Entombed Story

Posted on Sat Nov 14th, 2026 @ 11:22pm by Commander David Wallace & Lieutenant Commander Isabelle Veran-Dallas

Mission: Thanksgiving Dangers
Location: Hydran Colony
Timeline: ==2 hours later==

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The hardest part of the mission had gone from rescuing the crew of the Roswell to sneaking past automated defences and a sensor network that rivalled the Romulan networks of the past after that came the darker part of the mission. "We're in orbit," Alex started "No communications, planetary power grid is either offline or on an extremely low level."

"I'm tapped into one of the communication satellites, the logs put the last signal out at more that eighteen years ago." Hannah said not looking away from her console, "Some of the automated monitoring has reported us in orbit, but that's it."

"What the hell happened..." David said to no one.

“I’ve no idea, but I’m barely sensing anything from down there” Isabelle added. “It’s hard to say whether it’s just animal life, or whether they could be in a state of hibernation.”

David processed the information, "Launch a drone for atmospheric duties, let's make some passes over the outer edge of one of the population centers, I want to keep beaming down out of play for now, plot an automated flight plan Alex." he turned to Isabelle "I can see why this planet was chosen, it's on the cooler side for the Hydran, they tend to favour almost desert like conditions."

“I don’t see why they’d choose this planet if they prefer warmer conditions. Unless we’re just catching it at a cooler period in its cycle.” Isabelle added.

"The moon has a dilithium mine." Alex said putting a sensor display on the main viewer. "The drone is ready for launch."

"Launch!" David said

"Drone launch, time to mission twenty minutes." Alex called as a computer generated images showed the launch.

Isabelle relaxed back in her seat. “Let’s hope this gives us some answers.” She looked towards David.

Hannah still focused on her station she seemed almost lost in the nothing she was hearing, she changed channels repeatedly, her thoughts were starting to broadcast loudly, she snapped out of the haze of focus, "we're not going to find anyone alive..."

Isabelle gave Hannah a curious look. “What makes you say that Hannah?”

"I'm tapped deep into the Hydran communications network, there's nothing beyond some automated weather reporting, nothing." Hannah said

Isabelle nodded. “Looks like something huge has happened, let’s see what the drone finds and go from there.”

"I agree, let's confirm the situation with visual confirmations, but keep digging Hannah." he looked to Isabelle "I'm starting to have my own suspicions too, not even a hail on subspace, even from an automated system? something has happened."

“Agreed” Isabelle nodded. “I’m not sensing a thing, if they are alive I’d be feeling them by sheer number, but I’m not.”

"Drone is on approach, just based on this we're not going to find anyone alive, on screen." The helmsman said

On the main viewer was what looked like a family compound with decayed bodies laying everywhere, David manipulated the drones camera with a control in the command chair the image feed was horrible, he cut the feed. "Hannah discontinue your work for now, we'll use the Lyran escape route for security purposes, when we're able to communicate with Starfleet I'm going to declare a possible biohazard due to the bodies the way they are, that'll hopefully scare the other guys off for now."

Isabelle looked away before turning back and nodding. “Good idea, in the meantime we need to get some atmospheric readings to see if there are any toxins present in the air down there.”

"One half step ahead of you commander, the drone took samples, I've forwarded the data to medical, hopefully the doc will fill in those blanks, I did notice a distinct lack of much in the way of energy generation, there's a space port about a Kilometer away from the search area, there's signs of a failed evacuation possibly, I've noted it in the mission data." Alex said.

"Alex self destruct the drone, then break orbit, mission exit course." David said standing "I'll be in my ready room."

"Aye sir." Alex said

Isabelle watched David go before moving towards the centre seat, she could only wonder just what had happened to the Hydrans, no doubt they’d find out soon enough. “Let’s get the hell out of here.”

"Aye ma'am, coarse entered." Alex said

End