First Contact

The USS Intrepid stops to survey their first system while en route to Kaitos, expecting to discover a late 21st century civilization living on the fourth planet. Known to the Romulans as the Helivans, a species doomed to extinction as their planet shifted from Earth-like to almost entirely desert after a dramatic climate change.
The Helivans seemed to be holding onto their small amounts of water and growing barely enough food for one third of their population.
But as the Intrepid drops out of warp to perform a standard survey, they are shocked to discover multiple warp signatures leading from the planet’s surface.
Desperate times call for desperate measures and the Helivans may have made exponential gains toward warp development.