[ Padassa Station ]
Lieutenant Avex was combing the bowels of the old trading station with a small of team of Starfleet engineers as Captain Ohmsford's teams continued to explore all the parts the station. Though the station itself wasn't too big, there seemed to be many small rooms and antechambers that were hidden by the Romulans who had occupied the station, places that couldn't be detected by regular scanners and didn't show up on station maps.
The particular section of the station he and his team of three were exploring seemed to be very old, and the Denobulan officer suspected it had been part of the original structure built long before the station was turned into a trading post and much longer still before the Romulans got hold of it. The lighting was low and they used torches strapped to their wrists to guide the way.
"Ugh," a voice said with disgust as they were walking and Avex stopped, turning around to face the person who spoke.
"What is it?" he asked, concerned.
"Oh, nothing major sir, I just seem to have stepped in some kind of... mulch," the ensign said as he lifted up his boot, green goo dripping from it.
"That's interesting," Avex frowned as he took a closer look. "Maybe it's an algae from one of the hydroponic bays that managed to get down here somehow." He dropped down to his haunches and looked at where the algae was growing against the wall.
"It almost seems as if it's seeping through the bottom of the wall, sir," the ensign replied.
"That is not possible, this area was constructed to be air tight in case of a hull breach," one of the other engineers, a Vulcan technician, observed keenly.
Avex placed his hand against the wall to steady himself, but as he leaned against it he fell inward through it, the lower half of his body sticking out through the rest of the wall. "I'm all right!" his disembodied voice said after a minute as he got up and disappeared completely through the wall. "It's just a hologram. Come through."
As the rest of his team followed him through, they found the lieutenant in a small dark room staring at a cylindrical device in front of him. He had his tricorder out and was running it over the device. "I'm not sure what this is," he said, walking slowly around it. "But I'm detecting a low pulse energy reading from it. It's very low; would explain why internal sensors haven't picked it up before."
"It does not appear to be Romulan technology," the Vulcan technician observed. He was about say something more when the cylinder emitted a sudden bright light followed by a powerful burst that oblitered everything around it including the team of engineers.
[ End Log ]
Lieutenant Avex
Assistant Engineer
USS Quasar NCC 72369-A
[NPC by Bren]
