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Acamar Three

Acamar Three commands the story’s moral and logistical axis: a sovereign seat of power and the promised refuge that Picard seeks to offer the Gatherers. Dusted continents and distant orbital lanes frame a planet that feels both ancestral and transactional—Marouk’s title, the site of a century‑old schism, and the place where displaced people might reclaim home. Data streams pulse up from planetary archives to the Enterprise: medical repositories and civil databases arrive as forensic lifelines. The world radiates diplomatic gravity and wounded memory, a place of ceremonial amnesties, political theater, and the raw hope of reunification that drives decisions aboard the ship.
8 events
8 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Diplomacy Over Retribution: Convincing Marouk

Acamar Three is the object of Picard's diplomatic appeal: it's the homeland the Gatherers might return to and the seat of Marouk's sovereignty, making it the emotional and political prize whose fate depends on the meeting's outcome.

Atmosphere

Weighted with history and contested belonging — referenced as both home and site of past violence.

Functional Role

Target of the proposed reintegration and the central stake motivating all parties.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes both lost community and the possibility of national healing.

Mentioned via dialogue and captain's log rather than physically present in the lounge. Evokes dusty continents, clans, and centuries of feuds (as referred to by Marouk).
S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Picard Wins Marouk's Reluctant Consent to Attempt Reunification

Acamar Three is the remote objective of the diplomatic effort—repeatedly referenced as the homeland whose restoration would heal political division. It exists offstage as the tangible prize that gives urgency and moral weight to Picard's appeal.

Atmosphere

Absent but ever-present; the planet's image via the observation port cues longing and political consequence.

Functional Role

Stakes/target of reconciliation; the promised destination that justifies the diplomatic mission.

Symbolic Significance

Represents homeland, cultural identity, and the possibility of reunification.

Planet visible from the lounge through the observation port Referenced as 'this sector' and the object of orbital operations
S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Marouk Cleared — Course Set for Hromi

Acamar Three is the immediate origin over which the Enterprise is orbiting; the ship departs its orbit at the end of the exchange, physically and symbolically moving away from the site of contested sovereignty toward a protective mission.

Atmosphere

Lingering political gravity mixed with urgency as Enterprise disengages from orbit.

Functional Role

Launch point and recent diplomatic venue whose unresolved tensions necessitate escort action.

Symbolic Significance

Embodies the wounded homeland and the stakes of reunification that motivate the mission.

Access Restrictions

Orbit controlled by the Enterprise; departure effected under command decision.

Orbital position implied by the ship leaving orbit. Residual diplomatic presence of Marouk and her retinue aboard as ship departs.
S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Hromi Cluster Heading: Diplomatic Mission Becomes Hunt

Acamar Three is the planet the Enterprise is departing; it anchors the political stakes of the conversation — the sovereign's home and the reason for the diplomatic escort before the revelation of the Gatherer encampment.

Atmosphere

Departing, weighty with ceremony and unresolved history — a source of emotional gravity behind the meeting.

Functional Role

Origin point for the diplomatic mission and the immediate political locus tied to Marouk's sovereignty.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes ancestral claims and the fractured homeland that motivates the broader conflict.

Access Restrictions

Not directly relevant to access in this beat; it is the departure location that gives urgency to protecting the sovereign.

Enterprise leaving orbit; implied visual of planet receding. Subtextual memory of Acamar's dusty continents and political weight.
S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Chalice of Trust — Brull's Public Test

Acamar Three is invoked as the promised homeland offered by Marouk — a political horizon motivating the entire parley. It is not physically present in the scene but functions as the diplomatic prize that shapes motive and stakes for both Marouk and the Gatherers.

Atmosphere

Referenced with hopeful gravity — an aspirational destination contrasted with the camp's squalor.

Functional Role

Proposed homeland and bargaining chip for reconciliation and repatriation.

Symbolic Significance

Represents past memory, potential sanctuary, and the contested hope of restored identity for the Gatherers.

Access Restrictions

Not physically present; entry conditions would be political and conditional on negotiated terms.

Evoked verbally as a clean, promising alternative to the camp's ruin Serves as the motivating object of dialogue and offers of dispensation
S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Interrupted Confession — Yuta's Cold Truth

Acamar Three is the off‑screen origin of the medical database and political context; its cooperation and the streamed records provide the investigative motive that parallels the personal revelations within Riker's cabin.

Atmosphere

Not directly present but implied as ceremonially significant and politically charged — the planet carries diplomatic weight.

Functional Role

External data source and diplomatic actor whose decisions (granting database access) affect Enterprise operations.

Symbolic Significance

Represents the intersection of past trauma, political reconciliation, and the material evidence that could resolve the episode's central mystery.

Access Restrictions

Planetary authority (sovereign control) governs data access; coordinated subspace transmission to Federation systems.

Data transfer occurring over subspace link (high bandwidth, offstage). Political undertones implied by Sovereign Marouk's involvement. Medical records as cold, documentary counterpoint to personal confession.
S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Picard's Unarmed Gambit

Acamar Three is referenced as the sovereign seat that lends moral and political weight to Picard's demand — Marouk's presence is the diplomatic linchpin used to pressure Chorgan into listening.

Atmosphere

Not physically present in the scene, but atmospherically invoked as dignified, ancestral, and politically consequential.

Functional Role

Provides legitimacy to the reconciliation effort and frames the stakes as more than a tactical skirmish.

Symbolic Significance

Represents home, rightful claim, and the political promise that motivates the Gatherers' exile and the negotiation's urgency.

Access Restrictions

N/A within this scene (referenced as origin and authority rather than a present location).

Mentioned as 'Sovereign Marouk of Acamar Three' — invoked to add moral authority Functions narratively as off‑screen ballast for Picard's position
S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Yuta Unmasked — The Tralesta Vendetta Revealed

Acamar Three functions as the origin of the medical and civil records Data and Beverly tap into: its archives supply the birth entry, the medical report of Penthor‑Mul, and the historical dossier that enable the bridge reconstruction and the linkage of past and present crimes.

Atmosphere

Impersonal archival gravity — distant, bureaucratic, and authoritative even as it reveals violent history.

Functional Role

Source-of-records and evidentiary repository for forensic and historical data.

Symbolic Significance

Represents institutional memory and the inconvenient, irrefutable record of past political violence.

Access Restrictions

Records are searchable remotely by Enterprise databases but certain clan affiliations were previously incomplete in provided records.

Digital archives and medical logs Aged registry entries with official stamps Sparse metadata that nonetheless yields decisive facts

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

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S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Diplomacy Over Retribution: Convincing Marouk

Picard opens with a recorded mission log that frames the Enterprise's purpose: bring Acamar's sovereign into a diplomatic effort to halt the Gatherer raids. In the observation lounge he deliberately …

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Picard Wins Marouk's Reluctant Consent to Attempt Reunification

In the observation lounge Picard reframes the crisis as a moral and political one, arguing that retaliation will only deepen a century-old wound. Marouk, armored by memories of failed amnesty …

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Marouk Cleared — Course Set for Hromi

On the Enterprise bridge Picard formally clears Sovereign Marouk to depart Acamar, converting fragile diplomacy into an active mission. Marouk agrees to leave immediately, Riker quietly assumes practical responsibility for …

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Hromi Cluster Heading: Diplomatic Mission Becomes Hunt

On the bridge Picard's quiet diplomacy snaps taut: Marouk reveals a suspected Gatherer encampment in the Hromi Cluster, Data confirms likely Class M worlds there, and Picard converts the mission …

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Chalice of Trust — Brull's Public Test

Sovereign Marouk offers the Gatherers formal amnesty, sealing the gesture with a shared chalice meant to symbolize a new start. Brull turns the ritual into political theater — accusing Marouk, …

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Interrupted Confession — Yuta's Cold Truth

Riker's quiet quarters turn intimate and then brittle when Yuta, sent by Sovereign Marouk, comes to 'spend time' with him. A kiss becomes an emotional probe: Yuta offers herself in …

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Picard's Unarmed Gambit

Under the stress of incoming fire, Picard seizes tactical advantage — Worf disables Chorgan's forward shields while Picard forces a parley, announcing Sovereign Marouk is aboard and ordering to be …

S3E9 · The Vengeance Factor
Yuta Unmasked — The Tralesta Vendetta Revealed

Data and Dr. Beverly Crusher’s forensic trawl exposes a chilling through-line: Volnoth and a fifty‑three‑year‑old victim, Penthor‑Mul, both fell to the same engineered microvirus. Data ties Penthor‑Mul to the Lornack …