As they scanned Thalor V, they came across some interesting lifeforms in the scans that weren’t in the database. To find out what they decided,  held a meeting of officers. After the meeting with the officers, Simon decided to call upon his cetacean ops officer again to go down to the surface and see about the IKS Azetbur and their crew. Simon walked to cetacean ops and ordered Stu to get ready for another away mission. “Prepare for anything,” Simon said.

“Anything? Sir. I there are still people alive on the Azetbur. We need to rescue them, sir.” Stu replied indignantly.

“Stu, when you get down there make sure to take scans in all lighting and examine the Azetbur for anything out of the ordinary, not battle-related. We need to find more information on the wildlife down there, including any predators. So be brave and keep in constant contact.” Simon said.

‘Be brave? We know the ship is there, and we have signs that there are people inside, alive still. Why aren’t we finding a way to beam them up? Instead of beaming me back into danger?’ Stu thought to himself.

“Yes, sir. Should I try to make contact with anyone still alive on the ship?” He asked the Captain.

“Yes, make contact, then we begin the rescue operation afterwards.” Simon said to Stu.

“Understood, sir.” The Narwhal officer replied.

Simon exited cetacean ops and headed for the bridge.

Aurora was already on the bridge when Simon arrived. 2B scanned a good beam in the location for Stu and then contacted Stu. “Stu, prepare for beam out.”

Stu beamed out and was put near Azetbur. Azebur was looking like the ship might crumble under the pressure if it fell off the upside-down ice cliff, its nose was just barely hanging on.  When Stu arrived, he started looking for the crew of Azetbur, which was flooded and had a hole from which something had taken a big bite out of it.  Stu knew he had no time to dawdle and started looking for the crew. Then, in the corner of his vision, Stu saw it a huge 6 eyed eel just swimming around.  Stu hurried into the rear section of the ship that already had a hole in it.

He swam around for a couple of minutes to get his bearings, trying to move forward/up whilst inside the flooded and debris-strewn interior of the Azetbur. Eventually, he found a crewmember dead from drowning, then found a few more purple faces of drowned corpses of Klingons. At the same time in the dark Stu found a small light and swam up to it. Stu saw only 3 surviving crew members left in the deep icy depths of the dark abyss ocean due. He used his flashlight to and noticed the flickering display showed that they were in the for most section of the ship.

Stu contacted the bridge of the Bakersfield and told him he found 3 surviving members of Azetbur crew. Then Stu heard a slight noise and the Klingons were ready to fire at anything but nothing came. It seemed the ship was dying and would sink and be crushed soon. Stu contacted the Bakersfield and said “Stu to Bakersfield 4 to beam up. Lock onto my comm badge beam us all up.” Stu was beamed back to cetacean ops and the Klingons were beamed to sick bay with their weapons disarmed within a few seconds.

((An hour later))

2B was just finishing scanning the planet; it’s atmosphere. It was a class M planet that was uninhabited by known races but inhabited by creatures of unknown origin on the planet. On the planet, she had noted that ice was everywhere, even 2 miles thick in some areas. The planet would be a hellhole to crash on but survivable if your ship hit a thick part of the ice. There were some ice mountains, and the temperature never rose above -20 Celsius at the highest.

“Simon, this planet is very interesting. Lifeforms are abundant in the dark ocean, and some are larger than our ship. Found them in the deepest part thanks to our lowest orbit we can achieve.”

Simon went to 2B and stared at the screen while she explained it. She explained that while she can not know every lifeform on the planet she has found predators and non-predators in the ocean. “So where do the Klingons fit into this,” Simon asked. 

“They must have explored the planet and were beseeched by someone who we can’t find out who attacked because we have focused sensors on the planet, leaving us blind.” 2B said. Simon pondered the outcome of the sensor display.

((Ten minutes later))

Simon then asked Sam to move to a higher orbit so they could dissect the sensor readings. ” Simon to sickbay, how is our Klingon survivors doing?”

“Five here, not good, they are on the surgery beds getting ready to get their broken ribs back into place, not to mention hypothermia from their time on the planet,” said Five to Simon on the bridge from sick bay. Klingons started to get a little restless in sick bay as Five was repairing, where they didn’t recognize the ship’s name.