Atragon9

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #830, STARDATE 51411.03 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan, under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust under the HQ of the Antares group. Kansas and Erich went to investigate and got trapped underground, with Antares security trying to kill them. Our duo and their rescue team were aided in their escape by a woman trying to get away from Antares and Charles Thasus. Back on Manticore she describes a special prisoner that may be A9, while Erich Jaenke fights for his life, following a serious wound received on Titan. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #830, STARDATE 51411.03 =/\=

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #830, STARDATE 51410.27 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan, under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust under the HQ of the Antares group. Kansas and Erich went ti investigate and got trapped underground, with Antares security trying to kill them. Our duo and their rescue team were aided in their escape by a woman trying to get away from Antares and Charles Thasus. Back on Manticore she describes a special prisoner that may be A9, while Erich Jaenke fights for his life, following a serious wound received on Titan. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #830, STARDATE 51410.27 =/\=

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #829, STARDATE 51410.20 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust under the HQ of the Antares group. Kansas and Erich went ti investigate and got trapped underground, with Antares security forces trying to kill them. Our duo and their rescue team were about to be overrun when a woman wearing an Antares uniform helped them beam back to the ship and came along to be safe. Now she is claiming knowledge of a prisoner that might be A9, still alive. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #829, STARDATE 51410.20 =/\= 141020.txt

Meritorious Achievement Award The Command Staff is Pleased to Present The Meritorious Achievement Award for Exceptional Logs to: Lt. Erich Jaenke for "I Know"

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #829, STARDATE 51410.20 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust under the HQ of the Antares group. Kansas and Erich went ti investigate and got trapped underground, with Antares security forces trying to kill them. Our duo and their rescue team were about to be overrun when a woman wearing an Antares uniform helped them beam back to the ship and came along to be safe. Now she is claiming knowledge of a prisoner that might be A9, still alive. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #829, STARDATE 51410.20 =/\=

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #828, STARDATE 51410.13 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust under the HQ of the Antares group. Kansas and Erich went down, wearing personal phase cloaks, to explore the unknown underground. After Erich's cloak failed and their discovery by Antares security, Fire Team Alpha went down to rescue them. The entire group was about to be overrun when a woman wearing an Antares uniform helped them beam back to the ship, only if they would take her along. Now, what to do with her? =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #828, STARDATE 51410.13 =/\= 141013.txt

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #828, STARDATE 51410.13 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust under the HQ of the Antares group. Kansas and Erich went down, wearing personal phase cloaks, to explore the unknown underground. After Erich's cloak failed and their discovery by Antares security, Fire Team Alpha went down to rescue them. The entire group was about to be overrun when a woman wearing an Antares uniform helped them beam back to the ship, only if they would take her along. Now, what to do with her? =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #828, STARDATE 51410.13 =/\=

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #826/7, STARDATE 51410.06 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust, so Kansas and Erich are back in the Antares HQ, wearing personal phase cloaks and exploring the unknown underground. Unfortunately, Erich's cloak failed and they have been discovered by Antares security. These goons are not interested in detaining our away team but in killing them. Erich was able to lock the shielding frequency to the same as Manticore just as he was shot in the chest. Fire Team Alpha is about to beam down to their position and rescue them. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #826/7, STARDATE 51410.06 =/\= 141006.txt

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #826/7, STARDATE 51410.06 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust, so Kansas and Erich are back in the Antares HQ, wearing personal phase cloaks and exploring the unknown underground. Unfortunately, Erich's cloak failed and they have been discovered by Antares security. These goons are not interested in detaining our away team but in killing them. Erich was able to lock the shielding frequency to the same as Manticore just as he was shot in the chest. Fire Team Alpha is about to beam down to their position and rescue them. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #826/7, STARDATE 51410.06 =/\=

With the alarm sounding, all of the "project assistants" around Tina Lawton, the body guards assigned to her by Charlie Thasus, were suddenly gone. Everyone has priorities and it looks like she is not as high a priority as the security of Antares - the protection of Charlie. After her recent discoveries about Charlie and his Prisoner, the fact that her mentor was a sociopath, she knew one thing for certain, it was time to go. Now with the guards distracted, she knew that this was that time. Not stopping for her personal effects, not waiting to be better prepared at some future time, she took off running. It worked for her, as everyone was panicking, she could sense that, so she just made sure her escape look just as erratic as their haste. Running, she was running away, but she hadn't put a lot of planning into this and it just hit her that there wasn't very far she could run. Sure, she can get to the surface, but how does she get out of the dome; how does she get off of Titan and away from him, for good? That was when she sensed the new people in the complex, as she was climbing up the sub-levels. So this is why the alarm is sounding. But it's just two people, why are all the guards on alert for two people, they're just... from Starfleet! Why is Starfleet here and why such a small team, that's not their style. They're all about ships and fleets and armadas. A tactical team, in and out quick, but they got caught! What are they after? She didn't care, she just knew that they were her ticket out. She had to reach them, help them, save them so they could save her. It was a crazy idea, but it's the only one that she had. She moved toward them and realized they were in the shield room. So they got down here without knocking out Charlie's shield and they are going to shut it down to bring down their platoon, their gang, whatever they call it. Good! they will need more than two people to survive Charlie's goons and she needed them to survive to help her get away. Now to figure out how to help them before it's too late.

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #826, STARDATE 51409.29 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust, so Kansas and Erich are back in the Antares HQ, wearing personal phase cloaks and exploring the unknown underground. Unfortunately, Erich's cloak failed and they have been discovered by Antares security. These goons are not interested in detaining our away team but in killing them. Erich was able to lock the shielding frequency to the same as Manticore just as he was shot in the chest. Fire Team Alpha is about to beam down to their position and rescue them. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #826, STARDATE 51409.29 =/\= 140929.txt

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #826, STARDATE 51409.29 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas discovered evidence of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust, so Kansas and Erich are back in the Antares HQ, wearing personal phase cloaks and exploring the unknown underground. Unfortunately, Erich's cloak failed and they have been discovered by Antares security. These goons are not interested in detaining our away team but in killing them. Erich was able to lock the shielding frequency to the same as Manticore just as he was shot in the chest. Fire Team Alpha is about to beam down to their position and rescue them. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #826, STARDATE 51409.29 =/\=

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #825, STARDATE 51409.22 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and collected the data on the connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. After finding proof of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust, Kansas and Erich are back in the Antares HQ, wearing personal phase cloaks and underground. Unfortunately, Erich got a bit too close to a massive sensor dampener and his cloak failed, Erich is hidden again, sharing Kansas's cloak, but an alarm has sounded and guards are approaching. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #825, STARDATE 51409.22 =/\= 140922.txt

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #825, STARDATE 51409.22 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and collected the data on the connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. After finding proof of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust, Kansas and Erich are back in the Antares HQ, wearing personal phase cloaks and underground. Unfortunately, Erich got a bit too close to a massive sensor dampener and his cloak failed, Erich is hidden again, sharing Kansas's cloak, but an alarm has sounded and guards are approaching. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #825, STARDATE 51409.22 =/\=

Tina Lawton was sitting in her office, deep in the Antares complex, on level B5. She was going through the progress report on "The Prisoner," as Mr. Thasus wanted him to be called ("I am not a number, I am a free man!") She knew there was a very deep, personal connection between Charles and this man that he has been torturing for all this time. She knew it, just like she knew that Thasus was brilliant, and quite insane. It has been ten years since Charles discovered that she had a talent for telepathy, for empathy. He had his own special ability - moving objects with his mind. Somehow he had parlayed his telekinesis and intelligence into a massive business concern that pulled a lot of the strings of public endeavors, while staying in the shadows - the Antares Group. She had grown up in the shadows, always being shunned by others because she knew what they were feeling, what they were thinking. Not Charlie Thasus, though, he never shunned her, he reveled in her mutation, he called it her expertise. He hired her as a special assistant for his business dealings and his massive fortune ballooned, thanks to her insight into his business rivals, partners and clients. She knew it was unscrupulous, but she loved that her expertise was truly making her valuable and important to a major corporation, to a thriving business, to Charlie. He could not hide anything from her and yet he did not avoid being in her presence. She knew how intricate his thoughts were and she knew how obsessed he was with other people of special abilities, other experts. Over the years, she became his second-in-command in all but the public face of the Antares Group. That public face wasn't even Thasus, but a pompous PR drone that could be controlled when necessary, but truly thought that he was running one of the sector's largest philanthropic foundations. Meanwhile, deep below the surface of Titan, in a secretly constructed sub-complex, Thasus and she were running tests on people with special expertise. They had collected a great deal of research data in trying to find out what makes their brains so unique and so powerful. It was all going well, until the latest test subject - The Prisoner. Tina had been so used to knowing all that Charlie was thinking, that she had slipped out of the habit of scanning him. He could not hide anything from her and she knew that he knew. What she didn't realize, in her gap of scans, was everything he was doing to prepare for the collection of The Prisoner. Once he was their "guest," she scanned Charlie again, to try and fill in the missing pieces (he hardly talked about his plans with her, assuming she knew all the details he did). She was shocked at the lengths he had gone to, in order to capture this man. Causing thousands of deaths on Earth, after allying with K.E.N. (as a patsy), to set them up for destroying the Terran weather system, all timed to coincide with the man's arrival on Titan. The labyrinthine plan of Charlie's was stunning, and shocking. Still it did not prepare her for what he was doing to this man. Planting his DNA on a corpse to hide his capture from Starfleet! Keeping him in solitary confinement! Subjecting him to sensory deprivation! Keeping him on the verge of starvation! Toying with his emotions with the enhanced holosuite! Shocking!! But then Charlie started to take large biological samples from the man, far beyond the amounts needed for their usual research. Now, the insertions of the cortical, cardiac and spinal shunts! He was hurting The Prisoner just for the sake of the pain, to cause despair, hopelessness. He knew the man from many decades ago, there was a shared horror that had molded Charlie into the man he was today. It was right about then when she realized that Charlie had been using some of the research in expertise that Antares had collected, to put up walls in his mind. She found them and probed through them, with some difficulty. He didn't let her in for long, but what little she saw scared her more than any street gang ever did when they found out she was "a freak." She still has the bruise on her hip and head from where she hit the wall when he realized she had probed into his mind's dark recesses and threw her across the room with his expertise. Charlie isn't eccentric, isn't off-kilter, he is a sociopath - and he has her under surveillance around the clock. She noticed a change in the body types of the project assistants that are around her all the time. Definitely a shift from ectomorphs to mesomorphs. She is convinced that she cannot get away from Charlie without some sort of outside help and considering she is working in a secret facility deep underground, where is that going to come from? Just then, an alarm sounded throughout the complex and this time it wasn't a drill...

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #824, STARDATE 51409.15 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and collected the data on the connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. After finding proof of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust, Kansas and Erich are back in the Antares HQ, wearing personal phase cloaks and ready to walk down a staircase from the lowest level of the building. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #824, STARDATE 51409.15 =/\= 140915.txt

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #824, STARDATE 51409.15 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and collected the data on the connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. After finding proof of a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust, Kansas and Erich are back in the Antares HQ, wearing personal phase cloaks and ready to walk down a staircase from the lowest level of the building. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #824, STARDATE 51409.15 =/\=

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #823, STARDATE 51409.08 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and collected the data on the connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. Now, to understand all they find - and what they don't find, why there is a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #823, STARDATE 51409.08 =/\= 140908.txt

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #823, STARDATE 51409.08 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and collected the data on the connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. Now, to understand all they find - and what they don't find, why there is a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #823, STARDATE 51409.08 =/\=

{{ It really is like being stuck in Hell, in the classic and literal sense (or is that virtual {or figurative}? I get those confused...) }} {{ I woke up again, from one of my long bouts of unconsciousness. My head was shaved, I feel a port of some kind that has been built into the top of my skull. I also see one on my left pectoral and feel a third at the base of my spine. They all feel the same, so I am assuming they are look and function the same. One with access to my spine, one for my heart and one for my brain. }} {{ I feel particularly weak and I am going to guess this is because I have been kept unconscious for a number of days to allow the surgery for these devices to have healed enough that I can't just poke at them to get my body to start rejecting the foreign bodies. There is a numbness around the ports that probably means there has been nerve damage when they were inserted. I have tried to pry at them, but they are not simply small metal plates sewn to the skin, they seem to be connected to my skeletal system. I haven't dared to try moving them with my TK, as I don't know how deeply they are truly connected and I don't want to risk paralysis, seizure or cardiac arrest. }} {{ I don't think Dante truly knew Hell back in the 14th Century on Earth, but who could have imagined how the universe has changed in 10 centuries, so I guess I shouldn't dismiss his misery out of hand. Clearly, I have become an experiment for Charlie Thasus. My best hope is that he is trying to understand our TK and see where it comes from, in the body. Worst case is that he is going to pull my essence from these entry points and I will die a shriveled husk, forgotten, truly a lost soul. I'm going to bet it's somewhere in between, but I've always been a terrible gambler. What I do know is that the first opportunity I get to see a way out or a person coming to sustain/maintain me, I will lash out with everything I have - and hope that these experiments have not weakened my TK potential. Then again, what if Charlie is using me as a test to see if he can add to my abilities - and will it kill me in the process. There's a Contrapasso if I ever saw one, forced to suffer my TK as a punishment for having the ability in the first place. }}

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #823, STARDATE 51409.01 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and collected the data on the connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. Now, to understand all they find - and what they don't find, why there is a secret construction project, 15 stories deep into Titan's crust. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #823, STARDATE 51409.01 =/\=

::A9 sits on the floor of his cell, near the toilet - the only part of his cell that is not a smooth stone surface of floor, wall or ceiling:: {I don't look around any more, I don't get up or move at all. I gave up going through the door for the holosuite "exercise time," and I don't eat the food that is slid into the room on those flimsy aluminum foil trays. It seems that more time is lost during my conscious hours. I wake up with bruises on my arms from intravenous feedings. It is an old-fashioned technique, yet it is keeping me alive.} {What I don't know is why I am being kept alive. They aren't questioning me, at least not verbally - while I'm awake. I can't remember when, but I gave up wondering why, wondering where, wondering how they have avoided being tracked by Starfleet. It's as if no one is even trying to find me. I have never thought of myself as a spiritual man, rather a man of cold reason, logic, empirical proof. And yet reason and logic has fled and I am lost. I have surrendered at the deepest level and there is no one to accept my terms. I have nowhere to go and no reason to stay - besides my imprisonment and my profound lack of caring. I will never be free and never know if I am freed. I just persist, totally at the whim and direction of my captors. I have nothing to do with that and I wonder why I am being kept around. Again, it's the one word I still cling to - why.}

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #822, STARDATE 51408.25 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and survived the corridors of hell (a.k.a. Corporate Tech Support) to find out their connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #822, STARDATE 51408.25 =/\= 140825.txt

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #822, STARDATE 51408.25 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas broke into the headquarters of the Antares Group and survived the corridors of hell (a.k.a. Corporate Tech Support) to find out their connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #822, STARDATE 51408.25 =/\=

=/\= USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #821, STARDATE 51408.18 =/\= The Manticore is in orbit around Titan under cloak. T'Prise and Kansas are about to infiltrate the headquarters of the Antares Group to find out their connection to K.E.N., the attack on Earth's weather control system and the death of Atragon-9. =/\= END USS MANTICORE BRIEFING #821, STARDATE 51408.18 =/\= 140818.txt