Editing The Lesser Evil (section)

==Part I - The Crossroad ==

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| align="left" style="font-size: 90%; background:black" colspan=3|'''With the USS Soval traveling back in time to only a few days before the Quezal explosion, and with the knowledge they had found their own self dead at the site of the reactor that exploded, the crew come to realize the dice are already rolled : they will play a role in preventing or causing the explosion that almost destroyed the Quezalth homeworld. For once, they know the consequences of their decisions (their future) before they even made them. And yet, it comes back once again to a simple problem : choice. What must they do? 
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[[File:space_rift.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Spacetime anomaly]]
As the crew members watch, powerless, the ship get engulfed in what could be their end, the ship is violently shaken. Inertial dampeners are offline and the crews projected on the floor. As they try to stand up, alarms are ringing. In engineering, it suddenly become a crisis. Structural integrity is weakening, and the warpcore is about to overload and it won't jettison. There is no time left to react. The question on their minds is no more what to do, but if they will die vacuated in space or burned alive...as they get their answer  with the sound and feel of the explosion. As they are still alive and verify what happened, they realize an explosion caused a rupture in one of the main power conduits, causing the plasmas to vent out which was just enough to prevent a complete overload. Many circuits are fried and engineering is a mess, but at least they are alive...miraculously. 

Meanwhile, on the bridge, the science staff discover the USS Soval has travelled back in times, a little more than 6 months. They are only a few days before the actual Quezal explosion. A coincidence or faith? But as they try to replace everything in perspective of this new event, the anomally has more effect than anticipated. The captain and many other crew members have disappeared, leaving the crew to wonder what happened. 

With their bodies having taken their strole of fear, stress and exhaustion, the damage to the ship, the missing crew members and the travel back in time make for a hell of a day. In a context of low crew moral, taking over command, Commander Matrix order the ship to leave the anomally and start preparing plan to find and rescue their crew members. 

Meanwhile, Capitain Syuvik found himself in the future, talking to someone declaring himself to be a Temporal Agent. He explains the USS Soval is caught in a Temporal Crossroad. They are in a point in time and space where many possible futures can results from what happen during those few days. Like a river about to flood out of its river bed, they are unsuccessful in keeping the timeline in its normal time bed, and rather each intervention, rather than bring the river back to its bed, made it flood yet another unexpected region...their interventions so far have had the undesired effects and collateral damages that are as worst and inacceptable as the 'statut quo'. As the Temporal commission had been unsuccessful, they have come to accept that only a direct approach of someone with his faith in his hands can perhaps see clarity where none of them had and help restore the timeline. This is why they have brought Captain Syuvik to their Temporal Observatory to inform him of the situation. But all they told him is they are in a temporal crossroad and every decision they are going to make could have huge impact on the future. But with no knowledge of the future and what is the right actions or the right chains of events, Syuvik is returned back to the USS Soval with mostly only question and no answer...and learning he had been gone for days. 

With the Captain back, a senior staff meeting is held where the situation is explained. However, timetravelling being so rare, no crewmember has any knowledge of what must be done or what can happen. Are they in a temporal loop? What is the right chains of events... they are left in the dark with the burden of knowing they could change everything (for the better or the worst?). The only knowledge they have is the fact in their own timeline, they had found their own bodies at the site of the explosion, suggesting that in the right chains of events, they are going to die in the vicinity of a reactor that exploded and killed millions of Quezalth. But the real question is, what where they doing there? They have no idea, but it would suggest they were meant to be in the past and they will have to play a role on Quezal. 

While they prepare to return to Quezal, Syuvik ordered the USS Soval back in the vicinity of the anomaly. They needed to better understand the anomaly, what could have caused the disappearance of their crew members and, hopefully, find their missings crew members. But as they returns, surprise is once more at the rendez-vous. This time, new crew members appears on the ship, including the USS Dakota previous Chief Engineer and First Officer who died in the USS Dakota last missions. Other crew members such as Ensign Yeates have lost all memories of the event between their time on Quezalth and now. As they come to realize, the Temporal Agent didn't say everything. The Crossroad is not just about the possibility to change the future. It seems also to be a crossroads between realities. 

As the USS Soval Senior Staff assess the story and 'threat level' of every new appearance, one such appearance reveals to be not quite what was expected. Unbedknowns to the crew, a Section 31 agent, Ensign Ansia Rozen, managed to infiltrate the ship just prior it left the system to hide in the anomaly. Caught in the "investigation" of the appearing crew members, she becomes a 'mistery' as her quantum signature contradict her 'appearance'. Fortunately, after learning what Section 31 was planning to do (genocide), Ensign Ansia Rozen has a change of heart (has she?) and reveals her identity to the captain. 

Captain Syuvik soon realize, with such interest Section 31 has for the USS Soval and Quezal, there is approximately 90% probabilty they are behind the explosion. The problem is, how to find them and what are they supposed to do? They cannot change the timeline and they know the explosion succeeded, yet they also know they are probably in a causality loop and there are 'temporal footprint' indicating they are to unsuccessfully try to prevent a genocide. 

With little time left to act and no clue as to where Section 31 operatives are, the command officers are left with a difficult dilemma. Should they rely on the only two crew members who actually have a very good knowledge of Section 31, i.e. the two Section 31 operatives they have aboard their crew. The risk they are actually those who will carry the genocide is non negligible, but the probability they find the operatives without them is close to none. They will have to risk it. Nevertheless, to minimize the risk, a second away team will be sent, unbeknownst to the first, so that if they two operatives are indeed traitors, they still have a chance to succeed in their mission.