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  • ‘No booze,’ said Cortez as she slid into the chair across from
Kharth, their table near the windows of the lounge. ‘I’m too wiped. And coffee’s
gonna make me too wired.’ 

‘Surprised you agreed to a break at all,’ sa…
  • Kharth tried to not jump when
Lieutenant Davir Hargan stopped next to her post at tactical. The waiting wasn’t taking long, but it was still waiting,
something she preferred to fill by making sure she knew exactly what would go&#…
  • ‘You know, I’m glad there are people on your Endeavour none
of us recognise,’ Commander Robert
Templeton of the alternative Endeavour
said across the viewscreen. ‘I was starting to feel like the odd one out that nobody knew m…
  • ‘If we can detect them,’ said MacCallister, leaning back on the command
chair, ‘we can communicate with them.’ 

Commander Templeton folded his
arms. ‘And then what, sir? Say
“Hey?”’ 

‘We ca…
  • Rourke turned to take in the
bridge. ‘What’s this - a Luna-class?’ 

‘Insignia.’ Valance’s voice was low, flat, and was staring
at the command chair. ‘This is the USS Derby.’ 

‘Oh.’ He looked at the…
  • ‘Rourke!’ 

His eyes flickered open to find
Valance bent over him. It didn’t sound like this was her first try to get his attention, and his
head was pounding too badly to care about propriety. ‘I’m… Christ. I’m awak…
  • ‘I don’t believe him,’ Valance snapped, practically wearing a hole
in her carpet as she paced about her office. ‘How dare he speak to us like that? Speak about the captain
like that?’ 

Airex looked at the sandwich&a…
  • ‘We crossed the Federation border into the Triangle last night at
0200 hours,’ Rourke confirmed for the senior staff gathered in the conference
room. ‘Our orders at present are to proceed no further than the Azure Nebula,
whe…
  • (Image) 
 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.                 - ‘The Road Not Taken,’ Robert Frost


————— 

The kitchen was o…
  • ‘Scotch. Islay single malt, to be precise.’ Rourke put the tumbler
on his desk in front of Torkath. 

The Klingon picked up the amber
liquid and had an experimental sniff. ‘This is what we drank last time?’ &#13…
  • ‘So how does this work?’ said Cortez, pacing in the corridor
outside the bunkroom they’d been able to commandeer on T’lhab. Thawn had
reported their rescue by the Orion crew, and at the same time the King Arthur’s attackers had been …
  • ‘You’re
back, Starfleet.’ Olgren, skipper of the Orion mercenaries of the Lancing Juggernaut,
looked surprised to see Cortez pull up a stool opposite him down in the
Cluster. 

‘Olgren.
Big Kitta.’ Co…
  • I don’t know why I’m here, Cortez thought as she
followed Valance and Lindgren through the door into Korta’s personal chambers on T’lhab Station. Whatever
his formal role for the Brethren, it had to be important enough to grant him&a…
  • ‘Listen,’ said Drake. ‘I know how places like this work. With the
right pressure, the Juggernaut
team will help us. Orions always have a price.’ 

They were all sat in the
meeting room behind the King Arthur’…
  • ‘I
think,’ said Cortez, looking up at the hallway leading to the heart of T’lhab
Station, ‘we’re back to you doing the talking, Commander.’ 

‘I know.’
Valance’s jaw was tight. ‘This is what I was afraid of.’…
  • ‘I expected more Klingons,’ said Cortez, trying to not be surly as
she felt the drugs from the medkit purge the lingering hangover from her
system. It did not feel as good as it should have. 

‘The Klingon Empire is …
  • ‘We’re still about ten hours out,’ said Drake at the sound of
boots on the ladder up. ‘All going fine.’ 

‘Excellent.’ He’d expected Valance, so scowled when he heard Thawn’s
voice. ‘I need access to the navigational…
  • ‘Stay in our wake once we cross the border.’ The small image of
Torkath on the King
Arthur’s display looked confident even as he gave them, a
Starfleet ship, orders. ‘Better to disguise your presence against all but the close…
  • Valance had just finished
packing when Airex arrived at her quarters. ‘Sensor analysis on the Blackbird warp signature,’ he said,
brandishing a PADD. 

She frowned, hefting her bag. ‘Thawn’s downloading everything fr…
  • (Image) I always have felt strange when we came home To the dark house after so long an absence, And the key rattled loudly into place Seemed to warn someone to be getting out At one door as we entered at another.                 - ‘The Fear,’ Ro…
  • ‘Alderman Riekan wanted me to extend her thanks to the entire
relief team, and to the crew at large,’ said Valance at the end of her report. ‘Of
course, particular thanks have been given to Commander Airex and Lieutenants
Kha…
  • ‘Dropping out of warp in one minute,’ reported Drake. 

Rourke sat up. ‘Red alert! Chief Kowalski, Lieutenant Thawn, I
want you to coordinate with Transporter Room 2 to find a lock on our people and
if we get the sli…
  • ‘You and I don’t really go on adventures together,’ said Carraway
as they stepped out of Jonie Palmer’s house into the bright light. ‘I guess I
don’t go on any adventures
much. I was real happy when we both went to that confe…
  • ‘Come
out, or we’ll start shooting settlers. That sounded pretty definitive to me.’
Kharth put her hands on her hips. 

‘I know.’ 

‘Sure,’
said Carraway, a bit pale. ‘But I don’t think they …
  • Petty principle was not enough reason to endanger
the ship, but it was enough reason
for Valance to resent that the most quickly-assembled, qualified team of
Starfleet personnel to kick invaders off the ship were all candidat…
  • ‘Folks! We got company!’ O’Dare had not looked like a woman easily stirred to action, reluctant to even descend from her threshing equipment to have a conversation. So her barrelling down the path to the village green towards them, waving her sun h…
  • ‘Landing party… maybe twelve?’ The farmer by the name of O’Dare dusted off her hands as she looked down at them from atop her thresher. ‘All armed. Rifles. Like the Alderman said, there were two ships in orbit, but they didn’t send so many people do…
  • ‘I wouldn’t know about that.’ The farmer hopped off the fence, dusting off his hands, and making it clear his break and their conversation was at an end. ‘When the Wild Hunt come around, they don’t come to this end of the town. All they’ve cared abo…
  • Sun-soaked fields rolled over gentle hills as far as the eye could see, sparkling golds and vivid greens. If Rourke turned he’d see the tidy buildings of Lockstowe’s capital, in itself nothing more than a humble farming town. The homes were made of …
  • Professor Juliette Gauthier had just tidied away the last of the dirty plates from the dinner party when there was a knock at her door. She’d spotted Marc’s jacket left over the back of an armchair and assumed he’d returned for it, so answered with …