Editing Sphere of Terror (section)

==The Onyx==

[[File:Steamrunner Onyx.jpg|thumb|250px|right| The USS Onyx NCC-87356]]

Roughly two days after the call came in for the Hades to conduct search operations for the Onyx, the [[Prometheus Class]] starship located the ship, powerless floating dead in space.

There was no sign of any power sources on the vessel and external sensor scans proved to be useless due to a large tachyon interference that seemed to be emanating from the location of the vessel.

Fearing the worst, [[Starfleet Marine Corps|Starfleet Marines]] from the Hades beamed over to begin an initial search. Once they had determined that there was no immediate danger other members of the ship's crew beamed aboard to conduct a search and recovery operation.

Almost immediately, the Crew began to notice strange quirks about the abandoned ship. There was no sign of the ship's crew, and there was no sign of jettisoned [[Escape Pods]].

In addition to this, the Hades crew found signs of tasks unfinished as if the operator had simply stepped away for a few minutes. In this fashion the Onyx was compared to the [[Mary Celeste]].

However, something much more insidious was taking place. As the crew were searching the ship and trying to figure out why the Onyx had no power, a sense of dread and barely suppressed terror began to make it's presence known.

Before long, something, or someone had instilled a deep sense of absolute blinding terror into the members of the ship's crew searching the Onyx. At first it began with peripheral hallucinations. small noises, or the hint of a shadowy figure. However, it didn't take long before those initial delusions took on full blow threats that altered the perceptions of those affected. Some members of the Away team were suddenly attacking their shipmates, and at least one member of the away team was killed as a result of the hallucination driven responses of the crew.

With the away team threatened by an unknown force, the Away team commander,  ordered an emergency return to the Hades.