Editing Once More Into The Breach

==Arrival==

With roughly two full days of travel and a great deal of preparation behind them the small [[Federation]] [[Task Force]] consisting of the [[USS Boudicca]] and the [[USS Rosenante]] dropped out of warp just outside the [[Dovek II|Dovek System]]. The  two ships arrived well above the systems elliptic plane as planned.

Salid ordered the small fleet to proceed along a preset course which would take them into the [[magnetosphere]] of the [[Class J]] supergiant Dovek IV. The hope was to mask the energy signatures of the two [[Federation]] [[starship]]s as they made their way closer to their objective at [[Dovek II]].  

The risk was that the close passage through the magnetosphere would blind both Starfleet ships, as the interference from the planet would suppress their scanning abilities. It was hoped that the Borg would also be blinded as a result of the maneuver and the presence of the [[subspace|subspace interference]] caused by the Borg's use of the [[Antiproton]] beam. The maneuver seemed to work, and once both ships had traversed the magnetosphere, they proceeded towards the Dovek [[Asteroid]] belt.

Salid's decision was spurred by the desire to gain as much ground towards the Borg position as possible thereby reducing the odds of detection.  Both the Rosenante and the Boudicca made it through the field without difficulty, although several small repairs to the ship's Structural Integrity Field and Inertial Dampeners were conducted during the traverse.

Once they had traversed the field, the two federation vessels emerged behind the third planet of the Dovek System. This rocky [[Class N]] world served to shield the two ships against possible Borg scans as they moved closer to their target planet. They maintained a position behind the planet relative to the Borg until the rotation of Dovek II took the Borg craft to the far side of that planet. When that occurred, the Rosenante and the Boudicca made their way to the opposite side of Dovek II.

Now in place behind Dovek II's moon. The USS Rosenante and USS Boudicca began to prepare to undertake the first phase of their mission; data collection. With the radiation and interference from the Borg Antiproton weapon curtailing their direct scans, it was suggested by [[Rank|Captain]] [[Alan Durand]] that they use multiple options to collect their data.  

Both suggestions were approved, and the task of refitting the Lorimar Class Runabout was given to the Boudicca. The sensor probes would fall to the Rosenante.

==Loss of the Probes==

The [[USS Rosenante]] launched the two [[Federation Sensor Probes|probes]] once the modifications were completed.

To make matters worse, it was believed that at least one of the two probes were detected and tractored into one of the two [[Borg]] Vessels for further study.

== The Reconnaissance Mission==

The shuttle had been modified by replacing several of the modular components with advanced sensor pallets. This was supposed to allow the Runabout personnel to be able to scan the area effectively, even despite the interference.

At this latest site, the object that they were looking for was revealed. It was a [[Tkon Nanosphere]], a device that was originally designed by the [[Tkon Empire]] to seed specially designed nanites into the irradiated atmosphere of a planet and absorb the deadly radiation sparing the biosphere of that world from radioactive death.

After the beam was deactivated, it was determined that the Borg had transported hundreds of [[Borg Drone]]s to the surface to continue a more fine tuned excavation of the site.

==Volus==

During the away mission, [[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Detron Trei]] of the [[USS Boudicca]] gained access to the [[Holodeck]] where he programmed a [[Telepathic Interface Device]] which was designed to augment his natural telepathic ability and thus allow him to make telepathic contact with the [[Borg]].

Trei managed to make contact with the Borg, but not in a manner that he preferred. His original idea was to implant a post-telepathic suggestion into the collective which would cause them to hallucinate and react to a perceived although non-existant threat rather than to the [[Federation]] starships and crew nearby. This backfired however, when the device was only able to contact a single [[Borg]] named [[Volus]].

He was then made aware of the presence of the [[Lorimar Class Runabout|Lorimar]] by the [[Borg Collective]].  He believed the later to be a bait-and-switch trap, sent to lure the [[Borg]] ships into an ambush when they advanced beyond the moon.

==The Arrest==

==The Runabout Imperiled==

Meanwhile, the Runabout had fallen under the scrutiny of the [[Borg Pyramid]] and more specifically [[Volus]], who ordered the vessel assimilated.

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]].

==Three Teams, Three Missions==

The plan was risky and fundamentally involved the two [[starship]]s being used to draw off the [[Borg Tactical Cube]] that was still in a high polar orbit. With the cube in place, there was no chance of any of the runabouts making it to the planet's surface.

[[File:Lorimar crashsite.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Lorimar Crashsite]]

==The Mine Team==

*[[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Ben Soma]]

*[[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Thomas Jackson]]

*[[Rank|Ensign JG]] [[Isra Caliel]]

This alerted [[Volus]] to the team's mission and he immediately ordered waves of Borg drones to intercept and destroy the team and the mine. They fought their way across the bridge and into an old irrigation chasm discovered by [[Isra Caliel]]. because of this, thy were able to avoid the vast majority of the Borg with the exception of a few parties here or there.  On two separate occasions, the mine team was nearly overwhelmed in their travels, but miraculously managed to overcome the odds and press onwards.  

Finally, the team reached the remains of the city and located a cave that carved through a mountainside to overlook the city and the [[Tkon Nanosphere]] within.  it was determined that the team would move through the cave and deploy the mine just beyond it. The proximity of the blast would guarantee the destruction of the sphere.

While Caliel, Matrix and Jackson worked on that problem, the rest of the team defended the narrow cave opening.

==The Rescue Team==

[[File:Lava flow.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A Lava flow like this was used against the Borg Drones]]

The team continued to move over the rough terrain until they finally discovered the crash survivors engaged in a battle with a group of Borg drone. they lent what assistance they could until the Drones were destroyed. The combined team, then moved back to their runabout.  With them they carried one of the Lorimar's power cells. members of the rescue team realized then that there was a chance that the mine may be suffering from a power drain caused by the high levels of Antiproton radiation on the planet. It was therefore decided that they would use the runabout to convey the power cell to the mine team in the hopes that they could help that team in achieving their mission.

   

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