Crash landing on a planet/academy AU

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Looking for a fic, most likely AO3, where Kirk is a student at the academy on a training mission and Spock is the faculty leading the team. They either land and the location is wrong/dangerous or they crash land, either way they're stuck on the planet. The academy trainees keep dying off, there's like acid rain degrading the ship, some people eat poisonous food and die, Kirk sort of steps up as a survivalist, one of the characters is a cat-alien, and anyone who dies on the planet comes back to life as a feral zombie. It ends up being just Kirk and Spock surviving, they hole up in a cave, etc. Any ideas? I though maybe The Lotus Eaters but that wasn't it.

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[runpunkrun]

That sounds like:

The Kepler Omicron Party (84998 words) by summerofspock
Chapters: 23/23
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock
Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Wilderness Survival, Stranded, Starfleet Academy, Alternate Universe - Canon, Hurt/Comfort, Minor Character Death, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Past Character Death, Eventual Happy Ending, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Recovery
Summary:

Jim Kirk, in his fourth year at Starfleet Academy, has to pass his required field training to graduate. With a science professor as his adviser, he's pretty sure he won't learn anything he doesn't already know.

But when he arrives on Kepler Omicron and the survival simulation becomes a reality, Jim is forced to make hard decisions as the situation spirals quickly out of control.

A story about survival and recovery.

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That’s it!!! Thank you!