Episode 12: "In the middle of nowhere"

The Gibraltar was still in orbit of Nedra, a Klingon moon close to the Federation/Klingon border. Less than 24 hours ago, the crew had already beamed down, and found out that Nedra had been attacked: its population either killed or escaped, its buildings in ruins. New sensor scans showed an underground city though. . . perhaps there, new information could be found on *who* attacked the planet.

Just as the crew was ready to beam down, an unexpected guest appeared via a temporal rift: this could only mean one person. Auer. Colonel Auer was an old aquintance of the Gibraltar crew. . . of Lt. Heron especially, even though Captain McMillan didn't quite know all of the history between the two. He made it a point to find out though... later. Now, under observation of Colonel Auer or not, he felt it was time to beam down to Nedra once again... in order to get some answers.

Their beaming down raised more questions than answers. Where less than 24 hours ago there was a destroyed city, there now was... absolutely nothing. For as far as the eye could see, there was emptiness. A sandy wasteland. No buildings, no ruins, no underground city. Nothing.

In the distance though, there was a shimmer of... something. Could it be a building? The Gibraltar crew started walking through the wasteland, all the time wondering what could have happened to this planet.

What they found was almost impossible. A small house, surrounded by water, protected by a forcefield... in the middle of this wasteland. How could this be? Q? A natural development? Did the weapons of the attack cause this? Or was it perhaps an entity similar to the chrystaline entity discovered by the Enterprise-D so many years ago?

After returning to the Gibraltar, the latter was seen as the best option. This could very well be a new lifeform! But one with an appitite for planets... and what about the attack on Nedra, before the Gibraltar got there? Could whoever attacked Nedra, work together with that lifeform? The possibilities were endless... and terrifying.

The Gibraltar sent all the information they had to both Starfleet Science and the Klingon High Command, before leaving the area again. Perhaps though... they'd come back here, one day...