Star Trek: Fistful of Dilithium - The Covid Nebula Campaign

It’s been just over a year since the first disastrous encounter with The Dominion’s Jem’hadar warriors, and the tragic loss of the USS Odyssey.

Admiral Rush has assigned the Artemis to Task-force Thermopylae, along with the Ares and the Hermes. We have been patrolling Alpha-Colonized systems around the Gamma Quadrant side of the Bajoran Wormhole for several months now. Two days ago, the long range sensors aboard the Hermes detected an unusual Fluidic/Subspace Convergence Anomaly inside the Covid Nebula.

The ionized trillium particles of the Nebula already make navigation challenging and sensor readings unreliable at best, add to that this Anomaly, and the Task-force was all but blind heading into the Nebula. Early survey reports show the Nebula to be unusually populated with planets and planetoids, including several Class L and Class M bodies.

None of us could have anticipated what we found at System C19. A Borg Cube.
Well, half of a Borg Cube to be precise. Initial scans show that large portions of the other half have impacted on one of the moons of C19-VI, but scanning anything in this nebula is like reading a book through peanut-butter.

Between the Nebula and the Anomaly the Transporters are all but useless, we’re prepping shuttles now to send Away Teams down to the surface. The Hermes’ Engineers and Astro-meteorologists are working on re-configuring transport pattern-enhancers to work in this forsaken mud cloud.

I’ve read the Logs of the Odyssey countless times since we entered the Gamma Quadrant. I’ve scoured over the reports, sensor readings, and the intelligence briefings. I dont mind saying that the idea of the Jem’hadar getting their hands on Borg Technology keeps me awake at night.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I am nervous about what the Away Teams will find down there, but as I look out the the window of my Ready-Room though the haze at the silent carcass of the Borg Cube, I can’t help but wonder, who else, or what else, is out there in this merciless cloud.

Captain Quinn Alexander
USS Artemis