Editing Into the Darkness, Go I (section)

==Act Two: Prologue==
[[Image:Rosenante-Alt-2up.jpg|thumb|right|250px|USS Rosenante]]
Unknown to the [[USS Rosenante]] their mirror counterpart has laid in a course to [[Bardon Alpha]]. The Rosenante's [[Rank|Captain]] [[Ahmed Ibn Salid]] holds an emergency meeting with his three senior most officers, [[Jennifer Caskie]], [[T'Larah Sullivan]] and [[Jon Nayati]]. He explains to them that he has just ordered the USS Rosenante off mission to investigate some critical intelligence. He does not reveal to the the nature of this intelligence, but simply asks for their trust in this issue. Salid states that he is aware that he is breaking regulations and that he realizes that there will be consequences if he is proven to be wrong. However he states that he can not take the chance that the intelligence turns out to be accurate without investigating it. It is his belief that the intelligence he has received could threaten not only the [[United Federation of Planets]] but also the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. All three officers agree to trust Salid's judgment.

Meanwhile back on Earth, Captain Saleke, former Commanding Officer of the [[USS Hades]] is called to a lunch with [[Rank|Vice Admiral]] [[Errol Heatherby]]. The admiral begins to explain that he has reason to believe that there may be a conspiracy inside the [[Starfleet Command|Admiralty]]. He cites the bizarre fact that several prior Doenitz supporters are now Starship captains in the border region between the [[United Federation of Planets]] and the [[Cardassian Union]]. fearing that there could well be a potential to allow conspiracy to thrive under such conditions, he orders Saleke to take command of the [[USS Furious]], a [[Prometheus Class]] [[starship]] and proceed to the [[Ikev Sector]]. He also warns Saleke that the previous Captain of the Furious was killed in a freak [[Transporter]] accident and that the [[Vulcan]] Captain should proceed with caution.