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» LCARS » Newspaper: The Federation Tribune » Newspaper Archives » 2003 » May 2003 » Project Star Gate --- Chapter X --- ' Prophecy, part 2' by Mark van der Laan
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Space, the final frontier. Or is it? In a remote corner of the Alpha Quadrant, a new and unique project has been started. Here, in the distant Bel System we find a new type of star base, one unlike ever seen before. This star base, wielding the codename 'Maelstrom', utilizes the sun's power to create a rift in space, a vortex much alike a wormhole, for a brief period of time, allowing whatever passes through it to travel to any part of the galaxy, or even to distant galaxies. However when something goes wrong, the station and its crew accidentally get transported to a distant galaxy. These stories follow the adventures of its crew as they travel towards new destinations, meeting new friends and encountering new foes, hoping that their next teleportation will lead them home. These are the adventurers of the Star Gate.
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David Rolans:
Commanding Officer of the Maelstrom. A young terran StarFleet officer. Though still inexperienced at being in command, he is anything but naive.
Captain Black:
Originally assigned to guide Commander Rolans to the Maelstrom, Black turns out to be more than just an escort, always around to lend a helping hand.
Jagh Ramen:
A trill with an almost impossible tranquillity; Jagh is assigned as David's first officer and tries to perform that duty at his best ability.
Argol Manck:
A tall Cardassian with a grumpy attitude; Why exactly he got assigned to the Maelstorm is still a mystery, but he seems to do his job well so nobody's really complaining. Argol is in charge of station security.
Anya Maras:
A bajoran woman who mans the science station; her knowledge seems varied, and her social skills well developed, even though she can't stand Manck, for obvious reasons...
Daniel Jackson:
A human in his thirties in charge of engineering. His skills are average, but his ability to improvise more than makes up for it, and he's one of the people who helped constructing the Central Reactor and one of the few who understands it fully.
Doctor Ragg:
A Ferengi as cowardly as they come, yet Ragg's medical skills and techniques rank among the finest in medical circles.
Tal Rehu:
Romulan spy responsible for the accident on the Maelstrom's first mission, causing it to get lost in space; was imprisoned in the brig but has managed to escape captivity recently after an uncontrolled 'teleport'.
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David Rolans, a young StarFleet officer, has recently been promoted to command the star base that goes by the codename of "Maelstrom", a starbase that is equipped with a unique and experimental generator capable of opening a stable wormhole.
The freshly appointed commander and his new staff are faced with several problems shortly after Rolans' arrival, but all of these turn out to be childsplay when the Maelstrom's first mission goes horribly out of hand...
A Romulan intruder manages to sabotage the station, causing an overload in the main reactor, resulting in the entire station being transported to a new, unknown destination, in a completely different galaxy.
Their unplanned jump has them wind up near a pre-warp M-class planet, inhabited by a civilization roughly comparable to medieval earth. On the same planet they also met a strange being from an advance civilization, one that in appearance looks lot like The Devil.
After a short dialogue, two Extras getting disintegrated and the crew's upsetting of an entire planet's destiny by blowing their god to bits, the crew returns to the Maelstrom just in time to see the devil-like creature's ship disappear completely...
With no way of getting home, the crew decides to take a risk - an uncontrolled jump without knowing where they would appear, with the possibility of materializing inside a planet or even a star.
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