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Captain's quarters, Miranda-class Starship USS Strikefast, on approach to TZ911951, Lombard system, near the Federation-Klingon border, Alpha Quadrant, Milky Way Galaxy.
2364.
Captain Svetlana Vladanka Kovaleva sighed as she sat down on the chair behind her desk in her quarters, letting the comfort of the leather relax her as she eased into the seat, before she turned her chair to face the computer terminal, Captain Kovaleva soon began typing on the interface, entering her Captain's log.
"Captain's Log, Stardate 41203.7: After picking up a distress signal from TZ911951, we diverted from our assignment, monitoring solar flares in the Tohrlen system, and are now on approach to the planet, where we will assess the situation, once we will arrive".
Ending the log, Captain Kovaleva took a moment to pause, before she issued a command to the Replicator in her quarters, "Soup, Borscht, Hot".
And within two minutes, the soup was ready, and Svetlana got up from the chair, getting the bowl of Borscht, as well as a spoon that she kept in her quarters along with other pieces of cutlery for such occasions, whenever she wanted something to eat in her quarters.
Eating through the soup, she just finished it off, when her combadge pinged, indicating that someone wanted to speak to her.
Taping it once, Svetlana spoke, "Yes?"
The voice speaking to her, belonged to Tileu, her Deltan First Officer, "Captain, we are now in orbit over TZ911951".
"On my way".
After exiting the turbolift, Svetlana headed for the Captain's chair, but as she did so, she issued the following orders.
"Initiate scans of TZ911951, and try to pick up the source of the distress signal".
With this order given out, the Operations Officer (and Third Officer), Lieutenant Fernando Sanchez, started his scans of the planet below, and the information came to him, after a short moment.
"Well, the scanner indicates no signs of life on the planet. But I am detecting all sorts of debris across the planet".
"What sort of debris?"
"Crashed ships, Captain".
"Of what kind?"
"All sorts, including human ships of various kinds, as well as Vulcan, Tellarite, Andorian, Ferengi, Klingon, even Romulan".
But then, Sanchez continued scanning and picked up something,
"Hold on, Captain, I'm picking up a settlement of some sort".
Tileu and Svetlana exchanged a look before the Deltan burst out with, "A settlement? But that's impossible".
TZ911951 was a planet that was known to have no indigenous life forms of any kind, sentient or otherwise. So Tileu's reaction was justified.
Despite the Captain and the First Officer's puzzlement, Sanchez continued on with his work as he scanned the planet, until suddenly came an unexpected development.
"Well, the scanners are indicating a settlement down there, and, also evidence of a power generator linked to the settlement".
"A power generator, you say?"
"Yes Captain".
"What sort of power generator".
"Not of any official make, that's for certain. It looks to be all mashed up from plasma conduits, power cells, fuel cells, and power packs, for that matter. Must be all salvaged from the crashed ships".
Svetlana nodded, "Looks that way", before asking, "Lieutenant, can you scan for any life signs?"
Sanchez, puzzled, complied anyway, scanning the settlement and the area surrounding it, only for him to shake his head in the negative, "I'm afraid not, Captain. The scanners cannot penetrate the material of that settlement. They must be well designed, as they seem to be salvaged from all those wrecked ships, and..."
At this news, Captain Kovalena tuned out the Operations Officer, as she pondered on a certain choice of action that she was about to take, and weighed on the pros and cons, before coming to the decision.
"Tileu".
Immediately, the First Officer perked up, "Yes, Captain?"
"I'm sending down an Away Team to check out the settlement. Tileu, you're in charge. Take Vy'cheq, Kumus and 4 security officers with you down to the surface".
The Deltan paused only for a slight moment, opened her mouth as if she was about to say something, before nodding, "Understood Captain".
In the small transporter room, on the pad, were seven members of the Away Team, wearing the standard white Starfleet environmental suits, as scans had indicated that TZ911951's atmosphere, while breathable for most species, actually contained foreign microbes of an unknown kind with as-of-yet unknown effects.
Hence, Tileu took the precaution of ordering the Away Team to wear environmental suits.
Looking upon her away team, Tileu checked them over.
Lieutenant Commander Vy'cheq, the Andorian Second officer and Science Officer, was examining the Tricorder, as well as his own phaser, while Lieutenant Kumus, the Efrosian Security Chief, was checking the suits of Lieutenant Girvon Brodd, a Bolian Security officer, and three human security officers, Lieutenant Heinz Oppert, Ensign MatthÃas Stefansson and Ensign Jang Hyun-tae.
Turning to the transporter operator, Tileu asked, "You have the coordinates?"
The Ensign behind the console nodded, "All set Commander".
Nodding, Tileu then paused a moment, as she checked that the Away Team was ready to go.
Once she was satisfied, she then said,
"Commander Tileu to Strikefast. Seven to beam down".
Well, this was an idea that came floating around my head, ever since I picked up the new Thrawn novel by Timothy Zahn (which is a very great read. I totally recommend it!).
The idea was, instead of the Imperial Navy, what if Thrawn came into the service of Starfleet?
However, I know that the challenge of doing such a fic is very high, as Thrawn is not exactly the very ideal of a Starfleet commander, but the idea just would not go away, and I decided to give it a go anyway.
And I'm also very excited to getting around to some new characters that I'm going to be introducing later in the story.
I don't want to reveal too much, only that since Thrawn is like Sherlock, this Thrawn in my story will have a character that fills the role of Watson (Just as Thrawn had Gilad Pellaeon in the Thrawn trilogy, and Eli Vanto in the Thrawn novel), as well as an archnemesis that fills the role of Moriarty (which oddly enough, both the Thrawn Legends stories and the Thrawn novel hadn't really such compelling characters that fill such a role, even though the Thrawn novel did seem to get close enough with Nightswan).
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Update (13/8/17): Changed the snow storm covering the Strikefast scanners, as a storm should not be able to block Federation sensors (my mistake!), to scanners not being able to pick up any life forms due to the settlement being made from materials from the crashed ships.
Special thanks to RedShirt047 for pointing this out!