Editing The Falthgood Devices (section)

===Back to the Sycophant===

''(USS Sycophant - Cargo Bay 3 - Zach Falthgood - 1027)''

Zach rubbed his temples after arriving and chuckled bitterly. Within the next month, his name was going to become infamous. All his life he had worked for what he thought was the betterment of the Federation. He had made decisions which had crippled his good name in that pursuit. Now, some of the fruits of his earlier life were going to haunt him forever, far worse then they already had. He was going to become the boogey-man that children had bad dreams about. 

There were twenty other men in the room with him, Marines and Security provided by LoDona for the effort he was undertaking. They were fanatically loyal, utterly determined to see their mission done. In them was more then a passing resemblance to the security forces he had once commanded, though the comparison gave him an uncontrollable shudder whenever he thought of it. 

Sitting in the middle of the otherwise empty cargo-bay were three separate devices, each covered with a silvered anti-radiation blanket that also served as a cheap dust-catcher. Two of them were small; they looked like they could be picked up by a couple men. The third was easily ten feet tall, and half as wide as a house. These were the devices he had packed away so carefully, so many years ago. They were things he had never wanted to see again.

"No one touches this equipment." he said darkly. "And nobody gets in. You have license to kill, and the crew knows this. You will show no mercy."

The Commander of the security force, a Marine, snapped to attention. No words were necessary; they understood very well the price of failure. Zach had been sure to describe it to them in gory detail during their trip here.

These twenty would battle the entire ships compliment of the Sycophant, if necessary.

~All this for [[Mystery Train]].~ he thought, bitterly, as he walked to a rigged and secured communications panel that he had brought with him. He keyed his personal code and brought it up, addressing a message to Admiral LoDona and Captain Lee. After several moments of silence, he looked up at the screen, "Operation Derailment is a success, returning to Meeting Point Beta for transfer of the railroad spikes. Falthgood out."

He stepped back, his eyes dull and his expression slack. "I am a herald now, and my horn calls nothing but Death."