[IC] Star Trek: Intersecting worlds

[TheUnknowable]

McKay finished the last diagnostic on the Odyssey's Alternate Reality Drive, just in time to see Colonel Carter enter engineering. “Ah, Sam.” he said, handing his tablet to a nearby lieutenant. “The drive checks out. The subspace capacitor can be rerouted to the main grid once you're on the other side, though you'll only get about half the power of a Zed PM out of it, a compromise for being able to reroute its output.”

“Thanks, McCay.” she said. “You'd better get to the rings, though. We'll be sending the last of the repair personnel back to Groom Lake in a few minutes, then leaving for the other universe.”

“Yeah,” he said, turning to go, then turning back around. “Just remember that you can reroute the SC and come back at any time.”

“You've already told me that, Rodney. Now, if you don't plan on going with us...” she motioned down the hall.

“Right.” he said, and headed out.

A few minutes later the last of the crew had returned to the surface, and SG1 had gathered on the bridge. After a quick jump to a system a few thousand lightyears away, they ran a few scans to make sure they were in the right place. The system was on the edge of a plasma nebula and had an inhabitable world, matching the description of the system that LeFay had told them about. Sam ordered the activation of the ARD and a few seconds later the view outside shifted to reveal a large space station a few hundred thousand kilometers away.

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An alarm went off on DS9 after detecting a ship appearing in system. Kira ordered the station to go to Red Alert and the crew ran to their stations. A few seconds later Captain Sisko walked out of his office. “What's the problem?” he asked.

“A ship just appeared on our sensors, 260 thousand kilometers from the station.”

“Decloaked?” he asked.

“No.” answered Dax. “There WAS a subspace energy surge, but it doesn't conform to any known cloaking device.”

A console beeped. “We're being hailed.” said Kira.

“On screen.” said Sisko, and a human woman appeared on screen.

“I am Colonel Samantha Carter aboard the Odyssey. To answer what you are no doubt wondering, we are from another universe, the same one Adria is from. We are here to stop her.”

“I'm sorry.” Sisko replied. “Adria?”

Daniel Jackson stepped forward. “Maybe you know her as something else. Maybe the Orici?”

Sisko's face changed as he realized how important their arrival could be. “In that case, I believe you need to dock with the station so that we can talk. Major Kira, end red alert and send them docking instructions for one of the upper pylons, as well as station regulations. Once they come on board, have them escorted to my office.”

Carter nodded, and cut the transmission.

[Burning Kitty]

Due to an Ensign Alexandria Munro serving aboard the USS Voyager the Alexandria Munro from the year 2400 was serving under the name Alexia Morningstar. Due to Telsia Murphy currently a criminal due to joining the Maquis the Telsia Murphy from the year 2400 was serving under the name Teala Masters. They were the captain and first officer of the USS Cerberus a Prometheus class. They were on their way to Deep Space 9 from Beta Antares Ship Yards. Munro & Murphy were two of the few living personnel aboard the Cerberus, the rest of the crew were all holographic, it was an experiment to see if a holographic crewman could take over when the biological one was killed or incapacitated and it holographic crew could bolster security forces when boarded by the enemy especially the Borg. In the future ships only maintained a skeleton crew with most of the ship operated by holograms.

Their final destination was the space station Deep Space Nine but they had a pit stop on the way to pick up some strangers to this universe first.

Jake Dunn aka Nomad was running Lockhart, he took refuge in one of C.E.L.L.'s former facilities, they were experimenting with tech way beyond their understanding. Lockhart found Nomad, Lockhart was armed with a K-Volt an energy based weapon. Lockhart fired at Nomad who took cover behind a piece of equipment the K-Volt activated it and Nomad found himself on another planet, he would later learn he was roughly 320 plus years in the future and in another universe. He was also not alone.

The members of Red Team Jerome-092, Alice-130, & Douglas-042 serving aboard the UNSC Spirit of Fire a Phoenix-class colony ship was investigating the facilities of the Installation 00, also known as the Ark to see what they could use in their fight against the Banished. A lot of the equipment in this particular piece of paradise was damaged, they were with a Huragok better known as an Engineer nicknamed Sparky they had no clue what it's real name was. It was trying to fix the damage, a perfect shit storm happened, between the damage, short circuiting equipment, and an electrical storm the four of them were transported to another planet, they would later learn they were roughly 160 plus years in the past and in another universe. They were also not alone.

Their weapons did not come with them, their armor did. Before they could begin to figure out what happened an away team from the Cerberus teleported down. The captain introduced herself. "I am Captain Morningstar. Based on our sensor readings I take it you are not supposed to be here. I would like to offer my ship's services in helping you get back to your home. Until such a time that you may return home you are guests aboard my ship if you are willing. Shall we?" Jerome-092 realized they didn't have much choice and as leader of Red Team accepted. Nomad had a feeling this captain was not telling him everything but based on his current surroundings of a barren wasteland he didn't figure he had much choice. "Good. I'll have quarters prepared for you you can wait in our Ten Forward, it's a lounge where you can relax, eat, drink. One of our holographic crew members will show you around and answer any questions if it can." They were all teleported up to the ship.

[Dr Catfish]

(Apologies, on mobile and unable to type 100% properly.)

Nexus surveyed through blast shielding, the Dimensional Gate. It was a spatial anomaly which acted in similar fashion to a black hole without the intense density. The machine had taken to building a station around the anomaly in fact. Creating droids and robot frames under its own processors to conduct operations and experiments with the Gate. So far it had only lost thirteen frames. According to extensive experimentation, anything attached to the item that came into contact with The Gate, was sucked in as well. Where the frames or items went, was unknown as all contact was simply lost. The hole was man sized and tear shaped. Wide base and tapered tip that wavered in uncertainty. It was like staring into the sun. Awe inspiring, but absolutely disturbing and harmful to face longingly into.

The machine made a curious noise, plates on its head stuck outwards in surprise as the frame was roughly pulled into the Gate. Everything went swimmingly, information about the Gate's density and reaction to various materials. So far everything was "DISPLACED" so far. An explosion from the Development Wing made the machine snap its head backwards.

..If the Development Wing hand a cataclysmic explosion... In the blast, sixty machine frames went offline. The blast must have been wing-wide. Nexus began running scenarios instantly. The escape pods were hundreds of meters away. It had a few seconds until the entire station vaporized itself when the ionic stabilizer core lost coolant. There was only one possibility which very well could result in a faster deconstruction. The Gate.

With what remained of the machine frames, an order to separate the Development Wing was issued and completed by two simple droids stationed near the separating airlocks. Two fists simultaneously breached the glass ahead. Vaulting through the newly created hole, the machine broke into a dead run forwards, disabling the Anti-grav within The Gate chamber remotely. Upon entering, it held onto the floor of the station, haphazardly plunging a hand into The Gate as it heard the space-distorting warble of the stabilizer core going into meltdown.

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An explosive expansion, space station warping in and taking its place, contents shifted heavily but all remaining. The Gate had disappeared and the station appeared to have gone through a blender. Wires sat hanging from the ceiling. Panels were simply missing. Every electronic system had appeared to have short circuited, except Nexus who appeared rather fine. Peering around the the eerie darkness, it decided that the first step was to activate the distress beacon and set up the auxiliary power.

It took an hour. The Distress beacon had quite a far broadcast, running off a battery which would charge off the auxiliary generator. While it waited for either pirate or rescuer; it would make moves to repair a small research corvette and repair a handful of machine frames to assist.
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The space station is hardly bigger than a cruiser. It had four, but now has three wings. Research, Analysis and Implementation. These wings were rather superfluous and mostly if not entirely to science and logging. Only a few trinkets and pieces of equipment remained, but they were most likely broken. The station would appear to be heavily weathered and derelict. Almost nothing was left undented or undamaged. It appeared to be slowly rotating and moving towards an obscure direction. Only creeping along. But enough to be noticeable in the stillness of space.

[TheUnknowable]

The crew of the Odyssey had left the briefing with DS9's senior staff with their assignments. Teal'c and Col. Mitchell would be briefing the station's security personnel on the priors and former Ori armies. Daniel and Vala would be studying this universe, its races and the groups that Adria might choose to use in her conquest. Serin and Carter were familiarizing themselves with the technology of this universe, and briefing Dax and O'Brian about their technology.

In fact, as the only two joined beings on the station, Dax and Serin seemed to be getting along very well. They had already begun discussing their distinct version of joining by the time the two crews met on the Odyssey a day later to discuss their findings.

"The people of this universe are concerned about the Prior's abilities," said Mitchell to the other Odyssey crew. "I told them about the anti-prior devices and they want enough to cover the promenade and all high-security areas. I told them we wouldn't have enough, though."

"I believe I can help with that." Serin said to Mitchell. "They have a device called a replicator that can assemble most chemicals and devices on the molecular level. I am looking into getting one or two of them to install on the Odyssey. We should be able to make more of the anti-prior devices once the replicators are installed."

"That will help for a while," said Odo, "but from what I hear they'll adapt after the first assault. We'll need to know how they'll attack before they do if we're going to be ready."

Vala spoke up. "There are too many possibilities. I understand why Adria chose the Bajorans as her first set of converts. They're an extremely spiritual but gullible group of people."

"Gullible?" said Kira.

"Your people accepted the first government that presented itself and a religious leader, despite all of the scandals around both of them. You even personally follow the Kai that attempted to have your boyfriend assassinated."

"That is beside the point. I.."

"Ladies." said Dax, "Now isn't the time to argue over this." She looked at Vala. "You were telling us about our possible enemies."

"Yes, well any group that is totally devoted to their leaders could be tricked into joining her. The Cardassians, The Jem Hadar, maybe even the Borg. And each one will need a different strategy."

"In that case," said Worf, "I'll work with you to develop a strategy for each of them."

After exchanging the information they had found, they returned to their efforts.

[Burning Kitty]

The Cerberus arrived near DS9. Captain Morningstar made the usual hailing protocols. He neglected to mention his ship was there to ensure that Origin didn't spread from Bajor at all costs, That could be saved for Captain Sisko's private office.

Captain Morningstar called all his guests to Ten Forward shortly before they docked. "I don't know your history with aliens if you have any. You are to be on your best behavior on board the space station no matter what. Otherwise you will find yourself at the mercy of Odo. Trust me, you don't want to mess with him. Once we are on board the station you are free to go anywhere you want that is open to the public."

Once they docked Captain Morningstar and Commander Masters went to Ops to speak with Captain Sisko and Major Kira. "What I have to say is best said in private." Once in Captain Sisko's office. "We were sent here to inform you that anyone attempting to leave to spread this Origin threat was to be stopped at all costs. We are authorized to destroy any ship attempting to leave the Bajoran sector as a last resort, if they fail to return to Bajor we won't hesitate." They knew first hand what Origin did to the universe they lived through it. Commander Masters was keeping an eye on Kira, or as the universe would come to knew and fear her as Prior Kira.

Sparky stayed aboard Cerberus, the Spartans didn't really understand it they just let it do whatever it wanted unless they needed it. The Spartans & Nomad formed an uneasy alliance they stuck together on this alien space station. The Spartans easily towered over most of the species there, they were an intimidating bunch in their armor. As a group this uneasy alliance spent most of the time performing threat analysis of the various species they saw until four drunk Nausicaans bumped into them as they left Quark's. One of them said something that was completely unintelligible due to him slurring his words. Jerome-092 tried to defuse the situation but the Nausicaans started a fight.

The Spartans & Nomad defended themselves from the four Nausicaans, they refrained from killing but they did however manage to break some bones. When Odo and Bajoran security came the Nausicaans were escorted under armed guard to see Bashir while the Spartans and Nomad were taken to the brig.

[mattmanganon]

It had been a rather uneventful haul. A number of cargo ships from the Lo foundation needing protection through Kei Pirate territory. The Kei's had lost a lot of their fight after Hazanko, their leader, was killed by some punk Outlaw. On one hand, Gregorio wanted to thank the guy. Hazanko was thoroughly known to be completely and utterly insane. On the other hand, Pirate activity was what kept the money coming in and kept Trafalgar flying.

In the end, he didn't think much of it as he sat in his chair, watching the viewscreen at the front of the bridge as a number of the Grappler-ships in her arsenal performed some training maneuvers whilst they were out of the way of anything.

"Honey, I'm back!!!" A high-pitched voice screached as the doors to the bridge opened and Malla stepped out. Lance stepped out as well, Gregorio looked at his wife, then his older brother, then back at his wife and smiled.

"You didn't beat him too badly, did you?" he smiled.

"Please, if I wanted to kill your wife, I would have." Lance sneered. Malla walked behind the chair and draped herself over it.

"That means he lost baaaaaaad" she purred in his ear. Lance was about to walk over to one of the chairs to have a sit-down when he suddenly stopped. He looked at the view screen.

"Recall the fighters." he said.

"Why, you want to hear about how they whooped your sorry ass?" Malla asked.

"Will you quiet your drivelling mouth, something is happening out there... Something strange, I can feel it in the fabrics of the universe." he pressed his thumbs together, then hooking his middle fingers over the top of his index fingers, he pressed them together too and began to chant. "Pagawa-sanpha. Pagawa-sanpha. Pagawa-sanpha. Pagawa-sanpha. Pagawa-sanpha. Pagawa-sanpha." As he did, Gregorio sent out the order to return to the hangar. Finally, his eyes shot open. "Go to Sub-Ether, now." he ordered. Gregorio nodded to the bridge crew and the bridge exploded in voices and chatter.

"Sub-Ether engines charging, Munchausen drive online. Preparing for Sub-Ether penetration. They sat and watched as the fabric of reality was stretched around them, the immense engines at the back of the ship desperately whirring and trying to brake those surly bonds. Finally, a giant, blue mouth in space seemed to open up and swallow the ship whole. As it did, Gregorio instinctively jumped from his chair and wrapped his arms around his wife in an instinctual, if completely futile, attempt to save her.

Meanwhile, Deep Space Nine would bare whitness to the Wormhole fluctuating. A slightly red tinge wormed through the blue swirl, before it opened and belched out the Warship. It floated daintily through space as the inhabitants tried to quickly figure out just what the hell had happened.

[TheUnknowable]

Once they docked Captain Morningstar and Commander Masters went to Ops to speak with Captain Sisko and Major Kira. "What I have to say is best said in private." Once in Captain Sisko's office. "We were sent here to inform you that anyone attempting to leave to spread this Origin threat was to be stopped at all costs. We are authorized to destroy any ship attempting to leave the Bajoran sector as a last resort, if they fail to return to Bajor we won't hesitate."

@Burning Kitty

"So, Star Fleet has sent you here to stop the spread of a religion." Sisko stated after Captain Morningstar made her statement. "Perhaps you can explain to me, then, how that can be justified given the Prime Directive and that Bajor is not a member of the Federation, and the provisional government hasn't even asked us for help. Sure, the Priors have made plenty of threats, and even made good on a few of those, but that doesn't justify a blockade of this system."

Just as he finished his little speech the station lurched a bit as the wormhole opened in an unusual way, sending out waves of gravity towards the station. He stood up and quickly walked into Ops. "Report" he said.

"Some sort of quantum phenomenon." said Jadzia Dax. "The wormhole was temporarily connected to another universe. It's similar to what happened when Adria came through, but far more powerful as it was bringing a large ship instead of a person through."

"Hail them." Sisko replied, and Kira ran by him and opened a channel to the new vessel.

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SG1 was aboard the Odyssey continuing their research when the ship came through. While Serin had managed to get his hands on a replicator, purchasing it from a bar owner named Quark, Carter had discovered that a simple modification to the Odyssey's transporter could accomplish the same thing, rendering the effort somewhat meaningless. He had, however, installed it on the bridge and was working on a program to use the Asgard core to convert schematics in the computer into replicator files when the nearby wormhole opened up, sending a shutter through the ship and damaging the docking port they were attached to.

Both the Odyssey and DS9 had safety systems which sealed the damaged area to prevent air from escaping, but people would be unable to move between the two without using shuttles or transporters until it was repaired.

Carter ordered a repair crew to begin work on it at once, but it would be at least a few hours until they were finished.

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Within the planet's core Adria detected the new ship's arrival, though the shutter it sent through the planet was too small for any but the most sensitive equipment to detect. This was beginning to concern her. First, her mother shows up with more people from Earth, then two people from the future on a ghost ship with others from another universe, then a space station, though it wasn't at this "Deep Space Nine" yet, and now another ship, this one carrying someone who had considerable personal power. 'He might even be able to handle a prior', she thought, 'unless I convince him to join us.' With that she returned to the surface to talk to her Doci, ordering him to send a Prior to meet this "magic user" and convert him.

[Burning Kitty]

"Captain Sisko I am going to divulge some information that I probably shouldn't but I believe you won't understand my orders or where we come from until I do. Look up Ensign Alexandria Munro." She waited for Sisko to do just that. "That is not a family resemblance you are seeing that is me from this time period. My first officer and I are from the year 2400. Starfleet didn't give me any orders because in the year 2400 Starfleet is destroyed. Thanks to in no small part to Prior Kira. The biggest reason Starfleet fell is because of you, your status as the Emissary has blinded you to threat the Bajoran people now represent not to Starfleet but to all existence. Sisko you died as the most hated human in the universe.

That ship is the AES Trafalgar and that is not the last ship to come through the wormhole. More ships than I can remember will come through not to mention the stragglers appearing on planets throughout the universe like the guests we picked up before coming here. Origin is not a religion it pretends to be one to gain power. It is nothing more than slaves giving power to ascended beings through their worship. The powers that be that plucked us from the resistance and set us back in time don't care about the provisional government of Bajor. Bajor as far as they are concerned is enemy representing a greater threat than the Borg and Dominion combined. They are not going to like it but if I have to I can have you temporarily taken to the future so you can see just exactly why Bajor must be contained. You would be going to a future a lot farther than the year 2400. Kira if you go you will be arrested & held accountable for the crimes you will commit. How would you like to proceed? One way or another we are going to stop Origin on Bajor, we would prefer to do that with you as our ally."

[TheUnknowable]

@Burning Kitty"There's no way I'm going to join Origin," said Kira, "Much less become a Prior."

"I'd listen to her if I were you." said a male voice, then in a flash of blue light Q appeared, propping against a bulkhead while wearing a Star Fleet Admiral's dress uniform. "In fact, nine years from now you'll lead the army that conquers Earth."

"Not a chance." she responded.

"Fine, then." responded Q. "If you don't believe me, ask your Prophets." He snapped his fingers and one of the Orbs appeared on the console in front of Kira. "They'll tell you the same thing."

Kira reached out to touch the case, then looked at Q angrily. "Why are you even here, Q? Don't tell me this whole Origin thing is your doing."

"Not in the slightest." replied Q. "This 'Orici' came here on her own. I'm merely here to guarantee that she doesn't become directly involved in battle, so it's a fair fight."

"That sounds uncharacteristically generous of you." said Sisko.

"Hardly." said Q. "If Adria wins this war, then by 2570 she will be strong enough to take on the Continuum. I can't let that happen."

"Then why not just kill her now?"

"Because, my dear Emissary, the Continuum frowns on the slaughter of lower lifeforms. But even if they didn't, this whole matter is very exciting. Rest assured that if she gets too powerful, we will deal with her, but you won't be around to see it. Now, I must go. There's a certain situation in the Delta Quadrant I need to look into." He looked at Munroe and winked. "But, before I go, I'd like to leave you with a present. Something to help you in your valiant struggle against the religious terrorist hoard."

@Dr CatfishHe snapped his fingers twice, the first time causing a flash a few thousand kilometers from DS9 which brought an apparently derelict station with it. The second made him disappear, with a quick "till we meet again" echoing around Ops for a few seconds.

[Dr Catfish]

The pulse of nuclear energy meant Nexus had managed to get the auxiliary generator running, having to salvage working bits and pieces from all over the station to properly get everything fixed. Now the wavering hum of fusion power courses through the faulty wired of the station, flicking on a handful of lights to make it look even more decrepit and horror-esque. But, the power conduit running to the ship hold was functional. All the power tools were in working order, but the craft which was docked had taken quite a beating being compressed and electromagnetically pulsed.

Nexus was about halfway to getting the craft running again before it was moved without the machine's knowledge. The bein which has moved it was no doubt some sort of advanced being and the transition from deep space to here was seamless. Which meant that the station still retained its gentle rotation and movement, slowly but surely creeping towards DS9. It would take days if not weeks for it to be considered close however, so panic was minimal.

The welding tip was white hot, stitching up steel plating which had blown open in the dimensional jump. Electrical components were back in running order. Unfortunately, with the amount of parts salvaged, it was doubtful the station would ever be the same. But stations could always be rebuilt. Piece by piece, this station would be torn apart and repurposed in building droids or other components to create a better station for research. Nexus just hoped that some of the weapons and equipment in the Application wing survived. Even in mid testing, they were quite valuable and efficient in their purpose.

[mattmanganon]

As the engines of Trafalgar slowly came back online, the crew was able to pick themselves up and look around. Gregorio was on the floor with Malla ontop of him, desperately shaking him. "WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!!!" she screamed at him.

"I am awa-" He tried to explain, before her face engulfed his in an attempt at CPR.

"LIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!" She screeched, before Gregorio pushed her off of himself and he sat up. "YOU'RE ALIVE." She cried.

"Thank you..." he sighed, wiping his mouth, shortly before she dived on him and began kissing him again. "Please, I need-" At that point, Lance grabbed Malla and hauled her off of him. Gregorio looked at him and smiled. "Thanks." he then got to his feet and looked out of the viewport. "What the hell is that?" he asked, pointing to the large circular station.

"Scanners are detecting life-signs. Hundreds of them... Looks like a colony." said one of the scanner crew. "Strange radiation coming from it. Suggest we keep our distance."

"Send a transmission." Gregorio ordered. "This is the AES Trafalgar, part of Aegis-Steed Enterprises. We are 20 days out of Sentinel 3 and have had some engine trouble. Is there a port around here large enough that we can dock for repairs?" he asked. He thought, there could be pirates in the area. "Luckily, our defensive and offensive capabilities are fully online, so we will not be in need of an escort."

[Burning Kitty]

"Kira from what I understand Priors are not always willing or maybe that is just the stories people tell themselves when their family members join the enemies. Either way if you do show signs of turning against us I will stop you before you can become that monster." Odo contacted Sisko looking for Captain Morningstar. Captain Morningstar sent Commander Masters to find out what was going on.

She went to Odo's office. "Why did you call for Morningstar?" She was escorted to the brig where she saw the guests behind bars. "What laws did they break?" They reviewed the security footage. "I suggest you set them free before we have a...diplomatic incident on your hands. They clearly were defending themselves from those brutes, and they clearly could have outright killed them with their bare hands but went out of their way to do non lethal damage and damage that is a lot less than what they are capable of." Odo called Sisko for his opinion on letting them go and reluctantly agreed when told to. He then made not so veiled threat about keeping an eye on them. Masters escorted them back to the ship. "Make yourselves useful and train on the holodeck with the weapons you will have access to." She then returned to Sisko's office.

[TheUnknowable]

@mattmanganonKira saw a flashing indicator on her console. "Sir, the Trafalgar is sending out an old style radio signal. I believe they're hailing us." She tied it into the comms system and activated it, though it was audio only.

'This is the AES Trafalgar, part of Aegis-Steed Enterprises. We are 20 days out of Sentinel 3 and have had some engine trouble. Is there a port around here large enough that we can dock for repairs? Luckily, our defensive and offensive capabilities are fully online, so we will not be in need of an escort.'

Kira responded. "AES Trafalgar, this is the Bajoran space station Deep Space Nine. It appears that you have come through some sort of wormhole, and are quite far from home. This station is a trade and repair station, however, and we would be happy to have you come onboard so that we can explain the situation." She traded nods with Sisko. "You are cleared for upper pylon 2. Sending you docking instructions." She transmitted the instructions. Hopefully they could read the files. Otherwise she'd have to explain the docking procedures to them as they docked.

While this happened, O'Brian walked over to Sisko and explained the situation with the Pylon 1 docking port and the Odyssey, as well as the new station. "It's drifting towards us, and I don't think it could withstand a push from our tractor beams. If I could get a team over there, though, I could install structural integrity field generators and strengthen it enough to use its own thrusters to stop it's movement. It would require several repair teams, though."

"Ask the Odyssey if they can spare anyone." Sisko responded, scratching his goateed chin. "They want to help us against Adria. Maybe they would help us repair the other space station."

"It is emitting a signal, Benjamin." said Dax. "Could be a distress signal, but it looks like the transmitter is damaged."

"In that case, take Dr. Bashir and a medical team with you. They could have casualties."

"We'll be lucky if they have life support." O'Brian said, walking towards the turbolift.

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Kira looked at Munroe. "Don't worry. If they try to convert me, I may kill myself before betraying the Prophets."

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Kiva Riece, a Bajoran captain, received a message on his commlink and, after decrypting it, got up from his table, tossed Quark a few slips of Latinum for his drinks and meal, and made his way towards upper pylon 2. His orders were clear. He was to make contact with whichever crew member of this new ship had power to rival a Prior's and try to convert him. If he couldn't be converted, he was to kill the man so that he couldn't stand in the way of Origin. Thankfully he was able to hide his true nature with the power of his mind or, if they used those anti-prior devices they now had, through use of a holo-generator and personal forcefield necklace the Orici had taught them to create.

[Dr Catfish]

The silence of space was the only sound inside the derelict station. It was incredibly queer in craft. It had no visible signs of a life-support system at all and only had sparse few lights throughout the halls. Every aspect was clinical. The walls were bleached white with no aesthetic markings. There were no windows or even seating arrangements. The halls were simply long rectangular tubes with doors set into the steel. The docking bay the rescue crew had landed in - designed for much larger crafts - was in shambles, with a barely working umbilical tether that was limply hanging opposite the direction of the station's motion.

Getting close, one could see a particularly odd section of the ship branched off. A large rectangular assembly with several breaks in the steel structure in some sort of pattern. The branch was nearly as long as the station itself, and had a hole directly in the center almost as wide as a one-manned fighter. Closer inspection would reveal it to be a weapon of massive scale. Energy coursed through the sides, but the structure was warped and twisted, bent in obscure places which forced to power to jump and arc uncertainly through the branch.

No markings or distinguishable identification remained anywhere. It was impossible to tell if one room was an infirmary or an armory. If the engineers entered one, they would find impossible to understand research schematics and designs, as well as blueprints written out in 1's and 0's streaming by like the Matrix on aerogel screens. The reason for the disrupted, faulty distress signal was obvious. The antennae which rested dead center the station, opposite the weapon was warped and twisted as well. The station looked like a large blocky disc. Four arms with triangular sections connecting each arm together, slanted diagonally. One whole quadrant was missing, revealing sparking electrical conduit and inwardly exploded steel plate.

Nexus still remained in the secure hangar for its own personal craft, utilizing the stations sensors to register the presence of another ships radiated heat signature, as well as several organic bodies which were disrupting the motion sensors laid throughout the station. DS9 did not require heat radiation to defuse entropy, so it remained undetected. Nexus' craft was near flight worthy, authorizing the machine to speed up the repair. But could it leave yet? The Application wing held the most important remaining items. It could not leave without them. Finishing up the repairs, it was doubtless that the engineers and medical staff would have located each wing. Not yet finding the machine however, or locating anything of value, as certain doors were sealed with bit-locked code. 1024 key encryption on a five second reset protocol meant that only force or a multi-cote quantum computer could open the doors. Nexus was one of the two.

Analyzing options... Processing . . . Complete. Cataloging in order of least likely: Eliminate all organic members aboard Lazarus personally, reactivate HADoS cannon to strand organic members, Infiltrate Application division via maintenance shafts.
WARNING: Maintenance shafts no longer filled with corrosive gas, possible station wide infestation of organics.
WARNING: Station wide self-destruct impossible, missing Ion Stabilizer. Technology at risk.
Current likely possibility: Threaten or negotiate with infiltrators to leave.
Chance of non-aggression from organics minimal. Proceeding with caution.

Nexus ceased everything instantly, dropping the myriad array of tools it had been using and roughly tearing open a hatch to enter an eight foot tall shaft covered in darkness. The royal blue optic of Nexus remained as the only light source. It would take a minute or less to enter the Application division, where Nexus would downloaded the bits of development code before smashing the instruments. These sounds could be heard on the other end of the Divisions doors, which unlocked remotely minutes after that when the machine had armed itself with half-working weaponry. The machine would wait for an unfortunate person to enter and hold them hostage in an attempt to negotiate. Or so that was the plan. Organics were always tricky.

[Burning Kitty]

"From this point forward all Bajoran personnel should not be allowed to work without having a Federation or other non-Bajoran personnel beside them. From my understanding of the timeline you have already been infiltrated. Ideally all Bajoran personnel should be quarantined on Bajor until Origin is defeated, I know Bajor's government won't stand for that." While Morningstar is talking with Sisko and Kira she was communicating with her wife with a series of taps over a two way communication system from the future.

Masters responds back with an affirmative. She contacts the guests "Spartans, Nomad arm yourselves and scan the station for anything unusual. Yes I know pretty much everything is unusual to you in this universe, but our scanners will pick up the unusual for you, relay everything to me. When you find it, have our teleporter chief teleport you there immediately. Neutralize all threats, do not kill. They are no use to us dead." She then contacts the teleporter chief and gives the order to do as the guests may order or demand.

[mattmanganon]

-AES Trafalgar-

Gregorio had made his way down to the engine room. Passing a number of crewmen, he made his way to a Lorgon that was looking over several of the Munchausen Reactors. "Panku. How does it look?" he asked. The Lorgon looked at him and his translator flared up with a loud, metalic crackling.

"Not looking good. I'd rather get her into Dry-Dock before we tried to jump again."

"We seem to have gone quite a distance, I have no idea where we are and what's going on around us. We may need to jump in a hurry." he said. The Lorgon sighed.

"I don't appeciate you asking me for my advice, then just saying you will do what you want anyway." Panku growled. Lorgons were known for their stand-offishness against humans, most of them refused to even fratronize with Humans at all. Panku had been saved by his father and had pledged to join as chief mechanic for the ship. Even so, he was still known for an acute dislike for humans, even if he didn't let it get in the way of his work. He also had a cybornetic arm which helped him to no end.

"Alright. I do respect you and your advice. I'm just saying that we may not have a choice in the matter. Dry Dock is expensive and we may not be able to. We'll be docking soon, but it's going to be umbilical." Panku sighed and went back to work. "At least give me a day to run the diagnostic with Khepri." he said. Khepri was the ships computer.

"I will do my best to give you a day." Gregorio replied. At that point, a pannel on the wall began to talk in a monotone voice.

"Captain, Trafalgar is now performing final docking procedures." it said.

"Thank you, Khepri. Please ask for an engineering team as well as parts, tell them to charge whatever they need to the company bank account and send them the details. Also, i'll be coming aboard with a few of my security personnel."

"It would be my pleasure." The computer replied.

****

The final few puffs from the monopropellant that the docking thrusters used and Trafalgar was safely grappled into a position where it's umbilical could lock in to the stations universal docking port. The clamps locked in place and the hatch hissed as it opened. Gregorio, along with Malla, Lance and a few of the security toopers stood, as they met with their welcoming party. Each of the Trafalgar's crew had a CQC weapon noticable on their figure somewhere. No guns, with the exception of the Caster that was fixed to the outside of Malla's bright golden Gauntlet.

[TheUnknowable]

@Dr CatfishChief O'Brien, Dr. Lee, and two crew each from the Odyssey and DS9 walked the halls of the derelict station, suited due to the lack of atmosphere from multiple hull breaches. "Ok," said O'Brien. "Three teams of two, one from each group. Lee and I will try and get a computer interface running so we can run diagnostics. T'Prin and Johnson, you start heading to the first mounting point for the structural integrity field generators. Lindstrom and Lo, you head to the second site. If you find anyone alive, get them back to the runabout so Dr. Bashir can look them over."

With that the three teams split up. O'Brien and Lee assumed that the higher-than average power levels they were detecting were near a working computer console, and so headed that way. It only took them a couple of minutes to hack the door control, though Lee wasn't certain that he had been the one to unseal it, and they made their way down the hall.

Lee lifted his scanner. "The power signature is coming from a few meters inside this room." he said, stepping inside.

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@Burning Kitty
"I won't treat people like criminals because of their race." answered Sisko, "but I will tell Odo to keep anyone that's joined or sympathizes with Origin under surveillance. If they do anything to threaten the safety of people on this station, I'll have them arrested and questioned.

Down on the Promenade Captain Kiva walked by several men in heavy armor who were carrying Phaser Rifles, as they functioned as Starfleet Security and were therefore allowed to carry them.. Their scanners would show that his necklace was technological, but they wouldn't necessarily reveal exactly what manner of technology was concealed within. Adria had designed it better than that.

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@mattmanganonOdo and several security officers met Col. Carter and Dr. Zelenka from the Odyssey outside the airlock to Upper Pylon 2. The two people from the the Odyssey had beamed into position a few seconds earlier, still unable to use the airlock.

When the people from the Trafalgar came out of the airlock, Odo stepped forward. "I'm Odo, chief of security for Deep Space Nine. I'm going to have to ask you to return your weapons to your ship. I don't allow weapons on this station except for authorized personnel. I'll be taking you to the station's Commanding Officer, though. He may authorize you to carry weapons."

Odo stepped to the side while he waited to see what they would do about their weapons, and let the two Odyssey Crew members step forward. "Hello, I'm Colonel Samantha Carter," she said, holding out her hand, "and this this is Dr. Zelenka. We are from the ship parked beside you, called "Odyssey". Normally they wouldn't ask the crew of one ship, especially the commanding officer, to help repair another ship, bu the station detected a slight leak of several forms of exotic matter and radiation from your vessel. We were asked to see if you needed help repairing it, as our FTL technology is much closer to yours that anything the people that run this station are familiar with, and we are both engineers."

[mattmanganon]

Gregorio looked the people up and down. Most were human, except the one that talked to them, this "Odo" character. Although their uniforms were strange, Gregorio could only assume that these people were Space Forces. "My name is Gregorio Stensia. I apologize," He began "I had no idea that this was a Space Forces installation. We were under the impression it was Outlaw territory. Well, it is always a pleasure to be here, can you tell me, who is the CO of this station, I still have a few friends from my days in the Federations proud navy." He smiled at Odo. Meanwhile, Malla put her head close to If I, sniffing his face.

"You look funny. You're not human." Gregorio shot her a look that might have melted the back of her skull, had he been as powerful as Lance.

"I apologize. This is my wife, Malla, she means Well, but you know how Ctarl-Ctarl are. Blunt and subtle as a Munchausen reactor overload." He tried to smile again, but now he was embrassed. Luckily, they were saved by a member of the Trafalgars crew, a Silgrian, fetching their weapons to take back to the ship. Lance kept his staff.

"My leg isn't very good," he explained "I need this to walk." As the crew of the Odyssey told them of their ability to help, he looked at their uniforms. Much closer to those of the Space Forces he remembered.

"What do you mean 'Our technology is closer to yours' we, besides the good chief and my wife, are all human?" He was puzzled, but that could wait until their shop was spaceworthy again. "Alright, I'll show you to our Engine room, our chief engineer is Lorgon, I know our species don't see eye-to-eye, but trust me, you won't find a better engineer." He then turned around. "Lance, meet with the station commander. Find out all of the technicals. Star-charts, docking fee's, resupplies, the works. And Malla," The Ctarl-Ctarl turned to him "Please try to behave..." He sighed. She saluted in response.

[Burning Kitty]

"I knew you would say that. I told my wife the Emissary of Death would not be of any help but she insisted on at least trying. I'll give you one last bit of advice it will save your life, if you listen, not that you have really done that up to this point. Don't ever be in a room with a door that others can lock without your permission, as for why the answer rhymes with scrutiny. My wife has informed our guests of the trouble this station is facing they are actively searching for the trouble makers we didn't tell them they were Bajorans, we chose their help because they are immune to the effects of Origin turning people into Priors with their cybernetic enhancement or symbiotic suit. My ship's computer is actively searching for things unique to the enemy, when it finds they will be teleported there to kill the bastard and anyone who stands in their way. A few additional deaths of non Origin believers versus the incalculable deaths and destroyed planets is a small price to pay." Captain Morningstar teleported from Sisko's office to her ship.

"Captain we have a ship attempting to leave Bajor." Alexia mumbled under her breath, so it begins. "Open hailing frequencies." A human female answered. "This is Captain Morningstar of the Federation Starship Cerberus. Ships attempting to leave Bajor have two options one to turn around or destroyed. You have five seconds to turn around." Alexia turns to her weapons officer. "Target the ships engine." Turning back to the woman on ship leaving Bajor. "What will it be?" The woman turned her ship around and hailed Deep Space 9's captain.

Morningstar then ordered the Cerberus to split into three separate pieces she commanded one section, her wife commanded one, and her weapons officer commanded the third. "Cerberus Beta & Gamma this Cerberus Alpha. Begin patrolling the outer edges of planet Bajor's sovereign space. Do no cross unless you absolutely have to. If they refuse to return to Bajor always go for the quick kill if you have to destroy them. No need to make them suffer."

The three pieces of the Cerberus patrolled their designated areas.

The guests of the Cerberus were stationed on Cerberus Alpha and still looking for whatever they were supposed to be looking for.