Darkened Stars - Chapter 22
Stardate 29392.5 - May 23, 2352, Time: 15:55:00
On the scale of things Rain would fully admit that she had been expecting more along the lines of something Lady Gaga would wear than the slinky but tasteful blood red dress that had arrived for her.
Though she was still scratching her head at how Sorren had gotten her sizes so perfect given that even she wasn't completely sure of them. And she certainly couldn't ...
2024-11-11 15:58:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 8 - Off we go
The gateroom guards had been shooting annoyed glares at Eventus on a rather consistent basis since he’d returned from picking up his general ‘away team’ equipment. Most of which, with the exception of the weapon, interface pad on his belt, and the personal shield hidden under his vest, was now held in the satchel slung over his shoulder.
He didn’t really blame them for it, after all, it was their job to keep everyone safe and...
2024-11-08 16:58:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 7 - Unannounced Maintenance
Of all the things his people built that would last for millennia under some of the most detrimental planetary conditions imaginable, everyday clothing was apparently not one of them. As Eventus had unfortunately discovered when he'd gone to check his own stored garments and only found piles of dust with slightly corroded metal clasps where they should have been.
Which meant his only set of clothing was the one he had go...
2024-11-06 17:46:24 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 6 - Yes, That Happened
“He turned into a woman?” John repeated to make sure he heard the two right.
“Right there in front of us.” McKay confirmed as he took another bite of his mashed potatoes.
“It was quite distressing.” Teyla agreed as she carefully steeped her tea. “Peter is being examined by Doctor Beckett now, but he did not seem particularly hopeful about being able to reverse it.”
That wasn'...
2024-11-05 15:24:58 +0000 UTC
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Darkened Stars - Chapter 21
Stardate 29386.5 - May 21, 2352 - 11:00:57
Trudging up the walkway to the small islet the Deathwind had landed on, a near permanent blush stained Rain's cheeks as she couldn't help but feel every person she passed on the way back had been staring at her naked ass.
It wasn't remotely logical, not the least because her feminine modesty was normally something that could be considered barely formed at best, but eit...
2024-11-04 16:07:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 5 - Oops
“We look like Power Rangers.” Grodin complained over the breathers communications link as they trudged through one of the flooded levels of the undercity.
Eventus could see where Grodin was coming from with the near skin tight nature of the aqua suits and the fact their helmets tended towards the same general shape and visored type design that the Ancient recalled that franchise favoring.
“I have no idea what that i...
2024-10-31 17:45:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 4 - City Navigation
“You Ancients really weren't very good at labeling things, were you?” McKay put forward as their group of four piled into one of the city's transport chambers.
“Rodney.” Teyla scolded in an appalled tone as she turned a glare to the scientist.
“No, he’s mostly right.” Eventus admitted idly as he examined ...
2024-10-30 16:28:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 3 - Waterfront cleanup
The location Evan had convinced Weir to have them to clean up was a ground floor apartment with about four times the square footage of the one John Shepherd had picked out for his own in the city's central tower.
As far as the various living quarters they'd discovered so far went, that put it firmly in the middle of avera...
2024-10-29 16:31:35 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 2 - Living with it
The food had been a not particularly impressive example of some kind of soup and sandwich combo. Not to say his own people were gourmet chef's or anything, as more often than not they had tended towards quick to prepare dishes that would meet a predetermined caloric requirement. But he'd still been hoping for something a bit more tasty, or at least a bag of potato chips to go along with then meal.
“Now that I'm feeling m...
2024-10-28 15:41:14 +0000 UTC
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Darkened Stars - Chapter 20
Stardate 29385.2 - May 20, 2352 - 23:35:48
The Risian man had turned out to be Raten Tor, the ‘floor boss’ of the Fighting Caracal arena, who, after some drinks and conversation, had been willing to introduce Rain to the arena's operations director, a woman by the name of Torra Fel.
A good hour of further drinks with Torra Fel had secured her a meeting with the ‘owner’ of the arena, a man who'd introduc...
2024-10-28 15:22:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 1 - Long Form Maintenance
Taking a moment to examine the figure inside the stasis-pod, Lieutenant Colonel John Shepard couldn’t help but wonder at the difference between the figure inside and the time traveling version of Doctor Weir they had found a couple days ago.
“Shouldn’t he be old?” He finally asked as he turned to look at 2024-10-26 15:40:12 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 94
Stardate 48332.1 - May 2, 2371 - 05:11:00
The.chirping of a priority communications request woke Raine from an odd dream involving Q chasing her around the beaches of Risa with a fishing pole. A sure sign if any that she was rapidly approaching the point where she needed an actual day off.
Reaching to the nightstand by the side of her bed, she grabbed the communicator there and pinched it on. “Brooks here.”...
2024-10-23 17:47:38 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 93
Stardate 48331.3 - May 1, 2371 - 22:11:00
Working through everything of potential Starfleet interest that Jaxa had been through the past year was thankfully proceeding on track, though Raine wasn’t sure how much use any of it would actually be. She supposed that would be up to Starfleet’s analysis division to figure out, or possibly whoever they ended up assigning to do the followup.
Stepping past the Defia...
2024-10-21 19:13:53 +0000 UTC
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Darkened Stars - Chapter 19
Stardate 29384.8 - May 20, 2352 - 20:04:00
Massaging her temples to ward off the tension headache she could feel coming on, Rain couldn't help but feel her current circumstances were the universe punishing her for something.
“So then I tried to explain to her that it's really not recommended to try and use Horga'hn in...
2024-10-21 16:59:24 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 92
Stardate 48330.5 - May 1, 2371 - 15:10:00
Even across nearly two hundred light years Captain Picard seemed to have a kind of presence to him that Raine had only encountered a handful of times before, and each one of those had been a living legend.
He was also her first captain, the one she had grown up watching on broadcast television who had kindled her love of an entire genre of fiction. So to say she was mor...
2024-10-18 15:49:14 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 91
Stardate 48330.3 - May 1, 2371 - 13:25:00
“Are you sure this is okay?” Jaxa asked her hesitantly as they walked into the Defiant's ready room.
“I already cleared it with Commander Sisko.” Raine reassured the Bajoran woman with a smile as she made her way over to the small desk. “And the Enterprise is currently traveling between systems, so barring some random anomaly you won't be interrupting anything...
2024-10-14 15:31:33 +0000 UTC
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Darkened Stars - Chapter 18
Stardate 29384.2 - May 20, 2352 - 14:48:00
Looking out at the clear sunny skies, sandy beaches, and crystal clear oceans of Risa from their ships landing platform, Rain couldn't help but wonder if maybe the horrible underbelly of the world might be worth living with if it meant getting to spend the next thousand plus years just forgetting her worries here.
“I don't like it, it's too bright.” Keiko muttered ...
2024-10-14 15:12:50 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 90
Stardate 48329.7 - May 1, 2371 - 08:10:00
Kira had never liked Garak, and it wasn't just that he was a Cardassian that rankled her either. There was just something undefinable about the man that made her feel like if the order ever came down, he'd happily kill them all with a smile on his face.
So there was a distinct tension in her shoulders as she, Bashir, and her erstwhile duplicate met up with the man in his shop.&nbs...
2024-10-09 15:04:26 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 89
Stardate 48328.2 - April 30, 2371 - 19:01:00
“So on a scale of one to ten how much trouble are we looking at?” Dax asked as he stepped off the turbolift.
“Still up in the air.” Sisko admitted as he walked past her station on his way to his office. “But Kira’s being temporarily relieved of duty till we can sort things out, and Brooks is going to be handling the psych watch on Ensign Sito.”
2024-10-07 17:10:27 +0000 UTC
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Darkened Stars - Chapter 17
Stardate 29367.2 - May 14, 2352 - 09:29:05
“I don't know why.” Rain muttered to herself as she held one of the pirate themed outfits she'd pulled out of Nezia's closet up in front of herself. “But the fact that I have a bigger cup size than an Orion annoys me on an almost fundamental level.”
It absolutely wasn’t rational Rain knew, Orions were after all an entire species with a wide breadth of differe...
2024-10-07 15:55:53 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 88
Stardate 48327.4 - April 30, 2371 - 12:01:26
Sisko had wanted a brain scan to be absolutely sure they weren’t looking at implanted failsafe of some kind in one of the pair, a sound precaution all things considered given ‘if discovered have thing happen’ was often a standard trigger in the case of deep cover replacements.
But knowing what she did, Raine would bet her favorite Tholian silk dress that the du...
2024-10-04 15:51:21 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 87
Stardate 48327.3 - April 30, 2371 - 11:08:00
“Anti-grav sailing, really?” Raine asked Jadzia with a skeptically raised eyeridge as she briefly looked up from the simulation she was running on the Ops’s tactical station.
“Really.” Jadzia confirmed with an amused nod as she looked up from her science station to meet Raine’s eyes. “And you have no idea how hard it was to convince Kira to even join me...
2024-10-02 15:03:50 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 86
Stardate 48316.8 - April 26, 2371 - 15:10:00
“And that's when we got into a discussion about the importance of universal translator compatible naming conventions.” Raine explained to Janeway, the unintentional Maquis rebranding still one of her more embarrassing accomplishments given the way it was actively helping to blunt negative opinions about the group.
Janeway hid her mouth behind her mug to hide her ...
2024-09-30 15:28:00 +0000 UTC
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Darkened Stars - Chapter 16
Stardate 29364.3 - May 13, 2352 - 08:00:00
Walking through the open door of the cargo bay Rain felt something large and heavy slam into her barrier. She whipped around to see a Terran staring dumbly at the heavy Orion weapon in his hand that he had clearly just tried to kill her with.
Her last bit of patience snapped like a brittle twig at the tail end of a drought, and she pulled her gloved fist back and punch...
2024-09-30 15:18:47 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 85
Stardate 48316.6 - April 26, 2371 - 13:24:00
Like most Starfleet officers Raine knew of, she had a favorite when it came to Starfleet's many varied ship designs. In her specific case, that design was the Sovereign, a ship class she had always felt was the epitome of Starfleet's engineering hull, neck, and saucer design philosophy.
That wasn't to say she didn't like others, the Galaxy class for instance wo...
2024-09-25 15:59:47 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 84
Stardate 48297.6 - April 19, 2371 - 14:58:00
“His name was Joran Belar.” Doctor Bashir offered as he passed a padd with the relevant information on it over Raine’s newly installed work console.
“The one who put the memory block on Dax?” Raine asked, purposefully playing dumb as she began reading through the information.
Bashir frowned at her. “Commander, please. Jadzia’s life coul...
2024-09-23 18:58:28 +0000 UTC
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Darkened Stars - Chapter 15
Stardate 29364.2 - May 13, 2352 - 07:07:00
The thing about flying by the seat of your pants was that eventually you ran out of extra pairs and were left mooning everyone around you, or at least, that was vaguely how Rain remembered the saying going.
Accurate or not, it at least worked for describing her current circumstances given the original plan for this impromptu trip hadn't really involved much of anything...
2024-09-23 16:20:56 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 83
Stardate 48288.9 - April 16, 2371 - 10:45:00
The Mekro'vak plains weren't particularly impressive as far as planetary features were concerned. A reddish grass like plant covered most of the generally flat ground, interspaced by the occasional brownish rock and gray twisted tree.
Its only saving grace as far as Quark was concerned was that unlike the near constant state of damp on his own homeworld, it was just ...
2024-09-20 15:50:55 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 82
Stardate 48284.3 - April 14, 2371 - 18:28:00
“A sociopath?” Raine repeated as she stared down at Jadzia, the Trill woman laid out on her bed clutching a pillow to her chest in a way that suggested to the Asari that she was absolutely not having a good day.
“It's the closest analogy Federation Standard&nb...
2024-09-18 19:17:19 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Stars - Chapter 81
Stardate 48280.7 - April 13, 2371 - 10:50:00
The sound of footsteps caused Quark to look up from nervously double checking the padd’s in his satchel, and he let out a sigh of relief at seeing Natima walk through the manor’s front door, taking particular note in the back of his brain as he did of the not so subtle threat inherent in D’Ghor having her delivered to their proverbial front step.
“I’d hug y...
2024-09-16 16:29:53 +0000 UTC
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