53041.1 “Requiem for a Captain, part 1”
Story by Fred Furtado
      In its first mission, SIT Gamma is sent to Argelius II to investigate the murder of Cap. Andrej Kcravasek, commanding officer of the U.S.S. Hunedoara (NCC-63787), killed outside an Argelian nightclub by a stabbing wound to the heart. Arriving at the ship, the team is greeted by Cmdr. Mircea Vanescu, Hunedoara's executive officer. He and Showalsky have a misunderstanding, but the situation is defused by the other SIT members. The investigation proceeds and the team finds out trace amounts of a substance used in three local poisons in th blade that killed Kcravasek. Contacting the Starfleet representative in Argelius, Cmdr. Tura, the team arranges an audience with Prefect Zorus, the leader of the planet. He allows the officers to interrogate the murderer, an Argelian tailor. He tells the team he was strangely consumed by rage at seeing Kcravasek coming on to his wife. Telepathic scans by Ens. Kyria reveals that his mind might have been manipulated. The team also talks to his wife, who confirms that Kcravasek insinuated himself to her -- a trait the officers already knew Kcravasek had because of his psychological profile. They also talk to a waiter in the nightclub that reveals the captain had an argument with a mysterious hooded figure half an hour before his death. Lt. Parnak decides to use the Hunedoara's sensors to locate large amounts of the substance found in the murderer's weapon. He successfully detects a large concentration in a starport bar, the Golden Nebula. Showalsky, in plains clothes, goes to the bar and manages to buy tigash, an Argelian poison they suspect might have been used in Kcravasek's murder. The rest of the team goes to the bar and confront the Zibelian owner, demanding to know to whom he sold the poison. The Zibelian agrees to help in exchange for protection against the Orion Syndicate, which he says is involved in the case. The team agrees and transports the Zibelian to the Hunedoara. They have to request a shuttle, however, to transport the Zibelian's 200 latinum bars, since he didn't trust the transporters to keep his latinum valuable. On their way out, the team is attacked by four thugs armed with disruptors. The SIT manages to stun all their assailants and transport them to the Hunedoara's brig.

Cast: Ens. Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha, Lt. Mikhail Showalsky Jr. and Lt. Parnak.

53042.4 “Requiem for a Captain, part 2”
Story by Fred Furtado
      The Zibelian tells the group that he sold a large quantity of tigash to Gol Larus, an infamous Betazoid mercenary with ties to the Orion Syndicate.. Parnak mindmelds with one of their attackers and confirms that Gol Larus is in Argelius and ordered their attack. Locating Gol Larus' ship in the starport registry, the team contacts Cmdr. Tura to try an impound the ship. Soon after, the ship takes off and leaves the planet. The Hunedoara pursues, but Gol Larus' ship is equipped with an energy sheath that renders it invisible to sensors, allowing it to escape. Parnak tell Cmdr. Vanescu to stay at the end of the sensors' range so as to be able to detect and surprise the ship, in case it returns. He then takes the Dupin to the same coordinates and scans for warp signatures. Vanescu contacts him and inquires about what he is doing. Parnak tells him and Vanescu asks why he is questioning the Hunedoara's crew competence, since it is obvious they would have already done those scans. The attacker's personality arises in Parnak's mind -- as a mind meld side-effect -- and he offends Vanescu, returning to Argelius. Vanescu follows him and summons the Vulcan to his ready room, where he is very harsh with the officer. Meanwhile, the rest of the SIT is on a lookout at Gol Larus's hotel, suspecting that he has not left Argelius in the ship. The suspicion is confirmed when they see him enter the hotel. As Parnak joins them, they also enter the hotel and go to Gol Larus room. They storm the room to find it empty. There is only a residual transport energy and a photon grenade. The team flees but the explosion seriously wounds Kyria. Parnak treats her aboard teh Dupin, but decides that it is best to take her to the Hunedoara, where she is left in Dr. T'Luma's care. Analysing the transport energy residue, the team finds out it is a Federation transporter. Their suspicions point to either Vanescu or Tura. Checking the Starfleet arsenal under Tura's responsibility, they notice that a photon grenade is missing. The team contacts the JAG office, which concludes that the case requires a dedicated investigator and reassigns the SIT to another mission.

Cast: Ens. Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha, Lt. Mikhail Showalsky Jr. and Lt. Parnak.

53125.7 “The Crusoe Effect”
Story by Dave Biggins
       While on route to Starbase 445 to rejoin their teammates and drop off Lt. Naomi Purovoke, the team receives a faint distress signal from the U.S.S. Patuxent. The ship was lost six months before while conducting a survey of a nearby system. Commander Borges, the executive officer of Starbase 445 asks the team to investigate it. They pinpoint the signal as coming from second planet on the Rogun system. Rogun II is a Class M planet with an indigenous intelligent civilization, the Huth, at Level 1 (Stone Age) stage of development. This brings Prime Directive considerations into account, since the crash and survivors might have contaminated the Huth population. Scanning the surface, they locate the crashed runabout and beam down. Analysis of the wreckage shows that the ship's spaceframe is beyond repair and the only option left is to scuttle it using deconstructing nanites. Further analysis is interrupted by the arrival of a group of Huth. The team beams out just in time to avoid them. Additional scans from orbit locate the three missing commbadges: one is next to the crashed runabout and the other two are a few kilometeres southwest of the crash site. Following those leads, the team finds out that two of the officers were cremated and one might still be alive. Several kilometers northwest of the crash site, in a Huth village, they find the survivor, Ensign Frank Davis. Davis has repayed the kindness of the Huth by teaching them agriculture, metalworing and other advanced -- to the Huth -- knowledge. During the night, the team beam Davis aboard the Dupin and confront him. Davis pleas for the Huth village, asking the officers to let him help them against the attack of another village. The team agrees to help, but under certain conditions: Davis must convince them to leave the village without taking any metal object or other advanced implement. Meanwhile, the team uses the Dupin's tractor beams to delay the attacking Huth. Finally, the team orders Davis to inject a harmless marker isotope in some of the Huth so that the next mission can locate them easily. Davis is taken to Starbase 445 to be judged.

Cast: Ens. Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha, Ens. Mentat Gormund and Lt. Retlar.
Note: This adventure is available for free at TrekRPG's website..

53144.9 “Carmani, part 1”
Story by Fred Furtado

     SIT Gamma is ordered to go to Starbase 473, at the UFP/Rillian border. There, they are briefed by station commander Adm. Alexandros Koutsolioutsou and Lt. Cmdr. Dova, from Starfleet Intelligence, who recruits them for an undercover operation. Their mission is to infiltrate the pirate band led by Carmani Adera, a Deltan woman formerly a member of the Federation Diplomatic Service. Carmani disappeared in 2375 after the Federation Intelligence Service exposed her boyfriend as a Romulan spy. Evidence suggested she might have known about his situation, so she fled. Eight months later she reappeared as the leader of a pirate band that conducted several raids in the UFP/Rillian border sectors. With most of its resources locked in the war effort, Starfleet could not give the matter the proper attention. Diplomatic tensions between the Rillian Conclave and the Federation mounted as the Rillians first accused the UFP of neglecting the problem and then of supporting the pirates in order to undermine Rillian trade. Soon after the war ended, Starfleet devised a sting operation to draw the pirates out. The plan failed when Lt. José Rivera gave the pirates the prefix code of the U.S.S. Asgard (NCC-65077), a Norway-class ship assigned to Starbase 473. The pirates boarded and hijacked the Asgard. Two weeks later Rivera was arrested at Barsus III, a neutral planet inside the border neutral zone. Now, Starfleet Intelligence wants SIT Gamma to use Rivera to get to the pirates, thwart their plans and possibly arrest them. The group assume the identities of shady characters and are equipped with an old Xepolite freighter. Adm. Koutsolioutsou arranges for Rivera to "escape." He seeks refuge in the group's freighter and offers them latinum if they help him return to Carmani. He takes them to a cassino, Latinum Falls, in Barsus III and contacts the owner, a Ferengi by the name of Lelas. After checking on the group's stories and backgrounds, he agrees to send them to Carmani's haven. The freighter is guided through the Kaltuha Nebula to a system within where the base is located. The group is accepted by the pirates, including Carmani and Kamillio, her Klingon ally. During a dinner to commemorate the return of Rivera, he argues with Kamillio and Carmani, and shoots her. K'tandha and Showalsky stun him while Mentat beams Carmani and himself to the freighter, hoping to save her. This action makes Kamillio suspicious and he also beams to the freighter to confront Mentat. The Haliian tells Kamillio that they might save her still. Kamillio orders Kol, a Bolian, to beam up and work on Carmani. He succesfully ressurrects Carmani and proceeds to operate on her. Kamillio orders the group to their quarters and post guards at their door.

Cast: Ens. Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha, Ens. Mentat Gormund and Lt. Mikhail Showalsky Jr.
Note: This adventure is based on Bizet's opera Carmen.

53161.1 “Carmani, part 2”
Story by Fred Furtado
      Rivera's interrogation corroborates the officers' story and Kamillio frees them. Later, they are taken aboard the Klingon's Bird-of-Prey, together with other pirates and lots of cargo. After a short impulse trip, the group is beamed aboard the Asgard and ordered to make repairs to several systems. Once the repairs are complete, all the crew meets at the mess hall, where Kamillio gives a speech stating that the time for their great plan is at hand. He assigns his second-in-command, Vartok, as captain of the Asgard, orders her launch and beams back to his ship, where Carmani is waiting. In order to find out the pirate's ultimate plan, Kyria tries to scan Vartok's mind. She fails, but convinces the Klingon that she was just looking for ways to make a profit, thus saving her own life. Nevertheless, Vartok wants to teach her a lesson and orders his men to put her through an agonizer session, which leaves incapacitated for a couple of days. Meanwhile, the beaten Norway-class ship starts to move out of the nebula with Mentat as its pilot, Showaslky as the sensors officer and K'tandha as a damage control officer. Three days later they clear the nebula and, after activating a Romulan cloaking device previously installed, heads out at warp 9.2. SIT Gamma decides it needs one more man on the bridge and K'tandha challenges the Klingon tactical officer for his post. In a short, but bloody bat'leht fight, K'tandha earns the position. Six hours into the trip, the ship enters a system that Mentat recognizes as Rillia, the home system of the Rillians. Vartok orders the ship to decloak and K'tandha to activate weapons and shields. At this point, the group realizes Carmani's plan: the Asgard, a Starfleet ship, will attack Rillia and most probably slaughter millions, maybe billions, of Rillians; this action will plunge the UFP and the Rillian Conclave into war, thus satiating Carmani's desire of revenge against the Federation. As the Asgard decloaks, Mentat turns the ship 180 degrees around, Showalsky stays ready to stun any opposition and K'tandha, who had rigged the torpedo launcher to malfunction earns Kyria time to reach the transporter room and beams the pirates off the battle bridge. The following couple of minutes see a desperate computer fight between SIT Gamma and the pirates, as they try to wrestle control of the systems from each other. The pirates try to induce a warp core overload but the JAG officers prevent it while hailing the incoming Rillian ships and warning about what's happening. The Rillians do not trust the officers and after a short time attack the Asgard. However, the officers manage to eject the warp core, collapsing the shield and allowing Rillian troops to border the vessel. One week later, the Federation Diplomatic Service finally convices the Rillian authorities that SIT Gamma was really conducting an undercover operation to capture the pirates and they are returned to Starbase 473 where they receive a medal for their actions, the Prantares Ribbon of Commendation, First Class.

Cast: Ens. Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha, Ens. Mentat Gormund and Lt. Mikhail Showalsky Jr.

53190.8 “Rest”
Story by Fred Furtado
      Due to the high stress mission they just complete, SIT Gamma earns much deserved R&R time. Adm. Koutsolioutsou tells the group that they have to report for duty one week from now at Deep Space 9, but until then they are free to engage in personal activities. Taking the Dupin, the group heads off to DS9.
     Kyria drops off at Betazed in order to visit family and friends. As soon as she gets home, she regrets the idea. Her mother, Valena, excited to have her back, starts talking to her about her impending marriage. This takes Kyria off guard since she remembered no marriage commitment. Her mother reminds her of her betrothal to Colan, heir of the distinguished Amai family. Kyria argues with Valena, but is unable to dissuade her mother and agrees to have dinner with the Amai family. After the meal, Kyria and Colan manage to talk privately and find out that none of them wants the union. They come up with a plan to undo the betrothal. Faking an argument, Colan announces to both families that he cannot marry Kyria because she has an imzadi. Kyria confirms it, causing commotion, and the amai leave abruptly. Valena, clearly upset, and suspecting Kyria of not being truthful, invokes the sacred title of the Pressis family: Guardian of the Third Stone of Chalnai. Kyria, who has grown immune to her mother's emotional blackmail, ignores her and spends the next day visitng friends. By the third day, she takes a ride aboard the USS Brasilia, which is en route to DS9, but not before her mother finds out wher she is going and for how long she will be there.
     Arriving at DS9, Mentat reports to the JAG representative, Cmdr. Brian Denoris. Denoris welcomes Mentat and tells him to enjoy his free time, starting by going to Quark's. Mentat does so and is approached by the Ferengi as soon as he steps into the establishment. Manifesting interest in the games, Mentat is introduced to Bala, a Bajoran Dabo girl, who will explain to him everything he wants to know. After spending some time observing a game of tongo, chating with Bala and buying drinks, Mentat takes the 1750-hours shuttle to Bajor. There, he heads to an archeological dig to join a Haliian team he had previously contacted.
     K'tandha declines from reporting to the JAG representative and goes straight to the Promenade. There, he sits at the Klingon Deli and strikes a "hearty" conversation with the owner, Boregh. A few hours later, he is approached by a human woman wearing an eyepatch. She introduces herself as Harsha and wants to discuss a matter of honor with the Klingon. K'tandha soon finds that Harsha is well versed in Klingon custom. She tells him that she wants to talk about K'Murh, a discommended Klingon. Although reluctant at first, K'tandha agrees after Harsha convinces him that K'Murh's discommendation might be unwarranted. They meet again at Harsha's quarters, where K'tandha meets K'Murh, who is in an advanced state of embriagation. After Harsha forces him to sober up, K'Muhr tells K'tandha that he didn't die at the battle that decimated his B'rel squad, during the Klingon/Cardassian war. His ship was transported to another world, a primitive one, where he was forced to fight as a gladiator and where he met Harsha. With hers and a few others' help, he managed to go back to Q'onoS, together with Harsha, through a "magic mirror." The rest -- his inability to prove his story, his own brother accusing him of being a coward, the discommendation and the derogatory nickname "The Wanderer" -- K'tandha already knew. Harsha asks K'tandha to find the evidence that will allow K'Murh to earn back his honor. K'tandha tells them he will think about it. The next day, after contacting Mentat and Kyria, he agrees to help.
     The system where the battle occurred, Vintaka, is within Cardassian space. K'tandha's plan is to go in covertly, scan the system and get out. However, Kyria convinces him to talk to Colonel Kira Nerys, DS9's commander. Kira is intrigued by the story and agrees to help. She tells the JAG officers that she will contact the Cardassian government and ask permission to send a scientific mission to Vintaka to study subspace anomalies. The Cardassians agree and she informs the group that they only have permission to scan the system and then come back.

Cast: Ens. Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha and Ens. Mentat Gormund.

53201.6 “The Wanderer”
Story by Fred Furtado
      SIT Gamma, together with Harsha and K'Murh, goes to Vintaka system. After entering Cardassian space, the Dupin is escorted by a Galor-class ship, the Keton, commanded by Gul Jarek. At Vintaka, the officers perform extensive scans and detect a subspace tetryon leak that is increasing. Using mathematical models and computer projections, Mentat is able to establish that a high concentration of energy could rupture the subspace, but the leak would need to be bigger to be able to transport a ship. Mentat discards the possibility of a temporary wormhole, but Kyria's sensor scans convince him to seek a second opinion. Meanwhile, Gul Jarek is curious about the presence of two Klingons in the runabout. Kyria explains that the effort is a joint Federation-Klingon scientific mission. The Cardassian doesn't look convinced but doesn't pursue the matter further. Back at DS9, the group informs Kira of their results and Mentat takes the readings to the Science lab, where Lt.JG Serana, the subspace specialist, assures him that a wormhole would be very likely in the event of subspace rupture. After that, he goes to Quark's and rent a holosuite to spend some time with Bala. K'tandha and Kyria also use the time to rest. The Klingon eats dinner at Boregh's deli and goes to his quarters. On the way, another Klingon bumps into him and warns him that his present course of action could bring great dishonor to his House. Kyria meets Lt. David Goldstein, an Operations officer, and after a nice dinner, spends the night with him. After the holosuite, Mentat is contacted by Serana, who informs him that it is possible to calculate where the wormhole would end. The next morning, just before an early meeting with Kira, K'tandha is surprised by a visit from the joH of his House. He confronts K'tandha about the rumors that he has been associating with a discommended Klingon. K'tandha explains the situation and how he thinks that K'Murh might be telling the truth. The joH agrees to let him keep on investigating. After the meeting, Mentat does the calculations and finds out K'Murh might have been hurled to Sigma Omeonis III, a planet in the quarantined Thoril sector. He conveys the news to his crewmates and manages to set up another meeting with Kira to 1830 hours. K'tandha informs the joH about the new data, who orders him to go to Sigma Omeonis III in one of his House ships and acquire physical evidence for the case. At the evening meeting, SIT Gamma tells Kira what they have found out and asks her to contact Starfleet and request permission for them to go to Sigma Omeonis III. She replies that she will only have an answer the next day. K'tandha parts company with his crewmates and tells Harsha and K'Murh to prepare to leave. Kyria and Mentat suspect the Klingon is up to something, but since he declined to share his plans, they don't say anything. Close to midnight, Kyria's conscience forces her to go to K'tandha's quarters. She meets him just as he leaves and fails to demote him from going to Sigma Omeonis III by himself. K'tandha takes Harsha and K'Murh aboard the P'Artok, the B'rel-class scout commanded by Captain Karvarth, who serves his House. The following day, the JAG officers are called to Kira's office where she notifies them that Admiral Ross granted permission for them to go to Sigma Omeonis III aboard the Brasilia. Cap. Gunthrie is not pleased to know K'tandha has left and, on the way to Sigma Omeonis III, tries to contact the P'Artok. He fails, but he knows that the Klingon ship is receiving the hailings. So he orders Kyria and Mentat to try and convince K'tandha to turn back and join them. K'tandha agrees and move to the Brasilia with Harsha and K'Murh. In orbit around Sigma Omeonis III, the locate debris from K'Murh's ship that constitute definite proff for his case. The Brasilia returns to DS9 and the group boards a Kvort-class cruiser, the Verglach, from K'tandha's House and head to Q'onoS. Kyria is promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade to serve as leader of the JAG representatives. At the Klingon Homeworld, Ambassador Worf takes them to the High Council where K'tandha, acting as K'Murh's cha'DIch, successfully presents his case, reinstating K'Murh's honor and House.

Cast: Ens./Lt.JG Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha and Ens. Mentat Gormund.

53290.3 “The X-File, part 1”
Story by Fred Furtado
      After spending one month helping the DS9 JAG office decrease its case backlog, SIT Gamma is sent to Starbase 126. On the way, the group picks up a distress signal from the Romulan scout Vertamox, which is being attacked at the Vintaka system. Colonel Kira orders the JAG officers to help while she launches the station's runabouts. As the group reaches the Vintaka system, they detect the badly-damaged scout and manage to beam aboard the Dupin two members of the Romulan crew. As the transport finishes, a Jem'Hadar attack fighter appears from behind the planet and fires at the scout, which explodes in the process. The explosion of the Romulan artificial singularity drive interacts with the subspace anomaly and opens a wormhole that sucks both the Jem'Hadar ship and the Dupin. A several-second rough ride through the wormhole causes massive damage to the Dupin and a big surprise to the crew as they find themselves close to Terra. They soon find out they are also in the past, the late 20th century to be more specific. Unable to locate the Jem'Hadar ship in orbit, they conclude that it must have crashed or landed on Terra. Realizing the havoc a Jem'Hadar could wreack in 20th-century Terra, the group starts scanning for the ship. They find an EM anomaly near Oaksville, Oregon, in the United States. After stabilizing and sedating the two Romulans, they beam down. They find the crashed Jem'Hadar ship and a US Army detachment already investigating it. Kyria uses her telepathic abilities and learns that of the four Jem'Hadar three are dead and one is missing. Believing he is heading towards Oaksville, SIT Gamma also goes that way. On the road, they are stopped by Oaksville deputy sheriff, who searches them and finds the phasers and tricorders. Mentat and K'tandha act fast and knock him out. Another car approaches and the group hides in the forest taking the deputy along with them. The car stops and two people come out. When another police officer arrives, SIT Gamma learns that those two are Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from the Federal Bureau of Investigations. They also learn that another officer is missing in the woods north of town. When the three leave, the groups heads on to Oaksville. They stop at a diner to decide ther next course of action. The only other patron, a cigarrette-smoking man, leaves after buying a pack of Morley cigarrettes. Soon after, the two Special Agents arrive. The group overhears their conversation and finds out Mulder believes there is a conspiracy going on to hide a crashed alien ship. Scully tells them that it is just a crashed satellite. SIT Gamma leaves and goes to the woods north of town to search for the Jem'Hadar. Instead they find the missing officer's body with his neck broken. There are also Jem'Hadar footprints. Since it is 2 am, the group decides to go back to Oaksville and rest.

Cast: Lt.JG Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha and Ens. Mentat Gormund.
Note: Since canon timeline puts this adventure right at the end of the Eugenics War (1992-1996) and states that there is a prototype sleeper spaceship already built, we decided to change it and say the the Eugenics War happened from 2002 to 2006.
         This story uses elements from Chris Carter's X-Files TV show.

53293.0 “The X-File, part 2”
Story by Fred Furtado
     SIT Gamma is waken up by Mulder, Scully an the sheriff and asked to go to the Police department for questioning. There, Mulder asks them where were they the last night and, eventually, accuses them of beating up an officer. K'tandha mentions the Cancer Man -- an information Kyria had gotten from Mulder's mind -- and asks to speak privately to Mulder and Scully. They agree and the group tells them that they need to be released so they can hunt a dangerous alien. Mulder believes, but scully is highly skeptical. Mulder tries to free them, but the charges against are strong, especially since K'tandha admitted to knocking out the officer. The group escapes anyway, by transporter, although K'tandha is shot in the process. Mentat performs surgery on K'tandha and heals the Klingon. The group knows that Jem'Hadar require ketracel-white to survive. Although, 20thcentury tecnology cannot synthesize ketracel-white, it can create a similar substance that can sustain the Jem'Hadar temporarily. They start searching for possible locations where the susbtance might be found. Meanwhile, Mulder contacts them with the help of the Lone Gunmen. SIT Gamma beams Mulder aboard and explains the situation to him. Sensor scans lead them to conclude that a chemical plant northwest from Oaksville is the most probable location of the Jem'Hadar. After K'tandha and Mulder beam down, the transporter shorts out and Kyria and Mentat are unable to join them. Mulder and K'tandha investigate the plant's labs and are surprised by an atack from the Jem'Hadar which seriously injures both of them. By rerouting power through the replicators' system -- which destroys it -- Mentat and Kyria manage to beam Mulder and K'tandha up. Mentat successfully ressurects both and spends several mor ehours stabilizing their condition. after that, him and Kyria locate the Jem'Hadar and beam him up, stunning him and locking him up in a force filed. They decide that Mulder would get better attention at a Terran hospital and, after contacting Scully, land the Dupin long enough to transfer him. They also conclude that disposal of the Jem'Hadar craft should be left to nanites, like they did in Rogun II (“The Crusoe Effect”). While mentat and Kyria are performing repairs in the Dupin, teh Jem'Hadar escapes teh force field and knocks out Kyria out. Mentat fights him and manages to stun the agressor. K'tandha, who had gotten up with the commotion, crawls up to the Jem'Hadar and kills him with a d'k tahg in the face. The group then decides to contact the Vulcans so they can go back home. The Vulcans help them and, after using the slingshot effect, they go back to the 24th century.
Cast: Lt.JG Kyria Pressis, Lt. K'tandha and Ens. Mentat Gormund.
Note: This story uses elements from Chris Carter's X-Files TV show.

 
Last Update: 27-Apr-01