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* Six days after departing the Mahéwa System and successfully gathering supplies from Nimbus III, on the 13th of February - Stardate 57489.45 - the ''[[USS Theurgy|Theurgy]]'' was visited by an omnipotent alien entity. It was only through divine intervention – literally – that the crew could continue their mission.

* During the time that this entity visited the ship and cast things into chaos, it became evident that it might have been a figure that shaped mankind's early history, not to mention many other early cultures in the galaxy. To various extents, the entity was once the figurehead of all religious beliefs pertaining to love, sexuality, and war. It was known by many names, yet on Earth, she was most popularly known as [[Ishtar]], Inanna, Aphroditie, Venus, or Freya.

* The alien life-form was attracted to the elevated pheromone-levels that the collective crew had emanated during the [[Niga|Niga Incident]]. It had made its way aboard the ship, expecting the same levels to await her. However, with the outbreak ended and the crew cured from the [[Niga]] virus, [[Ishtar]] was disappointed and tried to coerce the crew to once again enjoy carnal celebrations. [[Ishtar]] started to subject the crew to harbour feelings towards others, and also forced the crew to interact in ways and in places that would lead to increased pheromone levels. She did this to keep her new home hospitable, and to gain the energy she needed in order to break free of the prison in her own dimension. 

* When the [[Ishtar]] Entity was forced to reveal herself, the present crew on the Main Bridge was taken to the entity's prison. Trying to force her visitors to empower her directly, her endeavours were noticed by her captors. These aliens released the crew of the ''[[USS Theurgy|Theurgy]]'' after sending the [[Ishtar]] Entity into a deeper and more remote realm of existence. 

* After having been returned to their own time and place, the effects of the [[Ishtar]] Entity’s actions on the ship was nullified, since they were all returned to a point of time before she began to toy with the crew. Still, the crew was allowed to remember what transpired while they had suffered the attentions of the visitor. After being returned to their ship in this fashion, [[Captain Jien Ives|Ives]] called for a Senior Staff meeting for the evening the next day. Before this meeting, the crew was given time to reflect upon what happened to them, and to come to terms with certain revelations about themselves and their religious views.

* While some had a crisis of faith, others found solace in the fact that the entities they encountered once started out as themselves were – travelling space in search for the meaning of life.
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