LCARS Database Report - USS Theurgy NX-79854
- The 10th of March, stardate 57555.17. After engagements with the Asurians, Klingons and the rest of Task Force Archeron, the three Theurgy vectors finally reunited. However, thanks to the USS Cayuga - as well as survivors of the USS Endeavour - the crew of the Theurgy now knew of the Borg threat. Faced with the prospect of an all-out Borg invasion, the Theurgy addressed that threat rather than trying to save the abducted aboard the Versant. That decision had not come easy, since First Officer Carrigan Trent had to be relived of duty by Jennifer Dewitt because of the man being emotionally compromised. Command passed to Wenn Cinn, being the Second Officer of the Theurgy, and the course was set towards the heart of the Azure Nebula and the aperture that led to Borg space.
- It was there that the USS Cayuga, in conjunction with a Klingon fleet under the personal command of Chancellor Martok, engaged the Borg cube that guarded the subspace aperture. In the following hour, the Klingons sustained heavy losses. Out of the twelve ships which started the battle, several Klingon ships were destroyed while yet more were assimilated. The Klingon flagship, the battleship IKC Negh’var, sustained serious damage, but nevertheless, the Klingons successfully held the line together with the Cayuga. After that hour of battle and bloodshed, the USS Theurgy dropped out of warp to join the battle. The once formidable multivector dreadnought had sustained heavy damage, preventing the use of the Theurgy’s potent Multi Vector Assault Mode, while the vessel’s squadron of warp fighters were similarly diminished. The Lones Wolves squadron, along with the Allegiant and the surviving Klingon ships, used the debris field around the Borg Cube to manoeuvre in cover, fighting desperately.
- When all hope seemed lost, a new vessel arrived: the Versant, the five kilometer long Precept-class ship of the Savi Flotilla. Led by Captain Ives, following the liberation of the ship’s prisoners - a mix of captives from the USS Endeavour and the USS Theurgy - the abductees had proceeded to gain control of the goliath ship and bring it to the battlefield. Thus, with the aid of Thea, the Versant opened fire on the Borg Cube with its graviton beam lances, inflicting catastrophic damage on the Queen's Borg Cube. Three large holes were punched clean through the Cube’s hull, and seizing the opportunity, the surviving Lone Wolves regrouped to launch a daring attack. The fighters flew directly through the holes in the Cube, firing their weapons on the unshielded interior of the vessel as they went before emerging on the other side. The density of the metal mass reflected the shockwaves of the blasts, and the effect was a lot more emphasised than any exterior impact could possibly be. The damage proved catastrophic, crippled the Cube’s ability to fight. The Versant and the Theurgy later finished off the Borg ship with a final barrage, permanently destroying it and also killing the Borg Queen. It was, however, too late, for the aperture to Borg space had opened.
- The sudden appearance of Doctor Nicander on the bridge of the Theurgy offered a solution, one which Captain Ives saw merit in. The officers on the Versant held a device powered by what the Borg termed “Particle 010”, but what the Federation knew as the “Omega Molecule”. It was the device that had triggered the Omega Protocol on the Theurgy before the Savi attacked, and which the Savi had taken from the ship. If detonated, the particles were capable of unfathomable destruction that would undoubtedly destroy the subspace tunnels as well as affecting the local subspace strata for lightyears around the Azure Nebula. Warp travel in the region would be rendered impossible for millennia. Since it could not be done remotely, the plan - desperate as it was - involved someone staying behind the detonate Omega device while the Theurgy, Cayuga and the Klingons fled the nebula. Two volunteers stood out. Doctor Lucan Nicander, who sought redemption but who's credibility was low because of him being one of the Infested, even though he proclaimed to be severed from his parasite's influence. The second volunteer was Wenn Cinn, whom the Bajoran Prophets had manipulated events to make this very sacrifice.
- The decision was made, and Captain Ives gave hir orders. The Versant prisoners were beamed back home to the Theurgy, while the Omega device was taken by Wenn Cinn onto a shuttlecraft. Too heavily damaged to escape the Omega detonation, the Theurgy moved to access a different aperture, although they didn’t know where it would lead. For the Savi, the battle was the start of an enormous upheaval. The presence of the parasites in the Scion High Council was exposed, as was their corruption of Savi culture and society. The Voice, one of the Savi leaders, would lead the fight against the Scions in the months to come, after the Versant left the battlefield in the last moment.
- The Omega detonation, as feared, was enormous. The subspace tunnels were instantly destroyed, as were the hundreds of Borg cubes that were already flying through them as the tunnels collapsed. The Azure Nebula was ignited in an explosion even brighter than a supernova, with the light due to be visible across the entire galaxy for decades to come. Warp travel would become impossible in the vicinity of the Azure Nebula after the detonation, stranding millions of people and five inhabited planets without warp drive. The farthest the shockwave reached was the Nimbus System, but Starbase 84 was spared. Chancellor Martok could escape on the IKS Vor'nak and the Cayuga survived, successfully outrunning the blast at high warp. As did Task Force Archeron, having been warned by the Cayuga of the threat as they approached the battlefield at the heart of the nebula. Despite the cost, the victory saved hundreds of billions of lives throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants and permanently closed off the Borg beachhead.
- After emerging from an aperture several hundred lightyears away, the Theurgy was barely spaceworthy. Nevertheless, it had been a victory. The plans of the Infested had been foiled, while the Borg threat had been neutralised. As a result of the battle, the crew of the Theurgy gained an alliance with the Klingon Empire after Chancellor Martok had personally witnessed the truth of their claims about the parasitic threat - killing an Infested on the bridge of the Negh'Var. As such, the Theurgy set a course for the world of Aldea, a vassal world of the Klingons, where the ship could make repairs, find safe harbour... and rest.
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