USS Ronin

Congratulations to the following crew on their promotions:

• Benjamin J. Walker to Full Commander
• Nek Illium to Lieutenant JG

Following the beacon’s signal, the Captain and her team were contacted by a pirate captain and escorted into a small station. The pirate used the Ronin’s officers as an excuse to board the station in order to exact revenge on its owner by blowing him and the station to bits. While the Captain’s team and various pirates were escaping, a relative of one of the Ronin’s crewmembers turned up and asked for assylum from the pirates.

Back on the battlefield, Lt. Commander Walker and the rest of the crew exposed the evil scheme of the unidentified hostile aliens and explained the situation to the Gorn, thus resolving the conflict peacefully. Once the Captain’s team returned to the ship, the Ronin was called away to Wheeler Colony, where the USS Independence and USS Ursa Major awaited. After a night of awards, promotions, and celebrations, the three ships are back to inverstigating the highly unstable situation on the surface.

A hearty congratulations to all those whose hard work and dedication in 2384 earned them awards this January:

• Captain Idril Mar received the James T. Kirk Cross
• Lieutenant Commander Maria received the Nebula Bar.
• Lieutenant Commander Walker received the Kalendra Award.
• Lieutenant Commander Wilde received the Sheathed Sword.
• Lieutenant Adair-Walker received the B-Plot Award.
• Lieutenant Brice received the Order of Starfleet Merit and Achievement, First Class.
• Lieutenant Kolk received the Neelix Award.
• Lieutenant Thelev recieved the Purple Star.
• Lieutenant Junior Grade Parker received the Order of Starfleet Merit and
  Achievement, Second Class.
• Lieutenant Junior Grade Rogers recieved the Barclay Bead.

Congratulations to the following crew on their promotions:

• Karynn Ehlanii to Lieutenant JG
• Jack Shepard to Lieutenant JG

The USS Ronin, on a routine examination of monitoring buoys along the Gorn treaty line, ran into two issues: A distress beacon on low power, and a FTU convoy under attack by Gorn.

The Captain split the crew, taking four crewmembers with her to investigate the beacon, thought to be a trap. One of the crewmembers, Lt.Cmdr Amber Wilde, a claustrophobe, “freaked out,” doing an active scan. The small group shut down the sensors on the runabout to hopefully avoid detection.

Meanwhile the First Officer and majority of crew met the convoy. Initially a ceasefire was drawn by the Ronin’s superior firepower. As the crew works to come to some peaceful, or at least non-violent, solution, another alien race has been detected, and is suspected of instigating the FTU and Gorn into a war. The crew is now working to prove that there was a setup, while preparing a nice diplomatic dinner with the Gorn captain.