Star Trek
Starfleet Corps of Engineers #21: War Stories Book 1
Chapter One
The holo in the center of Ansed's living room
showed a comedy program that had stopped
production a decade earlier, and for which Ansed
owned no recordings. A minute ago, it had been
showing archival footage of the landing of the
Pevvni ship that had colonized the ninth planet
fifty years ago. A minute before that, it had
been showing a real-time image of the weather on
Hendorf Island.
But, for the life of her, Ansed, First Speaker
of Eerlik, could not get the holo to open a
simple communications channel.
That was only part of the problem.
Ansed looked around the living room - currently
illuminated by candles, since the lights no
longer worked - and out the window at the
hailstorm that should've been stopped by the
weather control system. She pulled the blanket
around her teal shoulders with her short arms - necessary,
as the house's heating system was no
longer functioning properly.
The unthinkable had happened. The great
Ganitriul was breaking down. And if someone
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