Star Trek DS9 - Rising Son by S. D. Perry

Author:S. D. Perry [S. D. Perry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Adventure
ISBN: 9780743448383
Published: 2014-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

Day 59, night. A lot has happened…. I don’t want to catch up on everything, though. Today was bad, it was a bad surprise, and I don’t really want to talk about it, but I have to get it out, at least part of it.

Since I’ve been aboard, we’ve stopped at four abandoned Dominion outposts to run salvage—one offline temp station and three surface settlements—and I went along on two of the surface ones. It was strange, both those times, walking through those desolate places, looking for stuff, but all things considered, I wasn’t disturbed; they were just empty buildings, random locations. Even knowing that second time that the land once belonged to somebody else, that the Jem’Hadar had forced relocation on the original owners…I mean, of course I thought it was bad, but I also reminded myself what Dez said—the Jem’Hadar are back inside the Dominion now, those people can come back, and most of them aren’t interested in ship parts or surplus fuel tanks. Taking that stuff doesn’t hurt anybody, I told myself, I told myself that I was sure I could make myself feel terrible, thinking about all of the people the war displaced, but what good would it do? Dez’s right, he’s right, but I’m getting sidetracked, that’s not the point.

Today, this evening, we reached a planet without a name, one on the seemingly endless list of places to check for salvage. Dez said that the planet had been colonized five or six years ago, and that the Jem’Hadar had taken it over, and that was all he knew about it. The team was me, Facity, Dez, Pif, and Brad, a basic three-point salvage survey—ops, maintenance, and quarters. First, check out the designated ops building, see how thorough they were, pulling out—did they get all of the secondary optical and communication boards, were the sensor line patches yanked?…It’s mostly small stuff that they might have forgotten, but it adds up. Second, look over any maintenance areas, particularly where they might have kept transport shuttles or land hoppers; that’s where the best salvage comes from and also where weapons were usually kept, near the transports. Third, living quarters—but only if there’s evidence that Dominion allies were present, beyond the Founders’ direct subjects. Most of these outposts were strictly Jem’Hadar and Vorta, neither species likely to keep personal valuables. But allied Gamma species might, like the Bwada, or the Hunters.

Easy, common sense. So we beamed down, evening for us, afternoon on the planet…which felt as lonely and empty as any place I’ve been in my life. It was beautiful, too; we’d transported down to a wide, slightly elevated clearing a few dozen meters from the settlement buildings, and the air was clean and sweet, and there were tall grasses everywhere, and mountains in the distance. Facity pointed out that the clearing had once been a farmer’s field—that we were, in fact, standing at the edge of a whole run of fields. The grasses were tall, we could only

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