War of the Gods

I admit that this started because of an overload of Stargate SG-1 but hey...a good idea is a good idea.:)

Anyway, the PCs are ordered to help in the search for a Trill transport vessel. They find that it had crashed on a desolate desert planet near what appears to be an elaborate temple complex. There are no survivors on board the ship but they do find what appears to be one survivor inside the empty temple. The survivor is a Trill host who is seriously injured. The crew is ordered to bring the Host back to Trill for medical attention or if necessary to transplant the symbiont to a new Host.

During the rescue mission, the joined Trill CMO feels incredible unease inside the temple, but she has no idea why. Although it seemed related to the survivor.

On the trip to Trill, extended due to a ion storm, the CMO notices that the injured Host is healing on his own at an increased rate far beyond those ever recorded before. Further, the CMO discovers no record of this particular Host/symbiont bonding...there is no records in an Trill database about a symbiont matching the symbiont's characteristics.

Meanwhile, down in the cargo hold where the bodies of the Trill crew are stored, the autopsies reveal that the crew did not die in the crash but were killed by some sort of ultrasonic beam weapon which shutdown all brain function.

The crashed vessel's log is badly damaged and very little information could be gleamed from it. Except a note from the captain that they were responding to a distress call which brought them to the desolate planet. The Chief Engineer is suspicious and brings it to the CO's attention. There were no signs of life anywhere on the planet. None and no trace of anything else other than the crashed ship and the temple complex.

The CO is preplexed by these strange occurances and assigns the Ops officer to look into it. The only person who can answer questions is the Trill Host but he's still unconscious. The Counselor tries to communicate with the symbiont through telepathy but there is a psyhic feedback and the counselor is injured.

The CO is now worried, something is definately not right and there could be a greater danger to the ship itself. So she orders the Host isolated and details two security guards to sickbay while the CMO works out why the Host is healing.

Anyway the Host regains consciousness. He claims he cannot remmber what happened, only that the ship received a distress call and then suddenly she crahsed. The next thing he recalls is waking up in sickbay. The CMO is uneasy during her entire interview with the Host, she later tells the CO that she felt something strange and "evil" in the room and her own symbiont has become agitated and bioreadings are well above the norm.

Meantime, the ops officer is doing an extensive search of all databases to see if she can learn anything but finds nothing except for some obscure reference in Trill myth to a type of symbiont which can actually heal their Hosts but it is considered a myth although the CMO is not so ready to discount it. She tries to contact her friends in the Symbiosis Council but is unable to get any information about the Host or the symbiont. In fact the Council seems to be hiding something.

The ship arrives at Trill and the Host is taken to the Symbiosis Council medical facility to be met by officers of Trill security who take the Host into custody. No explanations are given and the PCs are told that it is an internal Trill matter which is not their concern which raises the hackles of the CO who arranges for the ship to remain at Trill for a few days so that her crew can get some shore leave.

The CO's instincts prove correct, when the Host escapes from custody and dissapears into the wilds of Trill. Scans from orbit are uanble to detect the Host so a massive manhunt is underway until he is found in a secluded valley deep in Trill's greatest mountain range. The PCs and Trill security arrive to find a temple complex which is a duplicate of the one the crew found thousands of light years away. Only the Trill did not know it was there.

The Host appears wearing ancient Trill clothing and carrying a mysterious weapon. He speaks in a strange voice, the voice of God he says. He taps a control and more Trill Hosts come out of the complex all similarly dressed and armed. The Host calls on the Trill to surrender to kneel before their true Gods.

(end of Part I)

Evil Trill? Alright I'll bite:)

It's a cool idea, especially if they become a real power and begin to be capable of taking different hosts. Expanding and creating new cloned hosts. Kind of a SG-1 mixed with StarTrek. Interesting concept.

By any chance have you written up part 2?;)

Some food for thought:

1. Consider the dilemma if a player-character Trill was part of this 'cult' or 'faction' in a previous cycle. They may begin feeling conflicting emotions or a summons from the 'god'.

2. Might this also be one of the reasons the Symbiosis Council is so dead-set against reassociation? Not because they're afraid you'll hook up with your former lover, but because that was one way to bury the cult members over the years ...

3. Someone HAS to have the full records, even if it's a big hush-hush secret, told only under pain of death, etc. A player-character Trill who spills the beans could later face censure ... even if they did the right thing and ultimately save the day.

4. What would the impact be if the Federation Council ruled this to be an internal conflict, and declared hands off. "Captain, your orders are to withdraw from the area immediately. You will receive a new assignment within 48 hours ..."

Bob

As the stand-off at the temple site begins, onboard the ship, sensors begin to detect a starship dropping out of warp.

It turns out to be part of the temple complex from the desert planet (predictable huh)...as it approaches the temple site on Trill begins to rumble as if there was an earthquake. The strangely customed Trill rush inside and sections of it begin to launch into space. The ship manages to transport the crew and Trill security personnel onboard just in time to watch the temple site blast off into space to make rendevous with the temple from the desert planet.

As the site blasts off, it blasts several archeological sites on the planet surface, along with several monuments, ancient monuments from Trill's historical past.

The CO is summoned for a meeting with the Trill President and the Symbiosis Council. She brings the CMO with her to act as her Trill specialist. The Trill try to exclude the CMO from the meeting but the CO insists.

The Council gives the CO an ancient book they say is an artifact from Trill's pre-symbiosis past. Mellenia ago, the humanoid Trill were the only people who lived on Trill, the symbionts were not native of the planet but arrived in a mysterious ship. They claimed to be a dying race and required joining with the humanoids to survive. The Trill humanoids volunteer to serve as hosts in order to save the ancient, near immortal species.

Two distinct types of symbionts begin to appear, one group merge with the humanoids, sharing experiences and bodies, the other type, are purely selfish and take possession of the humanoid body rewriting its persona over that of the host.

At first life on Trill is normal until the dominant type symbionts try to force themselves on the Trill using their superior intelligence and weapons to conquer the planet. The symbiont Trills are forced to flee deep into the wilds of Trill and establish a resistance to the Dominants.

It takes several years, but the Dominants are defeated and they flee Trill never to be seen again.

The problem is that the temple site was the original landing place of the symbionts from mellinia ago and the sections that blasted off into space were parts of the original ship. At the end of the Dominants occupation, several Dominants and their hosts were unaccounted for and these unaccounted for Dominnants apparently hid in the old temple site until now. Where they were going and why is unknown. The sites they destroyed were also repositories of ancient symbiont knowledge, knowledge of the Dominants and their methods.

The CO communicates with Starfleet Command under secure comms. They learn that there have been other sightings of temples similar to the ones the PCs had first encountered and they have all blasted into space at about the same time as the Trill site blasted off. The CO is placed in charge of finding out where the Dominnants are and what they want.

(end of Part 2)

Another weird and detailed campaign idea from the twisted imagination of Ghosty...

The Ken Hite of TrekRPG Net!

I think I'll sit back and enjoy the ride :D

Same for me! :D
Nice work ghosty.

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Another weird and detailed campaign idea from the twisted imagination of Ghosty...

The Ken Hite of TrekRPG Net!

I think I'll sit back and enjoy the ride :D

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Moi, as good as Ken, perish the thought but I must say Ken's work on Suprressed Transmissions had an impact on a lot of my work. So strap on your seat belts boys and girls this promises to be a wild ride. Of course suggestions are always appreciated. Constructive ones at any rate.

This is way cool! :)
Sort of like what SG-1 would be if we'd met the Tokra before the Go'ould.
"Yeah, these guys with the things in 'em are cool."
"Not this one...his eyes glow and he sucks peoples' minds out with his hand!"

Hmmm...maybe a whole 'host' (sorry!) of new names for Trill characters...
Ra
Apophis
Chronos
Hathor
Seth...

Hehehe....:)

Now that the swelling in my head has subsided (thanks for the compliments guys much appreciated proves that I am as good as I think I am:) ) I'll get back to work.

As we left off, more temple ships carrying the Dominant variant of Trill pop up all over Federation space, almost on a straight line between Trill and the depths of the an unexplored sector dominated by the Tantalus Nebula which is a sector of wild space which is extremely dangerous to navigate and all these temple ships are making a beeline for the Tantalus Nebula.

One distrubing report is that the Hosts that have been encountered don't consist only of the two humanoid Trill sub-species but other humanoid races as well including humans and Vulcans, but then all Trill experts agree that only a Trill can host a symbiont.

Meanwhile, two Starfleet vessels are crippled a temple ship when they tried to stop it from capturing a passenger liner filled with 768 passengers. The PC ship arrives just in time to see the temple ship blast off into deep space. Attempts to pursue fail when the temple ship hits warp 9.9999 and sustains it beyond what the time the ship can.

Starfleet is concerned and a meeting of the Alliance is called. Representatives from the Klingons, Romulans and Bajor are present along with observers from the Cardassian Union. It is decided that for now they will have the quarantine the Tantalus Nebula and a blockade is formed to prevent any temple ships from leaving the Nebula. The ship is assigned to the blockade force but the CO is bored and wants to do more than just sit and watch as the Dominants do who knows what inside the Nebula.

She goes to meet with the Admiral commanding the blockade and asks for permission to enter the Nebula to determine what the Dominants are doing inside the Nebula. At first the admiral is reluctant wild space would reduce the ship to impulse engines only, no shields, limited sensors and degraded weapons capability. However, the intelligence gain would outweigh the risk, so the admiral reluctantly agrees.

The ship penetrates the Nebula outer cloud and manages to evade patrols of small Dominiant fighters and get to the centre of the Nebula which is a hole of normal space. In this island of space they find a massive temple ship which seems to be an amalgamation of all the temple ships which had fled into the Nebula. Suddenly the ship is ambushed by a wave of Dominant fighters which forces them to surrender.

Dominant Hosts transport on board and takes everyone prisoner and the ship is taken into the the main temple ship and the senior staff is thrown into a cell onboard the main temple but the CMO is taken off by the guards for an audience with the Dominant leader, the Host the crew had rescued from the desert planet just a few days ago.

(end part 3)

Obviously the leader is about to disclose his master plan so stay tuned.:)

If the evil symbionts control the host fully, they may not possess as wide a variety of skills and experiences as normal Trill seem to. Consider - if Dax had fully controlled his hosts, he would probably have done the same job down the years. He'd be very talented in his field. But instead he's been a diplomat, a gymnast, a counselor, a scientist, a pilot, an engineer... And he's pretty good at all of those. This wider experience might explain why the normal symbionts won out over the bad guys all those years ago.

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This is way cool! :)
Sort of like what SG-1 would be if we'd met the Tokra before the Go'ould.
"Yeah, these guys with the things in 'em are cool."
"Not this one...his eyes glow and he sucks peoples' minds out with his hand!"

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Precisely my thinking

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Hmmm...maybe a whole 'host' (sorry!) of new names for Trill characters...
Ra
Apophis
Chronos
Hathor
Seth...

Hehehe....:)

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I don't think so...

As the crew desparately plan their escape, the CMO confronts the Dominant Leader in his inner sanctum.

The Dominant Leader explains why his species is different from the normal Trill. Unlike the normal Trill, the Domininant variant does not reside in a pouch in the abdomnial cavity but attached to the brain stem of the host, taking direct control of the Host. While it can tap into the knowledge possessed by the Host, the Dominant (or Parasite) Trill is less talented than the symbiontic Trill for the simple reason taht they don't share experiences well. The parasitic relationship is also why the Dominants can be hosted by non-Trills, only Trills have the genetic disposition to meld with a Trill in a symbiotic relationship, the Dominant Trills don't need the melding, they just seize control.

The Dominant Leader tells the CMO that during their exile, the Dominants had built a strong following on many planets especially those with primative cultures where their powerful weapons made them Gods from which they built an army for the conquest of Trill and the Federation. Some Dominants having possessed non-Trills have been hiding in plain sight in mainstream Federation society, waiting for their opportunity to strike.

The Dominion War had severely weakened the Federation to an extent that the Dominants feel ready to confront the Federation and her allies in open warfare. The temple ships are just a first wave, other hidden weapons would be unleashed soon...the Dominants have planned for this moment for mellenia, this time they do not intend to loose. The Dominant leader gives the CMO a choice, join him or die. Obviously she doesn't give him a straight answer and is detained for the moment.

Using the bait and switch the executive officer manages to escape (well he and the strategic ops officers are identical - it'll take too long) and gains access to the main computer core. From there he is able to quietly regain control of the ship. The CO orders the assembly of the one tri-cobalt device on board ship while an assault force prepared to rescue the CMO.

As the crew prepare to make their escape, the blockade force is attacked by six more temple ships and quickly defeated, four Klingon, three Romulan and five Starfleet ships are destroyed or damaged and the rest are forced to retreat.

The strike force manages to penetrate the main temple ship and free the CMO and they capture one of the Dominant Hosts as they flee back to the ship. The ship using the element of surprise manages to blast their way free and launch the tri-cobalt device at the mother ship. The tri-cobalt device does not destroy the mother ship but cripples it badly enough that the Dominants are thrown into disarray allowing them to escape through the Nebula to find the blockade force defeated and scattered. They manage to evade pursuit and link up with additional allied forces. The intelligence they have gained would be helpful in the coming war.

(end Part 4)

Lemme guess - the CMO has become a host and is thus a trojan horse?

'Course, if the CMO's a PC you'd need a lot of player-Narrator cooperation to pull it off... But there are ways the PC could be freed from the parasite.

Hey! The T'kon always seemed a bit medieval in appearance (if Portal was anything to go by) - they could be the "Asgards" here!!

And we've already got Stargates even - the Iconian Gateways!

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Lemme guess - the CMO has become a host and is thus a trojan horse?

'Course, if the CMO's a PC you'd need a lot of player-Narrator cooperation to pull it off... But there are ways the PC could be freed from the parasite.

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I plead the fifth. The CMO is a PC and is quite good at co-operating with the GM.

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In a word...nope...you'll be surprised who are the Dominant's mortal enemy...stay tuned like everyone else. :D

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Perish the thought.:)

Let's see. The Dominants' mortal enemy...

Could be the parasites from TNG's "Conspiracy". They were pretty similar IIRC (actually, these guys could be the Dominants...)

Or it could be the Borg.

Or Species 8472 (maybe the symbionts were a bioweapon intended to pacify non-fluidic space, but they went rogue...)

Even the Dominion. Since the Founders can't be infected, they might have decided these "solid" parasites were a threat of the highest order.

Hell, I don't know. It could be Styro's killer Space Gnomes for all I know...

Or That Damn Fish has a taste for crunchy little slug-like symbionts (Mmm... Great with barbecue sauce) :D

The ship is ordered to take their prisoner back to Trill for study. Enroute the CMO and the science officer are able to study the captured Dominant and make a startling discovery. The Dominant in him is not a full grown one but an immature one that is not ready for implantation. It is living off the host's body, its a sort of living incubator for the Dominant until its full grown. On Trill, the symbionts live in the symbiont pools until they are fully grown and ready for implantation.

The prisoner refuses to disclose any information about his species, even the recovered counselor's telepathic ability are unable to break his resistance. So he is placed under heavy guard in the brig until the ship arrives at Trill.

Meanwhile, reports are coming in of more temple ship sightings not only in Federation territory but on several worlds in the Romulan Empire, the Cardassian Union and even Breen space. Most of the worlds which host such temples are uninhabited so they remain undiscovered for mellenia. These temple ships do massive damage to ships that try to resist them. Two Breen ships try to use their energy draining weapons on the temple only to have the entire system overload, destroying both ships.

The ship returns to Trill and turns over their prisoner. Trill has since become heavily fortified with a strong Starfleet presence backed up by Klingon vessels and the Trill's own defence force.

The CMO decides to go exploring and with the science officer and the ship's first lieutenant, she beams down to the ruined temple site to see what she can learn whilst the CO and other more "militaristic" members of the crew head off to brief the deputy chief of operations about their discoveries in the Tantulus Nebula.

At the ruined temple, which is swarming with Trill security and representatives of the Federation Science Council, the CMO encounters a friend from the previous host's past, the rogue archeologist Vash who has come to see what she can salvage out of the ruins. With Vash's help the away team manages to get through the security cordon and into the guts of the ruined temple itself. The find nothing except for a strange tablet with indeciperable writing on it. Of no intrinsic value, it may be a clue in the war against the Dominant.

Retruning to the ship with their find, the CMO and her companions begin analyzing the tablet but are unable to find anything useful. Meanwhile the war is not going well as temple ships are able to strike with impunity at any target they chose. At the moment they are concentrating on several archeological sites whose only connection seems to be that they were not native to the planet on which they were found but apparently were built by ancient "Gods".


The ship is ordered to proceed to the former Cardassian DMZ where there have been reports of a temple ship which had apparently crashed onto a desolate world whose air is thick with heavy poisonous metals. The crew are ordered to secure the temple ship and await reinforcements from Deep Space Nine to be led by the USS Defiant.

The temple ship is quite easy to find, but securing it would be another matter. There are no life signs onboard so the CO sends in an away team to check out the temple ship. The CMO volunteers to go along for the ride. They find no survivors on the temple ship which had been hit by something that ripped a gapping hole in its side. Considering that it took a tri-cobalt device to do the same thing in the Tantulus Nebula, whatever damaged the temple was enormously powerful.

The ship is secured but the away team and follow on security teams cannot be certain that the ship is truly unihabited as there are sections which cannot be scanned all of which had to be stromed. Systematic exploration of the temple ship is done and the chief engineer is brought in to study its power plant and warp drive to she how they can sustain warp 9.999 for a sustained period. The exploration effort takes a few days, long enough for additional ships to arrive from DS9. Among the DS9 contingent is Ezri, current host of the Dax symbiont :).

(end part 5)

Look I'm not going to answer any questions or reply to speculation (well except that nothing Styro created will be remotely featured here :)). You'll have to wait with baited breath like everyone else. Get it?:)

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Alpha Team could take 'em whilst armed with only a Runabout and a few sharp sticks.... :p

Sorry, when it comes to the idea of Starfleet Marines, I go with Special Ops teams the whole time. ;)

And, Ghosty? My breath has never been more baited.

Or it would be, if I needed to breathe... (Bwuhahahaha!!!)

After assisting in securing the crashed temple ship, the ship is ordered to report to DS9 to join Admiral Ross's task force protecting the Bajor sector from the Dominants.

During the layover, the PCs are given a chance to study the tablet they picked up on Trill. Although there seems to be no way of deciphering the writing, until a Bajoran vedek sees the tablet and recognises the writing as Ancient High Bajoran although he can't read it, certain senior members of the Vedek Council can.

The CO brings the tablet to Colonel Kira and asks her for assistance. Kira contacts a member of the Vedek Council and a meeting with a scholar of ancient Bajoran at the University of Bajor. The CMO goes down to Bajor with Vash to speak to the scholar/cleric.

While the crew awaits the CMO's return, a booby trapped freighter explodes in the docking ring, the Defiant is badly damaged in the explosion and a good third of the station suffers damage. As everyone pitches in in a rescue effort, a Dominant undercover team kidnaps Ezri Dax in the confusion and a temple ship arrives to distract the defending starships to allow them to make an escape. The temple ship manages to severly damages Ross's flagship, the Prometheus and four other ships before withdrawing.

Things begin to look dim as reports begin to filter in about more kidnappings of Trill hosts who are off Trill. Obviously the Dominants have a new plan up their sleeve, the only question is what is it. The CO immediately sends a security team down to Bajor to guard the CMO who is now at risk considering what she knows about the Dominants.

The Bajoran scholar is able to decipher the writings on the tablet (which is incomplete) and it speaks of a War of Gods and the return of the Emissary.

As the word Emissary is deciphered (dramatic TV moment) the fire caves open in a dramatic explosion and out steps Captain Benjamin Sisko, the Emissary.:)

(end Part 6)

Darn! Didn't take the "War of the Gods" title literally enough...

Mind you, maybe Q will show up as well!

Or how about Kev Uxbridge?

Maybe it's time for a final rumble between all those immensely powerful races we've seen on Trek through the years...

"In the red corner, the Trickster God, the Lord of Lies, Q! In the blue corner, the contender - Mistress of Exosia, Suspiria! Two falls, 1 knockout or 1 submission. I don't want to see biting, gouging, or turning solar systems into giant billiard tables..."

Sisko has changed since he was trapped in the fire caves to stop the rampages of the Pah Wraiths. He has learnt much in his time there and he now understands what is means to be the Emissary. He commandeers a shuttle and flies into the wormhole to consult with the Prophets.

As Starfleet tries to recover from their recent setbacks and the security of all joined Trills is stepped up, the Dominants consolidate their position in the Tantalus Nebula and begin a campaign to conquer nearby worlds. Two Federation colonies are taken and losses continue to mount, an unacceptable situation in the post-Dominion War era.

Sisko returns from his visit to the Prophets. He calls a meeting of all allied commanders at DS9. Each of the allies sends a reprsentative. The situation is turning critical as temple ships are hitting targets in Klingon, Romulan and Cardassian space.

Sisko reveals the history of the First War of the Gods. Mellenia ago the Trill Symbionts had conquered a galaxy crushing all opposition before them in their mighty temple ships. Their power had been crushed by an ancient race, the Valarian and by internal dissent. The Valarians were not inclined to be merciful to any symbionts so they flee. The find an unstable wormhole and end up in the Alpha Quadrant. One temple ship crashes on Trill and begin the relationship between the humanoids and the symbionts.

During their time as rulers of Trill, the Dominants send their temple ships off to conquer the Alpha Quadrant but are defeated by a combined force of the T'Kon and proto-Bajorans led by a Bajoran legend. The Dominant defeat by the T'Kon and other ancient races leads to their own fall to the Symbionts on Trill and their exile from Trill.

The question is how was the temple ship that was captured got damaged. Not even tri-cobalt devices could have damaged it that badly. The Bajorans but the Bajorans did not have any of the technology that had been used to defeat the Dominants so one of the old races must still be around. Sisko says that the Prophets are unable to explain it in linear terms only that there is help to be obtained but the Prophets cannot intervene.

The PCs are assigned to locate whatever crippled that temple ship. Their first stop is the Unitia Planatia Fleet Yards where the temple ship wreckage has been taken for repairs. They learn from the engineers that the weapon has a distinct and unique signature which is not used by any known starfaring race.

So the PCs go back to where they found the downed ship only to be confronted by a Dominant scout ship intent on kidnapping the CMO. They manage to evade the scout but the ship is damaged and cast adrift towards the Otanka Anomaly, a unstable quantum singularity, a black hole with insufficient mass to become a black hole but with enough gravatic pull to rip the ship apart if they can't restore warp power.

(end Part 7)

Okay I just read the whole thread in one sitting...My head is still spinning...this is the kind of stuff I love in Trek...moving the universe forward and having past episodes and story lines have an effect.

Bravo.

Can't wait to see how it ends ;)

As the ship drifts towards the Otanka Anomaly the chief engineer tries desparately to effect repairs to the warp engines which are almost completely scragged. The CO sends out a distress signal but the only ship close by is a Cardassian curiser which would not arrive before the ship is caught in the event horizon of the Anomaly and be dragged in.

The CO orders an evcuation of all non-essential crew elements into available shuttlecraft which could escape the Anomaly's pull. But that can only save a quarter of the crew.

As the ship enters the point of no return sensors begin to detect something coming out of the anomaly. It is a ship, whose readings equal those of the Dominant temple ship but whose energy signature matches those of the weapon which crippled the temple ship.


The announce themselves to be the Valkir the Dominants' enemy and they are here to help the Federation defeat this new threat to its security.

(End Part 8)

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Okay I just read the whole thread in one sitting...My head is still spinning...this is the kind of stuff I love in Trek...moving the universe forward and having past episodes and story lines have an effect.

Bravo.

Can't wait to see how it ends ;)

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Wooh, I made Zymmer's head spin. :D

Any chance the name "Valkir" is related to the Earth term "Valkyrie"?

This stuff was supposed to get into Part 8 but I had to run off to do something before I finished Part 8. So here's the rest of Part 8...

The Valkir commander invites the CO to her ship to discuss the war with the Dominants but insists that she comes alone. After dealing with her protesting officers, the CO beams over to open negotiations with the Valkir.

The Valkir tells the CO that she has come from the past where the Valkir are at war with the Dominants to help save the future. The Otanka Anomaly is actually a time space anomaly which links the present to the time of the 1st War with the Dominants.

Asked how she knew to come, the Valkir commander just says they knew as it was what they were told to do. Asked who told her, the Valkir CO refuses to say just that all will soon become clear.

The CO sends a message to DS9 and is told by Sisko to wait in place while he comes to speak to the Valkir, he seems undisturbed by the news of the Valkir's arrival as if he expected it.

Sisko arrives onboard a runabout. The Valkir commander speaks to Sisko as if she knew who he was. He tells her that she had a mission to complete and that her orders were unchanged. All this is very mysterious to the CO who tries to question Sisko later but Sisko refuses only that the CO should await instructions.

The CO is not happy about taking orders from someone who isn't in her chain of command but something about Sisko convinces her not to press the issue.

The Valkir move to DS9 where they begin to share their knowledge of the Dominants but they refuse to share weapons technology as they say it is not needed.

Meanwhile, a Romulan scout ship has discovered where the Dominants were keeping the kidnapped Trills, a Jem'Hadar base not far from the Badlands abandoned in the last day of the Dominion War. A scratch rescue force is put together.

At first the mission goes off without a hitch. Fighters from the Thunderchild beat off the Dominant fighter patrols allowing the strike force to strike at the base. No temple ships come to challenge them and a RRT strike force liberates the hostage Trill.

After the hostages are taken aboard, they suddenly seize control of the rescue ships. Each of them have a Dominant Symbiont implanted into them and their Trill Symbionts have been put into some form of suspended animation.

The ship is not part of the mission as it was being repaired but is repaired in time to take part in the mission to retake control of the hijacked vessels. It would be a tricky mission as they cannot harm the hijackers without harming the Trill symbionts.

(end Part 8.2)

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I just realised how much Babylon 5 there is in this whole story arc. So I managed to combined 2 great sci-fi series into one...kwell...:D

The hostage crisis deepens into a tense stand-off between the captured ships and the allied rescue force.

The CO comes up with a plan to take control of the ships using the prefix codes and activating the internal security system flooding every ship with sleep gas in a co-ordinated attack with RRT units backed up by security troopers from all the ships. Everything goes according to plan and all the ships are recaptured although several RRTs are injured as are some Trills.

During emergency surgery, the CMO learns that the Dominants cannot be removed without great danger to the dormant symbiont at least without the cooperation of the Dominant who of course refuses to leave. What is more troubling is that the Dominants have been able to tap into the knowledge of the various Trill they have captured and learn valuable secrets from the Dax and Odan symbionts relating to Federation military and political strengths and weaknesses.

Back at DS9, the Valkir just continue to observe, despite their promises of assistance, they have not given the alliance anything that would help them in the war. Although the Dominants have been largely confined to the Tantalus Nebula and the space around it, the alliance lines are not holding and temple ships are able to roam space relatively freely although new conquests are ruled out.

All through this Sisko is strangely closed mouthed about his apparent relationship with the Valkir. Several stormy meetings with Admiral Ross and other senior alliance officers cause Ross to distrust his old friend.

Meeting with the CO in private, Ross gives her secert instructions. The ship is to enter the Otanka Anomaly and learn more about the Valkir and where they come from. More importantly, to find out what their role in this war is and who's pulling the strings. The CO agrees to undertake the mission and the crew is beefed up with RRT troops and a pair of strikefighters.

The ship leaves DS9 apparently on a scouting mission but instead they head off for the Otanka Anomaly. The gravatic tidal forces almost pulls the ship apart but they find themselves in a time 65 million years in the past and are confronted by a massive fleet of Valkir ships. They are hailed by the Valkir and on the forward viewer Sisko but this Sisko appears to be Bajoran...

(End Part 9.1)

Sisko asks the CO to beam over to his ship. He explains that he was expecting their arrival. He is Sisko, but a Sisko who is older and wiser. He explains that his experiences in the Fire Caves had changed him and he lived outside of linear time. He had come back to this time to fulfil his own legend, to lead the proto-Bajorans to play their part in the war against the Dominants and to leave clues to his "future" existence as the Emissary, a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sisko explains that the CO and her crew were supposed to come here to learn how to defeat the Dominants. When asked what the Valkir were doing in the future, Sisko just says they have their part to play although he no longer lives in linear time, Sisko cannot interfer and pollute the timeline so whatever the Valkir ship in the "present" was supposed to do is not to be made known.

Sisko introduces the CMO to the physician on his ship who explains how to remove the Dominant symbionts from the spinal column of their hosts without killing the Host.

The CO asks Sisko how the Federation is supposed to defeat the Dominants. Sisko does not answer but gives the CO the missing fragments to the tablet the CMO had found on Trill. When pieced together the tablet are a key to open the vault of the temple on Trill and there the PCs would find the answers they seek.

The CO thanks Sisko and takes the ship back through the Otanka Anomaly and to the "present". The CO orders the ship to Trill and leads the away team down to the temple site and after some searching the away team locates the vault. The fragments of the tablet fit into an elaborate niche and the vault slowly rumbles open...

(end part 9.2)

Aaaaargh! Keep Talking! I hate cliffhangers!!

Now that was profound, Robbert ;)!

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Patience my children, all will be revealed in due time. Its like those pesky Republican Serials isn't it, every episode ends with a cliffhanger. Stay tuned, same ghosty time, same ghosty channel (aargh I did it again:) :) :) ).

Maybe if I get some rating stars (four or more) I'll be inspired to finish the thing.:) Any less and I may consider delaying it until next well:).

No holding your breath until you turn blue won't make me go faster. Stars I want Stars...:D

Ghosty, I'm late to the party (so what's new?), but I rated you a 5.


SO SPILL IT MISTER! :D

Sorry guys but I've been stuck at work and haven't been able to sit down and finish up the storyline. I'll see if I can do some later today...if not you'll have to wait until the weekend.

Thanks for a great story! Ya got five stars from me ... can't wait to see how this ends...