Starship Astra: Replicates

While on a routine patrol of the Outer Rim, Captain Elara Mirelle and the crew of the Starship Astra discover an unclassifiable spatial anomaly—a luminescent cloud phasing in and out of known dimensional space. But when a full-spectrum sensor scan destabilizes the cloud, a brilliant flash of energy leaves behind an impossible anomaly: an exact duplicate of the Astra, complete with human life signs matching every member of her crew.