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USS Polaris - USS Ingenuity - USS Kennedy

S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

Scarred by recent events, but beneath the soil, an even greater sickness awaits...

Mission Description

Aboard the USS Kennedy, Ambassador Drake sets out on a diplomatic tour of several worlds within the Meronia Cluster. When they arrive at Leipa IV, an agrarian colony regarded as a breadbasket of the sector, he encounters skepticism from the colonial leadership, both pent up from decades of neglect and driven more recently from the sense of abandonment when the Vaadwaur arrived.

While the command staff attempt to repair damaged bridges with the colonial leadership, a pair of young officers take a walk through the fields. What they find beneath the soil is something far more concerning, and members of the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity are called in to assist.

About the Mission

Status
Complete
Total Stories
11
Start Date
01/09/2402
End Date
06/10/2402

19 October 2025

We Were Here

USS Polaris: S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

“She breathes again,” Captain Cora Lee offered as they stood together at the front of the Kennedy‘s bridge, looking at the planet below. The blight was in full remission, and the planet’s natural ecology was well on its way to recovery. “And they live again too,” [...]

18 October 2025

Inoculation of Belief

USS Polaris: S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

As they crossed the plaza, a shuttle flew overhead, one of a half dozen tracing wide arcs over Lepia IV on a mission to disburse the payload that would free this world from its blight. The irony was not lost on Ambassador Drake that the solution had not come from futuretech and technobabble, but [...]

18 October 2025

Dynamics of Survival

USS Polaris: S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

Their world would die. That’s how Ensign Lunaire had put it. A bit melodramatic for his tastes, but not wholly inaccurate. Slumped at his desk, Dr. Karl Verhoeven stared blankly at his terminal. There had to be a way. There always was. But how? And then it dawned on him.  There was something [...]

17 October 2025

Limits of Remedy

USS Polaris: S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

“We certainly cooked it,” Lieutenant Josh Brunell grumbled as brittle stalks crunched beneath his boots. “Too bad the crops went with it.” Just like the other four test plots, by the time the soil reached temperatures high enough to kill the mycopathogen, the natural flora [...]

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