USS Ronin

The Ronin was towed to Deep Space 17, the main Federation outpost in the Ithassa region. At the small shipyards there, the ship’s power systems were shored up in a whirlwind of damage control crews and industrial replicators. Docking to the USS Gridley, a fleet tug bound for Earth, with some of the damage control teams still aboard, the Akira-class battle-carrier left her Marine compliment and her fighter wing behind and made her way to the sprawling confines of the Utopia Planetia shipyards in orbit around Mars.

Aboard the ship, the month-long journey was passed by the crew mostly in introspection over the losses of lives on the previous two missions. A production of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play was practiced and presented. A group therapy session was organized and lead by the ship’s counsellor. Progress was made with the crew, but the impact of the losses will be felt for a long time to come.

After the long anticipated wedding of Capt. Idril Mar and LtCmdr Danny Wilde, the crew of the Ronin were treated to a party whilst on leave at the Wilde Estate. The newlyweds departed for a brief trip to Whitby, England before officially going on honeymoon, but after their first night the Ronin crew were called to Whitby to help search for Capt. Mar, who had since disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

The news of the missing captain increased the crews’ resolve to find her, and as the investigation went underway, it was soon established by the crew that LtCmdr Wilde was not acting his usual self and was in various ways actually hindering the investigation. The culprit was in fact Wilde’s alternate double from the Parallel Universe encountered on DS17 in the Ithassa Region the previous year, who had switched places with his alternate self and kidnapped the Captain and LtCmdr Wilde.

~ by IdrilMar on July 2, 2008.