It was three days later on their seeming milk run assignment to the Vuzavue system on the edge of Federation space. The distant border scientific outpost on a region known as the Barrens due to the area lacking any stellar residue or other normally encountered things was for all intents the hind end of the small colony types often forgotten or rarely noticed compared to bigger ones. The 600 or so colonists mostly made up of Tellarites, Humans, Denobulans and some Cardassian Refugees plus a smaller population of other Federation races was finally reached. As the Memorial dropped out of warp just beyond the system’s edge scans easily picked up more details of the system.

The main solar body was an O type star (OOC: more info here in for ooc reference, http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/O_class_star ), the blue hue cascaded over much of the system. Three main solar bodies for planets were picked up, one was a small planetoid not much bigger then the Sol system’s Pluto, and an equally as such a dead body closest to the main sun, the 2nd within the habitable area for life was Vuzavue II where the colony was located, and naturally was class M, with two moons, one was a tiny gas giant where the planet’s small scientific outpost and small single dock yard was located, and the other was an even tinier ‘moon’ in name only more like a small 2km wide asteroid made entirely of nickel and copper composites. Finally, the outer most and third planet was a slightly larger gas giant type, hued with a silver-red mix pattern and sized a bit smaller then Uranus was in the Sol system, 18 tiny asteroid ‘moons’ made mostly of iron, nickel, calcium, and granite deposits were picked up.

Tactically speaking, the science outpost was known to have minimal defenses, in this case 6 Cutlass class fighters Mark II on station for local defense, with the station carrying a Type-6 shield array and 8 Type-5 phaser banks. Housing 50 people in total it was mainly manned by a small contingent of local Starfleet officers, and the colony science staff when in use for off planet experiments. The colony itself was slightly better off with 8 Liberty class runabouts, 8 Armdillo shuttles, 10 Workbees, a Type-8 Shielding system and 10 Type-5 planetary phaser banks. Power for the colony was provided by 12 geo-thermal, 8 solar batteries, and 4 underground fusion generators.

Beyond all this nothing amiss seemed to be picked up, and indeed a few of the milling about inner system craft noted probably doing simple work or such seemed to pick them up as local planetary comms soon were hailing from the Vuzavue science outpost in orbit. One Commander McGillans was on the line.

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