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<br>''Gila Thevn - her twisted mirror - smiled grimly.'' | <br>''Gila Thevn - her twisted mirror - smiled grimly.'' | ||
'''''Thevn''': I wanted to kill a Doctor. A pity I got the wrong one.''<br></center> | '''''Thevn''': I wanted to kill a Doctor. A pity I got the wrong one.''<br></center> | ||
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|'''{{nwhite|Alternate History (Artemis)|Alternate History}}''' - ''SD 2400101.26 - 240104.04'' | |||
At the tail end of a shoreleave on Betazed, the entire crew of the USS ''Artemis'' are waylaid by an old enemy of {{nwhite|Addison MacKenzie|'''Cpt. MacKenzie'''}} and her fellow crew from the {{nwhite|USS Excalibur-A|USS ''Excalibur''}} - a member of the Q continuum known as CloQ. Determined to play a devious game with the assembled officers, the Q displaces the crew at different points in time, marooning Gila, {{nwhite|Genkos Adea|'''Cmdr. Adea'''}} and {{nwhite|Jovenan|'''Lt. Jovenan'''}} in the {{nwhite|Genkos Adea|Commander's}} childhood home during the Dominion War. Or, at least, an alternate version of the Dominion War - one where Betazed is occupied by the Dominion, and {{nwhite|Genkos Adea|'''Cmdr. Adea'''}}'s child version was sent to a camp. While there, they encountered the alternate child-version of '''Tevet Elain''', a childhood friend of the {{nwhite|Genkos Adea|Commander's}}, who ran an impromptu pet kennel for all the displaced pets of the city in his basement.<br> | |||
While searching for information about this alternate reality that they had been sent to, Gila and her senior officers realize that this reality was brought about by way of the Romulans not joining the Dominion War in time to turn the tables on the Alliance's enemies. Without their added firepower, the Dominion War is still ongoing, with the Dominion having gained a great amount of ground in the Beta Quadrant. After a confrontation with CloQ in his father's study, {{nwhite|Genkos Adea|'''Cmdr. Adea'''}} initiated a house-wide search for a 'window', a method of travelling that occasionally cropped up during encounters with CloQ. They managed to locate such a schism, which connected to Ki Baratan - the capital of the long-dead world of Romulus - a year prior. Leaving Tevet to guard the window in her own time, the officers jumped through.<br> | |||
In Ki Baratan, the group joins up with the newly-arrived {{nwhite|Gnai|'''Ensign Gnai'''}}, who'd been displaced to this moment in time, seemingly on its own. While there, the group realizes that Senator Vreenak is returning to Ki Baratan in order to settle the political debate on what position the Romulans will take in the war, and the Senator will favor the Dominion. To {{nwhite|Genkos Adea|'''Cmdr. Adea'''}}, there is but one remaining course of action. They must prevent the Senator from convening with the Senate by force. As the group starts working on disguises to better traverse Ki Baratan, the {{nwhite|Genkos Adea|Commander}} realizes that the building they were transported to is connected to the planetary defense turret, which is quickly chosen to be the blunt instrument of their clumsy timeline surgery. The attempt is hamfisted at best - complicated further by the difficulties involving disguising Gila and {{nwhite|Gnai|'''Ensign Gnai'''}}, the actual technological know-how required to take control of the turret and the conniving finesse necessary to frame the Dominion for the Senator's untimely death - and when {{nwhite|Genkos Adea|'''Cmdr. Adea'''}} finally shoots down the approaching shuttle, it goes careening straight towards the turret, crashing the four Starfleet officers under it's massive weight.<br> | |||
Or so it should have.<br> | |||
Not interested in losing any of their game pieces, CloQ shuffles the boards, and Gila is summoned to their domain alongside {{nwhite|Talos Dakora|'''Lt.Cdr. Dakora'''}} and LTs {{nwhite|'''Jovenan'''}} and {{nwhite|Vitor Silveira|'''Silveira'''}}. CloQ engages the Starfleeters in a bit of taunting back-and-forth, before revealing that the assassination attempt was unsuccessful and ultimately unnecessary, resulting in an even worse timeline than the one they'd been originally moved to. Gila and {{nwhite|'''LT Jovenan'''}} despair at this, but CloQ offers them a final way out: If they can discover what was actually supposed to happen to the Senator, CloQ will reset the timeline back to its original state. This quest prompts CloQ to take the four Officers on a guided tour of the Deep Space Nine of 2374, frozen in time. Through sleuthing and hacking and trespassing the four Officers reveal the scandalous truth behind the successful war against the Dominion: Captain Benjamin Sisko, venerated war hero and Emissary of the Prophets, enabled, if not ordered, the unlawful assassination of a Romulan Senator, after unsuccessfully attempting to forge evidence that would pit Romulus against its Dominion allies.<br> | |||
Keeping their word, CloQ reunites the crew of the USS ''Artemis'' on their vessel, just outside of present day DS9, and leaves them to ruminate on their experiences and trails at the hands of the mercurial Q... | |||
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<center>''Gila looked up. She could not see the screen that the Lieutenant and Commander could, but she was able to see outside the translucent dome above them, even if the dark ambient lighting was muting visibility significantly. And more clearly than anything, she saw it. The vessel that was bringing the Senator closer to them, and them closer to their fate as…'' | |||
''Gila swallowed, even as she felt the truth stab into her heart.'' | |||
'''''Adea''': Okay… Wish me luck.'' | |||
'''''Gnai''': ::to the second floor:: Good luck! ::to Sadar, after a beat:: This feels wrong...'' | |||
'''''Sadar''': … I know...'' | |||
''Wasn’t there something she could do? Some wire or lever that she could pull to stop this? Some way she could alter the trajectory they were rushing down? She heard the security guards work on the door in-between the alarm klaxons and felt a headache manifest as her eyes tried to make sense of what she saw around her through the purple environment. She looked into the turret.'' | |||
''A failsafe. An emergency shut-down lever or button. An on/off switch! Anything!'' | |||
''oO Against the currents of time, only cooperation and unison can see us safe. Discord would see all drown, but together, we will float. Oo''</center> | |||
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