ON:
“It worked!” Lt. Ree exclaimed.
Deivan nodded. The scans showed the Romulan forces at the River Covington were in disarray and the Anticans were pushing them back.
(Thirty minutes earlier, In a secret lab under Vorta’Rome)
The Betazoid was scared and confused. Why had he been captured and brought to this cold dark place by the Romulans, he couldn’t imagine. He’d been picked up on the road while trying to make his way to an evacuation point, then with his head covered, his arms bound he was brought ….here. Wherever here was.
Suddenly the door to the cell opened and a tall, serious looking Romulan woman marched in. She ordered the guards to leave them, not to enter for any reason until she called for them. They gave each other a knowing look and retreated from the room.
The Romulan walked up to the young Betazoid man and whispered in his ear.
“If you want to live, cryout as if in pain, if you don’t you most certainly will be.”
The man looked at her and she nodded and whispered. “Do It!”
He screamed as loud as he could.
“Very good. Now, do as I tell you.” She pulled a photograph of a space ship from her pocket. “Concentrate on this picture.”
He did as instructed.
“Now, concentrate on this” and she presented a picture of the Human Devil from mythology, with the word “LUCIFER” printed under it.
After a couple of minutes she replaced that picture with one of a Apple.
The man looked confused. But the Romulan woman slapped his face. “Just do it, your life depends on it.”
So he did, focusing hard for several more minutes.
“Now, one last picture.” She said pulling out a slip of paper with a string of characters.
“I can’t , its to much” he man cried.
“Yes you can, don’t try to memorize the numbers, just focus!”
So he did for several minutes. He concentrated so hard beads of sweet appeared on his brow.
At last the Romulan woman put the picture back into her tunic.
“Very good. Now rest. Food and drink will be brought. If you did well, you will live, if not , you won’t.”
And she turned and marched out of the cell. The young Betazoid had no idea what she was doing, and prayed he had done what she wanted.
(Aboard the Yang Liewi, in the Intelligence Department.)
Deivan was finishing up his briefing with his staff on the sectors reports, when Lt. Soonu put his hand to his head and made a face.
“You ok Lt. Soonu?” Deivan asked.
“Headache, Sir. I think.” And he stood and shook his head and almost fell.
Lt. Ree ran over to him. “What is it Omaz?”
“Images, Images flashing in my mind, I can’t control them.”
“Images of what?” Deivan asked.
”Crazy pictures. The first, is the ship, the second, is an odd creature. A man with long horns coming out of his forehead and, and goats legs!.”
“What else?” Deivan pushed.
“Numbers, A long string of numbers!?”
“Can you type them out?” Lt. Crretit asked.
“I think so” and Soonu got to his seat and started entering in the sequence. It appeared on the monitor over Deivans desk.
“There, I think that is it. God it wont stop!”
Lt. Crretit studied the sequence. “An encryption key.”
“Are your sure?” Lt. Ree asked.
“Quite” and he went back to his desk and started working it.
Several minutes later Lt. Soonu looked better. ‘It’s stopped. The images have stopped.”
“Good” Deivan looked at Lt. Crretit. “any luck?”
“I’m running a comparison against all Romulan transmissions for the last day. It will take a second.”
Lt. Ree. Looked over at Deivan. “It’s T’Ros isn’t it? Lucifer? And the Apple image, code for knowledge or information.”
“Exactly. I can’t think of a more secure way to communicate. She must have a Vulcan or Betazoid helping her.”
Lt Soonu looked up, “Most likely a Betazoid, their brain patterns are closer to Napein’s than Vulcans.”
“20th and 21st Century Russians tried something similar on Earth, they called it Remote Viewing. But humans just didn’t have the talent for it to get far.” Lt. Ree said.
“Got it” Lt. Crretit called out. “Matches the encryption being used by troops closest to Omega City.”
“Can we use it to scramble their communications?”
“Absolutely, I’m preparing a jamming signal now.”
Deivan keyed the Bridge com station for a subspace transmitter.
“Ready?” he asked.
“Now Commander.”
Deivan hit the transmit button and hoped for the best.
OFF:
Commander T'Ros
Romulan Ambassador
Mayor Vorta'Rome (NPC)
Special Guest Apperance
Commander Ranvir Deivan
Chief Intelligence Officer
USS Yang Liewi
Phoenix Fleet
And the Intelligence Team
