Tau Nine Incident

The Tau Nine Incident is an event which occured approximately eight months after the Hell's Gate team was first assembled and involved the dissapearance of a scientific team led by science chief Dr. Jill Saria into an undisclosed location well north of the Hell's Gate facility.

Synopsis

The team arrived to find the Tau Nine research site entirely deserted with very few signs of recent activity. After an initial investigation, the team was attacked by the sites original inhabitants. The attackers are repelled with no casualties, after which Dr. Saria appears. After uttering the line "It wants me to kill you, but I won't.", Dr. Saria commits suicide with her sidearm much to the teams confusion and duress.

Upon farther investigation, it is determined that the brain and body chemistry of the sites inhabitants has been fundamentally altered by an unknown entity. Sophia McCartny continues investigating the cause of the orignial teams disturbing behavior while John leads another group to investigate what could have happened.

Sophia discovers that a type of spore in the air has entered the former inhabitants lungs and brought them under control of another entity that the team must now find in order to prevent the spread of the contaminant. They find a large valley and attempt to investigate it, but are driven back by hositle wildlife. In their second attempt, they discover a large, disformed tree that is mutating plant life to disperse the spores as a way to eliminate the planets human population. John attempts to investigate, but is blocked from doing so by the Tsawlunil clan and their warriors. The situation continues to devolve and culminates in a Na'vi biological attack against Hell's Gate.