MARCHLANDS — USS Constitution faces mysterious challenges in USS Enterprise’s nebula rescue; sabotage suspected amid odd crew behaviour.
The USS Constitution, NCC 9012-B, stands poised outside a nebula, while her senior and selected junior officers brave the challenges of a Class 9 Nebula to assist the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, with essential repairs. With the storied history of the Enterprise, the Constitution crew treads carefully, ensuring adherence to Temporal regulations. The root cause of the Enterprise’s malfunctions remains elusive, further complicated by persistent computer corruption issues that hinder the repair process.
Engineering teams are actively investigating the source of the corruption, with evidence increasingly pointing towards sabotage. They discovered extraneous code in system files, seemingly intended to cause malfunctions and relay information to an unidentified artificial network and recipient. Complicating matters, the individual suspected of implanting this code mysteriously disappeared from the Medbay when left unattended. Mysterious one-word messages, like ‘Return,’ appear on screens, leaving their origin and meaning uncertain.
Crewman A. N. Cient noted the peculiar behavior of the Enterprise officers: “Something is really off with these Enterprise officers. They are way too excited for us to be here. I could swear I heard one of them squeal when I fixed a console that had lost power. I know I am good but not that good.”
In contrast, H. Inky observed a less welcoming attitude: “You could think they’d rather have the ship fall apart then let us help them.” This observation starkly contrasts with Cient’s, further complicated by reports of random equipment going missing, significantly impeding their work.
Despite these challenges, the Constitution crew remains committed to assisting the Enterprise, carefully avoiding the use of their advanced technology. Whether they will manage to repair the Enterprise and rescue her crew, or be forced to evacuate and compromise their covert identities, is yet to unfold.
Written by Jalana Rajel
