The Distress Call

Department Of Temporal Investigation,

Starfleet command, Earth

10th February 2389

0010 hours

In the monitoring stations for temporal anomalies where they monitor space for all distortion and ruptures in subspace Lt James Stevens sitting at monitoring stations for Altair and its surrounding systems while he was sitting at the station his terminal picked up a distress beacon transmitting a message on a channel that was designed for this type of message.

"Stevens to Dr. Prusette"

"What Stevens?"

"Can you come to the office immediately we are receiving a distress call from a runabout near Altair IV saying they are being pulled in to a temporal rift."

"I will be right there Stevens. "

As soon Dr. Prusette arrived at Department of Temporal Investigations, he was meet by Stevens and they proceeded over to his station to review the data from the probe.

"When did the system pick up the alarm?"

"It was at exactly at 2400 hours sir, I've been monitoring until since I paged you here."

"What can you tell me about the rift if anything?"

"What I have been able to put together is the Runabout Galileo from the Warrior left Alpha Centauri proceeded to Altair IV picking up a crew member from the surface along with some artifacts which the officer described as matching what could be Egyptian artifacts. The list comprised two canopic jars fully intact, some Naquadah, ten Zat'nik'tel, and humanoid life form inside a sarcophagus. It was one of the artifacts reacting to something in orbit around Altair IV."

"It looks like I might as well get the admiral in since it is getting more problematic by the hour. "

"Admiral Monae Michaelson to Department of Temporal Investigations"

"Commander Nicholas Prusette do you realize what hour it is?"

"It's an urgent message from a Communication warning buoy from a runabout from the Warrior stating that they are being pulled into a hole in subspace around Altair IV, Admiral"

"I will be right there and I will contact William at get him on the channel as soon as I as arrive there. So can I provide him with more details since its one of their runabouts they should proceed, due to the rest of the ships are tied up with other issues at the moment."

Admiral Monae arrived at Department of Temporal Investigations offices at Starfleet Headquarters on the campuses south-side Dr. Nicholas Prusette standing at door waiting to figure out the plan and what the mission should be issued for the Warrior.

"What have you depicted from the message and data they transmitted over subspace channels to Starbase 12?" Monae asked since she was woken up by Nicholas at 0010 hours.

"We found that there was a build up of what looked like temporal particles emanating from some artifacts in the cargo hold aboard the runabout but we do not know the time or how big the rift is we still waiting for more information from one of our officers that is going to the Altair III to setup a monitoring post on the planet."

"Why couldn't this information wait till I woke up?"

"We felt that with this rift it could be very dangerous if anyone found out and used it to alter the past."

"What resources do need to put in orbit or monitoring gear is need to be sent to monitor the situation on the planet Doctor?"

"We will need every type monitoring tools to setup the station on the planet and in orbit near the planet and a fleet of starships to monitor entrance and exit to the system until the Warrior arrives in the system."

Captain Harris' Quarters, U.S.S. Warrior

Risa Orbit, Epsilon Ceti

10th February 2389

0010 hours

In the quarters of Captain Harris he was just sleeping when the acting communications officer sitting at the conn received an urgent communication from Starfleet command.

"O'Dell to Harris, sorry to wake you sir. You have a Priority One Communication from Starfleet on the line captain."

"Can you patch it to my quarters O'Dell."

"Transferring now Captain."

The computer terminal at the desk in captain quarters came on and prompted for his security clearance to access the priority one communiqué from Starfleet. "Computer authorization Harris, Delta, Charlie, Five, Whisky, Nine, Gamma"

"What is the reason for contacting me at this hour Admiral?"

"Thank you for waking up at this hour captain we picked up a warning buoy from one of your shuttles and it was leaving the orbit of Altair IV and some kind of subspace rupture opened up near them, that all we know for right now we are going to monitor the situation. We will have more information at about 0600 hours."

"Thank you Admiral contact me then unless something else changes with that information"

Captain's Ready Room U.S.S. Warrior

Risa Orbit, Epsilon Ceti

10th February, 2389

1230 hours

Captain William Harris's Log Stardate 66111.07, "We have been out in space for five months testing all of our newest systems that have been added since we left Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in orbit of mars, as we are breaking in the ships system in and getting a feel of her Ships controls." The Warrior is one of the more advanced starships in the federation, it design has the separation plain like the Prometheus, the U.S.S. Warrior is 463.73 meters wide, her length is 500 meters long and 195 meters tall, with 35 decks, can hold up to 2,000 crew members along with their families.

Aboard the Warrior, William sitting at his desk is in his ready room reviewing the ships system log and crew reports on the recent ship upgrades that the Federation installed in key parts of the ship. The Warrior has been on a training mission to test its latest systems, which combine Federation, Klingon, and Romulan technology. The U.S.S. Warrior is equipped with the following systems reviewed and installed. Weapons system contains 14 Type-XII phaser banks installed in key section of the ship, 9 torpedoes bay 6 forward and 3 rear, torpedoes bay contains a full complement of 400 Mark IV Photon Torpedoes; 200 Mark Q-II Quantum Torpedoes, 250 Tri-Cobalt and 250 Hellfire, as the ordnance of is expended they torpedoes bay can replicate Photon torpedoes, it has a limited stock of 50 Transphasic/Multiphasic Torpedoes for when regular complement of torpedoes is ineffective against the intended target.

Warp drive system is made of 6 warp engines two per drive section, the warp core on each section are type XV cores, when the ship is not separated into each battle section its maximum warp is warp 9.99, cursing warp is warp 9.9, when the ship is separated into each battle section each section maximum warp is warp 7 and cursing warp is warp 6.5, all sections contains the most advanced impulse engines that Starfleet engineering division designed. As the ship is going threw its primary test checks a Priority One communications message comes in over subspace channel for William Harris, "Good Afternoon Captain Harris, did I catch you at a bad time sir, this is Admiral Monae Michaelson of Starfleet Intelligence" said Admiral Monae Michaelson of Starfleet Intelligence.

William replied "No Admiral, you did not the crew and I was just finishing going over all the systems and our shakedown to get used to the ship. What is this communication for Admiral?"

"It is an update to the information we discussed at 0010 hours agents at the Department of Temporal Investigations noticed early this morning we lost contact with a runabout near Altair IV with your ships marking on it was heading to Starbase 12 carrying some additional crew members, plus they picked up some artifacts from Altair IV that look so close to Earth Egyptian artifacts. Your Chief Medical Officer is already at Starbase 12 she was dropped of by the Enterprise on her way to a mission we assigned to Captain Picard." as Admiral Monae conveyed to Captain Harris.

"Admiral, can you hold on a minute as I check the ships log and see which shuttle is missing." as he says that.

William began to look for the shuttle list on one of the many LCARS requisitions pads sitting on his desk from the shakedown cruise and realized that one of the runabouts is missing from the Warrior which is equipped with 4 shuttle bays and a captain's personal yacht, the captain's yacht is located inside the main shuttle bay which is located aft section on decks 4,5,6,7 decks 8 and 9 holds repair bays on the saucer section, the size of the main shuttle bay is 40 meters tall, 140 meters long and 120 meters wide, which is enough to fit a defiant class starship docking inside the Warrior along with two delta flyer class vessels, ten runabout class vessels, fifteen type 9a cargo shuttles, fifteen personal shuttle type 7 shuttles. The final shuttle on the saucer section is the captain's yacht docked under was of a mix of the aero wing design of the intrepid class captain's yacht and the calypso design of the sovereign class captain's yacht.

Shuttle bay two is located on deck 11 aft section of the upper star drive section it contains 30 worker bees construction craft, twenty personal shuttle type 7 shuttles, ten type 9a cargo shuttles. Shuttle bay three is located on deck 25 aft section of the lower star drive section it contains 10 personal shuttle type 6, and 10 colony shuttles. Harris got done looking at the lists for each bay, but he could not find which shuttlecraft was missing from the ship. He now says "Admiral let me check with the chief of shuttle bay operations in the main shuttle bay." "Go ahead captain, I will wait for the report." said Admiral Monae.

As William is on with the Admiral he taps his combadge and say "Harris to Main shuttle bay are we missing any shuttle because one of our runabouts went missing at 0500 hour this morning near Altair III"

"Commander Felicity Baker here sir, we check over all 3 shuttle bays and captain, you are not going to like this but it turns out one of the runabout spots is missing a runabout." said Baker to Harris over the comm.

"Commander do you have a list of the crewmembers that went aboard that runabout before we left to head to Risa?" the captain asked.

Baker replied, "I will have up to right now so you can check and make sure its the same people that the Admiral has on her list"

A few seconds later the list was transferred to the secondary display in the ready room from the Main Shuttle bay, and on that list was Lt. Lea Waterson, Lt. Iris Grant, Lt. Commander Tiffany Jefferson wife to security chief Steve Jefferson, Ensign Andrew Stout, and three cadets Ashton Ghilrist, and Codie Ryder, and Oscar Godfrey. "Admiral, I am sending the list over for you to verify that is the list of people that was aboard the Galileo 4 when it was lost at Altair IV."

"Captain, I just forward that list to Dock control to space-dock and they confirmed that the list you sent over here is the correct crew list that was aboard the shuttle." Admiral replied. Admiral Monae changes the subject of the conversation to "How long will it take you to get to Starbase 12, Captain?"

William responded to Monae "We can be to Starbase 12 within 2 hours Admiral."

"When you arrive at Starbase 12 you will pick your Chief Medical Officer dropped off by the Enterprise this morning as well there will be a Department of Temporal Investigations officer who will meet you there and will give you more information on the assignment and then proceed to Altair Sector, and by the way Starfleet demeans this top priority cancel all shore leave. Since your ship was already schedule to stop there and pick up the rest of your crew, I thought you could handle this Mission, Good Luck Captain Harris. Admiral Monae Out" said, Admiral Monae the computer terminal showed Transmission End then rolled to his log entry screen.

Harris reaches on his desk to left of the LCARS computer terminal and all the shakedown LCARS requisitions pads spread all of the desk there is a small panel of captain subsystems for his ready room which the panel controls lighting, ship wide address system, audio log recording, he presses the ship wide address system, a loud whistle comes out on ship's intercom and he proceeds to address the crew with the following message "Attention crew all shore leave to Risa is cancelled, and all senior staff to the bridge."

Harris then walks out onto the bridge and said to his chief of security Lt. Commander Steve Jefferson "Please contact all our crew members on Risa and make sure they know that shore leave is canceled and return to the ship immediately" Jefferson tapped the communications controls and called down to the Risa hospitality office "Warrior to Risa Hospitality commander" "Risa hospitality commander, here sir. What can I do for you?" "Can you message all the members of the Warrior who are on shore leave that has been canceled and they are needed to return to the ship for immediate departure for Starbase 12."

"Will do, sir." William then turned to Ensign Jonathan Turner and says "Helm, as soon as the transporter chief signals that she has everyone aboard, set a course for Starbase 12 at maximum warp." As the rest of the senior staff arrives on the bridge, transporter room chief Rebecca Roberts signals the chief of security that all the crew is aboard and they may now get under way to Starbase 12. "Captain, all the crew is back aboard and we are ready get under way." Steve Jefferson said.

William turned to Jonathan and said "Engage at maximum warp."

As they enter warp the senior staff head in the observation lounge at the rear of the bridge behind the rear and left of the tactical station, except for the William and Steve. Steve knew something was not right but he was not sure. William turned Steve and asked "Can I speak with you before we join the rest of the senior staff in the observation lounge, in my ready room."

"Sure captain, is there something wrong?" as Johnson looked into to the eyes of the William.

"Yes, that's why I need to address you in my ready room before we head into the observation lounge with the rest of the senior staff." William insisted on this procedure and not discusses the details out in front of the crew.

William and Steve walked into the captain's ready room. Harris spoke out loud

"Computer activate a sound barrier around the ready room and disable recordings for this meeting in the ship's log."

Then turned he addressed Steve "Steve, your wife is among the shuttles roster when it was lost near Altair III, please don't be alarmed that's what our mission requested to pursue, since it one of the shuttles from our ship. I hope your wife is able to look after all the people aboard the Runabout until we arrive in orbit wherever they might be crashed landed on. Do you have any questions Steve?"

"I have only one question Will do we know anything about their disappearance from their path to Starbase 12?" asked Johnson

"I will discuss that in the meeting with the rest of the senior staff. Let's go join the rest of the senior staff in the observation lounge now, Okay?" Harris asked.

Johnson replied "Yes, Captain." Harris taps the access panel to the computer voice subsystems "Computer deactivate a sound barrier around the ready room and re enable recordings of meetings into the ship's log."

Now that the senior staff is gathered in Captain address the senior staff "We have been ordered to Starbase 12, and then to Altair Sector, this mission is of high priority for Starfleet, from what data Admiral Monae Michaelson sent us in an encrypted data packet for us to look over."

Commander Parker Gamble asks, "What is exactly our mission captain?"

Harris replied "Our mission is to figure out where these strange anomalies are coming from in Altair sector and plus one of our runabouts are missing as well it was on its way to Starbase 12 when it flew the Altair sector"

Chief Science Officer Lt. Commander Brandon Bordeau asked, "What kind of reading are they picking up from Altair III Planetary sensors in orbit?"

Harris replied "The sensors are showing signs of a temporal disturbance in the space and a time like a temporal rift of some kind that is why we are heading to Starbase 12 to get further information from Department of Temporal Investigations that is all we know for right now and we will be picking up our chief medical officer and about a dozen other minor crew members."

Starbase 12, Gamma 400

10th February 2389

13:00 hours

At Starbase 12 near Gamma 400, Chief Medical Officer Commander Dr. Jessica Marlene, was being briefed by mission specialist from Department of Temporal Investigations, Commander Dr. Nicholas Prusette.

Dr. Marlene asked Dr. Nicholas "When did we lose contact with the shuttle I thought it was supposed to be here before we arrived"

"I believe you are correct Dr. Marlene, luckily the Enterprise was already en route to Starbase 12 we hopped aboard and got here this morning from Starfleet command. They lost track of the shuttle at about 0010 hours this morning near Altair IV. The alert came in over from a class six communication relay." Dr. Nicholas Prusette. "What time will the Warrior arrive at Starbase 12 Commander Nicola?"

"The Warrior should be arriving at 1600 hours." As the most of the Warrior crew was aboard the ship, Dr. Marlene Starbase 12 making sure all the finial medical supplies are ready to be transferred to the Warrior when it docks.

Starbase 12, Gamma 400

10th February 2389

15:00 hours

Back aboard U.S.S. Warrior helms calls in to the Observation room and says "Captain, we are approaching Starbase 12 in five minutes, and the station is requesting us to come along side in orbit of Starbase 12." Harris responded to helm and says "proceed to come in geo-sync orbit of Starbase 12." By this time the senior staff has exited the observation lounge and is now on the bridge. "Starbase 12 is hailing us captain," Tactical Steve Jefferson says, Harris replied "On screen, Jefferson."

"Welcome to Starbase 12 Captain Harris, your Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jessica Marlene is ready to transport over as well as the mission specialist from Department of Temporal Investigations, Dr. Nicholas Prusette." said, Commander Adam Brown. Harris replies with "Thank you, we are standing by to receive them."

Harris to transporter room 2 "Prepare to receive our Chief Medical Officer as well as Nicholas Prusette from Department of Temporal Investigations I will be on my way there to meet them in person." Harris to Cargo bay 4 prepare to receive medical supplies from Starbase 12 that maybe need due to the mission that might need our skills and other federation supplies.

Inside transporter room 2 stood Captain Harris, Commander Gamble, Lt. Commander Jefferson, Lt. Bordeau, and transporter chief Rebecca Roberts are awaiting the arrival of Chief Medical Officer Jessica Marlene, and Dr. Nicolas Prusette when the ready to receive the transport controls lit up on the panel in front of Rebecca. Then we see the bright shimmer of human patterns of start to form and then the two human fully materialized on the transporter pads.

Captain Harris says, "Welcome aboard the Warrior Dr. Jessica Marlene, and Dr. Nicholas Prusette." Dr. Nicholas says to Harris "Can we head to the observation lounge now, I have a lot more information then we can say here in the transporter room due to the sensitive information" Harris replies "Yes and please follow us to the bridge, by the way Doctor Marlene can you accompany us to the bridge unless you need to stop by sick bay before heading up to the bridge?"

Jessica said to Captain Harris, "Captain, I do need to stop by sickbay and make sure the medical supplies are put in the proper spots for this mission Dr. Nicholas gave me a brief overview while we waited for you to arrive. I will be up in 5 minutes to hear the parts that he was waiting to discus in front of all of us"

Dr. Nicholas said. As the senior staff had to take sets of turbolifts to the bridge due to the maximum capacity of being 6 people allowed in the turbolift at a time for safety and comfort. When the two turbo lifts reached the bridge they all exited and headed to the observation lounge, the Klaxon alarm went off detecting something strange happening of the starboard side of the ship about 2,000 kilometers from the ship.

Harris asked Dr. Nicholas "Does the alarm going off has anything to do with what we are about to get ourselves into?" Nicholas replied, "I'm not sure, Captain." Captain Harris asks his junior science officer on duty at the time, Ensign Adrienne Reggiano "Can you please notify us if anything in the sensors change while we are in the observation lounge" Adrienne replied "Yes, Captain"

As the senior staff sits down around the conference table, Dr. Nicholas starts in to debriefing the crew on what the mission entails, "What we have gathered from sensor that Department of Temporal Investigations has orbiting Altair III, is that we have pick up a rift or a tear in subspace, inside the tear we are picking up unusual radio transmission of what sounds like early 21st radio chatter on a planet closest to the planet but we cannot make it out but it sounds like the could use some help and since the rest of the fleet is tied up with other issues and we at Starfleet and Department of Temporal Investigations thought that the Warrior would be the best ship for this mission. Captain I am going to play a little bit of audio we have picked up."

As the audio plays from the transmission they picked up "SG-3 to Stargate command we found what looks like to be writings of what looks like to be describing something that Jack downloaded the first ancient records, and Stargate Command we saw what looks like a shuttle of some sort crashed landed about 50 meters due east of the path from the gate to the device. We may need to bring medics back with us."

That recording was picked up just before you arrived here at Starbase 12 and we have been picking up a lot of chatter like that threw the rift from a class X probe we launched to study plus we found a way to pick up some data and trajectory of your missing runabout in orbit where the rift opened up.

"Captain Harris your orders are as the following proceed to the rift, scan it for anything unusual in terms of if rift is expanding or not send that data back to me at Department of Temporal Investigations, the proceed to enter the rift study the space and send that data back on an encrypted class X probe threw the rift and program it to land on Altair III, do not make contact with the people on the planet, make sure you engage the cloaking device installed aboard the Warrior once you are through the rift. Any questions?" Dr. Nicholas states.

Commander Gamble asked "What should we do if we come under fire while we are engaging the cloaking device." Dr. Nicholas responds "if that does happen then follow standard Starfleet protocols on engaging hostile targets, any other question if not, then I will be disembarking when we reach Altair III to the surface to began our studies of the rift from the planets surface." Captain tap's his combadge and makes the call to Ensign Turner to let him know to contact Starbase 12 and request permission to disembark and proceed to Altair at maximum warp.