Tyran sat on the bridge manning his
station. A skeleton crew was currently manning the Ronin, as the majority of
the crew hadn't been able to get off DS11 in time for departure. Tyran and Kira
were the last two to board before it left, to investigate this unknown ship.
The New Operations Officer, Chief Talsmin, manned the science station, Tricia
was at the helm, Fenris at security and McQueen at Engineering. Jodana and To
were in sickbay and there was a full complement of engineers aboard.
"I bet you this is someone else after the Gemini Device," said Tricia
who decided to break the silence.
"It wouldn't surprise me in the least," added Elias.
"We can't jump to conclusions right now. This may just be an unknown species trying to make first contact with us. We are after all on the borders of known space!" said Kira.
"Or an unknown species coming to destroy us" stated Fenris.
"Kira, I can't get a clear sensor reading of it. It's using some kind of modulating shield frequency to mask its structure." said Tyran. "I can get a rough idea of its size though. It's about four times the size of us..."
"Lets hope they're not here to kill us, other wise we may not stand much of a chance. How long until we are in visual range?"
"About two minutes"
"Can I just ask what the Gemini Device is?" asked AJ
"My apologies Chief, you won't know anything of what has happened over the past few days. Basically, we have been given a gift to the federation by the Valarian Kindom to take here for study. We have been attacked by Romulans and Cardassians wanting to get their hands on it."
"I see."
"I would feel a lot better if the engineers on DS11 had removed it before we came out here" said Tyran. "Knowing what it can do and all, it makes me feel a bit odd."
"What does it do exactly?" asked AJ again.
"It creates a duplicate of whatever it is used upon. My cat had the unfortunate bad luck to have been duplicated, and the duplicate, from what we have seen turns out to be real nasty!"
"What could Starfleet want with a device that creates evil duplicates?"
"Starships. Why spend years building Starships, when you can duplicate one in the blink of an eye?"
"I didn't think of it like that."
"Kira, we're entering visual range now."
"On Screen"
The view Screen flickered on and displayed a Borg Sphere heading straight at them
[We are the Borg! Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile!]