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Stardate: 2391.05.28
Location: Pandora Station, in orbit of Pandora II
Summary:
The damage control teams who had gathered on deck 39, to find out what caused this explosion, had some unbelievable news. It seemed that a thruster assembly, which had been offline for repairs, had been activated. This had caused the explosion. Further investigation confirmed that there had been no order to fire these thrusters. It wasn't clear though how these thrusters could have fired, since the computer was offline, and not accepting commands anymore.
In another Jeffries tube, a security team, lead by Ensign Mera, made a remarkable discovery: they found some sort of device, which was attached to some of the ODN relays. This device seemed to have access to the computer systems! While investigating further, Mr. Ded'jol, a member of Mera's security team, was shot by an unknown assailant. Unable to pursue, Mera initiated a transport to Sickbay, where Mr. Ded'jol would be treated. Luckily, the injuries weren't fatal.
At about the same time, Captain Kane, while at Main Ops, discovered that although nobody had given the order, and the computer didn't know about it, most of the thruster assemblies of Pandora Station were active. . . causing the station to move closer and closer to the planet below.
But when Kane wanted to do something about this, the situation only got worse. A hologram of General Egim, a General in the Dholari military, appeared. It told Captain Kane what nobody had expected: the station was now under control of the Dholari military. Kane, enraged about this, ordered an evacuation of all non-essential personnel to the planet Pandora II.. It was estimated that the station would crash into the planet in two or three hours. If the Starfleet crew couldn't stop the thrusters from crashing the station, then it would be destroyed by the atmosphere of the planet they had always been orbiting.
But Kane didn't only order an evacuation. He also ordered aSTC Keening to bring the Dholari who had rescued Jalando from prison, to Main Ops. Also, Kane ordered the senior staff to the Briefing Room, for a meeting.
During that meeting, Counsellor Aslam played an incredible game of bluff, knowing that the Dholari might be listening in on their conversation. Hoping to have scared the Dholari into releasing control of the station back to Starfleet, the Pandora crew could only wait and hope for the best.
However, word of another tragedy reached the crew's ears. Ms. Keening and Petty Officer Linden had been shot, by the Dholari. These Dholari were now on the run. They couldn't have picked a worse time. Not only was the computer in the Dholari control, but there was also the chaos of the evacuation to think about. Still, Commander Jalando, Lt. Nel and Ensign Stone were ordered to go down to deck 145. . . the place where Keening contacted Kane, before she passed out.
When these three officers arrived at deck 145, and saw Keening lying there unconscious, with her knee shattered, Nel and Stone walked towards Keening. . . but Jalando didn't. Instead, he pulled a phaser on these two officers, and initiated a site to site transport. Nel and Stone could do nothing else but transport Keening and Petty Officer Linden to sickbay, and wonder what happened. . .
Meanwhile, in Engineering, Jalando rematerialised. He faked a generator overload, causing everyone in Main Engineering to clear the area. ACEO Morabulu was the last one to go. . . but he noticed that Jalando stayed in Engineering, and seemed to have control over the computer! Jalando stopped the overload with a simple command. But that wasn't all: He also erected forcefields around the room, and transported in the Dholari!
Captain Kane, who quickly got contacted by Morabulu about the whole Jalando-working-with-the-Dholari matter, took OPS Nel and ASTC Sobra with him to Engineering. There, it became painfully clear that Jalando and the Dholari were not only in control of Engineering. . . but of the entire station. And there seemed to be nothing that any of them could do about it.
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