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Mrs. Dakora realizes her son's identity immediately, but their reunion is cut short as a squad of Jem'Hadar blast their way into the community center where the group is holed up. Knowing that their fighting chance is slim with one phaser between five people, Mrs. Dakora leads the group to an access tunnel leading down to the resistance network below the city. After [[Jaseb Chevalier|Ensign Chevalier]] leaves a dastardly chemical trap for their Jem'Hadar pursuers, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cmdr. Dakora]] leads his team down while his mother goes up to finish the mission she was on, involving the demolition of a major crossroads and a nearby building, aimed at delaying and obstructing the occupying Dominion force on Betazed. While his mother is out of earshot, [[Talos Dakora|the Lt.Cmdr.]] brings his team up to speed on the identity of their rescuer and the complication of her continued existence in this version of 2376. Realizing that the very reason for their displacement is likely intrinsically linked to her, the Starfleet Officers accompany her back to the Resistance Hideout below [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cmdr. Dakora]]'s childhood home.  

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  |quote =''All of which brings us to the crux of things. It’s clear that we’re losing the war. Not just the fight here on Betazed, but the fight for the entire Alpha Quadrant. Which means, we have to do what we can to help – and the biggest difference we can make right now, as a planet, is to destroy those facilities. It won’t be easy, but there are some… structural flaws in the construction of the buildings; Concessions made in the name of expediency. We need to exploit those weaknesses.''|source = [https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/R61M-S2txEI MSNPC Leera Dakora - The Spirit of Betazed (Part 2)] - SD 240102.17}} There, the group makes the acquaintance of the Resistance Cell that Mrs. Dakora heads. After introducing [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cmdr. Dakora]] as a cousin, the Starfleet Officers are disguised and briefed on an upcoming operation to destroy the numerous Ketracel White factories that the Dominion has erected in the region. The chances of success are slim, but if successful, they will deal a severe blow to the Jem'Hadar soldiers' efficiency in their war against the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. After ensuring that his crew all have the chance to reject participating in the operation, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cmdr. Dakora]] and the Ensigns finalize the plan for the following day's operation with Nieran Dwayx, his mother's second-in-command.

 

Heading through the temporal window, the trio arrives on a walkway up in the skies of the Romulan homeworld, a world long-dead by the time of 2401. In order to stop the derailing of history, the three officers must head towards the Senate and intercept Senator Vreenek, but as they discuss how exactly to accomplish this, a Dominion vessel soars overhead. Perhaps they are already too late? Deciding that nothing could be gained by standing on a walkway in indecision, [[Genkos Adea|Cmdr. Adea]] leads the group into one of the connected skyscrapers, where the group encounters a very confused and very solitary [[Gnai|Ensign Gnai]]. Bringing the Ensign up to speed, the group are then surprised by a Romulan civilian nearly outing their presence on the planet, but between a bit of creative roadblocking by a clumsy [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] and a handy canewhacking, their cover is maintained a while longer.<br><br>

After disguising [[Jovenan|LT Jovenan]] as the now unconscious Romulan civilian, and managing to pull out a map of the building and the city-at-large, the group manages to locate a laboratory with funcioning replicators on one of the lower floors. While there, functional disguises, complete with wigs and prosthetics, are replicated to fit the [[Genkos Adea|Cmdr.]] and the [[Jovenan|LT]], and [[Genkos Adea|Cmdr. Adea]] realizes that they have a relatively clear shot at one of likely numerous planetary defense turrets, and a reasonable idea on how to carry out the assassination starts forming.

In the Betazoid shuttle, the team brainstorms on possible ways for them to retake the ''Artemis''. Deeming the hijacking of a Dominion freighter far too perilous, [[Addison MacKenzie|Cpt. MacKenzie]] puts her faith in a plan involving a spacewalk in environmental suits. The shuttle approaches the ''Artemis'', seemingly making it all the way to the access hatch without being detected. The entire group abandons the shuttle in favor of gaining access to their Starship. Once inside, [[Addison MacKenzie|Cpt. MacKenzie]] is able to access the computer to learn of the situation as is. Troubled by the presence of hostile boarders on her vessel, the group then enter the Jeffries' Tubes with hopes of locating a means of self-defense to aid them in retaking the Ship. Meanwhile, the Jem'Hadar command realizes that the ''Artemis'' has been boarded, and sets out for the lower decks in the hopes of capturing the elusive Starfleet Officers. When such attempts are met with limited success, the Jem'Hadar opt for gassing the Jeffries' Tubes in order to smoke out them out, prompting the team out into the open in Main Engineering, where a firefight soon ensues. Outmanned and outgunned by the hostile boarders, [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] opts to rupture a tube of warp core coolant, causing the computer to start containment procedures in Main Engineering. The four Officers narrowly escape Main Engineering before the blast doors seal in the Jem'Hadar, who opt to escape through the Jeffries' Tubes. It's now a race to the upper decks.<br><br>