Preserving The Past (Part 3)

Posted on Tue Sep 30th, 2025 @ 5:39pm by Captain Taiga Aisaka & Petty Officer 1st Class Yoshika Miyafuji & Commander Thomas Johnson & Commander Jennifer Daxer & Commander Chisato Nishikigi & Lieutenant Commander Casey Washburn & Lieutenant Commander Talia Johnson & Lieutenant Jasad Yuvek & Lieutenant Nezuko & Lieutenant Teneca Quinn & Lieutenant Nyxala Valentine & Lieutenant Ralen Trellis & Lieutenant Takina Inoue & Lieutenant Mizuki Nakahara & Lieutenant JG Connor Carey
Edited on on Tue Sep 30th, 2025 @ 5:44pm

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Mission: Preserving The Past
Location: Various
Timeline: January 26th 2397

Previously on Star Trek Tokyo:

After what seemed like ages, the Heralds finally stopped firing. But kept their weapons trained on the Starfleet.

"They have us cornered..." Shauna said. She had taken a stumble during the fight and a small trickle of blood ran down her face. "Why have they stopped firing? They could just finish us off!"

It was then that she recieved her answer. Another gateway opened directly in the center of the cave.

Out a strange creature floated. It was over ten feet tall, made up of purple energy and pearly white armour which protected its limbs. In its hand it carried a huge spear, tipped with purple and pink. Six red slits in the alien's 'head' glowed red as it looked around slowly. It hovered only a few feet above the ground, its long spindly fingers grasping its deadly spear as it floated towards the preserver.

T'Ket.

And now the continuation...

"Greetings and welcome my child." The Preserver said softly towards the Iconian known as T'Ket. "I am glad that you have returned after so long."

"Silence foolish Preserver!" T'Ket's voice bellowed. T'Ket slowly spun around to look at the Heralds and the remaining Starfleet crew. Finally she looked over at Shauna. "Captain Shauna Williams. The Iconian Empire thanks you for your service. Without your starships we would not know the location of the last remaining Preserver Archive."

"Wait... What?" Shauna questioned in confusion.

"You simple minded fools." T'Ket snapped back. "We've known about your whole plan this time. You can never comprehend the level of Intelligence technology we possess." She turned back to face the Preserver.

"Am I right in assuming that all of our brothers and sisters have perished?" The Preserver asked. His tone was emotionless and smooth. He showed no emotion on his face.

"We wiped the galaxy of your kind millenia ago. For only you know of our true weaknesses. We cannot allow that information to exist." T'Ket told him, the Iconians voice firm and fierce. "Now that you have revealed your presence once again, I will finish what we started."

"That is such a shame. For we only wish to share information we have gathered with our children. You are the first life we created. The great Iconians. The ones who we had high hopes to succeed us as caretakers of this Galaxy." The Preserver told T'Ket. "I see however, your path has changed T'Ket, I truly hoped...."

"Enough words! I am here to destroy you." T'Ket snapped angrily. She raised her spear and with one quick precise movement pierced it straight through the Preserver's chest. The Preserver didn't scream, he didn't cry out, he didn't show emotion. Slowly his eyes closed.

T'Ket flicked the spear aside, his body was flung off the end and slammed into the wall of the cave. A soft thud echoed around the cave as his corpse hit the ground. The Preserver was dead. Slowly T'Ket turned and once again the gateway appeared. Then she simply floated through it and disappeared.

One by one, the Herald soldiers all began to disappear. 'Poofing' away in black smoke like they had once done on the Tokyo in the Andromeda Galaxy. Then, the Starfleet crews were alone in the cave.

"Oh, my God..." Shigeru gasped as the survivors converged around the Preserver's lifeless body. "Quite possibly the oldest known being in the universe, and maybe even the last of his kind... to have lived so long, only to meet his end like this..."

Shaking like a leaf, Anton came out to join the group. “So much gone. Not only a life, but that life’s collected knowledge and experience.” He wiped a tear from his eye.

...

"His death wasn't in vain," Chisato finally spoke up. "Thanks to him, we're now more informed about the Iconians than I think we could've ever hoped to be, and the best way we can honor his legacy is to preserve the knowledge he imbued with us for future generations."

Shauna was about to respond, but the cave around them to shake. The sound of muffled explosions and shockwaves eminated from above. "We need to get out of here! Move now!" Shauna called out.

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[In Orbit - USS Tokyo]

The Tokyo's phasers fired, followed by several quantum and photon torpedoes as the ship took fire from an Iconian Cruiser which had appeared. The Iconian Dreadnought which had taken out Twin-Tails earlier was holding position over the northern pole.

The Tokyo shook violently as the purple beams struck the starships shields. The cruiser and Dreadnought were not alone. Just before the Tokyo had taken fire, tactical had reported a total of fifty seven ships appearing through gateways, simultanousely; surrounding the planet. Now they rained hell down on the planet below, their weapons striking the surface.

Taiga gripped the arms of her chair as she watched the devestation on the viewscreen. Mushroom clouds were starting to appear all over Amerind as the Iconians began their assault on the surface.

"Captain, the ship is charging some type of weapon aimed at the obelisk." Daxer said from tactical. "The yield is so high the sensors can't even calculate it. If they fire that weapon, it will not only destroy the Obelisk, but at least half the continent it sits on... there will be no survivors."

"GET OUR PEOPLE OUT NOW!" Taiga shouted over the shaking and rocking of the ship. "Once they're aboard, break orbit and make a run for it! We can't stay here!" she called out.

"There is too much interference to get a lock." Daxer said simply. "We need to get closer."

Lieutenant Yuvek's hands flew across his console as the ship bucked under Iconian fire, his training keeping him focused despite the chaos erupting around them. The tactical display showed a nightmare scenario - fifty-seven enemy vessels in a perfect encirclement.

"Ma'am!" he called out, his voice cutting through the bridge noise as he worked frantically at his station. "The planet's gravity well is affecting Iconian maneuvering - their larger vessels are maintaining higher orbits to avoid gravitational stress on their hulls. It's the only advantage we have!"
The mass of their dreadnought... it can't risk deep orbital insertion without compromising structural integrity, his analytical mind raced through the physics. But that gives us a narrow window..."

"I'm taking us into a steep descent - 150 kilometers altitude," he reported, his fingers dancing across the helm controls. "The Iconians won't follow us that deep - their ship designs aren't built for sustained low-orbit operations like ours."



The ship shuddered again as purple beams lanced overhead, but Yuvek could see his gamble was working - the enemy fire was coming from higher positions now.

"Transporter range maximized at this altitude, but Captain..." his voice took on an urgent edge, "once we retrieve the away teams, we'll need a full forty-second burn at maximum impulse to clear the gravity well. The Iconians will have clear shots at us during our escape vector."

"Do it!" Taiga replied back. "Inform the Kanna we're going down. We'll piggy back their crew to them via transporter. Tell them to avoid fire!" Taiga added. The small Nova Class came across the viewscreen banking hard to port as several of the purple energy beams struck their shields.

Half our size, half our shielding capacity Yuvek's mind calculated grimly as he watched the Nova-class vessel banking hard to avoid another barrage. At this rate of fire, their shields would not hold for more than a few minutes against concentrated Iconian assault.

"Our away teams are dispersed throughout the Amerind village - some crew members are likely in close proximity to the native population." Yuvek said as he studied the sensors as he tried to refine the data.

"At this range and with the electromagnetic interference from Iconian weapons fire, our transporter targeting sensors cannot effectively distinguish between Starfleet personnel and Amerind natives." Lieutenant Yuvek said as his attention switched between the helm control to the viewscreen as he observed the Kanna taking direct hits.

They don't have the structural integrity to sustain this much longer.

To be continued...

 

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