(OFF: Sorry for my absense. Been busy.)

"Reporting in, Commander."

Tanik comes to what he thinks may be a safe exit from the Jeffries tube. He crawls up near the door to find out, but he hears voices.

"What happened here?"

He hears a pair of medical officers conversing, and decides to keep continuing on.

(OFF: Ok, the point of me being in the tubes is that it's almost impossible to find me. There is so much circuitry and electronics in them that scanning is impossible. You can find me eventually, but I have a plan for this character. There is supposed to be a conflict between Sanchez and Galon because Galon is waiting for his officer, but Sanchez and crew can't find him. So no finding me, or at least no catching me, until I'm ready.)

Tanik fires a phaser shot into HK-47's central core, momentarily stunning him. He then hurries past the next junction door and welds it shut behind him with his hand phaser. He opens his tricorder and programs a jamming signal into it, to dissipate scanners and transporters within a 100 meter radius. He begins climbing upward to Deck 8, and finds Main Engineering. Tanik is disappointed that no senior staff are on duty, but dispatches a few officers with his phaser rifle from the Jeffries tube door. He climbs out, and finds the primary engineering console near the warp core. He begins shutting down systems like sensors, transporters, and atmospheric control. Then, Tanik takes a small wad of plastic goo from under his sash, and sticks it to the base of the warp core, out of sight. He once again retreats into the tubes.

(Edited by Tanik at 11:25 pm on Mar. 26, 2005)

Tanik hides in his cell, in a spot out of sight of the guard, and begins slipping a tool from his sleeve. He uses the small laser cutter to cut a piece from the wall next to the forcefield. He quietly removes the cut-open panel and prepares to sever the wires. He then hides the tool in his hand, as he pops into view and speaks to the guard.

"That panel behind you is blinking. You had best check on it."

The guard turns around to check the wall panel. Tanik quickly cuts the wires, lowering the forcefield. He was already halfway around the brig control panel before the guard noticed, and as he stood up, Tanik grabbed him, shoved the laser cutter to his neck, and severed his jugular vein. The guard fell to the floor, dead. Tanik then opened a Jeffries tube panel on near the corner and crawled into it, knowing the internal sensors couldn't scan inside the tubes.

(OFF: The idea is that Tanik is nowhere to be found when he is supposed to be returned to Galon, but since he doesn't know Galon is here yet, he tries to escape.)

(Edited by Tanik at 9:22 pm on Mar. 25, 2005)

Sub-Commander Tanik is unconscious outside the engine bay door, hit by Lieutenant Nonir's phaser. He slowly comes to and tries to crawl away, but Commander Lauren seizes him and pulls him to his feet.

The Romulan yells at Zayan as she pushes him down the corridor. "You're making a grave mistake! I'll see you all killed for this!"

While crawling through the Jeffries tubes, Tanik heard shuffling. He came out of a junction only to be face to face with a security officer. By a stroke of luck, the officer missed with his phaser, and Tanik dispatched him the same as the brig guard. He chastized himself for forgetting to grab the guard's phaser, so he grabbed the phaser off this man. Luckily for him, the next door he crawled up to read "009 | Armory". He opened the hatch, and a look of shock came over him as another security officer, hunched over at a console with his back to Tanik.

"Hey, Hernandez, you get that coupling fixed already? I could have swore you just--"

The man was cut off as he was vaporized, dissolving into thin air. Tanik had shot him with a phaser blast to the back at full power. He crawled out of the tube and grabbed a holster for his phaser, freeing his hands to hold a phaser rifle. He also grabbed a tricorder, knowing it couldn't hurt to have more equipment. Fully armed, he retreated back into the Jeffries tubes.

"I'm no one you need to get on the bad side of. Now let me go, Starfleet dog, and I'll consider not sending a fleet on ships after your pathetic Evolution."

Tanik approaches his commanding officer.

"Commander Galon, sir? I wish to ask you something. Why did you allow the Starfleet ship the luxury of only two warbirds? Surely we could have destroyed them immediately..."