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  • Kharth had a head start on
Airex, and a Romulan in plain clothes could move through the crowds of
Sanctuary District Alpha with far more freedom than a pair of armed Starfleet
officers. So she got to the square first and spot…
  • When Kharth clambered up the
ladder into the King Arthur’s briefing room the next morning, she found Airex
and Beckett already in full swing. 

‘This is an opportunity to change countless lives,’ the young
en…
  • After ten minutes in a
bathroom, five minutes with a medical kit, and two minutes sat in the King Arthur’s briefing
room with a steaming mug of tea, Doctor Karl T’Sann looked a little more half-human. He’d tied his hair back,&#13…
  • ‘What are you
doing?’ Commander Airex had
demanded when he and a sullen Lieutenant Kharth had returned to the King Arthur to
find Beckett and Drake sat on the top of the runabout. 

Just to be judicious, Beck…
  • She was a Starfleet officer, a
veteran of campaigns against professional pirates and renegade Klingons, but to
walk these streets was to be a scrawny fifteen year-old again. 

The scent scraped the years
away…
  • Beckett hopped down the last
rung of the ladder out of the King Arthur’s hatch onto the dusty dirt of the surface of Teros
IV and immediately slid on his sunglasses. ‘Damn, I hate uniforms.’ 

Airex was already out, …
  • ‘Turnabout is fair play,’ said Valance, stood in the door to Airex’s
quarters. ‘Do you know what you’re doing?’ 

He was in his bedroom,
fastidious as he packed his carry-all, and didn’t look back at her. ‘Hullo to y…
  • For over twenty years, a whole
generation of colonists had eked out a living on this rough world. Not because
it was rich in resources or an agricultural breadbasket; not because it sent
precious minerals or abundant food bac…
  • ‘So, uh, guys, this is my roommate, Nate.’ Ensign Athaka gave an
awkward gesture as he pulled up a chair at the low table in the lounge. 

‘You don’t need to sound apologetic for bringing me along, pal,’ Beckett said with wr…
  • ‘I
assure you, Ardana Outpost, if there were any sign of the Phoenix
leaving the asteroid belt, we would have
detected them.’ 

Takahashi felt his throat try
to close up as the low voice of Commander …
  • The light was so bright and
clear in the gardens it felt like the air itself hummed. Rosara Thawn had not
visited the seat of the Twelfth House of Betazed, of the head of her household,
in many years. But to walk the long gra…
  • ‘Don’t listen to that blowhard West,’ said Hawthorne, following
Takahashi down the shuttlebay stairs. ‘He has a thorough lack of imagination
and an incapability of extrapolating beyond what he can see.’ 

Antar leane…
  • For the intervening episode, see the USS Endeavour thread for the Archanis Campaign. (Image) 
Turning
and turning in the widening gyre The
falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things
fall apart; the centre cannot hold; M…
  • ‘If we’re not out of here in two hours,’ Lopez told the staff
gathered around the briefing table, ‘then Vega gets hit with nobody to protect
them. The Decius has
better sensors than us, and will spot us before we spot them if…
  • ‘Steady as she goes, Antar.’ Lopez rested her elbow on the command
chair’s armrest, squinting at the viewscreen. ‘If we can slip through this
section, we should be in the clear.’ 

‘Still no sign of the bird-of-prey,…
  • ‘We’re at the periphery of the belt; reducing speed to one-quarter
impulse,’ said Antar, and Lopez felt the hum of the ship beneath her as the
decelerated. 

She had to remember that a ship
the size and power…
  • ‘This is unacceptable.’ 

Takahashi looked up from his
bridge post. ‘You’re going to have to
narrow that accusation down.’ 

Lieutenant Shepherd was West’s number two in the Science Department, which…
  • (Image) 
'Run and tell all of the angels This could take all night Think I need a devil to help me get things right' - 'Learn to Fly,' Foo Fighters



 Main Engineering was a buzzing
hive of activity…
  • It took the better part of four
hours before Lopez could leave the bridge. Going to warp was all well and good,
but the newly-settled staff of the Phoenix
all needed to acclimatise themselves with elements of the ship’s syste…
  • It was a sunny day in San
Francisco when the Phoenix was due to
launch, so Lopez slouched to the shuttlepad in large sunglasses to shield
against the bright light, horrifically hungover. Her pilot was smoking when she&#13…
  • Rourke hadn’t liked Kehinde Hargreaves very much when they’d
first met several months ago, and the prospect of him now commanding Beckett’s
flagship was not reassuring. But the weathered officer extended a hand as he
intercep…
  • ‘We’re minutes out, sir,’ came Drake’s brisk report. 

‘Boost power to the forward sensor array,’ said Rourke, glancing
over his shoulder to Airex at Science. ‘Let’s make sure there’s nothing in our
path.’ 
…
  • Interim events of this story are covered in 'The River of Blood' thread. 


 ‘This is it,’ said Adupon, gripping the pool table console in the
heart of Main Engineering. ‘This is how we’re going to die.’ 
&a…
  • Elsa Lindgren had seen combat
from a starship bridge before the D’Ghor came to Archanis. Even prior to the disaster at Thuecho that
had changed Endeavour
forever there had been encounters, however brief, however fewer&#13…
  • ‘Another casualty report, sir. Legera.’
Commander Reyes’s expression was studied as he extended a PADD across the desk
in Admiral Beckett’s Starbase 27 office. 

With a sigh, Beckett took it. He
clicked his t…
  • Victory didn’t happen all at once. It
often came slowly, part of an excruciating grind of overcoming one enemy,
moving on to another, then realising the tide had turned minutes, hours ago,
and here it was, the end. Beckett ha…
  • ‘Legera II confirmed secure, Admiral,’
came Commander Lockhart’s report from her station on the Caliburn’s flag
bridge. 

‘I see that.’ Beckett could actually
see about six crises at once, flashpoints of red …
  • (Image) 
Week 9 (10th - 16th April) 

This is the penultimate week of the
campaign! The Battle of Archanis continues apace, with action now promising to
spread across at least three systems. Week 10 will b…
  • USS Endeavour Haydorian System Thawn’s entry to Sickbay did not interrupt the soft
buzz of activity of medical staff preparing facilities and equipment, like the
rumble of distant storm clouds. With no immediate injuries or delivery …
  • Runabout King Arthur 

Haydorian System 

“Do you need to move so close?” Ensign
Athaka complained from the science controls. “You heard Lieutenant Thawn; we’re
to make sure they don’t pick us up bef…