Revelations

The crew of the Magellan successfully transfered to their new, improved ship. The small Starfleet armada assumed standard orbit around the borg assimilated planet and scanned for new threats.

Strangely, nothing was found. The borg didn't send any other ships and didn't activate orbital defenses. Mr. Roy, the communications officer, picked up some unusual subspace readings, and Mr. Joshua triangulated its origin on the planet surface. Gathering all their courage, the crew of the USS Magellan A decided to beam down an away team to investigate, while the Ajax and the Thunderstorm covered their backs in orbit.

The brave officers beamed down to a barren deserted area near an abandoned city. There was nothing in the landscape except for a few rocks, some dead animal bones and what appeared to be a rusty and abandoned land transport.

They stood there for a while, when all of a sudden a glowing beam of green light materialized a single borg drone right before their eyes. The drone was just standing there, doing nothing. No hostile actions of any kind. No other sign of the borg was noticed.

After a while the drone started moving slowly, as if he wanted the away team to follow it. They went after the deadly creature inside the abandoned transport, where they found a group of another 10 drones, also non hostile.

They were just staring at the group, as if they wanted to say something. The team located what appeared to be a working console, and had Gizmo examine it. The device was used to enhance telepathic communications among Gizmo's species.

Through the machine, they learned the assimilated members of Gizmo's race were able to retain some of their essence, even after being connected to the Borg Collective. With the help of Gizmo, they told they could severe the ties of the Borg in the planet with the Collective, which would deactivate and kill all of them. That would include Gizmo's assimilated brethren, but they were prepared to make the sacrifice.

More than that, they discovered the group of Borg inside that transport developed individuality and counsciousness after establishing contact with the telepathic aliens, and went rogue, much like Hugh, encountered by the Enterprise D. They were the ones preventing other Borg from attacking the crew of the USS Magellan A. They too would die along with Gizmo's kin and the rest of the Borg.

Not willing to sacrifice counsciouss beings, the Magellan officers decided to beam one of the rogue borgs aboard the ship and try to find a way to disconnect their group and Gizmo's brethren before wiping out the rest of the Borg in the planet.

How will our brave heroes get out of this one? Find out next post.

Starfleet Strikes Back!

Starfleet sent the USS Ajax to the Space Station where the crew of the Magellan was stranded.

They had a new Defiant Class starship on the way, the USS Magellan A, but it would take them some time to arrive. Instead, they lend the crew of the Magellan an Intrepid Class starship, the USS Thunderstorm, named after Commander Dustin's father, who died aboard the Enterprise D when it was destroyed.

They had orders to proceed immediatelly to Gizmo's homeplanet, which had been assimilated by the Borg, and use Gizmo and his friend's telepathic powers to try to sabotage the Borg Collective and stop the invasion in this sector.

They encountered what appeared to be a Super Borg Cube midway. It was 6 times a regular borg cube.
Tactical officer Joshua Humbrdige coordinated an attack with the USS Ajax. The Galaxy Class starship commanded by Captain Cobramax was able to divert the Cube's attention while the USS Thunderstorm continued to approach the planet. They were priority, because they carried the telepathic aliens aboard.

Still, the USS Thunderstorm crew had to stop their advance, because the Ajax was disabled and stopped responding communications. No man would be left behind, so they beamed an away team to the Ajax.

They had been overrun by borg drones after they were disabled. But the clever Klingon Captain of the USS Thunderstorm, with his first mate Mr. Sonic, worked a plan with Captain Cobramax, and they managed to isolate the borg drones in the saucer section, while the crew evacuated to Hull Section. So they performed the dramatic saucer separation maneuver, to completely isolate the Borgs and stop them from assimilating the entire USS Ajax.

Mr. Sonic managed to defeat the borg in the saucer section using his special technologically modified sword, to which the borg could not attack and had no defenses.

Still, the Super Borg Cube continued its attack. When all seemed hopeless for the USS Thuderstorm and the divided sections of the USS Ajax, the new USS Magellan A came out of warp speed with weapons blazing at full power.

The new modified Defiant Class starship had much superior firepower. Each hit took off a big hunk of the Super Borg Cube. The Ajax and the Thunderstorm combined their firepower and they ultimately destroyed that new Borg threat, that exploded in a huge fire ball.

The crew of the USS Magellan still had a job to do on the assimilated planet, which the borg had turned into a Cube factory. Will they succeed? Find out next post.

Some pictures of our Bird of Prey

I'm adding a few pictures of our Bird of Prey since it is to be sold in SL Marketplace.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Kal-Aies-Real-Size-Klingon-Bird-of-Prey/2582784