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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4582270" data-attributes="member: 54707">Futuristic/Sci-Fi/Mission: An Academic Exercise – (I wrote this scenario as an espionage/SAR/recovery mission for both the Artifice and Spheres of Influence games.) The identical twin brothers of Virgil and Vincenias Tueller lost their parents at age two. Their parents disappeared mysteriously in a privately funded exploration of deep space, far outside the border space of the Federation, in the Gamma Quadrant (though some believe the mission was actually directed at the Galactic Core). When the parents of the boys and their research vessel failed to reappear or make any contact with their Federation Operations Center after 8 months absence, they and their entire crew were presumed either lost, or dead. Since a family friend, an Addisite, had cared for the boys it was decided that they could both remain under the care of the alien until such time as the legal affairs could be decided. After four years unofficial custody the Addisite legally adopted the boys, without challenge, and he raised both youngsters on the Addisite homeworld, just beyond Federation influence, within the orbit of the Colonial Confederation. Both boys were raised as Addisites though both had numerous contacts and interactions with the human colonists who made up the majority of the population of the Colonial Confederation.At the age of twelve it was discovered through a routine genetic medical examination on the Addisite home world that the two boys were not identical twins at all, but rather, clones. Furthermore since cloning, except under conditions of extremis, was illegal in both the Federation and the Confederation it was decided that the background of the boys should be further investigated. It was then discovered that the human couple that had claimed to be the parents of the boys were not the genetic parents of the clones (not either one) and that furthermore the process that had been used to clone the boys was of a technique seemingly unknown to any Federation or Confederation database. It was decided to conceal this information from both children until they reached the age of maturity.The boys grew and stayed with their adoptive parents until the age of twenty-three when both enrolled in college. Vincenias eventually entered Starfleet Academy where by the age of 29 he obtained the rank of First Lieutenant in the Military/Naval Police. At the age of 32 he became a Squad Commander in the Federation’s elite Hostage Rescue Team.Virgil pursued an academic life becoming a moderately successful, though very unorthodox theoretical research physicist. By the age of 31 he had taken the Heisenberg Research Chair at the University of Kollok, in the Sirius Star System. On or about the time of his 33rd birthday Virgil disappeared. He was supposed to have met his brother and father jointly at Mars Station for a shared birthday dinner and because their adoptive father had decided meet them together to tell them both about the peculiarities of their background. Their Addisite father had brought documentation regarding the fact that their human parents were not their real genetic parents, that they were not twins, but in actuality clones, and to disclose any other available information about their mysterious past. Virgil never showed for the dinner.Three days later Vincenias was approached by Star Fleet Intelligence to ask his assistance with locating his brother, and to see if he would agree to be part of a Search and Rescue Mission. Vincenias was instructed that his brother was not just a theoretical physicist, but that he was a man of many and diverse talents. He was a covert intelligence agent, a brilliant cryptologist (well ahead of his time), had his own genetics laboratory, was an unofficial adviser to several important think-tanks, had in secret written dozens of classified scientific papers, and was also an inventor, specializing in the creation of new weapons and defensive systems. Because of his background and his numerous secret contacts throughout the Federation and with different alien species Starfleet Intelligence is most anxious to recover Virgil, and to recover him safe and unharmed. In particular Virgil had recently perfected a new form of visual apparatus (part bio-molecular machine, part nanotech, with a genetic coding sequence which acted as a computational and control program), which could be implanted within a human eye with non-invasive surgical techniques, and that allowed the human wearer to see at night as if in broad daylight. Furthermore it also allowed men to see in various ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, and even to possess both telescopic and microscopic ranges of vision. This advance gives human military forces and the Star Fleet a huge advantage over alien species, and since the technology is both new and completely secret Star Fleet Intelligence fears that someone may have surreptitiously discovered Virgil’s invention and seeks to develop a version for their own species. Then again, despite obvious appearances to the contrary, Virgil has become secretly but immensely wealthy due to his covert projects and motive could be as simple as economic extortion or theft. Vincenias has also complained of “visions” during this time in which he has seen the missing Virgil and some analysts believe the brother-clones may be in some type of long range telepathic contact with each other, even though there has been no previous reports of such capabilities between the two. To further complicate the matter the civilian Federation Intelligence Agency has reasons of their own to recover Virgil and so they are also working to find the missing man, and Star Fleet Intelligence fears that Federation Intelligence will botch the operation and endanger Virgil’s life.The mission is for the Crew of the Federation Stealth Craft the Stark, and Vincenias Tueller, to try and find out what happened to Virgil Tueller, then try to locate him, and if possible to effect a rescue and recovery. Intercepted Federation Intelligence reports hint that they suspect Virgil was kidnapped by Orion Pirates who are working for an undisclosed client who wants to extract information from their hostage. However Star Fleet Intelligence believes that Virgil may have left of his own free will and was thought to be in disguise and heading towards Kzin space for a meeting with an old Kzinti genetics expert with experience in alien genomic structures. The mission will eventually lead to encounters with the Kzin, the Romulans, the Crakken, the Academicians - an obscure scientific and religious cult, and against the Vagr.</blockquote>

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