Last Minute Log

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“Last Minute Log”

December 31, 2155

Lieutenant Dave Grey

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Grey wondered who would bother placing a large and conspicuous weapon on a planet that was, at first glance, seemingly uninhabited. Nequencia was not strategically important, he thought, although considering its proximity to Romulan space, he wondered if the weapon had something to do with that. The technology required, though . . . the amount of power to energise such a device . . . the scope was awesome.

 

Then he saw it in operation. The barrel of the weapon, hovering ominously over that of the shuttlepod, as it glowed with energy. It was one of those devices which were utterly clear in their purpose. This was not some sort of advanced cooking appliance, or a massive musical instrument. It was a weapon, a universal that any spacefaring species could immediately tell.

 

He wondered how it had detected that ship that it had destroyed. The ship must have been cloaked, hidden from the sensors of every Earth vessel in the vicinity, yet the weapon had found it. If they could study its technology, maybe they would improve their own sensor capabilities. . . .

 

Still, Grey had to keep his priorities straight. They had an away team to rescue and needed to figure out how to deactivate this weapon before it posed a bigger threat to the colony or to ships in orbit.