Editing Just Another Saturday Night (section)

== Where Were You When The Lights Went out? ==
[[File:Martin Kosinsky.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Martin Kosinsky]]
Not long after the New Year's celebration kicked off in earnest, Crewman [[Martin Kosinsky]],  manning an engineering station in the Reactor Control room on  [[Starbase 989]] began to notice an unusual power flux in the industrial section of the station, somewhere near Deck three.

After reporting the incident to his duty chief, he was ordered to investigate the situation. Neither he nor the chief realized that the power flux was a direct result of the massive infestation of [[Vexarak Spoiler]]s that had finally managed to burrow their way from their temporary confinement in the bulk storage bins of 63-Sigma.

The infestation had moved into the primary power feeds and was siphoning off [[Plasma]] energy from the conduits creating not only the power flux that he had detected but also the build up of thermal energy.

[[File:High Energy Plasma Arc.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A High Energy Arc of Plasma]]

His investigation took him to [[Jefferies Tubes|Jefferies Tube]] Beta to a problematic [[Plasma Distribution Manifold System|EPS Distribution System Network Junction]]. When he discovered the access panel was hot to the touch, he removed it, releasing a mass of Spoilers. In his haste to escape them, he managed to complete the power circuit between the live conduit, channeled through the insects and his body to be completed with the wall of the access tube. 

The result was a sudden and devastating power spike that created a series of cascading power failures, that plunged the entire station into darkness. The critical bus was destroyed causing the secondary systems to also fail. 

With all the power systems off-line as a result of the damage, back-ups failed to initialize and it soon became evident that the power failure could turn deadly as people began to realize that the life support was no longer functioning as well.