Editing Into the Darkness, Go I (section)

===The Furious Arrives===

Despite warnings that they should leave the system by his senior officers, Captain Salid decided to remain at Bardon Alpha in the hopes of gathering some information that could give him a direction of pursuit.

Lieutenant [[Chance Raschen]] after reviewing the telemetry data from the facilities computers managed to extrapolate a possible course for the rogue vessel. However, before it could be pursued the USS furious arrived in the system.

The [[Prometheus Class]] [[starship]] was commanded by [[Rank|Captain]] [[Saleke]]. The [[Vulcan]] CO had once been the Commanding Officer of the [[USS Hades]] during the [[Federation Civil War]], and was renowned for his tactical skill.

Salid was surprised to see Saleke, and suspected that if he was not a willing participant in the conspiracy concerning the creation of an [[Omega Device]] that he may well be manipulated into serving the purposes of that conspiracy. Saleke ordered the surrender of the [[USS Rosenante]], but Salid, uncertain of the Captain's true loyalties declined and attempted to flee the scene in the hopes of exhonerating the names of the crew.

Saleke engaged the Rosenante, whom he considered attempting to escape from the scene of a crime and shot's were fired. Still reluctant to destroy the Furious due the the unknown position of Captain Saleke's affiliations, Salid ordered the long-range communications of the Furious destroyed. inital stages of the battle were ineffective. For the Furious this was caused in part because of the employment of the [[The Chimera Directive|SEDIS]] and in part by the superior shielding possessed by the [[Rosenante Class]] [[Starship]].

However, Saleke had a trick up his sleeve. Earlier, he had ordered the modification of five quantum torpedoes so that they were equipped with a [[Cloaking device|Phased Cloaking Device]]. These torpedoes when launched against the Rosenante ignored her shileds and caused significant damage to the latter vessel's Environmental Subsystems, lifeboats, secondary phaser array, forward tractor beam emitter and caused a hull breach in main Engineering. The advantage was short lived however, when Salid managed to deplete the Furious' forward shields enough to cause the vessel to veer off in order to avoid a volley of concussive photon torpedoes.

It was a manuever that would later become known as [[The Salid Gambit]]. With the Furious deviated from her pursuit. Salid managed to get the Rosenante into the [[Magnesite]] ore filled asteroid field in the Bardon system known as [[The Mill]]. It was an area familiar to [[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Chance Raschen]], who had often used the area to avoid or lose [[Cardassian]] pursuit during the [[Cardassian]]-[[Federation]] War. Raschen had served in the [[Irregular Federation Forces]] during the [[Admiral Doenitz|Doentiz]] regieme, before defecting to the [[52nd Fleet]]. His knowledge of the area would prove invaluable to evading the Furious. The high concentration of magnesite ore prevented the use of most navigational sensors withn the confines of the Mill, thus preventing the furious from following the Rosenante. in addition, coupled with the [[The Chimera Directive|HISS]] Stealth System, the Furious was unable to detect the Rosenante from outside the field either.

Saleke ordered the Furious at best speed course around the field in the hopes of catching the Rosenante exitting the other side in the hopes of taking advantage of the Prometheus Class' Tri-vector assault mode. However, once on the other side, the furious detected the decaying signature left by the [[The Chimera Directive|Spiral warp Drive]] of the [[ISS Rosenante]]. 

Thinking that the Rosenante had already managed to clear the field and set course for [[Hexikor Prime]], Saleke ordered the Furious to pursue. Meanwhile the USS Rosenante remained in [[The Mill]] conducting repairs.