Meeting Marissa
Commodore Stone replies, "That is the point of doing this briefing, Lieutenant—to bring everyone up to speed on what we know. Thanks to Lieutenants Kurasa and Dul, along with their teams, of which Lieutenant Merawdr was an integral part, we have made contact with a race of androids or as they call themselves, replicants, called the Kapecki who were previously deemed a hostile force but who were apparently being externally controlled by a species called the Finori who are confirmed as a hostile force. You've all previously been briefed on the general aspects of the Dyson Sphere and a general précis is in your briefing materials." Lieutenant Adler passes PADDs to everyone.
Stone continues, "This is the latest information we have. It duplicates some of the materials previously available. It includes general information on the Kapecki and the Finori, deck plans for the structures designated Gamma Stations and a review of the Klingon settlement known as BortaS City. Ambassador Worf is currently at Dyson Base meeting with Klingon emissary Klaang on that subject and a Klingon geneticist, Dr. Keh'lef will be stationed at Freeman's Island to oversee the scientific end of what is now being called the BortaS Project." He pauses to take a sip of ice water. "On the subject of the Kapecki, our current attitude is to regard them as neutrals rather than either allies or enemies. Back in old Earth's 20th century Cold War, they had a saying—"Trust but verify". We will be working hand-in-glove of some projects with them to explore certain areas of the Sphere such as the Museum of Flight and the Museum of Life. On the other hand are the Finori—we've had several encounters with them and they are most definitely hostile. Kapecki under their control attacked Freeman's Island. We've been informed that the Kapecki have recovered all their personnel from Finori control but as these 'replicants' are synthetic in nature, we don't know but that the Finori are capable of creating their own. If so, we need to find out and find a way to detect them. As the Kapecki replicants are biosynthetic androids, they read as living beings, do the Kapecki Chief Researcher R Daneel and Security Chief R Thera will be working with our Science personnel to create algorithms whereby out tricorders will be able to discriminate between them and true biological beings. We have five Kapecki bodies in stasis which were used by the Finori to infiltrate Starbase 21. Three ore completely fused and seeming useless, but two are merely deactivated and are being studied intensively by Starfleet at a classified facility. We do know that the Kapecki are immune to stun setting on phasers but that they are susceptible to lethal settings. Finori, on the other hand, are vulnerable to the same settings as any other humanoid. They are warm-blooded oviparous pseudo-reptilian humanoids at least as intelligent as Humans. The creator of the Sphere, Yaskoydray the Grandfather, is of the parent species to the Finori, but is immensely old and has the technology to create entire bubble universes. He has a proégé named Möbius, a Human from the late 22nd century named Edward R. Morbius who he 'ascended' to an energy-based lifeform like himself. The Finori active in the Sphere are a splinter group who call themselves the 'Sons of the Grandfather' and are apparently in revolt against the Grandfather to take over his domains, which include the Dyson Sphere. They are also active in a series of bubble universes known as the 'String of Pearls', of which we know nothing other than the name.
"The Dyson Sphere is an experimental laboratory created approximately a million years ago by sucking matter from another universe through tame artificial wormholes to forn the carbon-neutronium outer shell around the star we designate Dyson, a class G5V variable star, a yellow dwarf a tad smaller and slightly cooler than Sol. It is home to an ongoing series of 'experiments' many of which involve sapient humanoid life forms. These 'experiments' seem to be purely observational, at least on Yaskoydray's behalf. The Finori appear to be more intrusive and the recently explored Gamma Two Station was involved in psionics research. There appear to be many, many life forms living in the Sphere, some planted there by the Grandfather and some, like the Klingons, having made their way into the Sphere on their own more recently.
"Due to this recent contact with the Kapecki, the Federation has gained limited access to the Sphere's control computer—not enough control to interfere with the Sphere's base operations, but enough to request information and to access various areas."
