The Osiris has been tasked with escorting and protecting ships from various organizations into the Graden Belt, while also conducting patrol duties in and around the region. While not specifically a science or an explorer/survey  vessel they have a caveat to their orders to locate, map and report any new subspace rifts located in or near systems that could produce Blood dilithium fields. With organizations like the Devore Imperium and the Delta Quadrants Hirogen starting to move in for their own goals it has become a tense situation, to say the least, for the crew of the Osiris. 

Upon meeting up with and escorting a transporter out of the region they crew is notified by the transporters Captain that there are reports, heard through the “grapevine”, of a recent rift opening in a system that has several class M planets and moons along with a substantial asteroid belt all good locations for the Blood Dilithium to “bloom”.

Having received updated reports from Task Force 17 and the DEI that the Devore Imperium are testing a weaponized version of Blood dilithium for use against telepathic species, due to a secondary effect of Blood Dilithium that has been reported. With this knowledge and the knowledge that this system with the reported rift is located on the outer rim of the affected area and houses a telepathic species the Osiris makes their way.