Aldea Prime Anthology

After the Battle of the Apertures, where the USS Theurgy stopped the Borg Invasion and the plans of the Infested, High Chancellor Martok arranged safe port for the Theurgy at Aldea. With the Theurgy in drydock for repairs in the Aldea Prime Shipyards, the weary crew was able to breathe at last, no longer persecuted, and with the Klingon Empire as their new ally. Martok also ordered the knowledge of the Theurgy´s whereabouts to be classified. It was a time for healing, and to find strength, while Thea was restored for the continuation of the mission. After having decrypted the real Simulcast, the Head of Covert Operations in Starfleet Intelligence offered to aid the Theurgy in a message delivered to Captain Ives. The message from Admiral Andersson was brought by a new crewmember, and it was played for the Senior Staff. Instead of sending a reply to Rear Admiral Andersson immediately, unwilling to give up the coordinates of the ship on a whim, Captain Ives decided to speak with the man directly through a subspace buoy. The Allegiant was launched, and successful contact was made with Admiral Anderson, which was the beginning of a cooperation between the Theurgy and the Admiral. A cooperation which would yield both intel and new trusted officers travelling to Aldea to replenish the ranks of the Theurgy. In Captain Ives' absence from the Theurgy, Nicander was interrogated by Commander Ducote and other officers in Medical and Science. Nicander was convinced to discern whether or not there were other Infested aboard or in the vicinity of the ship, and a means through which to screen for the parasites was found through an anyonic phase variance. Both the transporter systems as well as the airlocks of the Theurgy are fitted with anyonic emitters to keep the Infested from stepping aboard the ship. In the interest to utilise Heather McMillan´s diminished abilities as a Radiant, a project was launched to mimic her transphasic luminescence by artificial means. With Nicander being the example of its utility, the luminescence had been found to sever the connection between the host body and that of the parasite. The parasite remained, but the host retained control of their body and mind. The project was successful, and a transphasic light cannon is mounted outside of Nicander's holding cell, so that if the Doctor aided the mission by using his Farsight ability - being able to see through the eyes of other Infested - and his mind would be overtaken by the parasite anew, the cannon could be used again to sever the connection between the Nameless Darkness and the host. This way, the Doctor could aid the mission with his ability and still retain his sanity. On the tenth day of the repairs, the first recruits that Admiral Anderson recruited for the Theurgy´s benefit arrived to Aldea. The next day, Carrigan Trent was murdered, and the perpetrator, a Lt JG Brett Hansen, was arrested. The man had lost his pregnant wife aboard the USS Dauntless after Trent gave the order to fire upon the ship in the Azure Nebula, almost two weeks prior. Later, whilst investigating a strange sensor reading, an away team encountered the Savi outside the city Aldea Prime. They were lured there for the sake of opening negotiations without alerting the Aldean authorities about the Savi's existence. During the event, the unexpectedly alive Echtand qi Versant sought to cooperate with the Theurgy on its mission to end the threat of the Infested. The Voice survived via the means of having made a duplicate of himself before he died, and the copy made from the second containment beam was given the medical treatment he needed after the events in the Azure Nebula had unfolded. In exchange for intel uniquely sourced from Doctor Nicander's Farsight ability, granting the Savi rebels the means to learn what the Scion High Council planned during their civil war, the Voice offered technology that might aid the Theurgy. Most prominently in the form of a Quantum Slipstream Drive, which with the power output of the Theurgy´s warp core would allow the ship to travel 60 LY at a time, with one day of cooldown in-between each use. Moreover, a delegation of Savi engineers came to serve aboard the Theurgy, to aid in the installation. Unaware of the presence of a Savi dreadnought in orbit of Aldea - namely the Erudite - First Appointee Radue of the Aldean Defence Committee, leader of the Aldeans, invited the Theurgy crew to a closed off, seaside dress party down on Aldea. The futuristic and luxurious palace was guarded by Klingons to keep out any unwanted guests that didn't have the security clearance to know the true identities of the Theurgy crew. The occasion celebrated is how the Aldeans managed to isolate the bug in the Gestalt Program with the help of the Theurgy crew. Eventually, High Chancellor Martok arrived at Aldea withthe IKS Vor'nak and the IKS ChunDab, having travelled all the way from the Azure Nebula, or what was left of it.