| The New Era
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During the ship's first mission in the Delta Quadrant, a weak emergency beacon was detected. Schofield piloted the Equilism to Menir IV at close to the ship's top speed (~ Warp 9.7) and placed her into geosynchronous orbit for the retrieval of the crashed USS Caliban. On the order of Captain, Schofield was then tasked to fly shotgun for the recovery teams due to the intimidating presence of 100 foot tall worm-like creatures. However, he was able to transport two of the three survivors to the Equilism before the recovery teams could enter the plant's atmosphere, and the creatures could attack the stranded personnel, before returning to the crash site for the last survivor. Daringly, the last survivor was beamed from the digestive tract of one of the worm-like creatures and transmitted to the Equilism in a dash to the ship before the transporter buffers wiped. All the USS Caliban members survived the rescue operation and were returned to Kemaris Station.
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| Come Out...
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Upon returning to Kemaris Station, the Equilism was tasked to explore a protostellar nebula, 4 light years from the station. For an unknown reason, the ship spontaneously crossed an event horizon or similar gravitational boundary, causing it to 'fall' towards the centre of the nebula. Schofield attempted to break out of this field, but the ship's impulse drives lacked the necessary thrust to do so. An escape course was plotted, but the ship was further drawn into nebula, which sensors revealed to be a subspace sinkhole. Moments before performing an axial turn to land on the boundary of the sinkhole, the sinkhole deactivated and Schofield continued on an escape course from the nebula. As the CO excused himself, Jethro took command of the bridge for the first time.
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