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The Amandora finds a large freighter adrift, after scanning it we find the engines are offline, coms are down and there is eveidence of an attack. Repair crews, medical and a few marines are sent over to assist the freighter crew getting things back online. The freighter is a large one and is Federation registered, it’s a private frighter. We find life forms aboard, the repair crews return to the Amandora just as Syndicate ships show up to lay claim to the vessel. They fly in squads of three. Two come in and attack Amandora, causing the ship to have to move away to maneuver and fight back. The third buccaneer grabs the freighter in a tractor beam and whisks it away, with the other two breaking off and warping out as soon as the freighter is gone.
Unknown to us at the time our repair crews return to the ship they are not alone. They beam back with microscopic 'bugs' are carried back with us on our clothing. The transporter can't detect them with its anti-contagion scan, so the little nanite-sized buggers end up falling to the carpet as we move around our own ship. Infection has begun. They can't be seen easily with the naked eye when they are alone and exploring, or only a few. But, when they gather together for 'work' they are like ants. They swarm and then you can see the pile of them like a powder that colorshifts from black to dark purple to dark orange. However the light hits their shells it refracts and swirls with color changes. It will give everyone a chance to come up with ideas for how to detect them with scans and how to destroy them if we can't capture them. It's all internal aboard ship, so anyone can get involved, even civilian characters. We’ll end up getting bitten by the bugs leaving marks that resemble mosquito bites and they itch.
The bugs are non aggressive unless provoked as they perceive it. If we try to harm them violently and aggressively they will respond in kind, just like ants. They breed by breaking down resources (everything the ship is made of) and building more of their kind. There are Leaders among them but no central BIG one. The hive Leaders communicate with each other and mitigate which resources they are after. They are semi-intelligent but can learn more. We can say they even look like the Egyptian scarab beetle when seen under a microscope.
How do we get rid of them and find the freighter?
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