Hello and welcome anew to you all. I have managed to bring myself back from the labyrinth of a company move that proved more grueling than I’d anticipated on my time and energy, more the latter. Apologies for it taking so long to return. I’ve posted on applicable threads and here is a sim update to keep us back on track, myself included, as well as the initial post for the Sim. Lots of moving pieces! I’ll table additions or corrections or questions ..
Gene

Captain’s Log, Supplemental.
The Wolverine has been dispatched to a system called Myst, named after the gaseous proto clouds that surround the system and the star. The Myst system is home to seven worlds, three gas giants, two twin ice worlds, a rocky lump of a world that is more like a patchwork conglomerate of metal rich pieces, and the planet Myst. Home to currently no known intelligent species but having a unique eco-system under a layer of mist or fog that rises and lowers with the daylight, almost like a tide. Within these mists are ancient ruins that follow softer stone layers of the slopes of the mountainous landscape that is prevalent over the planet’s surface. This planet too holds a wealth of rare minerals and metals.
The Myst system is outside the Federation boundary and has had on and off claims on it set by the Federation, the Romulans and two other species - the Kien and the Wis. While it holds a wealth of minerals the dust proto clouds in the system do not react well to complex alloys and slowly break it down. Ships like the Wolverine are safe, however more permanent structures are not. Federation presence has been limited to survey vessels, archaeological and science teams. This is where we come in. A month ago the science and archaeological team that was on the planet failed to check in. A follow up ship, a small science surveyor, the Pythagoras, was dispatched and has not been heard from. The Wolverine is next to determine the fate of this ship and the first planetary team, headed by a Janine Carson, who is a cousin to my first officer, Commander Erin.
The situation is complicated by an on and off again war between the Kien and the Wis, neither having shown interest in joining the Federation. Data on each are limited and neither of their homeworlds have been visited by Federation diplomats. Both the Kien and the Wis claim the Myst system as theirs. Evidence from science teams suggests they have undertaken prospecting in the system, and, in one case a report of possible grave robbing of the alien crypts far down in the mists. Evidence also suggests that there have been land battles on Myst between the two parties, however, to date, Federation teams have been left alone.
We are approaching the Myst system now. Sensors have picked up the Pythagoras orbiting Myst, but with no life signs. We have also picked up Kien and Wis ship signatures inside the system, but farther out. It may be that they are playing cat and mouse with each other amongst the clouds, planets and planetoids dotting the outer system areas.

That was the sim intro. Since then several things have happened or come up.
1. The communication array on the Pythagoras was found to be damaged. There was no life signs aboard on an initial scan, however upon beaming over to the Pythagoras they discovered a number of things.
a. The crew were gone. Only one escape pod was jettisoned.
b. Everything looked ‘normal’ but for some things that looked out of place, such as in the lounge, as though they had been examined.
c. Captain’s Logs indicated that the Vulcan Captain had beamed the crew down to the planet but for himself and the medical officer who had been tending an injured Kein they had previously rescued.
d. Some Romulan DNA was also found in the sick bay among surgical tools.
e. A Sehlat was found alive in a crate with a large data cylinder.

1. On the ship, several things were in the works.
   a. The Cylinder’s data, when plugged in had used a carrier wave communications handshake to connect remotely to the ship’s systems and downloaded its data to a holosuite. That was being checked out.
   b. A probe sent out had detected what looked to be refined metal on an planetoid. A shuttle sent out to investigate confirmed that it was a Jem’hadar ship there that was in a state of deterioration due to the nature of the corrosive nature of the system on refined metal. It was also jammed in a rift with a cavern/tunnel beyond.

2. On the planet, the shuttle landed at a point not far from the detected campsite. It was abandoned when they came to it.
   a. The subspace radio there was broken and the site looked like it had been disturbed but put together to look like it hadn’t.
   b. Two Vulcans walked up from the mists farther down. They were in enviro-suits and identified themselves as scientists whose came was theirs. They are S’kath and T’Lae.
   c. While talking with them another Vulcan appeared wearing a Starfleet uniform and Captain’s pips. He was seriously injured with a bad gash on his back. He was being treated.