The Yorktown arrives in Sector 5591 to begin its first assignment; for the past year or so, the farming collective of Dacaris IV has been afflicted by a mysterious blight, which has all but wiped out domestic crops and forced its citizens to turn to government aid- which, in and of itself, has been tricky as a result of the intense political fallout stemming from the Civil War. As the first organization in a long time to be in a stable enough economic state to render aid, the crew of the Yorktown is obligated to help out in whatever way they can. To that end, an away team is beamed down to the surface, where they are quick to identify the source of the blight as a toxic black ooze bubbling up through the soil. Questions arise as to how exactly this mysterious ooze was introduced into the planet’s ecosystem, along with the practicality of removing it from the ecosystem again. The solution may lie in an abandoned space station on Dacaris IV’s moon, which has laid derelict for the better part of two decades…