Ixius: Shattered Empires (Chapter Five added June 12th)
Posted: 2003-05-04 12:50am
Ixius: Shattered Empires is a revised edition of Ixius: In the Beginning. After writing out eight chapters, I went back and decided that I didn't like some of the things, so I decided to revise everything. I also decided to change the title. Shattered Empires is the first part in the Ixius saga. Ixius is a very large crossover story, dealing with many different sci-fi realms. I would appreciate feedback from people, because it will allow me to improve the story and make it more enjoyable for everyone. Right now i have a revised edition of Chapter One. Chapter Two, will be up with in a week.
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Chapter One:
The starship Voyager, floated in space, among an asteroid field orbiting the 5th planet of the Sen System. She was in hiding, minimal power, ship wide. On the outside of what used to be a gorgeous grey hull of an intrepid class starship, was now filled with gouges, fires, and damage everywhere. Hull breeches decks wide were visible on the ship, where once phaser arrays existed, now nothing but gaping charred hull. As Janeway entered her quarters what she saw, only reminded her of the dire situation. Outside her windows was a view of the asteroid field. The bluish glow of the asteroids lit up her quarters. It was actually an amazing site; you could see the bright son on the other side of the asteroid field. However she looked around, broken glass from her coffee table, burnt out consoles, mess everywhere on the floor. A beam from the sealing had fallen, and cut her desk in half. She walked over to the washroom, to clean up a bit, before she went back to work. Chakotay didn’t give her much choice in the matter; he wanted her of the bridge for at least eight hours. She looked in the mirror, she looked like hell. Her hair out of place, her skinned dirty from smoke, and blood stains, from cuts. A scar ran down her left cheek, from when a console overloaded in a corridor on deck six, a week ago, during one of the attacks. The doctor offered to heal it for her, but she refused, she said it was a memento, one of many on her body; her hands were scared from a fire. They have been under attack for three weeks now, there enemy wasn’t giving up, and Janeway was amazed that they have survived so many attacks. Including this morning it makes it sixteen, but they have paid a price. Thirty-four crew members killed, and another forty injured. Majority of the ship is crippled, and heavily damaged; they’ve lost three phaser banks, and the after torpedo tubes. Chakotay brought up the idea of finding a place to stay, a few days ago, after the last major fight, but she said no. They received the latest data stream from earth five days ago, she hasn’t gotten around to reading the messages yet, the first order of the message was she was to read the message from command before, allowing the rest of the crew to access there messages. She decided that after she got cleaned up a bit, she would read it. She turned on the sonic shower, and got in.
Harry was on the bridge. He had been working for almost four days straight, they all have been. There was much to do, but Harry had something to celebrate, among this entire situation, something good happened to him. He got another pip on his color. It was no longer Ensign Harry Kim, but Lieutenant Harry Kim. He had hoped to reply to his parents about it, and give them the good news; his parents would be so proud especially his mother, but the deflector dish was heavily damaged before they could reply. The console came to life. “Yes!” he cheered a few of the crew members looked at him. His smile disappeared quickly. He looked around the bridge, and despite everything he saw it on their faces. Hopelessness. He was not surprised, considering over the last few weeks, everyone on this ship has seen friends they’ve been with for the last 7 years die. It wasn’t easy, and Harry hasn’t gotten used to it. But he was become numb to it, every time there was an attack, and another casualty, somehow it didn’t affect him as much as it used to. That fact alone, scared the hell out of him, Chakotay said that it never gets easier, and the pain of it all will come back, once we have time to reflect on it, assuming we live through it. Chakotay walked up to him, “Good Work, Ens… I mean Lieutenant” he smiled a bit. Harry looked up, and gave a small smile back. “So what can you tell me?” he asked, quietly, and without much enthusiasm. That’s what it was, there was no more happiness on this ship anymore, and it was gloomy. “I have partial long range sensors, and from what I can tell no sign of our friends. The planet below us however, is an M class planet, but I wouldn’t suggest setting us down on it, the asteroid field, wouldn’t protect us 100% from their sensors. Voyager is running of 56% power, life support is off on 7 decks, the doctor has relocated the triage hall to deck three section 20. We have impulse power, but warp drive is offline. Assuming that we do not have any more run ins, Voyager should be back to 100% status, in about five to six weeks, that’s minimum time sir” Harry said. Voyager had sustained an incredible amount of damage, but she was still fighting, they’ve done damage, and the BORG have lost a few ships still due to her. “Good work, Harry, keep working.” And that was it. Chakotay went into the turbolift.
Chakotay walked down the corridor. It had partial working lights in it. Everywhere you looked there were conduits, charred panels, burnt out circuits. He didn’t agree with Janeway's descion with continuing on, he thought that turning back to friendly territory was a good idea. However Kathryn of course brought up the Scorpion incident, and the other BORG incidents, and compared them to this situation, which from his perspective was totally different. He came to her quarters, and hit the padd. A second later the door slit open, and he walked, Kathryn was sitting on the couch. “Good Morning” he said to her, with a half a smile on his face.
“Morning, and as far as it being good, I’ll let you be the judge of that. What our latest status report?” she asked him quietly, not even looking at him, she was staring out the window, thinking hard, contemplating, theorizing, the usual Kathryn Janeway.
“Well, Harry managed to get sensors back online. The ship is heavily damaged, he estimates that assuming we don’t have anymore run in ins” he sat down on the couch beside her, taking a sip of his coffee. “It will take five to six weeks to repair Voyager, back to normal operation status. We can stay here for that duration of the time, the asteroid field is safe from their sensors.” He told her, he knew she was going to say something along the lines, of we have to move on.
“If it weren’t for the message from Starfleet I would compete agree with you. We cannot fight them damaged like this, but now we don’t have much time, Chakotay. Time has run out for us.” She moved to the desk, and handed him a padd. She was looking at him, while he was reading, and she saw the look on this face, the look of disbelief.
He just looked up at her, not knowing what to say. “I had the same feeling. I sat here for twenty minutes. We don’t have five or six weeks to wait around. What they are proposing, hell, telling us to accomplish in that time frame, is nearly impossible. I’m telling you, I have the respect and admiration for a lot of those Admirals, but some times I just think they come up with impossible things, and expect the rest of us accomplish them, like it was a routine mission” She was angry, who wouldn’t be in there situation.
“I can’t believe it, the Klingon Empire, Romulan Empire, and the Federation complete wiped out. They must have used hundreds of thousands of ships, to accomplish that kind of invasion.” He said in disbelief still.
“The Dominion swept through the Romulan Empire first, and reinforcements poured in daily from the Gamma Quadrant. It took, less then two weeks for them to reach Federation space. The remains of the Klingon and Romulan forces fell back to federation space. They fought for the last 3 weeks non stop. And we are under orders, to prepare for the fleets arrival in the delta quadrant six months from now” she said to him.
“And just how does Starfleet expect one ship, to establish a colony. Especially a starship that doesn’t have the means to do it. Starfleet has done some crazy things, but I think this tops it. Not to mention, how do the expect to cross 40,000 light years?” he asked. He was angry. Starfleet expected the impossible this time around; they don’t have the resources to accomplish anything of that magnitude.
“A slipstream catapult” Janeway went one of the remaining panels in her quarters, and tapped it on screen was a display of a huge ring. “The catapult opens up, and propels anything that enters it to, slipstream velocity. They don’t have to enter slipstream the way we did, the computer systems, maintain everything. Unfortunately, they have to becarefull, and instead of taking them a 3 month journey, the amount of ships traveling in the tunnel, will take them six months. We have six months to somehow get through this mess, and to establish a system for that fleet to be able to colonize. I don’t know Chakotay...” she looked at him. The red alert Klaxon sounded. And Harry came through the comm.
“Red Alert, BORG sphere is on an intercept course. All hands to battle stations, all senior officers report to their stations. 2 minutes till intercept”
Chakotay and Janeway left her quarters, and heading for the nearest turbolift. Everyone on the ship was moving fast, almost running to their stations. They entered the turbolift. “Bridge” Chakotay commanded.
Harry was moving around the bridge, ordering the crew around. “Helm, standby to take evasive actions, tactical, bring all weapons online.” The bridge was dark, red panels flashed on the bridge in some areas. Harry heard the hiss of the doors from the turbolift. He walked over to his station.
“Put the Sphere on screen. Harry what can you tell me about it?” She asked. She stood in the middle of the bridge, while Chakotay sat down at his post. There was tension on the bridge he felt it. He suspected some of them didn’t expect to make it alive out of this fight.
“Class 4 Tactical Sphere. Highly regenerative armor, and shields. We would have to move very fast. We don’t have the element of surprise, but I think we can still use this to our advantage. If we drop a signature trap on one of the asteroids, then move away at minimum power, they won’t be able to detect voyager, and then we can come around, and hit them with Phase Torpedos. “ he told them confidently. Harry has gotten used to this now, after so many years. It was like second nature to him.
“Mr. Paris, do it!” she sat down in her chair. “Aye ma’am” he replied.
Voyager launched a signature marker. And dropped its power to minimum. The BORG sphere approached the field, and began firing at the various asteroids, clearing a path. Just as it approached the marker asteroid. Voyager roared to life, and came up from below the asteroid field, and opened fire. Six Torpedoes emerged from the front of voyagers engineering hull. The streaked towards the sphere, and a few moments, later large impacts on the hull took place, following by large ruptures of explosion. The sphere changed course and headed towards voyager. Its weapons firing gunning down voyager.
“The sphere took heavy damage to its top portside section. I am also showing power fluctuations in there, shield system.” Voyager jerked a bit. “Captain they’ve got a holding beam locked on us. They are pulling us in.
Janeway stood up. “Mr. Tuvok, remodulate our shield, tom try to get us free!” Voyager jerked again, as she tried to break free of the BORG beam. But it had no affect. “Captain we can’t break free, we don’t have enough power!” replied tom. “Tuvok, on my command fire two phase torpedoes, Mr. Paris, try to keep us in front of the shockwave.” She braced herself. “Fire!” a second later. Two torpedoes emerged from voyagers after torpedo tubes. They impacted the hull of the Sphere, and the beam was cut. Voyager broke free and sped away. Some of the shockwave hit the ship, and consoles exploded.
The BORG sphere was heavily damaged. Its shields were offline. Over the course of the last few weeks, the BORG have sustained heavy losses. Shields have no affect on the Phase Torpedoes. Therefore all hits go directly on the hull. Voyager adapted replication technology to replicate new torpedoes everyone time one is fired. This has given them a large amount of weapons power. The BORG have lost over 40 ships to Voyager so far, because of this weapon. “The sphere is continuing its pursuit, Captain. Incoming torpedoes!” stated tom, in a semi loud voice. Just then several consoles exploded, including toms. “Tom!” yelled janeway, and she ran up to him. He was burnt badly on the face, he had a weak pulse. “Get him to sickbay!” a few crew members came up and took tom away. “Mr Kim, standby to put as much power into impulse reactors you can. Mr Tuvok, fire Phase Torpedoes at will, I want that ship destroyed. Fire!” Voyager shot torpedo after torpedo from its aft banks. They all impacted the BORG sphere. A few moments later the sphere exploded in a great ball of fire. Voyager sped, away as fast as she could, but it wasn’t enough. She couldn’t outrun the shockwave. The shockwave slammed into the side of her, and she spun out of control. Several large explosion erupted from the hell. The impulse reactors exploded, nearly destroying the nacelle pylons. She continued to spin out of control, and just floated in space.
“We’ve got several hull breaches, the Impulse reactors exploded, we are dead in space. We’ve lost life support on 2 more decks. Weapons are offline. And long range sensors just picked up another transwarp conduit opening up. Its 3 Level 4 Tactical Cubes. “Harry’s voice trailed off. Janeway looked at him, and she didn’t know what to do. The cubes would be in weapons range in under 1 minute. There was only one thing to do. She looked at Chakotay, he gave her a look, as if he knew exactly the same thing.
“Captain, I’m detecting spatial fissures opening up around us, there is 50 of them! I’m detecting Species 8472, Federation, and Romulan signatures, as well as signatures of ships we’ve never seen before. They are opening fire on the BORG ships”.
Outside of Voyager. A fleet of starships attacked the BORG ships. They BORG stood no chance. They ships destroyed them, in seconds. Then they came back around, and one of the starships extended a beam on Voyager, and dragged them into it’s hangar bay. Then the ships disappeared back into the fissures and space was completely silent again.
Inside the hangar, they saw other starships, some of them they recognized. Galaxy, Defiant, Intrepid, and a few others that they didn’t. They saw thousands of people on the deck.
“Were being hailed, the person identifies themselves as Grand Admiral Kathryn Janeway of the Multi-Verse Federation”. Said Harry in disbelief.
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Chapter One:
The starship Voyager, floated in space, among an asteroid field orbiting the 5th planet of the Sen System. She was in hiding, minimal power, ship wide. On the outside of what used to be a gorgeous grey hull of an intrepid class starship, was now filled with gouges, fires, and damage everywhere. Hull breeches decks wide were visible on the ship, where once phaser arrays existed, now nothing but gaping charred hull. As Janeway entered her quarters what she saw, only reminded her of the dire situation. Outside her windows was a view of the asteroid field. The bluish glow of the asteroids lit up her quarters. It was actually an amazing site; you could see the bright son on the other side of the asteroid field. However she looked around, broken glass from her coffee table, burnt out consoles, mess everywhere on the floor. A beam from the sealing had fallen, and cut her desk in half. She walked over to the washroom, to clean up a bit, before she went back to work. Chakotay didn’t give her much choice in the matter; he wanted her of the bridge for at least eight hours. She looked in the mirror, she looked like hell. Her hair out of place, her skinned dirty from smoke, and blood stains, from cuts. A scar ran down her left cheek, from when a console overloaded in a corridor on deck six, a week ago, during one of the attacks. The doctor offered to heal it for her, but she refused, she said it was a memento, one of many on her body; her hands were scared from a fire. They have been under attack for three weeks now, there enemy wasn’t giving up, and Janeway was amazed that they have survived so many attacks. Including this morning it makes it sixteen, but they have paid a price. Thirty-four crew members killed, and another forty injured. Majority of the ship is crippled, and heavily damaged; they’ve lost three phaser banks, and the after torpedo tubes. Chakotay brought up the idea of finding a place to stay, a few days ago, after the last major fight, but she said no. They received the latest data stream from earth five days ago, she hasn’t gotten around to reading the messages yet, the first order of the message was she was to read the message from command before, allowing the rest of the crew to access there messages. She decided that after she got cleaned up a bit, she would read it. She turned on the sonic shower, and got in.
Harry was on the bridge. He had been working for almost four days straight, they all have been. There was much to do, but Harry had something to celebrate, among this entire situation, something good happened to him. He got another pip on his color. It was no longer Ensign Harry Kim, but Lieutenant Harry Kim. He had hoped to reply to his parents about it, and give them the good news; his parents would be so proud especially his mother, but the deflector dish was heavily damaged before they could reply. The console came to life. “Yes!” he cheered a few of the crew members looked at him. His smile disappeared quickly. He looked around the bridge, and despite everything he saw it on their faces. Hopelessness. He was not surprised, considering over the last few weeks, everyone on this ship has seen friends they’ve been with for the last 7 years die. It wasn’t easy, and Harry hasn’t gotten used to it. But he was become numb to it, every time there was an attack, and another casualty, somehow it didn’t affect him as much as it used to. That fact alone, scared the hell out of him, Chakotay said that it never gets easier, and the pain of it all will come back, once we have time to reflect on it, assuming we live through it. Chakotay walked up to him, “Good Work, Ens… I mean Lieutenant” he smiled a bit. Harry looked up, and gave a small smile back. “So what can you tell me?” he asked, quietly, and without much enthusiasm. That’s what it was, there was no more happiness on this ship anymore, and it was gloomy. “I have partial long range sensors, and from what I can tell no sign of our friends. The planet below us however, is an M class planet, but I wouldn’t suggest setting us down on it, the asteroid field, wouldn’t protect us 100% from their sensors. Voyager is running of 56% power, life support is off on 7 decks, the doctor has relocated the triage hall to deck three section 20. We have impulse power, but warp drive is offline. Assuming that we do not have any more run ins, Voyager should be back to 100% status, in about five to six weeks, that’s minimum time sir” Harry said. Voyager had sustained an incredible amount of damage, but she was still fighting, they’ve done damage, and the BORG have lost a few ships still due to her. “Good work, Harry, keep working.” And that was it. Chakotay went into the turbolift.
Chakotay walked down the corridor. It had partial working lights in it. Everywhere you looked there were conduits, charred panels, burnt out circuits. He didn’t agree with Janeway's descion with continuing on, he thought that turning back to friendly territory was a good idea. However Kathryn of course brought up the Scorpion incident, and the other BORG incidents, and compared them to this situation, which from his perspective was totally different. He came to her quarters, and hit the padd. A second later the door slit open, and he walked, Kathryn was sitting on the couch. “Good Morning” he said to her, with a half a smile on his face.
“Morning, and as far as it being good, I’ll let you be the judge of that. What our latest status report?” she asked him quietly, not even looking at him, she was staring out the window, thinking hard, contemplating, theorizing, the usual Kathryn Janeway.
“Well, Harry managed to get sensors back online. The ship is heavily damaged, he estimates that assuming we don’t have anymore run in ins” he sat down on the couch beside her, taking a sip of his coffee. “It will take five to six weeks to repair Voyager, back to normal operation status. We can stay here for that duration of the time, the asteroid field is safe from their sensors.” He told her, he knew she was going to say something along the lines, of we have to move on.
“If it weren’t for the message from Starfleet I would compete agree with you. We cannot fight them damaged like this, but now we don’t have much time, Chakotay. Time has run out for us.” She moved to the desk, and handed him a padd. She was looking at him, while he was reading, and she saw the look on this face, the look of disbelief.
He just looked up at her, not knowing what to say. “I had the same feeling. I sat here for twenty minutes. We don’t have five or six weeks to wait around. What they are proposing, hell, telling us to accomplish in that time frame, is nearly impossible. I’m telling you, I have the respect and admiration for a lot of those Admirals, but some times I just think they come up with impossible things, and expect the rest of us accomplish them, like it was a routine mission” She was angry, who wouldn’t be in there situation.
“I can’t believe it, the Klingon Empire, Romulan Empire, and the Federation complete wiped out. They must have used hundreds of thousands of ships, to accomplish that kind of invasion.” He said in disbelief still.
“The Dominion swept through the Romulan Empire first, and reinforcements poured in daily from the Gamma Quadrant. It took, less then two weeks for them to reach Federation space. The remains of the Klingon and Romulan forces fell back to federation space. They fought for the last 3 weeks non stop. And we are under orders, to prepare for the fleets arrival in the delta quadrant six months from now” she said to him.
“And just how does Starfleet expect one ship, to establish a colony. Especially a starship that doesn’t have the means to do it. Starfleet has done some crazy things, but I think this tops it. Not to mention, how do the expect to cross 40,000 light years?” he asked. He was angry. Starfleet expected the impossible this time around; they don’t have the resources to accomplish anything of that magnitude.
“A slipstream catapult” Janeway went one of the remaining panels in her quarters, and tapped it on screen was a display of a huge ring. “The catapult opens up, and propels anything that enters it to, slipstream velocity. They don’t have to enter slipstream the way we did, the computer systems, maintain everything. Unfortunately, they have to becarefull, and instead of taking them a 3 month journey, the amount of ships traveling in the tunnel, will take them six months. We have six months to somehow get through this mess, and to establish a system for that fleet to be able to colonize. I don’t know Chakotay...” she looked at him. The red alert Klaxon sounded. And Harry came through the comm.
“Red Alert, BORG sphere is on an intercept course. All hands to battle stations, all senior officers report to their stations. 2 minutes till intercept”
Chakotay and Janeway left her quarters, and heading for the nearest turbolift. Everyone on the ship was moving fast, almost running to their stations. They entered the turbolift. “Bridge” Chakotay commanded.
Harry was moving around the bridge, ordering the crew around. “Helm, standby to take evasive actions, tactical, bring all weapons online.” The bridge was dark, red panels flashed on the bridge in some areas. Harry heard the hiss of the doors from the turbolift. He walked over to his station.
“Put the Sphere on screen. Harry what can you tell me about it?” She asked. She stood in the middle of the bridge, while Chakotay sat down at his post. There was tension on the bridge he felt it. He suspected some of them didn’t expect to make it alive out of this fight.
“Class 4 Tactical Sphere. Highly regenerative armor, and shields. We would have to move very fast. We don’t have the element of surprise, but I think we can still use this to our advantage. If we drop a signature trap on one of the asteroids, then move away at minimum power, they won’t be able to detect voyager, and then we can come around, and hit them with Phase Torpedos. “ he told them confidently. Harry has gotten used to this now, after so many years. It was like second nature to him.
“Mr. Paris, do it!” she sat down in her chair. “Aye ma’am” he replied.
Voyager launched a signature marker. And dropped its power to minimum. The BORG sphere approached the field, and began firing at the various asteroids, clearing a path. Just as it approached the marker asteroid. Voyager roared to life, and came up from below the asteroid field, and opened fire. Six Torpedoes emerged from the front of voyagers engineering hull. The streaked towards the sphere, and a few moments, later large impacts on the hull took place, following by large ruptures of explosion. The sphere changed course and headed towards voyager. Its weapons firing gunning down voyager.
“The sphere took heavy damage to its top portside section. I am also showing power fluctuations in there, shield system.” Voyager jerked a bit. “Captain they’ve got a holding beam locked on us. They are pulling us in.
Janeway stood up. “Mr. Tuvok, remodulate our shield, tom try to get us free!” Voyager jerked again, as she tried to break free of the BORG beam. But it had no affect. “Captain we can’t break free, we don’t have enough power!” replied tom. “Tuvok, on my command fire two phase torpedoes, Mr. Paris, try to keep us in front of the shockwave.” She braced herself. “Fire!” a second later. Two torpedoes emerged from voyagers after torpedo tubes. They impacted the hull of the Sphere, and the beam was cut. Voyager broke free and sped away. Some of the shockwave hit the ship, and consoles exploded.
The BORG sphere was heavily damaged. Its shields were offline. Over the course of the last few weeks, the BORG have sustained heavy losses. Shields have no affect on the Phase Torpedoes. Therefore all hits go directly on the hull. Voyager adapted replication technology to replicate new torpedoes everyone time one is fired. This has given them a large amount of weapons power. The BORG have lost over 40 ships to Voyager so far, because of this weapon. “The sphere is continuing its pursuit, Captain. Incoming torpedoes!” stated tom, in a semi loud voice. Just then several consoles exploded, including toms. “Tom!” yelled janeway, and she ran up to him. He was burnt badly on the face, he had a weak pulse. “Get him to sickbay!” a few crew members came up and took tom away. “Mr Kim, standby to put as much power into impulse reactors you can. Mr Tuvok, fire Phase Torpedoes at will, I want that ship destroyed. Fire!” Voyager shot torpedo after torpedo from its aft banks. They all impacted the BORG sphere. A few moments later the sphere exploded in a great ball of fire. Voyager sped, away as fast as she could, but it wasn’t enough. She couldn’t outrun the shockwave. The shockwave slammed into the side of her, and she spun out of control. Several large explosion erupted from the hell. The impulse reactors exploded, nearly destroying the nacelle pylons. She continued to spin out of control, and just floated in space.
“We’ve got several hull breaches, the Impulse reactors exploded, we are dead in space. We’ve lost life support on 2 more decks. Weapons are offline. And long range sensors just picked up another transwarp conduit opening up. Its 3 Level 4 Tactical Cubes. “Harry’s voice trailed off. Janeway looked at him, and she didn’t know what to do. The cubes would be in weapons range in under 1 minute. There was only one thing to do. She looked at Chakotay, he gave her a look, as if he knew exactly the same thing.
“Captain, I’m detecting spatial fissures opening up around us, there is 50 of them! I’m detecting Species 8472, Federation, and Romulan signatures, as well as signatures of ships we’ve never seen before. They are opening fire on the BORG ships”.
Outside of Voyager. A fleet of starships attacked the BORG ships. They BORG stood no chance. They ships destroyed them, in seconds. Then they came back around, and one of the starships extended a beam on Voyager, and dragged them into it’s hangar bay. Then the ships disappeared back into the fissures and space was completely silent again.
Inside the hangar, they saw other starships, some of them they recognized. Galaxy, Defiant, Intrepid, and a few others that they didn’t. They saw thousands of people on the deck.
“Were being hailed, the person identifies themselves as Grand Admiral Kathryn Janeway of the Multi-Verse Federation”. Said Harry in disbelief.
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