User:RachelGarrett/Foundry/Mission: The Longing

= Transcript =

Sector Space
A Federation colony is caught in the crossfire, when, in their quest for perfection, the Borg come after a rather unique life form on the planet.

Go to the Noro System, in the Gamma Orionis Sector Block, and defend the New Nagasaki Colony against the Borg.

Map Transition
We are receiving an emergency signal from the U.S.S. Mayflower, [Rank].
 * Button: Continue: The Longing

Popup Dialog
[Rank], we are in sensor range of the colony.


 * Button: Tactical report

Popup Dialog
The U.S.S. Mayflower is in orbit around the planet, and has engaged the Borg. She has taken quite a beating, but I'm not reading any Borg life signs on the surface, yet. Looks like Captain Petrelli has held her ground.

Sir, I am receiving a distress call from the Mayflower.
 * Button: On screen

Popup Dialog
This is Captain Lucia Petrelli of the Federation starship Mayflower to all allied ships in range.

We have engaged the Borg at New Nagasaki and have taken substantial damage. We are in need of assistance. Do you copy?


 * Button: Acknowledged

Contact U.S.S. Mayflower
That was the last of them. Good work, [Rank] [LastName].
 * Button: Damage report

Popup Dialog
Two of our fusion reactors were damaged during the last attack and the structural integrity field is badly compromised. We have to reduce defensive systems to 40% power or we will blow what is left of our EPS grid.

If we are lucky, we can make it to the transwarp gate on our own without a tow, but we are in no shape to confront the Borg again anytime soon.
 * Button: Why are the Borg attacking the system?

Popup Dialog
Well, there should be no reason for the Borg to come after the settlers.

But there is something else. My science officer has picked up a strong life sign down there. It appears to be a silicon-based organism. If we can read it, so can the Borg.

This must be an irresistible target for assimilation. You don't run into silicon-based life everyday, even if you rule half the galaxy.
 * Button: Acknowledged

Popup Dialog
Our sensors pick it up too, [Rank]. We should enter orbit to get a better reading.


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Enter Orbit
Sir, we have entered orbit.

Map Transition
Several of the creatures seem to be lurking at the periphery of the colony.

This is very peculiar. Two science expeditions cleared this world for colonization before the settlers arrived. But we have nothing like this on record.

We should beam down, and prepare these people for evacuation. When the Borg come to assimilate this life-form, the colonists will be in their way.

When there is time, we should try to learn more about these beings. Since prior expeditions didn't find them, they could be some kind of invaders.


 * Button: Beam down

Popup Dialog
We should try to find the mayor of the colony, Sir. He can prepare his people for transport.


 * Button: Continue

Talk with Colony Mayor
[Rank], finally Starfleet decided to give us a helping hand. If the colony is to be defended against the Borg, we need some modern weaponry.
 * Button: Mayor, I'm afraid you underestimate the Borg.

Popup Dialog
Nonsense.

Our technology is almost fifty years old now. I just need a little more 25th century firepower to teach these Borg to leave my people alone.
 * Button: We are here to evacuate the planet.

Popup Dialog
Listen to me very carefully, because I will say this only once: We will not abandon our houses, our farms, our home.

You Starfleet types may think it is a decent way of living to wander among the stars in a tin can, but we do not.

We are Federation citizens, and, as head of New Nagasaki's government, I order you to help us defend this world against the Borg. If you can't do that, take your pretty starship, and leave us alone.
 * Button: Continue

Popup Dialog
I am afraid we cannot force these people to leave the planet against their wishes, [Rank].

But, we can't protect the colony, either. Sooner or later, we may suffer the same fate as the Mayflower, or worse.
 * Button: Opinions?

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[Rank], we could try to mask the alien life signs, so the Borg might lose interest. But it's a very risky procedure, because we do not know what we are dealing with.

Our best shot would be to hide the creatures behind a subspace fold. It's not as elaborate as a real cloaking device, but we could use some of the colony's hardware to do it.

The old phase discriminators in the settlement's environmental controls could be modified to provide a decent sensor shield.


 * Button: Acknowledged

Offer Help to McGruph
Have you reconsidered your position, [Rank]?
 * Button: The Borg are after a silicon-based life form.

Popup Dialog
What? Didn't you read the expedition reports?

This rock is as ordinary as it gets. Some plants, insects and micro-organisms. Otherwise, we would not have been allowed to colonize this world.
 * Button: The life readings are clear, Mayor.

Popup Dialog
Suppose, you are correct, [Rank], what would you have us do?

Hunt these creatures down? They have a right to live here as much as anyone else does.
 * Button: I suggest we try to mask their life signs.

Popup Dialog
Maybe we speak the same language after all. Alright then, let’s try it your way.

Talk to Gilligan. He is our chief technician. Use whatever hardware you need to build your sensor shield.


 * Button: Close

Find Chief Technician
Yes, [Rank], what can I do for you?

Mayor McGruph told me you need some parts from our systems to construct something?
 * Button: We need some phase discriminators.

Popup Dialog
I'm... I'm sorry, but the phase discriminators in the environmental control system were blown during the ion storm last autumn. We do not have any spare parts left.

I have contacted Battle Group Omega to send us some replacement. Until then, we will have to deal with the forces of nature as they occur. I hope the colony will not experience any floods or heavy storms.

But I think it will not matter anyway, when the Borg come, this colony will become a footnote in history.
 * Button: Suggestions?

Popup Dialog
Sir, I do not know how this is possible, but I’m getting some very confusing readings.

My tricorder is picking up a slight subspace displacement to the west. I think there must be some sort of phase discrimination device in close proximity to these silicon creatures.


 * Button: Close

Find Source of Tricorder Reading
Reached the origin of Tricorder reading

Popup Dialog
This is a piece of the environmental control system.

My tricorder is going crazy. I'm now picking up silicon-based life signs all around us.


 * Button: Continue

Examine Control System

 * Button: Examine device

Popup Dialog
One of the silicon based life-signs has just disappeared. The phase discriminator in this unit must have been modified to project a fake signature.

But why would someone create sensor ghosts like that? We should go after the other life signs as well. I believe we will find the other parts of the environmental control system.


 * Button: Continue

Shut Down Phase Discriminators

 * Button: Shut down

Popup Dialog
Sir, I'm convinced the discriminatore were intentionally set up to lure the Borg to the colony.

We should confront Gilligan about this.


 * Button: Return to colony

Talk to Gilligan
You fool! Look what you have done!

You shut down the discriminators. Do you know, how long I have been waiting for this opportunity?
 * Button: Continue

Popup Dialog
Can you imagine the pain I went through to get those discriminators? I was fortunate that an ion storm hit the system a month after the Borg incursion into Gamma Orionis.

The colonists don't know the difference between a plasma torch and a self-sealing stem bolt. It was easy to convice them that the weather control system had been destroyed by the storm. That way, I could use the parts to fabricate bait for the Borg.
 * Button: Why did you put the colony at risk?

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I am old, [Rank], much older than you can imagine. I once had a wife, too. Her name was Astani. We lived a happy life for more than a century.

Then the Borg came and swept through El-Auria. They took her. They took everything I ever cared about.

I was so close to be assimilated, so close to be reunited with her. But you ruined it all, and I have lost her again.
 * Button: Continue

Popup Dialog
Sir, we must inform McGruph. Gilligan has put the whole colony at risk and is responsible for the Borg attack.


 * Button: Close

Report to McGruph
I don't know what to say, [Rank]. I knew Gilligan had lost his wife to the Borg when he left El-Auria, but I never realized how desperate he was.

Thank you, [Rank], we will take care of him.
 * Button: Answer incoming hail

Map Transition
Sir, we have a problem on our hands. Several Borg ships have entered the system. We need you back up here, [Rank].
 * Button: Emergency transport

Popup Dialog
[Rank] [LastName], we had to reroute your transporter signal to a location near Main Engineering. Only with the away team's firepower and experience do we stand a chance of saving the ship.

The Borg have managed to penetrate our shields and are sending over boarding parties. We need to defeat them before they can gain control over Main Engineering.


 * Button: Continue

Popup Dialog
Sir, this is Lt. Geltan, Bridge Duty Officer.

We need help up here on the double. Security is busy putting out fires elsewhere. I don't know how long we can hold the Bridge!


 * Button: Continue

Map Transition
Ready when you are!
 * Button: Take turbolift to Bridge

Popup Dialog
Sir, the Borg are everywhere!

I managed to set up a disruption field to prevent the transport of further boarding parties, but there are already too many of them for us to handle.

Quick Sir, use Tactical to beam all the Borg from the [ShipName].


 * Button: Acknowledged

Beam Borg Into Space

 * Button: Activate Transporter

Map Transition
Thank you, sir.

[Rank] [LastName], the Bridge is yours. I am ready to be relieved.
 * Button: I relieve you, Commander.

== Desperate Measures

Popup Dialog
[ShipName], do you read? Gilligan found a way to reactivate one of the phase discriminators. He projected a fake silicon reading onto himself.

The Borg have abducted him, and are now coming for the other colonists.

I was a fool. Our weapons are useless. We are prepared to abandon the colony. Please help us!


 * Button: Acknowledged

Popup Dialog
We have a transporter lock on the colonists.
 * Button: Energize

Popup Dialog
We got them, sir! Only Gilligan is missing. He must be on one of the Borg ships. The Collective will assimilate him. So he got what he wanted, after all.

Incoming Borg forces! We cannot engage warp drive in close orbit. We need to fight our way out of this!


 * Button: Battle stations

Popup Dialog
We are being hailed by the Borg ship ahead.
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Popup Dialog
I am Hastatus of Borg.
 * Button: This is...

Popup Dialog
You are [Rank] [FirstName] [LastName], of the Federation starship [ShipFullName], registry number [ShipRegistry].

Lower your shields and prepare to be assimilated. If you do not comply, we will destroy you.
 * Button: Gillian, can you hear me?

Popup Dialog
The individual known as Chief Benatan Gillian is one with the Borg.

Astani is one with the Borg. We are one.

Do not resist us!


 * Button: Close channel

Popup Dialog
Sir, there was nothing we could do to save him. He wanted to join the Collective so badly, he would have rather died than to be separated from his wife again.

More Borg ships are on their way here, I suggest we leave now.


 * Button: Close