The Blackout

• Real-Life Date: 17th - 20th of May 2024

• Stardate: 91372.6

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In the early hours of the morning (around 0400, to be exact) Starbase 777 received a hail from a weather monitoring system on Gamma Hromi I. They reported that they’d been hit with an ion storm that mostly fried their communications system and that the very same storm was headed for the starbase. Sensors then indicated that an inversion field was headed in from the opposite direction. The red alert klaxon only sounded for a moment before everything went dark. Androids, Liberated Borg, and those with any form of cybernetics found their technology shut down.

The backup generator kicked on a moment later, bringing emergency lights up. As the turbolifts were shut down, officers were forced to use the Jeffries tubes in order to get to their stations. Engineering and Operations set to getting power back on, Medical was tasked with keeping their Liberated Borg patients alive without their implants and nanoprobes functioning, and Command set up a functional message relay through the tubes. Science came up with a solution to reverse the functionality of the shield generators, harnessing the energy of the storm, while Engineering troubleshot the life support systems using a backup LCARS (BCARS). The remaining Liberated Borg were safely moved to the medical bay for the potential fix to be administered.

Disaster struck on the Commercial Promenade, where a restaurant was broken into during the chaos of the blackout when no security officers were immediately available, leaving an Intelligence officer and a civilian to deal with the group of three would-be burglars. It quickly escalated into a hostage situation when the Risian man grabbed hold of the Ferengi woman, threatening her life if they weren’t released. BCARS chose this time to divert power from gravity to fuel life support systems, leaving people, objects, and just about everything floating around.

The situation on the Promenade was eventually de-escalated, and the neuroflux worked as intended, stabilizing those in the medical bay. With the help of Science’s calculations, Engineering took power from life support in order to fuel the shield generators, and…  Everything went dark again. Silent. No lights blocked the view of space outside, before 777 was bathed in shades of greens, purples, and blues as the shields interacted with the storm outside. Full power was restored to the station, lives were saved, and the burglars were taken into custody.