Captain's Log Stardate 240907.1
Deploying our cover as Raptor Traders we arrived for a meeting with an Oxygen Trader at the Pollux Hub, on the edge of the Karori Cloud Nebula in the Rimward Reach of the Expansion Zone.
Pollux is the gateway Space Station to Qadi Federation Space, a region that connects the four inhabited star systems that make up the QF. The Qadi include 7 species over 3 inhabited planets (S2Q, Massr & Histalla Femr) and one farm planet (Gharden). Gharden is a food planet being developed and shared by Qadi member planets. Our orders from Starfleet are to get inside QF Space, find out what the Ferengi are up to there, and disrupt any schemes they have that might affect the neutrality of the Qadi.
An Oxygen trader trades in modified anaerobic microorganisms that aerroform planetary atmospheres. Drop them into a CO2 rich atmosphere and they breed fast, eating all the CO2, turning it into O2. They perish in their own waste as oxygen is a poison to them. These microorganisms can aerroform an entire planet in just 2 years.
We arrived at the Pollux station to find it abandoned. There were no signs of a struggle and station computer records were wiped. We do not know what happened here or who was behind it, but it was an unexpected set back. The Qadi Federation do not permit passage through their space without an approval. Our approval was based on the bio cargo we were intending to deliver to Gharen. To remedy this Science Officer T'Mari was tasked to bioengineer a synthetic organism to replace our lost cargo. We are now en route to QF Space.