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Stardate 7009.22: The U.S.S. Excalibur, nearly destroyed and all hands lost during the disastrous Star Fleet war games of Stardate 6803.08 involving the experimental tactical computer known as the M-5 multitronic unit, has finally been refurbished and repaired and deemed ready for duty.
A new crew of the best and brightest of Star Fleet has been transferred to the prestigious Constitution-class starship, under the command of Captain Dan Conway, and entrusted by Galaxy Exploration Command with a five-year mission to survey the Xanthine Expanse: to explore strange new worlds...to seek out new life and new civilizations...to boldly go where no man has gone before!
The Xanthine Expanse is a largely unexplored region at the fringe of Federation territory, occupying several sectors uncomfortably abutting space known to be claimed by the Klingon Empire. The region is known mainly from data transmitted by primitive unmanned probes that traversed the sector nearly a hundred years past. You've just spent an uneventful month cataloguing stellar phenomena and anomalies of the Pleurotus Nebula and transmitting the data back to Star Fleet via subspace radio.
As the Excalibur moves on to the Sylva System, Lieutenant Anjali Chopra places her slender fingers on the transdator earpiece in her left ear even as Lieutenant Therenim, your morose-looking Andorian science officer, straightens from his sensor activity monitor.
"Captain, there's a signal from the fourth planet--a regular repeating pulse but no intelligible message," announces Lt. Chopra.
"Captain," remarks Mr. Therenim, "our sensors indicate Sylva IV is a Class M planet. Additionally, there are isolated, non-naturally occurring energy readings suggesting it is inhabited by technologically advanced sophonts."
A new crew of the best and brightest of Star Fleet has been transferred to the prestigious Constitution-class starship, under the command of Captain Dan Conway, and entrusted by Galaxy Exploration Command with a five-year mission to survey the Xanthine Expanse: to explore strange new worlds...to seek out new life and new civilizations...to boldly go where no man has gone before!
The Xanthine Expanse is a largely unexplored region at the fringe of Federation territory, occupying several sectors uncomfortably abutting space known to be claimed by the Klingon Empire. The region is known mainly from data transmitted by primitive unmanned probes that traversed the sector nearly a hundred years past. You've just spent an uneventful month cataloguing stellar phenomena and anomalies of the Pleurotus Nebula and transmitting the data back to Star Fleet via subspace radio.
As the Excalibur moves on to the Sylva System, Lieutenant Anjali Chopra places her slender fingers on the transdator earpiece in her left ear even as Lieutenant Therenim, your morose-looking Andorian science officer, straightens from his sensor activity monitor.
"Captain, there's a signal from the fourth planet--a regular repeating pulse but no intelligible message," announces Lt. Chopra.
"Captain," remarks Mr. Therenim, "our sensors indicate Sylva IV is a Class M planet. Additionally, there are isolated, non-naturally occurring energy readings suggesting it is inhabited by technologically advanced sophonts."
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