USS Argama

The USS Argama simple scouting vessel. Equipped with an advanced warp drive for quick and efficient travel. It was tasked with taking readings from the Helaspont nebula. On its return trip, the vessel slowed to impulse to investigate strange sensor readings.

Upon dropping out of warp, the ship immediately experienced an extreme impact, the bridge was lost instantly. Red alert sirens were blaring, and crew were scrambling to stations. Crew members were being rushed into sickbay. Dr. McHenry was hearing chatter about what had happened through his patients who were in and out of consciousness. But none of it made any sense. Orions? Cloaking devices? He continued scrambling around with his hyposprays, desperately understaffed for the horrid conditions he was being thrown. Hails to Starfleet were unanswered, and communications were lost.

Down in engineering, feeling they were adrift and unable to contact any command staff, Lt Commander Bav Skeek diverted emergency controls to engineering and began to pull the ship back. Through the sparks and debris field, he saw the distinct shape of an Orion vessel phasing in and out of a cloaking field, ready to implode. In full emergency response mode, he shifted to full impulse while gliding his hands across the LCARS, deploying forcefields as needed. He limped what was left of his crew, and a skeleton of his former ship back to Starbase 621 and watched the Orion vessel explode in the distance.

Upon returning to Starbase 621, the leadership claimed no hails were received. Furthermore, the claims from Lt Commander Skeek, though corroborated by the doctor’s account, were deemed impossible. Their concerns were dismissed as hysteria due to the horrific nature of the ship’s damage. No weapons fire could be detected on the hull, nor trace metals from a so-called “Orion impact”. The Orion’s do not possess cloaking technology, and the computer system had been completely fried in the wreckage. No scans or monitoring views were available to be reviewed. The incident was deemed a run in with a gravimetric anomaly, corroborated by the abnormal sensor readings that caused the ship to drop out of warp. Starfleet Command ordered the surviving crew on a six-month shore leave, prescribing mandatory PTSD screening and counseling for Dr. McHenry and Chief Engineer Skeek. During this time, the ship has been rebuilt. A new bridge was installed, and an advanced medical suite – Including several EMH’s at the request of McHenry. He claimed he will never be understaffed again.

With the new upgrades, Starfleet warned that the USS Nightingale would be the number one call when a medical relief effort was needed. Noting that perhaps she could be used for quick medical evacuations due to her advanced warp drive.

Crew
Chief Engineer Sprug Bav Skeek

Dr. Arthur McHenry