Prolog: Nakul Assault

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Beta quadrant. Maxia sector. Neethia star system.

Captain's log stardate 88695.6, our routine patrol of the Maxia, Sector has brought us to the Neethia system. Upon our arrival into the system, we came under attack from renegade Nakul ships. They claim to be a part of the dead temporal liberation front. They have made no contact or have any hint as to the reason for their aggression.

Alert, hull integrity Down to 68 percent. Shield regeneration cycle complete, weapons systems down by 15 percent.

The bridge of the Sun Tzu was chaotic. Part of the ceiling had collapsed, the gap coved by a containment field. The aft left console was ablaze. The officer that had been unfortunate enough to be stationed at that console was on the floor next to it. It was hard to tell if he was unconscious or dead. On the viewscreen, the lead Nakul ship fired another disrupter shot, hitting the main deflector dish.

"Damage report," Captain Wolf breathed heavily. Smoke filled the bridge; it was hard to breathe. At the tactical/Security console, a Romulan in a Starfleet uniform works furiously to counter the Nakul attacks. She pulls up a report on the console:

"Hull breaches on decks 27 through 39. Emergency containment fields holding, casualties on all decks. Deck 20 reporting boarding parties."

The captain took this in for a moment.

"D'Elon, take a Security team, lieutenant Nosalk, and ensign Ch'asshrilril with you to engineering and secure deck 20." D'Elon grabbed a phaser and headed towards the turbo lift.

"Aye, sir." The two lieutenants and three ensigns entered the turbo lift, "Main engineering."

A few minutes later, the turbo lift doors opened to Main engineering. It was a large room divided up into several different smaller rooms. It was two decks high. The first deck consisted of a security checkpoint, ship damage control room, impulse and warp power control, axillary control room, a meeting room for the senior staff, and a storage room for hardware and equipment.

Consoles lined the rooms. In the warp power control room, the warp core sat beyond a balcony, it hummed furiously, and light flowed up to the dilithium chamber. On deck Twenty-one the main computer and shield control and several engineering labs for different projects. There was a plasma fire in the warp power control room, and Nakul Assault teams were in the impulse and warp power control modules and trying to break into Auxiliary control. D'Elon looked on at the chaos,

"Right, we need to put that plasma fire out, Ensign, see about activating the fire suppression system, the rest of you with me, we need to stop them from getting Auxiliary into control." D'Elon and the security team stepped out of the security checkpoint. Across from them, the ship Operations control sat; two Nakul Borders were inside trying to access one of the consoles.

"Thompson, clear out ops," one of the security officers nodded, readied his phaser, and moved off towards the ops center.

The team moved towards Impulse control while D'Elon hid behind the wall next to the door and snuck a peek inside.

Inside, she could see Five Nakul raiders talking. She knocked on the edge of the door.

"What was that? You, Go check it out." one of the Nakul walked out of the door.

The lieutenant quickly grabbed him, performing a Vulcan Neck Grip, rendering the raider unconscious. The Nakul inside saw him go down, and three of them went to investigate. They stepped out of the room and looked around; they turned to their right and were met with the security team.

The team fired their phasers, the beams struck the raiders, but they were equipped with Personal Shields. D'Elon switched her phaser to Split Mode and fired, while the rest of the team fired with their phasers set on a higher setting. The combined phaser fire was able to penetrate the shields.

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