Editing Into the Darkness, Go I (section)

==Act Four: [[Hexikor Prime]]==
[[Image:Hexikor Prime.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Hexikor Prime]]
The [[ISS Rosenante]] arrived at Hexikor Alpha before either the [[USS Furious]] or the [[USS Rosenante]] could intercept her. The crew of the Mirror Universe had a clear set of objectives in mind for the attack and set about capturing them with speed and efficiency. The Mirror Universe Away Team consisted of the Following personnel:

*Commander [[Jennifer Caskie]]
*Lieutenant [[Jon Nayati]]
*Lieutenant [[Thomas Jackson]]
*Ensign [[Mitena Rixx]]
*Ensign [[Mike Rosenbauer]]
*Ensign [[Robert Smith]]

This group was tasked with the objective to locate and acquire two pieces of hardware located aboard the Hexikor Alpha facility. These were a [[Paratrinic Shield|Paratrinic Shield Generator]] And a [[Class 11 Computer|Class 11 Bioneural Computer]]. These components would be essential in defining the defensive capabilities of the [[Omega Device]].

After the away team arrived, they encountered Doctors 12 & 14, the [[Bynars|Bynar]] Scientists working on the Paratrinic shield project. They also encountered [[Nathan Benoit]] a recent graduate from [[Starfleet Academy]].

In a struggle, Benoit was attacked and overpowered by the [[Mirror Universe]] Thomas Jackson. The Mirror universe away team chose to capture Doctor 12 and use him as bait. However, Doctor 14 activated the shield generator and managed to transport an unprotected Mirror universe Jackson out into the depths of space beyond the hull of the station. The ISS Rosenante's Chief of Operations had been killed.

Meanwhile, Rixx and Smith worked to secure the devices and when they had completed their task, they beamed the equipment back to the awaiting Mirror Universe vessel.

It was during that time that station security showed up and a very brief exchange of phaser fire took place. The Mirror Universe group evacuated the station having secured their prize and left the area unmolested. During the Raid Captain Salid had chosen to destroy both facilities long-range communications capabilities

[[Image:Prometheus class.jpg|thumb|left|250px|USS Furious]]
The USS Furious arrived a little over a day behind the ISS Rosenante's departure. Captain [[Saleke]] elected to visit the facility in an effort to ferret out additional information concerning the conspiracy alluded to by the Prime Universe's Captain [[Ahmed Ibn Salid]]. During his visit to the station the Furious' CSO Holis Gralen, a [[Betazoid]] interviewed Commander [[Brian Romeo]] concerning the research of the stolen equipment. Romeo provided a perfect watertight reason for the project, citing a pre-warp culture and an attempt to study a rapidly dying star from the same system. While the evidence was solid, Holis suspected that Romeo was not being entirely truthful.

While Saleke was conducting his investigation abord the Hexikor facility, including interviewing an injured [[Nathan Benoit]], The USS Rosenante entered the Hexikor system under cloak.

Determined not to have a repeat of the encounter at [[Bardon Alpha]], Captain Salid chose to neutralize the threat that the Furious posed by transporting six of their primary power buses off the Furious. These power relay buses, cause the ship to lose all primary power, rendering it unable to use weapons, shields or warp drive.  Salid then ordered the surrender of the Furious but was unwilling to accept the surrender of that vessel from their First Officer Commander Erin Sloane.

Saleke was summoned and his presence was requested aboard the Rosenante. Having been convinced by the data that he had collected thus far in his investigation, Captain Saleke informed Captain Salid that he and his ship were no longer suspects in the attack, nor were the complicit in any plot to acquire and build an Omega Device.  Saleke had, independently, arrived at the same conclusion, that the ISS Rosenante, a ship from the Mirror universe was in fact responsible for the attacks. 

It was also clear that the Mirror Universe Rosenante was following a pattern that must have been established in their own universe. Which explained how the marauding vessel knew where to acquire the components for the creation of a new Omega Device.

After some discussions, it was decided that the USS Furious and the USS Rosenante would need to combine forces in order to counter the tactical and homicidal threat now posed by the ISS Rosenante.

As long range scans indicated that the Mirror Universe vessel was headed for the [[Kabor Prime|Kabor System]] The Rosenante took the Furious under tow, and using their own shields to protect them, opened a Spiral warp conduit to facilitate maneuvers while the Furious conducted the reinstallation of the power relay buses.