Darkened Stars - Chapter 32
Stardate 29463.3 - June 18, 2352 - 13:37:37
“Surprisingly more equipped than I thought it would be.” Verad confessed as he looked around the Emerald Falcons infirmary.
“The previous owners were slavers.” Rain offered, moderately relieved that the Trill hadn't taken one look at the room and declared everything in it so much junk.
“And unfortunate business.” Verad returned with a disa...
2025-02-08 01:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 47 - ?????
The warmth that had surrounded her for as long as she could remember was draining away leaving nothing but a slight chill in its wake. She reached out, trying to grab the warmth as it descended her body and pull it back, only for her hands to impact some sort of structure with a loud sharp sound that made her flinch.
Forcing her eyes to open, she was able to see a clear structure of some kind a short distance from her face, the closenes...
2025-02-06 17:46:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 46 - Flight or Flight Part 3
The odd electronic swish of the transport rings descending back into the floor was the only sound that greeted Major Evan Lorne upon transporting onto the Navis. And even though the life signs detectors had cleared the ring room, he took a moment to pan his weapons around to double check before lowering it and giving an all clear motion to the rest of their four man team.
“I told you it was clear.” McKay muttered, ...
2025-02-05 20:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45 - Flight or Flight Part 2
Holding his head in a hand, Eventus let his eyes bore into the woman on the other side of the screen. “So you're telling me that for the past ten thousand years your people have been running around the galaxy avoiding the Wraith?”
“Yes.” The woman, who had confirmed herself as Larrin, said. “And the ships we’ve been using to do so have begun to break down beyond the point of repair, which is why we need thi...
2025-02-04 20:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 104
Stardate 48424.4 - June 4, 2371 - 21:44:38
“And that's when he took me for a walk in the garden.” Jadzia all but gushed as she sat cross legged on the small bed of her cabin. “And we spent the entire time talking about our respective quantum field fluctuations.”
“Respective quantum field fluctuations.” Raine repeated in a teasing tone as she leaned over the back of the desk chair. “How daring.”
Chapter 44 - Flight or Flight
“That’s a starship.” Lorne offered as he stared at the squat vessel currently positioned between them and the Navis on the Enterprise’s central display.
Eventus had somewhat hoped the Travelers wouldn't be at the Navis's location this early, mostly for his own sake, but he supposed he would just have to deal with dashin...
2025-02-01 20:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostDarkened Stars - Chapter 31
Stardate 29460.9 - June 17, 2352 - 16:32:44
The one bit of unabashedly good news about their current location was that they’d been able to update both their universal translators and the ships general user interface with a minimum of trouble. Something that Rain knew was going to make various members of the crew who could barely read the limited language selection they previously had more than a little happy.
Chapter 43 - The Umbral Death
When the psychic death knell of Crimson Moon had woken Umbra from her hibernation, it had been with the fragmented knowledge the now dead Queen had extracted from the mind of a human from a world called Earth.
An amusingly spiteful act for the old watcher on every level given the lengths she had gone through to avoid anything even app...
2025-01-29 19:08:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 42 - Cascading Damage
“She can't explain it because she doesn't know.” Eventus offered to McKay as they walked down the tomblike corridors of the Aurora, the ship now safely within the repair bay of the Taranis drydock. “Phasic particle beams were still in the development phase when the Aurora was lost.”
Looking left and right as they came to an intersection, Eventus frowned as he wracked his mind for a moment to try and recall which direc...
2025-01-23 21:35:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 41 - The Never Ending Shuffle
Looking over Carson Beckett’s shoulder at the near line of people waiting outside her office, Elizabeth Weir held back a sigh before focusing back on the person who was currently asking her permission for yet another potentially dangerous thing.
“And you’re sure this genetronic resequencer can fix Grodin?”
“Oh aye.” Carson agreed with an emphatic nod. “Pretty sure now that Evan was think...
2025-01-22 21:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 40 - Lunch Break
“Which was when Sheppard suggested that any weapon that impressive would have to be powered by a Zed-PM.” McKay narrated from the other side of the dining chambers table as he poked the Lantealoaf on his plate with a fork a few times as if to test out its sponginess.
“Why?” Eventus asked in confusion as he waited for his MRE to cool. “I mean yes, they had the highest power density of any power source we had, but that doe...
2025-01-21 20:16:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 103
Stardate 48423.2 - June 4, 2371 - 11:13:55
It hadn’t exactly been a surprise to Raine that Sisko would push for continuing exploration of the Gamma Quadrant despite the Dominion threat, they were Starfleet after all, and exploration would always be Starfleet’s favorite pastime.
That didn’t mean she liked it however, or well, she did, because seeking out new life and new civilizations was fun, but she didn’t like how it...
2025-01-20 19:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostDarkened Stars - Chapter 30
Stardate 29460.4 - June 17, 2352 - 12:09:12
The station supervisor was an older trill woman with short greying hair who, upon noticing Rain being escorted into her office, stood up from her desk and put on a scowl worthy of a Klingon mother-in-law who had just been told her son had married a flower gardener.
“So…” Rain put forward somewhat awkwardly after a moment of silence passed.
“Si...
2025-01-17 20:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 39 - Overworked and Unpaid
All but collapsing onto the plush chair in the quarters he had taken over, Eventus let out a tired sigh as he took a moment to just relax.
“I certainly know that sigh.” Captain Herius said as his hologram snapped into existence a few feet away from Eventus's chair. “How long have you been going without a rest week?”
“It's been twenty-one days since I was pulled out of stasis.” Eventus offered...
2025-01-16 20:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38 - Studying Up
Meredith Rodney McKay liked to think he was a genius, mostly because he was, but studying the Enterprise’s reactor in operation he was left to ponder if maybe he was slightly less intelligent then he had thought, or possibly the Ancients were.
“Are you sure we’re translating that right?” He asked Doctor Kusanagi as the Japanese woma...
2025-01-15 20:10:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37 - The Mind Knows
Kate Heightmeyer had accepted the offer to join the Atlantis expedition as their resident psychologist, fully aware that she would likely be dealing with people suffering both common and unusual issues.
That had in fact been a big part of why she had chosen to accept the offer. Because it was rare in her profession that one could both...
2025-01-14 19:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 102
Stardate 48379.4 - May 19, 2371 - 11:32:38
“You told Odo to ask the Founders if Rex could be assigned to him?” Sisko put forward as he glared at Raine from the other side of his ready room's small desk.
“I suggested that it might be an option.” Raine admitted, fidgeting slightly under the slight feeling of exasperated disappointment the man was radiating. “He was acting like a worried dad about to send his son off to...
2025-01-13 19:20:29 +0000 UTC View PostDarkened Stars - Chapter 29
Stardate 29460.2 - June 17, 2352, Time - 10:23:48
For her first space station the uncreatively named Trillius Station was something of a disappointment, though she supposed it was possible that was just the rundown docking port that looked like it hadn't seen a cleaning crew since the Empire fell.
It honestly built something of an interesting picture, and when taken alongside the defense satellites made Rain wo...
2025-01-10 19:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36 - Lost Men
The Aurora had been lost around the outer edge of the galaxy, a trip that had taken them a little over seven hours since he hadn't wanted to push the Enterprise's hyperdrive too hard with the fact it had just been fixed and they were soon going to have to tow multiple vessels through hyperspace travel.
Exiting the hyperspace window, Eventus let out a sigh of relief when the sensors showed a distinct lack of any Wraith vessels in the ...
2025-01-09 19:48:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35 - Departure
With the now growing lifeforms securely locked away in biolab seventeen, the only thing left on Eventus's list had been a quick trip down to orbital transfer building three to resupply the Enterprise's matter stores via the building's ring array. A task that had taken all of five minutes due to the fact that the Explorer class had been designed with the idea of rapid resupply via matter stream in mind.
Which had left him with just e...
2025-01-08 19:27:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34 - Playing God
With Beckett now relegated to the tender mercies of his fellow medical practitioners, Eventus was free to slip around the various members of the Atlantis expedition and head down to biological engineering lab seventeen.
It was one of the smaller labs, six pods held in a cylinder configuration that could cycle position over a single DNA sequence. Its original use had been as what amounted to a prototyping facility for testing out t...
2025-01-07 17:31:36 +0000 UTC View PostCerulean Stars - Chapter 101
Stardate 48374.1 - May 17, 2371 - 13:06:57
The large Dominion ship on the Defiant’s main viewscreen was intimidating for a multitude of reasons, though the one Raine was most concerned about was of course the weapon array's locked onto their ship.
“It's been two hours.” Jadzia groused from her cur...
2025-01-06 18:20:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33 - Crossing Off Tasks
“Please be aware that access to that data in partition regulus nine is limited access only by order of the council.” The hologram warned as it stood on the core room's central platform.
“I know that.” Eventus groused as he glared at the thing, a completely meaningless gesture he knew, but it still made him feel better. “You know I know that. And I know you know I’m the current high councilor and can countermand ...
2025-01-02 20:23:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32 - Step Forty Two
Hermiod having beamed himself back the to the Daedalus, Eventus spent a few minutes working the extra things he now needed to get done into his already overloaded schedule before deciding these would be the last two things he added before he had a chance to take at least a week off to decompress properly.
Tapping the control crystal to open his door, Eventus took a moment to wave to the bored looking marine standing across from...
2025-01-01 18:25:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31 - Old Allies
Yawning as he exited his bedroom after a more than satisfying eight hour rest, he was left blinking in moderate surprise at the naked Asgard waiting on his lounge chair.
“Greetings.” He offered in slight awkwardness as the grey alien turned to him. “I hope you haven't been waiting long?”
“Several hours.” The Asgard admitted as Eventus moved over to the kitchenette and pulled out one of the muffins he'd ...
2024-12-31 16:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostDarkened Stars - Chapter 28
Stardate 29443.9 - June 11, 2352 - 11:13:03
“You can’t be serious.” Rain said as she stared down the Vulcan woman standing on the other side of her desk.
“Completely.” T’Lyn returned simply. “While Lara does indeed possess a rather eclectic collection of skills, they mostly seem to revolve around things she’s picked up to assist her escort activities. Citrine and Nirel however have all the skill...
2024-12-30 19:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30 - Time Off
“Not as bad as a day in Afghanistan, but close.” John muttered to himself as the door to his apartment closed behind him.
Sure he hadn't done much more than sit in the control chair watching the Wraith's approach though the city's sensors, but that was exactly the type of waiting that left you on edge for hours afterwards before crashing hard.
Also moderately hungry, and really wishing the Daedalus had brought mo...
2024-12-26 20:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29 - Overtime Work
“Try checking the tertiary control systems for an incomplete looking program that appears to dead end in the control chair.” McKay told Zelenka as John approached the control room console the two were hovering over.
“That’s nearly a quarter of the city’s tertiary programs Rodney.” Zelenka returned in a tone that suggested he had been trying to get the man to realize that for some time.
...
2024-12-25 17:58:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28 - Rolling Downhill
Walking into the conference room, John's eyes flicked from the bemused Colonel Caldwell, to the annoyed Colonel Everett, before finally settling on the clearly angry Doctor Weir.
“I thought you were supposed to be keeping the Ancient out of trouble Major?” Everett demanded as John took a position in the center of the horseshoe like table. “Not helping him conduct some sort of election that ended up with you in a positio...
2024-12-24 16:50:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 100
Stardate 48362.6 - May 13, 2371 - 08:22:33
“You put him in a holding cell?” Raine said, her eye ridge twitching as she looked from Odo to the now roughly teenaged Jem'Hadar that all but growling at her from behind a force field.
“He attacked one of my deputies while I was regenerating.” Odo defended as he stared down at her.
Of course he did, the boy was a teenaged Jem'Hadar, and they were probably as ...
2024-12-23 19:21:49 +0000 UTC View Post