The Continuing Story of Deep Space 2: Page 69
With now three ships USS Dragon, USS Vladivostok and USS Trophy with missing crews, totally disappeared, finally there is one clue...
Someone left a message: "In case you have not noticed... I am back !"
Could this be the doing of Q, taking revenge on humaity again ? Or was this some kind of plot of a madman who had discovered a way to kidnap or kill life without leaving a trace ? There were to many questions. Deep space 2 Chief Engineer Louis had a possible sollution at least a technical sollution of how this could be done.
"It is rather simple really. The only thing you need is a ship which can travel in subspace. And that is not impossible. We have seen that technology before. Then you jump out of subspace very close to the ship you want to target, which has no shields or does not have its shields activated. In a mass transportation you just beam every living creature aboard your own ship. If you have enough transporter abilities, it can be done in a matter of seconds."
This looked to simple to be true, but the facts were there. Three ships, with missing crews. But just in case Lieutenant Commander Louis send his ideas to Starfleet Command.
Incoming message from Starfleet Command: RADM Bob Jennifer, Chief of Communications Starfleet.
All ships and Federation facilities, you will continue scan subspace for any unusual activity. The threat, we have discussed in breefing 45699Alpha is most likely to come from subspace. Good hunting.
End of Message
Aboard the USS Ajax scans of subspace had already begun, but the first days there was nothing to be found. But on the other hand there had not been any trouble in the entire fleet either. So maybe this was a good way to stop this unbelievable threat.
A few hundred lightyears away from Deep Space 2, almost in the center of the Federation the USS Protector, prepared itself to start its 3 year mission of exploring space in the Gamma Quadrant. First stop was Deep Space 9 and then going through the wormhole was a second step. Just when the USS Protector jumped to warp the ship started to get in data from subspace as the sensors had the task to protect the ship from any attacks from subspace. On the usual scedule USS Protector contacted Starbase 93 to send in the regular reports. Next time the USS Protector would have contact with Starfleet Command would be through Deep Space 9.
"Starbase 93, this is USS protector. We are on scedule and we will arrive at Deep Space 9 within a fewhours. We wil lcontact you then."
"Understood USS Protector."
But The USS protector did not arrive at Deep Space 9. Only a few moments after contacting Starbase 93, it was gone, simply disappeared. Now a ship and crew were missing. The only thing that was left was one empty escape pod. On one of the displays in the escape pod was a message.
"Did you really think you could stop me... ?"