Editing Once More Into The Breach (section)

==The Runabout Imperiled==
[[Image:Borg polaron beam.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Borg tractor beam.]]
Meanwhile, the Runabout had fallen under the scrutiny of the [[Borg Pyramid]] and more specifically [[Volus]], who ordered the vessel assimilated.

The Pyramid activated a [[Tractor Beam]] and grappled the runabout as it was making scans of the planet's surface.

Only quick thinking by [[Rank|Commander]] [[T'Larah Sullivan]], the [[First Officer]] of the [[USS Rosenante]] saved the craft from certain [[assimilation]] by the [[Borg]].

Sullivan ordered a probe to be launched at the narrowest point of the tractor beam being emitted by the Borg Pyramid. This maneuver would later become known as the [[Sullivan Gambit]].

When the [[Federation Sensor Probes|Federation Sensor Probe]] intersected the beam, it interrupted it, just long enough for the runabout to break free. The advantage didn't last long, however, as the Borg were able to quickly re-establish the beam on the now fleeing vessel.

Fortunately for the crew of the Lorimar, the beam was weakened due to the extreme range and it only caused the vessel to drop into a flat spin. the shuttle, badly damaged, was spinning out of control without shields towards the surface of [[Dovek II]].

During this chaos five [[Borg Drone]]s beamed aboard the runabout and Assimilated [[Matthew McLaren]] before they could be stopped. One Borg drone and McLaren were beamed off the Runabout, while the starfleet crew managed to destroy the remaining [[Borg Drone]]s.

The Runabout crashed a mere four kilometers from the Tkon Nanosphere. Borg Drones were dispatched to assimilate any survivors. Meanwhile the Rosenante and the Boudicca rushed to assemble a viable rescue mission as well as a mission designed to destroy the Tkon device using an [[Antimatter|Antimatter Mine]] built by [[Robert Lorimar]].