Mission 12: "When It Rains..."

[THE BORG COLLECTIVE]

"SETTING NAVIGATION, UNICOMPLEX, ENGAGING TRANSWARP DRIVE."

Royal Transport 01 engaged it's transwarp engines for the Borg Unicomplex, exiting transwarp a few moments later.

Once at the unicomplex, the Royal Transport reconnected with the unicomplex, attaching it's umbilicals and powering down it's Gravimetric Engines and Transwarp Drive.

The Borg Queen looked at Taurik, "An alliance between the Borg and the lesser species would be difficult. Our vast superiority can be intimidating, I know. But I do believe that an alliance with you lesser species and your federations and empires, would have a better chance of success against the Na'Jigat. So your suggestion does have merit, or as you species 3259 are fond of constantly saying, it is quite logical."

The Borg Queen continued, "So yes, the Borg Collective accept your alliance. You may return to your vessel."

The Borg Queen directed one of her drones to remove the neural suppression device from Taurik's temporal lobe.

"Bare in mind Three of Twelve, once the Na'Jigat have been neutralized, the alliance will be dissolved. If we meet again, you and yours will be assimilated."

With that said, the Borg Queen beamed Three of Twelve - Taurik - back to the USS Rivendell.

[Taurik]

"Very well. Open the canopy, but be cautious; we know very little about this occupant."

[Givrillian Sarpedon]

"Aye Sir."

Sarpedon pulled up the data relevant to the upgrade on his screen. It was an impressive piece of technology. He didn't understand all the science behind it, but if what his console was telling him was correct, they'd be able to travel enormous distances almost instantly.

He began running some simulations on his console, with a 99% success rate. The other 1% was due to some instabilities created by the wormholes, the effects of which seemed to differ each time they occurred, though Sarpedon programmed in a set of subroutines that should easily compensate for it.

"Ready when you are, Captain." he said. "Spinning up the new drive."

[T'lana]

"Indeed. If a power surge occurred with the Warp Core, a breach would occur, but the Jump Drive has no such limitations, interesting."

When T'lana designed the Jump Drive, the eventuality of a power surge causing the Jump Drive to go beyond the red-line of 20 light years, simply didn't factor into her equations, it wasn't exactly the logical thing to do.

Wormhole physics was one of T'lana's many scientific interests, but convincing the scientific communities throughout the Federation that traversable wormholes for Faster-Than-Light Propulsion would succeed if they simply used the vessel itself as the event horizon, was almost impossible. Yet here, the Jump Drive is, attached to the Warp Core of the USS Rivendell and it works.

[T'lana]

=A=USS RIVENDELL TO THE BORG COLLECTIVE=A=

"We would appreciate the return of our Captain, unharmed and not a Borg Drone."

[Chaya Sar]

"Please, call me Chaya." Chaya Sar said, smiling slightly.
"I would be pleased to Taurik, may I call you Taurik? Anyway, I sense more than just curiosity."

Jedi Knight Chaya Sar sat down in the chair opposite Taurik, with an air of extreme power, mixed with youthful naivety and an inherent vulnerability. Like most of her kind, the aura force-sensitives have seems to excite electrostatic particles that naturally occur in an atmosphere.

Those who are not "gifted" feel uncomfortable being around those that are, inversely and those that are "gifted" can sense the change in the atmosphere - specifically the aforementioned electrostatic particles.

"I sense you have more abilities than your fellow crew, it's in the ways of the force, but different."

[Larial]

Larial seen that her father was busy and therefore didn't want to trouble him with the malfunctions that she was having and trying to fix herself.

Larial was about to walk over to her father and see what he was doing, when she suddenly lost cognitive and motor functions and shut down. Larial was rendered inert and collapsed to the deck of the Bridge.

[Voyager]

((OOC:  Sorry for interrupting again, but there is a slight conflict with canon.  The Vaadwaur had encountered the Borg sometime before the 15th century and the Borg then only had assimilated a handful of star systems.  Therefore, it seems unusual that the Borg would have encountered the Gallifreyans and the Na'jigat with Borg Cubes when they were only just starting out and also conflicts with the idea the Borg knew the Gallifreyans for "millenia" when they themselves were only about one millenium old.  I doubt she could be bluffing, since the Borg don't lie.  I just wanted to point that out.))

[Chaya Sar]

"Yes I gathered that, interesting, in my galaxy we usually just get Droids to do all this." Chaya Sar stated, brushing her hair off her face.

[Morgan Freeman]

"Why don't you look over the diagnostic of the new drive system to make sure that I have it right.  I would hate for something bad to happen."  He said standing from the engineering chair and motioning for Larial to sit down.

[Taurik]

Almost simultaneously, Taurik drew his own energy weapon. As they moved toward the door, Taurik saw the young woman take position on one side of the door, therefore, Taurik took the other.

Waiting on opposite sides of the door, Taurik and Chaya met gazes. Both were experienced warriors, and it didn't take telepathy for them to be able to read each other's intentions.

The Vulcan master resisted the urge to reach out with his mind to sense the intruders, realizing that any further attempts at telepathic probing may alert them to an enemy presence. Instead, he relied on his more physical senses, and strained to hear anything he could, such as a bootfall.

[Larial]

Larial looked at her creator, slightly disappointed that she could not stay with him.

"Alright, if you want me to." Larial stated.

Larial went off to find the conduit repair team and began assisting them with the repairs. Seeing as she contained detailed information on starship repair and with her greater speed and processing power, the work was completed in half the time.

[THE BORG COLLECTIVE]

"Yes I know, SPECIES 0002, they call themselves the Gallifreyans. We have known of Gallifrey for millennia, it was a lonely Galaxy back then." The Borg Queen smiled.