Contagion/Faction Missions

Contagion: Augments

Mission Name	1st Crew	2nd Crew	3rd Crew	4th Crew	Mission Text	Success	Failed
A Different Collective	AND	AND			The Augments believe the nanite civilization of Kavis Alpha IV might have insights about counteracting this new strain of Borg nanoprobes. First, however, someone will have to plead their case to the nanites.	The away team argues that the strain of nanoprobes the Augments are fighting could one day threaten the nanites' own civilization as well. The argument sinks in, and the nanites agree to help develop a treatment.	When the away team explains that the Augments are trying to destroy nanoprobes, the nanite civilization becomes convinced that the Augments will come after their own species next and drives the away team off of their planet.
A Matter of Scale	AND	AND	AND		An Augment scientist wants to study the new nanoprobes up close...at their own size. She wants a team to help her generate a subspace compression anomaly and shrink her down to the appropriate size.	Finding a subspace compression anomaly is easy, but adjusting the compression ratio is harder. The Augment scientist grows and shrinks several sizes until the away team gets her just the right height to take an up-close look at some nanoprobes.	The away team is able to generate a subspace compression anomaly, but they can only shrink the Augment scientist down to the size of a fly, not the microscopic level she wants to study the nanoprobes.
Artificial Selection	AND	AND	AND		One of Khan's comrades from the SS Botany Bay is proclaiming that the Borg-infected children are the next stage in Augment evolution. If he cannot be silenced, several Augment parents may answer him with violence.	Although the 20th century Augment holds fast to his views that the Borg infection is a good thing, the away team convinces him that spreading such views only puts himself and his community's morale in danger.	The away team finds the Augment speaker surrounded by an angry crowd. They cannot reach him before the mob begins throwing stones, infuriated by his claims that the assimilation of their children is a boon rather than a curse.
Competing Forces		AND	AND		Augment doctors have developed a virus to target Borg nanoprobes, but the nanoprobes in their infected children are replicating faster than the virus can destroy them. They need some way to give the virus an edge.	Inspired by the macrovirus once encountered by the USS Voyager, the away team gives the Augment virus a small dose of growth hormone. It grows fast enough to stand a chance against the nanoprobes it is combating.	The away team overestimates how much growth hormone they can safely give the Augment virus. Before long, they have an escaped macrovirus to try to contain, along with the still-developing Borg infants.
Darkest Fears	OR		OR	OR	An adult Augment man has reported heart palpitations and blanched skin. Afraid that he's turning into a Borg drone like the infected children, he is desperate for a medical diagnosis.	After calming their Augment patient down, the away team diagnoses him with a rare strain of Rugalan fever, and they even run a test to prove it. Reassured that he's not becoming a drone, the patient begins to recover.	The away team is stumped by the Augment man's symptoms, which are steadily growing worse. They can't confirm that he's becoming a drone, but they can't disprove it, either. The patient continues to fear the worst.
Deadly Emissions	AND	AND	AND		Omicron radiation can destroy nanoprobes, but most species cannot survive the amount of radiation this requires. Find a way to adapt this into a non-fatal treatment for the Augment children.	The away team develops a compound which, when ingested, shields ordinary tissue from omicron radiation while leaving artificial nanoprobes vulnerable. The Augments get to work testing this new treatment.	The away team tries targeting nanoprobes with lower doses of omicron radiation. Though safe for the patient's body, the radiation is too weak to make any noticeable impact on the nanoprobe infestion (sic).
Extraction	AND	AND	AND		Borg implants are deeply embedded in the skin of the infected infants, too deeply for Augment doctors to remove. The Vidiians, experts in both grafts and tissue removal, may be able to help if you can pay their price.	The away team makes a mutally beneficial deal between the Vidiians and the Augments: Vidiian access to Augment gene therapies in exchange for their help removing Borg implants from infected Augment children.	Intrigued by Augment physiology, the Vidiians demand tissue samples from every member of the colony in exchange for their help treating the infants. The offended Augments refuse to pay such an intimate price.
Family Ties		OR	OR	OR	The Brunali may lead agrarian lives, but Icheb is proof of their genetic engineering expertise. Not ready to see his parents again, he needs someone to contact them in his stead and ask for help treating the Augments.	Icheb's father is reluctant at first, but the away team explains that treating the Augment children will give the Brunali a chance to cure their own people who are assimilated in the future. He agrees to share some of their genetics knowledge.	Icheb's mother is moved by the away team's pleas for help, but his father insists that helping the Augments will only make the Brunali more of a target for the Borg. The away team must break the news to a disheartened Icheb.
His Brothers' Keeper	AND		AND	AND	Many of Raakin's Augment "siblings" are still cryogenically frozen embryos, but he worries that they could be infected, too. He wants some way to test them for nanoprobes without bringing them out of stasis.	After several tries, the away team develops a method of extracting small samples from the frozen embryos containment units. It's not much, but it's enough to confirm that there are no nanoprobes frozen in there along with Raakin's siblings.	Extracting samples or getting accurate readings from frozen tissue is no easy task. The away team's readings are inconclusive, and Raakin still worries that his embryonic "siblings" could one day awaken as Borg.
House Call		AND		AND	An Augment couple took their Borg-infected newborn home, unwilling to leave their child in quarantine. Find a way past the force field that has appeared around their home and rescue both the parents and their child.	The away team cuts off power to the Augment parents' house, disabling its protective force field. They find the parents uncounscious but unharmed. The infant, whose automated Borg defenses set up the force field, is returned to a medical facility.	The away team's attempts to bypass the force field around the house lead nowhere. Based on how the field regenerates, they believe the infected child's Borg implants are somehow creating it.
I Was Like You	AND	AND	AND		The Borg-infected infants are developing so rapidly that the oldest might be capable of speech. Mezoti, a former Borg child herself, has offered to try to speak with them, but she could use an away team's support.	The away team helps ground Mezoti in reality when her memories of life in the Collective become overwhelming. With their help, she manages to speak to one of the infected children and learn more about their symptoms.	The sight of the infected Augment children proves too much for Mezoti, who begins having vivid flashbacks of her own time as a drone. Unable to bring her back to reality, the away team ushers her out of the medical facility.
Methods of Transmission			AND	OR	The Augments have requested your help searching the Mutara sector for any signs of Borg passage they may have missed. They're still struggling to explain the sudden outbreak among their newborn children.	Hours of fine-tuning the ship's sensors pay off when the away team detects a faint transwarp signature in the Mutara sector. Its trajectory leads them to the wreckage of a Borg probe on Regula I, a possible source of the recent outbreak.	The away team picks up no transwarp signatures anywhere in the Mutara sector, and their scans of the affected settlements do not reveal any hidden Borg technology. The infection's source remains a mystery.
One After Another	OR		OR	OR	An Augment doctor extracted a sample of nanoprobes from a colonist, but once isolated the nanoprobes began trying to replicate themselves. Shut down their replication protocols so it is safe to study them.	Unable to access the nanoprobes' programming, the away team mixes up a dense solution that renders the nanoprobes immobile. Now that they can't replicate uncontrollably, Augment scientists can study them.	Trying to find the off switch on something as microscopic as a nanoprobe is even worse than searching for a needle in a nebula. The away team has no choice but to destroy the extracted nanoprobes before they replicate too many of themselves.
Personal Space		AND	AND		Having been on the run from non-Augments most of their lives, Arik Soong's Augments are refusing to submit to medical exams, unless an away team can convince them otherwise.	The away team pleads with Soong's Augments to think of the peril their youngest "siblings" are in. They finally submit to medical testing in order to help find a cure for the Borg-infected children.	When the away team demands that Soong's Augments submit to medical testing, they only become angrier and angrier. Not even their father can make them agree to what they consider invasive procedures.
Pointing Fingers	AND	AND			Khan Noonien Singh has declared that this infection is not Borg work at all, but a Starfleet attempt to wipe his people out. It will take a bold and persuasive team to convince him otherwise, and to leave unscathed.	Not wanting to underestimate their audience, the away team gives a detailed presentation on the nanoprobe infection. Khan absorbs every word, and afterwards, he retracts his accusation that Starfleet rather than the Borg caused this affliction.	The away team's short, simplistic briefing comes across as suspicious to Khan. He blames Starfleet for the infection of the Augment children and demands that all outsiders leave Augment space at once.
The Aging Process	AND	AND		AND	An infected Augment child's implant has attached itself to a nearby storage unit, slowly transforming it into a maturation chamber. Remove the chamber before it can begin turning the children into adult drones.	Steady hands and a thorough study of Borg technology allow the away team to decouple the new maturation chamber from the child whose implant produced it. With the chamber removed, the children are no longer at risk of becoming adult drones.	The away team cannot decouple the maturation chamber without harming the child whose implant produced it. The chamber will soon be large enough to envelop several of the infected children, accelerating their development into adult drones.
The Turning Point		AND	OR		With no solid evidence of how the Augments were originally infected, it has also been impossible to guess when the infection happened. An analysis of nanoprobe proliferation might offer a rough timeline.	Population fluctuations among a mass of nanoprobes are subtle, but the away team slowly finds a pattern among them. Their data suggests the infection originally happened about a week before the birth of the first infected child.	There are so many nanoprobes infecting every Augment that the away team can't detect any significant changes in their population, let alone guess when the infection could have originally began.
The Way Back		AND		AND	Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome once de-evolved the crew of the Enterprise. It's risky, but the Augments believe a similar gene-targeting strategy could reverse the Borg's modifications to their infected children.	With Doctor Crusher's notes to guide them, the away team reactivates genes that Borg nanoprobes had inactivated. This doesn't restore the children to their old selves, but it does slow their development into adult drones.	The away team studies Doctor Crusher's reports of Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome, but their holodeck simulation of targeting Borg-modified genes in an Augment child turns the holographic child into an amphibian.
Untouched			AND	AND	A distant Augment settlement is the only one not showing any known signs of Borg infection. Have a properly decontaminated away team help them establish quarantine and isolation protocols to protect their people.	The settlers are reluctant to let the away team in at first, but they appreciate the help establishing decontamination and quarantine protocols to keep their families safe. They are still reporting zero cases of Borg infection.	The away team must have been contaminated with nanoprobes, because the day after their arrival a pregnant Augment woman gives birth to a Borg-implanted baby. The whole settlement is in a panic.
Visiting Hours	OR		OR		Every Augment parent with an infected child is anxiously awaiting updates. A one-way feed to let them see their quarantined children would be reassuring, if you can protect it from nanoprobe infiltration.	The away team's combination of rotating frequency shields and encryption algorithms keep their recording device in the medical facility running smoothly. Now the Augment parents can keep an eye on their children until a cure is found.	The away team shields the recording device they plant in the medical facility as best they can, but its signal stops within the hour. When the team investigates, they find it has been overrun with nanoprobes.

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