====== Investigate the Riki-Mirkaru accident ======

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Description [wiki]       : The Veolian Commonwealth asked the jedi council for assistance with an accident in one of their research facilities. 
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Type*                  : Jedi
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Factions [ref]*          : Jedi
Locations [ref]*         : Mirda
Start Date [date]        : 2012-09-26
End Date [date]          : 2013-07-28
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Story Teller [ref::user] : Brend
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Character [ref]*: Fecta Trigiel, Nebesnogo Sveta, T'Sal
Experience: 4
Mission: 1
Reward: 
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Character [ref]*: Fecta Trigiel, Nebesnogo Sveta
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Duke Iaat Vyapar from the [[Factions~Veolian Commonwealth]] asked the jedi for help after his Riki-Mirkaru genetics research facility went down. Padawans [[Characters~Fecta Trigiel]], [[Characters~T'sal]] and [[Characters~Nebesnogo Sveta]] went to investigate and help with the problem.

===== Briefing====

After packing their stuff the padawans travel to Mirda. There they arrived at a temporarily military base near the research facility. At the same time a lightning storm was blazing over the jungle,making comminication hard at best. 

Duky Iaat Vypaar introduced them to commander Iaat Kinsara. They where overseeing the operation of capturing escaped creatures from the research centre. Two patrols have been send after they asked the jedi for help, but none have returned. The mission of the padawan is to enter the facility, find out what happened, find as much as possible personnel and return with a report. 

A Professor, Dewa Karinth, accompanied them as a guide and to retrieve some of his research data. He tells them about the facilities activities, lay-out and the research data he wants to retrieve. 

After the brieving and they made a plan of approach, they decided to use a top entrance through a landing platform to enter the facility. Via a drop-ship are the padawan and the professor brought to the location.
 

===== Exploring auxiliary lab ====

When they go to the door they see that it is blown open. After inspecting it they can conclude that is was blown up from the inside by previous patrols. In the hallway they find a dead soldier, killed by giant claws of sorts. 

The most likely place to find information is in the central security centre, but before they went there the party took a detour via an auxiliary lab trying to find more information.  

It appears that the clawed creature had been on rampage in the lab. Furnish is broken, there are two scientist lying dead and a neonatal intensive care unit is smashed. One of the scientist have a datapad with him and T'sal is able to break through the security and starts reading it contest. It appear that they were doing research towards hemetism and in the NICU was a baby chimera (subject 2-7 beta) that was scheduled to be killed.

After learning this important information, the three jedi angrily asked doctor Dewa Karinth what the meaning was of all this, who in response was getting intimidated by them and plead he knew nothing while begging for his life. The jedi explained that they were not planning to kill the doctor, but that they had the feeling of being used. They decided to continue to the security centre to see what they could find out.
===== Security room ====

In the security room the party encountered a dead female soldier who was in the middle of putting commands on a console when she was killed. With help of the doctor they learned that the facility suffered from a Level 4 Containment Breach. The single most severe containment level. 

T'sal managed to open a security file showing what happened in the auxiliary lab: It appeared that two scientists where bringing a baby to the lab, waiting to terminate it. Two soldiers, the one they encountered in the hallway and in the security lab, entered the lab ordering the scientists to leave with them. An insect like creature attacked, disabled the female soldier and killed the scientists while the male soldier was fleeing with the baby. The creature retrieved the baby from the male soldier and then left with the female soldier as well. [[https://www.fwurg.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=7172#p7172|See here]] for the full video.

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T'sal makes copies of the videos. They discussed the behaviour of the creature and concluded it probably has some sort of intelligence, but to get to know more they had to confront the creature. The opinions whether to actively search for the creature differed though. 

They viewed two other video's as well to see what happened in the facility. The second video showed how people evacuated past a security checkpoint, after which the guards were attack off screen.

The third video displayed the preparations for the baby from the first video to be terminated. Scientists put the baby in the NICU and moved it away. A little later they were attacked by something who apparently wanted its baby back. [[https://www.fwurg.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=7338#p7338|See here]] for videos two and three.

They discussed how to enter the server room to access the data for the veolian doctor and to access more data to find out what is going on in the research centre. The professor wants to stay safely in the security and operate the security controls for as far as they have access to it. Trigiel and Nebesnogo Sveta made a second sweep through the security centre to investigate whether it was really save to leave the professor. Some things seemed strange such as that the doors were not forced open, but the soldier was attacked. 

Tigiel examined the dead female soldier more closely and concluded that she might be poisoned and still be alive. T'sal and S4 also examined her, T'sal concluded the soldier was alive, the droid concluded she was dead. They decided to assume she was alive at the moment and made a stretcher from material lying around so they could take her with them. All ready and set, they went off to the Data centre.

===== Data center ====

The data centre was very large and there were huge walls of servers. Professor Dewa read the instruction he was given to find the data they were looking for. After T'sal has access she looks for the 'Enhanced Yield Rice' project data of the professor, but also subject 2-7 beta. While copying the rice data to S4, T'sal finds a abstract of the so called 'Jōten Project Proposal' while also copying files to her datapad. It appeared that the scientists tried to learn more about hemetism by combining hemet genes with other species and this way to isolate the hemet genes. 

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Red ligths start blinking and the professor told them that that the large creature is in the auxiliary laboratory and destroyed the power supply to the facility. It rerouted the power to C20 and C21. As the power is failing in the data center the security kicks in and starts deleting all files and overloading the servers and the metal housing starts to melt. In a matter of seconds the floor started to turn into a pool of molten metal, starting from the outer servers.

Trigiel immediately brought the wounded female soldier to safety by jumping over the pool and sliding under the door to the security centre. While T'sal tries to safe as much data as possible, Nebesnogo does his best to buy her time by using the force to keep the molten metal away. Despite his efforts, T'sal did not manage to make the jump and one of her legs ended in the lava. Nebesnogo had to fled from the heat while S4 rescued T'sal using his flight ability to keep the padawan from entirely falling in the pool of molten metal.

With two wounded and a professor who wanted to leave, Trigiel and Nebesnogo Sveta decided to first evacuate T'sal, the female soldier and professor Dewa Karinth before they went back in the facility towards labs C20 and C21. Back on the landing pad Trigiel used a flare to signal for a ship. Trigiel also took T'sal her datapad to use the map. The wounded and the professor where loaded on the ship leaving Trigiel and Nebesnogo Sveta behind to further investigate the matter.
===== C rooms =====
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Now that only Trigiel and Nebesnogo Sveta were left, it was time to finish their mission. In lab C21 they found rows of large glass tanks with all kinds of hybrids in them. They found two more dead scientists and one tube was broken. Upon closer inspection they discovered that something was broken free from the inside, and that this was possible due to a sabotaged power coupling. They checked the power coupling from the other pods and repaired any sabotaged ones. They also discovered that the coupling were sabotaged due to some sort of acid goo.

Both of the jedi couldn't read Veolian so there was little more to do in this lab and they went on to the next one: C20

Lab C20 was much bigger than C21. It had a walkway around and the centre contained eight giant glass spheres with multiple insect like creatures, which appeared sleeping at the moment. One sphere was broken though and there was no sign of the creatures. On the floor was some sort of nest with people in it. Five women and two children. The children had insect like features. Before they went for the immediate encounter, the two padawan walked around the lab to check for any surprises. They founded three more dead scientists. When they didn't find any real surprises, they walked towards the nest. They stopped sneaking around and use the force to make the creatures more friendly towards them.

Then a giant creature fell down from the ceiling, and it appeared ready to defend the nest. The creature looked liked  cross between a wasp and a spider. While Nebesnogo tried to get friendly with the creature, Trigiel spotted more creatures on the ceiling ready to strike. Just when the situation started to get tense, Trigiel concluded that he was a strange factor for the creatures as he looked like a droid so he walked away. This seemed to satisfy the creatures. Nebesnogo gets successfully friendly with the creature en was allowed to enter the nest.

In the nest Nebesnogo had a talk with one of the females, a soldier of one of the patrol groups. Her unit had found a hangar full of scientist. But then they were suddenly jumped by the creatures. They were knocked out and she woke up in the nest. The scientists were probably killed. In the nest where two pregnant women as well. The creatures seemed cared for these (non-scientific) people.

At the same time another creature brought a wounded soldier towards Trigiel who applied first aid to the guy. Just when the two were thinking of how to continue further, a message came in from the base camp, relayed through the dropship who waited to pick them up. Duke Iaat Vyapar and commander Kinsara were going to bombard the place within an hour.


With no time to spare, the padawan hasted back outside where they were picked up by the dropship and went back to the camp.

===== Aftermath =====
As soon the dropship was in range for communication with the base camp, Trigiel ordered to abort the bombing. When Duke Iaat Vyapar asked why, the cyborg padawan explained that there were people inside which could be saved and that the facility was not under attack. Research could be saved as well. There was one more thing but he wanted to say that in person.

The bombing was delayed for the moment to allow the padawan to explain in person the situation. Inside the command tent Trigiel quickly explained there findings in the facility. That they encountered creatures who were only taking revenge on scientists, but other wise behaved peacefully. That there was probably personnel still at the evacuation points ready to be rescued.

Commander Kinsara and Duke Iaat Vyapar concluded that the bombarding indeed could be delayed till they had a better understanding of what was going on. With their mission fulfilled Trigiel and Nebesnogo Sveta went to look for T'sal, who was put in a bacta tank to regrow her burned leg.