurely advanced to the physical age of a two year old. A medical examination revealed that Efren was definitely not suffering from Progeria, a human genetic disorder that causes premature physical aging in the sufferer, but that whatever the cause was also effecting Efren's parents, though to what degree could not be precisely determined by the *Tempest* crew.

Following the examination of the Mackleys, Sebastian led the away team to another colonist's nearby vineyard. There, they examined grape plants that had withered and rotted on the vine and determined that these effects were also not produced by any biological agent. While there, another colonist, Zane Knoll, approached the away team and insisted that Romulan agents had been sneaking around his own vineyard, taking samples and generally disturbing his property. The away team followed him to his vineyard and examined the evidence, following a series of tracks towards a cliff face that concealed a hidden Romulan outpost.

Upon entering the outpost, it was apparent that the Romulans had evacuated recently and quickly. The away team searched for any valuable information left behind and eventually discovered a PADD that had escaped destruction. The PADD indicated that the Romulans had also been researching the tachyon anomalies and had traced their origin to an artificial source near the gas giant Carina X. Shortly thereafter, the away team stumbled upon two Romulan soldiers who had stayed behind to activate a bomb intended to destroy the outpost. Though the Romulans retreated after activating the bomb, the away team was able to disarm it and prevent a corresponding reactor explosion in time.

### Part 2

Having traced the source of the anomalies to the vicinity of a gas giant farther out in the solar system, the Tempest discovered the abandoned hulk of a Constitution-class starship, identified as the *USS Hamilton (NCC-1765)*, which was recorded as having been decommissioned and scrapped eight decades earlier. Confronted with this discrepancy, the Tempest crew accessed Starfleet Command records without authorization and as a result, learned that the *Hamilton* had actually been lost as part of a classified weapons test that went out of control and forced the crew to abandon ship.

After watching the *Hamilton's* captain's logs, the crew understood the circumstances surrounding the *Hamilton's* disappearance and the resulting connection to the colony's temporal anomalies. An away team consisting of Captain Maddox, Commander Goodspeed, Lieutenant Holden, and Lieutenant JG Eele boarded the abandoned ship via the shuttlecraft *Cristoforetti*, discovering as they landed in the shuttle bay that a Romulan shuttle and away team had beaten them to the scene. Before leaving the shuttlebay, the away team decided to leave Eele to guard the *Christoforetti* while the rest located and deactivated the tachyon weapon. Eele attempted to block the Romulan shuttle's path using the *Cristoforetti*, but the Romulan pilot left behind in their shuttle simply moved his own ship in response, creating a stalemate.

The rest of the away team proceeded down the abandoned corridors of the *Hamilton*, encountering Romulan figures in Romulan space suits in the process. After a brief firefight, the away team reached the ship's Main Engineering, where they discovered the tachyon weapon installed in the center of the room, connected directly into the ship's main impulse reactor. Holden and Goodspeed succeeded in neutralizing both the device itself and its connection to the power core.

### Part 3

While in the *Hamilton's* engineering compartment, the *Tempest* away team encountered another group of Romulans, led by Subcommander Taleria, also attempting to deactivate and/or retrieve the tachyon weapon prototype. Ultimately, captain Maddox was able to convince Taleria that destroying the weapon and its plans was in the best interest of both governments. After which, she escorted Maddox and the away team to the *Hamilton's* bridge by climbing up the turboshaft access corridor. Though a brief fire fight ensued, Taleria and the away team eventually reached the bridge where they discovered Commander Merrok and a team of Romulan uhlans attempting to retrieve the blueprints of the tachyon weapon from the ship's computer. Through a negotiation during a tense stand off, Maddox was able to convince Merrok to allow the weapon and plans to be destroyed if he could take the *Hamilton* itself back to Romulan space for further study. With a deal successfully brokered, both crews left the ship, erasing the plans before they went and with the Tempest crew taking the weapon prototype itself back aboard the *Tempest* to be destroyed. The Romulans subsequently began towing the *Hamilton* back to Romulan space, but the ship disintegrated from its premature aging before they completed the journey.

## Elements

* Characters
	+ NPCs
		- Admiral T'Lara
		- Syreeta Sebastian
		- Mackley Family
		- Zane Knoll
		- Merrok
		- Taleria
	+ Supporting Characters
		- Lt. Rij'hard Douh
		- Lt. JG Eele Notus
* Ships
	+ USS Hamilton (NCC-1765)
* Items
	+ Tachyon weapon
* Locations
	+ Carina VII
		- Morgan's Hope
		- Secret Romulan Base
	+ Carina X
		- USS Hamilton (NCC-1764)
			* Shuttlebay
			* Engineering
			* Bridge

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