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==[ORIGINS] USS HOOD: Murder Most Made to Order== | |||
===by David Kiel=== | |||
SD 2261.083 | |||
All the luck in the universe had piled itself in a vortex of fortune that shone | |||
for a few moments on the navigators station on the TSS Hood. There was no way | |||
he should have had a chance, the Captain should have shot him on sight. But he | |||
hadn't, to everyone's surprise he had purposely given Zade an out. | |||
The choice had been easy. Jake LeTamm, the security officer. The only officer | |||
other than the four who had gone planetside with any claim to the con of the | |||
Hood. LeTamm was a bit of a puffed up opportunist who had a somewhat inflated | |||
image of himself. He was good with weapons, but not great; and he had little in | |||
the way of subtlety. He was formidable in a heads up fight but it wasn't going | |||
to come to that. | |||
Zade was part of the Tenaran Order, the order of the Ice Cliffs, the oldest | |||
order of assassins on Trill. Add that to the Zade symbionts knowledge of | |||
poisons gleaned from his lifetimes in Parliament, and he was more than prepared | |||
with how to deal with a better physical combatant. He was almost smiling as he | |||
walked down to where LeTamm's command center. | |||
The Security chief had been the only real choice. He had been negligent with | |||
security of the torpedo tubes at the very moment that had cost them half their | |||
warp capacity. As for the others, the SCI was entirely obsessed with science | |||
of all things, and her little zoo. She was almost an ideal officer to have on | |||
board, she wasn't a threat. The COMM officer was new, he hadn't had time to | |||
find his place in the hierarchy yet. And the other three, the three that went | |||
to the planet with Steele. Zade wouldn't have gotten a chance at them, the | |||
Captain wouldn't have permitted it. It was only a suspicion, but Arctura could | |||
read body language as well as anyone in the order. Captain Steele was | |||
different, he was restrained and tense. | |||
Blackjack Steele was incapable of either. | |||
Something had happened planetside, for Arctura it was the golden opportunity. | |||
Kill the SEC, discredit the others and return triumphant. He strode through | |||
deck eight and into Security Control. | |||
* * * * * | |||
Cedria Quall closed the access panel and smirked as LeTamm staggered out of his | |||
command center. She had saved the panel next to security central for one of the | |||
last and she was glad she had. Arctura had swept passed just a few moments | |||
before with his normal glare of self-involved treachery. | |||
Normally she would give the SEC the antidote, she carried a pair of vials at all | |||
times. She had uses for people who owed her their lives. But the power vacuum | |||
Zade was creating in security would turn the ship into a powder keg as 215 | |||
security officers divided into armed camps vying for succession. The Captain | |||
had clearly gone insane if he had given Zade the permission for this. | |||
Cedria repressed a gleeful smile as the SEC's spleen exploded rupturing his | |||
abdomen from inside—it was a quick and deliriously painful Trill poison. | |||
Jellied intestines dripped to the floor as the man toppled and died. | |||
Cedria locked the panel and headed for the last of the junctions. She probably | |||
had enough of them already but there were always time for more. The next time | |||
Hood took on her double its shield matrix would suffer a catastrophic and fiery | |||
failure. All she had to do was figure out a way back to her own universe when | |||
it was done. | |||
Respectfully submitted; | |||
David Kiel | |||
Lt Cedria Zade, | |||
NAV, USS HOOD NCC-1703 | |||
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