===== Throne room, Kzenti royal palace, Kzenti homeworld ===== "Long live the king!" sounded strongly in the large throne room. Nearly 40 members of the Kzenti high society, maily military generals, goverment members and peers were present on the crowning ceremony of the new king. It was a public secret that the former chief of Intelligence and the newly crowned King murdered his predecessor the Queen and omitted several members of the royal family to usurpe the Kzenti crown for himself, but nobody dared to protest in any way. Inteligence was a mighty organisation and its former chief a dangerous and reckless Kzenti. It was him who convinced the former Queen to start with the Chameleon technology research and again it was him who counseled the former Queen to invite the emisaries of the Romulan Empire and the Federation. Seeing that the Queen was of no use for him anymore, he usurped her might and killed her ... and became the king by himself. Shining in the ceremonial Royal Kzenti armour, his aura of strenght and prevalence was almost substancial. "Go on my chields" the King started, "send out our fleet and let us crush the meager foes of the mighty Kzenti kingdom. Activate the Chameleon technology, deceive our enemies and destroy them all!" ===== Bridge, USS Chimera, some later ===== Shane was sitting in the CO's chair and tried to evaluate the current situation. For the last 15 minutes he skimmed over the latest reports and talked to his senior officers to make himself a clear sight of the puzzle that the Chimera was a part of. One thing that pleased Shane a lot was the fact that both away teams were back on the Chimera. Even when suffering casualities, a vast majority of the away team members were now safe and sound. The Chimera itself was undamaged what made the situation a better one. The Romulan Warbird cloaked immediately after the runabout shuttle was destroyed and no other ship was to find in the vincinity, so there was no direct danged trheating the Chimera, but Shane had a slight feeling of big troubles ahead of them. Even when only skiming through the reports, Shane was very proud of the crew. Both teams did their best to acomplish their goals and the ship's crew their best to support them. Rangi was doing quite well in commanding the ship. She had only limited capabilities to actually be of any help for the two away teams, but under her command the ship's crew did their best to develope devices and plans how to aid or rescue the away teams. Especially the AOPS officer, LT. Foster showed his qualities again. Like a true OPS officer, he interacted with Science and Engineering in their efforts and vitaly aided Walsh's away team on their way back from the Kzneti station. On Shane's own away team, both Dr. Maikai and ADCEO Kirkland performed very well. Mai had more wounds to tend then she surely liked and aside from her medical duties she prooved herself as a valuable member in a fight as well. Kirkland prooved himself as a true member of the crew, active and competent, maybe a bit carefree, but Shane began to be sure that that man will be the right choice for the CEO post. A hard time was behind the first away team under the command of MCpt. Walsh. The Kzenti turned to be a formidable enemy and their mission was anything but an easy one. Anyway, the team acomplished its goal and returned with informations and data about the mysterious Kzenti 'chameleon' technology. The data were unfortunately heavily crypted, but Shane hoped that it will be a matter of time only to break the code. The events on the Kzneti research station were turbulent and dagerous ones and Shane was glad that even the CSCiO Oriana prooved herself to be an asset to teh mission. The marine team consisting of Walsh, McKnight, Williams and Cortez seemed to be an effective and strong one. He could only wish that the whole ODA would be alike this four man. Shane's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden call from the OPS station: "Sir, I am detecting several dozens of ship's leaving the system. They appear to be romulan and federation ships!" Shane jumped in his seat: "What?" he asked startled. Foster filled in more details: "30 federations ships, Nebula, Sovereign, Galaxy and Interpid class, 40 Warbird class Romulan ships. Uncloacked and heading out of the system." Shane's thought immediately presumed the truth ... that were Kzenti ship's disguised to look like federation and romulan ones. Like the Warbird that attacked the Chimera upon their arrival in the Kzenti space and the Interpid class ship that attacked the Romulans. "Where are they heading?" he asked. "Federation terotorry sir" came the swift reply. With a sudden urge in his tone Andy added: "Sir, 5 Interpid class ship's heading directly at us from behind the 2nd planet's moon!". "Damn! ... red alert, raise shields!" Shane commanded and seated himself in the CO's seat again. The all to familiar red alert light flooded the bridge. "Hail them" Shane ordered. "No reply sir" came the reply from behind the OPS. Now it was Dexter manning the TAC station that reported: "Commander, I have 20 Romulan Warbird on my sensors. They have just decloaked several kilometers away from the Kzenti research station. They are charging the weapons!" Shand half stood from his seat when he decided to remmain sitting. "What the heck are they doing there Ensign?" he asked. ".. firing torpedoes at the research station, all 20 of them ... they have destroyed the whole asteroid sir!" {The research station!} went through Shane's head. {What a clever move ... destroying the WHOLE asteroid instead of just some equipment on the station. But where the heck appeared that Warbirds from? And which sip's are 'real' and what not?} ===== Bridge of the leading Romulan Warbird ===== "Asteroid destroyed sir" reported a young romulan from behind the TAC station. The Aendah noded with satisfaction. "Well done. Now signalise the fleet to cloak and follow us. We are heading back to Romulus". "Aye sir" The Romulan XO leaned a bit neared to his CO and asked quietly: "Tal'shiar wont be too happy that we havent conquered the Kzenti, will they?" The Romulan CO looked with a slight amusement at his XO. "No, they wont, but we have got something far more valuable then a single solar system. From what I have been told the Chameleon technology is a formidable weapon. It will give the empire a vast tactical advancement over our foes in any war." The XO noded a bit reluctantly: "Science department just reported that all data gather by the storm team are heavily coded. They say that they have seen such a code never before. Some fractal reverse asymetric coding algorhitm." The romulan CO just waved with his hand: "They will crack it, they will or they will spend the next year in waste disposal duty". Very little he knew that in a month his waste disposal squad will be FULL of science personnel. ===== Space at the edge of the Kzenti System ===== A mighty fleet of 70 ships, mixed of Romulan and federation class ship's was about to engage warp. Their destiny was federation territory, their mission was to conquer .... But suddenly as the Asteroid with the Research station vanished under the fired of the Romulan Tal'shiar fleet, the Chameleon technolgy mounted on every single Kzenti ship in the fleet failed. One after one, the Kzneti ship assumed their original shape and design. In less then a minute there was no 'federation' or a 'romulan' ship there ... just 70 Kzenti Warships. After a while of wild communication with the Kzenti HQ, the fleet slowly turned around and headed back towards the Kzenti homeworld. ===== Meanwhile, Bridge, USS Chimera ==== "Sir" cried Dexter, "the 5 Interpid class ship's seem to 'mutate' into Kzenti Warships." Shane noded. What Walsh's team started with explosives, the romulans ended with torpedoes. The Kzenti research station was gone and with it the Kzenti chameleon technology as well. Without the station's support, no Kzenti ship was able to retain its 'chameleon cloak' and all turned back to their original shape. "The 5 ship's are still heading our wat sir, they are charging their weapons" Shane stood up from the chair and said: "Cloak us Mr. Foster, Mr. York, set the course for federation space, Starbase Bragg, maximum warp... I belive that our diplomatic mission is at end." "Aye aye, sir!" ===== End of log ===== <<OOC ... finally! The Kzenti plot is just history. Sure, there are still some spaces blank for you to fill in, but generally the plot is now over. The Chimera is heading towards SB Bragg. Feel free to log the trip there and look up for Indy's or mine's log stating that we arrived there. Virtually the R&R will start from that point. Thanks to everyone for very nice reading over the last weeks and your contribution to the story>> Cmdr. Shane Guzman XO/ACO USS Chimera