"Deserted"

The Phoenix received a communique from Commodore T’Lunvi of Starfleet Science, stating that one of the science fleet’s vessels had gone missing. Naturally, the Phoenix was sent to investigate. Upon reaching the subspace coordinates and conducting initial investigations it was determined that the science vessel Pontoon seemed to have went down upon the planet’s surface. A desert planet barely meeting M-Class requirements and charged with trinimbic turbulence, it was difficult to send a team down. A shuttlecraft was sent but experienced sudden failures and ended up crashing down upon the surface, resulting in the away team being stranded. It was soon discovered that the planet seemed to evaporate any form of metallic object as soon as the air touches it – when this ate away at the team’s commbadges it meant they had no line of communication to the ship. While the ship attempted to find a way to get back in touch with their people who had seemingly gone off the radar, the away team were forced to face carnivorous raptor-like creatures that inhabited the planet’s surface. Luckily, the Phoenix was able to modify a probe to temporarily disperse parts of the atmosphere and allow for a beam-out. Sadly there were no survivors from the Pontoon, and as a result the planet was labelled as off-limits to all Starfleet vessels. The away team were understandably traumatised by the events but were swiftly treated by Medical and, hopefully, are on the route to recovery.

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