Chapter One
Something was almost ready to come out of warp. Something very big.
It was tripping all of Deep Space 9's proximity alarms, lighting up the sensor
board in ways Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane had never seen before. If the readings
were accurate — and he was certain they were — a subspace displacement of
almost unheard-of proportions was heading directly for the station and playing
havoc with the long-range sensor arrays. Shar found himself struggling with his
console, fighting back his mounting frustration as each klaxon he muted was
quickly replaced by another.
The sudden pins-and-needles sensation in his antennae alerted him to the fact
that Commander Vaughn was standing just behind him. Shar tried not to look
flustered; the commander had a casual manner about him much of the time, but
Vaughn was always an intimidating presence. Most Andorians cultivated a polite,
soft-spoken demeanor, even — some might say especially — when they
were about to slip daggers between each other's ribs, but Shar was still
adapting to Vaughn's habit of shifting back and forth between easygoing civility
and Starfleet formality.
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