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While the USS Thor prepares to leave New Bajor/the Gamma Quadrant, it receives a faint distress call on an unusual frequency at the edge of its range. Traveling to the source of the distress call, the crew discovers an unusual solar system enveloped within a highly charged nebula, and a failing primitive spacecraft trapped at the nebula boundary.   

After six years of arduous journey to the Edge, the crew of the Endless Golden Penetrator finds that the goal for which the starship was built has failed.  <ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-thor/c/3hm6UGldsfc/m/0QfFvDRUCAAJ Prologue: Shipmaster Anroc & The Pitiful Little People - The Cost Of Forever - PT1]</ref> Owner & Guildmaster Extraordinary, First Eternal, President for Life of the Saldanian Corporate Hegemony, Beloved & Benevolent, Everlasting & Magnificent Sal’Lat’Ut’Kel’Tras Anroc Disappointed with the loss of his assets and the damage to his reputation that such a fiasco represented on his home planet, he left his body behind on the vessel, thus leaving more than 1300 crew members at the mercy of the space singularity. <ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-thor/c/3QKmtgkXn44/m/zA4u2aVVCAAJ Prologue: Shipmaster Anroc & The Pitiful Little People - The Cost Of Forever - PT2]</ref> However, left to their fate, the Ephemerals Nenni Nokzu and Saulan Ket'han resolve to try one last option, launching a desperate distress call against the Edge, to make it bounce back to the home planet, whilst they try to take the fatally wounded vessel to a nearby planetoid. What no one suspects is that the one who will receive the signal will be someone unexpected...

Called upon by the Captain to act as first contact, Commander Teller, Lieutenant Alieth, and Ensign Jehe are transported over to the other ship.  Upon arrival, they are met with what seems to be an abandoned control room.  A moment later, two alien life forms are found hiding, and as the translator catches on to their language, they begin to understand the strange beings who have beamed aboard their vessel.  With the location deemed as safe, Captain Kells indicates to Lieutenant Sirok, Captain Greaves, and Ensign Katsim they will be on standby as a second away team.  A few hours later, the small group congregated in the transporter room.  Captain Greaves, decked out in an EV suit, suggests the others follow suit. They beamed to the shipwrecked ship, then known as the "Endless Golden Penetrator" and joined the first away team on the bridge.   

Meanwhile, on the Thor, the bridge crew discovered that the arrival of the Starfleet vessel had caused a wave in the nebula and that a wave in the opposite direction was heading towards them, composed of highly dangerous and energetic particles. With quick thinking they combined their efforts with the away team to surf the wave. One final group headed for the main sickbay to receive the first refugees.  

Lieutenant Alieth, and Ensign Jehe performed triage on all the Zet they could find, guided by Vice Associate Director Of Crew Fulfillment & Disposal Shaggee Rod'gurs, although their work was not without frustration and misunderstanding given the Zet's reluctance to accept a service without an economic exchange, which forced them into creative solutions and corporate discourse. Ensign Jehe was able to beam out of the ship (with the help of a priority beam tag that the Vulcan made sure to pin on her uniform without the Bajoran's knowledge) with the last refugees, but Dr. Alieth remained on the ship until the last minute trying to save as many of the crew as possible.  

In a fight against the clock, Commander Teller & Lieutenant Sirok jammed the Penetrator's systems with the Thor's to force a translation of the convoluted Zet script, just in time before the wave that the Thor's arrival had triggered in the Nebula struck. They were able to succeed at the very last second and the Thor was able to envelop the massive ship in a WARP bubble that saved it from destruction. However, they could not prevent contact with the wave from being agitated, let alone the Penetrator which lacked inertial dumpers, resulting in a broken nose and a flying Vulcan.