Two Mysteries

Posted on Sun Sep 28th, 2025 @ 5:11pm by Captain Shran dh'Klar

374 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Wild Wild West
Location: USS Washington

It was a quiet day on the Washington as the ship was exploring uncharted space in the Beta Quadrant. Shran was on the bridge with some of the senior officers, but things had been routine, until thirty seconds ago.

"I'm telling you, that was definitely an unknown ship on a crash trajectory going into that planet's atmosphere" Deanna noted.

"And we detected no other ships or a distress call?" questioned Shran.

"Negative sir" Deanna replied from Ops.

"Well, we were exploring the system anyway, might as well give you the opportunity to take a closer look into this little mystery." Shran looked over to the helm, "Set a course for the planet, full impulse. Just to be safe, go to yellow alert, raise the shields."

"Shields up" Ayana noted from tactical as the yellow alert klaxon sounded.

"Approaching the planet" L'Rissa noted.

"Put us in a high orbit. Start your scans" Shran ordered.

Deanna did as she was ordered, scanning the planet. "The planet has two large continents as well as dozens of islands in the large oceans. Planet is class-M, very clean atmosphere. The vessel appears to have crashed in a remote mountain range on the northern continent. I am not detecting any life signs, but we could certainly send an away team to investigate."

Shran nodded. "I'll notify Sam, see if she wants to lead a medical away team to search for survivors."

"I'm detecting life forms on this planet, on the southern continent. They read as human" Deanna noted with surprise.

"Humans?" Shran questioned. "There shouldn't be anyone out here that we are aware of. Are you certain?"

"Confirmed. Reading four settlements on the southern continent, approximately 320,000 people, all humans. I am detecting EM signatures, but technology scan indicates mid 19th century, so EM is likely coming from telegraph wires."

Shran's antennae twitched as they slowly rose, the Andorian intrigued by this mystery. "So, we have ourselves two mysteries. Continuing scanning the southern continent, find out as much as you can. Launch a probe if it will assist you. I'll get Jon and Sam up here for a meeting in the conference room in one hour."

"Understood sir" Deanna noted. She hit her comm badge, =^=Ensign Kuzma, report to the bridge. =^=

 

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