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Settling into their positions on the Bridge alongside the Delta Shift crew, [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]] ensures that the viewscreen provides the Bridge with a video feed inside of the Cube, piggybacking off of the signals from the away team's tricorders. With their primary focus on assisting the away team with their own scans and maintaining a transporter lock, tension is high, but it is nothing compared to the alarm that occurs when suddenly, an explosion occurs in the Secondary Sensor Control Room, rocking the ''Artemis'' and killing not only the sensors, but also restarting every bridge console and knocking out all phaser arrays. Accessing the computer bank, [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]] locates a video feed from the site of the explosion, and what appears on the video causes her to suggest a hypothesis: Have the Borg assimmilated Changelings? | Settling into their positions on the Bridge alongside the Delta Shift crew, [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]] ensures that the viewscreen provides the Bridge with a video feed inside of the Cube, piggybacking off of the signals from the away team's tricorders. With their primary focus on assisting the away team with their own scans and maintaining a transporter lock, tension is high, but it is nothing compared to the alarm that occurs when suddenly, an explosion occurs in the Secondary Sensor Control Room, rocking the ''Artemis'' and killing not only the sensors, but also restarting every bridge console and knocking out all phaser arrays. Accessing the computer bank, [[T'Ama|LtJG T'Ama]] locates a video feed from the site of the explosion, and what appears on the video causes her to suggest a hypothesis: Have the Borg assimmilated Changelings?<br><br> | ||
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While the idea itself is a massive leap considering the limited evidence available, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] decides it worth acting on. After confirming the location of either Ensign Li or Crewman Nubar - the two identities reflected in the security log - the internal sensors locate Nubar in a Jeffries' Tube near Deck 13 where [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] and [[Jaseb Chevalier|Ens Chevalier]]. Deciding to mind the bridge on his own, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] sends the two lieutenants on a manhunt. | |border = 1px | ||
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|quote =''We need our weapons online, A-flippin’-SAP. ::He pointed.:: If that Cube wakes up and decides it’s time to party, I want to have something more than rude gestures to throw at them.''|source = [https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/60zYeFrTMRA Lt.Cdr. Talos Dakora - Prove The Theory] - SD 240106.10}}While the idea itself is a massive leap considering the limited evidence available, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] decides it worth acting on. After confirming the location of either Ensign Li or Crewman Nubar - the two identities reflected in the security log - the internal sensors locate Nubar in a Jeffries' Tube near Deck 13 where [[Hallia Yellir|LT Yellir]] and [[Jaseb Chevalier|Ens Chevalier]]. Deciding to mind the bridge on his own, [[Talos Dakora|Lt.Cdr. Dakora]] sends the two lieutenants on a manhunt. | |||
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|quote =''The Borg are here, even if they’re not here. This cube only arrived a few days ago, and we have no indication that any entity, Starfleet or otherwise, detected their presence. I refuse to believe they just got here on autopilot…''|source = [https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/6kWODh0Bxs0 Cpt. Addison MacKenzie - Strange Readings] - SD 240106.07}} | |||
Heading into the Cube itself, [[Addison MacKenzie|Cpt. MacKenzie]] leads her team to Transporter Room One to outfit themselves with the necessary equipment. En-route, [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] recounts the exploits of Lieutenant [[Sheila Bailey]], the then-Assistant Chief Medical Officer of [[Starbase 118 Ops]], who spearheaded the development of a new anti-Borg medication when attempting to cure the assimilated crew of the [[USS Nimitz|USS ''Nimitz'']]. While the medication is years old at this point, and thus there is a very real possibility that the Borg nanites has adapted to it, the medicine is added to the first aid kits of the two Medical Officers. Upon arming themselves with weaponry and other essential equipment, the group is then transported to the Cube itself.<br><br> | Heading into the Cube itself, [[Addison MacKenzie|Cpt. MacKenzie]] leads her team to Transporter Room One to outfit themselves with the necessary equipment. En-route, [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] recounts the exploits of Lieutenant [[Sheila Bailey]], the then-Assistant Chief Medical Officer of [[Starbase 118 Ops]], who spearheaded the development of a new anti-Borg medication when attempting to cure the assimilated crew of the [[USS Nimitz|USS ''Nimitz'']]. While the medication is years old at this point, and thus there is a very real possibility that the Borg nanites has adapted to it, the medicine is added to the first aid kits of the two Medical Officers. Upon arming themselves with weaponry and other essential equipment, the group is then transported to the Cube itself.<br><br> | ||
Arriving on the Cube, the away team is concerned upon discovering that there are no lifesigns in the immediate vicinity, and indeed, for quite a distance. It looks - as the scans claimed - inert and abandoned, but [[Savel|LtJG Savel]] urges caution. Nothing seems visibly wrong with the Cube, so surely there'd be no reason for the Collective to just abandon it in this way. Concerned by the fact that none of their tricorders register lifesigns despite the Cube having only appeared in the Badlands a few days ago, [[Addison MacKenzie|Cpt. MacKenzie]] orders the group to descend onto a lower deck to locate an access node, so they might get some answers. En-route, the team has a brief stop prompted by an unclear registration of an intermittent lifesign, but with no conclusive evidence, there is little to be done. On the lower deck, however, the team happens upon a lone Borg Drone wandering erratically along the corridors, but most alarmingly: the Drone's lifesign is not registered.<br> | Arriving on the Cube, the away team is concerned upon discovering that there are no lifesigns in the immediate vicinity, and indeed, for quite a distance. It looks - as the scans claimed - inert and abandoned, but [[Savel|LtJG Savel]] urges caution. Nothing seems visibly wrong with the Cube, so surely there'd be no reason for the Collective to just abandon it in this way. Concerned by the fact that none of their tricorders register lifesigns despite the Cube having only appeared in the Badlands a few days ago, [[Addison MacKenzie|Cpt. MacKenzie]] orders the group to descend onto a lower deck to locate an access node, so they might get some answers. En-route, the team has a brief stop prompted by an unclear registration of an intermittent lifesign, but with no conclusive evidence, there is little to be done. On the lower deck, however, the team happens upon a lone Borg Drone wandering erratically along the corridors, but most alarmingly: the Drone's lifesign is not registered.<br> | ||
<br>As the team stealthily moves towards an access node, Doctors [[Gila Sadar|Sadar]] and [[Quentin Beck|Beck]] attempt to configure their tricorders in a manner to be able to register the Borg lifesign, but their efforts are unfruitful before the [[Addison MacKenzie|Captain]] manages to locate an access node. Upon accessing it, the [[Addison MacKenzie|Captain]] reveals that the drones seem to be in a sort of 'hibernation', awaiting a trigger that will eventually activate them again. What that trigger is remains a mystery, so the [[Addison MacKenzie|Captain]] deems it pertinent that the team head further down into the Cube to locate a peculiar power signature. Barely has the team started moving before [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] manages to find the necessary settings to register the masked Borg lifesigns, prompting a cascade of newly registered lifesigns. Not only is the Borg Cube not abandoned, but rather teeming with hibernating drones. She attempts to contact the ''Artemis'' to alert them to the required alterations to sensor settings, when her attempts at communications are met with silence. The away team has officially lost contact with the ''Artemis''-A.<br><br> | {{Quote box | ||
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|quote ='''''Sadar''': But a state of ‘hibernation’ indicates that some sort of trigger will wake them up. And with a half-synthetic lifeform like the Borg, it would stand to reason that the ‘trigger’ is going to come from the system, or the Collective. Captain?'' | |||
'''''MacKenzie''': I can’t tell. It’s like they’re waiting for something.'' | |||
'''''Sadar''': ::whispers:: Please don’t say we’re going to be playing ‘poke the bear’ here.'' | |||
'''''Savel''': I don't believe that 'poking a bear' is ever a sound decision.''|source = [https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/ugzTdpFJ7Mw LtJG Savel - A Smorgasbord of Borg. A Smorgas-Borg!] - SD 240106.09}}<br>As the team stealthily moves towards an access node, Doctors [[Gila Sadar|Sadar]] and [[Quentin Beck|Beck]] attempt to configure their tricorders in a manner to be able to register the Borg lifesign, but their efforts are unfruitful before the [[Addison MacKenzie|Captain]] manages to locate an access node. Upon accessing it, the [[Addison MacKenzie|Captain]] reveals that the drones seem to be in a sort of 'hibernation', awaiting a trigger that will eventually activate them again. What that trigger is remains a mystery, so the [[Addison MacKenzie|Captain]] deems it pertinent that the team head further down into the Cube to locate a peculiar power signature. Barely has the team started moving before [[Gila Sadar|LtJG Sadar]] manages to find the necessary settings to register the masked Borg lifesigns, prompting a cascade of newly registered lifesigns. Not only is the Borg Cube not abandoned, but rather teeming with hibernating drones. She attempts to contact the ''Artemis'' to alert them to the required alterations to sensor settings, when her attempts at communications are met with silence. The away team has officially lost contact with the ''Artemis''-A.<br><br> | |||
Allowing a brief moment of panic, [[Addison MacKenzie|Cpt. MacKenzie]] soon calls her officers to attention once more. The numerous new lifesigns are not paying any attention to the Starfleet boarders, but are instead heading towards that very same power signature that she noted earlier. And so, with urgency and no small amount of paranoia, the team continues on their way. Upon reaching the lower levels of the Cube, the amount of drones they have to make their way through has grown beyond numerous, and following the current leads them to a large antechamber lit up by a violent green light, with multitudes of Borg arranged around the source of the light in a peculiar pattern. | Allowing a brief moment of panic, [[Addison MacKenzie|Cpt. MacKenzie]] soon calls her officers to attention once more. The numerous new lifesigns are not paying any attention to the Starfleet boarders, but are instead heading towards that very same power signature that she noted earlier. And so, with urgency and no small amount of paranoia, the team continues on their way. Upon reaching the lower levels of the Cube, the amount of drones they have to make their way through has grown beyond numerous, and following the current leads them to a large antechamber lit up by a violent green light, with multitudes of Borg arranged around the source of the light in a peculiar pattern. | ||